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| December 25, 2013 |
 Spacewalk ends, station fix a success Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - NASA astronauts on Tuesday successfully wrapped up a Christmas Eve spacewalk to make repairs at the orbiting International Space Station, the US space agency said. "We have a pump that is alive and well," said a NASA commentator on live television after a successful jumpstart test to the newly installed ammonia pump module, a bulky piece of gear the size of a refrigerator. More checks wi ... more |  |
 Russia, Kazakhstan reach new agreement on Baikonur launch center Moscow (UPI) Dec 24, 2013 - The presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan say they have agreed on a three-year road map for the joint use of the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The announcement came following a meeting Tuesday of the two countries' presidents during a Eurasian economic summit in Moscow, RIA Novosti reported. "We are pleased with this latest meeting and it has been very productive," Russian P ... more |  |
 Enormous Aquifer Discovered Under Greenland Ice Sheet Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - Buried underneath compacted snow and ice in Greenland lies a large liquid water reservoir that has now been mapped by researchers using data from NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne campaign. A team of glaciologists serendipitously found the aquifer while drilling in southeast Greenland in 2011 to study snow accumulation. Two of their ice cores were dripping water when the scientists lifte ... more |  |
 Geoengineering research, ethics, governance explored Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - Hacking the Earth's climate to counteract global warming - a subject that elicits strong reactions from both sides - is the topic of a December special issue of the journal Climatic Change. A dozen research papers include the most detailed description yet of the proposed Oxford Principles to govern geoengineering research, as well as surveys on the technical hurdles, ethics and regulatory issues ... more |  |
 Satellite of Russia's early warning constellation burns down in atmosphere Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 23, 2013 - The Kosmos-2393 satellite integrated in the Oko system, the space component of Russia's early warning system ceased to exist Saturday night, Interfax was told at the Vympel interstate joint-stock company, which is part of the Almaz-Antei air defense corporation. "According to our knowledge, the satellite disintegrated entering the atmosphere somewhere above the Southern Hemisphere last nig ... more |  |
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 Starless Cloud Cores Reveal Why Some Stars Are Bigger Than Others Charlottesville VA (SPX) Dec 2253, 2013 - Massive stars - those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun - present an intriguing mystery: how do they grow so large when the vast majority of stars in the Milky Way are considerably smaller? To find the answer, astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope to survey the cores of some of the darkest, coldest, and densest clouds in our Galaxy to search ... more |  |
China to build two new Antarctic bases: state media Beijing (AFP) Dec 19, 2013 - Chinese workers are on their way to build the country's fourth Antarctic research base and a fifth is being planned, state-run media said Thursday as the country expands its imprint on the icy continent. Construction on the main building of the fourth camp, named Taishan, will be completed next year, the state-run China Daily reported. It will be used during the summer season for resear ... more |  |
 Mars Express heading towards daring flyby of Phobos Paris (ESA) Dec 25, 2013 - Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so close and fast that Mars Express will not be able to take any images, but instead it will yield the most accurate details yet of the moon's gravitational field and, in turn, provide new details of its ... more |  |
Mars One mission: one way ticket to new life Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 23, 2013 - 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied for a one-way ticket to Mars. The applicants agreed to stay on the Red Planet for the rest of their lives and be filmed for a reality TV program, according to the company behind the mission, Mars One. David Mimoun, an Associate Professor at Institut Superieur de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace, (French Superior Institute of Aerospace) for the SU ... more |  |
 Diamonds in Earth's oldest zircons are nothing but laboratory contamination Riverside CA (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - As is well known, the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. No rocks exist, however, that are older than about 3.8 billion years. A sedimentary rock section in the Jack Hills of western Australia, more than 3 billion years old, contains within it zircons that were eroded from rocks as old as about 4.3 billion years, making these zircons, called Jack Hills zircons, the oldest recorded geological ... more |  |
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 Scientific data lost at alarming rate Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - Eighty per cent of scientific data are lost within two decades, according to a new study that tracks the accessibility of data over time. The culprits? Old e-mail addresses and obsolete storage devices. "Publicly funded science generates an extraordinary amount of data each year," says Tim Vines, a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia. "Much of these data are unique ... more |  |
 Lockheed Martin Team Moves Forward In DARPA Robotics Challenge Homestead, FL (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) recently completed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge trials at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Lockheed Martin-led team, which includes the University of Pennsylvania and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, guided an Atlas humanoid robot through a number of tasks designed to simulate disaster response s ... more |  |
 Northrop Grumman, NASA Fly Global Hawk in Canadian Airspace for First Time to Study Canadian Arctic San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - Northrop Grumman, the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and a team of international science organizations successfully flew a Northrop Grumman-produced NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system through Canadian airspace as part of a mission to collect environmental data in the Canadian Arctic. The Global Hawk was equipped with an Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR ... more |  |
 Boeing Delivers Final Focused Lethality Munition to USAF St. Charles, MO (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - Boeing has delivered the 500th Focused Lethality Munition (FLM) to the U.S. Air Force this month, completing the contract for the low-collateral-damage weapon 100 percent on time and on cost. "This Direct Attack FLM team not only delivered to our customer with remarkable efficiency, but also provided an important tool to protect the lives of U.S. and coalition forces around the world," sai ... more |  |
US Army Awards Raytheon contract for Excalibur Ib Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a $15 million contract modification for the procurement of 216 Excalibur Ib rounds. Excalibur is a 155mm precision-guided, extended-range projectile that uses GPS guidance to provide accurate, first-round effects capability in any environment. By using Excalibur's level of precision, there is a major reduction in the time, cost and logistical burden assoc ... more |  |
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 Diehl-Raytheon Missile Systeme GmbH captures $30 million international Sidewinder missile sale Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 25, 2013 - Diehl-Raytheon Missile Systeme (DRM) GmbH was awarded a contract of more than $30 million for the sale of AIM-9L/I-1 tactical Sidewinder missiles, training missiles and ground support equipment in a direct commercial sale to an international customer. Diehl BGT Defence will refurbish German AIM-9L missiles as part of the sale. Diehl BGT Defence, which has produced more than 30,000 Sidewind ... more |  |
 Working With NASA On The Space Structures Of The Future Houston TX (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - NASA is seeking to advance a technology with the potential to drastically change how we envision transporting and safeguarding astronauts: inflatable structures. Space structure engineers and designers have identified inflatables as a lightweight and durable supplement to current human spaceflight architectures. NASA has recognized a number of potential applications for the versatile techn ... more |  |
 Using an Atmosphere to Weigh a Planet Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - A new study finds that the mass of an exoplanet can be determined solely by looking at the starlight that passes through the planet's atmosphere. When sunlight streaming through a planet's atmosphere reaches our telescopes, the light's spectra acts like a calling card for the different gases that make up that atmosphere. Water vapor has one type of spectral signature, for instance, while c ... more |  |
 Van Allen Probes Shed Light on Decades-old Mystery Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe. Understanding the processes that control the formation and ultimate loss of such relativistic electron ... more |  |
 Solar activity not a key cause of climate change Edinburgh UK (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows. The findings overturn a widely held scientific view that lengthy periods of warm and cold weather in the past might have been caused by periodic fluctuations in solar activity. Research examining the causes of climate change in the northern hemisphere over the past 1000 y ... more |  |
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