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| December 26, 2013 |
 Station's Replacement Pump Successfully Restarted Houston TX (SPX) Dec 26, 2013 - Following Two Spacewalks To Replace A Degraded Pump Module On The Truss, Or Backbone, Of The International Space Station, Flight Controllers In The Mission Control Center At Nasa's Johnson Space Center In Houston Successfully Restarted The New Pump Tuesday Night. The Pump Module Controls The Flow Of Ammonia Through Cooling Loops And Radiators Outside The Space Station, And, Combined With W ... more |  |
 China's moon rover "sleeps" through lunar night Beijing (XNA) Dec 26, 2013 - The moon rover and lander of China's Chang'e 3 lunar probe mission will "sleep" during the lunar night, enduring extreme low temperatures on the lunar surface. According to Wu Fenglei of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center, the lander will "go to sleep" at about 7 a.m. on Christmas Day and the moon rover, Jade Rabbit, will fall asleep at about 1 a.m. on Boxing Day. The forthcoming l ... more |  |
 Dwarf Planet Ceres - 'A Game Changer in the Solar System' Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2013 - In March of 2015, NASA's Dawn mission will arrive at the dwarf planet Ceres, the first of the smaller class of planets to be discovered and the closest to Earth. Ceres, which orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is a unique body in the Solar System, bearing many similarities to Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, both considered to be potential sources for ... more |  |
 ISRO end year on high note after Mars mission Chennai, India (IANS) Dec 26, 2013 - The successful launch of India's first inter-planetary Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the sending up of India's first navigation satellite midnight, the launch of the Indo-French satellite SARAL, and signing up a couple of satellite launch contracts - all these put Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2013 amongst the select group of space-faring nations on a couple of counts. The yea ... more |  |
Spacewalk ends, ISS fix a success Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 26, 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."Repressurization began at 1:23 pm CT (1923 GMT), the spacewalk concluding at seven hours, 30 minutes," a NASA commentator said. NASA astronauts step out on Christmas Eve spacewalk Two NASA astronauts stepped out Tuesday on ... more |  |
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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 |  |
 JAXA plans to test new large rocket from 2020 Tokyo, Japan (JIJI) Dec 26, 2013 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch a new large-scale test rocket in fiscal 2020 and another the following year. The rocket, provisionally dubbed H-III, is a successor to JAXA's H-IIA launch vehicle. According to JAXA's plan, reported to a science ministry panel Tuesday, the H-III will basically have two engines in its first stage and have no solid-fuel boosters. ... more |  |
 Boeing, Energia Achieve Mixed Results in Counterclaims Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 26, 2013 - A US federal court on Wednesday granted in part and denied in part a motion by American aerospace and defense conglomerate Boeing to dismiss counterclaims filed by Russian space giant Energia in Boeing's $355 million lawsuit, according to court documents obtained by RAPSI. In February, plaintiffs The Boeing Company (Boeing) and Boeing Commercial Space Company (BCSC) filed a complaint again ... more |  |
 Russia, Kazakhstan agree on three-year Baikonur roadmap Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 26, 2013 - Russia and Kazakhstan have signed a roadmap pertaining to the joint use of the Baikonur Space Center in 2014-2016. Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and Kazakh First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev signed the document on the sidelines of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council's meeting, an Interfax correspondent reports. The period of the Baikonur leasing wa ... more |  |
 Boeing Completes Mission Control Center Interface Test Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - For the first time, the Mission Control Center (MCC) at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has tested communications with a commercial, crew-capable spacecraft, as The Boeing Company conducted an interface test between the MCC and software planned for the company's CST-100 spacecraft. Boeing has partnered with NASA to develop a fully integrated crew transportation system, with its CST- ... more |  |
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 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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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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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 |  |
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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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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