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| December 20, 2013 |
 Will the Moon be carved-up? Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 20, 2013 - Experts forecast that the Moon will become sort of the seventh continent of Earth by the middle of the 21st century. People will reclaim the polar regions and build residential areas there. In this context it may happen that many countries' interests will clash on the Moon. Part of the scientific community draws a parallel between the Arctic shelf and the Moon, believing that competitive s ... more |  |
 NASA and Russia prolong contract on Soyuz taxi flights to ISS Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 20, 2013 - The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA have reached preliminary agreements on delivering foreign astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on board Russian Soyuz spacecraft after 2016, chief of Roscosmos's manned spaceflight programs Alexei Krasnov said. "The existing contract envisions the use of Russian Soyuzes for delivering astronauts to the ISS in the period u ... more |  |
 Liftoff for ESA's billion-star surveyor Paris (ESA) Dec 20, 2013 - ESA's Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion suns. Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and motions of 1% of the total population of roughly 100 billion stars, it will answer questions about the orig ... more |  |
 NASA's Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Returns First Images after Reactivation Washington DC (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), a spacecraft that made the most comprehensive survey to date of asteroids and comets, has returned its first set of test images in preparation for a renewed mission. NEOWISE discovered more than 34,000 asteroids and characterized 158,000 throughout the solar system during its prime mission in 2010 and early 2011. It wa ... more |  |
 Japan robot astronaut talks Santa in first chat with spaceman Tokyo (AFP) Dec 20, 2013 - The world's first robot astronaut has begun chatting to the Japanese commander of the International Space Station, in what was being billed as the first conversation of its kind. Kirobo, a pint-sized android equipped with artificial intelligence and capable of learning how to respond appropriately to humans, even put a marker down for Christmas, telling Koichi Wakata he expected a visit from ... more |  |
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Astronauts Finalizing Spacewalk Preparations Houston TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata gathered together Thursday to review spacewalk procedures. Mastracchio and Hopkins will exit the station to replace a faulty pump module over a series of spacewalks. Wakata will operate the station's robotic arm to maneuver the spacewalkers at the worksite. The first spacewalk is scheduled for Saturday a ... more |  |
Most Chang'e-3 science tools activated Beijing (XNA) Dec 20, 2013 - Six out of the eight pieces of scientific equipment deployed to the moon with the Chang'e-3 lunar mission have been activated by scientists and are functioning properly, according to scientists working on the mission. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, scientists said that the equipment aboard the Yutu lunar rover and the Chang'e-3 lander had so far been functioning as hoped, despit ... more |  |
 Bolivia to launch first telecoms satellite -- in China La Paz Dec 20, 2013 - Bolivia will on Friday launch a telecommunications satellite in China, an unprecedented event which the government in La Paz has encouraged citizens to follow via live broadcasts. The director of Bolivia's National Space Agency, Ivan Zambrana, said on national television that the mission, which was conceived just over four years ago, would take off from Xichang, in Sichaun province, at 1642 ... more |  |
Dawn Creates Guide to Vesta's Hidden Attractions Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2013 - Some beauty is revealed only at a second glance. When viewed with the human eye, the giant asteroid Vesta, which was the object of scrutiny by the Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2012, is quite unspectacular color-wise. Vesta looks grayish, pitted by a variety of large and small craters. But scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, ... more |  |
 Sierra Nevada Completes CCDev2, Begins Dream Chaser Flight Test Program Sparks UT (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has successfully completed all milestones under NASA's Commercial Crew Development 2 (CCDev2) phase. Milestones achieved include a systems requirement review, flight simulator development, creation of a vehicle avionics integration laboratory, system definition review, flight control integration laboratory, preliminary design review and the first free-flight test ... more |  |
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 Scientists solve a decades-old mystery in the Earth's upper atmosphere Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth's near-space environment and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe. Discovering the processes that control the formation and ultimate loss of the ... more |  |
 Europe launches billion-dollar Milky Way telescope Gaia Paris (AFP) Dec 19, 2013 - The European Space Agency on Thursday launched an advanced telescope designed to detect a billion stars and provide the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way and our place in it. The Gaia telescope was successfully hoisted by a Soyuz-STB-Fregat rocket from ESA's space base in Kourou, French Guiana, the agency reported in a webcast. The star-hunter separated from the last of the rocket's ... more |  |
 Exelis delivers advanced weather satellite payload to commercial customer in Japan Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - Exelis is supporting Japan's forecasting capabilities with the delivery of its first advanced weather satellite payload to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, based in Japan. "Successful performance on and delivery of the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) is a key milestone for Exelis as we execute our environmental intelligence product business," said Eric Webster, Exelis Geospatial Systems vic ... more |  |
Pollen influences optical properties of the atmosphere Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - Pollen reflects more sunlight than previously known, and makes up to one third of the total amount of aerosol particles in the atmosphere. Aerosol particles influence optical depth which provides a measure of the opacity of the atmosphere. These results, reported by scientists of the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Korea and the Leibniz-Institute of Tropospheric Resea ... more |  |
NASA's Deep Space Network: The Original 'Wireless Network' Turns 50 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2013 - NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th anniversary of its official creation. Over the past 50 years, antennas of the Deep Space Network (DSN) have communicated with just about every mission that has gone to the moon or beyond. The historic communiques include "That's one ... more |  |
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 Companies Donate Satellite Capacity And Ground Infrastructure Services To Philippines Hong Kong (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - SES S.A., SpeedCast and AsiaSat have donated satellite and service capacity to enable NetHope, a consortium of 41 non-governmental organisations around the globe, to re-establish communication links to survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. By utilizing the 36 MHz capacity on SES' NSS-11 satellite donated by SES and the uplink services and ground infrastructure provided by SpeedCast and AsiaSat, Net ... more |  |
 Planet Labs Raises Financing San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - Planet Labs has raised $52 million in Series B financing. New investors joining this round include prominent technology investor Yuri Milner, Industry Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lux Capital, and Ray Rothrock. Planet Labs' existing investors include DFJ, Capricorn, O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures (OATV), Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective, and AME Cloud Ventur ... more |  |
First Solar Ultraviolet Imager For GOES-R Satellite Series Completed Palo Alto CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - A Lockheed Martin team has completed the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument that will make crucial solar measurements when it flies on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite missions, known as the GOES-R series. The team is on track for instrument delivery in January 2014 for in ... more |  |
 Nanofriction on the tip of the microscope Rome, Italy (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms. This is made possible by the oscillation of a very sharp probe tip over the surface being observed. The tip never touches the surface but gets so close to it, at distances in the order of one billionth of a metre, that it "feels" the force due to the interaction with the atoms making up the material ... more |  |
Graphene nanoribbons an ice-melting coat for radar Houston TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - Ribbons of ultrathin graphene combined with polyurethane paint meant for cars is just right for deicing sensitive military radar domes, according to scientists at Rice University. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour, in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, developed the compound to protect marine and airborne radars with a robust coating that is also transparent to radio frequencies. The research ... more |  |
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