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| January 08, 2014 |
 Arianespace targets record year for rocket launches Paris (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Arianespace, the European satellite launch company, said 2014 would be a record year with the most rocket launches ever despite recent delays. Arianespace counts for about half of the commercial satellite launches in the world, and said it hopes to beat the 2012 record of ten launches. The company signed 18 new contracts for launches last year, but the busy schedule planned is in part du ... more |  |
 One-way trip to Mars? Sign me up, says Frenchwoman Paris (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - A comfortable, middle-class Parisian life may be the envy of many people, but Florence Porcel would give it all up to be among the first Earthlings to settle on Mars - even with no option of return. "I have always felt a bit cramped on Earth," the self-confessed space junkie told AFP, delighted to be shortlisted with some 1,000 other aspiring voyagers for Mars One - a private project to co ... more |  |
SpaceX launches second commercial satellite Washington (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - US company SpaceX said Monday it had deployed a commercial Thai satellite, in its second successful launch in weeks. The private firm's two-stage Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 2206 GMT, carrying with it the Thaicom 6 telecommunications satellite. Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, confirmed on Twitter that Thaicom 6 had been ... more |  |
 Supernova remnant yields evidence of source of dusty galaxies Charlottesville, Va. (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - Supernovas are thought to be a primary source of dust in galaxies, and U.S. astronomers say the remains of a recent supernova are full of freshly formed dust. Direct evidence of a supernova's dust-making capabilities has up to now been slim and cannot account for the copious amount of dust detected in young, distant galaxies, they said, but data from radio telescopes in Chile could expl ... more |  |
 Earth appears to be an oddity, astronomers say Washington (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Astronomers call them super-Earths, and they are abundant outside our solar system. But the more experts learn about them, the weirder our own planet seems in comparison. Planets the size of Earth and up to four times larger are believed to make up about three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Astronomers have eagerly catalogued some 3,000 of these ... more |  |
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Now sky is the limit for India: Ex-ISRO scientist Thiruvananthapuram, India (IANS) Jan 07, 2014 - When the countdown began in Sriharikota on Sunday for the launch of the Rs.365-crore mission to flight test the cryogenic engine designed and built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), S. Nambinarayanan's heart was beating fast and he could not speak much. After its successful launch, he said: "Now, the sky is the limit for India." In 1991, it was Nambinarayanan, a forme ... more |  |
 ISRO raises GSAT-14's orbit Chennai, India (IANS) Jan 07, 2014 - The Indian space agency on Monday successfully completed the first orbit raising operations of its communication satellite GSAT-14. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the first orbit raising operation of GSAT-14 was completed by firing the apogee motor for 3,134 seconds or 52 minutes. The realised orbit is 8,966 km perigee (nearest point from earth) and 35,74 ... more |  |
 Facility upgrades will support X-37B program Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Boeing will expand its presence in Florida by adding technology, engineering and support jobs at the Kennedy Space Center. Financial and employment details are not being disclosed. Investments will be made to convert the former space shuttle facility, OPF-1, to a facility that would enable the U.S. Air Force to efficiently land, recover, refurbish, and re-launch the X-37B Orbital Test Vehi ... more |  |
'20 years of toil has paid off' Says Radhkrishnan Sriharikota, India (IANS) Jan 07, 2014 - "Twenty years of effort and toil in developing cryogenic engine and stage has paid off. The excruciating efforts of the past three years have been realised," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan said on Sunday. He was speaking after the successful lift-off of an Indian rocket carrying communication satellite from the Sriharikota spaceport on Sunday. He ... more |  |
GSLV-D5 launch: What the success means Sriharikota, India (IANS) Jan 07, 2014 - The successful launch of India's heavier rocket - the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle-D5 (GSLV-D5) - Sunday not only means the indigenous cryogenic engine has performed well but would also pave way for sizeable savings for the country in launch costs. It also opens up a window to earn foreign exchange from launching heavier foreign satellites. Indian Space Research Organisati ... more |  |
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 New Science Bound for Station on Orbital's Cygnus Houston TX (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Delivering ants to space, sloshy fluids for robotic satellites, a study on antibiotic drug resistance and other small satellites to the International Space Station can be a tough job, and now Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., can help carry the load. In its first commercial resupply journey after completion of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, the Orbital-1 mi ... more |  |
 El Nino tied to melting of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Pine Island Glacier is one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea. The floating ice shelf at the glacier's tip has been melting and thinning for the past four decades, causing the glacier to speed up and discharge more ice. Understanding this ice shelf is a key for predicting sea-level rise in a warming world. A paper published Jan. 2 in the advance online versi ... more |  |
 Turning Off the "Aging Genes" Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Computer algorithm developed by TAU researchers identifies genes that could be transformed to stop the aging process. Restricting calorie consumption is one of the few proven ways to combat aging. Though the underlying mechanism is unknown, calorie restriction has been shown to prolong lifespan in yeast, worms, flies, monkeys, and, in some studies, humans. Now Keren Yizhak, a doctoral stud ... more |  |
 Methane hydrates and global warming Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Methane hydrates are fragile. At the sea floor the ice-like solid fuel composed of water and methane is only stable at high pressure and low temperature. In some areas, for instance in the North Atlantic off the coast of Svalbard, scientists have detected gas flares regularly. The reasons for their occurrence were still unclear but one hypothesis was that global warming might cause the dis ... more |  |
 New Study Brings Scientists Closer to the Origin of RNA Atlanta, GA (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a primitive form that later evolved into the RNA and DNA molecules that we have in life today. New research shows one way this chain of events might have started. ... more |  |
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 UAS Test Site Selection Good News for NASA Langley, Wallops Hampton VA (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - The selection of six unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test sites by the Federal Aviation Administration may have an impact on NASA aeronautics research, especially at two NASA Virginia facilities. NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton and NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore are expected to work with the Virginia Tech team, which is ba ... more |  |
Two new radar stations to be placed into service in Russia in 2014 Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 06, 2014 - Two new radar stations of the missile warning system will be placed into service in Russia's Kaliningrad and Irkutsk regions this year, the Defence Ministry's press service and information department said. Work to set up radar stations will also continue in the Krasnoyarsk, Altai, Orenburg and Arctic regions, the ministry said. The main centre of missile attack warning has four new-g ... more |  |
 Israel successfully tests Arrow space missile interceptor Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 06, 2014 - Arrow III, an upgraded component of the Israeli missile shield, was successfully tested for the second time, the country's Defense Ministry announced. The kamikaze satellites launched by the system are capable of intercepting missiles in space. A long-range Arrow III interceptor was fired from Palmahim air base, south of Tel Aviv, on Friday morning. It left the Earth's atmosphere, carried ... more |  |
 Supervolcano eruptions are triggered by melt buoyancy Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - Supervolcanos are not usual volcanos. By effectively "exploding" as opposed to erupting, they leave a giant hole in the Earth's crust instead of a volcanic cone - a caldera, which can be up to one hundred kilometres in diameter. On average, supervolcanos are active more rarely than once every 100,000 years; since records began, none has been active. Consequently, researchers can only gain a vagu ... more |  |
 Earth may be heaver than thought due to invisible belt of dark matter Arlington, Texas (UPI) Jan 06, 2013 - A study of GPS satellite orbits suggests the Earth is heavier than thought, perhaps due to a halo of dark matter, a U.S. researcher says. Dark matter is thought to make up about 80 per cent of the universe's matter, but scientists have been unable to determine much else about it, including its presence in the solar system. In 2009, researchers at the Institute of Advanced Studies ... more |  |
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