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| January 10, 2014 |
 Orbital Sciences launches second mission to space station Washington (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - Orbital Sciences Corporation on Thursday launched its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship on the company's first regular supply mission to the International Space Station. The liftoff of the Antares rocket carrying the ship took place at 1:07 pm (1807 GMT) from Wallops Island, Virginia, according to footage carried by the US space agency NASA's television network. The first stage of the rocket wa ... more |  |
 Earthly politicians seek roadmap for space exploration Washington (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - Seeking to boldly go where few politicians have gone before, ministers and officials from more than 30 space-faring nations gathered here Thursday to draw up a map to explore the stars. The US State Department hosted the talks, bringing together high-level envoys from both American allies and from countries traditionally seen as rivals in the race to conquer space. "We all share a deep s ... more |  |
 Gaia enters its operational orbit Paris (ESA) Jan 10, 2014 - ESA's billion-star surveyor Gaia is now in its operational orbit around a gravitationally stable virtual point in space called 'L2', 1.5 million km from Earth. Gaia has been travelling towards L2 since 19 December, when, just before dawn local time, it was spectacularly launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. A day later, Gaia performed an important thruster burn t ... more |  |
 NASA's SDO Sees Giant January Sunspots Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - An enormous sunspot, labeled AR1944, slipped into view over the sun's left horizon late on Jan. 1, 2014. The sunspot steadily moved toward the right, along with the rotation of the sun, and now sits almost dead center, as seen in the image above from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Sunspots are dark areas on the sun's surface that contain complex arrangements of strong magnetic fields t ... more |  |
 A Busy Year Begins for New Horizons Laurel, MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - With Pluto encounter operations now just a year away, the New Horizons team has brought the spacecraft out of hibernation for the first of several activities planned for 2014. Mission operators at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md., "woke" New Horizons on Jan. 5. Over the next two weeks the team will test the spacecraft's antenna and repoint it toward Earth; upload comman ... more |  |
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 Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2014 - NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen asteroid - its first such discovery since coming out of hibernation last year. NEOWISE originally was called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which had made the most comprehensive survey to date of asteroids and comets. The spacecraft was shut down in 2011 after ... more |  |
 Surprising new class of 'hypervelocity stars' discovered escaping the galaxy Nashville TN (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - An international team of astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of "hypervelocity stars" - solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of this new set of "hypervelocity" stars was described at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week in Washington, D.C., and is published in the Jan. 1 issue o ... more |  |
 New kind of planet or failed star? Astrophysicists discover category-defying celestial object Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - An object discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto nearly 500 light years away from the sun may challenge traditional understandings about how planets and stars form. The object is located near - and likely orbiting - a very young star about 440 light years away from the sun, and is leading astrophysicists to believe that there is not an easy-to-define line between what i ... more |  |
NASA's Kepler Provides Insights on Enigmatic Planets Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2014 - More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such planets dominate the galactic census but are not represented in our own solar system. Astronomers don't know how they form or if they are made of rock, water or gas. The Kepler team today reports ... more |  |
Journey to a billion suns - world premiere of planetarium show Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - A new planetarium show, Journey to a billion Suns, premieres today in Hamburg, Germany, to tell the fascinating story of mapping the Milky Way, from ancient times to ESA's recently launched Gaia mission. The 45-minute, 360 degree full-dome planetarium spectacular was produced by Stargarten in cooperation with ESA and planetariums across Europe. Gaia was launched on 19 December and wi ... more |  |
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 Obama Administration Extends ISS Until at Least 2024 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - As more than 30 heads of space agencies from around the world prepare to gather in Washington January 9-10 for an unprecedented summit on the future of space exploration, we are pleased to announce that the Obama Administration has approved an extension of the International Space Station (ISS) until at least 2024. We are hopeful and optimistic that our ISS partners will join this extension ... more |  |
Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Probe Faraway Galaxies Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes are providing a new perspective on the remote universe, including new views of young and distant galaxies bursting with stars. Scientists described the findings Tuesday in a news conference sponsored by the American Astronomical Society. The discoveries include four unusually bright galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago and the deepest im ... more |  |
Powerful Planet Finder Turns Its Eye to the Sky Hilo HI (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - After nearly a decade of development, construction, and testing, the world's most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets around other stars is pointing skyward and collecting light from distant worlds. The instrument, called the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), was designed, built, and optimized for imaging faint planets next to bright stars and probing their atmospheres ... more |  |
SF State astronomers discover new planet in Pisces constellation San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - A team led by SF State astronomer Stephen Kane has discovered a new giant planet located in a star system within the Pisces constellation. The planet, perhaps twice the mass of Jupiter, could help researchers learn more about how extrasolar planets are formed. The star system harboring the new planet contains only one star, as do the other three systems with extrasolar planets analyzed by ... more |  |
 Sierra Nevada Announces International Expansion of the Dream Chaser Space System Sparks NV (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - Sierra Nevada Corporation reports that it has finalized cooperative understandings with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). SNC will work with each agency on the potential application of European technologies to both the current Dream Chaser design, and advanced derivative versions of the vehicle. This international collaboration will also help define mis ... more |  |
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 Boeing Completes First 702HP Satellite for Government of Mexico El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - Boeing has completed the first of two 702HP (high power) geomobile satellites, Centenario, for Mexico's new Mexsat end-to-end satellite communications system. Mexsat will provide enhanced social communications to the people of Mexico, as well as capability for military, civil and humanitarian needs. Centenario will be stored by Boeing for the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transpor ... more |  |
Habitable zones around stars ten times wider than we thought Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 10, 2014 - Life on Earth-like planets can exist at least ten times farther away from their stars than previously thought, scientists found, putting in question our whole perspective on habitable zone distances. A new paper published in the journal, Planetary and Space Science, describes how living organisms have just as much chance of surviving in areas below their uninhabitable planets' surfaces. ... more |  |
BOSS Measures the Universe to One-Percent Accuracy Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent. This and future measures at this precision are the key to determining the nature of dark energy. "One-percent accuracy in the scale of the universe is the most precise such measurement ever made," says BOSS's principal investigator ... more |  |
U of Maryland undergraduates discover rare eclipsing double asteroid College Park MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - Students in a University of Maryland undergraduate astronomy class have made a rare discovery that wowed professional astronomers: a previously unstudied asteroid is actually a pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another. Fewer than 100 asteroids of this type have been identified in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, said Melissa Hayes-Gehrke, who teaches t ... more |  |
Cygnus Heads to Space for First Station Resupply Mission Wallops VA (SPX) Jan 10, 2014 - NASA commercial partner Orbital Sciences Corporation launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard the Antares rocket at 1:07 p.m. EST Thursday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for the Orbital-1 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. At the time of launch the station was flying about 260 miles over the Atlantic ... more |  |
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