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| January 20, 2014 |
 First mission for SSTL's new X50 platform will be for Kazakh customer London, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP (Kazakhstan) have agreed that SSTL's new X50 platform design will deliver KazSTSAT, a small satellite mission announced under a contract signed last year. KazSTSAT will be based on the SSTL-X50 Earthmapper variant and will carry an SSTL SLIM-6 imager, providing 22m resolution multispectral imagery with a swath width of more than 600km f ... more |  |
 China confirms new hypersonic glide vehicle test-flight Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 20, 2014 - China confirmed conducting a test flight of a new hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of delivering nuclear warheads with record breaking speeds. The move is purely scientific and not targeted at any country, said the Defense Ministry. "Our planned scientific research tests conducted in our territory are normal," said the Beijing Defense Ministry as cited by Reuters on Wednesday. " ... more |  |
 20th Anniversary of Initial Operational Capability of the GPS Constellation El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - The Global Positioning System (GPS) Directorate celebrated the 20th Anniversary of achieving Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for GPS Dec. 8, 2013. In 1973, the Navstar Global Positioning System Joint Program Office (JPO), headed by then-Colonel Bradford Parkinson, developed the GPS architecture and initiated efforts to field a prototype system to prove the concept of space-based globa ... more |  |
 Nuclear missile force poses a headache for US military Washington (AFP) Jan 18, 2014 - The "missileers" who oversee America's land-based nuclear arsenal were once seen as the tip of the spear for the US military during the tense days of the Cold War. But now the crews face questions about their discipline, their professionalism and even the rationale for their job. Revelations this week that missile launch officers cheated on a proficiency exam - the latest in a stream o ... more |  |
 Himiko and the Cosmic Dawn Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - The Subaru Telescope, an 8.2-meter telescope operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has been combing the night sky since 1999. Located at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, the telescope has been systematically surveying each degree of space, whether it looks promising or not, in search of objects worthy of further investigation. One of the most fascinating objects ... more |  |
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 Working Together to Build Tomorrow's STEM Workforce Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - On January 13, NASA and the U.S. Department of Education marked the successful completion of a pilot program designed to engage more students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. Attendees at the half-day event, held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, included senior officials from both agencies as well as invited guests. The group reviewed the pilot activity and ... more |  |
 KVH Doubles Capacity of Global C-band Beams for Maritime VSAT Network Middletown RI (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - KVH Industries is doubling the capacity for two of the three global C-band beams of its mini-VSAT Broadband network, further enhancing the world's most extensive C/Ku-band maritime VSAT network. The increased C-band capacity, which will take effect next month, enhances the mini-VSAT Broadband network's multimegabit service covering all major shipping routes, offshore oil fields, and commer ... more |  |
 The experts behind Gaia's arrival at nothingness Paris (ESA) Jan 20, 2014 - With a final, modest, thruster burn yesterday afternoon, ESA's billion-star surveyor finalised its entry into orbit around 'L2', a virtual point far out in space. But how do you orbit nothing? And who can show you how to get there, anyway? Just after 15:30 GMT (16:30 CET) yesterday, Gaia made a short thruster burn, nudging the galactic survey craft onto its planned scientific orbit. The jo ... more |  |
 First planet found around solar twin in star cluster Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Astronomers have used ESO's HARPS planet hunter in Chile, along with other telescopes around the world, to discover three planets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67. Although more than one thousand planets outside the Solar System are now confirmed, only a handful have been found in star clusters. Remarkably one of these new exoplanets is orbiting a star that is a rare solar twin - a star ... more |  |
 ISS MAXI-mizing our understanding of the universe Houston TX (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Look up at the night sky ... do you see it? The stars of the cosmos bursting in magnificent explosions of death and rebirth! No? Well, then maybe you are not looking through the "eyes" of the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) investigation, mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station Kibo module. MAXI, along with other sky watching instruments, such as Swift, collect data that ... more |  |
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 2-proton bit controlled by a single copper atom Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Just a single foreign atom located in the vicinity of a molecule can change spatial arrangement of its atoms. In a spectacular experiment, an international team of researchers was able to change persistently positions of the nuclei of hydrogen atoms in a porphycene molecule by approaching a single copper atom to the molecule. A subatomic bit formed by two protons tunnelling inside a simple ... more |  |
 Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Computer scientist Yi-Kai Liu has devised away to make a security device that has proved notoriously difficult to build-a "one-shot" memory unit, whose contents can be read only a single time. The research, which Liu is prese ... more |  |
 Researchers 'detune' a molecule Houston TX (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - The molecule in question is carbon-60, also known as the buckminsterfullerene and the buckyball, discovered at Rice in 1985. The scientists led by Rice physicists Yajing Li and Douglas Natelson found that it's possible to soften the bonds between atoms by applying a voltage and running an electric current through a single buckyball. The researchers detailed their discovery this week in the ... more |  |
Natural 3D Counterpart to Graphene Discovered Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene - the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech industry, including much faster transistors and far more compact hard drives. A collaboration of researchers at the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence B ... more |  |
Potential Future Data Storage at Domain Boundaries Julich, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Storing more and more in an ever-smaller space - what sounds impossible is in fact just part of the daily routine in information technology, where for decades, increasing amounts of data have been successfully stored on media with ever higher densities. An international team, including researchers from Forschungszentrum Julich, has now discovered a physical phenomenon that could prove suitable f ... more |  |
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New Technique for Probing Subsurface Electronic Structure Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - "The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. In today's burgeoning world of nanotechnology, the interfaces between layers of metal oxides are becoming increasingly prominent, with applications in such high-tech favorites as spintronics, high-temp ... more |  |
 Large landmasses existed 2.7 billion years ago Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - A Cologne working group involving Prof. Carsten Munker and Dr. Elis Hoffmann and their student Sebastian Viehmann (working with Prof. Michael Bau from the Jacobs University Bremen) have managed for the first time to determine the isotope composition of the rare trace elements Hafnium and Neodymium in 2,700 million year-old seawater by using high purity chemical sediments from Temagami Banded Iro ... more |  |
 China's pollution seen from space Paris (AFP) Jan 17, 2014 - Scientists said Friday they had mapped ground-level air pollution in China from space for the first time, a feat that should help the fight against a notorious health hazard. French and Belgian atmospheric scientists used an infrared sensor aboard a European MetOp weather satellite to map plumes of particles and carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ammonia over the north China plain, blanketi ... more |  |
Space fishing: Japan to test 'magnetic net' for space junk Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 19, 2014 - Japan's space agency is subcontracting a fishing net company to develop a technology to clean up the space junk that poses a direct threat to Earth's communication networks. The mission is planned for 2019, with first tests scheduled for this February. Tokyo's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co, a company with almost a century-long experience in fishing net manufacturin ... more |  |
US Congress Rejects White House Cuts to Planetary Exploration Pasadena, CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2014 - The FY2014 Omnibus spending bill, now before the U.S. Congress, once again rejects cuts to NASA's Planetary Science Division that were sought by the White House. The Planetary Society commends Congress for this action, and strongly encourages the White House to prioritize Planetary Science in its future budget requests commensurate with its strong public and legislative support. The Societ ... more |  |
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