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| January 01, 2014 |
 NASA's Hubble Sees Cloudy Super-Worlds With Chance for More Clouds Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 01, 2014 - Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have characterized the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in the Milky Way galaxy and found both may be blanketed with clouds. The planets are GJ 436b, located 36 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, and GJ 1214b, 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. Despite numerous efforts, the nature of the atmo ... more |  |
 New Studies Give Strong Boost to Binary-Star Formation Theory Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jan 01, 2014 - Using the new capabilities of the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), scientists have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars. The discovery gives strong support for one of the competing explanations for how double-star systems form. Astronomers know that about half of all Sun-like stars are members of double or multiple-star systems, b ... more |  |
 China to upgrade homegrown GPS to improve accuracy Beijing (UPI) Dec 30, 2013 - China says it will have 30 satellites in its Beidou navigation system by 2020 to improve accuracy to within inches to better compete with the U.S.GPS. The Beidou network, with 16 satellites serving the Asia-Pacific region, currently has an accuracy of about 15 feet but Chinese officials say they want to upgrade it to compete with the U.S. global positioning system, the most widely used ... more |  |
 Expedition 38 Sends New Year's Greetings on Off-Duty Day Houston TX (SPX) Jan 01, 2014 - On the last day of 2013, the six station residents had off-duty time on orbit while still conducting some science, maintenance work and exercise. The Expedition 38 crew also sent down messages in their native languages to bring in the New Year. The international crew of six will also have New Year's Day off. Commander Oleg Kotov and his fellow cosmonauts Sergey Ryazanskiy and Mikhail Tyuri ... more |  |
 Large-aperture planar lens antennas with gradient refractive index Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 01, 2014 - It was recently shown that large-aperture lens antennas can be designed by using gradient-index (GRIN) metamaterials and that higher directivity and gain can be obtained than with traditional dielectric lens antennas. This provides an effective method to design high-performance lens antennas. A paper titled "Three-dimensional large-aperture lens antennas with gradient refractive index," pu ... more |  |
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Mission to test laser communications across space distances a success Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Dec 31, 2013 - NASA says tests using spacecraft in orbit around the moon confirm the potential of using lasers to communicate across space. The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration mission was designed to show laser communication is possible from a distance of almost a quarter-of-a-million miles, the space agency said. The LLCD, orbiting the moon aboard NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Envir ... more |  |
 Potential Martians: Mars One selects 1,058 hopefuls among 200,000 applicants Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 01, 2014 - The Mars One project has announced the selection of 1,058 hopefuls from over 200,000 applicants to become potential "human ambassadors" on the Red Planet. Eventually, no more than 40 people will be selected to go Mars to never return. "We're extremely appreciative and impressed with the sheer number of people who submitted their applications," Mars One Co-Founder and CEO Bas Lansdorp said, ... more |  |
 Sun 'flips upside down' while reversing magnetic poles Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 01, 2014 - The sun has undergone a "complete field reversal," with its north and south poles changing places as it marks the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. "A reversal of the sun's magnetic field is, literally, a big event," NASA's Dr. Tony Phillips said in a statement issued on the space agency's website. "The sun's polar magnetic fields weaken, go to zero and then emerge again with the opposite ... more |  |
Researchers use Hubble Telescope to reveal cloudy weather on alien world Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 01, 2014 - Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today's forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosphere of a super-Earth class planet orbiting another star for the first time. ... more |  |
 Earth's crust was unstable in the Archean eon and dripped down into the mantle Mainz, Germany (SPX) Dec 31, 2013 - Earth's mantle temperatures during the Archean eon, which commenced some 4 billion years ago, were significantly higher than they are today. According to recent model calculations, the Archean crust that formed under these conditions was so dense that large portions of it were recycled back into the mantle. This is the conclusion reached by Dr. Tim Johnson who is currently studying the evo ... more |  |
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 After Impressive Demonstrations of Robot Skill, DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Conclude Homestead, FL (SPX) Dec 28, 2013 - On December 20-21, 2013, 16 teams were the main attraction at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials, where they demonstrated their prototype robots' ability to perform a number of critical real-world disaster-response skills. DARPA constructed eight tasks at the Homestead Speedway in Homestead, Fla., to simulate what a robot might have to do to safely enter and effectively work inside a disa ... more |  |
 Only lawyers profit as tech giants go to war over patents Washington DC (UPI) Dec 29, 2013 - Technology companies have research and development departments, design staffs, factories to build their products, sales and marketing departments to convince consumers to buy them - and increasingly, it seems, lawyers to bicker and sue over patents. Two of the industry's giants - Apple and Samsung, who between them have made nearly half of the smartphones sold worldwide - have spent ... more |  |
 Batteries as they are meant to be seen Richland WA (SPX) Dec 28, 2013 - Researchers have developed a way to microscopically view battery electrodes while they are bathed in wet electrolytes, mimicking realistic conditions inside actual batteries. While life sciences researchers regularly use transmission electron microscopy to study wet environments, this time scientists have applied it successfully to rechargeable battery research. The results, reported in De ... more |  |
 Raytheon awarded $80.5 million from US Navy for Joint Standoff Weapon Tucson, AZ (SPX) Dec 28, 2013 - Raytheon has received an $80.5 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 200 full rate production Lot 10 AGM-154C-1 Joint Standoff Weapons (JSOWs). The contract also includes associated support equipment and one performance characterization test. JSOW provides growth and threat adaptation opportunities for current and future custome ... more |  |
US bans Russia's GLONASS for spying fears Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - The United States does not want GLONASS stations on its territory. Americans are afraid that Russia's GLONASS global satellite navigation system might be used to spy on the US. No official ban has been imposed, but the new requirements that have been put forward now make the deployment of ground-based tracking stations next to impossible. The 2014 defense bill signed by President Barack Ob ... more |  |
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'Mars One' will reveal if there is life outside Earth Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - Mars One is a non-profit organization that plans to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025. The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced plans for the Mars One mission in May 2012, who revealed the details of the mission in an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia. b>Mr. Lansdorp, how did the idea of Mars One project come to y ... more |  |
 Chang'e 3 Lander and Rover From Above Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 31, 2013 - Chang'e 3 landed on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) just east of a 450 m diameter impact crater on 14 December 2013. Soon after landing, a small rover named Yutu (or Jade Rabbit in English) was deployed and took its first tentative drive onto the airless regolith. At the time of the landing LRO's orbit was far from the landing site so images of the landing were not possible. Ten days later on ... more |  |
 SAR images acquired by KOMPSAT-5 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Dec 31, 2013 - Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has released KOMPSAT-5 images acquired for the calibration purpose. KOMPSAT-5 was launched on August 22, 2013 from the Yasny launch base of Russia and under early operation and calibration. During the early operation and calibration phase, all the functionalities of satellite have been verified and now it is under calibration of payload system. ... more |  |
Energia Corp to launch observation satellite in spring 2014 Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation accomplished a full cycle of ground tests, assembly and factory trials of a next-generation observation satellite in 2013, a corporation spokesman told Interfax-AVN on Monday. "The observation satellite designed by the corporation will be put into orbit in spring 2014," he said. Meanwhile, a source from the Russian rocket and space industry to ... more |  |
China's HD observation satellite opens its eyes Beijing (XNA) Dec 31, 2013 - China's high-definition Earth observation satellite, the Gaofen-1, has been formally put into service, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) announced Monday. The satellite has undergone eighth months of in-orbit tests since it blasted off on April 26. It has met requirements and even performed better than expected by sending back high ... more |  |
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