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| January 14, 2014 |
 Hubble Sees a Star Set to Explode Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 14, 2014 - Floating at the center of this new Hubble image is a lidless purple eye, staring back at us through space. This ethereal object, known officially as [SBW2007] 1 but sometimes nicknamed SBW1, is a nebula with a giant star at its center. The star was originally twenty times more massive than our sun, and is now encased in a swirling ring of purple gas, the remains of the distant era when it ... more |  |
 Reaction Engines signs Cooperative Agreement with USAF Lab London, UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2014 - The CRADA provides a framework to assess the performance, applications and development paths for REL's SABRE air-breathing rocket engine, a new class of aerospace engine designed for low cost, responsive space access and high speed atmospheric flight. This CRADA is the first U.S. government formal relationship with Reaction Engines Ltd. and will be used to inform U.S. government stakeholders abo ... more |  |
 Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jan 13, 2014 - A surprising effect created by a 19th century device called a Helmholz coil offers clues about how to achieve controlled nuclear fusion at Sandia National Laboratories' powerful Z machine. A Helmholz coil produces a magnetic field when electrified. In recent experiments, two Helmholz coils, installed to provide a secondary magnetic field to Z's huge one, unexpectedly altered and slowed the ... more |  |
 Ten-Years Roving About On Mars Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2014 - Opportunity landed on Mars on Jan. 24, 2004 PST (Jan. 25, 2004 UTC) on what was to be a three-month mission, but instead the rover has lived beyond its prime mission and roved the planet for nearly 10 years. Mission highlights, including a gallery of selected images from both rovers is at http://mars.nasa.gov/mer10/ . Opportunity is currently at 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavo ... more |  |
 NASA Administrator Tours Facility Where New Deep Space Rocket is Being Built New Orleans LA (SPX) Jan 14, 2014 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Monday visited the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to see the progress being made on the Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket ever built that will take American astronauts into deep space, first to an asteroid beyond the Moon and eventually on to Mars. Bolden, who was joined by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, toured constru ... more |  |
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 Starting Fire With Water Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 14, 2014 - When firefighters want to extinguish a blaze, they often douse it with water. Astronauts on board the ISS, however, are experimenting with a form of water that does the opposite. Instead of stopping fire, this water helps start it. "We call it 'supercritical water,'" says Mike Hicks of the Glenn Research Center in Ohio. "And it has some interesting properties." Water becomes supercritical ... more |  |
 Portable telemedicine device for medics Paris (ESA) Jan 14, 2014 - A robust portable device for monitoring vital signs and providing communications for medics developed with the support of ESA offers a lifeline even in the remotest areas on Earth via satcoms. The Tempus Pro combines the diagnostic facilities found in standard hospital vital signs monitors with extensive two-way communications, packaged in a compact, robust, highly portable unit that can b ... more |  |
 Northrop Grumman and Trex Enterprises to Introduce Celestial Navigation to Soldier Precision Targeting Laser Systems Apopka FL (SPX) Jan 09, 2014 - Northrop Grumman has announced an agreement to collaborate with Trex Enterprises Corporation to bring celestial navigation technology to the precision targeting capability provided to the U.S. military and allied forces. Trex Enterprises has developed and matured the core technology for providing a highly accurate celestial navigation subsystem for use in military products and scientific a ... more |  |
 Internet Radio Provides Musical Space-Weather Reports from NASA's LRO Mission Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 14, 2014 - The latest tool for checking space weather is an internet radio station fed by data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The radio station essentially operates in real time, receiving measurements of how much radiation the spacecraft is experiencing and converting those into a constant stream of music. The radiation levels determine which instrument is featured, the musical ke ... more |  |
 School's out for ATV training Paris (ESA) Jan 14, 2014 - This year sees the fifth and last of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles leave for the International Space Station. ATV Georges Lemaitre will be launched this summer from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, fully loaded with supplies, fuel and oxygen for the astronauts on humankind's orbital outpost. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, who is leaving for the Space Station in May, will welcome the large ... more |  |
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Suit up for Skinsuit Paris (ESA) Jan 14, 2014 - The Space Medicine Office of ESA's European Astronaut Centre is managing a project that could help astronauts overcome back problems in space, simply by wearing a high-tech tight-fitting 'skinsuit'. Floating in space, astronauts' bodies adapt to weightlessness in ways that are not always wanted. Bone and muscle waste away as they have less work to do without gravity. Astronauts have ... more |  |
 Cygnus Work Under Way, Normal Station Operations Continue Washington DC (SPX) Jan 14, 2014 - Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus commercial cargo craft has arrived at the International Space Station on its Orbital-1 resupply mission. NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins captured Cygnus with the station's robotic arm at 6:08 a.m. EST Sunday. He and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio worked quickly and opened the resupply craft's hatches six hours later. The NASA astronauts were joined in the cupola ... more |  |
Organic mega flow battery promises breakthrough for renewable energy Boston MA (SPX) Jan 13, 2014 - A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar far more economical and reliable. The novel battery technology is reported in a paper published in Nature on January 9. Under the OPEN 2012 program, the Harvard team ... more |  |
SimCity coming down from the "cloud" San Francisco (AFP) Jan 13, 2014 - Hugely popular SimCity will be coming down from the cloud, letting fans play the rich world simulation game without needing to be connected to the Internet. Electronic Art's Maxis studio in Northern California put out word Monday that the eagerly-awaited modification to the game will be part of a free software update. "SimCity offline is coming," Maxis general manager Patrick Buechner sa ... more |  |
 Giant Antarctic glacier beyond point of no return Paris (AFP) Jan 12, 2014 - Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest single contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimetre (0.4 inches) to ocean levels in 20 years, a study said Sunday. The glacier "has started a phase of self-sustained retreat and will irreversibly continue its decline," said Gael Durand, a glaciologist with France's Grenoble Alps Univer ... more |  |
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 Fossil pigments reveal the colors of ancient sea monsters Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jan 13, 2014 - Unique finds of original pigment in fossilised skin from three multi-million-year old marine reptiles attract considerable attention from the scientific community. The pigment reveals that these animals were, at least partially, dark-coloured in life, which is likely to have contributed to more efficient thermoregulation, as well as providing means for camouflage and UV protection. Researchers a ... more |  |
 Funding Problems Threaten US Disaster Preparedness Washington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2014 - The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York City prompted large increases in government funding to help communities respond and recover after man-made and natural disasters. But, this funding has fallen considerably since the economic crisis in 2008. Furthermore, disaster funding distribution is deeply inefficient: huge cash infusions are disbursed right after a disaster, only to fall abruptly ... more |  |
Moon rover, lander wake after lunar night Beijing (XNA) Jan 13, 2014 - China's moon rover "Yutu" (Jade Rabbit) and the Chang'e-3 lander have just "woken up" after a period of dormancy that lasted two weeks, or one lunar night, in a move designed to ride out harsh climactic conditions. Yutu was awakened autonomously at 5:09 a.m. Beijing Time on Saturday and has finished necessary setting procedures and entered a normal working mode following orders from the Be ... more |  |
 Official: China's space policy open to world Beijing (XNA) Jan 13, 2014 - Xu Dazhe, the new chief of China's space industry, is seeking more international cooperation in Washington less than a month after his country's first successful soft landing on the moon. Xu said China's space policy has always been very open. "We are willing to cooperate with all the countries in the world, including the United States and developing countries," he said on Thursday on the ... more |  |
India to launch second mission to moon by 2017 New Delhi (XNA) Jan 13, 2014 - India plans to launch its second mission to moon by 2017 in the wake of the success of its maiden lunar mission. "Chandrayaan-II is a mission where we essentially need to move on (lunar) surface to conduct experiments. We will launch Chandrayaan-II with an indigenous rover and lander using GSLV by 2016 or 2017," Indian Space Secretary K. Radhakrishnan told the media in the national capital ... more |  |
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