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| January 06, 2014 |
 India launches cutting-edge cryogenic rocket Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 05, 2014 - India on Sunday successfully launched its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed, taking another step forward in its ambitious space programme. The Indian-made cryogenically-powered rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota as scheduled, as Delhi tries to join an elite club of countries which have mastered th ... more |  |
 Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2014 - Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004. Bekah Sosland, 14 at the time, learned about a NASA rover landing on Mars when the bouncing-ball video on the next morning's Channel One news in her Fredericksburg, Texas, classroom caught her eye. "I wasn't particularly interested in space at the time," she recalled last week inside the spacecraft ope ... more |  |
 SciTechTalk: Particle physicists ready to go beyond the 'God particle' Washington DC (UPI) Jan 05, 2014 - Having been successful in their search for the Higgs boson - the so-called "God particle" that appeared to put a big red ribbon of completion on the Standard Model of physics - you would think particle physicists would be happy to put their feet up on the couch and bask in the glow of their accomplishment. But no, they're off on a new hunt, this time for something called "supersymmetry." ... more |  |
 Antares and Cygnus Launch Update Wallops VA (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - The International Space Station Program and Orbital Sciences Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the Antares rocket and its Cygnus cargo craft on the first Orbital commercial resupply mission to the space station to no earlier than Wednesday, Jan. 8 due to the forecast of cold temperatures for Tuesday, Jan. 7 at the launch site at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. ... more |  |
 Pulsar in stellar triple system makes unique gravitational laboratory Green Bank, WV (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's orbit around the Sun. The closeness of the stars, combined with their nature, has allowed the scientists to make the best measurements yet of the complex gravitational interact ... more |  |
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Clues from Orbit Aiding Exploration Of Opportunity Rover Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2014 - The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for energy production. Opportunity is positioned on the edge of an exposed outcrop where orbital observations suggest the possible presence of small amounts of clay minerals. The rover's activities have been relatively uncomplicated over the holiday period. On Sol 3521 (Dec. 19, 2013), the robotic arm was used to collect a Microscopic Imag ... more |  |
 3D-printed components flown in British fighter jet London (AFP) Jan 05, 2014 - A Tornado fighter jet fitted with metal components created on a 3D printer undertook a successful test flight in Britain last month, defence company BAE Systems said Sunday. The plane was equipped with a 3D-printed protective cover for the cockpit radio, a protective guard in the landing gear and support struts on the air intake door, the British firm said. The announcement follows NASA' ... more |  |
 Wake Up Yutu Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - After two weeks of frigid lunar night, China's Yutu Moon rover and the Chang'e-3 lander that carried it will soon awake from their slumber. Surviving the lunar night is probably the last of the big challenges posed to this mission. Once China's twin lunar robots are functioning again, the mission will be on its way to a long spell of productive work. We have grown accustomed to seeing rove ... more |  |
CU-Boulder to fly antibiotic experiment on ants to space station Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s commercial Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday, Jan. 7 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which will be carrying two University of Colorado Boulder payloads to the International Space Station. The two CU-Boulder payloads - a biomedical antibiotic experiment and an educational K-12 experiment involv ... more |  |
 Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Houston TX (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 - NASA astronauts recently experienced what it will be like to launch into space aboard the new Orion spacecraft during the first ascent simulations since the space shuttles and their simulators were retired. Ascent simulations are precise rehearsals of the steps a spacecraft's crew will be responsible for - including things that could go wrong - during their climb into space. They can be ge ... more |  |
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 The First Discovered Asteroid of 2014 Collides With The Earth - An Update Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2014 - Several sources confirm that the first discovered asteroid of 2014, designated 2014 AA, entered the Earth's atmosphere late January 1 EST over the mid-Atlantic Ocean. This very small asteroid - 6 to 9 feet (2 to 3 meters) in size was discovered, and immediately followed up, early on the morning of January 1 by the Catalina Sky Survey operating near Tucson Arizona. (An animation of the discovery ... 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 |  |
 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 |  |
Chang'e-3 satellite payload APXS obtained its first spectrum of lunar regolith Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 03, 2014 - The Active Particle-induced X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), carried by the Yutu rover of the Chang'e-3 satellite got its first X-ray fluorescence spectrum of lunar regolith around the landing site on December 25, 2013. An initial analysis indicates that eight major rock-forming elements (Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, Cr and Fe) and at least 3 minor elements (Sr, Y and Zr) of the Moon can be identified ... more |  |
 Wall-Crawling Gecko Robots Can Stick In Space Too Paris (ESA) Jan 03, 2014 - Climbing robots that mimic the stickiness of gecko lizard feet could work in space as well as on Earth, ESA has shown, raising the prospect of hull-crawling automatons tending future spacecraft. Robots crawling across spacecraft surfaces are a common sight in science fiction films from Silent Running to Wall-E. But, in reality, how might they stick in place while still remaining mobile? ... more |  |
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More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission The Hague (AFP) Jan 02, 2014 - More than 1,000 candidates - from 200,000 hopefuls - have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. They are to be whittled down to just 24, who will be sent over six launches starting in 2024, according to Mars One, the Dutch-based non-profit group behind th ... more |  |
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 |  |
Two Solar Flares Say Goodbye 2013 and Welcome 2014 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 03, 2014 - The sun ushered out 2013 and welcomed 2014 with two mid-level flares on Dec. 31, 2013 and Jan. 1, 2014. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however - when intense enough - they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. ... more |  |
First Asteroid Discovered in 2014 Has Little Impact Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 03, 2014 - Early Wednesday morning January 1st, while New Year's 2014 celebrations were still underway in the United States, the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, AZ, collected a single track of observations with an immediate follow-up on what was possibly a very small asteroid 2-3 meters in size on a potential impact trajectory with the Earth. Designated 2014 AA, which would make it the first asteroi ... more |  |
MAM produces plasma cavity for Helicon Double Layer Thruster Engine Berkshire, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2014 - Morgan Advanced Materials has provided a prototype plasma cavity for the Helicon Double Layer Thruster (HDLT), a new gas plasma space engine for use on satellites being developed by the Australian National University (ANU). Gas plasma engines are used in electric propulsion, a technology becoming more and more popular, because it uses "greener" propellants, rather than more toxic chemicals. ... more |  |
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