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| January 24, 2014 |
 NASA launches communications satellite Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2014 - NASA on Thursday launched a new satellite to boost its growing communications network between Earth and the International Space Station, allowing for nearly uninterrupted video, voice link and data transmission. The TDRS-L blasted off at 9:33 pm (0233 GMT Friday) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to become the 11th member of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. The fleet ... more |  |
 Opportunity at 10: New Findings from Old Rover Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2014 - New findings from rock samples collected and examined by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity have confirmed an ancient wet environment that was milder and older than the acidic and oxidizing conditions told by rocks the rover examined previously. In the Jan. 24 edition of the journal Science, Opportunity Deputy Principal Investigator Ray Arvidson, a professor at Washington University ... more |  |
 VG Announces Test Firings Of New Liquid Rocket Engines Mojave CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Virgin Galactic has reached a significant milestone in the testing of a new family of liquid rocket engines for LauncherOne, the company's small satellite launch vehicle. As part of a rapid development program, Virgin Galactic has now hot-fired both a 3,500 lbf thrust rocket engine and a 47,500 lbf thrust rocket engine, called the "NewtonOne" and "NewtonTwo" respectively. Further, the Newt ... more |  |
SNC Announces First Orbital Flight of Dream Chaser Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Sierra Nevada Corporation has confirmed that the first orbital flight of its Dream Chaser Space System will occur on November 1, 2016. Dream Chaser will be brought to orbit on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that is being built in Decatur, Alabama and will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. During SNC's press event at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), which was carrie ... more |  |
Constellation is Back Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Finally, just last Friday President Obama signed a new federal spending bill into law. This bill includes money to continue NASA's human space exploration program. Surprisingly, the exploration program being funded is a program long thought dead by the space community. It is basically the Project Constellation that was proposed by President Bush in 2004. If you recall, that was when he ann ... more |  |
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Mars 'jelly doughnut' rock intrigues scientists Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - A strange rock that looks like a jelly doughnut has appeared on Mars, and scientists are closer to figuring out how it got there, a top NASA expert said Thursday. The small, round object suddenly popped up in pictures taken 12 days apart by the US space agency's decade-old Opportunity rover. On December 26, 2013, it was not there. On January 8, it was. But what is it? "It looks lik ... more |  |
 Tiny swimming bio-bots boldly go where no bot has swum before Champaign IL (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own. Led by Taher Saif, the University of Illinois Gutgsell Professor of mechanical s ... more |  |
 MDA awarded key development work for exploration and communications Richmond, Canada (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has been awarded multiple strategic technology development contracts by the Canadian Space Agency. The contracts, with a combined value of approximately CA$3 million, are funded under CSA's Space Technology Development Program whose mandate is to advance key technologies to support future Canadian space exploration missions and support industrial capacity buil ... more |  |
NASA Receives Mars 2020 Rover Instrument Proposals for Evaluation Washington DC (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - NASA has received 58 proposals for science and exploration technology instruments to fly aboard the agency's next Mars rover in 2020, twice the usual number submitted for instrument competitions in the recent past, and an indicator of the extraordinary interest in exploration of the Red Planet. The agency is beginning a thorough review to determine the best combination of science and explo ... more |  |
 Athena-Fidus receives its "kick" for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 launch Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 24, 2014 - Fueling is underway at the Spaceport with Athena-Fidus, one of two advanced relay platforms to be orbited on Arianespace's first mission in 2014 - which will initiate a highly active year for the company's launch vehicle family: Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega. The satellite is being processed in the S5A fueling and integration hall of the Spaceport's S5 payload preparation center, marking anothe ... more |  |
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 NASA Set For A Big Year In Earth Science With Five New Missions Washington DC (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth science missions will be launched into space in the same year, opening new and improved remote eyes to monitor our changing planet. The five launches, including two to the International Space Station (ISS), are part of an active year for NASA Earth science researchers, who also will conduct airborne campaigns to the poles and hurric ... more |  |
ILS Proton To Launch Yamal 601 Reston VA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - International Launch Services (ILS) announced the contract for the ILS Proton launch of the Yamal 601 satellite for Gazprom Space Systems (Russia). Gazprom is the parent company of Gazprom Space Systems and is the world's largest producer of natural gas. The launch of the satellite is scheduled for 2016. The Yamal 601 satellite, weighing over 5,700 kg, will be built by Thales Alenia Space ... more |  |
ABS-2 relay platform fueled for launch on Ariane 5 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 24, 2014 - The ABS-2 spacecraft has been "topped off" at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana as preparations continue for its launch on Arianespace's year-opening Ariane 5 mission, which is scheduled for a February 6 liftoff. Loading of ABS-2's onboard propellant was performed in the S5B hall of the Spaceport's large S5 payload preparation facility. This marked a key step ahead of the satellite's upc ... more |  |
 Iran's military nuclear bid 'will be stopped': Israel Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Iran's atomic drive "will be stopped", a day after an interim agreement bringing sanctions relief for Tehran took effect. "Iran's military nuclear programme must be stopped, and Iran's military nuclear programme will be stopped," Netanyahu said at a joint news conference with his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, without saying h ... more |  |
 Slowing of Atlantic currents could bring changes in Europe's climate Reading, England (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down, British researchers say, which could have major impacts on weather in the United Kingdom. A recently measured slowdown of 10 to 15 percent may be part of larger decline that began in the 1990s and shows no sign of stopping yet, scientists at the University of Reading reported Tuesday. The Atlantic Meridional Over ... more |  |
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Get used to heat waves: Extreme El Nino events to double Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Extreme weather events fuelled by unusually strong El Ninos, such as the 1983 heatwave that led to the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Australia, are likely to double in number as our planet warms. An international team of scientists from organisations including the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (CoECSS), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and CSIRO, pu ... more |  |
 Air pollution boosts NW Pacific cyclones: study Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday. Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have packed stronger winds and more rain as a result of rising levels of particulate pollution, they said. The dusty fallout affects how moisture develops in cl ... more |  |
 NASA Searches for Climate Change Clues in the Gateway to the Stratosphere Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - NASA's uncrewed Global Hawk research aircraft is in the western Pacific region on a mission to track changes in the upper atmosphere and help researchers understand how these changes affect Earth's climate. Deployed from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., the Global Hawk landed at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam Thursday at approximately 5 p.m. EST and will begin scie ... more |  |
 Israel to start Arrow 3 production although key test still to come Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - The Defense Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries are so confident the Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system will be able to destroy hostile missiles in space, they're reported to be planning to start production even before flight testing has been completed. And that includes the critical test of actually intercepting a target missile that will simulate an incoming Iranian Shehab 3b ... more |  |
What makes superalloys super - hierarchical microstructure of a superalloy Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 16, 2014 - Researchers have observed for the first time in detail how a hierarchical microstructure develops during heat treatment of a superalloy Materials in high-performance turbines have to withstand not only powerful mechanical forces, they also have to maintain their chemical and mechanical properties almost up to their melting points. For this reason, turbine manufacturers have employed specia ... more |  |
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