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| January 15, 2014 |
 Spaceflight, Nanoracks Partnership Launch CubeSat Customers Towards Historic ISS Deployment Seattle, WA (SPX) Jan 15, 2014 - Spaceflight and NanoRacks have announced that multiple CubeSats are en route to the International Space Station on the Orbital Sciences Cygnus Orb-1 Mission made possible by close cooperation between the two companies. The satellites were manifest via the NanoRacks Space Act Agreement with NASA, and are scheduled for deployment using the self-funded NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer. Spaceflight, ... more |  |
 Two carrier rockets to be launched from Baikonur next month Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 15, 2014 - Two Russian carrier rockets are scheduled to blast off next month from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesperson for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Friday. "In February, we are planning to launch Soyuz-U carrier rocket with ProgressM-22M space freighter and Proton-M spacecraft carrying Turkish telecommunications satellite TurkSat-4A from the Baikonur space center, ... more |  |
Russia to launch seven space vehicles in two months Moscow (XNA) Jan 15, 2014 - Russia plans to launch seven space vehicles by March, the federal space agency Roscosmos said Monday. "Preparations for the 2014 program have started," Roscosmos said on its official website. The fueling of a Briz-M booster and a Progress M-22M cargo ship has started at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, said the space agency. In February, a Soyuz-U rocket carrier mounted with ... more |  |
 KVH mini-VSAT Installed on 100 US Coast Guard Vessels Middletown RI (SPX) Jan 15, 2014 - KVH Industries, Inc., has surpassed the 100-vessel mark in its 10-year contract to supply the next-generation satellite communications solution for the U.S. Coast Guard's fleet of small cutters. To date, KVH's TracPhone V7 systems have been deployed on 105 USCG vessels across eight different classes of cutters, and KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband service has provided 29.2 terabytes of data and m ... more |  |
 Ground control to Major Tang Beijing (XNA) Jan 15, 2014 - If everything goes well, the first private astronauts from China may journey to space before the end of the year. The Netherlands-based space tourism firm Space Expedition Corporation, or SXC, has signed an agreement with Dexo Travel, a domestic travel agency, to take rich Chinese to space. Zhang Yong, chief executive officer of Dexo Travel, told China Daily that more than 100 people have ... more |  |
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 NASA warns of 'potentially hazardous' asteroid Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 15, 2014 - A new, "potentially hazardous" asteroid has been discovered by one of NASA's recently reactivated spacecraft - and it's headed in Earth's direction. The new asteroid, called 2013 YP139, was spotted by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), and marks the spacecraft's first discovery since being resurrected last year. According to the Telegraph, the asteroid ... more |  |
ISEF-riding an asteroid to the future Washington DC (Voice of Russia) Jan 15, 2014 - On Thursday, Washington, D.C. hosted the first ever ministerial-level meeting of space-faring countries. High-ranking officials from more than thirty nations came to the U.S. capital to attend the International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF) organized by the U.S. Department of State. Among the burning issues discussed were the future of space exploration, international cooperation, t ... more |  |
Space-faring countries discuss cooperation in US Washington DC (XNA) Jan 15, 2014 - Ministers and high-level officials from about 35 space-faring countries, including United States and China, on Thursday gathered in Washington D.C. to discuss international cooperation on space exploration. The International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF) is the "first- ever ministerial-level meeting to build support for global cooperation in space exploration," said the U.S. State Departm ... more |  |
 Field Museum in Chicago unveils 'oddball' green meteorite Chicago (UPI) Jan 14, 2013 - The Field Museum in Chicago has unveiled an "oddball" cosmic find - a green meteorite it says was discovered in southern Morocco two years ago. Museum experts say they're calling the meteorite - donated by a private collector - "The Oddball." "It does not fall into any of the classes of asteroid or meteorites that we know of," museum geologist James Holstein told WBBM Newsradi ... more |  |
Kids coached to pitch world-changing ideas San Francisco (AFP) Jan 15, 2014 - A program launched globally on Tuesday set out to inspire children to present their big ideas for changing the world. TED-Ed Clubs is the latest education initiative from the nonprofit organization behind prestigious TED conferences known for for perspective-shifting presentations by the brilliant and famous. TED-Ed Clubs was piloted in more than 100 schools in 20 countries before being ... more |  |
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IBM leads in U.S. patent awards with more than 6,800 in 2013 Raleigh, N.C. (UPI) Jan 14, 2013 - For the 21st consecutive year, U.S. technology giant IBM led the nation in obtaining patents, a survey by a patent-tracking firm has found. IBM was granted 6,809 patents in 2013, outpacing second-place Samsung's 4,675, the survey by research firm IFI Claims Patent Services showed. More than 600 of IBM's patents originated at the company's Research Triangle Park campus near Raleig ... 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 |  |
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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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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 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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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 |  |
 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 |  |
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