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| May 27, 2014 |
 Russia puts satellite in orbit from sea platform after 2013 flop Moscow (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Russia has sent a European communications satellite into orbit from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, after the last launch in 2013 ended with the satellite plunging into the sea. The Zenit-3SL rocket blasted off at 2209 GMT on Monday from the Odyssey launch pad and reached its orbit around an hour later, said the Sea Launch international consortium, 95 percent of which is controlled ... more |  |
 SSTL announces TechDemoSat-1 launch date Guildford, UK (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is announcing the launch of TechDemoSat-1, an in-orbit technology demonstration mission for innovative UK spacecraft equipment and software, planned for 28th June 2014 by a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with a Fregat upper stage from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. TechDemoSat-1 is based on the SSTL-150 platform and is part-funded by a grant from the ... more |  |
 Failed dwarf galaxy survives galactic collision thanks to full dark-matter jacket Charlotteville VA (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Like a bullet wrapped in a full metal jacket, a high-velocity hydrogen cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way appears to be encased in a shell of dark matter, according to a new analysis of data from the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Astronomers believe that without this protective shell, the high-velocity cloud (HVC) known as the Smith Cloud would have di ... more |  |
 Hubble Sees Flickering Light Display on Saturn Baltimore MD (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured new images of the dancing auroral lights at Saturn's north pole. Taken from Hubble's perspective in orbit around the Earth, these images provide a detailed look at Saturn's stormy aurorae - revealing previously unseen dynamics in the choreography of the auroral glow. The cause of the changing patterns in Saturn's aurorae i ... more |  |
 China's domestic navigation system guides Pakistan Nanjing (XNA) May 27, 2014 - China's domestically made Beidou navigation system has set up a network in Pakistan, the first in a foreign country, the company said Thursday. Beidou was co-developed by China Great Wall Industry Corporation and the Beijing UniStrong Science& Technology Co., Ltd. The first stage of Pakistan's geographic positioning network has been finished, Shen Jun, chief scientist of UniStrong, said at ... more |  |
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 Chelyabinsk meteorite part of much bigger celestial body Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 27, 2014 - The Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded on February 15, 2013, in the Chelyabinsk area was part of a bigger celestial body and came off it as a result of the impact. The statement was published on a website called Scientific Reports after a team of scientists, including Russians, conducted research. The scientists studied the chemical composition of the meteorite's fragments and found out t ... more |  |
Supernova Caught in the Act by Palomar Transient Factory Pasadena CA (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Supernovae-stellar explosions-are incredibly energetic, dynamic events. It is easy to imagine that they are uncommon, but the universe is a big place and supernovae are actually fairly routine. The problem with observing supernovae is knowing just when and where one is occurring and being able to point a world-class telescope at it in the hours immediately afterward, when precious data abo ... more |  |
 Munich to Alexander: all systems go Paris (ESA) May 27, 2014 - An atmosphere of rising excitement can be sensed in the control centre: everything is ready for ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst's voyage to the International Space Station blasting off next Wednesday. The Columbus Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Germany has followed many launches since its inauguration 10 years ago - but no mission is routine. The centres in Baikonur, Kazakh ... more |  |
Study of cosmic explosions aims to further our understanding of dark energy Southampton, UK (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Scientists from the University of Southampton are aiming to further our understanding of dark energy, the mysterious and unknown force that powers the accelerating expansion of our Universe. The new project, which has just received more than 1.6m pounds in funding from the European Research Council, will use cosmic explosions known as supernovae, violent thermonuclear explosions from dying ... more |  |
 NASA Invites Public to Select Favorite Moon Image for Lunar Orbiter Anniversary Collection Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2014 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will celebrate five years in orbit June 18. To celebrate the anniversary and LRO's many scientific contributions, NASA invites the public to select a favorite orbiter image of the moon for the cover a special image collection. "'The Moon as Art' collection gives the public the opportunity to see the moon as others have seen it for centuries - as an ... more |  |
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China's BeiDou system standard ratified by IMO Beijing (XNA) May 27, 2014 - The International Maritime Organization has ratified the performance standard of a receiver of the shipborne BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), the Ministry of Transport revealed Wednesday. This is the first BDS to be standard approved by an international organization. It marks the first step for China's home-grown system in its quest to go global, according to the ministry. T ... more |  |
 Airbus' VTOL Quancruiser UAV successfully transitions to fixed-wing flight Paris (UPI) May 23, 2013 - A proof-of-concept unmanned aerial vehicle that combines fixed-wing and helicopter capabilities is being tested by the Airbus Group. The electric-powered Quadcruiser is a joint effort of Airbus Group Innovations and Airbus Defense, with the participation of Steinbeis Flugzeug-und Leichtbau GmbH. Airbus Group it has four vertically-oriented electric lift motors for vertical takeof ... more |  |
ATC coms system in works for Predator Berlin (UPI) May 23, 2013 - Integration and use of air traffic control radios on Predator B unmanned aerial systems is to be performed by U.S. and German companies. General Atomics Aeronautical systems Inc., maker of the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper reports it signed the teaming agreement with communications company Rohde & Schwarz, part of an effort to add more European content to its aircraft system. "We are co ... more |  |
US drone deployed in Japan for first time Tokyo (AFP) May 24, 2014 - A US surveillance drone arrived at an air base in northern Japan on Saturday for the first deployment of the spy aircraft in the country, the US Air Force said. The Global Hawk was brought to the US Misawa Air Base from Guam "to support US intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions and contingency operations throughout the Pacific theater," America's air force said on its websit ... more |  |
General Atomics Grey Eagle again proves enhanced endurance capability Tampa, Fla. (UPI) May 23, 2013 - The Improved Grey Eagle prototype unmanned aerial system by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. has demonstrated its improved endurance. During a second endurance flight test of the prototype for the U.S. Army, the aircraft flew 36.7 hours, compared to the 30-hour endurance of the unimproved model. In October last year it flew more than 45 hours in a reconnaissance, surveil ... more |  |
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 On quantification of the growth of compressible mixing layer Beijing, China (SPX) May 26, 2014 - CML has been a research topic for more than five decades, due to its wide applications in propulsion design. Mixing in CML is controlled by the compressibility effects of velocity and density variations over the mixing layer, and quantified by the growth rate of CML. However, the lack of understanding of various definitions of mixing thicknesses has yielded scatter in analyzing experimenta ... more |  |
NIST studies why quantum dots suffer from 'fluorescence intermittency' Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, have found that a particular species of quantum dots that weren't commonly thought to blink, do. So what? Well, although the blinks are short-on the order of nanoseconds to milliseconds-even brief fluctuations can result in efficiency losses that could caus ... more |  |
Eumelanin's secrets Boston MA (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Melanin - and specifically, the form called eumelanin - is the primary pigment that gives humans the coloring of their skin, hair, and eyes. It protects the body from the hazards of ultraviolet and other radiation that can damage cells and lead to skin cancer, but the exact reason why the compound is so effective at blocking such a broad spectrum of sunlight has remained something of a mystery. ... more |  |
 A new solution for storing hydrogen fuel for alternative energy Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Turning the "hydrogen economy" concept into a reality, even on a small scale, has been a bumpy road, but scientists are developing a novel way to store hydrogen to smooth out the long-awaited transition away from fossil fuels. Their report on a new solid, stable material that can pack in a large amount of hydrogen that can be used as a fuel appears in the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials. ... more |  |
Liquid crystal as lubricant Freiburg, Germany (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Thanks to a new lubricant, small gears can run with virtually no friction. Made from liquid crystalline fluid, these lubricants drastically reduce friction and wear. Lubricants are used in motors, axels, ventilators and manufacturing machines. Although lubricants are widely used, there have been almost no fundamental innovations for this product in the last twenty years. Together with a co ... more |  |
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