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| June 03, 2014 |
 LDSD Testing for Large Payloads to Mars Wallops Island VA (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 - What will it take to land heavier spacecraft on Mars? How will engineers slow large payloads traveling at supersonic speeds in a thin Martian atmosphere? Can this be done? NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is playing an integral role in potentially answering those questions with the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator mission, or LDSD. To conduct advanced exploration missions in the future and ... more |  |
 Galaxies In Collision Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jun 03, 2014 - A short time ago, in a galaxy very, very close by, a NASA satellite thought it detected a gamma ray burst in Andromeda. It was a false alarm, but astronomers used the opportunity as a reminder that our galaxy and Andromeda are set for a head-on collision. NASA's Swift satellite discovers and measures gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, and their afterglow in X-r ... more |  |
 The Webb of a Thermal Cage Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 - What appears to be a golden cage being lowered over a complex piece of technology is actually equipment that will simulate an environment in space to ensure the science instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope can withstand the harsh conditions. The golden cage is actually the Surrogate Thermal Management System (STMS), and it provides a simulation of the thermal environment expected ... more |  |
 Direct-to-satellite hand-held device could revolutionise learning Bangalore (IANS) Jun 02, 2014 - A low-cost satellite-enabled tablet computer developed in India, coupled with two satellites once used for sterophonic radio broadcasts and which have a footprint in 127 countries, could revolutionise the way schoolchildren across the developing world are taught, the system's US-based promoter says. The Silver Spring, Maryland-based Yazmi's e-learning system requires no internet as the tab ... more |  |
 First Phase To Certify New US Space Transport System Completed Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 - NASA's Commercial Crew Program and industry have completed the first step in the certification process that will enable American-made commercial spacecraft safely to ferry astronauts from U.S. soil to and from the International Space Station by 2017. The completion of the Certification Products Contracts (CPC) marks critical progress in the development of next-generation American space transport ... more |  |
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Violent Birth Announcement from an Infant Star Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 - This Hubble image shows IRAS 14568-6304, a young star that is cloaked in a haze of golden gas and dust. It appears to be embedded within an intriguing swoosh of dark sky, which curves through the image and obscures the sky behind. This dark region is known as the Circinus molecular cloud. This cloud has a mass around 250 000 times that of the sun, and it is filled with gas, dust and young ... more |  |
 Ten year-old Dragon gains new strength Paris (ESA) Jun 03, 2014 - As ESA and China mark a decade of cooperation, imagery over China's Poyang lake is testament to the new Sentinel satellite's promise of continued radar data acquisition for a multitude of applications. The Poyang lake in southern China's Jiangxi province is the largest freshwater lake in the country. This lake is an important habitat for migrating Siberian cranes - many of which spend the ... more |  |
Chandra Helps Explain "Red and Dead Galaxies" Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed new light on the mystery of why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars. This new evidence highlights the important role that supermassive black holes play in the evolution of their host galaxies. Because star-forming activity in many giant elliptical galaxies has shut down to very low levels, these galaxies mostly house long-lived ... more |  |
 Citizen Scientists Contact Vintage Spacecraft Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 - A group of citizen scientists has successfully established communication with an inactive NASA spacecraft in an attempt to breathe new scientific life into a more than 35-year-old agency mission. NASA signed a Non-Reimbursable Space Act Agreement (NRSAA) with Skycorp, Inc., in Los Gatos, California, on May 21 that allows the company to contact, and possibly command and control, NASA's Inte ... more |  |
 Observing the random diffusion of missing atoms in graphene Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - Imperfections in the regular atomic arrangements in crystals determine many of the properties of a material, and their diffusion is behind many microstructural changes in solids. However, imaging non-repeating atomic arrangements is difficult in conventional materials. Now, researchers at the University of Vienna have directly imaged the diffusion of a butterfly-shaped atomic defect in gra ... more |  |
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 X-ray pulses on demand from electron storage rings Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - Everything we know nowadays about novel materials and the underlying processes in them we also know thanks to studies at contemporary synchrotron facilities like BESSY II. Here, relativistic electrons in a storage ring are employed to generate very brilliant and partly coherent light pulses from the THz to the X-ray regime in undulators and other devices. However, most of the techniques us ... more |  |
 'Godzilla' of Earths circles distant star Washington (AFP) June 02, 2014 - Astronomers have spotted the "Godzilla" of all Earths, a huge rocky planet orbiting a star 560 light years away that is changing scientists' understanding of the origins of the universe. This new mega-Earth weighs 17 times as much as our planet, and was found by NASA's Kepler mission, experts said at a meeting in Boston of the American Astronomical Society. The new discovery, named Keple ... more |  |
 New printable robots could self-assemble when heated Boston MA (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - Printable robots - those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers - have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. At this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rus' group and its collaborators introduce a new wrinkle on the idea: bakable robots. ... more |  |
 Australia's deadly eruptions the reason for the first mass extinction Perth, Australia (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - A Curtin University researcher has shown that ancient volcanic eruptions in Australia 510 million years ago significantly affected the climate, causing the first known mass extinction in the history of complex life. Published in prestigious journal Geology, Associate Professor Fred Jourdan from Curtin's Department of Applied Geology, along with colleagues from several Australian and intern ... more |  |
 Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory Passes Starts Mission Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - The new Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite is now in the hands of the engineers who will fly the spacecraft and ensure the steady flow of data on rain and snow for the life of the mission. The official handover to the Earth Science Mission Operations team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on May 29, marked the end of a successful check-out per ... more |  |
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SpaceX founder unveils his 'future of space travel' capsule Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jun 02, 2014 - Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) presented its new space capsule, expected to carry up to seven astronauts into space and bring them back to Earth, with the capacity to land anywhere 'with the accuracy of a helicopter.' The Dragon V2 (version two) was unveiled in Hawthorne, California on May 29 by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The sleek capsule is the company's first spacecraft ... more |  |
 Private Space Race Heats Up Washington DC (VOA) Jun 02, 2014 - Privately-funded, manned space exploration and tourism received two boosts on Thursday. SpaceX unveiled its Dragon V2 spacecraft, which the company hopes will one day take astronauts to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX founder Elon Musk presented the new spacecraft at a company facility in California. Dragon V2 could "land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter ... more |  |
Russia preparing to launch Okno space surveillance system at full capacity Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jun 02, 2014 - State tests of the Okno (Window) complex for tracking and monitoring man-made space objects in Tajikistan will take place during the summer months in the interests of the Russian aerospace defence troops. After that the facility will be put on duty, representative of the aerospace defence troops Colonel Alexey Zolotukhin told RIA Novosti. According to open sources, the facility is part of ... more |  |
 NASA Widens 2014 Hurricane Research Mission Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 01, 2014 - During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, NASA is redoubling its efforts to probe the inner workings of hurricanes and tropical storms with two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flying over storms and two new space-based missions. NASA's airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission, will revisit the Atlantic Ocean for the third year in a row. HS3 is a collaborative effort th ... more |  |
 A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere with better resolution than ever before. Watch the movie to see how a c ... more |  |
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