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| July 03, 2014 |
 Does 3D printing have the right stuff? Paris (ESA) Jul 03, 2014 - 3D-printed parts promise a revolution in the space industry, rapidly creating almost any object needed. But do the results really have the right stuff for flying in space? ESA is now checking if their surface finish comes up to scratch. 3D printing involves building an item by laying down successive layers of material, rather than cutting away from a solid block. ESA's Clean Space initiati ... more |  |
 Russia Sees No Progress in GLONASS Talks with US Uglegorsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 03, 2014 - The United States has shown no interest in negotiations on the deployment of GLONASS navigation stations in the US, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko said Monday. "We see no active steps on [the American] side toward the deployment of our stations," Ostapenko told journalists adding that the negotiations have stalled. In response to the refusal to host Russia' ... more |  |
 More People Means More Plant Growth Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Ecologist Thomas Mueller uses satellite data to study how the patterns of plant growth relate to the movement of caribou and gazelle. The research sparked an idea: Would the footprint of human activity show up in the data? Mueller, of the University of Maryland in College Park (now at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt) teamed up with university and NASA colleagues t ... more |  |
 NASA launches carbon-tracking satellite Washington (AFP) July 02, 2014 - NASA on Wednesday launched a satellite designed to track carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas that is responsible for global warming. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 took off aboard a Delta 2 rocket at 2:56 am Pacific time (0956 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After 56 minutes of flight, the satellite separated from the second-stage rocket as planned, with no gli ... more |  |
Norway Gets TerraSAR-X Direct Receiving Station Paris (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Airbus Defence and Space and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have signed a multi-million-euro agreement for the delivery and installation of a Direct Receiving Station (DRS) for TerraSAR-X and its twin satellite TanDEM-X in Norway. Through data reception at KSAT's premises in Svalbard and processing in Tromso, this system - scheduled to be operational by the end of 2014 - will support ... more |  |
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 Swiss Space Systems plan mock-up test flights of SOAR North Bay, Canada (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Swiss Space Systems Holding SA (S3) has announced its partnership with the City of North Bay and Canadore College. This partnership will enable S3 to initiate several technical activities from this Canadian region, a highly interesting zone, because of its geographic situation and its large available test flight corridors. The first operations to be conducted from the North Bay Jack Garlan ... more |  |
 From Deep Sea to Deep Space Chicago, IL (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - How do you feed a six-person crew on a three-year mission to Mars? Food scientists are working on this and other challenges related to creating and optimizing food for astronauts, soldiers, pilots and other individuals working and living in extreme environments, according to a panel discussion at the 2014 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans. Th ... more |  |
 Puzzling X-rays point to dark matter Paris (ESA) Jul 03, 2014 - Astronomers using ESA and NASA high-energy observatories have discovered a tantalising clue that hints at an elusive ingredient of our Universe: dark matter. Although thought to be invisible, neither emitting nor absorbing light, dark matter can be detected through its gravitational influence on the movements and appearance of other objects in the Universe, such as stars or galaxies. Based ... more |  |
 Spot the Space Station looking at you Paris (ESA) Jul 03, 2014 - ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and five astronauts from America and Russia are flying on the International Space Station 400 km above us - but did you know they are sharing live views of our planet and you can even see their home at night? Circling Earth at 28 800 km/h, it takes only 90 minutes to complete a circuit of our planet - while cameras transmit the incredible view for everybody to ... more |  |
 China's domestic navigation system accesses ASEAN market Beijing (XNA) Jul 03, 2014 - Three model satellite stations based on China's domestically made Beidou navigation system were shown to the public Wednesday in an industrial estate in Thailand, the first step of Beidou into the ASEAN market. It is a part of a cooperative agreement signed between China and Thailand. Li Deren, chairman of the Wuhan Optics Valley Beidou Geo-Spatial Information Industry Co., LTD, a particip ... more |  |
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ELASTx Stretches Potential for Future Communications Technologies Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Many existing compact, high-data-rate millimeter-wave wireless communications systems use integrated circuits (ICs) made with gallium arsenide (GaAs) or gallium nitride (GaN). These circuits provide high power and efficiency in small packages but are costly to produce and difficult to integrate with silicon electronics that provide most other radio functions. Silicon ICs are less expensive ... more |  |
ATK Provides Propulsion, Structure for Test of New Technologies to Land Larger Payloads on Mars Arlington VA (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - ATK (ATK) supported NASA Saturday as it moved one step closer to landing advanced payloads on Mars following the successful test of a next generation braking system. A world-leading producer of rocket motors, ATK provided both the rocket motor and test vehicle backbone for the test of NASA's experimental Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD). During the June 28 test at the Pacific Missile Ra ... more |  |
 Would Earth Look Like A Habitable Planet From Afar? Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Even when a distant world has the trademarks of habitability - it's Earth-sized, it's in the zone around its star where liquid water is possible - finding signs of life is tricky. The telescope technology of today falls short of being able to distinguish clues of life. But readying the tools to find life now will help astronomers when telescopes get better in the next few decades. Sometime ... more |  |
Test-launch of Russia's Angara rocket delayed due to malfunction during pre-launch tests Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 03, 2014 - A defect in the drainage valve of the liquid oxygen tank detected during pre-launch tests led to cancellation of the first test launch of the light-class Angara carrier rocket 19 seconds prior to the engine refueling, experts told Interfax-AVN after probing an emergency during Angara's launch on Monday. "One needs to understand what Angara means. It is new engines, a new control system. In ... more |  |
 NASA's sounding rocket crashes into Atlantic Wallop Island, Va. (UPI) Jul 2, 2013 - NASA's engineers had roughly 19 seconds of excitement in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, as the agency's Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket appeared to successfully blast off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. But after less than a third of a minute of hang time, the rocket fell back toward Earth and walloped into the Atlantic Ocean. "Range controllers detected a flight anoma ... more |  |
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 Shaken, not stirred -- mythical god's capsules please! Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Everything depends on how you look at them. Looking from one side you will see one face; and when looking from the opposite side - you will see a different one. So appear Janus capsules, miniature, hollow structures, in different fragments composed of different micro- and nanoparticles. Theoreticians were able to design models of such capsules, but a real challenge was to produce them. Now, Janu ... more |  |
 Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Sometimes it takes a village to teach a robot. University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks. Instead of learning from just one human, robots could one day query the larger online community, asking for instructions or input on the best way to set the table or water the garden. The research ... more |  |
 With new tech tools, precision farming gains traction Warwick, United States (AFP) June 29, 2014 - At Little Bohemia Creek Farm, the tractor pretty much drives itself, weaving through rows of corn using GPS technology as it injects carefully dosed amounts of fertilizer. Farm employee Andrew Isaacson sits in the cab - his main job is to monitor computer screens that control the vehicle and sprayer. "I just turn it around at each end," he says. With computers guiding field operatio ... more |  |
 Ancient ocean currents may have changed pace and intensity of ice ages Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense some 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles. In a paper published this week in the journal Science, researchers report that the deep ocean currents that move heat around the globe stalled or may have stopped at that time, possibly due to expanding ice cover in the ... more |  |
 Researchers Detect Smallest Force Ever Measured Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - What is believed to be the smallest force ever measured has been detected by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley. Using a combination of lasers and a unique optical trapping system that provides a cloud of ultracold atoms, the researchers measured a force of approximately 42 yoctonewtons. A yoctonewton is ... more |  |
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