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| July 06, 2014 |
 Russia to make fresh attempt to launch new rocket Moscow (AFP) July 05, 2014 - Russia will on Wednesday attempt to launch its newest rocket after an embarrassing last-minute glitch forced authorities to abort the initial test last week. "A new attempt to launch the Angara rocket will take place on July 9," the Interfax news agency reported Saturday, citing a source close to the state commission deciding on the issue. Designed to succeed Proton and other Soviet-era ... more |  |
 Are China's Astronauts Moonbound Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - China has made tremendous progress with its lunar exploration program. It has sent two spacecraft to orbit the Moon and has also landed a robot rover on the surface. Later this year, we expect China to take another step forward with its next robotic lunar mission. For the first time, a Chinese spacecraft will make a round trip. The spacecraft will be launched on a "free return trajectory" ... more |  |
Yutu designer's bittersweet Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2014 - Jia Yang has two children. One goes to a middle school in Beijing; the other is on the moon. The trials of parenthood have been far more arduous with the second child for Jia, deputy chief designer of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe, who led a team to develop China's first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit. Chang'e-3, launched on Dec. 2, 2013, landed on the moon after a two-week voyage, becoming ... more |  |
 China, Russia to cooperate in satellite navigation Harbin, China (XNA) Jul 07, 2014 - China and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to cooperate in developing navigation satellite systems. The document was signed on Monday by the China Satellite Navigation Office and Russian Federal Space Agency on the sidelines of the on-going China-Russia expo in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang said he hopes ... more |  |
 Dropship offers safe landings for Mars rovers Paris (ESA) Jul 07, 2014 - The dramatic conclusion to ESA's latest StarTiger project: a 'dropship' quadcopter steers itself to lower a rover gently onto a safe patch of the rocky martian surface. StarTiger's Dropter project was tasked with developing and demonstrating a European precision-landing capability for Mars and other targets. The Skycrane that lowered NASA's Curiosity rover onto Mars showed the potential of ... more |  |
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Developing technologies for novel space missions Paris (ESA) Jul 07, 2014 - A new report, Technological Breakthroughs for Scientific Progress (TECHBREAK), has been published by the European Science Foundation. The European Science Foundation (ESF) was contacted at the end of 2009 to conduct a foresight activity for the European Space Agency (ESA), addressing the matter of technological breakthroughs for space originating in the non-space sector. A "Forward Look" p ... more |  |
 Singapore launches its first nano-satellite Singapore (XNA) Jul 07, 2014 - Singapore launched its first nano- satellite VELOX-I via a Indian space rocket on Monday, according to a report by Channel NewsAsia on Thursday. The satellite, which weighs just 4.28 kilograms, is equipped with a camera sensor that is radiation-resistant, and extendable lenses to take higher-resolution photographs from space. Its inventors are students and researchers from Nanyang Technolo ... more |  |
 Inmarsat appoints SpaceX for future satellite launches London, UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2014 - Inmarsat has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for its S-band satellite and up to two further Inmarsat missions. Under the terms of its agreement with SpaceX, Inmarsat expects to use the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, but will retain the possibility of using a Falcon 9 as an alternative, providing further launch flexibility. Rupert Pearce, Inmarsat's Chief Executive Officer, said: " ... more |  |
NASA and Boeing finalize $2.8 million deal to build super powerful rocket Washington (UPI) Jul 4, 2013 - Aviation company Boeing has contracted with NASA to build the world's most powerful rocket, intended - eventually - to propel astronauts to the moon, Mars, asteroids and the deep space beyond. Boeing and NASA signed a $2.8 million contract this week, tasking the aerospace company with developing two rocket cores as part of the completion of the Space Launch System, a heavy launch vehi ... more |  |
Chinese moon rover designer shooting for Mars Beijing (AFP) July 04, 2014 - The man who designed China's Jade Rabbit moon rover hopes a more advanced version of his creation will be sent to Mars, state media reported, underscoring Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme. Jia Yang also told the official Xinhua news agency of his despair when the lunar rover lost contact with Earth six weeks after it was deployed on the moon's surface. He led the team tha ... more |  |
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 University scientists unraveling nature of Higgs boson Manhattan KS (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - New physics research involving Kansas State University faculty members has helped shed light on how our universe works. A recently published study in the journal Nature Physics reports scientists have found evidence that the Higgs boson - a fundamental particle proposed in 1964 and discovered in 2012 - is the long sought-after particle responsible for giving mass to elementary particles. " ... more |  |
Reigning in chaos in particle colliders yields big results Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed, there's bound to be some chaos. Limiting that chaos in particle colliders is crucial for the groundbreaking results such experiments are designed to deliver. In a special focus issue of the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing, a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) details an importan ... more |  |
Measuring quantum systems with "compressive sensing" Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - In quantum physics, momentum and position are an example of conjugate variables. This means they are connected by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says that both quantities cannot be simultaneously measured precisely. Recently, researchers have been developing novel techniques, such as "weak measurement," to measure both at the same time. Now University of Rochester physicists hav ... more |  |
 Discovery expands search for Earth-like planets Columbus OH (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - A newly discovered planet in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth is expanding astronomers' notions of where Earth-like-and even potentially habitable-planets can form, and how to find them. At twice the mass of Earth, the planet orbits one of the stars in the binary system at almost exactly the same distance from which Earth orbits the sun. However, because the planet ... more |  |
 Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 04, 2014 - It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn. On June 30, the Cassini mission will celebrate 10 years of exploring the planet, its rings and moons. The Cassini spacecraft, carrying the European Space Agency's Huygens probe, arrived in the Saturn system on June 30, 2004, for a four-yea ... more |  |
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 Fruit fly immunity fails with fungus after (space)flight Houston TX (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - Before you swat away the next fruit fly, consider instead just how similar its biological complexities are to our own. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers led by Deborah Kimbrell, Ph.D., at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and their collaborators, studied how microorganisms may alter fruit flies' immunity in space and in hypergravity, or increased gravity. The article is ... more |  |
 Radio Signals from Jupiter Could Aid Search for Life Moffet Field CA (NASA) Jul 04, 2014 - Powerful radio signals that Jupiter generates could be used to help researchers scan its giant moons for oceans that could be home to extraterrestrial life, according to a recent study submitted to the journal Icarus. Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, possesses 67 known moons, including three giant icy moons that might possess liquid oceans underneath their frozen surfaces. ... more |  |
 Hubble to Proceed with Full Search for New Horizons Targets Washington DC (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been given the go-ahead to conduct an intensive search for a suitable outer solar system object that the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft could visit after the probe streaks though the Pluto system in July 2015. Hubble observations will begin in July and are expected to conclude in August. Assuming a suitable target is found at the completion of the survey and ... more |  |
Saturn's moon Titan has a very salty ocean Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 04, 2014 - Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence of an ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which might be as salty as the Earth's Dead Sea. The findings are published in this week's edition of the journal Icarus. "This is an extremely salty ocean by Earth standards," said the paper's lead author, Giuseppe Mitri of the University of Nantes in France. "Knowing ... more |  |
 NASA Television Coverage Set for Orbital-2 Mission to Space Station Washington DC (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - NASA Television will provide live coverage of the upcoming Orbital Sciences Corp.'s mission to resupply the International Space Station. Orbital's Cygnus cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Launch Pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Friday, July 11 at 1:40 p.m. EDT. NASA TV will air a comprehensive video feed of launch prep ... more |  |
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