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| October 28, 2013 |
 Time is ripe for fire detection satellite Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - As firefighters emerge from another record wildfire season in the Western United States, University of California, Berkeley, scientists say it's time to give them a 21st century tool: a fire-spotting satellite. Such a satellite could view the Western states almost continuously, snapping pictures of the ground every few seconds in search of hot spots that could be newly ignited wildfires. F ... more |  |
 Raytheon demonstrates first Direct Geo-Positioning Metric Sensor Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - For the first time, Raytheon has integrated an advanced targeting capability into the U.S. Army's Common Sensor Payload (CSP) airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance targeting system. Mission commanders can now directly utilize an airborne tactical sensor's geo-location data for real-time targeting of coordinate-seeking weapons. Previously, target coordinates and image ... more |  |
 ILS Proton Launches Sirius FM-6 Satellite Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Oct 26, 2013 - International Launch Services (ILS), a leader in providing mission integration and launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the Sirius FM-6 satellite, built by SSL, into orbit today on an ILS Proton for Sirius XM Radio Inc. The ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle launched from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:09 today local time (18:09 GMT and 14:09 ... more |  |
 The Sounds of New Horizons Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - What does New Horizons say when it calls home? Nothing, without the help of software that transforms zeros and ones from New Horizons' computers into images, instrument readings, or useful information on the spacecraft's status. Those datasets are then transmitted to Earth by the telecommunications (radio) system aboard New Horizons. But if our Pluto-bound spacecraft could talk, it would s ... more |  |
 Texas Astronomer Discovers Most Distant Known Galaxy Austin TX (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - University of Texas at Austin astronomer Steven Finkelstein has led a team that has discovered and measured the distance to the most distant galaxy ever found. The galaxy is seen as it was at a time just 700 million years after the Big Bang. Although observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified many other candidates for galaxies in the early universe, including some that ... more |  |
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 Russia's First Private Space Satellite Set for Launch Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 28, 2013 - The first private Russian space satellite is set to launch in February and will leverage commonly used "cloud computing" and mobile phone technology to generate potentially huge profits for its investors, The Wall Street Journal reported. "In 2015 we are anticipating a certain percentage of revenue coming from the cloud platform," Ilya Golubovich, a venture capitalist whose firm has invest ... more |  |
Russia Retires Faulty Glonass-M Satellite Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 28, 2013 - A satellite in the fleet of Russia's answer to GPS has been decommissioned because of a terminal malfunction, space officials said Tuesday. The Federal Space Agency said it stopped receiving signals from Glonass 728 on July 1 and has kept the satellite in maintenance mode ever since. Attempts to fix the malfunction have proven unsuccessful. "The spacecraft has been withdrawn fr ... more |  |
 NASA Engages the Public to Discover New Uses for Out-of-this-World Technologies Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - The technologies NASA develops don't just blast off into space. They also improve our lives here on Earth. Life-saving search-and-rescue tools, implantable medical devices, advances in commercial aircraft safety and efficiency, increased accuracy in weather forecasting, even the miniature cameras in our cell phones. For over fifty years, NASA has transferred its cutting-edge aerospace tech ... more |  |
 Juno Out Of Safe Mode On Route To Jupiter Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2013 - As of Oct. 17, Juno was approximately 4.4 million miles (7.1 million kilometers) from Earth. The one-way radio signal travel time between Earth and Juno is currently about 24 seconds. Juno is currently traveling at a velocity of about 23.6 miles (38 kilometers) per second relative to the sun. Velocity relative to Earth is about 6.5 miles (10.4 kilometers) per second. Juno has now traveled 1.01 b ... more |  |
Incoming ISS Commander to Treat Crew to Sushi Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 28, 2013 - The first-ever Japanese commander of the International Space Station said he plans to treat fellow residents at the orbital outpost to traditional Japanese food, including sushi. JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio are scheduled to blast off on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft on November 7 for a 190-day mission at the space statio ... more |  |
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Orbcomm Launches Solar-Powered Trailer Tracking Solution Rochelle Park NJ (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - ORBCOMM reports the commercial launch of its GT 1100 trailer tracking solution to the transportation and distribution industry at the American Trucking Association (ATA) Management Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. Recognized as the winner of CTIA's 2013 E-Tech Award for Innovation in M2M, the GT 1100 is ORBCOMM's first self-powered M2M asset tracking and monitoring solution. The ... more |  |
Enough lying about Paris (ESA) Oct 28, 2013 - ESA's volunteers recently finished their third and last session lying in bed in the interest of spaceflight and science. They can return to their normal lives after spending their last 21 days in bed with their feet up - once their bodies have recuperated from the experience. When astronauts return from a long flight they can need days for their bodies to recuperate from the effects of liv ... more |  |
 Study Finds Natural Compound Can Be Used for 3-D Printing of Medical Implants Raleigh NC (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional (3-D) printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers. The compound is riboflavin, which is better known as vitamin B2. "This opens the door to a mu ... more |  |
 SMOS sees triple superstorms Paris (ESA) Oct 28, 2013 - ESA's versatile water mission tracked Asia's recent storms over land and sea. Over the past three weeks, tropical cyclone activity has intensified over the seas bordering southern and eastern Asia. Cyclone Phailin began forming on 4 October in the Gulf of Thailand, before moving northwest across the Bay of Bengal and making landfall in northern India. The storm affected about 12 million pe ... more |  |
 Bees underwent massive extinction when dinosaurs did Durham NH (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - For the first time ever, scientists have documented a widespread extinction of bees that occurred 65 million years ago, concurrent with the massive event that wiped out land dinosaurs and many flowering plants. Their findings, published this week in the journal PLOS ONE, could shed light on the current decline in bee species. Lead author Sandra Rehan, an assistant professor of biological s ... more |  |
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Boeing Finalizes Agreement for Kennedy Space Center Facility Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - Boeing has finalized an agreement with Space Florida to use a processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to build the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft, an important step toward restoring the United States' ability to launch humans into space. "The resources and expertise on the Space Coast are essential to our plans and this agreement solidifies our partnership with t ... more |  |
It's raining satellite: Europe's gravity field explorer to fall back to Earth in two weeks Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 28, 2013 - A one-ton European Space Agency satellite, which for four years has being mapping the Earth's gravity, has run out of fuel and will reenter the atmosphere in two weeks. While its descent is constantly monitored, the impact location is still unknown. The ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), which was launched from Russia in March 2009, managed to spend 2 ... more |  |
 Astronomers make detailed study of coldest place in the universe Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Oct 25, 2013 - Astronomers say they've used a radio telescope array in Chile to study a cosmic curiosity known as the Boomerang Nebula, the coldest object in the universe. The nebula is colder than even the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, the natural background temperature of space, they said. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope has provided a new look at this strange ob ... more |  |
 New planet found around distant star could be record-breaker Oxford, England (UPI) Oct 25, 2013 - The discovery of a seventh planet around a distant star makes it one the richest planetary systems yet discovered, European astronomers say. The discovery at the dwarf star KIC 11442793, reported by two separate teams of researchers, could be a record, they said. One of the identifications was credited to volunteers using the Planet Hunters website set up to allow citizen scienti ... more |  |
Planets rich in carbon could be poor in water, reducing life chances Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Oct 25, 2013 - Planets rich in carbon - the main element in life - may lack the oceans of water necessary to kick-start life's creation, NASA-funded research suggests. Planetary systems rich in carbon are likely to lack the icy water reservoirs thought to supply planets with oceans, as happened with Earth, scientists suggest. "The building blocks that went into making our oceans are the icy a ... more |  |
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