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February 02, 2013

Ten years on, US recalls Columbia shuttle disaster
Washington (AFP) Feb 1, 2013
With somber ceremonies, the United States on Friday commemorated the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew on the tenth anniversary of the disaster. Columbia, NASA's first space shuttle orbiter to be put into service, disintegrated during re-entry on February 1, 2003, as it was ending its 28th mission. All seven astronauts on board died in the landmark incident that triggered the end of the shuttle mission. "Ten years ago, seven brave astronauts gave their lives in th ... read more

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Russia-launched satellite plunges into Pacific A Russian rocket carrying a US telecommunications satellite plunged into the Pacific Ocean on Friday only moments after being launched from a mobile sea platform in Moscow's latest space failure. ... more		NASA Launches Next-Gen Communications Satellite The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. "TDR ... more		South Korean Satellite Makes First Contact with Ground After a successful Wednesday launch, South Korea's scientific satellite made its first contact with a ground station on Thursday, the Yonhap news agency said. The country's Satellite Technolog ... more
				NASA Launches Rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia NASA successfully launched a Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket at 5:50 p.m. EST this evening from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. During the flight, two red-colored lithium vap ... more		New method of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes In a letter to Nature, an international team of astronomers, including Marc Sarzi from the University of Hertfordshire, report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive ... more

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NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection ... more		NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to ISS In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure o ... more		Zelensky offers to give up presidency for NATO membership Israeli Defense Forces deploys tanks in West Bank U.S. officials reportedly push back on G7 language labeling Russia an 'aggressor'		TW Hydrae: There's more to astronomers' favorite planetary nursery than previously thought Using ESA's Herschel Space Telescope, astronomers including Thomas Henning from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have used a new method to determine the mass of the planetary nur ... more
				NASA's Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own Tail Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous thunder-and-light ... more		Sierra Nevada Corporation and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Partner On Dream Chaser Programs Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems is pleased to announce Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Littleton, Colo., is joining the SNC Dream Chaser team. Lockheed Martin will be ... more

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AAS Division For Planetary Sciences Issues Statement On Mars 2020 Program The following statement from the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences was prepared in collaboration with the Planetary Society, the American Geophysical Union's Planetary ... more		US Army SMDC Funds Andrews Space To Build Kestrel Eye 2 Earth Imaging Nanosat Andrews Space (Andrews) has announced that they have been funded by the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command to design and deliver a Kestrel Eye Block 2 Earth imaging spacecraft as part of the ... more		Glacial Ice Loss Escalates Freshwater Depletion and Sea Level Rise Long-Term Decline in Downward Surface Solar Radiation Highlights Emission Impacts Catalyst breakthrough for efficient CO2 conversion		Smartphone to hold integrated warrior gear Soldiers on the battlefront will soon be able to run complex computerized warrior systems as integrated units on hand-held devices, including smartphones and tablets. ... more
				Superbubble DEM L50 This composite image shows the superbubble DEM L50 (a.k.a. N186) located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light years from Earth. Superbubbles are found in regions where massive stars hav ... more		Columbia space tragedy, 10 years on NASA on Friday will commemorate the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts a decade ago, a landmark incident that triggered the end of the shuttle mission. ... more

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

AAS Division For Planetary Sciences Issues Statement On Mars 2020 Program

Ridges on Mars suggest ancient flowing water

Changes on Mars Caused by Seasonal Thawing of CO2

Sierra Nevada Corporation and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Partner On Dream Chaser Programs

Iran's Bio-Capsule Comes Back from Space

NASA Launches Next-Gen Communications Satellite

Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

Mr Xi in Space

	Computer Models Explain How Galaxies Formed and Evolved When most people think of astronomers, they envision scientists who spend time peering at stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops. Rutgers astronomer Rachel Somerville depends on ... more		Iran's Bio-Capsule Comes Back from Space Iran announced on Monday that it has sent a monkey into the space on the back of Pishgam (Pioneer) explorer rocket and that it has brought back and recovered the living cargo. Iranian Defense ... more		Record Setting Asteroid Flyby Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet's surface. There's no danger of a collision, but the ... more		Site of space rocket launch to become home of S. Korea's space program The Naro Space Center, the site of South Korea's space rocket launch, will be further developed into the home of South Korea's space development program that seeks to produce an indigenous s ... more

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Iran Takes First Step to Send Man to Space

Mercury's crust likely made of magnesium-rich basalt

Pay-TV giant BSkyB reports 10% rise in first-half profits

S. Korea joins global space club with satellite launch

Ridges on Mars suggest ancient flowing water

Russia to use ballistic missiles to fight off asteroid threat

Space Station Crew Uses Laser Channel to Beam Data

Globalstar's satellites encapsulated and ready for installation

Gilat's Wavestream Wins Contract with Honeywell for In-flight Connectivity

Spacecom And Spacex Announce Agreement For Amos-6 Satellite Launch

New tools enable high-res observations from anywhere with internet access

Official: No crisis in Russia's space work

NASA to recycle parts for science work

Changes on Mars Caused by Seasonal Thawing of CO2

Companies prepare commercial spacecraft

Hubble Finds Appearances can be Deceptive

Galileo's search and rescue system passes first space test

White House backs embattled Pentagon pick

Warnings of Okinawa terrorism

Twitter hit by 'sophisticated' cyber attack

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