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February 19, 2013

NASA scrambles for better asteroid detection
Washington (AFP) Feb 18, 2013
NASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a blinding flash and mighty boom. But the US space agency reiterated that events like the one in the Urals, which shattered windows and injured nearly 1,000 people, are rare. "We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the J ... read more

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Earth in the bullseye? Asteroids and meteors have been much in the news recently, with an exploding meteor injuring hundreds in Russia and an asteroid making a close fly-by of the Earth, both on Friday. ... more		Russia halts search for meteorite in stricken region Russian authorities halted their search Sunday for the meteorite that spectacularly struck the Urals last week, leaving about 1,200 people injured and damaging several thousand buildings. ... more		Scientists claim discovery of Russian meteorites Scientists announced the discovery Monday of dozens of tiny fragments of a massive meteor whose ground-shaking shockwave hurt 1,200 people and damaged buildings across five regions of Russia. ... more
				Russia to launch bioscience satellite A Russian satellite that will conduct biological experiments in space and its launch rocket have been delivered to the Baikonur space center, officials said. ... more		Asteroid impact site found in Australia One of the largest ancient asteroid impact zones on Earth has been discovered in the Australian outback, scientists say. ... more

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NASA Designs New Space Telescope Optics to Find a New Earth Although hundreds of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered in the past 15 years, we cannot yet answer the age-old question of whether any of these planets are capable of sustaining life. ... more		Bleach could hamper Mars life search A martian meteorite frozen in antarctic ice suggests we may need to dig deeper into Mars to search for traces of past life, U.S. researchers say. ... more		Defence Trailblazer backs space intelligence project to enhance orbital security Elbit Systems Introduces Dominion-X Autonomous Management OS for Unmanned Platforms Foreign Military Sales Conference Ushers in New Era for Space Systems Command		Rare Explosion May Have Created Our Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole The highly distorted supernova remnant shown in this image may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The image combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in b ... more
				NASA Seeks It All: High Lift, Low Drag NASA and its industry partners have been working to disprove an aeronautical version of the notion that you can't have your cake and eat it too - and it may appear that indeed you can. The cha ... more		At the mouth of the red valley ESA's Mars Express took a high-resolution stereo image on 13 January of the southeast corner of the Amenthes Planum region on Mars, near to Palos crater and the mouth of a well-known sinuous valley, ... more

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Antares Engine Test Aborted; New Date TBD The planned first stage propulsion system "hot fire" test of Orbital's new Antares medium-class rocket was halted in the final seconds of the countdown by the rocket's flight computer, which detecte ... more		Gaia Will Reveal Secrets of Ultra-Cool Dwarfs Among the hundred billion stars which can be observed in the Milky Way, there is a group of stars, the so-named ultra-cool dwarfs, defined as stars with a temperature below 2500 K, which includes ul ... more		US National Park workers reckon with fear, anger after layoffs Glacial Fracking Identified as Undetected Arctic Methane Source Glacial Ice Loss Escalates Freshwater Depletion and Sea Level Rise		Scientists sense breakthroughs in dark-matter mystery For decades, the strange substance called dark matter has teased physicists, challenging conventional notions of the cosmos. ... more
				Tiny CREPT Instrument to Study the Radiation Belts A smaller version of an instrument now flying on NASA's Van Allen Probes has won a coveted spot aboard an upcoming NASA-sponsored Cubesat mission - the perfect platform for this pint-size, solid-sta ... more		NASA Spinoff 2012 Features New Space Tech Bettering Your Life Today A plant texts a farmer to say it needs more water. An invisible coating scrubs pollutants from the air. A robot roams a hospital's halls, aiding doctors and nurses by recording vital signs and regis ... more

Building a lunar base with 3D printing

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly

Bleach could hamper Mars life search

At the mouth of the red valley

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Orion Lands Safely on Two of Three Parachutes in Test

Supersonic skydiver even faster than thought

Welcome Aboard Shenzhou 10

Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

	A drop of ink on the luminous sky This part of the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky - the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge number of stars that light up this region d ... more		Scientists turn eyes toward Europa in search for life US astronomers looking for life in the solar system believe that Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, which has an ocean, is much more promising than desert-covered Mars, which is currently the focus of the US government's attention. ... more		Astrium tapped for communications network France has selected electronics company Astrium to build the country's first digital, military ultra-fast broadband satellite communications network. ... more		Space-Based Sensors A Ballistic Missile's Worst Nightmare Space-based sensors can expand the range and effectiveness of the U.S. Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) capabilities, a recent missile defense test has shown. Conducted Feb ... more

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NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly

Accelerated protons confirm origin of cosmic rays

Asteroid whizzes safely past Earth

Kazakhstan, Russia Compromise on New Space Port

Welcome Aboard Shenzhou 10

Telescopes Could Detect ET Life Signs Within 25 Years

Magnetic shielding of ion beam thruster walls

Orion Lands Safely on Two of Three Parachutes in Test

Cosmic rays come from exploding stars

MOND used to predict key property in Andromeda's satellites

Telit Offers COMBO 2G Chip For Multi Satellite Positioning Receiver

Comet dust seeding life to Jupiter moons?

U.N. committee to discuss space weather

Is the ozone layer on the road to recovery

JPL to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy Mission

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