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June 20, 2013

Europe's space hub to open its doors on 6 October
Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 19, 2013
From the latest space ferry to the very first Alphasat, Europe has never been more active in space, with a crowded manifest of ESA launches across the rest of the year. But where are all these varied missions born? See for yourself this October, as ESA's ESTEC research and technology centre opens its doors to the public. No sooner has Luca Parmitano joined the International Space Station than ESA's latest space truck is resupplying the orbital outpost. Meanwhile, the May-launched Proba-V is return ... read more

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Opportunity Recovers From Another Flash-Related Reset On sols 3332 and 3333 (June and June 9, 2013) , Opportunity performed a 'touch 'n go' two-sol plan, using the robotic arm on the first sol to take Microscopic Imager (MI) images and position the Alp ... more		NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations NASA's communications experts have begun flight testing a prototype radio as part of the agency's contributions toward fully integrating civil and commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the ... more		NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initi ... more
				Half-Time for Shenzhou 10 At roughly the halfway point of its mission, the flight of Shenzhou 10 seems to be going well. The spacecraft lifted off beautifully on its first launch attempt and staged a successful docking with ... more		The Centaur Upper Stage For those of you who are not familiar with the Centaur rocket and its history, this commentary should be of interest, especially on Centaur's 50th anniversary. In Greek mythology, a "centaur" is a c ... more

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ExoMars 2016 Set To Complete Construction ESA's mission to Mars in 2016 has entered the final stage of construction with the signature of a contract with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air and Space Show. ExoMars will fly two missio ... more		Super-hurricane-force winds on Venus are getting stronger As the closest planet to Earth, Venus is a relatively easy object to observe. However, many mysteries remain, not least the super-rotation of Venus' atmosphere, which enables high altitude winds to ... more		One in Four Chance Annually of Rocket Debris Entering High-Traffic Airspace Urban Sky Secures $30 Million in Series B Round to Advance Stratospheric Innovation New Zealand voices 'concern' as Cook Islands seeks China deal		Arianespace to launch Gokturk-1 high-resolution observation satellite Arianespace has announced a launch contract with Telespazio to launch the Gokturk-1 satellite for the Turkish government. Stephane Israel, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Luigi Pasquali, ... more
				Strange Flames on the ISS Fire, it is often said, is mankind's oldest chemistry experiment.For thousands of years, people have been mixing the oxygen-rich air of Earth with an almost endless variety of fuels to produce hot l ... more		e2v releases the first space qualified GHz-class microprocessor e2v has announced the launch of a space qualified version of the Power Architecture PC7448, the first GHz class microprocessors in the world which can be integrated onto space qualified equipment. T ... more

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Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth From Deep Space NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge t ... more		Winds on Venus have accelerated by a third: scientists Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported on Tuesday. ... more		Efforts to Detect Alien Life Advanced by Simple Microbe Mobility Test How Early Earth Supported the Formation of Polyester Protocells Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space		New Zealand emerges as guinea pig for global tech firms When Google chose New Zealand to unveil secret plans for a balloon-driven wi-fi network last weekend, it cemented the country's reputation as a test bed for global tech companies looking to trial their latest innovations, industry experts say. ... more
				Laser survey reveals detail of 'lost' city hidden in Cambodian jungle Aircraft equipped with lasers have revealed a lost city near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, hidden for centuries under a dense forest cover, researchers say. ... more		First Gagarin film turns Soviet idol into new Russian hero Strapped in an orange suit in his spaceship, Yuri Gagarin smiles as the rockets roar and chirpily tells mission control: "Let's go!" ... more

Australian team maps Moon's hidden craters

LADEE Arrives at Wallops for Moon Mission

NASA's GRAIL Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity

Opportunity Recovers From Another Flash-Related Reset

ExoMars 2016 Set To Complete Construction

Mars Water-Ice Clouds Are Key to Odd Thermal Rhythm

New Zealand emerges as guinea pig for global tech firms

NASA announces eight new astronauts, half are women

Lebanese start-ups seek tech boom

Half-Time for Shenzhou 10

China's Naughty Space Models

China's space dream crystallized with Shenzhou-10 launch

	NASA enlists public in hunt for major asteroids NASA announced a Grand Challenge on Tuesday to enlist government agencies, industry, academics and citizen astronomers in the hunt for asteroids that could cause massive destruction. ... more		Plan for modified European rocket gets backing Two major figures in the European space industry on Monday backed plans to modify the Ariane 5 rocket to help it shoot larger satellites into orbit. ... more		New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan at Pluto Unless significant new hazards are found, expect NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to stay on its original course past Pluto and its moons, after mission managers concluded that the danger posed by dus ... more		NASA announces eight new astronauts, half are women The US space agency announced the appointment of eight new astronauts on Monday, and a record half of NASA's first astronaut class since 2009 are women. ... more

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Final curtain for Europe's deep-space telescope		Australian team maps Moon's hidden craters		Europe's largest spaceship reaches its orbital port		Cosmic Giants Shed New Light on Dark Matter		Electronics Unit Delivery Marks Milestone for Fourth Advanced EHF Protected Satellite Communications Payload by Northrop Grumman
Peru launches first homemade rocket		NASA's 2013 HS3 Hurricane Mission to Delve into Saharan Dust		Defence giants call for European drone program		Do parasites upset food web theory?		Raytheon to improve US Army air defenses, better identify targets

Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics

Nano-thermometer enables first atomic-scale heat transfer measurements

New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy

Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives

Water is no lubricant

Exoplanet formation surprise

Biological Soil Crust Secrets Uncovered

NASA's Hubble Uncovers Evidence of Farthest Planet Forming From its Star

Proba-V tracking aircraft in flight from orbit

NASA-led study explains decades of black hole observations

Johns Hopkins Researcher, Colleagues, Solve Mystery of X-ray Light Coming From Black Holes

China's Naughty Space Models

INSAT-3D is delivered to French Guiana for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch

Students and Teachers Become Rocket Scientists at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

Russia fetes 50th anniversary of first woman in space

Chinese astronauts complete warm-up maintenance work in space module

China's space dream crystallized with Shenzhou-10 launch

Obama to call for nuclear cuts in Berlin speech

S.Korea to buy European missiles

Outside View: America strikes out

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