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July 01, 2013

"Shields to Maximum, Mr. Scott"
Austin TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2013
We know it's out there, debris from 50 years of space exploration - aluminum, steel, nylon, even liquid sodium from Russian satellites - orbiting around the Earth and posing a danger to manned and unmanned spacecraft. According to NASA, there are more than 21,000 pieces of 'space junk' roughly the size of a baseball (larger than 10 centimeters) in orbit, and about 500,000 pieces that are golf ball-sized (between one to 10 centimeters). Sure, space is big, but when a piece of space junk strik ... read more

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Dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission A film director looking for a location where a movie about Mars could be shot might consider the Atacama Desert, a strip of land on the coast of South America west of the Andes that is one of the ha ... more		Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier Of Our Solar Bubble Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. ... more		Spiral galaxies like Milky Way bigger than thought Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study by researchers ... more
				Opportunity Clocks Up 37 Kilometers Of Roving Mars Opportunity is in good health, although the robotic arm elbow joint potentiometer is acting up. On Sol 3346 (June 22, 2013), the rover continued the trek toward 'Solander Point' with a 295-foo ... more		NASA Launches Satellite To Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere w ... more

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Researchers call for rethinking efforts to prevent interplanetary contamination Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive-on Mars. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairen ... more		Members of Top Nine Software Teams Move Forward from DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was created with a clear vision: spur development of advanced robots that can assist humans in mitigating and recovering from future natural and man-made disasters ... 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 takes delivery of its next Ariane 5 at the Spaceport Arianespace is keeping up the mission pace at its French Guiana base of operations with the acceptance of another heavy-lift Ariane 5, which now is being readied for the integration of a dual-satell ... more
				China to put second spacelab in orbit by 2015 China will go forward with development and construction of space labs and plans to launch its second, Tiangong-2, in 2015, an aerospace official said. ... more		NASA launches satellite to study solar material The US space agency launched a satellite late Thursday to unlock the secrets of the Sun's lower atmosphere. ... more

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NASA's Voyager 1 approaches outer limit of solar system The Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching the outer limit of the solar system but remains months or even years away from the farthest reach of the sun's magnetic pull, NASA said Thursday. ... more		Twilight for Tiangong The return to Earth of China's Shenzhou 10 spacecraft has wrapped up an important chapter in spaceflight. China has now completed all crewed activity with Tiangong 1, the nation's first space labora ... 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		A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and one of science's greatest mysteries is ho ... more
				Europe prepares spacecraft to observe a billion stars The European Space Agency say preparations are complete for a billion-star survey spacecraft ready to depart for its launch site in French Guiana. ... more		1 star, 3 habitable planets A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Paul Butler, has combined new observations with existing data to reveal a solar system packed full of planets. The star Gliese 667C is orbited by between ... more

Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained

Scientists use gravity, topographic data to find unmapped moon craters

Australian team maps Moon's hidden craters

Opportunity Clocks Up 37 Kilometers Of Roving Mars

Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers

Dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission

PayPal launches quest for intergalactic currency

NASA's Voyager 1 approaches outer limit of solar system

Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier Of Our Solar Bubble

China calls for international cooperation in manned space program

China plans to launch Tiangong-2 space lab around 2015

Shenzhou 10 Returns Safely To Earth

	Astronomers spy on galaxies in the raw A CSIRO radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old - less than a quarter of its current age. ... more		Launch Of Latest NASA Solar Mission Rescheduled To June 27 The launch of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is being delayed one day to 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Thursday, June 27, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ... more		Gas-giant exoplanets seen clinging close to their parent stars U.S. astronomers say they've found distant gas-giant planets are rare around many types of stars and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. ... more		Astronomers find three 'super-Earths' in nearby star's habitable zone An international team of astronomers has found that a nearby star previously thought to host two or three planets is in fact orbited by six or seven worlds, including an unprecedented three to five ... more

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Raytheon delivers first NASAMS High Mobility Launcher to Norway		Researchers Use Video Game Tech to Steer Roaches on Autopilot		New laser shows what substances are made of; could be new eyes for military		Two-Dimensional Atomically-Flat Transistors Show Promise for Next Generation Green Electronics		Google making videogame console and smart watch: report

China plans to launch Tiangong-2 space lab around 2015

Three planets in habitable zone of nearby star

First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered

FEMA, Russian Ministry to Join Forces Against Space Threat

Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers

Solar activity reduces radiation exposure in the air

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China calls for international cooperation in manned space program

Japan robot says space mission 'big stride' for androids

PayPal launches quest for intergalactic currency

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Croatian pupils mark EU entry with astronaut chat

Shenzhou 10 Returns Safely To Earth

Messier 61 Looks Straight Into Hubble's Camera

SpaceX Will Launch Turkmenistan Satellite For Thales Alenia Space

NASA Thruster Achieves World-Record Five-plus Years of Operation

Huge Chunk of Meteorite Located in Urals Lake

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Israel gets sixth Iron Dome, awaits David's Sling

Iran's Rowhani looks to detente with the world

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