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August 07, 2013

NASA Begins Launch Preparations for Next Mars Mission
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 07, 2013
NASA's next spacecraft going to Mars arrived Friday, Aug. 2, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and is now perched in a cleanroom to begin final preparations for its November launch. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is undergoing detailed testing and fueling prior to being moved to its launch pad. The mission has a 20-day launch period that opens Nov. 18. The spacecraft will conduct the first mission dedicated to surveying the upper atmosphere of Ma ... read more

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NASA's Firestation on way to ISS An experiment to study the effects of lightning flashes on Earth's atmosphere hitched a ride to the International Space Station on Aug. 3, 2013. The Firestation experiment launched aboard a Japan Ae ... more		Talking robot sent to ISS to 'get along' with humans A small Japanese robot, Kirobo, that boasts the abilities to talk, recognize voice and emotions, as well as to learn, has been sent to the International Space Station. Kirobo says his mission is a h ... more		The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun's vast magnetic field is about to flip. "It looks like we're no more than 3 to 4 mon ... more
				Vietnam's micro satellite launched into space Pico Dragon, the Made-in-Vietnam micro satellite, was shipped to the International Space Station ( ISS) Sunday to prepare for a mission in space, state-run Vietnam News Agency reported Sunday. ... more		Big ice may explain Mars' double-layer craters Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars. Double-layered ejecta craters or DLEs, like other craters, are sur ... more

NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for OSIRIS-REx Mission NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo. to launch the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. The O ... more		Alphasat deploys its giant reflector in orbit Alphasat, Europe's largest-ever telecom satellite, reached a temporary position in the geostationary ring last weekend, where it deployed its 11 m-diameter main antenna over the course of a day - ma ... more		Canada willing to join US 'Iron Dome' missile shield: minister Israeli officers warned against criticising Trump's Gaza plan; Israel hits Hamas weapons facility in Syria Trump will cry wolf once too often		Explosion Illuminates Invisible Galaxy in the Dark Ages More than 12 billion years ago a star exploded, ripping itself apart and blasting its remains outward in twin jets at nearly the speed of light. At its death it glowed so brightly that it outshone i ... more
				Astronomers Image Lowest-mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-like Star Using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, an international team of astronomers has imaged a giant planet around the bright star GJ 504. Several times the mass of Jupiter and similar i ... more		Chelyabinsk meteorite may have gang of siblings The Chelyabinsk meteorite that hit Russia in February, injuring over a thousand, may have stemmed from a massive cluster of rocks which broke off from a disintegrating asteroid thousands of years ag ... more

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Hubble Finds 'Smoking Gun' After Gamma-Ray Blast These images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal a new type of stellar explosion produced from the merger of two compact objects. Hubble spotted the outburst while looking at the aft ... more		Lockheed Completes Solar UV Imager For GOES-R Enviro Tests A Lockheed Martin team has completed and passed the full range of environmental tests - electrical, mechanical and thermal - for the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument that will make crucial ... more		What Elon Musk's Twitter tactics may bode for US government Fukushima nuclear plant operator to dismantle water tanks next week New Zealand says 'blindsided' by Cook Islands' China overture		Mission Criticality of Space Mechanisms - Part 1 The failure of a single space vehicle mechanism can cause a total loss of mission. This criticality is compounded by the fact that redundancy in mechanisms is often impractical. Consider this ... more
				Full Curiosity Traverse Passes One-Mile Mark The total distance driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity passed the one-mile mark a few days before the first anniversary of the rover's landing on Mars. This map traces where Curiosity drove ... more		Observations tie colliding neutron stars to 'kilonova' phenomenon Astronomers say the Hubble Space Telescope has detected a Gamma-ray burst from an explosive event scientists have dubbed a kilonova. ... more

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Environmental Controls Move Beyond Earth

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Study: Teleportation would have a slight time-to-transmit problem

NASA technologist makes traveling to hard-to-reach destinations easier

First Liquid Hydrogen Tank Barrel Segment for SLS Core Completed

China launches three experimental satellites

Medical quarantine over for Shenzhou-10 astronauts

China's astronauts ready for longer missions

	Curious craters on Mars said result of impacts into ancient ice U.S. geologists say they've come up with a new explanation for a mysterious double-layer type of crater observed on Mars, and it's all about ice and impacts. ... more		U.S. Air Force receives new defense weather satellite The U.S. Air Force says it has taken delivery of the latest defense weather satellite with plans to launch it next spring. ... more		Russia to restart Proton rocket launches after crash Russia plans to restart launches of its Proton-M rocket in September, a top space official said Monday, ending a freeze that was introduced when one of the carrier rockets crashed in July. ... more		New Explorer Mission Chooses the 'Just-Right' Orbit Principal Investigator George Ricker likes to call it the "Goldilocks orbit" - it's not too close to Earth and her Moon, and it's not too far. In fact, it's just right. And as a result of this ... more

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NRL Researchers Discover Novel Material for Cooling of Electronic Devices

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Russia PM reprimands space chief for failures

Asteroid named as possible source of exploding Russian meteorite

Space cadets in Washington for one-way ticket to Mars

Japanese rocket takes supplies, robot to space station

Study: Teleportation would have a slight time-to-transmit problem

'Blinking' stellar system may yield clues to planet formation

Cosmic impact may have led to demise of early North American peoples

'Lazarus comets' explain Solar System mystery

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Nanotechnology breakthrough is big deal for electronics

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Raytheon, US Army complete first AI3 guided flight test series

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