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August 27, 2013

Japan suspends satellite rocket launch at last minute
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 27, 2013
Japan suspended the launch of its next-generation solid-fuel rocket on Tuesday just seconds before lift-off after engineers discovered a technical glitch. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had planned to launch the Epsilon rocket from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, using just two laptop computers in a pared-down command centre. But the countdown was automatically halted just 19 seconds before blast-off "as an emergency measure due to some abnormal positionin ... read more

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				Starbirth Surprisingly Energetic: ALMA observations give new insights into protostars While observing a newborn star, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope discovered twin jets of matter blasting out into space at record-breaking speed. T ... more		Global sea level rise dampened by Australia floods When enough raindrops fall over land instead of the ocean, they begin to add up. New research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that when three atmospheric patterns ca ... more

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Comet ISON to fly by Mars Around the world, astronomers are buzzing with anticipation over the approach of Comet ISON. On Thanksgiving Day 2013, the icy visitor from the outer solar system will skim the sun's outer atmospher ... more		UA astronomers take sharpest photos ever of the night sky Astronomers at the University of Arizona, the Arcetri Observatory near Florence, Italy and the Carnegie Observatory have developed a new type of camera that allows scientists to take sharper images ... 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		New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy New Horizons has just completed a summer of intensive activities and entered hibernation on Aug. 20. The routine parts of the activities included thorough checkouts of all our backup systems (result ... more
				NASA Spacecraft Capture an Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection On August 20, 2013 at 4:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon which can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Eart ... more		Waking up to a new year In the time it takes you to complete a single workday, or get a full night's sleep, a small fireball of a planet 700 light-years away has already completed an entire year. Researchers at MIT h ... more

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Ball Aerospace-built WISE Spacecraft Roused from Sleep to Resume Asteroid Hunting Mission The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will emerge from its two-year hibernation next month to resume its near-Earth object NEOWISE asteroid huntin ... more		Physicists pinpoint key property of material that both conducts and insulates It is well known to scientists that the three common phases of water - ice, liquid and vapor - can exist stably together only at a particular temperature and pressure, called the triple point. ... more		SFL Missions Inc. Secures CSA Contract for HAWC Satellite Concept Study Multinational research project shows how life on Earth can be measured from space How life's building blocks formed on early Earth examined through polyester protocell formation limits		Lab-made complexes are "sun sponges" In diagrams it looks like a confection of self-curling ribbon with bits of bling hung off the ribbon here and there. In fact it is a carefully designed ring of proteins with attached pigments that s ... more
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NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon

NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for OSIRIS-REx Mission

Environmental Controls Move Beyond Earth

International Space Agencies Outline Steps to Take Humans to Mars

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NASA awards nearly $1.5B in support contracts

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China's astronauts ready for longer missions

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Electrochemical step towards a better hydrogen storage

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