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August 28, 2013

NASA Continues Preparation for SLS Engine Testing at Stennis
Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Aug 28, 2013
Think about negotiating an intricate maze, and you begin to appreciate the challenge of designing and fabricating test stand piping for NASA's RS-25 rocket engine. NASA is meeting that challenge at its Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., where liquid oxygen (LOX), liquid hydrogen and related piping is being produced for RS-25 engine testing on the A-1 test stand. Testing of the core-stage engine for NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) is scheduled to begin next spring. The SLS is bein ... read more

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ATK Delivers Backbone of NASA's JWST ATK (ATK) has shipped the primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS) for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Marshall Space Flight Center, completing an important milestone for the most pow ... more		Russian rocket engine export ban could halt US space program Russia's Security Council is reportedly considering a ban on supplying the US with powerful RD-180 rocket engines for military communications satellites as Russia focuses on building its own new spa ... more		NASA Releases New Imagery of Asteroid Mission NASA released Thursday new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images depict crew operations including ... more		Scouting a Boulder Field Opportunity is at the base of 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is scouting a large boulder field. On Sol 3398 (Aug. 15, 2013), Opportunity drove 75 feet (22.8 meters) ... more
				Chelyabinsk meteorite had previous collision or near miss The Chelyabinsk meteorite either collided with another body in the solar system or came too close to the Sun before it fell to Earth, according to research announced at the Goldschmidt conference in ... more		Ariane 5 build-up is completed for Arianespace upcoming flight with EUTELSAT The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace's August 29 mission is now complete at the Spaceport in French Guiana following integration of its second passenger - the EUTELSAT 25B/Es'hail 1 satellite. ... more

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NASA Crashes Helicopter to Study Safety NASA researchers will drop a 45-foot-long helicopter fuselage from a height of about 30 feet to test improved seat belts and seats and advance experimental techniques and crashworthiness data. ... more		The go-ahead is given for Ariane 5 mission to orbit EUTELSAT 25B/Es'hail 1 and GSAT-7 Arianespace's fourth Ariane 5 mission of 2013 has been approved for liftoff on Thursday with two communications satellites to provide relay coverage over the Middle East, North Africa and Central As ... 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		NASA Tests Limits of 3-D Printing with Powerful Rocket Engine Check The largest 3-D printed rocket engine component NASA ever has tested blazed to life Thursday, Aug. 22 during an engine firing that generated a record 20,000 pounds of thrust. This test is a mi ... more
				NIST ytterbium atomic clocks set record for stability A pair of experimental atomic clocks based on ytterbium atoms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a new record for stability. The clocks act like 21st-century pendul ... more		Sea ice decline spurs the greening of the Arctic Sea ice decline and warming trends are changing the vegetation in nearby arctic coastal areas, according to two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. Uma Bhatt, an associate professor wit ... more

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The potential for successful climate predictions Will there be rather warm or cold winters in Germany in the coming years? We may have a long way to go before reliable forecasts of this kind can be achieved. However, marine scientists, under the a ... more		NASA's HS3 Mission Analyzes Saharan Dust Layer Over Eastern Atlantic One of two of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft flew over the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin and investigated the Saharan Air Layer in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 20 and 21. The instrumen ... 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		Computer Simulations Indicate Calcium Carbonate Has a Dense Liquid Phase Computer simulations conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could help scientists make sense of a recently observed and puzzling wrinkle in ... more
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NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon

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Environmental Controls Move Beyond Earth

Scouting a Boulder Field

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Snapping Pictures of the Martian Moons

NASA awards nearly $1.5B in support contracts

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Next Generation of Explorers Takes the Stage

China launches three experimental satellites

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China's astronauts ready for longer missions

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New tests for determining health and environmental effects of nanomaterials

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A brighter method for measuring the surface gravity of distant stars

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Highest-ever resolution photos of the night sky

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