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October 22, 2013

Cygnus cargo craft readies to leave space station
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2013
A private cargo ship built by Orbital Sciences Corporation is preparing to leave the International Space Station early Tuesday and burn up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, NASA said Monday. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to detach from the orbiting research outpost at 1000 GMT Tuesday and leave the ISS an hour and a half later. "Orbital engineers then will conduct a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth's atmosphere," NASA said in a s ... read more

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Chinese no longer banned from NASA astronomy meet Six Chinese scientists who were banned from a NASA astronomy conference are now welcome to register, resolving an international row over academic discrimination, a co-organizer told AFP on Monday. ... more		The Sun Also Flips: 11-Year Solar Cycle Wimpy, But Peaking In a 3-meter diameter hollow aluminum sphere, Cary Forest, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor, is stirring and heating plasmas to 500,000 degrees Fahrenheit to experimentally mimic ... more		Crowdfunded Lunar Spacecraft Reaches Funding Milestone The Aerospace Research and Engineering Systems Instituteis excited to announce the successful completion of the first phase of crowdfunding and conceptual development of a unique spacecraft to explo ... more
				MAVEN Launch Preps on Schedule MAVEN launch preparations remain on schedule and have continued to go well since spacecraft processing resumed earlier this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, MAVEN is slated for a spin test without propel ... more		Las Cumbres Capabilities Identify First Progenitor Of A Stripped-Envelope Supernova In June of this year, supernova iPTF13bvn, surprised astrophysicists by revealing its parentage. To date, Type Ib supernovae have appeared to come from nowhere. Type Ib supernovae explosions appear ... more

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Who's the ace among aces? On Oct. 30, 2007, astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery set out on a routine mission: installing two solar panels on the truss, or backbone, of the International Space Station. While the fir ... more		Iowa research team see misaligned planets in distant system Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. ... more		From Crowdfunding to Venture Capital: How to Choose the Right Funding Strategy for Your Startup - An Exclusive Interview with Alexander Kopylkov US-Japan summit: what to expect Trump calls for work on new Iran nuclear deal to begin 'immediately'		Fat Black Holes Grown up in Cities: "Observational" result using Virtual Observatory A research team, led by reseacher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), discovered that the more massive black holes tend to be located in galactic environments with higher densi ... more
				CASIS Issues Request for Proposals: Remote Sensing From the ISS The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization managing research aboard the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, has issued a solicitat ... more		Gravitational waves "know" how black holes grow A paper in the journal Science pits the front-running ideas about the growth of supermassive black holes against observational data - a limit on the strength of gravitational waves from pairs of bla ... more

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Robot challenge: unload a spacecraft More than 50 students from five countries gathered at ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands yesterday to unleash their robotic creations after six months preparing for the finals of the Volare Sp ... more		Nation puts geospatial data system on the map China has established a national emergency geospatial data system to provide first-responders with detailed maps within two hours after a disaster, a senior official said. At the Chengdu Forum ... more		Fresh quake barrage hits Greek island Santorini Pain, anger as Turkey marks two years since quake disaster January sets 'surprising' heat record: EU monitor		Astrium awarded three new contracts by ESA for Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 ME launchers Running through to the end of 2014, the first two contracts cover the continued development of the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution (A5ME) launcher and the sub-assemblies common to both it and Ariane 6. T ... more
				Celebrating the legacy of ESA's Planck mission From the tiniest fraction of a second after the Big Bang to the evolution of stars and galaxies over 13.8 billion years, ESA's Planck space telescope has provided new insight into the history of our ... more		New light on supermassive black holes Swinburne University of Technology scientists are part of an international team that has used observations of super-dense stars known as pulsars to probe the Universe in a completely new way. ... more

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Chinese no longer banned from NASA astronomy meet

Who's the ace among aces?

Ethiopia sets sights on stars with space program

NASA's China policy faces mounting pressure

Ten Years of Chinese Astronauts

NASA vows to review ban on Chinese astronomers

	Europe's Planck telescope set for retirement The deep-space Planck telescope will retire this week after a successful four-year mission that revealed our Universe to be 80 million years older than previously thought, the European Space Agency said as it prepared Monday for switch-off. ... more		Satellite's gravity-mapping mission is over: ESA A satellite measuring Earth's gravity since 2009 ran out of fuel Monday and will reenter the atmosphere within three weeks, when it will mostly disintegrate, the European Space Agency said. ... more		Iridium Completes System Critical Design Review for Iridium NEXT Iridium Communications has successfully completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) of the complete Iridium NEXT satellite network system, demonstrating its design is valid and on schedule for first la ... more		Electrically powered in a geostationary orbit OHB System AG has been awarded a contract for the development of a telecommunications satellite known as Electra which will be powered solely by electricity. The contract was entered into last week ... more

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Astronomer see misaligned planets in distant system

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Bill curbing Jerusalem talks sparks Israel cabinet battle

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