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October 23, 2013
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India sets November 5 for Mars mission launch
Bangalore, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2013
Scientists on Tuesday set November 5 for the delayed launch of India's first mission to Mars, which was postponed due to problems in positioning a seaborne tracking system. Blast-off for the unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission had to be rescheduled after the state-run Indian Space Agency Organisation (ISRO) said at the weekend that it would be unable to launch as expected on October 28. Two Indian ships have been sent to Fiji in the Pacific Ocean to enable constant tracking of the rocket, but one of t ... read more
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STATION NEWS

Cygnus cargo craft leaves international space station
A privately-operated unmanned cargo ship built by Orbital Sciences Corporation left the International Space Station on Tuesday after its first successful demonstration mission, NASA said. ... more
EXO WORLDS

Count of discovered exoplanets passes the 1,000 mark
The count of exoplanets circling distant stars has passed a benchmark figure, astronomers said, as the 1,000th was added to a European database Tuesday. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION

How Earth's rotation affects vortices in nature
What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an imag ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Tiny drones create new, highly detailed mapping of Matterhorn
The Swiss Alps' iconic Matterhorn has been has been mapped in detail never possible before by a fleet of autonomous, fixed-wing drones, researchers say. ... more


SHAKE AND BLOW

The Complicated Birth of a Volcano
They are difficult to reach, have hardly been studied scientifically, and their existence does not fit into current geological models: the Marie Byrd Seamounts off the coast of Antarctica present ma ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

New evidence on lightning strikes
Lightning strikes causing rocks to explode have for the first time been shown to play a huge role in shaping mountain landscapes in southern Africa, debunking previous assumptions that angular rock ... more
DEEP IMPACT

Roscosmos, Academy of Sciences pool efforts for asteroid defense
Asteroid defense is an objective that requires multifarious resources, and the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) should not be alone in dealing with it, Roscosmos head Oleg Ostapenko said. "Thi ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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US-Japan summit: what to expect
Trump calls for work on new Iran nuclear deal to begin 'immediately'
DEEP IMPACT

Russian space agency declares war on asteroids
Russia's state-run space agency and the national academy of sciences have announced they are going to bang heads on a comprehensive project to ward off deadly asteroids that may threaten the earth. ... more
SPACE SCOPES

Countdown to launch of ESA's billion-star surveyor
ESA's billion-star surveyor Gaia will be launched from Europe's spaceport in Kourou on 20 November to begin a five-year mission to map the stars with unprecedented precision. Gaia's main goal ... more
PHYSICS NEWS

GOCE mission comes to an end
After mapping variations in Earth's gravity with unprecedented detail for four years, the GOCE satellite has run out of fuel and the end of mission has been declared. Since March 2009, the Gra ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Armed ground drones to take over battlefields in five years
The United States Army is one-step closer to deploying weaponized robots to the front lines of battlefields following a recent demonstration that's being largely considered a success. Defense ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Sounding Rocket Calibrates NASA's SDO Instrument
NASA successfully launched a Black Brant IX sounding rocket at 2 p.m. EDT from the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., carrying instrumentation to support the calibration of the EUV Variability Experim ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA strives to tame 'big data' flowing in from dozens of missions
NASA says new strategies will be needed to manage the ever-increasing flow of large and complex data streams from the agency's many space missions. ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Raytheon demonstrates new protected tactical waveform on a small, lightweight, low-cost modem
Raytheon, whose terminals protect the military's most sensitive satellite communications, recently held a demonstration that proved sensitive data could be passed through small, low-cost satellite t ... more
TECH SPACE

'Walking droplets'
A research team led by Yves Couder at the Universite Paris Diderot recently discovered that it's possible to make a tiny fluid droplet levitate on the surface of a vibrating bath, walking or bouncin ... more
TECH SPACE
Crowdfunded Lunar Spacecraft Reaches Funding Milestone

LADEE Continues To Settle Into Operational Lunar Orbit

NASA's moon landing remembered as a promise of a 'future which never happened'


TECH SPACE
India sets November 5 for Mars mission launch

MAVEN Launch Preps on Schedule

Phobos-Grunt-2: Russia to probe Martian moon by 2022


TECH SPACE
NASA strives to tame 'big data' flowing in from dozens of missions

Chinese no longer banned from NASA astronomy meet

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TECH SPACE
NASA's China policy faces mounting pressure

Ten Years of Chinese Astronauts

NASA vows to review ban on Chinese astronomers

MILTECH

Lockheed Martin to Build Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) in Arkansas
Lockheed Martin will move production of its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) to an assembly line at the company's award-winning Camden, Ark., manufacturing complex, where the company expects to g ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Lockheed Martin to Deliver Communications and Transmission Services to US Army
The U.S. Army will soon be using satellite and terrestrial communications capabilities delivered in part by Lockheed Martin to support battlefield operations around the globe. Lockheed Martin ... more
RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia offers Brazil new joint space projects
Russia and Brazil have discussed prospects of cooperation in the space industry aimed at further development of Brazil's ambitious space program, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. A ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE

Hardware Ready for Pressure Testing in Preparation for Orion Launch
The design and fabrication of critical flight hardware that will be used to keep NASA's Orion spacecraft safe during launch was recently completed at Janicki Industries in Hamilton, Wash. The hardwa ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Long-Sought Pattern of Ancient Light Detected

TIME AND SPACE

Planck on course for safe retirement

LAUNCH PAD

Takeoff of Proton LV with US satellite may be put off until Oct 25

WATER WORLD

China creates 50 bln tonnes of rain annually

ROCKET SCIENCE

Spacecraft Integration, Assembly and Test

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

UC San Diego Researchers Advance Explanation for Star Formation

ABOUT US

Unique skull find rebuts theories on species diversity in early humans

STATION NEWS

Cygnus cargo craft readies to leave space station

SPACE TRAVEL

Chinese no longer banned from NASA astronomy meet

SOLAR SCIENCE

The Sun Also Flips: 11-Year Solar Cycle Wimpy, But Peaking

Crowdfunded Lunar Spacecraft Reaches Funding Milestone

MAVEN Launch Preps on Schedule

Las Cumbres Capabilities Identify First Progenitor Of A Stripped-Envelope Supernova

Who's the ace among aces?

Iowa research team see misaligned planets in distant system

Fat Black Holes Grown up in Cities: "Observational" result using Virtual Observatory

CASIS Issues Request for Proposals: Remote Sensing From the ISS

Gravitational waves "know" how black holes grow

Robot challenge: unload a spacecraft

Nation puts geospatial data system on the map

Astrium awarded three new contracts by ESA for Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 ME launchers

Celebrating the legacy of ESA's Planck mission

New light on supermassive black holes

Europe's Planck telescope set for retirement

Satellite's gravity-mapping mission is over: ESA

Iridium Completes System Critical Design Review for Iridium NEXT

Electrically powered in a geostationary orbit

Is the 'Christmas Comet' cracking up?

ALMA probes mysteries of jets from giant black holes

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