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December 23, 2013
STATION NEWS
No early Christmas? Spacesuit issue delays second spacewalk to fix ISS cooling system
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 23, 2013
Two American astronauts have completed the first stage of urgent repair work outside the International Space Station ahead of schedule, but a spacesuit issue has delayed a second spacewalk to revive the crippled cooling system. Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins successfully removed an ammonia pump with a faulty valve in during a spacewalk that lasted for 5 hours and 28 minutes, instead of the 6.5 hours originally planned. "An early Christmas," commented Mission Control as Mastracchio unp ... read more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's moon rover continues lunar survey after photographing lander
China's first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, continued patrol explorations on the lunar surface after taking photos of the lander for the fifth and final time early on Sunday. According to ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Orbital Launches Completes 40th Consecutive Successful Suborbital Rocket For NASA
NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract II (NSROC II) team at Wallops Island, Virginia recently completed its 40th consecutive successful mission over the last 24 months for NASA's Sounding Rocket ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Argentina successfully launches research rocket
Argentina has successfully launched a research rocket as part of its space program, the Defense Ministry said on Friday. The launch took place on Wednesday in the city of Chamical, in La Rioja ... more
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BLUE SKY

NASA Satellite Sees Increase of India's Sulfur Dioxide Emissions
Power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide - an atmospheric pollutant with both health and climate impacts - have increased across India in recent years, according to a new analysis of data from a NASA ... more


STATION NEWS

Astronauts remove faulty ammonia pump during first spacewalk after ISS coolant system goes wrong
NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins have successfully completed their first spacewalk to repair the failed coolant system of the International Space Station (ISS). It was a debut sp ... more
The Year In Space
MISSILE DEFENSE

SBIRS Geo-2 Missile Defense Early Warning Satellite Certified For Operation
The second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite built by Lockheed Martin to provide our nation continuous early warning of ballistic missile launches and ot ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE

Raytheon begins building 12th AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar
The U.S. is taking another positive step toward meeting the growing demand for systems that can help protect against the increasing danger posed by ballistic missiles. Raytheon has started bui ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
'Not interested': Analysts sceptical about US, Russia nuclear talks
Iran says ready for nuclear talks if West is 'serious'
ESA and European Commission to establish secure quantum communications network
TECH SPACE

Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloaking Device
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an external source of energy to significantly broaden its bandwidth of operation. ... more
TECH SPACE

'Macrocells' influence corrosion rate of submerged marine concrete structures
Using numerical modeling, an Italian research team has discovered the role 'macrocells' play in the corrosion of hollow submerged marine concrete structures such as tunnels and parking structures. ... more
TECH SPACE

Toward lowering titanium's cost and environmental footprint for lightweight products
A novel method for extracting titanium, a metal highly valued for its light weight, high strength, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, could lower its cost and make it more widely accessible, ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Roots of the Lithium Battery Problem
The lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles could have significantly higher energy density if their graphite anodes were to be replaced by lithium metal anode ... more
CHIP TECH

Sharpening the focus in quantum photolithography
Photolithography uses light beams to design thin geometric patterns on the substrates of semiconductors used in microelectronic devices. This is achieved using a chemical reaction on a light-sensiti ... more
24/7 News Coverage
Climate change increases risk of successive natural hazards in the Himalayas
GMV teams up with +Atlantic CoLAB in AIR4Health project to enhance public health forecasting
Groundwater in the Arctic is delivering more carbon into the ocean than was previously known
CARBON WORLDS

UNIST research team opens graphene band-gap
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) announced a method for the mass production of boron/nitrogen co-doped graphene nanoplatelets, which led to the fabrication of a graphene-ba ... more
CHIP TECH

Theorists Predict New State of Quantum Matter May Have Big Impact on Electronics
Constantly losing energy is something we deal with in everything we do. If you stop pedaling a bike, it gradually slows; if you let off the gas, your car also slows. As these vehicles move, they als ... more
TECH SPACE

Targeted synthesis of natural products with light
Photoreactions are driven by light energy and are vital to the synthesis of many natural substances. Since many of these substances are also useful as active medical agents, chemists try to produce ... more
TECH SPACE
Most Chang'e-3 science tools activated

NASA Releases New Earthrise Simulation Video

Will the Moon be carved-up?


TECH SPACE
Mars rover Curiosity gets software upgrade, improved capabilities

Curiosity Team Upgrades Software, Checks Wheel Wear

Opportunity Communications Remain Slow Due To Odyssey Issues


TECH SPACE
Sierra Nevada Completes CCDev2, Begins Dream Chaser Flight Test Program

Russia's Putin pledges $1.5 billion for basic science research

Asia's year in space triggers applause but also worry


TECH SPACE
China's moon rover continues lunar survey after photographing lander

China's Yutu "naps", awakens and explores

China launches communications satellite for Bolivia

NANO TECH

Cellulose nanocrystals possible 'green' wonder material
The same tiny cellulose crystals that give trees and plants their high strength, light weight and resilience, have now been shown to have the stiffness of steel. The nanocrystals might be used ... more
NANO TECH

Microprinting leads to low-cost artificial cells
Easily manufactured, low-cost artificial cells manufactured using microprinting may one day serve as drug and gene delivery devices and in biomaterials, biotechnology and biosensing applications, ac ... more
CHIP TECH

Low-power tunneling transistor for high-performance devices at low voltage
A new type of transistor that could make possible fast and low-power computing devices for energy-constrained applications such as smart sensor networks, implantable medical electronics and ultra-mo ... more
TIME AND SPACE

Ultrafast heating of water - This pot boils faster than you can watch it
Scientists from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have devised a novel way to boil water in less than a trillionth of a second. The theoretical concept, which has not yet been demon ... more
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TECH SPACE

New system allows for high-accuracy, through-wall, 3-D motion tracking

NANO TECH

DNA motor 'walks' along nanotube, transports tiny particle

ENERGY TECH

SMUD Visualizes Smart Grid with Space-Time Insight's Situational Intelligence Software

STATION NEWS

Spacesuit flaw postpones station repairs to Dec 24

DRAGON SPACE

China's Yutu "naps", awakens and explores

TECH SPACE

Sailing satellites into safe retirement

TECH SPACE

Europe's Gaia telescope detaches from Fregat-MT upper stage

MARSDAILY

Curiosity Team Upgrades Software, Checks Wheel Wear

MOON DAILY

NASA Releases New Earthrise Simulation Video

ENERGY TECH

Japan researcher builds device to transmit 'force'

Mars rover Curiosity gets software upgrade, improved capabilities

20th Anniversary of First B-2 Spirit Delivery

Lockheed Martin Delivers Landmark 300th C-130J Super Hercules

S.Korea minister rules out imminent N. Korean nuclear test

Russia rebuilding lost radar coverage

Golf skateboard aims to rejuvenate 'old man's sport'

NASA and Russia prolong contract on Soyuz taxi flights to ISS

Liftoff for ESA's billion-star surveyor

Bolivia's first telecoms satellite launched from China

NASA's Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Returns First Images after Reactivation

Brazil to auction satellite positions ahead of World Cup

Japan robot astronaut talks Santa in first chat with spaceman

Most Chang'e-3 science tools activated

Bolivia to launch first telecoms satellite -- in China

Dawn Creates Guide to Vesta's Hidden Attractions

Sierra Nevada Completes CCDev2, Begins Dream Chaser Flight Test Program

Scientists solve a decades-old mystery in the Earth's upper atmosphere

Europe launches billion-dollar Milky Way telescope Gaia

Exelis delivers advanced weather satellite payload to commercial customer in Japan

Boeing Delivers Final Focused Lethality Munition to USAF

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