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January 09, 2014
STATION NEWS
NASA extends space station life to 2024
Washington (AFP) Jan 08, 2014
The $100-billion International Space Station will be extended by four years, or until at least 2024, allowing for more global research and scientific collaboration, NASA said Wednesday. The orbiting outpost, the largest space lab ever built, was launched to fanfare in 1998 and had been expected to remain in operation until 2020. "What a tremendous gift the administration has given us to go look at extending this space station," said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human ... read more
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SPACEMART

Boeing building telecom satellites to expand Mexico's networks
Boeing is building two high-power satellites for Mexico as part of the Latin American country's program of boosting information security and expanding networks to remote underdeveloped areas. ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Orbital to attempt launch to space station Thursday
Orbital Sciences Corporation is aiming to launch its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship Thursday on the company's first regular supply mission to the International Space Station. ... more
EXO WORLDS

Research: Smaller exoplanets found to be covered in gas
U.S. researchers say they were surprised to find a number of exoplanets in the Milky Way that are only a few times bigger than Earth but covered in gas. ... more
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SPACEWAR

France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard
The sale of two intelligence satellites to the UAE by France for nearly a billion dollars could go south after they were found to contain American technology designed to intercept data transmitted t ... more


NUKEWARS

N-test legacy in stratosphere bigger than thought, study
Levels of radioactive plutonium in Earth's stratosphere from nuclear tests and accidents is higher than previously thought, but probably not dangerous to humans, scientists in Switzerland said Tuesday. ... more
The Year In Space
MISSILE DEFENSE

Israel moves closer to anti-missile shield with Arrow 3 test
Israel's latest test-firing of its high-altitude Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system marks a major step toward the Jewish state's plan to build a multilayer missile defense shield against everything from Iranian intermediate-range ballistic weapons to home-made rockets built by Palestinian militants. ... more
WAR REPORT

Technology one step ahead of war laws
Today's emerging military technologies-including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet-raise the prospect of upheavals in milita ... 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

3D printing poised to shake up shopping
A 3D printing trend playing out at the Consumer Electronics Show bodes a future in which shoes, eyeglass frames, toys and more are printed at home as easily as documents. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Toymakers target 'kidults' at high-tech Hong Kong fair
Never mind girls and boys - adults who refuse to grow up are being increasingly targeted by a toy industry promoting adolescence as a lifestyle choice, say industry watchers. ... more
TECH SPACE

RAMBO a small but powerful magnet
Rice University scientists have pioneered a tabletop magnetic pulse generator that does the work of a room-sized machine - and more. The device dubbed "RAMBO" - short for Rice Advanced Magnet with B ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

'Global sunscreen' plan could wreck tropics: study
An idea by the father of the H-bomb to slow global warming by sowing the stratosphere with light-reflecting particles could wreck the weather system in the tropics, a study said Wednesday. ... more
ICE WORLD

Chinese icebreaker shines spotlight on polar ambitions
A Chinese research vessel's escape from pack ice after evacuating 52 people from a Russian ship trapped in Antarctica has shone a spotlight on the Asian power's growing polar ambitions at both ends of the Earth. ... 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
INTERNET SPACE

Intel takes leap into wearable computing
Computer chip giant Intel unveiled a major new push Monday into wearables and connecting everyday devices as it seeks to leapfrog the competition in mobile computing. ... more
CHIP TECH

Ultra-flexible chip can be wrapped around a hair
Scientists in Switzerland said Tuesday they can create electronic chips so flexible they can be wrapped around a human hair. ... more
INTERNET SPACE

Tech worn in your socks... and the rest of the body
There's a sensor in a bra, in your socks, on your wrist, attached to your chest, in the ears: wearable tech is spreading all over the body. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Wake Up Yutu

Chang'e-3 satellite payload APXS obtained its first spectrum of lunar regolith

Chang'e 3 Lander and Rover From Above


INTERNET SPACE
One-way trip to Mars? Sign me up, says Frenchwoman

Who Wants to Go to Mars - One Way?

More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission


INTERNET SPACE
Toymakers target 'kidults' at high-tech Hong Kong fair

An astronaut's rhythm

Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft


INTERNET SPACE
China launches communications satellite for Bolivia

China's moon rover continues lunar survey after photographing lander

China's Yutu "naps", awakens and explores

NANO TECH

Discovery at nanoscale has major implications for manufacturers
Manufacturers of increasingly minute computer chips, transistors and other products will have to take special note of research findings at the University of Huddersfield. The implications are that a ... more
WATER WORLD

Scientists off to Pacific to study 'weather chimney' effect on climate
Atmospheric scientists say they're on their way to the western tropical Pacific Ocean to study the region's "global chimney" effect on the world's climate. ... more
SPACE SCOPES

Europe's star-hunter enters orbit: agency
A billion-dollar star-hunting telescope slotted into its operational orbit Wednesday prior to harvesting data for the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA: Planet-size storms may be roiling surface of brown dwarf stars
Space telescope observations suggest swirling, turbulent clouds in planet-size storms may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs, NASA says. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

U.S. undergraduates impress astronomers with asteroid discovery

EXO WORLDS

Planet-hunting telescope camera returns first images of exoplanets

SPACE TRAVEL

An astronaut's rhythm

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Supernova's super dust factory imaged with ALMA

ROBO SPACE

Robots invade consumer market for play, work

EXO WORLDS

NASA Kepler Provides Insight About Enigmatic But Ubiquitous Planets, Five New Rocky Planets

EXO LIFE

Does a Planet Need Life to Create Continents?

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA's Fermi Makes First Gamma-ray Study of a Gravitational Lens

EXO WORLDS

Newfound planet is Earth-mass but gassy

MARSDAILY

Who Wants to Go to Mars - One Way?

Newly discovered three-star system to challenge Einstein's theory of General Relativity

ALMA Spots Supernova Dust Factory

Fossil in amber shows ancient reproduction process of flowering plants

Arianespace targets record year for rocket launches

One-way trip to Mars? Sign me up, says Frenchwoman

SpaceX launches second commercial satellite

Wake Up Yutu

Supernova remnant yields evidence of source of dusty galaxies

Earth appears to be an oddity, astronomers say

Facility upgrades will support X-37B program

New Science Bound for Station on Orbital's Cygnus

Now sky is the limit for India: Ex-ISRO scientist

'20 years of toil has paid off' Says Radhkrishnan

GSLV-D5 launch: What the success means

ISRO raises GSAT-14's orbit

El Nino tied to melting of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier

Turning Off the "Aging Genes"

Methane hydrates and global warming

New Study Brings Scientists Closer to the Origin of RNA

N. Korea rejects South proposal for family reunions

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