Space News From SpaceDaily.Com

January 17, 2014

Countdown to Pluto
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 17, 2014
Are we there yet? One of the fastest spacecraft ever built - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than some missions last, and it is nearing its destination: Pluto. "The encounter begins next January," says Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute and the mission's principal investigator. "We're less than a year away." Closest approach is scheduled for July 2015 when New Horizons flies on ... read more

Previous Issues

Jan 16

Jan 15

Jan 14

Jan 13

Jan 10

NASA Space Launch System Could Make 'Outside the Box' Science Missions Possible When it comes to scientific probes exploring the far reaches of our solar system, the rules could be changing. The human spaceflight community joined the space science community Jan. 13-14 at the Ou ... more		Comet-chasing probe to be roused from sleep One of the most ambitious missions in the history of space goes into high-risk mode on Monday when Europe rouses a comet-chasing probe from years of hibernation. ... more		Boeing Space Surveillance System Reduces Risk of Satellite Loss by 66 Percent Boeing Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system has helped the U.S. Air Force cut the danger of satellites being lost by two-thirds in the past year by detecting potential threats more quickly a ... more
				SpaceShip Two Into Serious Flight Testing Virgin Galactic's adventure into space tourism moves closer to operational flight status. Just last week the second stage of its two-stage suborbital vehicle, SpaceShipTwo, reached its highest altit ... more		The Cyborgs Era Has Started Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great potentials, but also give rise to major ... more

Commercial Spaceflight Federation Applauds Passage of Bill Providing Funding for Commercial Programs The Commercial Spaceflight Federation thanks the Members of the House of Representatives for the passage of H.R. 3547. The bill provides critical funding for NASA's Commercial Crew Program and exten ... more		Searching for life in strange places Last year schoolchildren were invited to dig up some earth in search of creepy-crawlies and underground life. Astronauts taking part in ESA's underground training course CAVES joined the worldwide e ... more		'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		NASA Sets Coverage Schedule for TDRS-L/Atlas V Launch Events NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-L (TDRS-L) is scheduled to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket Thursday, Jan. 23, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force St ... more
				The Star That Should Not Exist A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to track down a star in the Milky Way that many thought was impossible. They discovered that this star is composed almost ent ... more		China tested hypersonic missile vehicle: US officials China for the first time has tested a hypersonic missile vehicle designed to travel several times the speed of sound, the Pentagon said Wednesday. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Japan scientists test tether to clear up space junk Japanese space scientists are set to trial a tether they hope will help pull junk out of orbit around Earth, clearing up tonnes of planetary clutter, they said Thursday. ... more		Climate change: How does soil store CO2? Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise - in 2012 alone, 35.7 billion tons of this greenhouse gas entered the atmosphere*. Some of this CO2 is absorbed by the oceans, plants and soil. ... more		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		Study explains origins of giant underwater waves Their effect on the surface of the ocean is negligible, producing a rise of just inches that is virtually imperceptible on a turbulent sea. But internal waves, which are hidden entirely within the o ... more
				Towards perfect control of light waves A team at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) in Garching (Germany) has constructed a detector, which provides a detailed picture of the waveforms of femtosecond laser pulses (1 fs = 10-15 s ... more		Weighing particles at the attogram scale MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an attogram - one millionth of a trillionth of a gram. Weighing these tiny particles, including both s ... more

Internet Radio Provides Musical Space-Weather Reports from NASA's LRO Mission

Moon rover, lander wake after lunar night

India to launch second mission to moon by 2017

Ten-Years Roving About On Mars

Mars Orbiter Images Rover and Tracks in Gale Crater

Who Wants to Go to Mars - One Way?

Commercial Spaceflight Federation Applauds Passage of Bill Providing Funding for Commercial Programs

Space-faring countries discuss cooperation in US

NASA Space Launch System Could Make 'Outside the Box' Science Missions Possible

Official: China's space policy open to world

China launches communications satellite for Bolivia

China's moon rover continues lunar survey after photographing lander

	Viewing macro behaviors of ultra-cold quantum gases through the micro-world Understanding collective behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases is of great interest since it is intimately related to many encountered systems in nature such as human behavior, swarms of birds, traff ... more		Extraordinary sensors pushed to their boundaries Last year, Tobias Kippenberg and his team from the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM1) presented a new-generation sensor capable of detecting very small forces with unprecedente ... more		No nano-dust danger from facade paint After 42 months the EU research project "NanoHouse" has ended, and the verdict is a cautious "all clear" - nanoparticles in the paint used on building facades do not represent a particular health ri ... more		Understanding secondary light emissions by plasmonic nanostructures "Plasmonic nanostructures are of great current interest as chemical sensors, in vivo imaging agents, and for photothermal therapeutics," explained David G. Cahill, a Willett Professor and head of th ... more

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

China tested hypersonic missile vehicle: US officials		Northrop Grumman Unveils Advanced Pulse Generation Technology		Boeing Transmits Protected Government Signal Through Military Satellite		Raytheon resumes work on US Navy Air and Missile Defense Radar		Israel's Rafael and Raytheon to co-produce Iron Dome
Fifth MUOS Completes Assembly, Enters System Test		Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk Boasts Best Safety Record Designation		Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System Surpasses 100,000 Combat Flight Hours		Eye-catching electronics		Fastest organic transistor heralds new generation of see-through electronics

Bio-inspired glue keeps hearts securely sealed

Penn research helps lay out theory for metamaterials that act as an analog computer

Big data: A method for obtaining large, phylogenomic data sets

An improved, cost-effective catalyst for water-splitting devices

Superlens Extends Range of Wireless Power Transfer

Mapping Amino Acids to Understand Life's Origins

Fungi may determine the future of soil carbon

ORNL-UT researchers invent 'sideways' approach to 2-D hybrid materials

Iran mulls replacement for Russian S-300 missile system

Raytheon receives SM-3 contract

Spaceflight, Nanoracks Partnership Launch CubeSat Customers Towards Historic ISS Deployment

Two carrier rockets to be launched from Baikonur next month

Russia to launch seven space vehicles in two months

KVH mini-VSAT Installed on 100 US Coast Guard Vessels

Ground control to Major Tang

NASA warns of 'potentially hazardous' asteroid

ISEF-riding an asteroid to the future

Space-faring countries discuss cooperation in US

Field Museum in Chicago unveils 'oddball' green meteorite

White House to release Iran implementation agreement

Free Newsletters - Space - Defense - Environment - Energy

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement