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January 28, 2013
SPACEWAR
Japan launches new satellites to boost surveillance
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 27, 2013
Japan Sunday launched two satellites to strengthen its surveillance capabilities, including keeping a closer eye on North Korea which has vowed to stage another nuclear test. One of them was a radar-equipped unit to complete a system of surveillance satellites that will allow Tokyo to monitor any place in the world at least once a day. The other was a demonstration satellite to collect data for research and development. The H-IIA rocket blasted off from the southern island of Tanegashima aro ... read more
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NUKEWARS

South Korean rocket launch set for Jan 30
South Korea confirmed Thursday that it will make another bid on January 30 to put a satellite in orbit and join an elite club of global space powers that includes China, Japan and India. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE

Scientists create tractor beam
Scientists at Scotland's St. Andrews University have invented a miniature working version of a Star Trek-style "tractor beam." ... more
IRON AND ICE

Commercial Asteroid Hunters Announce Plans For New Robotic Exploration Fleet
A NewSpace start up Deep Space Industries claims it will send a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft out into the solar system to hunt for resources to accelerate space development to benefit Ea ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Red Explosions - Secret Life of Binary Stars Revealed
A University of Alberta professor has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that results in an explosion so powerful it ranks close to supernovae in luminosity. Ast ... more


SOLAR SCIENCE

Sun-Gazing Sorce Satellite, Designed To Last 5 Years, Turns 10
When a Sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging. A decade later, the four instruments o ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomer Creates Computer Models That Help Explain How Galaxies Formed And Evolved
When most people think of astronomers, they envision scientists who spend time peering at stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops. Rutgers astronomer Rachel Somerville depends on ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers
Pulsars - tiny spinning stars, heavier than the sun and smaller than a city - have puzzled scientists since they were discovered in 1967. Now, new observations by an international team, includ ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
G7 threatens new sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles
US Senate declines to fast-track TikTok bill as Canada plans own review
Russia orders more firepower against Ukraine naval drones
SPACE TRAVEL

How to predict the future of technology
The bread and butter of investing for Silicon Valley tech companies is stale. Instead, a new method of predicting the evolution of technology could save tech giants millions in research and developm ... more
TIME AND SPACE

More than one brain behind E=mc2
Two American physicists outline the role played by Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl in establishing the proportionality between the energy (E) of a quantity of matter with its mass (m) in a ca ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The 3D fireworks of a star
In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now a team of Spanish and Estonian astronomers has reconstructed the journey of the ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Baffling pulsar leaves astronomers in the dark
New observations of a highly variable pulsar using ESA's XMM-Newton are perplexing astronomers. Monitoring this pulsar simultaneously in X-rays and radio waves, astronomers have revealed that this s ... more
AEROSPACE

NASA Super-Tiger Balloon Shatters Flight Record
Flying high over Antarctica, a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size. The record-breaking balloon, carrying the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Eleme ... more
24/7 News Coverage
UK plan to capture carbon ignited by contracts worth over 4bn pounds
Syria's Al-Hol camp: child inmates and false identities
NATO chief says climate change undermines global security
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Betelgeuse braces for a collision
Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in this new image from ESA's Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields could collide wit ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission
NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Euclid will launch in 2020 an ... more
CONSTELLATIONS

Six Globalstar birds set to fly on Soyuz from from Baikonur
Globalstar's cluster of second-generation satellites to be orbited by Soyuz from Baikonur Cosmodrome has been installed atop the Fregat upper stage, marking another milestone in a wrap-up flight for ... more
CONSTELLATIONS
US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by


CONSTELLATIONS
NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year

Opportunity Investigating Light-toned Veins in Rock Outcrop

Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake


CONSTELLATIONS
TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

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CONSTELLATIONS
Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

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RUSSIAN SPACE

Moscow Plays Down Kazakhstan Space Port Row
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attempted to play down a dispute between Russia and Kazakhstan over terms for use of the Baikonur space center on Friday, after Russian media reports the previ ... more
EXO LIFE

Wood on the seafloor - an oasis for deep-sea life
Trees do not grow in the deep sea, nevertheless sunken pieces of wood can develop into oases for deep-sea life - at least temporarily until the wood is fully degraded. A team of Max Planck researche ... more
LAUNCH PAD

First Ariane 5 For 2013 Ready For Loading
Arianespace's first Ariane 5 for launch in 2013 is now ready to receive its two satellite passengers after this heavy-lift launcher was moved to the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building in French Gui ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Russia Set for Year's First Baikonur Space Launch Feb. 5
In the first space launch from the Baikonur space port this year, a Russian carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a is to orbit six Globalstar-2 communication satellites on February 5, the Federal Space Agency Ro ... more
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MARSDAILY

Is there life on Mars?

RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia warns Kazakhstan in Baikonur cosmodrome dispute

MARSDAILY

Thawing Dry Ice Drives Groovy Action On Mars

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Shedding Light on the Power of M 82's Superwinds

LAUNCH PAD

Azerspace And Africasat-1a "fit" for Ariane 5 launch

MARSDAILY

Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at Night

MARSDAILY

Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud

SPACE TRAVEL

Iran Manufacturing Hi-Tech Spacesuits

TECH SPACE

Phoenix Rising: New Video Shows Advances in Satellite Repurposing Program

Solar eruption heading toward Earth

2013 to be bumper year for space science: ESA

Japan launching spy satellite to monitor North Korea

North Korea says plans nuclear test aimed at US

UN to sanction N. Korea space agency: diplomat

Israel upgrades missile-killer Iron Dome

U.S. Complacency in Space?

NASA Airborne Mission Climbs to Stratospheric Height for Better Climate Science

Insights from the SIA DoD Commercial SATCOM Users' Workshop

Researchers analyse 'rock dissolving' method of geoengineering

Great Oxidation Event: More oxygen through multicellularity

Studying ancient Earth's geochemistry

Synchrotron infrared unveils a mysterious microbial community

Azerbaijan to launch telecom satellite

Computer breakthrough: Code of life becomes databank

Cheating to Create the Perfect Simulation

Sagetech, ING Robotic Aviation Demonstrate "Sense and Avoid" Capabilities of UAV's

Boeing to Upgrade Combat Survivor Evader Locator Radios, Base Stations

World's Most Complex 2D Laser Beamsteering Array Demonstrated

Researchers Create Method for More Sensitive Electrochemical Sensors

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