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February 14, 2013
LAUNCH PAD
Another Sea Launch Failure
Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2013
Sea Launch is currently a Russian spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile seagoing platform for direct equatorial launches of commercial payloads on Zenit 3SL rockets. Since its inception there have been 31 launches, including three failures and one partial failure. The sea-based system operates out of Long Beach, California, but its launches take place from an equatorial spot in the Pacific Ocean. This location allows a minimal energy ascent-to-orbit for geostationary-bound satellites. ... read more
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LAUNCH PAD

ILS Concludes Yamal 402 Proton Launch Investigation
The International Launch Servies (ILS) Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) concluded its review on February 7, concurring on the most probable root cause and the associated corrective action plan ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Set for New Round Of J-2X Testing at Stennis Space Center
NASA's progress toward a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency's Space Launch System ... more
GPS NEWS

A system that improves the precision of GPS in cities by 90 percent
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system which improves the ability of a GPS to determine a vehicle's position as compared to that of conventional GPS devic ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form
On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Some casual obs ... more


STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Extremely bright supernovae may break the Chandrasekhar limit
White dwarfs forming in extreme magnetic fields could be stabilized, allowing them to get bigger before they explode, leading to a brighter bang when they finally do, according to a team of research ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Euclid Could Solve The Dark Mysteries Of The Universe
Johns Hopkins astrophysicists Brice Menard and Charles L. Bennett have been appointed to the Euclid Consortium, the international team of scientists overseeing an ambitious space telescope project d ... more
TIME AND SPACE

Black Holes Growing Faster Than Expected
Lurking at the centers of most galaxies are black holes that can weigh anywhere from one million to one billion times as much as the Sun. New research, published in the Astrophysical Journal, shows ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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Aerospacelab and Xona Unite to Transform Satellite Navigation
GITAI's robotic system triumphs in ISS demo
MARSDAILY

Rover Walkabout Continues at Cape York
Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3208 (Jan. 31, 2013), the rover collecte ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Rocketdyne Powers Atlas 5 Upper Stage, Placing New Landsat In Orbit
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne and RD AMROSS successfully propelled the most advanced Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft into orbit Monday for NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. ... more
STATION NEWS

Progress docks with ISS
Russian cargo ship "Progress M-18M" has successfully docked with the ISS. The docking took place at 00:40 Moscow time. This is already the third successful shortened, 6-hour docking in the his ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

USGS Ready To Start Landsat 8 Science Program
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science Anne Castle, United States Geological Survey (USGS) Direc ... more
IRON AND ICE

Getting the Right Spin on a Close-Passing Asteroid
The record-setting close approach of an asteroid on Feb. 15 is an exciting opportunity for scientists, and a research team will use National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and NASA telescopes to ... more
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'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
Neolithic Mariners: Unveiling the Mediterranean's Oldest Boats
Greece to buy seven Canadian water bombers for wildfires
ICE WORLD

Features Of Southeast European Human Ancestors Influenced By Lack Of Episodic Glaciations
A fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the oldest human ancestor found in this part of Europe, who probably evolved under different conditions than populations that inhabited ... more
TECTONICS

The deep roots of catastrophe
A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don' ... more
EARLY EARTH

Largest-ever study of mammalian ancestry completed by renowned research te
A groundbreaking six-year research collaboration has produced the most complete picture yet of the evolution of placental mammals, the group that includes humans. Placental mammals are the lar ... more
EARLY EARTH
Building a lunar base with 3D printing

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015


EARLY EARTH
Rover Walkabout Continues at Cape York

Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form

In milestone, Mars rover collects first bedrock sample


EARLY EARTH
Supersonic skydiver even faster than thought

Ahmadinejad says ready to be Iran's first spaceman

Iran's Bio-Capsule Comes Back from Space


EARLY EARTH
Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

Mr Xi in Space

EARTH OBSERVATION

LDCM 'Doing Great' in Orbit
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft is safely in orbit and sending telemetry back to Earth after a 1:02 p.m. EST liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket. The on-time li ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION

Orbital-Built Landsat Satellite Launched
Orbital Sciences reports that the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite was successfully launched into orbit aboard an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Orbital designe ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION

Ball Supplies Advanced Imaging Instrument For Landsat 8
The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Operational Land Imager (OLI) successfully launched aboard the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 10:02 a.m. PST, on ... more
SPACE SCOPES

Super telescope costs inflate
The estimated cost of the first construction phase of the world's largest radio telescope has jumped to 400 million euros ($530 million), the project's director general said Tuesday. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Boeing to modernize U.S. Air Force GPS net

CLIMATE SCIENCE

Climate change risks to U.S. security seen

WATER WORLD

Pacific Locked in 'La Nada' Limbo

OZONE NEWS

Ozone depletion trumps greenhouse gas increase in jet-stream shift

OZONE NEWS

Antarctic ozone hole said shrinking

CHIP TECH

Biological circuits with memory created

CHIP TECH

Researchers create 'building block' of quanutm networks

TECH SPACE

3D Printing on the Micrometer Scale

INTERNET SPACE

Next-gen e-readers: Improved 'peacock' technology could lock in color for high-res displays

TECH SPACE

Looking out for lasers

Into the quantum internet at the speed of light

New modeling approach transforms imaging technologies

XTAR To Expand Beyond NATO As African And Asian Hot Spots Flare

No asteroid risk in foreseeable future

Boeing Phantom Eye Completes Taxi Tests, Readies for Return to Flight

System improves GPS in city locations

N. Korea vows 'high-intensity' action, new rocket launches

US launches Earth observation satellite

Public to vote on names for Pluto moons

NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young Stars

Planet color may suggest alien life

New evidence suggests comet or asteroid impact was last straw for dinosaurs

Israel showcases Iron Dome for Indians

NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-ray Imager

Observed: The outburst before the blast

The Sun Produces Two CMEs

KVH Ships 3,000th TracPhone System for mini-VSAT Broadband Network

Hubble captures strobe flashes from a young star

Outside View: Pivot to Europe?

Time to address root causes of nuclear crisis on Korean Peninsula

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