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December 20, 2014
MARSDAILY
NASA, Planetary Scientists Find Meteoritic Evidence of Mars Water Reservoir
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2014
NASA and an international team of planetary scientists have found evidence in meteorites on Earth that indicates Mars has a distinct and global reservoir of water or ice near its surface. Though controversy still surrounds the origin, abundance and history of water on Mars, this discovery helps resolve the question of where the "missing Martian water" may have gone. Scientists continue to study the planet's historical record, trying to understand the apparent shift from an early wet and warm clima ... read more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft makes a comeback with the discovery of the first exoplanet found using its new mission - K2. The discovery was made when astronomers and engineers devised an ... more
LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX delays resupply flight to ISS
SpaceX's fifth commercial launch to provide supplies to the International Space Station was delayed due to problems experienced during an engine fire test, the company and NASA said Thursday. ... more
DEEP IMPACT

Preparing for an asteroid strike
ESA and national disaster response offices recently rehearsed how to react if a threatening space rock is ever discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Last month, experts from ESA's ... more
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AEROSPACE

Satellite firm Stevenson Astrosat moves into spacecraft systems
Stevenson Astrosat, one of Scotland's most ambitious space technology companies, is accelerating into spacecraft systems in the latest rocket-powered boost to its business growth trajectory. T ... more


SATURN DAILY

Signs of Europa Plumes Remain Elusive in Search of Cassini Data
A fresh look at data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its 2001 flyby of Jupiter shows that Europa's tenuous atmosphere is even thinner than previously thought and also suggests that the ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity drives on in no-flash mode
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a location assumed to have abundant clay minerals only about a half-mile (800 meters) to the south. With t ... more
LAUNCH PAD

State Spaceports Receive Federal Funding
The Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) will receive half of the $6 million in the Federal Fiscal Year 2015 Appropriations Omnibus Bill (HR83) for state owned spaceports. AAC has been working w ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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GITAI's robotic system triumphs in ISS demo
STATION NEWS

ISS Experiment May Hold Key to Alzheimer's Cause
An experiment housed in a 4-inch cube destined for launch to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX CRS-5 cargo resupply mission could become a key step in the progress toward understandi ... more
DEEP IMPACT

All Four O3B CommSats Put Into Orbit
All four European communication satellites were put into orbit by a Russian-made Soyuz ST-B rocket from the Kourou space center in French Guiana, a spokesperson for the Russian Federal Space Agency, ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

XCOR Announces Further Progress on XCOR Lynx Spacecraft
The XCOR Lynx suborbital spacecraft continues to make rapid progress towards final assembly. Immediately after bonding the cockpit to the fuselage, the shop crews set up for the delicate and precise ... more
Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz


CLIMATE SCIENCE

NASA Data Underscore Severity of California Drought
It will take about 11 trillion gallons of water (42 cubic kilometers) - around 1.5 times the maximum volume of the largest U.S. reservoir - to recover from California's continuing drought, accordi ... more
STATION NEWS

NASA, SpaceX Update Launch of Fifth SpaceX Resupply Mission to ISS
NASA and SpaceX report that the launch of SpaceX's fifth commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station now will occur no earlier than Tuesday, Jan. 6. The new launch ... more
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'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
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Greece to buy seven Canadian water bombers for wildfires
LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace sets new operational benchmarks on its latest Soyuz success
The latest Arianespace Soyuz mission has deployed the next four satellites for O3b Networks' pioneering connectivity service on a flight performed from the Spaceport in French Guiana, wrapped up an ... more
SPACEMART

TerreStar applauds Harper govt's mobile satellite service and AWS-4 decision
In response to the decision by Industry Minister James Moore, TerreStar Solutions' President, Andre Tremblay said, "I congratulate Prime Minister Harper and Industry Minister James Moore for this de ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

MUOS-3 Encapsulated In Launch Vehicle Fairing
The third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the U.S. Navy was encapsulated into its payload fairing Dec. 18. It is scheduled to launch Jan. 20 ab ... more
TECH SPACE

Inmarsat-2 F2 satellite retired after more than 23.5 years of GEO operations
Inmarsat-2 F2, the second Eurostar satellite designed and built by Airbus Defence and Space, was retired from operational service and safely decommissioned this week after completing a record breaki ... more
TIME AND SPACE

XMM-Newton spots monster black hole hidden in tiny galaxy
First impressions can be deceptive - astronomers have used ESA's X-ray satellite XMM-Newton to find a massive black hole hungrily feeding within a tiny dwarf galaxy, despite there being no hint of t ... more

TECH SPACE

Penn Research Outlines Basic Rules for Construction With a Type of Origami
Origami is capable of turning a simple sheet of paper into a pretty paper crane, but the principles behind the paper-folding art can also be applied to making a microfluidic device for a blood test, ... more
ENERGY TECH

NTU invents smart window that tints and powers itself
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) scientists have developed a smart window which can darken or brighten without the need for an external power source. This unique self-tinting window requ ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

US Space Launcher to Get 60 Russian Engines in $1Bln Deal

ROCKET SCIENCE

India launches biggest ever rocket into space

VENUSIAN HEAT

Venus Express goes gently into the night

IRON AND ICE

Rosetta Orbiter to Swoop Down On Comet in February

LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX postpones launch after rocket 'issues'

DEEP IMPACT

Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs nearly knocked off mammals

STATION NEWS

Politics no problem, say US and Russian spacefarers

LAUNCH PAD

NASA awards Launch Services Contract for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

MARSDAILY

Australian university students aim to generate first 'breathable' air on Mars

STATION NEWS

Fifth SpaceX Mission Lets the CATS Out on the International Space Station

German named next head of European Space Agency

Rosetta comet-landing is Science's 2014 breakthrough

'Perfect Storm' Quenching Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole

NASA Satellites Measure Increase of Sun's Energy Absorbed in the Arctic

Surprising Theorists, Stars Within Middle-Aged Clusters Are of Similar Age

Rosetta Reignites Debate on Earth's Oceans

SpaceX to try to 'precision-land' rocket in ocean

ESA scientists say Philae lander will wake up in 2015

O3b satellites integrated on Soyuz For Dec 18 Arianespace flight

Russia, US to Cooperate on Orion Spacecraft Modernization

Goddard instrument makes first detection of organic matter on Mars

NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars

2015 to be a busy year, says ISRO chief

Is effluent water the future?

Turning hydrogen into graphene

Super-Earth spotted by ground-based telescope, a first

CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic

Research links soil mineral surfaces to key atmospheric processes

Earth grows a new layer under an Icelandic volcano

Plunging oil price to reset global defence budgets: IHS

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