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August 22, 2012
TIME AND SPACE
Big Bang theory challenged by big chill
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2012
The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. They have suggested that by investigating the cracks and crevices common to all crystals - including ice - our understanding of the nature of the Universe could be revolutionised. Lead researcher on the project, James Quach said current theorising is the latest in a long quest by humans to understand t ... read more

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SPACE SCOPES

Fabrication of JWST Moves Forward With Design Completion of Key Communications Structure
The spacecraft that will carry NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to its orbit nearly a million miles from Earth has completed a Critical Design Review for the structure that supports Webb's data lin ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Researchers gear up for NASA radiation belt space mission
The University of Colorado Boulder will play a key role in a NASA mission launching this week to study how space weather affects Earth's two giant radiation belts known to be hazardous to satellites ... more
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TECH SPACE

UCSB researchers demonstrate that 15=3x5 about half of the time
Computing prime factors may sound like an elementary math problem, but try it with a large number, say one that contains more than 600 digits, and the task becomes enormously challenging and impossi ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

AUI and NRAO Comment On NSF's Astronomy Portfolio Review Committee
Associated Universities (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have made a preliminary examination of the report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy Portfolio Rev ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Satellite preparations move into full swing for the next Arianespace Soyuz mission from French Guiana
Both Galileo navigation satellites for Arianespace's third Soyuz flight from the Spaceport are now in French Guiana, marking a new milestone for this mission scheduled in the second half of 2012. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions to Heat Solar Wind
New research led by University of Warwick physicist Dr Kareem Osman has provided significant insight into how the solar wind heats up when it should not. The solar wind rushes outwards from the ragi ... more
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MOON DAILY

Chinese firm to send Spanish rover to moon in 2014
China Great Wall Industry Corporation will send a Spanish rover to the moon in June 2014, according to the Galactic Suite company which heads the "Barcelona Moon Team" that is competing in the Googl ... more
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Sateliot books Spanish Miura 5 launch for two next gen Trito satellites in 2027
Exolaunch to deploy five satellites on Spectrum mission from Norway
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Picks Revolutionary Space Tech Proposals For Development
NASA's Space Technology Program has selected five technologies that could revolutionize America's space capabilities. In March, NASA issued a call for proposal focused on sudden and unexpected innov ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Vecmap tracks the Asian bush mosquito
Under the watchful eye of ESA's Vecmap initiative, the Asian bush mosquito is about to get bitten in Belgium. First observed in Belgium in 2002, the Asian bush mosquito can spread viruses such as Ch ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Sees a Lonely Galactic Island
In terms of intergalactic real estate, our solar system has a plum location as part of a big, spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Numerous, less glamorous dwarf galaxies keep the Milky Way company. Many g ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

New Video Reveals the JWST's Canadian 'Dynamic Duo'
A "Dynamic Duo" from Canada is the latest topic of the "Behind the Webb" series of videos, which goes behind the scenes to highlight technology in NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The dynami ... more
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SPACEMART

Intelsat 21 Will Boot Latin America TV ANd Mobile Across South Atlantic
Intelsat has announced that a Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 21 satellite from a mobile platform in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Liftoff occurred at 2:55 a.m ... more
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MARSDAILY

Curiosity rover set for first test drive
NASA gave the Mars Curiosity rover driving commands ahead of its first test-drive across the Martian surface Wednesday, the space agency's field center said. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

For US students, plane tickets, TVs are relics
US college freshmen this year "watch television everywhere but on a television" and have "never seen an airplane 'ticket,'" according to an annual list created to detail the generation gap. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

First Evidence Discovered of Planet's Destruction by Its Star
The first evidence of a planet's destruction by its aging star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The evidence indicates that the missing planet was devoured as the star be ... more
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MARSDAILY

New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars
NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar s ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager at 35: Break on Through to the Other Side
Thirty-five years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune and the longest-o ... more
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STATION NEWS

Cosmonauts Begin First Expedition 32 Spacewalk
Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko began the first spacewalk of the Expedition 32 mission at 11:37 a.m. EDT Monday. The primary task during the 6.5-ho ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Is China Going to Blast Past America in Space?
In recent weeks China has appeared prominently in the international media. To the layman it would seem that the Asian superpower is advancing its space technology and exploration program at warp spe ... more
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MARSDAILY

Fantastic Phobos
Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars' largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail - and in 3D - in an image taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft as it passed just 100 km by. This vie ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS Orbit Adjustment to Continue on August 22
The European Space Agency's ATV-3 space freighter will carry on with a planned manouver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on August 22, the agency said on Thursday. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Russian Booster Rocket Lifts US Satellite in Seaborne Launch
A Russian booster rocket has blasted off from the Odyssey launch pad in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Sea Launch project to deliver a U.S. satellite into orbit, a spokesman for Energiya space cor ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

MIT-developed 'microthrusters' could propel small satellites
A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little resem ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russian Mars Water Sniffer Goes Online
A Russian neutron detector on board NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, designed to search for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path, was activated on Frida ... more
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MARSDAILY

Where Will Curiosity Go First?
By now it's old news that NASA's new Mars rover Curiosity is resting safely on the surface of Red Planet after a daredevil landing that had the nation holding its breath. Now, mission scientists are ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock
Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation." The mission's Chemistry a ... more
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SPACEMART

Intelsat 21 Satellite Sends Initial Signals from Space
Intelsat 21, the second Boeing 702 Medium Power (MP) satellite, has begun sending signals from its preliminary transfer orbit in space. Approximately 55 minutes following liftoff at 11:55 p.m. Pacif ... more
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MERCURY RISING

BepiColombo Composite Spacecraft Vibration Testing
The BepiColombo Structural and Thermal Model test campaign has passed another milestone with the completion of sine vibration testing at qualification level along all three spacecraft axes. On ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA is Tracking Electron Beams from the Sun
In the quest to understand how the world's weather moves around the globe, scientists have had to tease apart different kinds of atmospheric movement, such as the great jet streams that can move acr ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA wants to measure 'Marsquakes'
Just 10 days after NASA's Curiosity rover sent back its first color photos of the Martian landscape, the US space agency said Monday it wants in 2016 to take a better look at what's happening beneath the Red Planet's surface. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Scientists: Think Big Chill, not Big Bang
A Big Freeze rather than a Big Bang may be how the universe began, theoretical physicists in Australia say, and they're looking for evidence of it. ... more
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