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March 20, 2013

Lockheed Martin-built Infrared Surveillance Satellite Launched
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 19, 2013
The U.S. Air Force's second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched today at 5:21 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The SBIRS program delivers timely, reliable and accurate missile warning and infrared surveillance information to the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, combatant commanders, the intelligence communit ... read more

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Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was ... more		Curiosity Mars Rover Sees Trend in Water Presence NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock. Last week, the rover's science team announ ... more		Leaping Lunar Dust Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to ... more
				Webb Telescope Primary Mirror Backplane Assemblies Completed Northrop Grumman and teammate ATK have completed the fabrication of the primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS) wing assemblies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman is ... more		Here We Go Again, Another Air-Launch Idea Over the past two decades there have been a number of proposals suggesting that air launching a satellite is an effective and low-cost approach to space operations. Launchspace has followed each of ... more

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NASA Awards Astrotech Contract For SMAP Spacecraft Processing Astrotech Corporation, reports that its Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) subsidiary has been awarded a NASA task order contract to provide payload processing services for the Soil Moisture Active Pa ... more		Hubble Gazes on One Ring to Rule Them All Galaxies can take many forms - elliptical blobs, swirling spiral arms, bulges, and disks are all known components of the wide range of galaxies we have observed using telescopes like the NASA/ESA Hu ... more		Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE		Proba-V minisatellite reaches Europe's Spaceport ESA's Proba-V minisatellite for mapping global vegetation has arrived at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, where it is being prepared for a mid-April launch atop a Vega launcher. The small ... more
				Orbcomm To Acquire Globaltrak ORBCOMM Inc. has entered into an agreement with System Planning Corporation to acquire substantially all of the assets of its GlobalTrak division. GlobalTrak is an information services company that ... more		ISS Cosmonauts Model Manually Controlled Landing on Mars For the first time, two Russian cosmonauts simulated a manually controlled landing from the orbit on Mars after they spent half a year in the space, a deputy head of the Russian Space Training Cente ... more

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MESSENGER Completes Its First Extended Mission at Mercury On March 17, 2013, MESSENGER successfully completed its year-long first extended mission in orbit about Mercury, building on the groundbreaking scientific results from its earlier primary mission. ... more		NASA's next Mars mission invites public to come aboard NASA's next Mars mission is giving students and the public worldwide an opportunity to have a personal connection with space exploration through a new education and public outreach effort called the ... more		Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power		Astronomers Detect Water in Atmosphere of Distant Planet A team of international scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet beyond our Solar System. According to ... more
				Witnessing starbursts in young galaxies On March 13, it was announced the most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought - results now published in a set of papers in Nature and the Astrop ... more		NASA Ames' E. Coli Small Satellite Study Selected For Flight NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) recently selected E. coli AntiMicrobial Satellite (EcAMSat) as one of 24 small satellites to fly as secondary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 201 ... more

Leaping Lunar Dust

Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Seeks Public Support To Retrieve Apollo Era Moon Images

China sets moon mission re-entry test

NASA's next Mars mission invites public to come aboard

Panorama From NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp

Opportunity Departing South Soon

Reproduction In Zero Gravity

Sara Brightman's Space Trip Under Question

Michoud Building LNG Tanks For Lockheed Martin

Shenzhou 10 - Next Stop: Jiuquan

China's fourth space launch center to be in use in two years

China to launch new manned spacecraft

	ChemCam data abundant at Planetary Conference Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team will present more than two dozen posters and talks next week during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlan ... more		ESA seeks innovators for orbiting laboratory ESA is offering software developers the opportunity to use its new testbed in space. The robust nanosat will allow individuals, companies and institutions to try out pioneering software without the ... more		Software glitch in NASA Mars rover NASA says its Mars Curiosity rover that put itself into "safe mode" because of a software issue is expected to resume science investigations in a few days. ... more		Russia Delays New Soyuz Launch The first launch of Russia's new Soyuz-2.1V lightweight carrier rocket, scheduled for early 2013, is now likely to be delayed until the second half of 2013, its maker Progress said on Thursday. ... more

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Sara Brightman's Space Trip Under Question		New ISS crew prepares for launch		Building the Massive Simulation Sets Essential to Planck Results		Reproduction In Zero Gravity		Orbcomm To Acquire Mobilenet
Mission to Ganymede more tricky than expected		'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter		Earth will drown in garbage		Water signature in distant planet shows clues to its formation		India's Nirbhay missile aborted in flight

DoD Selects Northrop Grumman for Joint Command and Control System

Cyberwar: Israel braces for 'MiniDuke'

Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun

US to boost missile defenses against N. Korea

Early birds had four wings, not two: study

Organic nanowires open the way for optoelectronic device miniaturization

Ultra-high-speed optical communications link sets new power efficiency record

Foundations of Carbon-Based Life Leave Little Room for Error

Extreme water

Surprising Control over Photoelectrons from a Topological Insulator

Sunset Comet

Panorama From NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp

Opportunity Departing South Soon

Distant planetary system is a super-sized solar system

Space crew returns to Earth from ISS

Mobile LIDAR technology expanding rapidly

Europe, Russia ink deal on double mission to Mars

First Laser Communication System Integrated, Ready for Launch

NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful 'Star Wreck'

Particles and Fields Package Integrated on Upcoming Mars-Bound Spacecraft

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