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April 08, 2013

More Treasures from Asteroids
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 06, 2013
The recent announcement of a potential NASA plan to robotically capture an asteroid, transport it to lunar orbit and use it as a target for a human expedition is amazing. Admittedly, it sounds more than a little crazy at first, but the mission plan is more realistic than some may suspect. It is technically feasible, but still advances technological development. It is practical and useful for scientific, engineering and industrial reasons. It's also feasible in the near-term, and would serve as eff ... read more

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A meteorite mystery from Mercury? Early in 2012, someone in Southern Morocco picked up 35 greenish stones, including the one shown above. Purchased by a dealer in Erfoud, Morocco, it was then resold to Stefan Ralew, a meteorite coll ... more		NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One Instrument Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos. They shine even though they're technically dead, occasionally feeding on neighboring stars if they venture too close. Interestingly, these u ... more		Russia rekindles Moon exploration program, intends setting up first human outposts there Having on hand an impressive record of successful moon missions performed when it was the Soviet Union, Russia has set to revive a robotic moon exploration program. The country's serious intentions ... more
				NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes Launch Vehicle Adapter Review The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, has successfully completed a preliminary design review (PDR) of the component that would connect the company's new crew c ... more		Ancient climate questions could improve today's climate predictions About 4 to 5 million years ago, the Earth was warmer than today. Now that greenhouse gas pollution has the planet's temperature rising again, researchers want to know more about why this early Plioc ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Observationally Confirmed Supernova Explosion of a Yellow Supergiant Star Observational results of the Hubble Space Telescope announced in March 2013 confirmed the theoretical prediction by the Bersten team at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Uni ... more		New Live Bi-ocular Animations of Two Oceans Now Available NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 weather satellites sit 60 degrees apart in a fixed orbit over the eastern and western U.S., respectively, providing forecasters with a look at the movement of weather syst ... 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		NASA wants to tow an asteroid to the moon: senator NASA wants to grab a small asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon, as part of a long-range plan towards establishing permanent manned outposts in space, according to a US senator. ... more
				Boeing Completes Preliminary Design Review for Connection Between CST-100 Spacecraft and Rocket The structure that will join the Boeing [NYSE: BA] Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft to an Atlas V rocket has successfully completed a preliminary design review, another step toward the ... more		NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars. The Tr ... more

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Ancient pool of warm water questions current climate models A huge pool of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America four million years ago suggests climate models might be too conservative in forecasting tropical changes. ... more		Temperature difference between hemispheres could shift rainfall patterns One often ignored consequence of global climate change is that the Northern Hemisphere is becoming warmer than the Southern Hemisphere, which could significantly alter tropical precipitation pattern ... 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		Building quantum states with individual silicon atoms By introducing individual silicon atom 'defects' using a scanning tunnelling microscope, scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states. Pu ... more
				US boosts missile defence, N. Korea warns of nuclear strike The United States has scrambled to reinforce its Pacific missile defences, preparing to send ground-based interceptors to Guam, as North Korea said Thursday it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on US targets. ... more		Gilat Showcases its Lightweight Compact Satellite Communications Solution for UAVs at LAAD 2013 Gilat Satellite Networks will be showcasing its new lightweight integrated airborne satellite communications solution for UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) at LAAD 2013, taking place April 9-12 in Rio ... more

Russia rekindles Moon exploration program, intends setting up first human outposts there

Pre-existing mineralogy may survive lunar impacts

Lunar cycle determines hunting behaviour of nocturnal gulls

Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft

Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind

BusinessCom Networks Connects Mars 2013

Do Intellectual Property Rights on Existing Technologies Hinder Subsequent Innovation

NASA Invests in Small Business Innovative Research and Technology Proposals to Enable Future Missions

Boeing Completes Preliminary Design Review for Connection Between CST-100 Spacecraft and Rocket

Shenzhou's Shadow Crew

Shenzhou 10 sent to launch site

China's Next Women Astronauts

	Watching over you Like astronauts, heavy-equipment operators in remote mines can benefit from long-distance monitoring using space technology. An ESA spin-off company has raised safety for dozens of drivers at the El ... more		First Light for ISERV Pathfinder, Space Station's Newest 'Eye' on Earth From the Earth-facing window of the International Space Station's (ISS) Destiny module, nearly 95 percent of the planet's populated area is visible during the station's orbit. This unique vantage po ... more		Earth is 'Lazy' When Forming Faults Like Those Near San Andreas Geoscientist Michele Cooke and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst take an uncommon, "Earth is lazy" approach to modeling fault development in the crust that is providing new insig ... more		A giant step toward miniaturization Bottom-up synthesis of nanowires through metal-catalyzed vapor phase epitaxy is a very attractive process to generate high-quality nanowires thus providing an additional degree of freedom in design ... more

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Swarming robots could be the servants of the future

KAIST develops a low-power 60 GHz radio frequency chip for mobile devices

Soils in newly forested areas store substantial carbon that could help offset climate change

Theory and practice key to optimized broadband, low-loss optical metamaterials

Power behind primordial soup discovered

Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Europa

Scientists to Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place

First data released from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

NASA Sounding Rocket Observes the Seeds of Noctilucent Clouds

Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein

NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging Scientific Expedition

Stars in NGC 602a

Protecting history with satellites

Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft

NASA Invests in Small Business Innovative Research and Technology Proposals to Enable Future Missions

Shining light on elusive dark matter

KVH More Than Doubles mini-VSAT Broadband Network Capacity in Brazil and Africa

SDSC's Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data

Hubble breaks record for furthest supernova

Dartmouth researchers say a comet killed the dinosaurs

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