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October 01, 2013

Lunar orbiters discover source of space weather near Earth
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2013
Solar storms - powerful eruptions of solar material and magnetic fields into interplanetary space - can cause what is known as "space weather" near Earth, resulting in hazards that range from interference with communications systems and GPS errors to extensive power blackouts and the complete failure of critical satellites. New research published today increases our understanding of Earth's space environment and how space weather develops. Some of the energy emitted by the sun during solar s ... read more

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SUNRISE Offers New Insight on Sun's Atmosphere Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise - carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 - scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in ... more		Astronomers Uncover a 'Transformer' Pulsar An international team of scientists using a fleet of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA's Swift and Chandra X-ray Observatory, has discovered a millisecond pulsar with a dual identity. In a f ... more		Jekyll and Hyde star morphs from radio to X-ray pulsar and back again Astronomers have uncovered the strange case of a neutron star with the peculiar ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray pulsar and back again. This star's capricious behavior appears ... more
				Magnetic field may shape "blooming" star An old star, IRAS 15445-5449, has begun to push out a jet of charged particles that glow with radio waves. A few old stars are known to have jets, "but this is the first one where the radio waves te ... more		DigiGone Approved for Use on the Thuraya Satellite Network DigiGone has announced that its innovative video communications system and software platform has been approved for use with Thuraya's IP terminals. A leading mobile satellite services operator, Thur ... more

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Observations reveal critical interplay of interstellar dust, hydrogen For astrophysicists, the interplay of hydrogen - the most common molecule in the universe - and the vast clouds of dust that fill the voids of interstellar space has been an intractable puzzle of st ... more		UFO? Star cluster? No, it's Falcon 9's jettisoned fuel The Falcon 9 launch from California not only boosted the cache of commercial spaceflight but also of UFO sightings, a review of observers' comments indicated. ... more		SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military RTX radar selected to support autonomous X 62A fighter testing		Cassini finds ingredient of household plastic on Saturn moon The Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, an ingredient in household plastics, on Saturn's moon, Titan, the U.S. space said Monday. ... more
				Paradigm shift: Need something in space? Print it, don't ship it The first 3D printer will launch into space in 2014 aboard commercial spaceflight provider SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the California-based printer provider said. ... more		Martian chemical complicates hunt for life's clues The quest for evidence of life on Mars could be more difficult than scientists previously thought. A scientific paper published today details the investigation of a chemical in the Martian soil that ... more

US Navy History of Human Spaceflight Conference

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Scientists find a martian igneous rock that is surprisingly Earth-like During the nearly 14 months that it has spent on the red planet, Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, has scooped soil, drilled rocks, and analyzed samples by exposing them to laser b ... more		Researchers describe unusual Mars rock The first rock that scientists analyzed on Mars with a pair of chemical instruments aboard the Curiosity rover turned out to be a doozy - a pyramid-shaped volcanic rock called a "mugearite" that is ... more		Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language Models Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like Deep ocean quakes linked to Antarctic phytoplankton surges		ILS Proton Successfully Launches ASTRA 2E for SES International Launch Services (ILS), a leader in providing mission integration and launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, successfully placed the ASTRA 2E satellite into a geos ... more
				Water for future Mars astronauts Within its first three months on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover saw a surprising diversity of soils and sediments along a half-kilometer route that tell a complex story about the gradual desiccation o ... more		NASA Mars rover Curiosity finds water in first sample of planet surface The first scoop of soil analyzed by the analytical suite in the belly of NASA's Curiosity rover reveals that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain several percent water by weight. The ... more

China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover

Mission to moon will boost research and awareness

Mighty Eagle Improves Autonomous Landing Software With Successful Flight

First scoop of Mars soil contains 2 percent water: study

Scientists find a martian igneous rock that is surprisingly Earth-like

Water for future Mars astronauts

Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft

"GRAVITY" is Almost Here

International Partnership Releases Space Exploration Benefits Paper

Chinese VP stresses peaceful use of space

China's space station to open for foreign peers

Last Days for Tiangong

	Trident II D5 Missile Achieves a Total of 148 Successful Test Flights Since 1989 The U.S. Navy has conducted four successful test flights of the Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles built by Lockheed Martin. The U.S. Navy launched the unarmed missiles Sept. 10 and 12 in the At ... more		Ancient soils reveal clues to early life on Earth Oxygen appeared in the atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than we previously thought, according to research published today in the journal Nature, raising new questions about the evolution o ... more		Breathing underwater: Evidence of microscopic life in oceanic crust Although long thought to be devoid of life, the bottom of the deep ocean is now known to harbor entire ecosystems teeming with microbes. Scientists have recently documented that oxygen is disappeari ... more		Turkey picks Chinese firm for missile system Turkey said on Thursday it has chosen a Chinese company to build its first long-range air defence and anti-missile system. ... more

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Unmanned cargo ship docks with orbiting Space Station		Divers recover 10 1/2-pound meteorite fragment from lake in Urals		Stanford scientists publish theory, formula to improve 'plastic' semiconductors		Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft		NASA Wants Investigations for a Mars 2020 Rover
NASA Rover Inspects Pebbly Rocks at Martian Waypoint		Science Benefits From Diverse Landing Area Of NASA Mars Rover		Several NASA Spacecraft Track Energy Through Space		China launches satellite to monitor natural disaster		Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids

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Australia's new prototype vehicle to improve Earth observation satellites' accuracy

China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover

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UCSB researchers make headway in quantum information transfer via nanomechanical coupling

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First scoop of Mars soil contains 2 percent water: study

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UCLA scientists explain the formation of unusual ring of radiation in space

Lockheed Martin Receives THAAD Production Contract

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Lockheed Martin Submits Proposal For The USAF Satellite Hosted Payload Initiative

Spinning CDs to Clean Sewage Water

Densest array of carbon nanotubes grown to date

Boeing Completes Deliveries of Processing Units for Army's Air, Missile Defense Network

Raytheon GPS military system achieves 2,000th sale

Raytheon completes critical component of ninth AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar

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