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October 06, 2013

NASA Mars mission escapes government shutdown, will launch
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Oct 4, 2013
NASA says it next mission to Mars has been cleared for takeoff amid fears the U.S. government shutdown could cause it to miss its launch window. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, or MAVEN, was set for launch as early as Nov. 18. "I learned this morning that NASA has analyzed the MAVEN mission relative to the Anti-Deficiency Act and determined that it meets the requirements allowing an emergency exception," Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN's lead scientist based at the University of ... read more

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European rover meant for Mars to undergo earthly desert test A proposed Mars rover will undergo its most ambitious test to date in remotely guided explorations of a Mars-like desert in South America, scientists said. ... more		Animal mission to space gives clues to astronauts' vision problems A mission with dozens of animals launched into space in a Russian satellite yielded clues to why astronauts' eyesight deteriorates in space, scientists say. ... more		Nearby binary star system gets officially confirmed third member The nearby star system Fomalhaut, with its exoplanet and dusty debris disk, is not just a double star, it's an unusual triple star, a U.S astronomer reports. ... more
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Milky Way-mapping Gaia receives its sunshield A high-tech sunshield to protect the Gaia spacecraft during its deep space mission is now being installed at the Spaceport as preparations continue for Arianespace's Flight VS06 Soyuz launch of the ... more		Herschel throws new light on oldest cosmic light Cosmologists have achieved a first detection of a long-sought component in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This component, known as B-mode polarisation, is caused by gravitational lensing, th ... more		Axient joins Space Force STEP 20 initiative to drive next generation orbital tech Chinese Long March Rockets Make International Debut at Paris Air Show Collaboration aims to protect radio astronomy from satellite signal interference		Lockheed Martin Powers on First GOES-R Weather Satellite Lockheed Martin has powered on the system module of the GOES-R satellite for the first time. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R) is NOAA's next geostationary weat ... more
				Rensselaer Researchers Propose New Theory To Explain Seeds of Life in Asteroids A new look at the early solar system introduces an alternative to a long-taught, but largely discredited, theory that seeks to explain how biomolecules were once able to form inside of asteroids. ... more		Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission will serve two key customers: SES and HISPASAT The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's next dual-payload heavy-lift mission has begun its assembly at the Spaceport for a mid-December launch with telecommunications satellites from two established customer ... more

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'Gravity' draws stellar reviews, awards buzz "Gravity," starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as the sole survivors of a devastating accident in space, is winning rave reviews and Oscars buzz as Hollywood's annual awards season gets into gear. ... more		Biochar quiets microbes, including some plant pathogens In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called "biochar" can interfere with the chemical signals that some microb ... more		Europe bakes in summer's first heatwave as continent warms WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories still open, after inconclusive study Winds hamper firefighters in Turkey as heat wave scorches Southern Europe		New fossils push the origin of flowering plants back by 100 million years to the early Triassic Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of the direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year-old pollen grains are evidence that f ... more
				Making household items on 3D printer said greener than factory versions Making a plastic household item on a home 3D printer is greener than making them en masse in a factory and shipping them to a warehouse, a U.S. study found. ... more		Traces of immense prehistoric ice sheets: the climate history of the Arctic Ocean needs to be rewritten Geologists and geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), discovered traces of large ice sheets from the Pleistocene on a seamount off the n ... more

China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover

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Mighty Eagle Improves Autonomous Landing Software With Successful Flight

First ARCA flight in the ExoMars Program completed successfully

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NASA Mars mission escapes government shutdown, will launch

Non-Orbiting Space Junk

Paper written as science hoax published by 157 science journals

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Chinese VP stresses peaceful use of space

China's space station to open for foreign peers

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First ARCA flight in the ExoMars Program completed successfully		After Successful Spacecraft Docking, US Orbits Five Satellites		Aerojet Rocketdyne Thrusters Help Cygnus Spacecraft Berth at the International Space Station		Proton booster back in service after mishap		Flood maps from satellite data can help emergency response

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Climate Models Show Potential 21st Century Temperature and Precipitation Changes

Research: Water vapor In stratosphere has role in Earth's climate

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Drexel finds new energy storage capabilities between layers of 2-D materials

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Jekyll and Hyde star morphs from radio to X-ray pulsar and back again

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DigiGone Approved for Use on the Thuraya Satellite Network

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Astronomers create first cloud map of distant planet

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