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April 08, 2014

Airbus Wins Major ESA Weather Satellite Contract
Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2014
The European Space Agency (ESA) has reportedly won the contract to build Europe's next generation polar-orbiting meteorological satellites. According to Space News, Airbus Defence and Space was selected over a team consisting of Thales Alenia and OHB AG. Final confirmation of the selection is expected to come from ESA's Industrial Policy Committee on April 11. ESA, which consists of 20 member states, has budgeted the equivalent of $1.1 billion for its share of the Metop 2nd Generation Program ... read more

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Like a giant elevator to the stratosphere An international team of researchers headed by Potsdam scientist Dr. Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute has discovered a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon over the South Seas. Over ... more		Orbital physics is child's play with 'Super Planet Crash' Super Planet Crash is a pretty simple game: players build their own planetary system, putting planets into orbit around a star and racking up points until they add a planet that destabilizes the who ... more		Watching for a black hole to gobble up a gas cloud Right now a doomed gas cloud is edging ever closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. These black holes feed on gas and dust all the time, but astronomers rarely g ... more
				Progress Departs, New Cargo Ships Awaiting Launch A Russian space freighter filled with trash departed the International Space Station on time Monday at 9:58 a.m. EDT. The ISS Progress 54 will orbit Earth 11 days for engineering tests before finall ... more		Satellite Navigation Failure Confirms Urgent Need for Backup The world's global positioning industry watched in disbelief on April 2, 2014, as all of the 24 GLONASS satellites that make up Russia's equivalent of the GPS system failed at once. This unprecedent ... more

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Progress M-22M to be undocked from ISS and sent on science mission On Monday, the Progress M-22M cargo spacecraft docked with the ISS will be sent on a monitored independent flight until 18 April to take part in the Radar-Progress scientific experiment, the mission ... more		Is "divorce" between Russian and US space agencies possible? NASA's withdrawal from communication with Russia would cause damage, first of all, to the US itself and its space programs. If someone may probably win anything from this withdrawal, this would be o ... more		SpaceX successfully launches Maxar Intelligence next-gen satellites OneNav introduces new L5-direct GNSS receiver in response to increased GPS jamming Macron floats Ukraine troop deployment if frontline breached		Opportunity Moves Further Southwest On Murray Ridge Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge,' part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3617 (March 28, 2014), the rover continued further to the southwest on Murray Ridge with a 68-foot (20 ... more
				Orion Avionics System Ready for First Test Flight Testing of the Orion spacecraft's avionics system has concluded at the Lockheed Martin Operations and Checkout facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After powering on and sending comman ... more		The Importance of Planetary Plumes The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for finding black holes. It can pick out thousands of galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a thumbprint. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Hubb ... more

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DMCii help Dutch company eLEAF provide much needed crop information to African farmers eLEAF, a Netherlands-based high-tech company that supplies reliable, quantitative data on water and vegetation in order to support sustainable water use, increase food production, and protect enviro ... more		What's so hard about counting craters? Providing a rare glimpse of the trade secrets of planetary scientists, the journal Icarus published a study this month that compared lunar crater counts by eight professionals with crowdsourced coun ... more		Largest carbon credit programme poised for quality label Kids study in overheated slum as Philippines shuts schools IncreasingAfrican tropical forest fires linked to climate change and deforestation		BOSS quasars track the expanding universe -- most precise measurement yet The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III), pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic ga ... more
				On-board camera provides a unique perspective on Arianespace Flight VS07 Remarkable images from on-board cameras provide a detailed "ride-along" view of Arianespace's Flight VS07, which orbited Europe's Sentinel-1A from the Spaceport in French Guiana. Recorded duri ... more		Science, Discovery Channels to broadcast private race to the moon Just a week after Google announced its Lunar X competition, teams of engineers and scientists are racing to build a robotic spacecraft that can successfully land on the moon. A prize of $30 million awaits the first to accomplish the feat - and so does television stardom. ... more

Science, Discovery Channels to broadcast private race to the moon

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	NASA's rover Curiosity discovers Australia on Mars, sort of In documenting a new region of Mars, NASA's rover Curiosity came across a rock that looks very much like Australia. ... more		New Catalog Brings NASA Software Down to Earth From the rudimentary but effective Apollo Guidance and Navigation System that landed the first humans on the lunar landscape to the code used to manage robotic missions to explore other planets, sof ... more		Mutualink K12 Links Schools, First Responders to Enhance Safety and Security Mutualink has introduced a secure multi-media communications platform to enhance K-12 schools' safety and security by establishing a direct link with police, fire, EMS, and other entities in emergen ... more		Russia regrets NASA halting cooperation, warns of impact on ISS Russia has expressed its regrets over NASA's decision to halt cooperation with its Russian counterpart. However, experts agree that the measure will affect NASA and mutual international work, but wi ... more

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Monster "El Gordo" Galaxy Cluster Bigger Than Thought		ISS conducts debris avoidance maneuver		Hubble Sees a Spiral Home to Exploding Stars		Sentinel-1 performs opening dance routine		Phoenix Makes Strides in Orbital Robotics and Satellite Architecture Research

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Ukrainian situation won't change Russian-Kazakh Baiterek project

Rethinking space science, exploration to help solve global problems

Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge

SLS Core Stage Model 'Sounds' Off for Testing

Tiny power generator runs on spit

Scientists unveil 'BionicKangroo Robot'

How electrodes charge and discharge

ISRO examining business model for industries in satellite, rocket production

Indian navigation satellite soars into orbit, step closer to own GPS-like system

PSLV-C24 Launches India's Second Dedicated Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1B

China eyes 'global monitoring network' of surveillance satellites

New Zealand physicists split and collide ultracold atom clouds

USAF Satellite Will Improve Weather Prediction

Sensors and satellites deployed to save Pompeii

The Atlantic Ocean dances with the Sun and volcanoes

Global Hawk Expands Satellite Communications Capability

World's most powerful VHF radar to be overhauled in Russia

Nanosheets and nanowires

Russia warns Ukraine against missile technologies proliferation

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