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September 24, 2014

India wins Asia's Mars race as spacecraft enters orbit
Bangalore, India (AFP) Sept 24, 2014
India won Asia's race to Mars on Wednesday when its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit after a 10-month journey on a tiny budget. Scientists at mission control let up a wild cheer as the gold-coloured craft manoeuvred into the planet's orbit at 8:02am (0232 GMT) following a 660-million kilometre (410-million mile) voyage. "History has been created. We have dared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the near impossible," a jubilant Prime Minister ... read more

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India Mars mission enters orbit India's Mars Orbiter Mission on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around the Red Planet on in its first attempt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced. ... more		Soyuz Rocket Awaiting Launch at Baikonur Cosmodrome The Soyuz-FG orbital carrier rocket and Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft have been delivered and installed at the Gagarin's Start launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a launch is planned ... more		First Proton Carrier Rocket Installed on Launch Pad After May Accident The carrier rocket Proton-M with the Luch spacecraft onboard has been installed on the launch pad at the Baikonur space center, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center representative t ... more
				Asteroid named for University of Utah makes public debut What's rocky, about a mile wide, orbits between Mars and Jupiter and poses no threat to Earth? An asteroid named "Univofutah" after the University of Utah. Discovered on Sept. 8, 2008, by long ... more		Back to Driving Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a putative location for abundant clay minerals. The rover is headed to a near-term target, a small crater ... more

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CME Week: Coronal Mass Ejections at Mars Looking across the Mars landscape presents a bleak image: a barren, dry rocky view as far as the eye can see. But scientists think the vista might once have been quite different. It may have teemed ... more		Lockheed Martin Mates NOAA GOES-R Satellite Modules A team of technicians and engineers at Lockheed Martin has successfully mated together the large system and propulsion modules of the first GOES-R series weather satellite at the company's Space Sys ... more		HawkEye 360 expands signals intelligence network with operational deployment of Cluster 12 York confirms successful deployment and health of 21 satellites for SDA Tranche 1 mission Spain faces uphill battle to cut Israel military ties: experts		Russia to Launch Full-Scale Moon Exploration Next Decade Russia's space agency Roscosmos plans to launch a full-scale Moon exploration program in late 2020s or early 2030s, the agency's head Oleg Ostapenko said on Tuesday. "We are planning to comple ... more
				ESA spaceplane on its way The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is ready to fly and has left the Netherlands for the launch site in French Guiana. In preparation for its arrival, the first stage of the Vega rocket that ... more		NASA Launches RapidScat Wind Watcher to ISS A new NASA mission that will boost global monitoring of ocean winds for improved weather forecasting and climate studies is among about 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of NASA science investigations ... more

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US Releases Enhanced Shuttle Land Elevation Data High-resolution topographic data generated from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) in 2000, previously only available for the United States, will be released globally over the next year, ... more		What set the Earth's plates in motion? The mystery of what kick-started the motion of our earth's massive tectonic plates across its surface has been explained by researchers at the University of Sydney. "Earth is the only planet i ... more		Climate change causing havoc with global water cycle: UN Schools shut, flights cancelled as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study		SpaceX cargo ship arrives at International Space Station SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday with a cargo of supplies, including freeze-dried meals, 20 live lab mice and a 3D printer. ... more
Elon Musk, Rick Perry attend groundbreaking for Texas spaceport At a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for SpaceX's planned commercial spaceport, CEO Elon Musk promised his company would transform the small stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast into a hub for cutting edge aerospace technology. ... more		Arctic sea ice helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere Climate change is a fact, and most of the warming is caused by human activity. The Arctic is now so warm that the extent of sea ice has decreased by about 30 pct. in summer and in winter, sea ice is ... more		Democracy has spoken, Pluto should be a planet When the International Astronomical Union got together in 2006 and updated the criteria for classification as a planet, thereby downgrading Pluto from "planet" to the informal title of "not a planet," many inside and outside the scientific community were upset. The California State Assembly actually half-seriously passed a resolution denouncing the IAU for "scientific heresy." ... more		Magnetic fields make the excitons go 'round A major limitation in the performance of solar cells happens within the photovoltaic material itself: When photons strike the molecules of a solar cell, they transfer their energy, producing quasi-p ... more

	New 'star' shaped molecule breakthrough Scientists at The University of Manchester have generated a new star-shaped molecule made up of interlocking rings, which is the most complex of its kind ever created. Known as a 'Star of Davi ... more		Penn research helps uncover mechanism behind solid-solid phase transitions Two solids made of the same elements but with different geometric arrangements of the atoms, or crystal phases, can produce materials with different properties. Coal and diamond offer a spectacular ... more

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