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March 09, 2013

Iowa State developing ideas to save the Earth from asteroids
Ames IA (SPX) Mar 07, 2013
Bong Wie has heard the snickers. You want to protect the Earth from asteroids? Where were you when the dinosaurs needed you? You want to be like Bruce Willis in that asteroid movie? Wie has a serious reply: After five years of science and engineering work, Wie and his small team have a publication list of 40-plus technical papers, $600,000 of NASA research support and a proposal for a $500 million test launch of an asteroid intercept system. Plus, Wie has just been invited to show off his research ... read more

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'Goody Bag' Filled With Sample Processing Supplies Arrives on Station A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has delivered a "goody bag" to the crew aboard the International Space Station. But it's not filled with treats. This goody bag - called the Wet Lab Kit - is loaded with ... more		How to Thrive in Battery Acid and Among Toxic Metals In the movie Alien, the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist the effects of toxins. In real life, organisms with similar traits exist, such as the ... more		e2v image sensors launched into space on board NEOSSat On 25 February 2013, e2v high performance imaging sensors were launched into space on board NEOSSat, a Canadian microsatellite mission to discover and determine orbits of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) t ... more
				China's fourth space launch center to be in use in two years China's fourth launch center, located in tropical island province of Hainan, will be ready for space launch in two years, said a member of China's top political advisory body. The launch cente ... more		Mars rover 'sleeping' through solar storm NASA says the computers on its Mars rover Curiosity have been put to sleep to wait out a solar storm bombarding the Red Planet. ... more

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Russia finds 'new bacteria' in Antarctic lake Russian scientists believe they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on Thursday. ... more		Brown unveils novel wireless brain sensor A team of neuroengineers based at Brown University has developed a fully implantable and rechargeable wireless brain sensor capable of relaying real-time broadband signals from up to 100 neurons in ... more		India signs $7 bn deal for 97 domestically made fighter jets France doubles down on threat to build future fighter jet alone US approves $1.2 bn missile sale to Germany		NASA Launches Website to Design Interplanetary Missions A small group of engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have launched a new web-based tool for scientists and engineers to use when designing spacecraft trajectories to int ... more
				Evidence that comets could have seeded life on Earth It's among the most ancient of questions: What are the origins of life on Earth? A new experiment simulating conditions in deep space reveals that the complex building blocks of life could have bee ... more		Curiosity Rover's Recovery on Track NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by n ... more

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MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite Completes On-orbit Testing The MEXSAT Bicentenario satellite, built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] partner Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB], has completed on-orbit testing and has been accepted by the customer, the first step t ... more		How to predict the progress of technology Researchers at MIT and the Santa Fe Institute have found that some widely used formulas for predicting how rapidly technology will advance - notably, Moore's Law and Wright's Law - offer superior ap ... more		Simulations of Exoplanet Formation May Help Inform Search for Extraterrestrial Life Ancient hot springs reveal how microbes thrived before Earth gained oxygen Framework proposed to study planetary scale impact of life		Germany eyes new Internet industrial revolution Known throughout the world for quality cars and industrial giants, Germany is now seeking to position itself for the coming revolution, "industry 4.0", powered by Internet. ... more
				Shadows over data sharing In a paper about to be published in EPJ Data Science, Barbara Jasny, deputy editor for commentary at Science magazine in Washington, DC, USA, looks at the history of the debates surrounding data acc ... more		Sequestration and the Civil Space Industry Amazingly, the space industry appears to have survived the so called "fiscal cliff" at the end of 2012. The next big and scary fiscal event is already upon us and it is called "sequestration." Altho ... more

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Mars rover 'sleeping' through solar storm

Curiosity Rover's Recovery on Track

NASA's Curiosity rover to be back online next week

China to use modified rocket for moon landing mission

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Building a lunar base with 3D printing

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	A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath. A new paper by Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technol ... more		2014 maiden launch for Long March-7 rocket China's indigenous carrier rocket Long March-7 will hopefully make its first launch in 2014, a senior official of the rocket's designing institute said on Friday. Liang Xiaohong, Party chief o ... more		General Dynamics Modernizes Ground System Terminals for NASA's Next-generation TDRS Satellites General Dynamics C4 Systems successfully completed critical ground system modifications and technology updates needed to support the mission of NASA's three, next-generation Tracking and Data Relay ... more		Vega launcher integration continues for its April mission The no. 2 Vega light-lift launcher has been fitted with its solid propellant third stage, marking another milestone in preparations for its April mission from French Guiana with a multi-satellite pa ... more

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Germany's Merz rejects claims he is slowing green shift

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China to launch new manned spacecraft

Woman expected again to join next China crew roster

SpaceX's capsule arrives at ISS

Short Bump Gets Robotic Arm Closer to Rock Target

China's first solid-fuel rocket to debut before 2016

J-2X Engine 'Goes the Distance' at Stennis

The Space Robotics on the MMMMove

Inspiration Mars to Pursue Human Mission to the Red Planet in 2018

NASA fixing computer glitch on Mars Curiosity rover

Light particles illuminate the vacuum

China to use modified rocket for moon landing mission

How did early primordial cells evolve

Toxic oceans may have delayed spread of complex life

Tech sector rides on rich list

SpaceX Optimistic Despite Dragon Capsule Mishap

SpaceX set for third mission to space station

ESA's Columbus Biolab Facility

Dragon Transporting Two ISS Experiments For AMES

Stott Space Aims to Mine Asteroids this Decade

Building blocks of life may be in space

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