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July 01, 2013

"Shields to Maximum, Mr. Scott"
Austin TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2013
We know it's out there, debris from 50 years of space exploration - aluminum, steel, nylon, even liquid sodium from Russian satellites - orbiting around the Earth and posing a danger to manned and unmanned spacecraft. According to NASA, there are more than 21,000 pieces of 'space junk' roughly the size of a baseball (larger than 10 centimeters) in orbit, and about 500,000 pieces that are golf ball-sized (between one to 10 centimeters). Sure, space is big, but when a piece of space junk strik ... read more

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Dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission A film director looking for a location where a movie about Mars could be shot might consider the Atacama Desert, a strip of land on the coast of South America west of the Andes that is one of the ha ... more		Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier Of Our Solar Bubble Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. ... more		Opportunity Clocks Up 37 Kilometers Of Roving Mars Opportunity is in good health, although the robotic arm elbow joint potentiometer is acting up. On Sol 3346 (June 22, 2013), the rover continued the trek toward 'Solander Point' with a 295-foo ... more
				Researchers call for rethinking efforts to prevent interplanetary contamination Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive-on Mars. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairen ... more		Members of Top Nine Software Teams Move Forward from DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was created with a clear vision: spur development of advanced robots that can assist humans in mitigating and recovering from future natural and man-made disasters ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Arianespace takes delivery of its next Ariane 5 at the Spaceport Arianespace is keeping up the mission pace at its French Guiana base of operations with the acceptance of another heavy-lift Ariane 5, which now is being readied for the integration of a dual-satell ... more		China to put second spacelab in orbit by 2015 China will go forward with development and construction of space labs and plans to launch its second, Tiangong-2, in 2015, an aerospace official said. ... more		EU states to hold talks on 'drone wall' to protect bloc Denmark military intel fails to identify source of drone flights Lithuania eases rules on shooting down drones		NASA's Voyager 1 approaches outer limit of solar system The Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching the outer limit of the solar system but remains months or even years away from the farthest reach of the sun's magnetic pull, NASA said Thursday. ... more
				Twilight for Tiangong The return to Earth of China's Shenzhou 10 spacecraft has wrapped up an important chapter in spaceflight. China has now completed all crewed activity with Tiangong 1, the nation's first space labora ... more		A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and one of science's greatest mysteries is ho ... more

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1 star, 3 habitable planets A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Paul Butler, has combined new observations with existing data to reveal a solar system packed full of planets. The star Gliese 667C is orbited by between ... more		Gas-giant exoplanets seen clinging close to their parent stars U.S. astronomers say they've found distant gas-giant planets are rare around many types of stars and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. ... more		NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival China warns Papua New Guinea over Australian defence deal		Astronomers find three 'super-Earths' in nearby star's habitable zone An international team of astronomers has found that a nearby star previously thought to host two or three planets is in fact orbited by six or seven worlds, including an unprecedented three to five ... more
				China plans to launch Tiangong-2 space lab around 2015 China will continue to carry out development and construction of space lab and plans to launch Tiangong-2 space lab around 2015, an aerospace official said Wednesday. This is in line with Chin ... more		Three planets in habitable zone of nearby star Gliese 667C is a very well-studied star. Just over one third of the mass of the Sun, it is part of a triple star system known as Gliese 667 (also referred to as GJ 667), 22 light-years away in the c ... more

SpaceX Will Launch Turkmenistan Satellite For Thales Alenia Space

Arianespace takes delivery of its next Ariane 5 at the Spaceport

New Mexico Space Grant Consortium student experiments blast into space from Spaceport America

Opportunity Clocks Up 37 Kilometers Of Roving Mars

Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers

Dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission

Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained

Scientists use gravity, topographic data to find unmapped moon craters

Australian team maps Moon's hidden craters

New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan at Pluto

Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter

'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

	First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars, including our Sun, are born in small, benign groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms that survive for billions of years a ... more		Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers Approaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again, trekking to a new study area still many weeks away. The destination, called " ... more		Sierra Nevada Corporation Completes the Finance Investment Milestone for the Dream Chaser Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has successfully completed another Dream Chaser milestone under NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) agreement. The CCiCap Investment Finance m ... more		China calls for international cooperation in manned space program A Chinese astronaut research and training official Wednesday called for international cooperation to promote the development of manned space technologies. China has long been pushing for inter ... more

JUNO begins decade-long mission to probe neutrino mysteries

SFL Missions to Deliver Spacecraft Buses for HawkEye 360 RF Signal Detection Expansion

Voyager debuts first space based multi cloud region to advance orbital data processing

Japan robot says space mission 'big stride' for androids		PayPal launches quest for intergalactic currency		Scientists create a robot fish that can dive beneath water's surface		Shenzhou 10 Returns Safely To Earth		SpaceX Will Launch Turkmenistan Satellite For Thales Alenia Space
NASA Thruster Achieves World-Record Five-plus Years of Operation		Home of space dreams		Safe splashdown for Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle		Catch that bug!		Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space

Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained

Trio of 'super Earths' in a star's habitable zone

Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago

Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes First Set Of Full-Motion Tests On SLS Engine

Retirement for planet-hunting space probe

New Mexico Space Grant Consortium student experiments blast into space from Spaceport America

China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft returns to Earth

Arianespace Soyuz Puts Four O3b Networks' Birds Into Orbit

Robot mimics hamster in a ball to navigate farm fields

Russian cosmonauts conduct space station tasks in spacewalk

Study finds planets in habitable zone around a distant star

Xi vows bigger stride in space exploration

China astronaut teaches lesson from space

Arianespace will retain its market leadership by building on the company's flexibility and agility

NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury

Chinese astronauts manually dock spacecraft

Four O3b Network birds integrated to Arianespace Soyuz launcher

A robot that runs like a cat

Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover

Revealed - the mystery of the gigantic storm on Saturn

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