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July 26, 2013
LAUNCH PAD
Flawless launch of Alphasat, Europe's largest and most sophisticated telecom satellite
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2013
Flawless launch of Alphasat, Europe's largest and most sophisticated telecom satellite. Alphasat, Europe's largest and most sophisticated telecommunications satellite, was launched into its planned orbit from Kourou, French Guiana. The Ariane 5 ECA rocket, operated by Arianespace, took off at 19:54 GM, 21:54 CEST and delivered Alphasat into the target geostationary transfer orbit about 28 minutes later. Alphasat's signal has been picked up by an Inmarsat ground station in Beijing as expected ... read more
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Three Soyuz launchers are at the Spaceport for Arianespace's upcoming medium-lift missions from French Guiana
Two more Soyuz launchers have now arrived in French Guiana, joining a previously-delivered vehicle that is being readied for Arianespace's next Spaceport mission with the medium-lift workhorse. ... more
EXO WORLDS

Solar system's youth gives clues to planet search
Comets and meteorites contain clues to our solar system's earliest days. But some of the findings are puzzle pieces that don't seem to fit well together. A new set of theoretical models from Carnegi ... more
MOON DAILY

Bad night's sleep? The moon could be to blame
Many people complain about poor sleep around the full moon, and now a report appearing in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offers some of the first convincing scientific evidence to sugges ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Boeing Unveils CST-100 Mock-up, Astronauts Climb Aboard
Two NASA astronauts conducted flight suit evaluations inside a fully outfitted test version of The Boeing Company's CST-100 spacecraft July 22, the first time the world got a glimpse of the crew cap ... more


MARSDAILY

Curiosity Mars Rover Gleams in View from Orbiter
An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the "Glenelg" area where the rover worked for the first half of 2013. ... more
STATION NEWS

ISS Research Exposing the Salty Truth of Supercritical Water Transitions
There is a moment when everything changes. Something familiar crosses a boundary and suddenly behaves in new ways. Take water for example. In middle school science class, you probably learned about ... more
MARSDAILY

Mars Curiosity sets one-day driving distance record
NASA says its Curiosity rover on Mars has set a personal best, driving twice as far on Sunday as on any other day of the mission so far. ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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
EXO LIFE

Exploring the World of Life Underground
Hundreds of millions of kilometers away on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is working away looking for clues that a suitable environment for life might once have existed on our desolate neighboring pla ... more
MARSDAILY

Scientists establish age of Mars meteorites found on Earth
A team led by Canadian researchers says the most common meteorites from Mars found on Earth are almost 4 billion years younger than believed. ... more
SPACE MEDICINE

European astronaut trains for medical emergencies in space
A European astronaut has been learning medical skills he hopes he never has to use, but which could be vital on the International Space Station, officials said. ... more

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ROBO SPACE

Spain museum uses robot to help restore works
In the basement of Madrid's Reina Sofia museum, a giant robotic machine painstakingly scans a painting by Catalan surrealist artist Joan Miro, slowly snapping hundreds of microscopic shots. ... more
SATURN DAILY

Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
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LAUNCH PAD

Alphasat Wears Its Color For Alphabus
It is a tradition for satellite passengers on Arianespace missions to be accompanied by their logos on a launch vehicle's payload fairing during the first minutes of flight - and this week's Ariane ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Zero Gravity Solutions Commences Trading Of Its Stock
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IRON AND ICE

Researcher Seeks New Way to Study Asteroid and Comet Interiors
Thomas H. Prettyman, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, has been awarded funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program to develop a groundbreaking way to study ... more
IRON AND ICE
Three Soyuz launchers are at the Spaceport for Arianespace's upcoming medium-lift missions from French Guiana

Alphasat Wears Its Color For Alphabus

Flawless launch of Alphasat, Europe's largest and most sophisticated telecom satellite


IRON AND ICE
Ancient snowfall likely carved Martian valleys

Mars Curiosity sets one-day driving distance record

Curiosity Mars Rover Gleams in View from Orbiter


IRON AND ICE
Bad night's sleep? The moon could be to blame

Moon Base and Beyond

First-ever lunar south pole mission could be attempted by 2016


IRON AND ICE
SciTechTalk: Grab your erasers, there are more moons than we thought

NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon

NASA finds new moon on Neptune

MOON DAILY

Moon Base and Beyond
For three centuries or more people have been writing about the Moon. In the 19th century, Jules Verne wrote a novel on the subject, From Earth to Moon. That author wisely observed: anything one man ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

NASA starts building faster-than-light warp engine
Researchers at NASA's Texas-based Johnson Space Center are trying to prove that it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light, and hope to one day build an engine that resembles the fictio ... more
MARSDAILY

Ancient snowfall likely carved Martian valleys
Valley networks branching across the Martian surface leave little doubt that water once flowed on the Red Planet. But where that ancient water came from - whether it bubbled up from underground or f ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft Model Passes Water-Recovery Tests
Boeing recently demonstrated that astronauts in its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 capsule will be able to safely exit the spacecraft during an emergency water landing. Although the CST-1 ... more
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ROBO SPACE

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STATION NEWS

NASA launches new probe of spacesuit failure

DRAGON SPACE

China launches three experimental satellites

ROCKET SCIENCE

N. Korea halts work at long-range rocket site: website

MOON DAILY

First-ever lunar south pole mission could be attempted by 2016

EXO WORLDS

Snow falling around infant solar system

EXO WORLDS

'Water-Trapped' Worlds

SPACE TRAVEL

NASA announces funding for far-out space research

EXO LIFE

ET Calls, Then What?

LAUNCH PAD

Both payloads for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 flight are now mated to the launcher

MESSENGER to Capture Images of Earth and Moon During Search for Satellites of Mercury

Angular rate sensors at crashed Proton-M rocket were installed 'upside down'

SpaceX Testing Complete at NASA Glenn's Renovated Facility

Humanoid robot that could save people in disasters unveiled

Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving

Reports Detail Mars Rover Clues to Atmosphere's Past

SciTechTalk: Grab your erasers, there are more moons than we thought

House vote shoots down plans for manned asteroid mission

A snow line in an infant solar system: Astronomers take first images

Engine recovered from Atlantic confirmed as Apollo 11 unit

MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Red Planet's Past

Target Asteroid 2002 GT Tracked by European Teams

Thin 'e-skin' could lead to more 'touchy-feely' robots

In the Zone: The Search For Habitable Planets

Snow in an Infant Planetary System

Upside down sensor behind proton rocket explosion

How Mars' atmosphere got so thin: New insights from Curiosity

Soviet Moon rover moved farther than thought

New Flight Projects Building Boasts First NASA Goddard 'Green' Roof

New Mars mission: in the Vikings' steps

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