August 26, 2013

New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2013 New Horizons has just completed a summer of intensive activities and entered hibernation on Aug. 20. The routine parts of the activities included thorough checkouts of all our backup systems (result: they work fine!) and of all our scientific instruments (they work fine too!). We also updated our onboard fault protection (a.k.a. "autonomy") software, collected interplanetary cruise science data, and tracked the spacecraft for hundreds of hours to improve our trajectory knowledge. Added to this mix ... read more

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Waking up to a new year In the time it takes you to complete a single workday, or get a full night's sleep, a small fireball of a planet 700 light-years away has already completed an entire year. Researchers at MIT h ... more Ball Aerospace-built WISE Spacecraft Roused from Sleep to Resume Asteroid Hunting Mission The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will emerge from its two-year hibernation next month to resume its near-Earth object NEOWISE asteroid huntin ... more Telemetry data confirms launch of South Korean satellite South Korea's new multipurpose satellite made contact with a ground station in the Asian country early Friday, confirming its successful deployment into its target orbit, officials in Yasny said. ... more NASA Explores New Uses for Historic Launch Structures NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is seeking concepts for the potential use or divestment of three historic launch platforms that are not needed for the agency's current or planned future missi ... more Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk, Unfold Russian Flag in Space Two Russian cosmonauts on Thursday completed an almost six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station and successfully returned on board the orbital outpost. According to Russia's ... more NASA Partner Completes Second Dream Chaser Captive-Carry Test NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of Louisville, Colo., successfully completed a captive-carry test of the Dream Chaser spacecraft Thursday, Aug. 22, at the agency's Dryden Flight Researc ... more

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Flights of Fancy Robert Zimmerman got it exactly right. In last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal his op ed piece appeared, entitled: "No Liftoff for These Space Flights of Fancy." All too rarely do we see something a ... more NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon In an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon, NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 8:27 p.m. PDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Isla ... more US scientists claim world's most accurate clock US scientists said Thursday they have built the world's most precise clock, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion, or 10 times better than any other. ... more NASA awards nearly $1.5B in support contracts NASA, the U.S. space agency, says it has issued new contracts to support its human flight programs, project engineering and research and development efforts. ... more International Space Agencies Outline Steps to Take Humans to Mars A consortium of 12 space agencies, including NASA and Roscosmos, on Tuesday released a blueprint for future space exploration, which proposes using the International Space Station (ISS) as a steppin ... more

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'Groovy' hologram creates strange state of light at visible and invisible wavelengths Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated that they can change the intensity, phase, and polarization of light rays using a hologram-like ... more NSBRI and NASA Reduce Space Radiation Risks by Soliciting for Center of Space Radiation Research The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) is soliciting for program proposals to establish a Center for Space Radiation Research (CSRR). The CSRR will build upon important discoveries ... more Boeing Communications Relay Satellites Complete Space, Earthly Testing Two Boeing Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) have completed testing milestones - one in space and the other on Earth - marking more progress in enhancing the tracking and communications netw ... more NIST ytterbium atomic clocks set record for stability A pair of experimental atomic clocks based on ytterbium atoms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a new record for stability. The clocks act like 21st-century pendul ... more High-speed tests demonstrate space penetrator concept Tests are being carried out under a technology development programme for planetary penetrators to assess the feasibility of delivering instrument packages to the subsurface of a planet or icy satell ... more

NASA Explores New Uses for Historic Launch Structures Telemetry data confirms launch of South Korean satellite ISRO pins hopes on GSLV-D5 International Space Agencies Outline Steps to Take Humans to Mars Snapping Pictures of the Martian Moons Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Edge of 'Solander' NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for OSIRIS-REx Mission Environmental Controls Move Beyond Earth New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy Pluto Science Conference Exceeds Expectations SciTechTalk: Grab your erasers, there are more moons than we thought

Japan space agency unveils new rocket Epsilon The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Tuesday unveiled its new solid-fuel rocket Epsilon before its launch with a scientific satellite next week. Epsilon, a three-stage rocket with 24.4 me ... more Sleeping spacecraft to be awakened for new asteroid hunts NASA says an asteroid-hunting spacecraft will emerge from a scheduled "hibernation" and return to service to look for potentially hazardous near-Earth objects. ... more ISRO may use standy engine to launch GSLV Indian space agency ISRO will look at options of using a standby engine for the early launch of its heavy geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) after examining what forced the postponement ... more Next Generation of Explorers Takes the Stage NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday formally welcomed the eight newest candidates to the astronaut corps and unveiled a space exploration roadmap that makes clear the global community is wo ... more

Groundbreaking space exploration research at UH Italian astronaut recounts spacewalk drowning terror Spaceflight alters bacterial social networks Has Voyager 1 Left The Solar System? ISRO pins hopes on GSLV-D5 Study: Planets might be 'born free' without a parent star Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Edge of 'Solander' Radar Images of Asteroid 2005 WK4 'Sammy the Second' Highlights Impact of Deep Space Atomic Clock Project Test at Naval Station Proves Recovery Operations for Orion

Snapping Pictures of the Martian Moons Will 'space junk' problem intensify? Russia to resume Proton-M rocket launches in mid-September Lockheed Martin Selects CubeSat Integrators for Athena to Enhance Launch Systems Integration Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System NASA Commercial Crew Partner SpaceX Completes Orbit and Entry Review NASA Voyager Statement about Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data MRO Swapping Motion-Sensing Units SpaceX rocket launches, steers and lands in test Roscosmos denies plans to launch Proton rocket from Baikonur on Sept 15 Private space shuttle in taxi testing in California Computer scientists envision computer chip working like a human brain Distant planet sets speed record by orbiting its star every 8.5 hours Researchers Slow Light to a Crawl in Liquid Crystal Matrix ATK Awarded Contract by Orbital Sciences to Support Stratolaunch System Challenges and Practices for Space Mechanisms - Part 2 Avionics: The Central Nervous System of NASA's Space Launch System ISS Boosting Biological Research in Orbit Kepler planet hunter spacecraft is beyond repair: NASA

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