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October 13, 2013

Kepler Finds First Signs of Other Earths
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2013
A new analysis of observations from the Kepler spacecraft reveals what may be the first earth-sized planets with earthlike temperatures found orbiting sunlike stars. Until now, Kepler's nearly continuous observations of over 150,000 stars have confirmed the existence of Earth-sized planets in the hot regions close to their star. Larger planets, some as small as one and a half times the Earth's diameter, have been found in the Habitable Zone, where the amount of heat they receive from their star ma ... read more

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US shutdown not to hit Indian Mars mission The partial shutdown of the US government would not affect the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) scheduled for launch Oct 28, the Indian space agency said Saturday. "National Aeronautics Space ... more		LSU Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Freezing Conditions Most microbial researchers grow their cells in petri-dishes to study how they respond to stress and damaging conditions. But, with the support of funding from NASA, researchers in LSU's Department o ... more		Watery asteroid discovered in dying star points to habitable exoplanets Astronomers have found the shattered remains of an asteroid that contained huge amounts of water orbiting an exhausted star, or white dwarf. This suggests that the star GD 61 and its planetary syste ... more
				Sunshield preparations bring Gaia closer to deep-space Soyuz launch Payload preparations for Arianespace's next Soyuz launch are progressing well at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where the Gaia billion-star surveyor is receiving its sunshield for in-orbit telescop ... more		ESA's test rover begins exploring Atacama Desert ESA's test rover has been fitted with scientific instruments and made its first tracks in the sands of Chile's Atacama Desert. Meanwhile, team members have explored the area to select a suitable sit ... more

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Iran plans new monkey space launch Iran is planning to send another live monkey into space within a month, a top space official said in remarks reported by media Sunday. ... more		US universities make big bets on startups Just before graduating from the University of Michigan, Calvin Schemanski began his start-up. ... 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		Ten Years of Chinese Astronauts On October 15, 2003, Chinese Air Force pilot Yang Liwei became the first Chinese citizen to fly in space. His mission on the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft lasted roughly one day and featured live television ... more
				Martian settlement site to be printed on a printer The first human settlers on Mars will use a 3D printer to print dwellings, greenhouses and even cutlery, in short, all they will need to live on the Red Planet. In the process, they will use the raw ... more		Archival Hubble Images Reveal Neptune's "Lost" Inner Moon Neptune's tiny, innermost moon, Naiad, has now been seen for the first time since it was discovered by Voyager's cameras in 1989. Dr. Mark Showalter, a senior research scientist at the SETI Institut ... more

Space Situational Awareness Conference 2013

Solar systems for home and business

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Russian booster 'not the culprit in saiga kill' The Kazakh government does not link recent kills of saiga antelopes to the launch activity at the Russian spaceport of Baikonur in central Kazakhstan. According to Kazakhstan's Environment Min ... more		NASA vows to review ban on Chinese astronomers The US space agency Thursday vowed to reconsider the applications of Chinese scientists who were denied access to a NASA conference on security grounds, sparking a boycott by leading American astronomers. ... 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		Scott Carpenter, second American in orbit, dies at 88 Scott Carpenter, who became the second US astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962, as America battled with Moscow in the space race, died Thursday in Colorado aged 88, his wife said. ... more
				Spacecraft snaps dramatic images of giant scar on the surface of Mars Images from a European spacecraft orbiting Mars have shown in greater detail than ever before a giant chasm ripped open by tectonic forces, scientists say. ... more		Space 'graveyard' reveals bits of an Earth-like planet Astronomers have autopsied a distant, broken apart planet and revealed signs of water and a rocky surface together for the first time, delighting scientists on the hunt for alien life. ... more

Sunshield preparations bring Gaia closer to deep-space Soyuz launch

SES-8 Arrives At Cape Canaveral For SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

Milky Way-mapping Gaia receives its sunshield

ESA's test rover begins exploring Atacama Desert

US shutdown not to hit Indian Mars mission

Martian settlement site to be printed on a printer

NASA's moon landing remembered as a promise of a 'future which never happened'

Russia could build manned lunar base

China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover

Archival Hubble Images Reveal Neptune's "Lost" Inner Moon

New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy

Pluto Science Conference Exceeds Expectations

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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

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Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots

Russia could build manned lunar base

Russia to launch first android robot to ISS

Researchers Find that Bright Nearby Double Star Fomalhaut Is Actually a Triple

Making Martian clouds on Earth

Asteroid near-miss reported by Russian scientists

NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds On Exotic World

Cassini Finds Ingredient of Household Plastic in Space

NASA Mars mission escapes government shutdown, will launch

European rover meant for Mars to undergo earthly desert test

Animal mission to space gives clues to astronauts' vision problems

Nearby binary star system gets officially confirmed third member

Non-Orbiting Space Junk

Milky Way-mapping Gaia receives its sunshield

Lockheed Martin Powers on First GOES-R Weather Satellite

Rensselaer Researchers Propose New Theory To Explain Seeds of Life in Asteroids

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