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October 22, 2013

Cygnus cargo craft readies to leave space station
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2013
A private cargo ship built by Orbital Sciences Corporation is preparing to leave the International Space Station early Tuesday and burn up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, NASA said Monday. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to detach from the orbiting research outpost at 1000 GMT Tuesday and leave the ISS an hour and a half later. "Orbital engineers then will conduct a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth's atmosphere," NASA said in a s ... read more

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Chinese no longer banned from NASA astronomy meet Six Chinese scientists who were banned from a NASA astronomy conference are now welcome to register, resolving an international row over academic discrimination, a co-organizer told AFP on Monday. ... more		Crowdfunded Lunar Spacecraft Reaches Funding Milestone The Aerospace Research and Engineering Systems Instituteis excited to announce the successful completion of the first phase of crowdfunding and conceptual development of a unique spacecraft to explo ... more		MAVEN Launch Preps on Schedule MAVEN launch preparations remain on schedule and have continued to go well since spacecraft processing resumed earlier this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, MAVEN is slated for a spin test without propel ... more
				Who's the ace among aces? On Oct. 30, 2007, astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery set out on a routine mission: installing two solar panels on the truss, or backbone, of the International Space Station. While the fir ... more		Iowa research team see misaligned planets in distant system Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Robot challenge: unload a spacecraft More than 50 students from five countries gathered at ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands yesterday to unleash their robotic creations after six months preparing for the finals of the Volare Sp ... more		Astrium awarded three new contracts by ESA for Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 ME launchers Running through to the end of 2014, the first two contracts cover the continued development of the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution (A5ME) launcher and the sub-assemblies common to both it and Ariane 6. T ... 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		Satellite's gravity-mapping mission is over: ESA A satellite measuring Earth's gravity since 2009 ran out of fuel Monday and will reenter the atmosphere within three weeks, when it will mostly disintegrate, the European Space Agency said. ... more
				Electrically powered in a geostationary orbit OHB System AG has been awarded a contract for the development of a telecommunications satellite known as Electra which will be powered solely by electricity. The contract was entered into last week ... more		LADEE Continues To Settle Into Operational Lunar Orbit During the NASA shutdown, the LADEE mission continued to perform its critical maneuvers and capture into the commissioning orbit around the moon. The trajectory correction maneuver (TCM-1) was compl ... more

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Students creating satellite with self-healing material A group of Canadian college students is trying to raise money to create a satellite that will test a new material that can heal itself. ... more		Out-of-fuel European satellite to come crashing down A satellite monitoring Earth's gravity field since 2009 will run out of fuel "in the coming days" and eventually crash, with little risk to humans, the European Space Agency said Friday. ... 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		Ethiopia sets sights on stars with space program Ethiopia unveiled Friday the first phase of a space exploration programme, which includes East Africa's largest observatory designed to promote astronomy research in the region. ... more
				ESA drives forward with all-electric telecom satellites ESA is set to begin developing a new generation of satellites propelled by solar electric thrusters, following the signing of a contract with SES of Luxembourg for the next phase of the Electra proj ... more		Russia Readies Proton Rocket for October 20 Launch A Proton-M carrier rocket with a US telecoms satellite will be transported early Thursday to a launch pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch on October 20, Russia's ... more

Astrium awarded three new contracts by ESA for Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 ME launchers

Russia Readies Proton Rocket for October 20 Launch

Sunshield preparations bring Gaia closer to deep-space Soyuz launch

MAVEN Launch Preps on Schedule

Heading to a High Slope for Some Sunshine

Phobos-Grunt-2: Russia to probe Martian moon by 2022

LADEE Continues To Settle Into Operational Lunar Orbit

Crowdfunded Lunar Spacecraft Reaches Funding Milestone

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

SwRI study finds that Pluto satellites' orbital ballet may hint of long-ago collisions

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

New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy

	Finding alien worlds on Earth Have you ever wondered which places on Earth most resemble other planets? For some of us, imagining the landscape of other worlds might just be for fun, but scientists and engineers wonder about wha ... more		Heading to a High Slope for Some Sunshine Opportunity is on the northern edge of 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is investigating the geologic contacts at the base of Solander Point. On Sol 3446 (Oct. 3, 201 ... more		Astronomer see misaligned planets in distant system data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. ... more		Uniformity: the secret of better fusion ignition One of the ways to achieve thermonuclear fusion is through a controlled reaction between two light variants of hydrogen, called deuterium and tritium. Mauro Temporal, from the Ecole Normale Superieu ... 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

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Curiosity confirms origins of Martian meteorites		'Biobots' may help map hidden, dangerous environments		Spacecraft images of asteroid reinforce telescope observations		Russia to Make Second Attempt at Mars Moon Mission		Mission To Mars: A Critical Step In Space Globalization

The active Sun boosts Titan's outer atmosphere

SES Partners With ESA To Develop Innovative Satellite Platform Electra

US universities make big bets on startups

Martian scars Run Deep

Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid 87 Sylvia

Water discovered in remnants of extrasolar rocky world orbiting white dwarf

Russia to make another attempt to bring back Mars moon material

Curiosity rover finds proof of Mars origin of meteorites

Ten Years of Chinese Astronauts

US shutdown not to hit Indian Mars mission

LSU Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Freezing Conditions

Watery asteroid discovered in dying star points to habitable exoplanets

NASA vows to review ban on Chinese astronomers

Russian booster 'not the culprit in saiga kill'

Scott Carpenter, second American in orbit, dies at 88

Iran plans new monkey space launch

Martian settlement site to be printed on a printer

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

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Scientists generate first map of clouds on an exoplanet

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