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March 26, 2014

First Ring System Around Asteroid
La Silla, Chile (ESO) Mar 27, 2014
Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO's La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. This is the smallest object by far found to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar System - after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - to have this feature. The origin of these rings remains a mystery, but they may be the result of a collision that created a disc of debris ... read more

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Technical hitch delays US-Russia crew's ISS docking A US-Russian three man crew Wednesday faced an unprecedented two-day delay in their docking with the International Space Station (ISS) after their Russian Soyuz spacecraft suffered a technical glitch on its approach in orbit. ... more		NASA Seeks Suborbital Flight Proposals NASA is seeking proposals from U.S. commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicle providers to integrate and fly technology payloads for the space agency. NASA uses companies for suborbital flights ... more		NASA Seeks Collaborative Partnerships With Commercial Space Building on the success of NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives, agency officials announced Monday plans to solicit proposals from U.S. private enterprises for unfunded partnerships to collabor ... more
				The NASA Z-2 Spacesuit Design Vote NASA's Z-2 Suit is the newest prototype in its next-generation spacesuit platform, the Z-series. As a follow-up to the previous Z-1 suit, which was named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 20 ... more		Mars-mimicking chamber explores habitability of other planets A research team in Spain has the enviable job of testing out new electromechanical gear for potential use in future missions to the "Red Planet." They do it within their Mars environmental simulatio ... more

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A Wet Moon The Moon's status as a "dry" rock in space has long been questioned. Competing theories abound as to the source of the H20 in the lunar soil, including delivery of water to the Moon by comets. ... more		Mars on Earth: vacuum chambers mimic the Red Planet Scientists have built Mars here on Earth - at least within the walls of a simulation chamber that mimics conditions on the Red Planet down to its Martian dust, according to a paper out Tuesday. ... more		Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief tells AFP US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China Venezuela accuses US of waging 'undeclared war,' urges UN probe		Two Suns Could Make More Habitable Moons Moons in close binary solar systems have a better chance of hosting life than those in single-star systems, new research has shown. Binary stars dampen each other's solar radiation and stellar ... more
				Boeing on Schedule to Deliver World's First All-Electric Satellites Boeing is on track to deliver the world's first all-electric propulsion satellites in late 2014 or early 2015 as it has met key production milestones on its initial 702SP (small platform) satellites ... more		Expeditions to the Moon: beware of meteorites Experts say that future expeditions to the Moon may face quite a few dangers. One of them is meteorite attacks. The Moon has practically no atmosphere that would have braked the flights of meteorite ... more

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International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

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As Age-Friendly Technologies Emerge, Experts Recommend Policy Changes From smart phones to smart cars, both public and private entities must consider the needs of older adults in order to help them optimize the use of new technologies, according to the latest issue of ... more		E3-production - sustainable manufacturing Industrial manufacturing is pivotal to Germany's prosperity. Not only does manufacturing account for a quarter of GDP, it provides a third of jobs as well. Yet rising raw material and energy costs, ... more		Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires 'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years		NASA Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations Variations in the stuff that cements grains together in sandstone have shaped the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and could be a study topic at the mission's next science waypoint. ... more
				NASA Seeks Proposals on Asteroid Redirect Mission Concepts Development In support of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission - a key part of the agency's stepping stone path to send humans to Mars - agency officials are seeking proposals for studies on advanced technology dev ... more		ASU camera creates stunning mosaic of moon's polar region the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), run by the Arizona State University-based team under professor Mark Robinson, released what very well may be the largest image mosaic available on the ... more

Arianespace Launches ASTRA 5B and Amazonas 4A

SpaceX Launch to the ISS Reset for March 30

Ariane 5 hardware arrives for next ATV mission

Helpful Wind Cleans Solar Panels On Opportunity Mars Rover

NASA Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations

Mars-mimicking chamber explores habitability of other planets

Expeditions to the Moon: beware of meteorites

A Wet Moon

ASU camera creates stunning mosaic of moon's polar region

Planet X myth debunked

WISE Finds Thousands Of New Stars But No Planet X

New Horizons Reaches the Final 4 AU

	US more dependent on Russia in space, than Russia on US - NASA The United States in the space area is more dependent on Russia than Russia on the United States, John Logsdon, an American scientist, a member of the NASA Advisory Council, said in an interview to ... more		Arianespace Launches ASTRA 5B and Amazonas 4A On Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 22:04 UTC,Arianespace carried out the 59th successful Ariane 5 launch in a row, orbiting two telecommunications satellites: ASTRA 5B for the Luxembourg-based operator ... more		Helpful Wind Cleans Solar Panels On Opportunity Mars Rover Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge' on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover continues to investigate the region called 'Cook Haven.' On Sol 3603 (March 13, 2014), ... more		Airbus Defence and Space to cooperate with Snecma on electric propulsion Airbus Defence and Space has signed a cooperation agreement with Snecma (Safran) for the use of Snecma's PPS5000 engine in Airbus Defence and Space's Eurostar satellites, for missions in which elect ... more

How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems

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Boeing defense workers reject deal to end strike

Advancing the Technology Readiness Of SLS Adaptive Controls		You've got mail: Clinton-to-space laptop up for auction		New ISS Crew Wrapping Up Training for Launch		Europe's IXV atmospheric reentry demonstrator ready for final tests		SpaceX Launch to the ISS Reset for March 30
Ariane 5 hardware arrives for next ATV mission		New hypothesis explains Earth's continued habitability		Could Alien Life Cope with a Hotter, Brighter Star?		Robotic arm probes chemistry of 3-D objects by mass spectrometry		'RoboClam' replicates a clam's ability to burrow while using little energy

Unique camera from NASA's moon missions sold at auction

How astronauts survive diplomatic tensions in space

TED turns 30 with new chapter of 'ideas worth spreading'

Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets

NASA Extends Lockheed Martin Contract to Support ISS

First filament winding operations on new Ariane 6 motor structure completed

Surface of Titan Sea is mirror smooth, Stanford scientists find

NRL Researchers Detect Water Around a Hot Jupiter

US to seek licence for domestic production of Russia's RD-180 rocket engines

Tiangong's New Mission

Proton-M with two Russian communication satellites on board blasts off from Baikonur

Russian Progress Spacecraft Boosts ISS Orbit

Orion Makes Testing, Integration Strides Ahead of First Launch to Space

NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully Channel on Mars

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Solar Orbiter Mission

The DARPA Grand Challenge: Ten Years Later

Mercury's contraction much greater than thought

The Exploration of Murray Ridge Continues

Mercury contracted more than prior estimates

Mercury, the incredible shrinking planet

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