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April 08, 2014

Orbital physics is child's play with 'Super Planet Crash'
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2014
Super Planet Crash is a pretty simple game: players build their own planetary system, putting planets into orbit around a star and racking up points until they add a planet that destabilizes the whole system. Beneath the surface, however, this addictive little game is driven by highly sophisticated software code that astronomers use to find planets beyond our solar system (called exoplanets). The release of Super Planet Crash (available online at www.stefanom.org/spc) follows the release of the la ... read more

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Progress Departs, New Cargo Ships Awaiting Launch A Russian space freighter filled with trash departed the International Space Station on time Monday at 9:58 a.m. EDT. The ISS Progress 54 will orbit Earth 11 days for engineering tests before finall ... more		Progress M-22M to be undocked from ISS and sent on science mission On Monday, the Progress M-22M cargo spacecraft docked with the ISS will be sent on a monitored independent flight until 18 April to take part in the Radar-Progress scientific experiment, the mission ... more		Is "divorce" between Russian and US space agencies possible? NASA's withdrawal from communication with Russia would cause damage, first of all, to the US itself and its space programs. If someone may probably win anything from this withdrawal, this would be o ... more
				Opportunity Moves Further Southwest On Murray Ridge Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge,' part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3617 (March 28, 2014), the rover continued further to the southwest on Murray Ridge with a 68-foot (20 ... more		Orion Avionics System Ready for First Test Flight Testing of the Orion spacecraft's avionics system has concluded at the Lockheed Martin Operations and Checkout facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After powering on and sending comman ... more

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The Importance of Planetary Plumes The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for finding black holes. It can pick out thousands of galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a thumbprint. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Hubb ... more		What's so hard about counting craters? Providing a rare glimpse of the trade secrets of planetary scientists, the journal Icarus published a study this month that compared lunar crater counts by eight professionals with crowdsourced coun ... more		Trump to U.N.: 'Your countries are going to hell' Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief tells AFP US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China		On-board camera provides a unique perspective on Arianespace Flight VS07 Remarkable images from on-board cameras provide a detailed "ride-along" view of Arianespace's Flight VS07, which orbited Europe's Sentinel-1A from the Spaceport in French Guiana. Recorded duri ... more
				Science, Discovery Channels to broadcast private race to the moon Just a week after Google announced its Lunar X competition, teams of engineers and scientists are racing to build a robotic spacecraft that can successfully land on the moon. A prize of $30 million awaits the first to accomplish the feat - and so does television stardom. ... more		NASA's rover Curiosity discovers Australia on Mars, sort of In documenting a new region of Mars, NASA's rover Curiosity came across a rock that looks very much like Australia. ... more

UAV Payloads 2014, 24 - 25 June - London, UK

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Nuclear Supply Chain Summit - April 28-29 Greenville SC

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

New Catalog Brings NASA Software Down to Earth From the rudimentary but effective Apollo Guidance and Navigation System that landed the first humans on the lunar landscape to the code used to manage robotic missions to explore other planets, sof ... more		Russia regrets NASA halting cooperation, warns of impact on ISS Russia has expressed its regrets over NASA's decision to halt cooperation with its Russian counterpart. However, experts agree that the measure will affect NASA and mutual international work, but wi ... 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		The DZZ-HR satellite is fueled for Arianespace's upcoming Vega launch Arianespace is maintaining its rapid-paced mission planning in 2014 as preparations move ahead for the next flight - a light-lift Vega launch, which is to orbit the DZZ-HR Earth observation spacecra ... more
				NASA to hurt itself by cutting ties with Russia NASA posted on its Twitter and Facebook accounts a statement announcing the suspension of cooperation with Russia in a move to side with Washington administration's sanctions against Russia, Itar-Ta ... more		ISS conducts debris avoidance maneuver U.S. space agency NASA said Thursday that the International Space Station (ISS) orbit was raised half a mile (about 0.8 kilometers) to avoid a possible collision with a fragment from an old European ... more

On-board camera provides a unique perspective on Arianespace Flight VS07

The DZZ-HR satellite is fueled for Arianespace's upcoming Vega launch

EUTELSAT 3B Mission Status Update

Opportunity Moves Further Southwest On Murray Ridge

NASA's rover Curiosity discovers Australia on Mars, sort of

What's so hard about counting craters?

Science, Discovery Channels to broadcast private race to the moon

Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge

Land a Lunar Laser Reflector Now!

Dwarf planet 'Biden' identified in an unlikely region of our solar system

Planet X myth debunked

WISE Finds Thousands Of New Stars But No Planet X

	Phoenix Makes Strides in Orbital Robotics and Satellite Architecture Research The process of designing, developing, building and deploying satellites is long and expensive. Satellites today cannot follow the terrestrial paradigm of "assemble, repair, upgrade, reuse," and must ... more		Curiosity Scoping Out Next Study Area On Wednesday, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove the last 98 feet feet (30 meters) needed to arrive at a site planned since early 2013 as a destination for studying rock clues about ancient environme ... more		Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is gradually lowering its orbital altitude over the moon. LADEE will continue to make important science observations before i ... more		SLS Core Stage Model 'Sounds' Off for Testing A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage fires up for another round of acoustic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. SLS, NASA's new rocket, ... more

How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems

Neutrinovoltaic master formula published as pathway to scalable clean energy

Boeing defense workers reject deal to end strike

Scientists unveil 'BionicKangroo Robot'		NASA Awards Digital Processor Assembly Contract for LCRD Flight Payload		A Question of Atmospheres: On Earth and Beyond		Using ethic frameworks for decisions about health standards on long duration spaceflights		Knowledge transfer: Computers teach each other Pac-Man
US seniors see slow migration to tech: study		Gravity measurements confirm subsurface ocean on Enceladus		Ancient volcanic explosions shed light on Mercury's origins		Land a Lunar Laser Reflector Now!		New research finds 'geologic clock' that helps determine moon's age

Cassini reports sub-surface ocean on Enceladus

Health risks of Mars mission would exceed NASA limits

Space Observation Optics Cover from IR to X-ray Wavelengths

NASA suspends Russia ties, except on space station

Mars and Earth move closer together this month

Dawn draws ever closer to dwarf planet Ceres

EUTELSAT 3B Mission Status Update

Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years

Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon

Study finds astronauts' hearts become more spherical in space

Dwarf Planet Discovery Could Help Show Life's Spread Through Solar System

China, Asia-Pacific, will power world tourism: survey

Soyuz ready for Sentinel-1A satellite launch

The Opposition of Mars

China launches experimental satellite

The Space Debris Radar Developed By Indra Passes ESA Tests

High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Test on Orion

New way to filter light

Canada Invests in Health Technologies for Astronauts

NASA Commercial Crew Partners Complete Space System Milestones

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