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October 27, 2014

Space Launch System Booster Separation Testing Brings Confidence to First Flight
Hampton VA (SPX) Oct 27, 2014
It's a familiar phrase heard just before a rocket launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Throughout history, millions have traveled from across the world to see the fiery plumes created by a rocket's large boosters, which have launched astronauts and other payloads into space time and time again. NASA will once again shape history when it launches the Space Launch System (SLS). Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia are doing ... read more

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Orbital cargo ship readies for Monday launch Orbital Sciences Corporation's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship is preparing to launch to the International Space Station Monday, aiming to carry some 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) of materials for space experiments. ... more		Cygnus Cargo Load for Orbital CRS-3 Orbital Sciences completed final cargo load of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft Oct. 23, 2014, in preparation for launch to the International Space Station, scheduled for 6:45 p.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 27, ... more		Novel Rocket Design Flight Tested Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists recently flight tested a new rocket design that includes a high-energy fuel and a motor design that also delivers a high degree of safety. "What we're ... more
				Russian Space Agency to Receive Designs of Super-Heavy Carrier Rocket by Year-End Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos will receive technical suggestions in creating the country's super-heavy carrier rockets by the end of 2014, an agency department head said Thursday. "W ... more		AYW Companies' Flexible Waveguide And Components Ideal For Satelite Applications ATW Companies has announced that its flexible waveguide tubing and waveguide components, manufactured by the A.T. Wall Company, are ideally suited for satellite applications and other airborne and s ... more

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China's lunar orbiter modifies orbit China's spacecraft testing technology for the Chang'e-5 return lunar mission, trimmed its orbit on Friday afternoon. This was the first modification during a journey scheduled to take about ei ... more		Russian cosmonauts finish all planned work outside ISS Two Russian cosmonauts have finished their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), completing all the necessary work earlier than planned, the Russian Mission Control told RIA Novos ... more		Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		SpaceX returns to Earth loaded with lab results SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday carrying a heavy load of NASA cargo and scientific samples from the International Space Station that experts hope could yield significant results. ... more
				Google teams with Oxford to teach machines to think Google on Thursday announced a partnership with artificial intelligence teams at Oxford University to teach machines to think like people. ... more		Eight months on 'Hawaiian Mars' tests rigors of exploration Six people have sealed themselves inside a white vinyl dome in Hawaii to embark on an eight-month test of how their mental health might fare during a mission to Mars. ... more

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

Europe postpones launch of first 'space plane' Europe said Friday it was postponing the launch next month of its first-ever "space plane" to give scientists time to finetune the mission's flight plan. ... more		Organic molecules in Titan's atmosphere are intriguingly skewed While studying the atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan, scientists discovered intriguing zones of organic molecules unexpectedly shifted away from its north and south poles. These misaligned features ... more		Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape? Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist		Cosmonauts complete 3rd EVA for October Russian spacewalkers Max Suraev and Alexander Samokutyaev closed the Pirs docking compartment hatch at 1:06 p.m. EDT ending the third spacewalk for Expedition 41. The cosmonauts were outside the Int ... more
New lunar mission to test Chang'e-5 technology China will launch a new lunar mission this week to test technology likely to be used in Chang'e-5, a future lunar probe with the ability to return to Earth. The experimental spacecraft launche ... more		Next Chinese mission to moon will return to Earth This week China will launch a new lunar orbiter, which, in contrast with previous space probes, will return to Earth after orbiting the Moon, China's official Xinhua news agency reports. Ye Pe ... more		NASA-led study sees Titan glowing at dusk and dawn New maps of Saturn's moon Titan reveal large patches of trace gases shining brightly near the north and south poles. These regions are curiously shifted off the poles, to the east or west, so that d ... more		Suomi team ward off recent space debris threat While space debris was the uncontrolled adversary in the award-winning space thriller film "Gravity," space debris, also known as "space junk," is an ongoing real-life concern for teams managing sat ... more

	NASA Awards Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder for the JPSS-2 Mission NASA has awarded a sole source contract modification to Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, of Azusa, California, for the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) Instrument for flight on the J ... more		ESA spaceplane progressing towards Vega launch Europe's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) spaceplane has completed another step in its pre-launch checkout process, and is now being readied for fueling ahead of the November 18 flight with A ... more

What to look for in China and Europe's climate plans

Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta

EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding 'embarrassment'

Argentina launches its first telecom satellite		China launches first mission to moon and back		Proton-M Lofts Express-AM6 Satellite		Increasing cosmic radiation a danger for Mars missions		China to send orbiter to moon and back: report
Lockheed Martin claims nuclear energy breakthrough		China's space policy gets even tighter		China's Secret Moon Mission		In a first, astronomers map comets around another star		Cosmonauts Busy as US Segment Crew Takes Day Off

UH Manoa studies effects of long-term space travel

Dava Newman nominated for NASA post

SSL Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers For Intelsat 30

China Completes Country's Largest Spaceport

Descent Data May Help With Future Mars Landings

Mars rover had good opportunities to image passing comet

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Studies Comet Flyby

Work completed on satellite launch center in Hainan

EIAST: KhalifaSat design completed

CASIS Issues RFP For EO Ideas Using ISS Technology

LockMart Team Delivers Lightning Mapper Instrument For Weather Satellite

"Houston: We Have A Problem...But No Worries, Our Virtual Therapist Is On It"

A Different Kind of Green Movement: Seedling Growth in Space

ISS Astronauts Wrap Up Preps for Wednesday Spacewalk

Comet's Close Encounter 'One in a Million'

Progress-M Cargo Ship To Undock From ISS On Oct 27

Microbes in deep-sea rocks eat methane, lots of it

MAVEN spacecraft's first look at Mars holds surprises

Mars One -- and done?

Wobbling of a Saturn moon hints at what lies beneath

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