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tisdag, november 13, 2012

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Space News from SpaceDaily.com
November 13, 2012
DRAGON SPACE
Mr Xi in Space
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 12, 2012 - The recent change of leadership in China has made foreign policy analysts very busy. Nobody is completely sure of how Xi Jinping will steer China, or how the somewhat opaque machinery of China's political system will respond to him. While it's not the most pressing issue for China watchers, it's still worthwhile asking one focused question: How will the ascendancy of Mr Xi affect China's a ...more

MARSDAILY
What Arctic Rocks Say About Mars: An Interview with Hans Amundsen
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2012 - In 1996, a research group led by Dave McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center claimed to have found evidence of fossilized life in a Mars meteorite. Not only did the shapes look like bacteria, but a form of magnetite (iron oxide) was found in the meteorite that, on Earth, is produced within the bodies of certain bacteria. The study also found tiny carbonate globules in the meteorite, which the scie ...more

MOON DAILY
China's Chang'e-3 to land on moon next year
Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2012 - China will launch its latest lunar satellite in the second half of next year, the Chang'e-3, paving the way for a future manned moon landing, a senior space industry official said on Saturday. Ma Xingrui, general manager of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said the mission will see the lunar exploration orbiter's first ever soft-landing on the moon. Ma said the ...more

SPACEMART
Lockheed Martin Board Elects Marillyn Hewson CEO and President And Member Of The Board
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 13, 2012 - Lockheed Martin has announced that its board of directors asked for and received the resignation of Christopher E. Kubasik, 51, from his role as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer (COO), effective immediately. The board also elected Marillyn A. Hewson, 58, president and COO, and a director effective immediately, and chief executive officer (CEO) and president effective Ja ...more

GPS NEWS
Quattro Group Gains Visibility And Control With Ctrack
London, UK (SPX) Nov 13, 2012 - Quattro Group has extended its agreement with Ctrack for the provision of an advanced tracking solution. This latest deal will cover 120 vans that make up the company's field support fleet along with more than 400 specialist vehicles and plant within its civil engineering, rail and environmental hire operation. The tracking tool has provided Quattro Group with the ability to monitor the wh ...more

The Year In Space

LAUNCH PAD
Arianespace's fourth Spaceport mission with Soyuz ready for fueling
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 13, 2012 - The dual-use, very-high-resolution Pleiades 1B satellite payload for Arianespace's fourth Soyuz mission from French Guiana is ready for fueling, marking a new step in the preparation campaign for its nighttime launch on November 30. Built by EADS' Astrium division for the French CNES space agency, Pleiades 1B has completed initial checkout in the Spaceport's S1B clean room facility, and ha ...more

EARTH OBSERVATION
Surveying Earth's interior with atomic clocks
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 13, 2012 - Have you ever thought to use a clock to identify mineral deposits or concealed water resources within the Earth? An international team headed by astrophysicists Philippe Jetzer and Ruxandra Bondarescu from the University of Zurich is convinced that ultraprecise portable atomic clocks will make this a reality in the next decade. The scientists argue that these atomic clocks have already rea ...more

GPS NEWS
Saudi Arabia to Launch Two Satellites
Cairo (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2012 - Saudi Arabia is set to launch two indigenous satellites with a precision navigation system within the next few years, Prince Turki Bin Saud Bin Muhammad said. The satellites - Saudisat 4 and Saudi GEO 1 - will be launched in 2013 and 2015, respectively, said Turki, who is vice president for research institutes at King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology. The two satellites wil ...more

SPACEWAR
Iran proposes ECO states to jointly build telecom satellites
Tehran (XNA) Nov 13, 2012 - Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour proposed the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) member states to start joint production of telecommunication satellites, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday. Addressing the first meeting of ECO states' communication and information technology ministers in Tehran on Sunday, Taqipour called for the ...more

LAUNCH PAD
Ariane 5's sixth launch of 2012
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 13, 2012 - This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Eutelsat-21B and Star One-C3, into their planned transfer orbits. Liftoff of flight VA210, the 66th Ariane 5 mission, came at 21:05 GMT (22:05 CET; 18:05 French Guiana). The target injection orbit had a perigee altitude of 250 km, an apogee altitude at ...more

Turn key solar systems for domestic and commercial installationsTurn key solar systems for domestic and commercial installations

SPACE TRAVEL
Get some bed rest - all 21 days of it
Paris (ESA) Nov 13, 2012 - Why are 12 volunteers about to spend 21 days in bed, lying with their heads tilted below the horizontal? Their experience will help to understand and address changes in astronauts' bodies in space as well as in bedridden people on Earth. Far from being a period of rest and relaxation, the volunteers in this bedrest study will undergo regular and intensive daily activities, including tests and ex ...more

MARSDAILY
NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 13, 2012 - NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in several ways from iron-rich spherules nicknamed "blueberries" the rover found at its landing site in early 2004 and at many other locations to date. Opportunity is investigating an outcrop called ...more

SPACE TRAVEL
SciTechTalk: All work and no play?
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 11, 2012 - Microsoft's confirmation of an Office Mobile app that will let users of iOS and Android devices view and edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel files on their mobile devices raises, if you're willing to give it some thought, a philosophical - or perhaps at least sociological - question. Are we fast finding ourselves in a world where we are never not "at work?" It's a question that per ...more

TECH SPACE
Atmospheric CO2 risks increasing space junk: study
Paris (AFP) Nov 11, 2012 - A build-up of carbon dioxide in the upper levels of Earth's atmosphere risks causing a faster accumulation of man-made space junk and resulting in more collisions, scientists said on Sunday. While it causes warming on Earth, CO2 conversely cools down the atmosphere and contracts its outermost layer, the thermosphere, where many satellites including the International Space Station (ISS) opera ...more

TIME AND SPACE
Huddersfield physicist join global partners inBig Bang particle search
Huddersfield UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2012 - Scientists at the University of Huddersfield are collaborating with experts at some of the world's leading research institutes in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of a particle that played a role in the creation of the universe. The existence of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos - particles that are almost massless and which travel at light speed from one side of the earth to the other - was ...more


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