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February 20, 2014

Lunar ownership laws: a future necessity?
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Feb 20, 2014
Private settlements and raw materials extraction enterprises could appear on the Moon in the future, thus leading to territorial disputes between their owners. In order to avoid that one must now register the property rights to the land plots on the Moon and other space objects and set up special preservation zones, US entrepreneur Robert Bigelow believes. The Bigelow Aerospace Company, run by American businessman, designs inflatable housing modules. In the future they will be used to build flying ... read more

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Huge asteroid passes Earth nearly one year after Chelyabinsk meteorite A massive asteroid is scheduled to make its way past Earth Monday night. Scientists advise it will not make contact with our planet, while amateur astronomers will be able to watch its flight online ... more		Hubble Watches Stars' Clockwork Motion In Nearby Galaxy Using the sharp-eyed NASA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time precisely measured the rotation rate of a galaxy based on the clock-like movement of its stars. According ... more		When a black hole shreds a star, a bright flare tells the story Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz uses computer simulations to explore the universe's most violent events, so when the first detailed observations of a star being ripped apart by a black hole were reported in 201 ... more
				The Wisps of Dione Although the crack-like features seen here on Dione's surface appear wispy and faded, they are in reality a series of geologically fresh fractures! Lit terrain seen here is on the trailing hem ... more		Einstein's conversion from a static to an expanding universe Until 1931, physicist Albert Einstein believed that the universe was static. An urban legend attributes this change of perspective to when American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed Einstein his observ ... more

Spaceplan 2020 - Space Technology Symposium

Europe sets plans for 2024 planet-hunting mission Europe on Wednesday unveiled plans to launch a major space observatory in 2024 aimed at finding planets orbiting other stars, one of the new frontiers of astronomy. ... more		When stars explode, it's a messy business When stars explode, it's a messy business. But the massive blasts are also useful, seeding the universe with such key elements as calcium, iron and titanium. ... more		Northrop Grumman Hypersonic Navigation System Exceeds Rocket Test Milestones We can build fighter jet without Germany: France's Dassault Moldova backs EU in elections marred by Russian interference		Scientist: Exoplanet research needs less hype, more patience The search for exoplanets and alien life is generating a lot of hype but the study needs patience and refinement, a U.S. review of exoplanet research suggests. ... more
				Hubble Looks Into Terzan 7 Named after its discoverer, the French-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan, this is the globular cluster Terzan 7 - a densely packed ball of stars bound together by gravity. It lies just over 75,000 lig ... more		IBEX research shows influence of galactic magnetic field extends well beyond our solar system New research suggests the enigmatic "ribbon" of energetic particles discovered at the edge of our solar system by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) may be only a small sign of the vast in ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Developing the Next-Generation Military Radar while Maintaining Current Systems; IDGA�s Military Radar Summit - April 2014

Responding to Potential Asteroid Redirect Mission Targets One year ago, on Feb. 15, 2013, the world was witness to the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, exploding over Chelyabinsk, R ... more		Data links quick fix Software that can fix 90 percent of broken links in the web of data, assuming the resources are still on the site's server, has been developed by researchers in Iran. The details are reported this m ... more		The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests Wildfire-induced thunderstorms recreated in Earth system models for first time Fengyun satellite strengthens China global weather forecasting capacity		Chang'e-2 lunar probe travels 70 mln km China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, has traveled more than 70 million km into deep space in good condition, so far the longest voyage of a Chinese spacecraft, a senior engineer said Friday. ... more
				A good year to find a comet A team of European astronomers has found a previously unknown comet, detected as a tiny blob of light orbiting our Sun deep in the Solar System. Europe's Teide Observatory Tenerife Asteroid Survey t ... more		Space junk endangers mankind's usual course of life The Russian cargo spacecraft Progress M-20M, which undocked from the International Space Station on February 3, has ended its free flight and is to be sunk in the unnavigated part of the Pacific Oce ... more

Thanks America, New Horizons Ahead

Countdown to Pluto

A Busy Year Begins for New Horizons

New Technique Could Be Used to Search Space Dust for Life's Ingredients

Planetary Protection: Preventing Microbes Hitchhiking to Space

Sun's closest neighbor could harbor 'superhabitable' world

Scientist: Exoplanet research needs less hype, more patience

Europe sets plans for 2024 planet-hunting mission

Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet

The World Above and Beyond

NASA Mars Orbiter Views Opportunity Rover on Ridge

Curiosity Adds Reverse Driving for Wheel Protection

	LADEE Sends Its First Images of the Moon Back to Earth Earlier this month, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory successfully downlinked images of the moon and stars taken by onboard camera systems, known as star trac ... more		IBEX Helps Paint Picture of the Magnetic System Beyond the Solar Wind Understanding the region of interstellar space through which the solar system travels is no easy task. Interstellar space begins beyond the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles surrounding t ... more		The oldest star in the universe? Maybe, maybe not! There is a myth that goldfish have a three-second memory, and I sometimes wonder if the same is true about the part of the human mind that deals with science in the news. This week, the intern ... more		Scientists use 'voting' and 'penalties' to overcome quantum errors Seeking a solution to decoherence-the "noise" that prevents quantum processors from functioning properly-scientists at USC have developed a strategy of linking quantum bits together into voting bloc ... more

NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space

India plans mega-dam to counter China water fears

Breakthrough in UAV swarm intelligence as SRI redefines topology mapping

How Stellar Death Can Lead To Twin Celestial Jets		Four new galaxy clusters take researchers further back in time		A global map of Jupiter's biggest moon		Scientists reveal cosmic roadmap to galactic magnetic field		NASA Spacecraft Get a 360-Degree View of Saturn's Auroras
Researchers identify one of the earliest stars in the universe		Red skies discovered on extreme brown dwarf		Rock from heavens is a scientists' delight		ANU astronomers discover oldest star		Massive neutrinos solve a cosmological conundrum

Source of 'Moon Curse' Revealed by Eclipse

Software helps astronomers find faint, tiny comet in deep solar system

Hubble Looks in on a Nursery for Unruly Young Stars

Maxwell Tech Provides Computer Power To ESA Astronomy Mission

GOES EXIS Quadruplets Together in a Cleanroom "Nursery"

A New Look at an Old Friend

MESSENGER Surpasses 200,000 Orbital Images of Mercury

NASA bets on private companies to exploit moon's resources

'Oldest star' found from iron fingerprint: astronomers

Astronomers discover new brown dwarf -- except this one is red

Russian scientists break ground in new asteriod discovery

Heavy Metal in the Early Cosmos

Solving a physics mystery: Those 'solitons' are really vortex rings

Researchers Find Unambiguous Evidence for Coherent Phonons in Superlattices

Astrobotic Begins Testing at Masten Space Systems

A Proposal For The Space Debris Society

Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet

Quarks in the looking glass

NASA Extends Moon Exploring Satellite Mission

Study Finds Early Universe "Warmed Up" Later Than Previously Theorized

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