XCOR Becomes Corporate Sponsor of Uwingu, a Space
Apps Company

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Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 20, 2012
XCOR Aerospace, a leader in commercial suborbital spaceflight, has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC's crowd-sourcing campaign to generate funds to launch its first web-based products. Uwingu is a space-themed, for profit start up seeking crowd-sourced funding to launch an ongoing series of public engagement projects. Uwingu's mission is to use proceeds from those projects to genera

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Space bugs for blood testing and more

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Paris, France (ESA) Aug 20, 2012
Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit, here on Earth. Fifteen years ago as a graduate student, Vladislav Djakov started building these micro-electromechanical creatures that mimic the swarms of bugs found in nature. Equipped with a power supply, limited int

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Micro-thruster could move small satellites

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Cambridge, Mass. (UPI) Aug 17, 2012
Micro-thrust engines no larger than a penny could move future small satellites in space, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say. The engine has none of the valves, pipes and heavy propellant tanks of typical bulky satellite engines, they said. Instead the design, developed my MIT aeronautics and astronautics Professor Paulo Lozano, is a flat, compact square,

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Mars rover takes 'cool' detour: NASA

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Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 17, 2012
The US space agency NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will make a wide detour to explore a "cool" geographical hot spot on Mars, scientists said Friday. The scientists also reported they found temperatures in the Red Planet's Gale Crater to be just above freezing, the first monitoring of Mars temperatures in three decades. Before driving to its destination at Mount Sharp, which may contain tra

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India's GSAT-10 satellite continues its checkout
for the upcoming Arianespace Ariane 5 mission

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Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 20, 2012
Test deployments of the antenna reflectors on India's GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite have been performed as part of pre-flight preparations for this payload, which is one of two spacecraft on Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana. GSAT-10's two reflectors, located on the "east" and "west" side of its rectangular-shaped body, were opened in the S5C hi

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Flight Readiness Review Complete; No Constraints
to Aug. 23 Launch

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Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 20, 2012
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Flight Readiness Review for the agency's Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is complete. There were no significant issues identified that would be a constraint to launch on Aug. 23. A launch countdown dress rehearsal will be conducted on Friday. The Launch Readiness Review is to be held Aug. 20

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Exoplanet hosting stars give further insights on
planet formation

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Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Aug 20, 2012
An international team, led by EXOEarths researchers (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto - CAUP), proposes that metals like Magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low mass planets. The team, lead by CAUP researcher Vardan Zh. Adibekyan, analyzed high resolution spectra of 1111 sun-like stars, obtained by the HARPS spectrograph (ESO). Of these stars, 109 are k

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What Is It for 8/19/12

This week's image:Check back on Wednesday for the answer!

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The Tangent Side - Pi

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3 Awesome and Free iPad Science Apps for Kids
(and Adults)

If you have a kid that loves science, if you love science, or if you just have an iPad and want to look at some really cool stuff, then read on. These three free science apps for the iPad are well worth downloading and are tons of learning fun. 1. Color Uncovered App: The Exploratorium Color Uncovered [...]

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