http://www.spacemart.com/index.html Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST en-us A team of students at Johns Hopkins University has designed a stethoscope that delivers accurate heart and body sounds to medics who are trying to assess astronauts' health on long missions in noisy spacecraft. Space is serene, because no air means no sound. But inside the average spacecraft, with its whirring fans, humming computers, and buzzing instruments, the noise level is equivalent ]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Leading satellite service provider atrexx Ltd. and Co. KG has added a new service platform to its product portfolio, specifically targeted at meeting the broadband demand in Libya and in Afghanistan. Two Ka-Band spot beams of the recently launched Hylas 2 satellite from Avanti Communications, positioned at 31 degrees east, transmit atrexx' 2way2sat services. These services include a fast access ]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST In Antarctica in January, 2013 - the summer at the South Pole - scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go? The NASA-funded mission is called BARREL for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron ]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Leonardo DiCaprio is going to get closer to stars of a different kind as he heads into space aboard the Virgin Galactic, and a well-heeled bidder at the Cannes Film Festival has paid 1.2 million euros (1.5 million) to be his travel buddy. The Holywood star's sub-orbital trip was among 20 goodies up for grabs at the 20th amfAR bash, a gala auction that is one of the glitziest festival events ]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST A tiny Ecuadoran satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet rocket survived the crash, but was damaged and is not transmitting, Quito's space agency said Thursday. Ecuador's space agency EXA had warned on Wednesday that a space fender-bender was likely between its "Pegaso" (Pegasus) nanosatellite and the remains of an S14 rocket launched by the Soviet Union into space in 1]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST A virtually unknown U.S. professor has taken a major step in solving a numerical problem that has baffled mathematicians for centuries, experts said. Yitang Zhang, a researcher at the University of New Hampshire who once took a job a Subway because he couldn't secure an academic appointment, has made a significant step towards settling a long-standing question about prime numbers - num]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Ecuador's first satellite, launched last month, has collided with debris from an old Russian rocket but it is unclear if it has been damaged, officials say. The Pegasus nanosatellite, designed and built in Ecuador, was launched into orbit April 25 by China. The Joint Space Operations Center in the United States, which monitors all artificial Earth-orbiting objects, said there had]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications. While hydrogen is ubiquitous in the environment, producing and collecting molecular hydrogen for transportation and industrial uses is expensive and complicated. Just as importantly, a byproduct of mos]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., recently flipped an adapter - no easy feat when you're talking about 1,000 pounds of aluminum - furthering progress toward Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1 in 2014 and providing early experience for Space Launch System (SLS) hardware ahead of the rocket's first flight in 2017. The flip is an important step in finishing the ma]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Russia's Bion-M1 biological research satellite, which recently carried rodents, microorganisms and plants on a month-long space flight, successfully accomplished its mission, an official said on Wednesday, despite the death of most of the animals on board. "The spacecraft did not show any noticeable failures and has accomplished its program in full," said Vladimir Sychev, deputy director o]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST A Florida girl expelled from school after her science experiment exploded will be going to space camp with the help of a former NASA manager, officials said. Kiera Wilmot, 16, was accused in April of igniting a chemical explosion at her high school, leading to her arrest and suspension from school, but authorities dropped criminal charges last week. News of the incident reached 1]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST If estimates are right, we are probably less than three weeks away from the launch of Shenzhou 10, China's next astronaut mission. Preparations for this launch seem to be going well, judging by official statements published in China's state media. The Shenzhou spacecraft and its Long March 2F rocket are both at the launch site. Electrical checks on the spacecraft have been conducted. Thing]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST A Russian company designing a new spacecraft for the country's space program says the craft will be reusable and able to make as many as five flights. Energia Rocket and Space Corp. said the spacecraft's technical design has been finalized but is yet to be officially approved, RIA Novosti reported Wednesday. The new reusable craft is to replace the Soyuz capsule and will have mod]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Researchers have shown that, by using global positioning systems (GPS) to measure ground deformation caused by a large underwater earthquake, they can provide accurate warning of the resulting tsunami in just a few minutes after the earthquake onset. For the devastating Japan 2011 event, the team reveals that the analysis of the GPS data and issue of a detailed tsunami alert would have tak]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST Preparations for Arianespace's next Soyuz flight are in full swing at multiple locations across the Spaceport, including the start-up of satellite installation in the S5 payload preparation center, and initiation of launcher build-up within the ELS launch site's MIK integration building. At the Spaceport's main base area, the first of four O3b Networks satellites to be orbited on the June ]]> Sun, 26 MAY 2013 13:00:26 AEST