Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com

March 19, 2013

Russia Delays New Soyuz Launch
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 19, 2013
The first launch of Russia's new Soyuz-2.1V lightweight carrier rocket, scheduled for early 2013, is now likely to be delayed until the second half of 2013, its maker Progress said on Thursday. "The first launch of the Soyuz-2.1V rocket has been preliminarily scheduled for the second half of this year," Progress design bureau's general director Alexander Kirilin said, without specifying the reasons for the delay. Russia originally planned to launch the first Soyuz-2.1V in October but that wa ... read more

Previous Issues

Mar 18

Mar 15

Mar 14

Mar 13

Mar 12

Sara Brightman's Space Trip Under Question Russia's space agency Roscosmos and NASA may opt against sending music star Sarah Brightman to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015, Russian agency's head Vladimir Popovkin said on Saturday ... more		Reproduction In Zero Gravity University of Montreal researchers found that changes in gravity affect the reproductive process in plants. Gravity modulates traffic on the intracellular "highways" that ensure the growth and funct ... more		Orbcomm To Acquire Mobilenet ORBCOMM has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of MobileNet, Inc. (MobileNet), a leader of satellite and cellular-based telematics solutions for monitoring heavy eq ... more
				Earth will drown in garbage Man-made garbage cluttering from near space is a very intensive process. Therefore, it may happen that within the coming 20 years safe near-Earth orbits which it would be possible to use will become ... more		India's Nirbhay missile aborted in flight India's indigenously developed long-range subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay failed to hit its target during its first test flight. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

DoD Selects Northrop Grumman for Joint Command and Control System Northrop Grumman has been selected to modernize and sustain the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) joint command and control (C2) system used to provide accurate, complete and timely information for t ... more		US to boost missile defenses against N. Korea The United States said it would bolster defenses against a possible North Korean missile strike a week after Pyongyang threatened a "pre-emptive" nuclear attack against its arch-foe. ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Organic nanowires open the way for optoelectronic device miniaturization Research team of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, developed high-performance organic phototransistors (OPTs) based on single-crystalline n-channel orga ... more
				Ultra-high-speed optical communications link sets new power efficiency record Ultrafast supercomputers that operate at speeds 100 times faster than current systems are now one step closer to reality. A team of IBM researchers working on a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projec ... more		Surprising Control over Photoelectrons from a Topological Insulator Plain-looking but inherently strange crystalline materials called 3D topological insulators (TIs) are all the rage in materials science. Even at room temperature, a single chunk of TI is a good insu ... more

Solar systems for home and business installations

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Mobile LIDAR technology expanding rapidly Imagine driving down a road a few times and obtaining in an hour more data about the surrounding landscape than a crew of surveyors could obtain in months. Such is the potential of mobile LIDA ... more		First Laser Communication System Integrated, Ready for Launch A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications similar in capability to high-speed fiber optic networks on Earth. The space t ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		Videogame power harnessed for positive goals Even as videogames come under scrutiny for potential harmful impacts, researchers and developers are touting digital games for positive effects on health, learning and other social goals. ... more
				US Newest Missile Warning Satellite Encapsulated in Launch Vehicle Payload Fairing The second Lockheed Martin built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft was encapsulated into its payload fairing March 4 in preparation for a March 19 lif ... more		Michoud Building LNG Tanks For Lockheed Martin NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the agency's only large-scale advanced manufacturing facility, soon will be building liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanks with commercial applications o ... more

Mobile LIDAR technology expanding rapidly

First Laser Communication System Integrated, Ready for Launch

Earth will drown in garbage

DoD Selects Northrop Grumman for Joint Command and Control System

Northrop Grumman Highlights Affordable Milspace Communications

Boeing Ships 5th WGS Satellite to Cape Canaveral for 2013 Launch

Vega receives its upper stage as the next mission's two primary passengers land in French Guiana

Grasshopper Successfully Completes 80M Hover Slam

Musk: 'I'd like to die on Mars'

Galileo fixes Europe's position in history

China city searching for 'modern Marco Polo'

Milestone for European navigation system

	NSBRI Funds Cerebrotech to Accelerate Development of Brain Monitoring Device The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has announced that Cerebrotech Medical Systems, Incorporated of Pleasanton, California is the recipient of the 2013 Space Medicine and Relate ... more		Google buys machine learning startup Google said Wednesday that it has bought a Canadian startup specializing in getting machines to understand what people are trying to say. ... more		NIST mechanical micro-drum used as quantum memory One of the oldest forms of computer memory is back again-but in a 21st century microscopic device designed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for possible use ... more		New Technique Creates Stronger, Lightweight Magnesium Alloys Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating stronger, lightweight magnesium alloys that have potential structural applications in the automobile and ... more

AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners

Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power

UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department

Breaking the final barrier: room-temperature electrically powered nanolasers		Novel technique for chemical identification at the nanometer scale developed		Biobatteries catch breath		Russia dismisses US missile defence move		Northrop Grumman Highlights Affordable Milspace Communications
Friend or foe? Civilian drones stir debate		Taiwan to aim 50 medium-range missiles at China: report		Air Force overrides Beechcraft LAS protest		UN staring down a barrel over arms treaty		Boeing Names Ferra Engineering a Supplier for Extended Range JDAMs

Raytheon's dual-band datalink tested with Thales radar

US drone strikes violate Pakistan sovereignty: UN

Taiwan develops medium-range missile: report

US move on missile defense could revive talks with Russia

Walker's World: The best news yet

US welcomes Albania offer to resettle Iran exiles

Technology Changing The Future of Home Security

US military member suing over Japan nuke disaster

Breakthrough research shows chemical reaction in real time

Saving 70 Percent or More of Energy Use in Your Home

Listening for the Boom and Rattle of Supersonic Flight

NIST microscope measures nanomagnet property vital to 'spintronics'

US govt investigates Wall Street Journal: report

Glimmers of hope for troubled US newspapers: study

Lego to build Chinese factory to serve Asia

Man creates car that runs on liquid air

HSBC mulls thousands more job cuts: report

Greener cars could slash US pollution by 2050: study

One of Europe's longest ice highways opens in Estonia

Boeing Says Strong Demand Pushing Commercial Production Rates Higher

Free Newsletters - Space - Defense - Environment - Energy

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2013 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement