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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting on space related activities from across the globe. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists who discovered an acceleration in the expansion of the universe. A Pennsylvania teams wins $1.35 million from NASA for its advancements in environmentally friendly aircraft design. A House oversight panel will quiz NASA on the impact of the Aug. 24 Soyuz rocket failure on International Space Station operations. Europe pursues an independent high data rate satellite system to support Earth observations. Where to go with DARPA’s proposed 100-Year Starship? Looking for China’s recently launched Tiangong-1 space lab in the night sky. NASA looks to students in grades K through 12 to re-name the moon bound Grail A and B spacecraft. On Tuesday, the space community quietly observed the 54th anniversary of the Sputnik launch by the former Soviet Union.
1. From the New York Times: The Nobel Prize for physics goes to a trio of researchers for their insights into the accelerating expansion of the universe. The studies, carried out in the late 1990s, pointed to dark energy, a little understood force as the responsible party for the acceleration.
http://nyti.ms/qK1UNA
A. From Space.com: How the latest Nobel Prize winners in physics managed to reveal the expansion of the universe.
http://bit.ly/qJxNsp
2. From the Wall Street Journal: A Pennsylvania team wins NASA’s $1.35 million CAFE Green Flight Challenge in a contest sponsored by Google with an electrically powered airplane. The Taurus G4 flies 200 miles in less than two hours. The competition was intended to encourage more efficient aircraft design and spur an electric airplane industry.
http://on.wsj.com/nh60Mz
A. From MSNBC and Space.com: The Green Flight Challenge prize is the largest in aviation history, the website reports. The second place finisher, Team eGenius of California also demonstrated a working electric airplane.
http://on.msnbc.com/pIYTea
3. From Spacepolicyonline.com: The House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee sets Oct. 12 for a hearing on the impact of an Aug. 24 Soyuz failure on the International Space Station. The malfunction of the third stage downed a Progress resupply mission headed for the space station. Russian’s return to flight strategy calls for another Progress launch on Oct. 30, New astronaut crews will follow.
http://bit.ly/nueZDp
4. From Space News: Europe advances efforts to develop a high data rate satellite relay system. Astrium, a subsidiary of the European Aerospace Defense Space Co., will lead the development.
http://bit.ly/r5coCW
5. From Space.com: During last weekend’s 100-Year Starship Symposium in Orlando, experts opened a discussion on destinations for humanity’s first interstellar spacecraft. Interest in the topic is shared by another visionary group, Project Icarus. If traveling at 15 percent the speed of light, a star ship crew could chose among 58 stars it could reach in a century long voyage. Some are known to have planets.
http://bit.ly/nRVBUl
6. From Space.com: Finding China’s Tiangong 1 in the night sky. Launched Sept. 29, this spacecraft is intended to enable China to master orbital rendezvous and docking, activities that will be necessary for China to assemble an independent space station.
http://bit.ly/quHEFT
7. Collectspace.com: NASA hosts a contest for K through 12 students to name the recently launched Grail A and B mission spacecraft headed for the moon. The contest deadline is Nov. 11.
http://bit.ly/nyhIvo
8. From the Medill Reports of Chicago: Tuesday marked the 54th anniversary of the Sputnik launch by the former Soviet Union. The launching of the184 pound spacecraft sparked a space race that propelled U. S. astronauts to the moon.
http://bit.ly/r8T8BU
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