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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Europe prepares a massive re-supply mission for lift off to the six person International Space Station. Engineers test new asteroid hunting radar technologies. NASA’s Kepler mission search for Earth-like alien planets may require a recalculation, say astronomers; planet candidates may be larger than originally estimated. Space weather threats deserve more attention, scientists caution. In South Texas, authorities extend the comment period for an Environmental Impact Statement on a proposed SpaceX commercial launch site. A former U. S spy satellite closes in on a new mission, a search for nearby alien planets. Some astronomers believe NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray space telescope has the potential so solve a dark matter mystery.
1. From Spaceflightnow.com: In French Guiana, the European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, a large re-supply vessel, is poised to lift off for the International Space Station on Wednesday at 5:52 p.m., EST. A successful lift off will place the ATV-4 Albert Einstein on a course to dock with the station on June 15.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/va213/130604preview/#.Ua8AutLQq6p
2. From Florida Today: At NASA’s Kennedy Space, engineers test a group of three high resolution radar telescopes as part of a three-year technology demonstration. The technologies may serve as a foundation for a 24/7 means of monitoring near space for asteroids that pose a collision threat to the Earth as well as potential destinations for exploration by astronauts.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20130605/NEWS01/306040044/KSC-test-looking-up-asteroids
3. From Space.com: NASA’s Kepler space telescope search for exo-planets may have under estimated the size of alien planets, according to scientists at a meeting of the American Astronomical Association in Indianapolis.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/21432-kepler-planets-larger-than-thought.html
4. From USA Today: Space weather, principally interactions between the sun and the Earth’s atmosphere deserve more attention, say participants in a NOAA sponsored conference in Silver Springs, Md. Intense solar activity could have far reaching consequences, including damage to crucial satellites circling the Earth as well as terrestrial power grids.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/06/04/conference-discusses-space-weather/2390095/
A. From The Associated Press via The Washington Post: Iris, a spacecraft developed to study ultraviolet energy emissions from the sun, will be prepared for a June 26 lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. A spacecraft telescope will study a regions of the sun responsible for the solar wind.
5. From The Brownsville Herald, of Texas : The Federal Aviation Administration extends by three weeks, or until June 24, the public comment period on a draft Environmental Impact Statement that could influence SpaceX’s interest in South Texas for a new commercial space launch site. A draft EIS forecasts only minimal impact.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/local/article_da0eb09a-ccc5-11e2-b2d2-001a4bcf6878.html
6. From Space News: One of two former reconnaissance satellites provided to NASA by the U. S. National Reconnaissance Office is in the running for a future astrophysics mission, one that will include a search for planets around nearby stars.
7. From Space.com: Astronomers urge NASA to use the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to resolve a dark matter mystery with roots at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/21417-fermi-telescope-dark-matter-signal.html
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