#New Spaceship Antenna Prevents Radio Silence During Fiery Re-Entry When future spacecraft re-enter the atmosphere,
a new kind of antenna might help them keep in contact with ground control, despite the fiery sheaths of superhot plasma around them, researchers say.
The technology might also help keep communication lines open to other hypersonic vehicles, such as military planes and ballistic missiles.
US Military Tests Hypersonic Craft As NASA's Apollo 13 crisis revealed in 1970, this radio silence can be fraught with extraordinary tension.
As the crippled spacecraft plummeted back toward Earth, the communications blackout lasted more than a minute longer than expected,
whether the three astronauts aboard had survived.""When a re-entry vehicle is unable to be connected,
"Gao told Space. com. The researchers explained that, when the electromagnetic fluctuations of radio antennas are in sync with those of their surroundings,
'Blue moon'Beer Celebrates Lunar Sight for 20th Anniversary In a coincidence of cosmic proportions, the second full moon of July rises tonight,
making it a so-called"Blue moon "and Blue moon Brewing Co. will celebrate its 20th anniversary by painting the town red.
A celestial Blue moon comes around roughly every 2. 7 years. Tonight (July 31), a Blue moon will rise on the same night as Blue moon Brewing Co. celebrates its 20th anniversary with parties and events at more than 750 locations across the country.
In Denver, where the company is based there will be a concert under the stars and the full Blue moon capped by a"specialty beer release."
"The phrase"Blue moon"commonly refers to the second full moon in a single month, although this hasn't always been the meaning of the term.
Tonight's Blue moon will be the same color as any other full moon, although volcanic eruptions and forest fires have been known to cause the moon to appear blue.
This effect is caused by particulates like dust and smoke, which can act as a natural blue filter in the sky.
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Blue moon Brewing Co. which is owned by the Molson coors brewing Co.)will release a new beer that is part Belgian-style white and part Belgian-style Tripel.
It's not space beer, but we'll still try it).""The smooth-bodied ale has a warming finish and hints of coriander, orange peel, fruity esters, spicy esters and a touch of sweetness,
"brewery representatives said in a statement. The company's founder said the beer brings back fond memories of the time he spent earning his Ph d. in brewing studies in Brussels."As a brewery,
we've come a long way in 20 years, and we're excited to celebrate this with the people who got us here our fans
and the things they love most: food, music and great beer,"Keith Villa, founder and head brewmaster of Blue moon, said in the same statement.
The big concert of the night will be at Coors Field, featuring Big data with special guest Robert Delong,
The party starts in Lower Downtown (where Blue moon was created), where there will be four rooftop concerts. Blue moon plans to open another brewery
and tasting room in Denver's River North neighborhood e
#Smart oven knows what is inside and how to cook it For those who just can get their heads around the intricacies of home cooking,
Sony entered the budding space with the announcement of its Project Morpheus headset in March last year.
It hard to intuitively aim when you have a 2d cursor in a 3d space.
he explains. e give disabled people a private space that they are in total control of
"The higher the density of transistors, the more cores you can put in a given space,"noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group."
#Canadian Space Robotics Technology to Help Sick Children Not much rivals the dexterity of a good surgeon hands.
That is why Toronto Sickkids Centre for Image-Guided Innovation & Therapeutic Intervention (CIGITI) turned to the Canadian space technology behind Canadarm,
the MDA team adopted the virtual decomposition control (VDC) approach developed by Canadian space agency (CSA) engineer Wen-Hong Zhu.
The VDC is a Canadian game-changing technology for precision control of future medical manipulators and space manipulators.
iodide and methylammonium could convert sunlight into electricity with an efficiency of 3. 8 percent.
Sunlight to electricity Solar cells work by converting photons of sunlight into an electric current that moves between two electrodes.
Therefore it can be used outdoors even in bright sunlight. This is not only interesting for 3d-presentations
If you combined bio-based textile and carbon fibers you can obtain extremely light yet very sturdy components. ightweightis an important buzzword in automotive engineering and just as important in the aerospace sector too.
Thanks to this window space, the solar cell obtains adequate light, even in the darkness of winter.
#High efficiency concentrating solar cells move to the rooftop Ultra-high efficiency solar cells similar to those used in space may now be possible on your rooftop thanks to a new microscale solar concentration technology developed by an international team
of researchers. solar cells oncentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems leverage the cost of high efficiency multi-junction solar cells by using inexpensive optics to concentrate sunlight onto them,
and have to be pointed very accurately to track the sun throughout the day. But you can put a system like this on your roof,
To focus sunlight on the array of cells, the researchers embedded them between a pair of 3d printed plastic lenslet arrays.
sunlight is intensified more than 200 times. Because the focal point moves with the sun over the course of a day
the middle solar cell sheet tracks by sliding laterally in between the lenslet array. Previous attempts at such translation-based tracking have worked only for about two hours a day
which allows small motors using a minimal amount of force for the mechanical tracking. he vision is that such a microtracking CPV panel could be placed on a roof in the same space as a traditional solar panel
PV only makes sense in areas with lots of direct sunlight, like the American Southwest, he said. n cloudy regions like the Pacific Northwest,
and receive light over a very confined space, Fang says, and could lead to nique optical material that has great potential for optical interconnects.
a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania who was involved not in this work. think that the concentric tube approach is very creative.
said company CEO Taras Wankewycz. ee now able to use that space to instead of filling it with air,
CS patients are hypersensitive to sunlight and burn easily. For decades it was believed that the premature aging process associated with this disease was caused essentially by DNA repair deficiency.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NASA, the research will be published as the cover story in Volume 54, Issue 23 of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
who is also director of the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience,
said Aerospace engineer and team leader Professor Scott R. White. his is a way of creating sustainability in the materials that are used in modern-day electronics.
when the sun is shining. ith the option of taking part in demand management schemes, the system can also reward households for using less electricity during peak energy periods.
The first-of-its-kind immune organoid was created in the lab of Ankur Singh, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
and bolt them together, says Hod Lipson, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who studies robotics. t a challenging angle of robotics,
which is native to Alberta. ighorn sheep are an important symbol of Alberta and Canada wild spaces.
#Revolutionary New High-speed Infrared detector Sees First Light The first prototype of a new generation of fast and very sensitive detectors has been installed successfully on the PIONIER instrument at ESO Paranal Observatory.
In astronomy, it will boost the performance of adaptive optics, a technology at the heart of the European Extremely Large telescope (E-ELT.
The first observations focused on stars of different types (bright giants and faint dwarfs) in order to explore the behaviour of RAPID.
and a true revolution in the field of infrared detectors, said ESO astronomer Antoine Merand when first using the camera.
The concentrations of carbon and other greenhouse gases in Earth atmosphere are now at their highest levels in the past three million years, primarily as a result of the burning of petroleum and other fossil fuels.
#Research Simplifies Recycling of Rare-earth Magnets Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are,
as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mining and purifying them is an expensive, labor-intensive and ecologically devastating process.
including the rare-earth metal dysprosium, in different ratios. Because those ratios differ based on the application the magnet is being used for,
The process is repeated thousands of times to get useful purities of the rare-earth metals,
#UCLA chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
In photosynthesis, plants that are exposed to sunlight use carefully organized nanoscale structures within their cells to rapidly separate charges pulling electrons away from the positively charged molecule that is left behind,
The polymer donor absorbs sunlight and passes electrons to the fullerene acceptor; the process generates electrical energy.
while another relies only on natural sunlight. The community that had access to electricity slept about an hour less than their counterparts with no electricity.
They will also study the effects the moon cycle may have on sleep patterns as well. These are very interesting researches,
#Omnidirectional free space wireless charging developed Mobile devices, such as smartphones and laptops, have become indispensable portable items in modern life,
This means that the device can receive power all around the transmitter in three-dimensional space.
including in public spaces, the WPT technology should provide mobile users with six degrees of freedom at a distance.
For example, the Galaxy S6 could only be charged wirelessly in a fixed position, having one degree of freedom.
The degree of freedom represents mobile devicesfreedom of movement in three-dimensional space. In addition, the DCRS works at a low magnetic field environment.
and we have a star in the world of mobile payment. As seen, wireless payment has its foundations in security and speed.
and takes up roughly the same space as a traditional screen. In addition to showing images in 3d,
Published July 20 in the journal Nature Communications, the study showed that constructing a type of organic solar cell on a on-wettingplastic surface made it 1. 5 times more efficient at converting sunlight to electricity.
which ideally produce electric current by migrating in opposite directions following their separation by photon-carrying sunlight.
a finding that dispels previous concerns that the genetic material would quickly degrade in rain and sunlight.
which is found in the sun rays and breaks down many materials. They discovered that under such direct exposure,
The aircraft is equipped with two ramjets under its delta wings, a pair of Turbojets under the front part of the fuselage and a rocket engine at the rear end of the fuselage.
At this point, the rocket engine is ignited at full power causing the aircraft to travel vertically like a rocket at supersonic speeds.
which point the rocket engine is powered off and closed by a door to make it streamlined. The ram jets are ignited then
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And as the Earth warms, so will rice paddies, resulting in even more methane emissions. It an issue that must be addressed. uring photosynthesis,
what the telescope did for space exploration. In the first demonstration of how the technology works, published July 30 in the journal Cell, the researchers look inside the brain of an adult mouse at a scale previously unachievable, generating images at a nanoscale resolution.
The inventorslong-term goal is to make the resource available to the scientific community in the form of a national brain observatory. a strong believer in bottom up-science,
it can unfold to fill in the space, bridging the two sides. Over time, neurons integrate with the mesh
#Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service providing Internet access from orbiting satellites concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boomas returned thanks to Spacex founder
000 microsatellites to provide broadband Internet services around the globe. Spacex is partnering with Google and Fidelity Investments,
which are investing $1 billion for a 10 percent stake in the endeavor. Richard Branson Virgin galactic and Qualcomm
meanwhile, are investing in a competing venture called Oneweb, which aims to build a similar network of microsatellites.
In the late 1990s there were plans to deliver similar space services. he dot-com bust dried up their financing
and it never really got off the ground, says Forecast International analyst Bill Ostrove. Those projects might have failed anyway,
though, because it costs $60 million and $70 million to launch a satellite, and there always a decent chance that the payload will be lost to an accident.
Beaming data from a satellite is done by radio, and is limited by the available spectrum, as well as the amount of power a satellite can get from its solar panels.
Most communications satellites have data-transfer speeds of around a gigabit per second, compared to several terabits per second for the fastest fiber.
But some things have changed since the late 1990s. For one thing, satellite technology has advanced, bringing the cost of deployment down significantly.
Toaster-sized microsatellites can be launched dozens at a time and don have to operate at very high orbits, reducing launch costs,
but they can deliver performance comparable to larger, older satellites at higher altitudes. Spacex and Virgin galactic also hope to ride a different boom by targeting parts of the world where there is little infrastructure and a huge opportunity for Internet growth.
Satellite services remain less economical in areas where fiber-optic networks are in place, but Musk has stated that his Internet service would be aimed primarily at providing service to remote areas of the globe. oue got large swaths of land where there is a relatively low density of users,
Musk told an audience at the opening of Spacex new satellite development center in Seattle last week. pace is actually ideal for that.
Musk and Branson are not alone in recognizing the market potential. Besides investing in Musk project, Google is working on a high-altitude balloon-based Internet delivery system called Loon.
And Facebook is developing high-altitude, high-endurance drones to deliver Internet capability to remote areas.
The Google and Facebook projects would be similar in concept to the space-based systems,
while operating within the Earth atmosphere. Whether, as Musk has suggested, Spacex service could also be a viable alternative for customers in the developed world is less certain.
Ostrove says satellites simply cannot compete with the bandwidth and low cost of fiber-optic cables. The technology could also prove tricky for these newcomers to master.
Spacex, after all, has built rocketsut no satellites yet s
#Google#s Modular Smartphone to Debut in Puerto rico Google vision of cheap modular smartphones made up of interchangeable pieces is getting closer to reality.
The company showed off the latest prototype on Wednesday, and said that it will start selling its first modular phone in Puerto rico later this year.
and the Playstation 4-it offers greater performance in less space using less power. It changes the layout of memory chips from the ground up-chips are stacked vertically like skyscraper floors in a 3d pattern (not unlike 3d technology used in SSD),
postdoctoral researchers in the Department of physics and Astronomy in Penn School of arts and Sciences, led the study,
space exploration and medical applications abound for low-density, nontoxic structural shielding materials Lightweight composite metal foams can absorb energy from impacts
The discovery means the materials could be useful in spacecraft, the nuclear industry and in medicine.
Aerospace and mechanical engineer Afsanah Rabiei originally developed the foams, which consist of hollow metal spheres of one metal dispersed in a matrix
in protecting equipment onboard exploratory spacecraft from the high radiation fluxes sometimes found in space without adding significantly to their weight,
#Tiny'wrist'to assist needle surgery A tiny flexible wrist component for needle-sized surgical equipment could enable surgeons to perform operations in tiny spaces
so it won work in smaller spaces like the head and neck, said Webster. Instead of Da vinci rigid rods tipped with pulley-operated instruments
It eschews the traditional rockets of science-fiction jetpacks, which are powerful but difficult to control,
In fact, Martin believes that the jetpack ability to land in confined spaces will be its selling point,
seeing a $50m investment from Chinese aerospace company Kuang-Chi Science, valuing Martin at $100m.
but the sun is down. lot of people are not at home during the day, they are at work,
Warren says. he solar system is generating energy which is exported all. We thought, ouldn it be great
taking up a ninth of the space of tantalum nitride coatings. But the biggest advantage is that the graphene actually acts both as an insulator,
what's referred to as the"black hole"of the genome regions full of duplicate information that are extremely hard to sequence.
and you can't properly feel where in space it is, or any kind of pressure against it, Pruszynski says.
and animals that have been buried deep within the Earth. Burning these fuels is great for combustion
and aerospace as just some of the early benefits of supercomputing power. The initiative also comes with a striking new promise:
And there definitely was room in this space for being able to do that.""Indeed, James Wester, the research director for global payments at IDC, sees this as a step forward."
Since graduation he's been working off and on for Mars, Inc, . of M&m's and Snickers fame, helping the company on a project in Indonesia to help the cocoa communities Mars buys from."
"Most of the folks are very poor and smallholders on an average 2. 5 hectares of land,
but also to deploy technology developed by Mars on soil management and water quality.""When Donowitz learned of Finette
Washington-based Inrix, is intended also to show space availability in parking garages, and will be rolled out to 23 cities worldwide by the end of this year.
Of course, many such cars in a neighborhood could mean a sudden convergence on an empty space reminiscent of the last, desperate players in a game of musical chairs.
But they take up a fair amount of space, and their footprints are made even larger by the trackpads that they sometimes bring along with them.
but the ability to conserve the space taken up by a trackpad would surely have allure for some users e
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 kmph.
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 km h.
#Unprecedented Details on Precipitation Revealed by Satellites Techniques of monitoring all the precipitation throughout the globe within a short span of time were not effective previously.
However, the scenario has changed with the launch of the final piece of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission by NASA and the Japan aerospace exploration agency.
The mission includes a constellation of at least 12 satellites which provide an unprecedented view of global precipitation across the globe in near real time.
The first map developed by these satellites was released on Thursday by NASA. The satellites capture information every 30 minutes and the map shows the ripples
and eddies of little rain and snowstorms crossing the planet on an everyday basis. Large storms racing across the Southern ocean without any land impeding them can be identified.
The map also shows rain from tropical cyclones such as Hurricane Arthur and Typhoon Rammasun. Gail Skofronick-Jackson, GPM project scientist said n India they encounter monsoons.
and NASA has collaborated with emergency managers to find out how the close to real-time view of precipitation can be utilized to strengthen emergency management.
In the year 2014, NASA had launched 4 Earth-monitoring missions and earlier this month it added one more to them.
Deputy Director of the NASA Earth science Division stated ee genuinely hunting forward to contributions these new projects will make for science and life On earth. i
the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.
such as Space Invaders, Pong and Breakout, the algorithm significantly outperformed humans, while on others it fared far worse.
Although in the late August earthquakes and seismic activities were marked the increase in the scale of eruption was expected not by the observatory y
When the mirror is warmed up by the sunlight, it releases heat at a specific wavelength of infrared light that passes easily through the atmosphere and out into space.
The universe behaves like the heat sink. The two micrometres thick mirror is made of several thin layers of different materials.
the heat directly passes straight into space. The mirror would cost between $20 to $70 per square meter
an integrated system, in which sunlight can be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
The catalyst, powered by sunlight, splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen. Following this, the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha combines hydrogen with carbon dioxide to form isopropanol p
Daniel Edwards, an aerospace engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory, said at the Dod Lab Day event.
#MIT researcher develops solar-powered desalination technology A student at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) has designed a village-scale desalination technology that is powered by the sun
The ultraviolet light from the sun rays are used to kill biological contaminants in the water. While similar desalination technologies have already been discovered,
2015-The United states has put its trust in commercial space operators, Orbital, Boeing and Spacex to continue supporting low-Earth orbit unmanned and human space activities.
June 28 2015-In his latest email blast Peter Diamandis talks about four revolutions in transportation that he expects will take place within this decade.
June 25, 2015-For future astronauts on Deep space missions, a technology developed at University of California
#Intel theory on opening software During December last year, Intel showcased a special project we worked on for renowned English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author,
and director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge: Stephen Hawking.
However, it is expected widely that it will first be used in its upcoming Galaxy S6 smartphones, along with epop.
"The project is a spectacular proof of concept that's leading to significant contracts with aerospace companies,"Batagol added.
which include magnetic resonance imaging machines, machine tools for manufacturing printed circuits, telecommunications satellites and touchscreens"."Announcing the trade deal,
Those units also made up for continued pitfalls surrounding the PC space. More Intel news can be expected soon as the tech giant's annual conference
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