But Spacex will also try to bring the Falcon 9's first stage back to Earth for a pinpoint landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic ocean.
and then return to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific ocean. Spacex holds a $1. 6 billion contract with NASA to complete 12 cargo runs to the space station.
The space agency also signed a $1. 9 billion deal with Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to fly eight such missions using the company's Cygnus spacecraft and Antares rocket.
when Antares exploded shortly after liftoff y
#A Tunable Liquid Metal Antennas for Tuning in to Anything Tuning in is getting to be complicated a thing.
which focus sunlight to run steam turbines
#Wind turbines Power Liquid-air Energy storage One startup energy company is looking to reinvent not only wind energy, but also energy storage.
the first in a line of spacecraft designed to test technologies needed to eventually mine asteroids launched from the International space station.
having arrived at the ISS thanks to a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launched in April. ur team is developing the technology that will enable humanity to create an off-planet economy that will fundamentally change the way we live on Earth,
palladium, or rare earth materials from near-Earth asteroids. Prominent billionaire backers include Hollywood director James cameron and Google executives Larry page and Eric Schmidt.
But the exact mineral wealth of the asteroids most easily accessible from Earth remains unknown.
Indeed, a Harvard university study found just 10 nearby asteroids worth mining. Planetary Resourcesext demonstrator, called the Arkyd-6 (A6),
and avionics systemsalong with sensors that can analyze asteroids for the resources they contain. Such sensors include a mid-wave infrared imaging system capable of measuring temperature differences on observed objects
#Nanowires Boost Hydrogen Production from Sunlight Tenfold Using the energy of the sun to split water into hydrogen
No one likes sharing photos into a black hole, so theye at risk of churning out. Twitter is facing this problem already.
This means kraftwerk units can be taken all over the world including vast regions of Earth that aren connected to electricity
#The Bank of Facebook Technology is changing one of the most fundamental mediums that touch every person on the planet:
In the next five years, nearly every person on the planet will have access to the Internet.
When every family on the planet has access to a smartphone with fast Internet, the paradigm changes.
Storing the Sun. Other long-lived batteries exist, but they cost far more than lead-acid batteries. The new energy storage technology could be crucial to making renewable energy more viable, especially in remote locations.
and equipped with a tracking mechanism that continuously points it at the sun. The slab is made of over 100,000 small lenses
and has set records for solar-cell efficiencyeaning the amount of energy in sunlight that is converted into electricity.
some believe, could convert half of the energy in sunlight into electricity, about three times better than conventional solar cells.
and can operate under very concentrated sunlight. That makes a 1, 600-to-1 concentration ratio possible rather than 400-to-1. You need far less material
After a detailed examination of its technology, says Thomas Mart, the global head of solar activities at Siemens,
and said they are going to fly to Mars with it. Hutchinson adds: Of course we d be delighted
and this requires action said Efi Foufoula-Georgiou a professor in the Department of Civil engineering and former director of the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics at the University of Minnesota in an interview after the conference.
Deltas cover about 1 percent of the surface of the earth but they are home to more than half a billion people
Some more far-out ideas for capturing carbon from cement making include using concentrated sunlight to drive the production process (see New Cement-Making Method Could Slash Carbon emissions.
The hope is that it could also be distributed using the same global network of liquid fuel transport that moves petrol around the planet.
wel need cheap ways to store energy from the sun when it isn shining. A paper published in the journal Science this week reports a major step toward such a system.
and efficiently converts the energy in sunlight into hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel
The solar water splitter stores 12.3 percent of the energy in sunlight in the form of hydrogen.
but consider that most solar cells convert only 16 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity,
If there s one area where resource optimization is needed more urgently than any other it s agriculture Projections call for the Earth s population to exceed nine billion by 2050 up by about two billion from today.
Conventional solar cells convert less than 25 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity. Semprius has come up with three key innovations:
or sunlight and extracting information like heart and respiration rates. With accelerometer and blood-flow data,
#Adaptive Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar in Half A material with optical properties that change to help it capture more incoming sunlight could cut the cost of solar power in half, according to Glint Photonics,
It changes its reflectivity in response to heat from concentrated sunlight in a way that makes it possible capture light coming in at different angles throughout the day.
It well known that focusing sunlight makes it possible to use smaller cheaper solar cells. But this is usually done with lenses or mirrors,
which must be moved precisely as the sun advances across the sky to ensure that concentrated sunlight remains focused on the cells.
The first is an array of thin, inexpensive lenses that concentrate sunlight. The second is a sheet of glass that serves to concentrate that light morep to 500 timess light gathered over its surface is concentrated at its edges.
and reducing the need to keep the apparatus pointed directly at the sun. Glint CEO Peter Kozodoy says solar power from its devices could cost four cents per kilowatt-hour,
a program director at ARPA-E, says the main remaining challenge is increasing the amount of sunlight that makes it to the solar cells,
#Amazon s Zocalo Cloud Service Casts a Shadow over Startups In the 1990s Microsoft became identified with the Death Star partly by enticing developers to build applications (such as Wordperfect
such as the transit of exoplanets across other stars, binary stars that eclipse, gamma ray bursts and so on. Capturing the changes associated with these events requires a much more rapid way of photographing the entire sky.
Law and co say their Evryscope should be able to search for exoplanets around nearby bright stars
and even look for rocky planets in the habitable zones around nearby M dwarf stars. And because Law and co intend to store all the data produced by the Evryscope,
weeks or even months before supernovas or gamma ray bursts, looking for interesting precursor events. That will be an interesting piece of kit. vryscope systems o er a new capability:
But in the online world, you have to worry about criminals who may be located anywhere on the planet.
#Sharp Demonstrates Ultra-Efficient Solar cells The best solar cells convert less than one-third of the energy in sunlight into electricity
when sunlight strikes a solar cell it produces some very high-energy electrons but within a few trillionths of a second those electrons shed most of their energy as waste heat.
It s far from a practical device it s too thin to absorb much sunlight
Its stated aim is to bring affordable Internet access to everyone on the planet an effort that could incidentally supply Facebook with many new customers (see acebook Two Faces.
and separating rare earth oxides from other materials in the ore (other new processes are being developed to address those issuesee he Rare-Earth Crisis. But for metals such as aluminum and magnesium,
as a result of increased exposure to the sun in younger generations who have benefitted from easier access to sunnier climates on holiday.
as a result of increased exposure to the sun in younger generations who have benefitted from easier access to sunnier climates on holiday.
while also providing protection from the sun during the course of the day. Each of the 94 modules were 3d printed using a 6-axis robot arm in the Robotic Fabrication Lab at the nearby College of Architecture and Environmental design at Kent State university in Ohio, USA.
Each module was 3d printed with translucent plastic to allow the structure to filter sunlight during the day
Additionally, the arch of the structure follows the path of the sun spanning from East to West for the most amount of solar exposure each day.
and sustainable energy sources including the sun. triving towards a brighter future, (our) innovative technology aims to increase solar cell efficiency
and require large amounts of sunlight to be efficient. According to Scott Watkins, the director of the unit for overseas business at Korean firm Kyung-In Synthetic, these 3d printed solar cells have already been used in India. e witnessed firsthand how the technology has enabled urban poor communities in India
"For high-power SEP modules such as those that Nasa envisions for transporting cargo to Mars, it will be critical to efficiently process
#NASA Microsoft collaboration will allow scientists to#work on Mars#NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to develop software called Onsight,
a new technology that will enable scientists to work virtually on Mars using wearable technology called Microsoft Hololens.
along with the Mars Curiosity rover, conduct science operations on the Red planet. nsight gives our rover scientists the ability to walk around
and explore Mars right from their offices, said Dave Lavery, program executive for the Mars science laboratory mission at NASA Headquarters in Washington. t fundamentally changes our perception of Mars,
and how we understand the Mars environment surrounding the rover. Onsight will use real rover data
and extend the Curiosity mission existing planning tools by creating a 3-D simulation of the Martian environment where scientists around the world can meet.
which we explore Mars and share that journey of exploration with the world, said Jeff Norris, JPL Onsight project manager.
rover operations required scientists to examine Mars imagery on a computer screen, and make inferences about
and engineers looking to interact with Mars in a more natural, human way. reviously, our Mars explorers have been stuck on one side of a computer screen.
This tool gives them the ability to explore the rover surroundings much as an Earth geologist would do field work here on our planet,
said Norris. The Onsight tool also will be useful for planning rover operations. For example scientists can program activities for many of the rover science instruments by looking at a target
Future applications may include Mars 2020 rover mission operations and other applications in support of NASA journey to Mars. JPL manages the Mars science laboratory Project for NASA Science Mission Directorate in Washington,
and built the project Curiosity rover t
#Raytheon acquires Tucson-based Sensintel Inc. Raytheon has acquired privately-held Sensintel, Inc.,a leading provider of unmanned aircraft systems solutions to the intelligence and special operations markets.
reflective sail would allow a spacecraft to accelerate continuously using only the sun energy. NASA is considering the use of solar sails on future exploration mission secondary payloads
These extraordinary rings, produced by an intense flare from a neutron star, provide astronomers a rare chance to determine how far across the Milky way galaxy the star is from Earth.
a double star system in the plane of our galaxy containing a neutron star, the dense remnant of a massive star pulverized in a supernova explosion.
The neutron star is in orbit with another massive star and is shrouded by thick clouds of interstellar gas and dust.
Circinus X-1 is also the source of a surprisingly powerful jet of high-energy particles. t really hard to get accurate distance measurements in astronomy
700 light years from Earth, and settles the difference in results published in prior studies. The detection and characterization of the rings required the unique capabilities of Chandra the ability to detect fine details combined with sensitivity to faint signals.
with some reflected X-rays arriving to Earth from different angles at a time delay of about one to three months,
An analysis of the rings with the combined radio data allows researchers to use simple geometry to accurately determine the distance of Circinus X-1 from Earth. e like to call this system the ord of the Rings,
and indicates that the star system has passed repeatedly a key threshold for brightness where the outward pressure from radiation by the system is balanced by the inward pull of gravity.
This behavior is something astronomers generally see more often in systems containing black holes than in systems like Circinus X-1 that contain a neutron star.
This extreme velocity is associated usually with jets produced by a black hole. ircinus X-1 acts in some ways like a neutron star
and in some like a black hole, said co-author Catherine Braiding, also of the University of New south wales. t extremely unusual to find an object that has such a blend of these properties.
as seen from Earth. This makes Circinus X-1 the youngest so-called X-ray binary known.
these plates can slide across each other bit like geological plates that form the earth crust allowing for high sensitivity
These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of temperature of the sun,
"To predators, the bioluminescence is very similar to the light coming from the moon and stars at night,
which not only changes sunlight into an electrical charge, but also splits the water, acting as a form of solar fuel cell.
NASA's Earth observing missions and NOAA JPSS constellation. ris is proven technology that is already providing high-quality environmental data to the meteorological and climate communities on Suomi NPP,
It also provides a vital tool for NOAA to continually take the planet pulse to assist in understanding major climate shifts t
Air and Upper atmosphere Researchers from Arizona State university School of Earth and Space exploration have combined their sensors,
Developed by a team led by experimental physicist Cody Youngbull, assistant research professor in the School of Earth and Space exploration,
lander or orbiter to seek out extant DNA in the water on Mars, the oceans of Europa,
the ice plumes of Enceladus or wherever scientist-explorers one day hope to discover and quantify nucleic acid sequences.
Near-Earth satellites, which are equipped with such a sensor and which orbit the Earth at a speed of 26,000 kilometers per hour, could take color photographs of the earth surface with a resolution of 3 centimeters.
The market launch of the new sensor which is at the heart of the AIT test camera is scheduled for the end of 2015.
"Pyxis will track GPS signals traveling through Earth's atmosphere and convert them into dense, precise measurements of global temperature,
Planetiq's microsatellite constellation, with an initial set of 12 satellites launching in 2016 and 2017, will deliver over 8 million observations per day of temperature, pressure and water vapor,
who was instrumental in designing the sensors on the U s.-Taiwan Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere,
and Climate (COSMIC), the world's first and only satellite constellation of proven GPS-RO sensors."
"The Earth's atmosphere is sampled radically under at present especially over the oceans which cover 70%of the Earth's surface.
Is jet travel becoming the dirtiest way to cross the planet? The search for aviation biofuels broke on to the public stage in the late 2000s
Airbus, is going to build the world's largest satellite constellation. The company will produce 900 spacecraft for Oneweb,
The multi-billion-dollar Oneweb constellation will dwarf any previous commercial network in the sky by a factor of 10.
Airbus says it will make the first 10 spacecraft at its Toulouse manufacturing facility before shifting work to a dedicated plant in the United states. Many rockets will be required to get the constellation in orbit
This is a 12-spacecraft constellation providing ackhaultelecommunications services, also in broadband-underserved countries. But Mr Wyler Oneweb venture is a step-change in thinking.
Satellite constellations, it has to be said, have chequered a rather history. Even some of today big players, like satphone service providers Iridium and Globalstar, got themselves into enormous financial trouble when building their first-generation networks.
Gan shares the grant with Josep M. Jornet and Zhi Sun both assistant professors of electrical engineering at UB.
and August) when Denmark sunlight levels are similar to New york in the July and October period.
said lead author Jill Banfield, a professor of earth and planetary science and of environmental science, policy and management. hese new groups of bacteria and Archaea are changing our understanding of the number and arrangement of branches on the tree of life.
to characterize their lifestyles. eople have seen these bacteria in surveys of many different environments all over the planet,
#Biotechnology Helps Meet Consumer Demand for Earth-Friendly Products Industrial biotechnology has its roots in cleaning up environmental hazards.
REUTERS/China Dailyif the stock is a dog it will eventually come back down to earth.
understanding what happens to stars at the end of their life.""He said it was still a mystery why it had taken 50 years to find pentaquarks."
#Invest In Solar Farms With New Investor Program From Innovative Solar systems Would you be part of the solar boom for as little as $250, 000 per project?
Innovative Solar systems, LLC, is spearheading a plan for diverse investors (all types) to take part in partial ownership of large-scale solar farm projects.
Innovative Solar systems (ISS) is swift to expand (with this new plan) throughout the nation. The press release notes that the company new partnership program promotes sharing of profits as a basis for investors to take part
Both the solar panels and the food-bearing plants receive enough sunlight to be productive. It would be nice
The company Joule updated us on new patents for its cyanobacteria-to-biofuel process powered by sunlight and carbon dioxide, researchers at Tohoku University hit upon a new method for converting algae to biofuel precursors,
and makes the planet warmer. According to the U s. Environmental protection agency coal-and natural gas-fired plants were responsible for one-third of U s. greenhouse gas emissions in 2012.
and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
It become clear that there are many alternative ways to generate energy without destroying the planet d
The mystery test vehicle essentially a technology test bed is designed to orbit the Earth and then land like one of NASA's old shuttles.
and came back to Earth in June 2012. According to X-37b manufacturer Boeing, the space plane operates in low-earth orbit, between 110 (177km) and 500 miles (800km) above earth.
By comparison, the International space station orbits at about 220 miles (350km) 0
#L'oreal wants to start 3d printing SKIN: Cosmetics firm has teamed with bioengineering experts to develop tissue By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
#Lightsail launches to test revolutionary solar technology in Earth orbit A small spacecraft designed to test solar sail technology in Earth orbit has taken flight in a successful launch.
and test how effective the sun is at pushing it. If it works, the technology could signal a breakthrough in space propulsion
such as the moon and Mars, at very low cost. Lightsail was designed by a Californian non-government organisation called The Planetary Society.
photons from the sun will strike the sail and push it forwards, similar to how a sail On earth catches the wind.
This is because the force from the sun is constant, and there is no air resistance or friction holding the spacecraft back,
though, Lightsail will be in too low an orbit to escape the clutches of Earth. It will ultimately fall back
far enough away from Earth that it should be able to escape the gravitational pull of our planet.
This will allow this second spacecraft to use the push from the sun to travel into the solar system.
A spacecraft using a solar sail could be placed in an orbit between Earth and the sun,
where it could remain in place without falling into the sun thanks to the push it receives,
known as tation keepingsuch a spacecraft could be used to either observe the sun in detail, or to look at Earth and track asteroids near the planet.
The idea for a spacecraft to be equipped with a solar sail to use the solar wind for propulsion was described by the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan four decades ago. ecause it has a constant acceleration,
it can get you around the inner part of the solar system a lot faster...than the usual sorts of rocket propulsion, he said in a 1976 broadcast of the Tonight show with Jonny Carson.
It was theorised that solar sails could accelerate spacecraft far beyond the speeds of traditional fuels, to make interplanetary-and interstellar travel more feasible.
but in future the technology could be used for missions to the moon and other planets in the solar system. ith solar sailing,
olar sailing can take us to the moon, to other planets, and even to interstellar space. e
#Nasa spots most luminous galaxy in the universe-shining with the light of more than 300 TRILLION suns A dazzling galaxy that shines with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered by astronomers.
Named Wise J224607. 57-052635.0, scientists believe the galaxy may have a behemoth black hole at its heart
but how this black hole came to be so big remains a mystery.''We are looking at a very intense phase of galaxy evolution,
'This dazzling light may be from the main growth spurt of the galaxy's black hole.''Supermassive black holes draw gas
and matter into a disk around them, heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet,
Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so'far back'in the cosmos is rare.
Because light from the galaxy hosting the black hole has travelled 12.5 billion years to reach us,
The black hole was already billions of times the mass of our sun when our universe was only a tenth of its present age of 13.8 billion years.
The new study suggests black holes in the Elrigs could have grown so massive because embryonic black holes, might be thought bigger than possible.
The other two explanations involve either breaking or bending the theoretical limit of black hole feeding,
called the Eddington limit. When a black hole feeds, gas falls in and heats up, blasting out light.
The pressure of the light actually pushes the gas away creating a limit to how fast the black hole can continuously scarf down matter.
If a black hole broke this limit, it could theoretically balloon in size at a breakneck pace.
Black holes have previously been observed breaking this limit; however, the black hole in the study would have had to repeatedly break the limit to grow this large.
Alternatively, the black holes might just be bending this limit. If a black hole spins slowly enough, it won't repel its meal as much.
In the end, a slow-spinning black hole can eat up more matter than a fast spinner.''The massive black holes in Elrigs could be gorging themselves on more matter for a longer period of time,
'said Andrew Blain of University of Leicester.''It's like winning a hot-dog-eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.'
'More research is needed to solve this puzzle of these dazzlingly luminous galaxies. The team has plans to better determine the masses of the central black holes.
Knowing these objects'true hefts will help reveal their history, as well as that of other galaxies, in this very crucial and frenzied chapter of our cosmos m
#The gadgets that give you SUPERPOWERS: Spiderman-style gloves, lenses with super sight and Iron man suits become a reality By Sarah Griffiths and Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published:
08:14 GMT, 22 may 2015 Updated: 08:14 GMT, 22 may 2015 The technology to transform yourself into your favourite superhero is quickly becoming a reality-thankfully without the outlandish Lycra wardrobe.
blindfolded wearers armed with'cardboard ninja stars'were able to score direct hits on anyone who strayed too close.
Scientists analyzing imaging data from Earth-based missions that monitor phenomena such as snowfall and soil moisture could similarly benefit.
whether it is a board game, DNA structure or the solar system, your content comes alive-view it from four different angles
Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
17:32 GMT, 16 june 2015 Aerospace behemoth Airbus is set to build the largest satellite constellation seen so far.
who intends to beam the internet to Earth from space. Airbus will make 900 spacecraft-building up to four a day-with 300 to be kept as spares for after the proposed launches,
Oneweb constellation will be ten times as large as any commercial network launched so far, but it will have to compete with Spacex grand plans to launch more than 4, 000 small satellites into Earth orbit over 15 years,
with the aim of getting unconnected parts of the world online. Each of Oneweb satellites will have a mass less then 330 lbs (150kg)
Rockets will be needed to propel the spacecraft into Earth orbit, and Sir Richard Branson Virgin galactic may be an option.
which is to launch 4, 025 small satellites into Earth orbit over a period of 15 years.
If this happens, Oneweb's constellation would not be the largest. According to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission
200km) in a variety of orbits, to ensure that the whole Earth constantly has access to their Internet.
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