This morning Virgin galactic and NBC announced plans for a Survivor-like series that will send the winner to space.
Dubbed Space Race it is one of three space-based reality TV SHOWS that could be gracing our screens in the coming years assuming producers can get their hands on a working spacecraft.
Virgin galactic's Spaceshiptwo is a six passenger two pilot suborbital craft designed to give wannabe astronauts a few minutes in space.
All we know is that participants will gradually be eliminated as they compete for the winning ticket to space
and viewers will get a behind-the-scenes look at Spaceport America in New mexico. Space Race is not Burnett's first attempt to televise space flight.
In 2000 he announced Destination Mir a programme that would have seen contestants train for a mission to the Russian space station Mir
but the plans were scrapped after the station was orbited de in 2001. It is also not the only space-related show currently attempting to get off the ground.
Last month Sony Pictures Television announced a partnership with Dutch firm Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) for a show called Milky way Mission
which will see celebrities compete for a flight to space aboard an XCOR AEROSPACE Lynx craft.
SXC previously announced a non-televised competition to send 22 people to space and plans to film a sci-fi movie aboard a Lynx
Future systems could stream high-definition video from space probes or from human missions to Mars suggests LLCD manager Donald Cornwell.
Joseph Kahn of Stanford university in California also acknowledges the need for higher bandwidth in returning ever larger amounts of data from space missions.
China is also aiming to build its own space station by 2020 0
#Japanese probe to sniff out why planets lose gases Update 16 september: Epsilon took off at 2pm local time on 14 september.
Japan's newest rocket scheduled for its maiden voyage this week is designed to be a smaller cheaper way to get science satellites into space.
Extreme UV from the sun gets bent at the boundary where a planet's atmosphere meets space
But extreme UV radiation coming from space is absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere so it is not observable from the ground says Sawai.
Very little outer space observation with extreme UV has been done so scientists are expecting new discoveries that no one has imagined ever before.
and Space Physics in Boulder Colorado who has worked on Sprint-A. Still the solar wind would have been much stronger
By observing this phenomenon we will investigate how the solar wind affects the upper atmosphere of planets and how the planetary atmosphere escapes into outer space.
#Space station poised to launch open-source satellites Want to do your own space experiment? From next week you will be able to run science projects on the world's first open-source satellites.
Ardusat-1 and Ardusat-X were launched to the International space station (ISS) on 3 august aboard a Japanese resupply vehicle
Nanosatisfi hopes to send fleets of them into space on future launches. We're focused on launching a number of these over the next few years says Wake.
NASA is not the only organisation trying to take 3d printing into space however: a public competition is under way to create a crowdsourced design for an open-source 3d-printable rocket engine that commercial spaceflight operators will be able to use
#Solar system has shaped a tail like a four-leaf clover Lucky us! Our solar system has a tail reminiscent of a four-leaf clover according to new observations of the plasma bubble that shields the solar system from the rest of the galaxy.
The discovery should help us better understand how our star interacts with the Milky way including how harmful cosmic rays from interstellar space manage to sneak through the solar system's magnetic barrier.
At the same time a stream of particles blowing out from the sun the solar wind inflates a bubble of plasma around the solar system called the heliosphere Astronomers have assumed long that the sun's motion through the galaxy squashes
and spreads the heliosphere into a bullet shape with an extended tail at the back (see image).
when charged particles from the solar wind collide with other charged particles in the outer heliosphere Some of these neutral atoms are bounced back towards us.
The magnetic field of the heliosphere protects us from the bulk of these galactic high-energy particles. But some manage to impinge on our solar system
and interact with gases in the interstellar medium creating mini versions of these enigmatic astrophysical phenomena in the lab for the first time.
#China inches closer to building its own space station Update 11 june 2013: The China National Space Administration successfully launched its Shenzhou-10 mission to low Earth orbit at 0938 GMT today.
The Long March 2f rocket lifted off flawlessly from the Jiuquan space centre in Mongolia's Gobi desert
and headed towards the fledgling spacefaring nation's space station Tiangong 1 around which it is expected to test manoeuvres before docking for a 15-day stay on orbit.
and operating a space station. If all goes to plan the mission will mark the end of the beginning of China's slow but steady approach to human space flight.
Right now the country is not doing anything revolutionary. But progress so far suggests that more advanced plans such as a moon base
In a press conference Monday a spokeswoman for the Chinese human space programme Wu Ping announced that Shenzhou-10 will lift off at 0938 UTC according to the Chinese news service Xinhua.
The astronauts will rendezvous with the Tiangong 1 (Heavenly Palace 1) space module which has been orbiting Earth since September 2011.
The ultimate goal is to build a space station by 2020. What China plans to do with the space station is still unclear
and they may need a new heavy launch vehicle called the Long March 5 in order to build it.
because China's approach has been markedly different from the frenetic space race between the US
There was a space race between the US and Russia because we each started at the same place.
The two countries also have different political attitudes towards space exploration. What we have seen more than anything else is a truly long-term commitment to space that dates back at least 25 years
By contrast NASA's human spaceflight programme has struggled under changing budgets and political whims. Plans to return to the moon under George w bush's administration for instance morphed into crewed missions to an asteroid under Barack Obama's presidency.
When it comes to sending humans beyond Earth orbit China's unwavering goals may see it beat other space powers like the US to the punch says Cheng.
At about the distance of the Kuiper belt the region past Neptune where comets are born the would-be planet cores can't get much bigger than a millimetre.
Older observations had spotted a gap in the disc suggesting that the star has an orbiting body about 10 times the mass of Jupiter that is clearing a space.
#Antares rocket launch heats up private space race Watch out Spacex there's a new commercial rocket in town.
The launch sets the stage for a second company to begin resupply missions to the International space station.
Since the space shuttles retired in 2011 NASA has been contracting with private firms to deliver cargo and soon hopefully astronauts to the space station.
Antares built by spaceflight company Orbital Sciences of Dulles Virginia lifted off from the Mid-atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island Virginia at 22.00 GMT.
#Curiosity's discoveries hint at life's cradle on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock much to everyone's surprise.
if they actually did NASA's Curiosity rover has found the first definitive evidence that the Red planet was suited once to life
#Curiosity's first drilling hints at Martian mining NASA's Curiosity rover bored into a Martian rock on 9 february and pulled out its first sample of the planet's insides to ingest
However it is not the first space drilling to take place. Astronauts drilled into rocks on the moon
but they were equipped not to extract anything for analysis. That means Curiosity is the first Mars rover to make a deep hole and collect
Even internet giant Google has got in on the rush to space investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture.
"Will the space around Earth become crowded with all these satellites vying to route our data?"
"Miniaturisation and large drops in the cost of satellite components are boosting the push to space,
Antenna weight can be brought down by using antennas that unfurl themselves in space, like those being developed by Sergio Pellegrino at the California Institute of technology.
then come together in space to form a light, powerful satellite. A network of such orbiters should be able to provide coverage that is similar to the signals terrestrial cellular towers already pump out."
"It's a brand new space race in many ways, "says Cutler.""But instead of being fuelled from a defence perspective,
It s crazy that something as trivial as physical space as the size of the lunch table could affect productivity Waber says.
A large pink dot appears to follow the pedestrian a symbol of the robot perception of the pedestrian position in space.
and not a beam of droplets says Herbert Shea an associate professor in the Microsystems for Space technologies Laboratory at the cole Polytechnique F d rale de Lausanne.
#Shrink-wrapping spacesuits For future astronauts the process of suiting up may go something like this:
Now MIT researchers are one step closer to engineering such an active second-skin spacesuit: Dava Newman a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small springlike coils that contract in response to heat.
In subsequent tests the group found that the pressure produced by the coils equaled that required to fully support an astronaut in space.
With conventional spacesuits you re essentially in a balloon of gas that s providing you with the necessary one-third of an atmosphere of pressure to keep you alive in the vacuum of space says Newman who has worked for the past decade to design a formfitting flexible spacesuit of the future.
While skintight spacesuits have been proposed in the past there s been one persistent design hurdle: how to squeeze in and out of a pressurized suit that s engineered to be extremely tight.
To find an active material that would be most suitable for use in space Holschuh considered 14 types of shape-changing materials ranging from dielectric elastomers to shape-memory polymers before settling on nickel-titanium shape
and is given likely infeasible the limited power resources available to astronauts in space. Holschuh and Newman are currently exploring the second option looking into potential mechanisms to lock
As for where the coils may be threaded within a spacesuit Holschuh is contemplating several designs. For instance an array of coils may be incorporated into the center of a suit with each coil attached to a thread that radiates to the suit s extremities.
Or smaller arrays of coils could be placed in strategic locations within a spacesuit to produce localized tension
While the researchers are concentrating mostly on applications in space Holschuh says the group s designs
and mobile but these designs are not just for use in space. This research was funded by NASA and the MIT Portugal Program m
without needing to know details of the underlying hardware. ee doing the same thing for the drone space,
left corner of that table was located in physical space. ou say that corner is this far off the floor, this far to the right of my chair,
Something that doesn t get mentioned a lot in this space is the amount of time that gets saved through ride consolidation he says.
GS could adapt over time into that space, as well. o
#The incredible shrinking power brick While laptops continue to shrink in size and weight, the ower bricksthat charge them remain heavy and bulky.
and to convert carbon dioxide to fuels for applications On earth and in space. Today industrial infrastructure manages basic resources linearly
and has since found its way back to space. Meeting at MIT in 2006 over a shared fondness for biotech, Silver, then a research scientist in MIT Space Systems Lab,
and Buck, a biological engineering graduate student, won a grant from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts program to create a life-support system that could treat waste
In 2012, NASA began funding a Cambrian project, called Exogen, that uses electromethanogenesis to more efficiently extract oxygen or fuel from CO2 for long-duration space flights.
Silver says. he challenge of supporting astronauts in space is very similar to sustainability On earth,
he says. hat youe looking to do in space is maximize reuse, while minimizing energetics. If we look at Earth as the spaceship, it the same problem.
but the company is also planning to launch additional bionic products into the space to provide assistance to a larger number of people Herr says.
Pantazis says. e now have the tools to precisely map brain function both in space and time,
It might be a job for efficient spray cooling f we can figure out how to fit a system into the small space inside electronic devices.
He describes below the highly improved communications capabilities that will enable NASA to significantly change the scope and design of future scientific space missions.
It is NASA s first space-based laser communications system. And it is by far the longest two-way laser communications link ever accomplished.
The beam-stabilization system on the space terminal is based on inertial sensors which can be scaled to work even at the most distant planets.
It has been known for years that laser communications have the potential to deliver much higher data rates and use smaller space terminals than radio-based systems.
With the success of LLCD next-generation space mission designers can now feel more comfortable in including a laser communication system as part of their design.
Then the Laboratory did the more detailed full-system design the detailed design of the three modules that make up the space terminal and the detailed design of the primary ground terminal.
and configuring the space and ground segments in a coordinated fashion h
#Persuading light to mix it up with matter Researchers at MIT have succeeded in producing and measuring a coupling of photons
which is periodic both in time and space. Victor Galitski, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland who was involved not in this research,
when in audio recordings represents every second of speech as a point in a three-dimensional space.
Video courtesy of Stephen Shum E pluribus tresthe result is that for every second of a recording a diarization system would have to search a space with 120000 dimensions which would be prohibitively time-consuming.
The graph would be a diagonal line in a two-dimensional space. Now imagine rotating the axes of the graph
Similarly i-vectors find new axes for describing the information that characterizes speech sounds in the 120000-dimension space.
Birds of a featherfor every second of sound in a recording Shum thus ends up with a single point in a three-dimensional space.
and the spherical representation fits naturally with the 3-D space. It s just kind of a recoding of the features that has more natural properties.
and receive light over a very confined space, Fang says, and could lead to nique optical material that has great potential for optical interconnects.
the switches in the inductor path are flipped. n this technology space, there usually a trend to lower efficiency as the power gets lower,
or exercise-monitoring space. So an alternative is to go to a combination of a battery and a capacitor,
but spreads out to fill a confined space as a gas does. Add oil to supercritical water (SCW) and stir,
When you try to fit the larger boxes into the space for a smaller box it creates an immense strain said Argonne physicist Byeongdu Lee.
because the pressure removes all the space between them. This benzene then becomes highly reactive so that when we release the pressure very slowly an orderly polymerization reaction happens that forms the diamond-core nanothread.
One of our wildest dreams for the nanomaterials we are developing is that they could be used to make the super-strong lightweight cables that would make possible the construction of a space elevator
These spaces are very important for this architecture said Purdue postdoctoral research associate Vinodkumar Etacheri.
With this system we can track the self-assembly of the nanoparticles according to the space accessible to them.
These metals open the application space to areas such as energy harvesting sensing and electrochemical studies. The lift off technique is a method of patterning target materials on the surface of a substrate by using a sacrificial material.
because it slightly enlarges the interlayer space between MXENE flakes allowing ions to penetrate deep into the electrode;
#Microtubes create cozy space for neurons to grow and grow fast Tiny, thin microtubes could provide a scaffold for neuron cultures to grow
"These are exactly the types of spaces where they grow in vivo. What was really surprising was how much faster they grew.
Coauthor Eleanor Gillette's modeling shows that the unique design of the nanopore battery is responsible for its success. The space inside the holes is so small that the space they take up all added together would be no more than a grain of sand.
These spaces between transistors have been much more challenging and extremely expensive to miniaturize an obstacle that limits the future development of computers.
Just as any expanding material can be shaped inside a mold to take on a defined 3d form the Wyss team set out to grow inorganic particles within the confined hollow spaces of stiff DNA nanostructuresthe concept can be likened to the Japanese method of growing watermelons in glass cubes.
and expanded to fill all existing space within the DNA framework resulting in a cuboid nanoparticle with the same dimensions as its mold. with the length width
"A particle in free space will always emit as much light into one particular direction as it emits into the opposite direction,
and not a beam of droplets says Herbert Shea an associate professor in the Microsystems for Space technologies Laboratory at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne.
and has exciting potential for the car space and defense industries. Current powder metallurgy or liquid processing methods fail to achieve uniform processing says research leader Junfeng Guo who is from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
Aligned CNTS were intercalated firstly into the interlayer spaces of the layered catalyst embedded with metal nanoparticles (NPS) through a low-temperature (L-T) CVD
or reflect it back into free space. The metallic nanostructures use surface plasmons waves of electrons that flow like a fluid across metal surfaces.
what types of lifeforms we might find in extreme environments like space. In addition this research has the potential to inform the creation of living microbial circuits forming the foundation of hybrid biological-synthetic electronic devices.
on the one hand, electronic components must be accommodated into smaller and smaller spaces. On the other hand, what are known as compound semiconductors are to be embedded into conventional materials.
researchers were able to squeeze light into nanosized spaces, but sustaining the confined energy was challenging
This along with poor adhesion prevented their application to critical space and airborne instrumentation. The two year development and test program was completed in December 2013 during
As part of the program qualification to European Cooperation on Space Standardization (ECSS) standards was achieved also.
and allows the use of smaller lighter sources in space-borne black body calibration systems.
Its ultra-low reflectance improves the sensitivity of terrestrial space and airborne instrumentation. The company listed other special characteristics:
We were investigating possible applications for carbon nanotubes in space when we got this result. The effect was confirmed through molecular simulations.
and sequentially the transfer of energy between them occurs exclusively within the intracellular space he says.
and light weightuch as in structures to be deployed in space, where every bit of weight adds significantly to the cost of launch.
space-consuming batteries could become a thing of the past. It is possible to further miniaturize the electronic devices
or the space that has been used previously for batteries could be used for other purposes. In the case of launch vehicles
And of course the laser and its mounting take up a great deal of space. With the new design the illumination will be applied directly over the probe tip at the same place on the sample that is being exposed to the microwave signal.
"This is a problem because empty spaces, such as the thoracic cavity, will also appear dark, possibly leading to incorrect identification of tumour margins."
Or they say the fiber could be a space-saving power source and serve as energy-carrying wires in medical implants.
He and his printer system are#part of this year's NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Paris proposing to use e waste to make 3-D printers that would print tools to colonize Mars. euronews
Kickstarter via IGN Of the space I will be moving in I hope it first allows me to setup my boundries else this thing might have me walk into a wall when visually
if implemented with something like Virtusphere (virtusphere. com) being part of one of those laser-tag/game centers plus it would require a lot less floor space than laser tag
and the cost for compatible games would be way less than the cost for the space.
#The next Space shuttle: Hybrid Engines Make Runway-To-Orbit Missions A Reality A disembodied jet engine attached to a hulking air vent sits in an outdoor test facility at the Culham Science Center in Oxfordshire England.
Sabre has the unique ability to use oxygen in the air rather than from external liquid-oxygen tanks like those on the space shuttle Strapped to a spacecraft engines of this breed would eliminate the need for expendable boosters
which make launching people and things into space slow and expensive. The Skylon could be ready to head back to space within two days of landing says Mark Hempsell future-programs director at Reaction engines.
By comparison the space shuttle which required an external fuel tank and two rocket boosters took about two months to turn around (due to damage incurred during launch and splashdown) and cost $100 million.
Citing Skylon's simplicity Hempsell estimates a mission could cost as little as $10 million. That price would even undercut the $50 million sum that private spaceflight company Spacex plans to charge to launch cargo on its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.
The engine produces incredible heat as it pushes toward space and heat is a problem.
NASA and Lockheed martin meanwhile had their own plans for a fully reusable spacecraft the Venturestar intended as an affordable replacement for the partially reusable space shuttle.
Eliminating the expendable rockets needed to boost the shuttle into space could theoretically reduce the cost of launches from $10000 per pound to $1000 per pound.
Spacex CEO Elon musk told an audience at the National Press Club in 2011 that private spaceflights would need to follow a model closer to that of airlines.
I will see a single stage space plane take off to space and land back on earth.
Truthfully Skylon or SSTO is the only way to make space common. Imagine a fleet of these vehicles whisking payloads to LEO on a daily basis
We could finally start to build a true space presence...moon base lunar orbital base a lunar tether space manufacturing space recreation and ultimately deep space travel.
Setting up shop on Phobos and Deimos Mars Titan Europa...Later on sky cities wafting through the Venusian atmosphere (oxygen is a lifting gas on that planet so technically a simple Nitrogen/Oxygen atmosphere
In space? 4. If LOX is an oxidiser for at least part of the flight where is the tank?
The shuttle program kept us from actual space exploration for 20 years. No lunar missions No Mars missions or asteroid missions except by robots. oh yea...
what does it matter that we have a shiny new toy primarily for the commercial interests who will be building 1 star hotels in near Earth orbit that cost $10000 a day
The Space program should be about exploration beyond Earth. I want craft that can support bases on the Moon flag planting ceremonies on Mars Europa and Titan.
And yes the Space shuttle was a huge drain on resources but was unfortunately necessary for the completion of the ISS as we were too deep into them both to cancel the programs.
so light for its size it will not get as hot as other re-entry vehicles like the space shuttle (1100k vs 2000k).
me that this could be the perfect example for international cooperation in space (it already is as ESA is already looking more aggressively into it).
and focusing on the future of space transportationâ#Replace those two flags in the picture with the NASA/ESA emblems representing a true international space endeavor.
Another fake research program to cover for the real space program. The one that cooperates with the reptilians. could be just a rumor.
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