Its computer system reduces the number of people needed at a launch site from the 150 that were standard at Japan's previous space launches.
Japan's space program JAXA developed both its Epsilon Launch vehicle and the small satellite carrying the planet-viewing telescope
M-class flares can cause some space weather effects On earth like disrupting radio signals. Anything more intense than an M9. 9 flare becomes an X-class the highest category.
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In addition to the underlying cause a death certificate has space for up to 20 additional causes. That's where cocaine or antidepressants would show up.
The rocket carrying the robotic probe called Luna-Glob will be the first set off from Russia's new Far east launchpad the Vostochny cosmodrome.
Plus they could use it as practice/tests for going to mars. It's about time the space faring governments of the world start building an infrastructure on the lunar surface that will support long term duration stays ship yards fuel generation and processing navigation stations for terrestrial navigation
Can't believe the Russian government will spend billions launching more lunar probes or even spend billions more on a manned lunar mission in the next 5 years.
and maybe Putin feels the Russians could make a profit selling a lunar space system to the Chinese.
and spacesuit pioneer ILC Dover to develop its proprietary UV-and weather-resistant fabric. B The first commercial BAT will house a 30-kilowatt turbine
or research scientists floating into space. But the finding is especially troubling combined with the news Popular Science reported back in May that the collapse of some West Antarctic glaciers due to rising global temperatures is now very likely unstoppable.
--and that it came from interstellar space.##That s certainly something to ponder the next time you drink a glass of water.#
#If water in the early Solar system was inherited primarily as ice from interstellar space then it is likely that similar ices
#The researchers concluded that a significant portion of Earth s water came from interstellar space by looking at the relative abundance of hydrogen and deuterium.#
#In interstellar space for example water ice contains lots of deuterium thanks to the freezing cold temperatures and ionizing radiation.
whether Earth's deuterium came from space or whether it was cooked up in the birth of the Sun.#To find out researchers used mathematical models to#virtually recreate#the young solar system's protoplanetary disk--the cloud around the newborn#Sun. They found that based on the temperature
Because of that the researchers estimate that anywhere between 7 and 50 percent of Earth s water had to have come from the interstellar medium in
And since other solar systems would have formed in the same interstellar medium the findings suggest that the origins of water On earth were not unique
Snake bots slithering like their reptilian namesakes are great at crawling through narrow spaces but they're fairly slow.
--were housed in little more than a couple of glorified wooden cigar boxes leaving vast amounts of empty space between the rear wheels.
Today NASA announced that two private companies will be tasked with taxiing NASA ASTRONAUTS to and from the International space station beginning in 2017.
which was established in 2010 to foster the development of a U s. commercial crew space transportation capability.
The idea was to make trips to space both safe and cost effective and private companies have demonstrated for some time that they can send rockets to space for a fraction of the cost.
Most importantly though is that the program will end bring an end to NASA's reliance on Russian spacecraft to ferry astronauts from Earth to the ISS.
Since the end of the Space shuttle program in 2011 NASA ASTRONAUTS have been hitching rides on Russian Soyuz rockets.
which NASA awarded them a total of $1. 4 billion in Space Act Agreements and contracts to get their ideas up and running.
Despite not being chosen for the program Sierra nevada plans to further develop its Shuttle-esque vehicle the Dream Chaser perhaps as a resupply vehicle or for commercial space flight t
The Doom engine is a computer program that can render 2-D blueprints into a 3-D space.
and create a live data set for every aspect of a space including the electrical engineering millwork and piping.
which is vital on space missions where space is tight. In addition the fact that all the control systems of the robots fit into caps at the ends of each rod means we can build robots of a variety of scales#we can make the robots twice as big
#A Space Game Gets Real 1) Players can purchase virtual ships for $25 to $1250 (in real money) depending on model and availability.
but successfully integrating both manned and unmanned aircraft into the same flight patterns especially on the confined space of an aircraft carrier is essential for future operations.
According to a report by Japan's Kyodo news Agency, Japan's Self-defense Forces plan to add a space monitoring branch,
Japan's proposed space force would monitor Earth's orbitals with radar and telescopes, looking for harmful debris that threatens satellites.
Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency signed an agreement with the United states where they promised to give information on space debris to U s. Strategic Command.
NASA, together with the Department of defense, already have progams in place monitoring space debris. The architecture of space has had always a military underpinning.
American nuclear submarines, hiding out at sea, used geo-locating satellites to calculate target trajectories, so that they could reliably hit the same points on earth from anywhere.
the Department of defense was floating ideas about"Space Control"to make sure that nothing in space threatened the important American satellites already there.
the country passed a Basic Space Law, which changed previous laws regarding space in a key way:"
"Nonmilitary use"became"nonaggressive use.""This allows Japan the possibility of defensive military action in space,
where before the country was limited by previous law and their constitution's intensely pacifistic Article 9. While On earth,
it's unlikely that a new space force means we'll see Japanese war satellites anytime soon.
Japan, like the United states, is one of 89 countries that signed the Outer space Treaty, which formally prohibits putting
and testing weapons in space s
#Solar Sponge Efficiently Makes Steam Generating steam is enormously useful. Much of the world's energy actually comes from steam-coal power plants heat up water to produce water vapor,
The three-section waterproofed boxes are empty providing 450+sq. inches of free space for electronics along with open deck space for mounting payloads.
and testing in the areas of robotics space exploration aviation and other technologies NASA said in a press release.
Once renovations are complete Hangar One will again be home to high-tech innovation as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research development assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration aviation rover
and the Microsystems for Space technologies Laboratory both at EPFL in Switzerland have developed a new soft actuator that enables robots to fold.
It is a major incident for US spaceflight that breaks a trouble-free period and could have important implications for the private spaceflight sector.
The Antares launcher and the Cygnus spacecraft it was carrying were developed both and operated by Orbital Sciences corporation one of the two private companies
(along with Spacex) under contract from NASA for supplying the International Space station with cargo supplies and secondary experimental and commercial ISS payload.
and ULA (the USA defense contractor for space launches that also use Russian made RD-180 engines) in an uncomfortable position.
Nevertheless today there is unprecedented activity over commercial spaceflight even if we are still very far away from the glory days of nationally funded Apollo or Space shuttle.
Competition will certainly make access to space easier and cheaper for everyone even with occassional incidents like this along the way a
#I think that to be realistic about the technology it#s important to realize that especially in the commercial space technology like this has a tendency to get mislabelled
Although there is some competition within this space he emphasizes the importance of cooperation. Progress from any one company is going to help the industry as a whole.
#satellites and commercial applications of space;##robotics and autonomous systems;##life sciences genomics and synthetic biology;##regenerative medicine;#
and are a direct response to the pressure on space that is so common within large cities today.
and space instrument repair i
#Lifehand 2 prosthetic grips and senses like a real hand Roboticists and doctors working in Switzerland
#Robonaut doctor to practice in space Astronauts all know how important it is to stay healthy in space.
and outside the International space station will be able to add medical practices to its resume. Medical training is a complex and lengthy process even for a robot.
R2 joined its mechanical twin Robonaut 1 aboard the International space station on August 22 2013. Unlike R1 which is just a head
Other upgrades may enable the robot to work outside the space station to perform repairs and maintenance checks
The most defining feature of the system on display at the company showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. his is tiered a 5 cultivation system.
and space exploration are just beginning to be seen. Yutu is wheeled a 6 rover. It has 4 cameras
In its most recent manned space mission in June three astronauts spent 15 days in orbit and docked with a space laboratory.
Their mission was part of Beijing quest to open a permanent space station in Earth orbit within the next decade.#
#On the nonmilitary/space frontier China#12th 5-Year Plan targeted robotics as a growth industry necessary for China#development.
A quick look at all the ongoing research projects at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang Institute of Automation shows their interest in space search
 Of course Play-i are not the only ones in this space with Thymio and Linkbot doing very good affordable educational robotics just to name a couple.
which spaces are available then drives itself to an empty space and parks. This system can automatically park multiple cars efficiently.
military and security (64%)manufacturing (57%)space exploration (45%)search and rescue (36%)and healthcare (18%.
and agreeing on the space in addition to rehearsing the demo itself. And then there was the packing to do:
Drone and a scientific crowdsourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous space probes.
To this end, we designed a mission-based game where players simulate docking the Parrot with the International space station as quickly as possible
The code for communicating with Parrot is open source. Methodology The question we faced experimentally was how to couple the real-world object to the virtual space in which the drone would be flying.
In order to render the virtual space environment, we perform state estimation on the basis of the drone estimates of its height, speeds, angles,
As long as there is even a small space the device can be used in any type of hospital.
It maps its own environment and uses an array of sophisticated sensors to autonomously move about a busy space without interfering with people or other objects.
and its dual modes of locomotion will enable it to fly long distances to survey large spaces in a short timespan,
One of the main problems in trying to get a flying robot to walk in small spaces is the surface areas of the wings.
but this makes it difficult for them to fit into smaller spaces. After observing D. rotundus
the research team used a foldable actuator that allows the wings to fold into a smaller space,
The chromophores have to be arranged just right, with exactly the right amount of space between them.
The Mars Curiosity rover, for instance, has detected methane on the surface of Mars, as well as other chemical signatures suggesting the possibility of past or present life.
The mushroom anodesporosity creates more space for the transfer of energy which can improve battery performance.
An array of 64 miniature loudspeakers creates three separate sonic force fields that work together in the space just above the speaker array.
If perfected, this onic tractor beamcould find uses ranging from treating kidney stones to creating artificial gravity on the International space station.
which requires squeezing through small spaces. They are also using the PLL approach to increase throughput by operating many cantilevers on a single chip.
One example is construction in space, where working is difficult, there are severe constraints on volume and weight,
an we do it in the medical space??Industry partnerships work best hen we can actually collaborate to invent the future,
to think of something that no one is doing in that space and that can radically change an industry,
$12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
The company founded in 2002 is making rockets for NASA's space program and to resupply the International space station.*
More recently, the company entered the entertainment space, landing Netflix as a client. That was a product of the company's ability to process a lot of content in a short amount of time
the next step is to see how it behaves in a space environment, "said Charles Gentile, a PPPL engineer who has worked closely with Rasmussen."
"We can't explore space without robots, "Rasmussen said.""Humans can only withstand a certain amount of radiation
so that limits the time that people can be in space, whereas robots particularly if they're radiation-resistant can be up there for long periods of time without being replaced."
and the coupon will go into space, "said Gentile.""So I'll be up there with Gene Roddenberry."
a rocket carrying the Dragon, both produced by Space X, which will carry 4, 300 pounds of supplies and payloads, including material for research experiments, to the International space station National Laboratory.
The nine-engine rocket will propel the Dragon into orbit where it will meet with the Space station 33 hours after it is launched.
Astronauts will use the station's 57-foot arm to reach out and capture Dragon at 7: 15 a m. on April 15.
The material will be kept in a zero gravity storage rack in the U s. National Laboratory on the space station for 90 days.
The International space station is an international science laboratory in low Earth orbit where astronauts conduct scientific research in biology, human biology, astronomy, meteorology and other fields in a gravity-free environment.
she won a highly competitive grant from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to pursue the synthetic muscle experiment on the International space station National Laboratory (ISS-NL) through the Masschallenge global business accelerator.
"I'm a huge space junkie. I wish I were going with my samples!""Rasmussen holds a Phd in chemistry, specialty polymer chemistry, from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in biology, specialty biophysics, from Purdue University.
Liftoff of Spacex resupply mission to the space statio o
#Clean interfaces: Research could usher in next generation of batteries, fuel cells The research, which is published in the journal Nature Communications,
which leads to a built-in charge at the interface referred to as the space charge effect,
providing a way to tailor surfaces with particle-rich areas and adjacent open spaces. The characterization experiments were done using the atomic force microscope
#How do bone cells grow in space? Alvetex Scaffold technology, produced by Durham University spin out company Reinnervate,
and Harvard to be sent then into space to help address their interests in bone formation."
and"apply 72 loading paths in that six-dimensional space.""The robot loads each specimen until it snaps, then quickly moves onto the next.
and others that send quantum information through free space. The fibre system was manufactured based on equipment by Swiss company ID Quantique,
Faking states In the case of free-space cryptography Makarov and colleagues showed that they could enable a"faked-state attack".
NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives and safeguard our future.
while providing a significant boost in the amount of power stored in a given space.
or an electric car youl find that batteries take up most of the space inside. Indeed, the recent evolution of batteries has made it possible to pack ample power in small places.
and safety while providing a significant boost in the amount of power stored in a given space.
The solid-state electrolyte also allows for greater power density the amount of power that can be stored in a given amount of space.
But with a 256-core chip, the space savings rises to 80 percent, and with a 1, 000-core chip, 96 percent.
Unexplored potentialin addition to saving space in memory Tardis also eliminates the need to broadcast invalidation messages to all the cores that are sharing a data item.
the porogen gradually breaks down, leaving open spaces into which the stem cells expand before they naturally migrate out of the gel structure altogether to form actual mineralized bone tissue.
For more than 100 years, researchers have inferred how atoms are arranged in three-dimensional space using a technique called X-ray crystallography,
and the Internet of things, have realized quickly that the agriculture value chain provides fertile first market opportunities for many technologies that are advanced not enough or have not yet found solutions in the consumer space.
and the space is crowded with companies like Mailchimp, Marketo, Salesforce and Constant Contact. Now Square is throwing itself in the mix,
having being built for an earlier, desktop computing world, rather than the modern mobile-focused space.
In this way, the neurons that you see around you in virtual space were modeled not by an artist,
I was lucky enough to visit Eyewire office which is based out of a Wework space in Boston to try the game for myself.
If space exploration isn your thing, Tomnod brings it closer to home. Instead of scouring the surface of Mars, Tomnod users crowdsource observations about the Earth surface.
because the filter is made up of between 80-90 percent open space, there is almost no pressure
Traditional membranes hover around 20 percent of open space. Screen Shot 2015-05-04 at 7. 29.15 AM To create the nanofiber thin membrane that could be produced at scale,
This will involve installing the Voxiebox in a space in New york and making it available to artists to create projects.
And Researchers rawin 3d Space A new 3d interactive system created by researchers at the University of Montreal allows designers and builders to rawin scenes in real time.
which can then be manipulated on the tablets to create a 3d design within the space.
#NASA Created A Material That Can Heal Itself In Less than A Second From Hurtling Space debris Scientists at NASA Langley Research center are studying new materials that can self-heal in seconds under extreme temperatures and from flying space junk.
The organically designed polymers respond to energetic events such as space debris or bullets rapidly hitting the material.
The material works well enough that it could be used on the next human space mission n
#Online Bank Simple Ditches All Its Fees When the online banking service Simple first got started,
Late last week the agency trailed a ajor science findingfrom its ongoing exploration of the red planet showing continued savvy at NASA social media mission to sustain public interest in space exploration.
NASA landed its Curiosity rover on Mars back in August 2012 and the bot has been exploring the surface
a construction robotics startup called Asmbld is working on a project that aims to change the way we live within indoor spaces.
ASMBLD is in talks with a large co-working space to implement the robotic flooring in its facilities. hink about a business space where the large conference rooms that are used once a day are the biggest spaces in the building,
ASMBLD robotics engineer. nstead of wasting resources for spaces that aren useful 100 percent of the time,
we can make the space more efficient and save a lot of money in the long term. hile it sounds complex,
ASMBLD proposes to re-floor a space with a robotic floor that five inches higher than the existing one,
From an environmental perspective, the argument for reusable spaces is obvious. Construction and demolition waste comprises 40 percent of landfill mass in the U s,
The Indian Space Research Organization is set to test its sophisticated, indigenously-built, multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,
and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.
The space scientists with justifiable pride were showcasing the state-of-the-art radar that can track 10 objects simultaneously objects up to 30cm by 30cm at distance of 800km.
With this radar, Isro acquires the capacity to handle its future missions involving atmospheric re-entry of space modules
having a protective eye on its space assets and track space debris. Currently Isro uses the space debris data provided by US space agency Nasa.
The commissioning of MOTR would provide real-time data for Isro.""The project got the green signal in 2012 with a target to get the radar ready by February 2015
The Indian Space Research Organization is set to test its sophisticated, indigenously-built, multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,
and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.
The space scientists with justifiable pride were showcasing the state-of-the-art radar that can track 10 objects simultaneously objects up to 30cm by 30cm at distance of 800km.
With this radar, Isro acquires the capacity to handle its future missions involving atmospheric re-entry of space modules
having a protective eye on its space assets and track space debris. Currently Isro uses the space debris data provided by US space agency Nasa.
The commissioning of MOTR would provide real-time data for Isro.""The project got the green signal in 2012 with a target to get the radar ready by February 2015
#Humanoid robot to teach astronauts onboard ISS French researchers have developed"an autobiographical memory"for a robot, the only permanent member onboard the International space station (ISS),
which is becoming more and more of a reality in the field of space operations, with the humanoid Robonaut 2 now permanently flying aboard the ISS."
Researchers are now hoping to test their Nao robot in the real conditions of space operations, with zero gravity.
David E Stillman, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute's space studies department in Boulder, Colorado, said water for the streaks might be different in different regions.
Nasa's next Mars rover, scheduled to launch in 2020 will be no cleaner. Sterilizing spacecraft, which requires electronics
even though two candidate RSLS have been identified on the mountain in Gale crater that Nasa's Curiosity rover is now exploring, not very far from its current planned path.
Using data from the Curiosity rover, Nasa's Mars science laboratory/Curiosity team has determined that, long ago, water helped deposit sediment into Gale crater,
where the rover landed more than three years ago. The sediment deposited as layers that formed the foundation for Mount Sharp,
Mars science laboratory project scientist at Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California. The findings build upon previous work that suggested there were ancient lakes on Mars,
A miniature satellite sent in the space aboard an Atlas v rocket from the Vandenberg Air force base in California on October 8 is working fine,
including planetary space exploration, Earth observations, fundamental Earth and space science.""Technology demonstration missions like OCSD are said driving exploration
Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for the Space technology Mission Directorate (STMD) at NASA headquarters in WASHINGTON DC."
OCSD differs from other space-based laser communication systems because the laser is mounted hard to the spacecraft body,
This makes the laser system more compact than anything previously flown in space. The Cubesat will evaluate the ability to point a small satellite accurately as it demonstrates data transfer by laser at rates of up to 200 mb per second--a factor of 100 increase over current high-end Cubesat communications systems.
#Space suit that'mimics'gravity tested An innovative'Skinsuit'designed to reduce the debili ating physical effects of space light has been trialled for the first time on the International space station by a European space agency (ESA) astronaut.
Denmark's first astronaut, Andreas Mogensen, spent 10 days in the International space station ISS) last month,
Waldie and his collaborators have spent more than 15 years getting the suit into space. Skintight and made of bidirectional elastics,
Skinsuit has been designed to mimic the impact of gravity on the body to reduce the debilitating physical effects space flights have on astronauts'bodies.
In the weightless conditions in space, astronauts can lose up to 2%bone mass per month.
"Given the impact of atrophy on astronauts in space, I wondered if a suit like the one worn by Freeman could fool the body into thinking it was on the ground rather than in space,
and therefore stay healthy, "Waldie said. Mogensen is yet to publicly report his findings s
#Open Space agency gears up to launch open source 3d printed telescope For those of us who love space
and space exploration but are currently earthbound for the time being, the next best thing is to have a professional-grade telescope that ransportsus into space
the Ultrascope. ifty years ago space exploration was the domain of governments, explains Parr. ecently things have changed again.
additive manufacturing and low-cost micro controllers that are further driving down the cost of space exploration,
and launch their own space program. Thanks to the efforts of Parr and his team, the OSA Ultrascope automated robot telescope kit is extremely cheap to produce
With this information the telescope is able to direct itself towards various objects in space including planets, galaxies, asteroids and stars automatically.
or be used for more advanced research projects. ur vision is to enable a new era of citizen aerospace exploration through enabling consumer space technologies,
This is) part of a bigger vision of citizen space exploration enabled by open technology platforms. Those interested in being among the first to know
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