"That's perfect for aerospace...but the problem is if they are damaged, they are difficult to protect and repair,
who is working with aerospace engineer colleagues on the research project.""We are talking about aeroplane wings here-the most demanding application because of the safety aspect,
And United Launch Alliance-a joint venture between Lockheed martin and Boeing-has the parts on the rockets it sends into space.
And it has the potential to transform the aerospace industry's global supply chain and cost structure,
where the aerospace giant makes aircraft wings.""These components contribute a huge amount to the manufacturing process.
US-based managing director of aerospace and defence at consultancy Accenture, says printing is reducing lead times from months to weeks.
Part of a cooling system used by rocket maker ULA now uses 16 parts, where before it was 140.
"3d is also ideal for industries with short production runs-like aerospace-as it maximises the cost advantages of smaller production runs."
The thermoplastic material that Stratasys supplied for ULA's rockets can operate in extreme heat and cold
but that if tests on Stratasys'plastic, called Ultem, go to plan then 3d parts could be used on the exterior of unmanned rockets with a couple of years s
The problem was that electron microscopes work by shooting electrons at the speed of light through a biological sample suspended in a vacuum;
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,
The UCLA team included researchers from electrical engineering, physics and astronomy, bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine,
#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.
The less common and more unstable mesons, particles found in cosmic rays, have four. A five-quark version,
since it started smashing protons together at close to the speed of light in 2010. Analysis of the collisions has already proved the existence of the Higgs boson
and scientists are now looking for a"dark universe"that they believe exists beyond the visible one.
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."
and satellite will drop by about half a million to 11.3 million subscribers by 2019. The marketing research company also estimates revenue from those same services will decline by 7. 8 per cent over the next five years to $8. 3 billion.
#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
but the intimate new working atmosphere may find ways to soften or bypass them t
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,
Google street view Maps Urban Air pollution Like Never Before Aclima equipped three Google street view vehicles for the Denver pilot program for a month-long system test during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and EPA.
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
#Top secret X-37b space plane blasts off on fourth mission-but we STILL don't know what it will do in orbit
or when it will be back It is one of the most mysterious craft ever to go into orbit.
The three previous missions also began with rocket launches from Cape canaveral Air force station. 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.
It is operated robotically, without anyone on board, and is reusable. It is 29 feet long about one-fourth the size of a NASA shuttle.
The longest X-37b flight lasted about 675 days; touchdown was last October. There's no official word on how long this one will stay up.
NASA has a materials experiment aboard, while the Planetary Society is tagging along with a solar sail demo.
Although largely mum about this X-37b flight, the Air force has acknowledged a thruster experiment involving electric propulsion.
Air force researchers want to check design modifications to ion thrusters already flying on some advanced military communication satellites.
Wednesday's liftoff of the Atlas v rocket is scheduled for 11:05 a m. However in an unprecedented disclosure, earlier this month the Department of defense did reveal some details about the X-37b latest mission,
an Air force spokesman, told Space. com.'The Air force Rapid Capabilities Office will also host a number of advance materials onboard the X-37b for Nasa to study the durability of various materials in the space environment,'Hoyler added.
'It is intended to improve performance of the units onboard Advanced Extremely high frequency (AEHF) military communications spacecraft,
AEHF satellites'Hall thrusters are 4. 5-kilowatt units that use electricity and xenon to produce thrust for moving satellites in space.
The benefit of using electric propulsion is that its xenon fuel weighs much less than traditional hydrazine.
This technology could help in the development of technologies to control satellites with better accuracy.
'As powerful as our intelligence satellites may be, they also have their limitations-most notably the limitations imposed by their orbital parameters.'
otherwise known as the Orbital Test vehicle, is blasted into orbit by a rocket. However, it lands using a runway like a normal aircraft.
which is just large enough to carry a small satellite. The X-program has bounced between several federal agencies, Nasa among them, since 1999.
The plane has been in space for a total of 674 days, far more than its two previous flights
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:
13:07 GMT, 20 may 2015 Updated: 13:07 GMT, 20 may 2015 Cosmetics giant Lreal is joining forces with a bioengineering firm to print human skin.
#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 it will later unfurl its giant sail in orbit and test how effective the sun is at pushing it.
If it works, the technology could signal a breakthrough in space propulsion and will allow vehicles to explore distant destinations,
such as the moon and Mars, at very low cost. Lightsail was designed by a Californian non-government organisation called The Planetary Society.
The launch took place on United Launch Alliance's 206ft (63 metres) Atlas v rocket at 4:
which are essentially tiny spacecraft that can be launched relatively cheaply. In total, the core of the vehicle weighs 22lbs (10kg)
At the bottom of the four spacecraft on each of its four sides, though, a huge solar sail has been olded upthis sail,
measuring 345 square ft (32 square metres) in total in size, is made of an extremely reflective material called Mylar.
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,
so it will always accelerate. f youe out in space where there nothing to stop you,
and a low enough mass spacecraft, it gets pushed, chief executive of The Planetary Society Bill Nye said in a webcast after the launch.
though, Lightsail will be in too low an orbit to escape the clutches of Earth. It will ultimately fall back
and burn up in the atmosphere. But this flight will be a key test to not only prove that the physics of solar sailing works as theorised
Previous attempts to test solar sail technology, such as Nasa Nanosail-D2 in 2010, were less successful in this latter part-the sail didn't unfurl properly,
a second Lightsail spacecraft will then be sent into space on the first launch of Spacex powerful Falcon Heavy rocket next year.
This spacecraft will be placed into a much higher orbit 447 miles (720km) up far enough away from Earth that it should be able to escape the gravitational pull of our planet.
Another spacecraft called Prox-1 will take images. This will allow this second spacecraft to use the push from the sun to travel into the solar system.
Aside from journeys deep into the cosmos, another uses for solar sail technology involves not actually moving at all
but staying stationary. 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.
As the technology is still relatively new, it not clear what speeds will be achieved. The Planetary Society has said also not what the second spacecraft destination will be,
but in future the technology could be used for missions to the moon and other planets in the solar system. ith solar sailing,
in principle you can go vast distances, and do it in relatively small amounts of time, said Neil degrasse Tyson, a board member for The Planetary Society.
Doug Stetson, Lightsail Programme Manager, added: olar sailing can take us to the moon, to other planets,
and even to interstellar space. e
#The HEADPHONES that detect brain damage: Pioneering device tracks changes in pressure caused by injury and infection Doctors have developed a brain pressure test using a special set of headphones that can detect life-threatening head injuries and infections.
The technique involves a patient wearing the headphones with an ear plug linked to a computer.
This enables doctors to measure fluid pressure in the skull-known as intracranial pressure (ICP)- without the need for surgery or painful spinal procedures.
The device is currently being used by Southampton General Hospital. In particular, the pressure tests measure fluid via a channel that links the inner ear with the brain.
As fluids in the ear and brain are connected a change in pressure in the brain is reflected by a corresponding change in the ear
it is also being adapted by Nasa to analyse brain pressure levels in astronauts to help tackle space-related visual problems and sickness.
'Although the researchers are already working closely with Nasa and developing relations with the UK military,
#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.
The galaxy is the most luminous found to date and belongs to a new class of mysterious objects known as'extremely luminous infrared galaxies',or Elrigs.
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,
'said Chao-Wei Tsai of Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California, '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,
and X-ray light. The light is blocked by surrounding cocoons of dust. As the dust heats up, it radiates infrared light.
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,
astronomers are seeing the object as it was in the distant past. 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 discovery was made by Nasa as it was combing through data from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise),
an infrared space telescope launched in 2009. 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.
From gloves that let you scale skyscrapers like Spiderman, to implants that could give you the self-healing powers of Wolverine,
researchers are putting these sci-fi notions within our grasp. And the innovations could soon benefit the military, astronauts and even everyday consumers.
Scroll down for videos A glimpse into this world of extraordinary gloves, glasses and suits was showcased recently in an issue of How It Works magazine.
IRON MAN'S HIGH-TECH SUIT Fans of Robert Downey Jnr's Iron man can buy themselves a red exoskeleton-providing they have a spare $1 million (£659,
000 A Japanese electronics firm is selling a 13ft (four metre) mechanical suit on Amazon that can be controlled by an iphone,
or by stepping foot inside the device. Called Kuratas, the five tonne, four-wheeled device with 30 motors can even fire BB pellets
and comes in a choice of 16 colours. Another suit, designed by the US ARMY, features a high-pressure hydraulic system to enhance a soldier strength, agility and endurance.
Such exoskeletons can also help workers operate heavy machinery, carry the weight of heavy tools and work for longer between breaks.
blindfolded wearers armed with'cardboard ninja stars'were able to score direct hits on anyone who strayed too close.
#Nasa joins US government project to create'Google for the deep web'that could uncover cyber criminals,
Nasa has revealed it is joining a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) project to scour content on this so-called dark net.
'said Nasa. The Internet contains a vast trove of information-sometimes called the'Deep Web'-that isn't indexed by search engines:
According to Nasa, scientists could also use it to search for images and data from spacecraft.
for example, help catalog the vast amounts of data NASA spacecraft deliver on a daily basis.'We're developing next-generation search technologies that understand people, places,
The video and image search capabilities of Memex could one day benefit space missions that take photos, videos and other kinds of imaging data with instruments such as spectrometers.
Scientists analyzing imaging data from Earth-based missions that monitor phenomena such as snowfall and soil moisture could similarly benefit.
The technology could be applied to large NASA data centers such as the Physical oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center,
which makes NASA's ocean and climate data accessible and meaningful. Memex would make PDF documents more easily searchable
Awareness of existing publications also helps program managers to assess the impact of spacecraft data.
and was accelerated initially by a rocket before the scramjet kicked in. It reached Mach 4. 8 in less than half a minute powered by a solid rocket booster.
After separating from the booster, the scramjet engine was ignited, accelerating the aircraft to Mach 5. 1 at 60,000 feet.
and tension to stay in position, the new design uses gravity. The arm moves vertically using a counterweight pulley system inspired by the construction crane lifts and drawing boards,
whether it is a board game, DNA structure or the solar system, your content comes alive-view it from four different angles
#Airbus takes on Spacex: 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 Updated: 17:32 GMT, 16 june 2015 Aerospace behemoth Airbus is set to build the largest satellite constellation seen so far.
Its British partner, Oneweb wants to provide high speed internet access to unconnected places in the world,
using a fleet of 600 satellites. The company will be going head-to-head with other projects,
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,
which could begin as early as 2018. The system will bring more than 10 Terabits per second of new capacity to rural areas around the globe
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)
and are expected to cost less than half a million dollars each, the BBC reported. The first 10 satellites will be built at Airbusfactory in Toulouse
France, with further satellites to be built at a dedicated facility in the US. Brian Holz, Head of Space Systems at Oneweb, said:
e have worked with Airbus Space and Defence, to streamline the manufacturing process to the point that several satellites can be produced each day. his will redefine the cost structure for satellites,
enabling rapid iteration and development of space related technologies. neweb plan involves 20 groups of low-orbiting satellites being connected to small terminals on the ground that would act as hubs to link to phones and computers.
Rockets will be needed to propel the spacecraft into Earth orbit, and Sir Richard Branson Virgin galactic may be an option.
The entrepreneur sits on Oneweb board and is in the process of developing a satellite launch system based on the group tourist space plane.
Francois Auque director of Airbus's Defence and Space programme, said: his partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story.?
Teaming with Oneweb with a requirement to produce several small satellites each day has inspired us to develop innovative designs
Spacex CEO Elon musk announced that his company was seeking permission to conduct tests ahead of its own ultimate goal,
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
whether the antenna technology used on the satellites will be able to deliver high-speed Internet to the ground without hiccups. r Musk has said previously that he expects his service to handle 10 per cent of all Internet traffic
and that Spacex existing Falcon 9 rockets will be used to launch the thousands of satellites. However, it not clear how the Internet will be eamedto smartphones and other devices On earth.
Each satellite will be placed at a height of 750 miles (1 200km) in a variety of orbits, to ensure that the whole Earth constantly has access to their Internet.
This is far closer than communications satellites, which are located in geosynchronous orbit at 22,000 miles (35,400 km). Google and Facebook also have plans to get remote parts of the world online,
by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
Urthecast today revealed that it is ready to switch on a continuous, colour video feed of the planet from the ISS in high-definition.
And in preparation, it has launched the first ever, full-colour HD videos of Earth showing London, Boston and Barcelona-at an incredible 3. 2ft (1 metre) resolution.
Scroll down for video This is detailed enough to be able to see cars and even people moving around the planet
and it's only a teaser of what is to come.''We're revealing a perspective of Earth from space that was reserved previously for a small few,
'said Scott Larso, Urthecast cofounder. The videos were taken by a high-resolution camera fitted to the ISS, known as Iris,
which rides on a steerable, gyro-stabilised platform controlled by a computer on the ISS.
The computers cancels out in real-time, any vibrations caused by movements of the ISS, while keeping the camera pointed at different areas for about a minute at a time.
'We are realising Urthecast's mission to bring something really quite unique to the Earth Observation industry.'
and affordable Earth Observation imagery'The company has fixed another in place outside the ISS, dubbed Theia,
Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk in January outside the ISS to complete the camera work on the Earth-observing cameras.
Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian federal space agency installed the cameras on the hull of the station's Zvezda Service Module.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, agreed to host the cameras on the $100 billion station for Urthecast
He installed the cameras on the space station to provide a stream of live video, not just of generic Earth,
The space station orbits the Earth fifteen times a day. A constant stream of video has made major events on earth viewable from space as they take place.
For example, a real-time view of Earth will give scientists a powerful tool to monitor climate change.
#Darpa is working on designer organisms to make Mars the new Earth Modifying a planet's atmosphere to make it habitable for humans could soon be a possibility, according to the Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
For example, it has been theorised that some could be engineered bio to pull certain gases out of the Martian atmosphere-like carbon dioxide
Both are abundant in Earth atmosphere -and would be needed for any humans hoping to breathe on Mars without a spacesuit.
Nasa has toyed with the idea before; last year, they unveiled the Mars Ecopoiesis Test bed concept,
which would create ecosystems capable of supporting life within biodomes on Mars . But Darpa technology would creative liveable environments outside in the open air on the Martian surface.
The technology has other uses, too; it could be used to repair an environment On earth after a manmade or natural disaster,
although Darpa did not specify what these could be. Understandably, the technology is likely a long way off.
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