#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
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
Presently, satellite internet relies on spacecraft that are travelling in geosynchronous orbit at the same speed as Earth rotates.
or six spacecraft,"says Cutler.""That's never happened before.""Companies like O3b and Spacex are planning to launch internet satellites with masses of hundreds of kilograms,
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.
Shea believes that at least in the near term the technology s most promising application is in spacecraft propulsion.
whereas it would take very little effort to use it as propulsion for small spacecraft he says.
The reason you d like to be in ion mode is to have the most efficient conversion of the mass of the propellant into the momentum of the spacecraft t
#Shrink-wrapping spacesuits For future astronauts the process of suiting up may go something like this:
She would then plug in to a spacecraft s power supply triggering the coils to contract and essentially shrinkwrap the garment around her body.
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.
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.
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
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.
If we look at Earth as the spaceship, it the same problem. With Ecovolt, and its other ongoing projects, Cambrian overall aim, Silver says,
and Dust environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft had made history by using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239000 miles from the moon to Earth at a record-breaking data-download speed of 622 megabits per second (Mbps). This download speed is more than six times faster than the speed achieved by the best
LLCD also demonstrated a data-upload speed of 20 Mbps on a laser beam transmitted from a ground station in New mexico to the LADEE spacecraft in lunar orbit;
Finally LLCD provided continuous measurements of the distance from Earth to the fast-moving LADEE spacecraft with an unprecedented accuracy of less than half an inch.
He describes below the highly improved communications capabilities that will enable NASA to significantly change the scope and design of future scientific space missions.
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.
and power on their spacecraft for the much higher data return they can get. Q:
and delivered these various parts to the spacecraft and to the ground site. Finally we designed
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.
Shea believes that at least in the near term the technology's most promising application is in spacecraft propulsion.
whereas it would take very little effort to use it as propulsion for small spacecraft he says.
The reason you'd like to be in ion mode is to have the most efficient conversion of the mass of the propellant into the momentum of the spacecraft t
Hypervelocity impact tests are used mostly to simulate the impact of different projectiles on shields spacecraft
#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.
For Bond the engine represents the beginning of the world's first fully reusable spaceship a new kind of craft that promises to do
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
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.
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 quest for a single-stage-to-orbit spaceship or SSTO has bedeviled aerospace engineers for decades. Bond's own exploration of the topic began in the early 1980s
when he was a young engineer working with Rolls-royce as part of a team tasked with developing a reusable spacecraft for British aerospace.
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.
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.
otherwise the air/spacecraft will pitch. So the nozzle angle is purely a function of where the engines are relative to the center of gravity.
and why it is hybrid. 2. How does the spacecraft accelerate from zero to Mach 5?
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).
Another fake research program to cover for the real space program. The one that cooperates with the reptilians. could be just a rumor.
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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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.
Plans are also in development to send a manned spacecraft to the moon in 2018. Washington post I like the moon.
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.
Then we would need the massive spacecraft able to transport these agricultural products back to earth.
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
--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.
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
Today NASA announced that two private companies will be tasked with taxiing NASA ASTRONAUTS to and from the International space station beginning in 2017.
The companies will sign contracts with NASA to further develop their spacecraft to deliver astronauts to and from the ISS.
Boeing will receive $4. 2 billion to build its CST-100 spacecraft a vehicle it has been working on for the past four years
while Spacex will receive $2. 6 billion to create an upgraded rendition of its Dragon spacecraft aptly named Dragon Version 2. The original Dragon is currently being used to ferry cargo from Earth to the ISS.
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.
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
At rest it looks like a tiny spaceship from a 1930s comic book. It s a type of Vertical Takeoff or Landing (VTOL) rarely done with humans on board because#that transition from vertical to horizontal and back again is difficult for onboard human pilots to manage.
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
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.
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.
The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS exploded a few seconds after its launch from NASA's Wallops flight facilities.
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.
The video below shows that the explosion started from the base of the rocket close to the nozzles
The COTS program apart from its obvious mission of ISS resupply also aims to validate the privately developed Dragon and Cygnus spacecraft.
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
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
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.#
military and security (64%)manufacturing (57%)space exploration (45%)search and rescue (36%)and healthcare (18%.
Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.
Drone and a scientific crowdsourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous space probes.
As researchers at the European space agency Advanced Concepts Team, we wanted to study how visual cues could be used by robotic spacecraft to help them navigate unknown, extraterrestrial environments.
To this end, we designed a mission-based game where players simulate docking the Parrot with the International space station as quickly as possible
In order to render the virtual space environment, we perform state estimation on the basis of the drone estimates of its height, speeds, angles,
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.
If perfected, this onic tractor beamcould find uses ranging from treating kidney stones to creating artificial gravity on the International space station.
$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.*
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."
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.
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.
what gives the system its name Tardis, after the time-traveling spaceship of The british science fiction hero Dr. Who.
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.
#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 research is a combination of work from a student on fellowship at NASA from the University of Michigan and nearly a decade and a half of study on self-healing materials for both aircrafts and spacecrafts.
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
whether they contain life is likely to be he domain of future robotics spacecraft specifically designed to go therecraft
NASA added. t took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery, and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet,
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
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),
and Nasa worries that they might be carrying microbial hitchhikers from Earth that could contaminate Mars. Of the spacecraft Nasa has sent to Mars,
Nasa's next Mars rover, scheduled to launch in 2020 will be no cleaner. Sterilizing spacecraft, which requires electronics
and systems that can withstand the heat of baking, adds to the cost and complicates the design.
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,
The Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) Cubesat spacecraft is in orbit and operational, said Nasa and The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California on Monday.
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."
"By improving the communication capability of small spacecraft to support data-intensive science missions, OCSD will advance the potential to become a more viable option for mission planners,
because the laser is mounted hard to the spacecraft body, and the orientation of the Cubesat controls the direction of the beam.
#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,
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.
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, finally allowing anybody to conceive
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
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
where giants like NASA are even embracing the technology as a way of manufacturing spacecraft parts on long-term missions in the future.
This concept was taken to the International space station (the ISS), and was controlled from a mission operations center at the Made In Space HQ, located in the NASA Ames Research Park in San jose, California.
It served as a test bed for understanding the long-term effects of microgravity on 3d printing and the parts as well crucial information for use in future space exploration.
which is used to prep the forthcoming mission to Mars. ince the International space station is powered by solar panels,
I decided to use solar energy to power my 3d printer to make medical supplies during my simulated Mars mission.
could be useful for constructing such things as aircraft or spaceship parts. Like the development of SAMS, Dr. Liou explains that for the FGMS it is also a matter of finding the correct cooling rate.
what was a huge achievement for 3d printing in space by sending their Zero G 3d printer, capable of 3d printing without gravity, to the International space station.
large-scale solar array could power spacecraft, robots, drones, and more. And, though such projects as mining asteroids with solar-powered drones might seem like science fiction,
and evaluating three case study prints appropriate for providing medical care on a Mars mission. The findings from this work were used to design an ultraportable, plug-and-play, solar-powered 3d printing system suitable for transport to,
#Progress cargo spacecraft failure delays ISS crew's return to Earth An unmanned cargo spaceship that failed to complete its ISS resupply mission
"The agency is planning to launch the Progress spaceship to the ISS in early July,
The spacecraft lost contact with the flight controllers shortly after it reached orbit and the capsule was found tumbling.
They are planned also for use in the next Mars rover vehicle. ut if they become easier and cheaper to make,
they could be used widely in many applications including as exceptionally strong components in personal electronic devices, in space exploration vehicles,
the molecules are guided into close enough range, like docking spacecraft, by their complementary shapes. The new technology from Dietz's lab imitates this approach.
what was a huge achievement for 3d printing in space by sending their Zero G 3d printer, capable of 3d printing without gravity, to the International space station.
large-scale solar array could power spacecraft, robots, drones, and more. And, though such projects as mining asteroids with solar-powered drones might seem like science fiction,
Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is
The crew is part of the University of Hawaii's fourth Hawaii space exploration analog and simulation (HI-SEAS) mission,
which simulates Mars missions. The six members entered the dome on Friday. They will spend the next 365 days pretending to be on Mars. They'll be living in a two-storey dome where cameras,
#International trio blasts off for 2-day journey to Space station A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three-man international crew,
beginning a two-day journey to the International space station (ISS). The rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-18m spaceship lifted off to the $100 billion orbiting laboratory at 10:37 a m.,leaving just a puff of white smoke in the sky.
The crew is commanded by veteran Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, joined by rookie Andreas Mogensen from the European space agency (ESA) and Aidyn Aimbetov,
whose father, Alexander Volkov, commanded a Soyuz spaceship that took the first-ever Kazakh cosmonaut, Tokhtar Aubakirov, into space in 1991.
boosted in July to avoid space debris, requires the slower approach p
#Porsche, Audi unveil all-electric models to challenge Tesla Tesla will soon face competition in the luxury all-electric car segment after Porsche
a miraculous power source that allows a spacecraft to fly at unimaginable speeds. But while it so far confined to the realms of sci-fi,
U s. space agency Nasa is thought to have tested successfully a revolutionary new power source that could enable spacecraft to travel to the Moon in just four hours instead of more than three days and to Mars in two or three weeks instead of seven months.
Load up the spacecraft, wee all off for a long weekend on Venus! The invention fuelling such hopes is called an electromagnetic drive
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