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NASA investigates sending CubeSats to Phobos and back - 3 views

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  • Lionel Jacques on 04 Apr 12
     
    NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program provides funding to study a small number of highly advanced spaceflight concepts, with the goal of understanding the technological possibilities which will guide the development of future space missions. Under this program, a JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) researcher has proposed the use of a pair of CubeSats for an autonomous mission to retrieve samples from Phobos, Mars' larger moon.
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Matrix-style instant learning could be one step closer - 2 views

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  • Lionel Jacques on 15 Dec 11
     
    How would you like to have the ability to play the piano downloaded into your brain?
  • LeopoldS on 15 Dec 11
     
    you also get one step closer to the moon when climbing a mountain - though you will never reach it this way ...
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The population of natural Earth satellites - 3 views

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  • Lionel Jacques on 09 Jan 12
     
    Earth's irregular natural satellites (NES) that are temporarily captured from the near-Earth-object (NEO) population. --> Possibly interesting for NEO exploration? http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3781
  • LeopoldS on 13 Jan 12
     
    How early could we detect these coming?
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Why NASA Should Nab an Asteroid - 2 views

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  • Aurelie Heritier on 21 Jun 12
     
    In his last dispatch from the recent AIAA Global Space Exploration Conference, veteran astronaut and PM contributor Tom Jones argues for NASA to undertake a mission to snare a nearby small asteroid and tow it into the orbit of the moon.
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Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels - Slashdot - 4 views

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  • "It's not the Turing test just yet, but in one more domain, AI is becoming increasingly competitive with humans. This time around, it's in interplanetary trajectory optimization. From the European Space Agency comes the news that researchers from its Advanced Concepts Team have recently won the Gold 'Humies' award for their use of Evolutionary Algorithms to design a spacecraft's trajectory for exploring the Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto). The problem addressed in the awarded article (PDF) was put forward by NASA/JPL in the latest edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition. The team from ESA was able to automatically evolve a solution that outperforms all the entries submitted to the competition by human experts from across the world. Interestingly, as noted in the presentation to the award's jury (PDF), the team conducted their work on top of open-source tools (PaGMO / PyGMO and PyKEP)."
  • Luís F. Simões on 19 Jul 13
     
    We made it to Slashdot's frontpage !!! :)
  • Ma Ru on 23 Jul 13
     
    Congratulations, gentlemen!
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RT @JustBe74: China Unveils Its First and Unnamed Moon Rover - 0 views

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  • johannessimon81 on 25 Sep 13
     
    Found this on Twitter ;-) This is also a test to see if Diigo titles get processed correctly as re-tweets...
  • johannessimon81 on 25 Sep 13
     
    Yes. Worked.
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xkcd: Galilean Moons - 3 views

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  • Marcus Maertens on 06 Dec 13
     
    These annoying resonances... I want to kill Io after this!
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Two Suns Could Boost Odds of Habitable 'Exomoons' - 1 views

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  • Beniamino Abis on 30 Apr 14
     
    The habitable zones of single stars are larger and wider as the temperatures increase. Although hotter stars have the widest regions where water can lie on the surface, they also have short lifetimes that limit the ability of life to evolve. Moons in close binary solar systems have a better chance of hosting life than those in single-star systems, new research has shown.
  • LeopoldS on 01 May 14
     
    looks like the study Aurélie wanted to do ...
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Airbus Group Creators: Airbus Protospace - 1 views

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  • Thijs Versloot on 08 Jun 15
     
    Marc Stephens "ProtoSpace embodies agility," says Vincent Loubière. "We can move from concept to demonstrator quickly." The 'agility' method is modelled on proven successes in the computer industry but the ProtoSpace team also works with automotive and communications blue-chips, as well as start-ups whose creations could have applications in aerospace. Airbus's ACT :)
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Chemical analysis in Earth and Space via Raman Spectroscopy - 2 views

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  • jcunha on 25 Sep 15
     
    "A new lightweight, energy-efficient tool for analyzing a material's chemical makeup could improve the detection abilities of various technologies, ranging from bomb-detecting drones to space rovers searching for signs of life". Raman Spectroscopy is about measuring vibrational modes in molecules. This vibrational modes are in the meV typically, turning Raman Spectroscopy into a high precision technique. This impressive work shows a new technique based on the use of optical fibers coupled to photomultipliers allowing its use, author's word, in extreme conditions such as unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) and Mars/Moon rovers.
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Space Colonists Could Use Bacteria to Mine Minerals on Mars and the Moon - 3 views

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  • Luís F. Simões on 10 Sep 10
     
    Link to the paper that is the subject of this article: Olsson-Francis, Karen and Cockell, Charles (2010). Use of cyanobacteria for in-situ resource use in space applications. Planetary And Space Science, 58(10), 1279-1285.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2010.05.005
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Obama's dream of Mars at risk from radiation - physicsworld.com - 0 views

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  • The worse-case scenario is that if you radiate a crew sufficiently, they'd all succumb to radiation sickness within a few days and essentially vomit and diarrhoea themselves to death within an enclosed capsule
  • The Moon missions were just blind lucky,” explains Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist at University College, London. “The astronauts would have experienced radiation sickness and a higher risk of future cancer if they'd been hit,” he adds.
  • Hapgood and colleagues are currently working on an alternative technique that involves surrounding the spacecraft with a plasma shield to deflect incoming protons without creating secondary radiation
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Moon Dreams | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com - 0 views

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 24 Feb 10
     
    NASA aims to "create a healthy private-sector competition for transport to the space station". Through this the development of space tourism is enforced and an increase in the number of rocket launches should be expected. 
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BBC News - Ice deposits found at Moon's pole - 0 views

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  • A radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon's north pole.
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Do Titan's Lakes Migrate South for the Winter? -- Berardelli 2009 (1130): 2 -- ScienceNOW - 1 views

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  • But "to really get a handle" on Titan's methane cycle, they'll need to monitor the exchange of methane between the lakes and the atmosphere. And that, she says, will require "a future lake-lander mission."
  • pacome delva on 03 Dec 09
     
    Let's go to Titan !!!
  • Ma Ru on 03 Dec 09
     
    I bet we'll find there a black monolith which will take us to the stars... No, wait, was it that moon?
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