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pacome delva

A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere - 1 views

science.nasa.gov/...15jul_thermosphere

phy atmosphere solar_forecast

shared by pacome delva on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
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  • NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
  • pacome delva on 22 Jul 10
     
    Wow, this is a bit frigthening. Another proof that we understand very little about our atmosphere !!!
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 10
     
    very interesting indeed!
Joris _

NASA Set to Launch Solar NanoSail into Space | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the W... - 0 views

inhabitat.com/...unch-solar-nanosail-into-space

shared by Joris _ on 20 Aug 10 - Cached
  • 100 square feet;
  • NASA is, rather, testing the deployment mechanism.
  • In 2008, engineers were given just four months to devise a solar sail. They pulled it off, but the rocket carrying the sail experienced launch failure.
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  • to learn more about how best to bring older satellites out of space rather than allowing them to become that much more space junk
LeopoldS

NASA - Star Wars Meets UPS as Robonaut Packed for Space - 2 views

www.nasa.gov/...robonautpacking.html

technology ISS robotics

shared by LeopoldS on 15 Aug 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 15 Aug 10
     
    couldn't find his legs ... but they might not be needed anyway on the ISS ....
  • andreiaries on 16 Aug 10
     
    Cool. Since ESA is always said to be inspired by NASA projects, can the ACT look at it from a different perpective? What about sending humans to the ISS without legs? Think of the mass and volume it would save. It would also improve robot-human interaction. Robots would no longer feel inferior. I'm sure most people would give up limb to go to space.
Joris _

SPACE.com -- Railway to the Sky? NASA Ponders New Launch System - 3 views

www.space.com/...ew-nasa-technology-100914.html

space technology future

shared by Joris _ on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • A team of engineers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and some of the agency's other field centers are looking into this and other novel launch systems based on cutting-edge technologies.
  • The launch system would require some advancements of existing technologies, but it wouldn't need any brand-new technologies to work
  • Scramjet vehicles could be used as a basis for a commercial launch program
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  • It's not very often you get to work on a major technology revolution
  • Juxi Leitner on 16 Sep 10
     
    I wonder if they are also working with that SCRAMSPACE initiative in Australia that was presented at ESTEC a while back...
  • Giusi Schiavone on 19 Sep 10
     
    what about a space elevator!!! quiet old concept (1895), see this link on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
Joris _

NASA Developing Tech to Reach and Colonize Other Worlds | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 4 views

www.wired.com/...each-and-colonize-other-worlds

technology space future

shared by Joris _ on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The most important near-term development is electric propulsion.
  • using high-density batteries powered off ground-based solar grids
  • microwave thermal propulsion
  • LeopoldS on 20 Oct 10
     
    "Within a few years we will see the first true prototype of a spaceship that will take us between worlds," Worden said. this sounds to me a bit too much like Pete Worden :-) but I really like this one :-) One of those billionaires might be Google's Larry Page, who is keenly interested in space travel and NASA Ames's research. "Larry asked me a couple weeks ago how much it would cost to send people one way to Mars and I told him $10 billion, and his response was, 'Can you get it down to 1 or 2 billion?,'" Worden told the Long Now audience. "So now we're starting to get a little argument over the price."
LeopoldS

NASA - NASA Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2 - 1 views

www.nasa.gov/...epoxi20101104.html

space science asteroids comets

shared by LeopoldS on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 05 Nov 10
     
    nice new image!
santecarloni

NASA - NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargo... - 1 views

www.nasa.gov/...HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

ET astrobiology space

shared by santecarloni on 01 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • santecarloni on 01 Dec 10
     
    I will put it on my calendar...
Nina Nadine Ridder

Moon Dreams | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com - 0 views

www.allbusiness.com/...13948588-1.html

NASA space_tourism launches

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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. 
Nina Nadine Ridder

NASA Launches New Site Against Climate Change - It is aimed at educating children - Sof... - 0 views

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climate_research education climate_change NASA

shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 29 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 29 Jan 10
     
    with a link to the very cute web page for kids (might be interesting for some of you when your daughters are a little older ;) )
nikolas smyrlakis

NASA Discovers Pac-Man On Death Star Saturn Moon - Mimas - 2 views

gizmodo.com/...+man-on-death-star-saturn-moon

nasa pacman cassini mimas

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 30 Mar 10
     
    Pac-Man actually lives on the Death Star!
LeopoldS

NASA - X-48B: Eighty Flights, Priceless Facts - 2 views

www.nasa.gov/...X-48B_phase1.html

plane aeronautics nasa

shared by LeopoldS on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 09 Apr 10
     
    looks nice!
LeopoldS

NASA Budget Outlook Relegates Flagship Probes to Back Burner | SpaceNews.com - 1 views

spacenews.com/...agship-probes-back-burner.html

science space nasa

shared by LeopoldS on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 08 Mar 11
     
    not so good news for science ...
Marion Nachon

Smartphone-Controlled Robots Aid Astronauts | NASA SPHERES Droids - 0 views

www.innovationnewsdaily.com/pheres-droids-smartphones-2131

technology space

shared by Marion Nachon on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Marion Nachon on 27 Jul 11
     
    "The MIT-built robots will each connect with a Nexus S smartphone - the first commercial smartphone certified by NASA for use on the space shuttle and space station."
  • Marion Nachon on 27 Jul 11
     
    First smartphones control our lives, now they control robots behaviour. Watch out! After all, there must be a good reason for calling it smartphone...
Joris _

The Associated Press: Daunting space task _ send astronauts to asteroid - 1 views

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  • NASA leaders say civilization may depend on it
  • NASA is thinking about jetpacks, tethers, bungees, nets and spiderwebs to allow explorers to float just above the surface of it while attached to a smaller mini-spaceship.
  • At the moment, there are only a handful of asteroid options and they all have names like 1999AO10 or 2009OS5.
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  • NASA is pursuing its concept for a mini-spaceship exploration vehicle, about the size of a minivan. And it's planning an underwater lab for training, an effort to mimic an asteroid mission's challenges
  • "There's a lot of things we need to invent and build between now and then."
LeopoldS

NASA - 2011 NIAC Phase I Selections - 7 views

www.nasa.gov/...2011_phase1_selections.html

NIAC NASA space advanced concepts

shared by LeopoldS on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 09 Aug 11
     
    very nice selection of projects by NIAC!! there are at least some who have European partners as it looks like ... lets still see if we can get involved ...
  • Ma Ru on 09 Aug 11
     
    Interesting. Is it NASA's equivalent of ESA's GSP?
  • Joris _ on 09 Aug 11
     
    It is a good thing NIAC is alive again. Wie, Bong -> "Optimal Dispersion of Near-Earth Objects" . I wonder what it is?
LeopoldS

NASA - NASA Announces International Space Apps Competition - 2 views

www.nasa.gov/...HQ_11-313_Space_Apps.html

INF science space fun

shared by LeopoldS on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 21 Sep 11
     
    can we participate with a "thespacegame" app?
Joris _

DailyTech - NASA Releases iPhone App - 2 views

www.dailytech.com/...article16613.htm

shared by Joris _ on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The U.S. space agency has worked more diligently the past few years to better interact with the public.
  • Joris _ on 26 Oct 09
     
    what about ESA?
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  • LeopoldS on 26 Oct 09
     
    have already sent it as a suggestion to our com department ... btw: installed the app and its really well done!!
  • Francesco Biscani on 27 Oct 09
     
    God no, why give more taxpayers' money to the shittiest, greediest and most closed company out there??
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 09
     
    why "more" ... do they get any taxpayers money? answer to your question: because its the most efficient (and coolest) platform to convey your message to a larger audience with relatively little effort ... btw: just ordered a time capsule for home :-)
  • Francesco Biscani on 27 Oct 09
     
    I said "more" because we already gave them money in the form of Sophia and Atlas :) If we want to be consistent in promoting "open" efforts (open innovation, open source, open governance, etc.) we should avoid Apple like the plague. They are far far worse than Microsoft in terms of closedness, secrecy, shady market practices and vendor lock-in. Just google a bit and you will find lots of example of their behaviour.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 28 Oct 09
     
    cant' really argue about the Apple practices, although I ve read some things. I think the NASA app is more like a news feed and nothing more. But that online crowdsourcing game we had in mind, now that would be cool in a mobile version - new mobiles also have accelerometers nowadays
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