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Joris _

Making space exploration pay with asteroid mining - 1 views

www.wired.co.uk/...asteroid-mining

asteroid technology

shared by Joris _ on 16 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Asteroids happen to be particularly rich in platinum group metals
  • a motive for space travel beyond "the pursuit of knowledge"
  • So to those despairing about the recent cutting of space budgets across the world, invest your savings in asteroid mining
Juxi Leitner

The Associated Press: Launch set for US satellite to monitor space junk - 0 views

www.google.com/..._b5weFCgVAaZ5ZzRsSUiQD9ID5T000

technology space situational awareness

shared by Juxi Leitner on 24 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • It's designed to give the Air Force its first full-time, space-based surveillance of satellites and debris in Earth's orbit. It monitors them for possible collisions.
Luzi Bergamin

"ride sharing 2.0" with car2gether - 2 views

www.daimler.com/...0-0-16694-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

technology INF

shared by Luzi Bergamin on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 08 Sep 10
     
    Pretty close to what we suggested for "system of systems." Was an excellent exercise in bullshitting, but of course ESA is not innovative enough. Now it's too late, Daimler did it...
  • LeopoldS on 10 Sep 10
     
    not sure they will end up needing a lot of "space" though ...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 10 Sep 10
     
    There is no "space" yet, at least I didn't find any. But that's because they didn't consider specific hardware, but normal mobile phones. The step to include "space" is obvious, though, and I'm sure they thought about this as well...
Joris _

China kicks off manned space station program - 2 views

news.xinhuanet.com/...c_13578017.htm

china space MAD

shared by Joris _ on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
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  • to complete construction of a "relatively large" manned space laboratory around 2020
Juxi Leitner

Slashdot Science Story | Calculating Environmental Damage From Space Tourism Rockets - 3 views

science.slashdot.org/...age-From-Space-Tourism-Rockets

technology green environment danger rockets

shared by Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 02 Nov 10
     
    Cynthia - please have a look ... can we check the OoM?
  • Juxi Leitner on 05 Nov 10
     
    http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101022/full/news.2010.558.html hmm should be the ACT in Nature, no? ;)
  • Ma Ru on 05 Nov 10
     
    Yeeesss :) So the "non-commercial" rockets do not emit soot? And how many "non-commercial" launches per year are there in comparison to the commercial ones? Finally commercial space-flight seems more realisable than ever, and "non-commercial" guys will do everything to prevent situation in which they have to compete on an open market... Coming years should be very interesting...
Juxi Leitner

NASA Plans for Nonprofit To Manage Station Research | SpaceNews.com - 0 views

www.spacenews.com/...nonprofit-manage-research.html

technology space research ISS experiments

shared by Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 10
     
    "competitively select a domestic nonprofit organization to manage experiments aboard the international space station (ISS)" nice
Joris _

FASTSAT performing well; launch of small satellite coming next week | al.com - 0 views

blog.al.com/...at_performing_well_launch.html

MAD Space debris

shared by Joris _ on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Being able to launch a satellite from a satellite has numerous potential benefits to the military and scientists, but those benefits depend on the smaller satellite not hitting the mother ship when it launches and going where it needs to go.If the sail can deploy as planned to its 100-square-foot size - about as big as a six-person camping tent - and can guide the smaller satellite to its planned re-entry, it would also illustrate a new way to bring satellites back to Earth and reduce orbiting space junk.
Ma Ru

SpaceShip 2 Presented - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8400692.stm

technology space travel space

shared by Ma Ru on 08 Dec 09 - Cached
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  • Ma Ru on 08 Dec 09
     
    Space trip anyone?
Nina Nadine Ridder

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space - Telegraph - 2 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...ere-came-from-outer-space.html

atmosphere early_earth

shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 11 Dec 09 - Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 11 Dec 09
     
    Joris was faster :-)
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 11 Dec 09
     
    Damn! ;P
Joris _

Space shuttles for sale - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist - 4 views

www.newscientist.com/...space-shuttles-for-sale.html

Space shuttle

shared by Joris _ on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • If an entire shuttle is beyond your budget, consider a main engine instead. NASA had hoped to charge up to $800,000 for these but lack of interest has forced it to slash the price. They are now available for free
  • Nicholas Lan on 19 Jan 10
     
    will it fit in diego's van?
Joris _

Robot mini space shuttle is go for April, says US air force * The Register - 2 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...x_37_go_for_april

MAD launcher space

shared by Joris _ on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
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  • concept of operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies.
  • a robotic spaceplane able to remain in orbit for substantial periods before re-entering the atmosphere and coming in for a runway landing automatically
  • Joris _ on 15 Mar 10
     
    make you wonder when the FLPP will actually lead to something flying !
  • LeopoldS on 16 Mar 10
     
    I did not even know that the airforce continued the X37 project when it was cancelled at NASA ... interesting stuff indeed ...
Joris _

Why space shuttle exhaust races to the poles - space - 30 March 2010 - New Scientist - 6 views

www.newscientist.com/...xhaust-races-to-the-poles.html

weather nasa

shared by Joris _ on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 31 Mar 10
     
    the new scientist article does not say much but maybe the paper could be of interest to our models - Nina and Friederike, please have a look at it - hope that you can get hold of it ...
Luzi Bergamin

Physics in a Crisis - 3 views

www.rqm.ch/physics_in_a_crisis.htm

phy LHC crackpot fun

shared by Luzi Bergamin on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Luzi Bergamin on 30 Mar 10
     
    Luckily I'm far away from Geneva, but this has to be said today, when the LHC starts! No, not tiny black holes will eat us (what a nonsense!), but the supernovae energy will let LHC explode!!! Pacome, I expect you to debunk this with gratest care!
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  • pacome delva on 30 Mar 10
     
    wtf is this! As I read this morning in the newspaper (not even a scientific one), 1 TeV is the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito... so be careful ! It seems they already sloved every thing on this website: "At the Institute for Space Quantum Physics ISQP, it was already proved in 1991-1992 that dark matter is in magnetic fields as magnetic space quantum flux." This website is the biggest source of crackpots i have seen in a long time...! (http://www.supernovae-energy.com/)
  • Ma Ru on 30 Mar 10
     
    Come on guys, this website is hilarious! "The HAITI EARTHQUAKE (...) were impossible for the Institute for Space Quantum Physics (ISQP) to compute because on one single planet was on a common line or axis with the Sun: Venus."
  • Luzi Bergamin on 30 Mar 10
     
    Unfortunately, most information I have about the guy (Hans Lehner, a Swiss) is in German, his official homepage is http://www.rqm.ch/ According to EsoWatch he is the Swiss analogue to Dr. Mills and his Blacklight power. Lehner apparently founded a company, which should have produced a "Raum-Quanten-Motor" that -- of course -- produces energy out of nothing. The theory is based on spookey forces mediated by Lehneronen. 11 Million Swiss Franks (about 8 Million Euro) were lost when the company bankrupt. And the guy is selling new stocks on his homepage again... Lehner calls another crackpot named Oliver Crane Zweistein (from Einstein being "Onestone") and himself "Dreistein". Now he is looking for Mister or Misses Vierstein. Perhaps you should apply, good luck!!
  • Nicholas Lan on 30 Mar 10
     
    i like the first line of their supernovae energy technology document "Dear potential investor:"...
pacome delva

X-37B military spaceplane launches from Cape Canaveral - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8601172.stm

rocket spaceplane military

shared by pacome delva on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The X-37B, which has been likened to a scaled-down space shuttle, blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 0052 BST (1952 EDT).
  • The X-37B, which has been likened to a scaled-down space shuttle, blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 0052 BST (1952 EDT). The military vehicle is unpiloted and will carry out the first autonomous re-entry and landing in the history of the US space programme.
  • In all honesty, we don't know when it's coming back for sure.
Dario Izzo

Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory > Podcasts - 4 views

ewds.strath.ac.uk/...Podcasts.aspx

concepts advanced space

shared by Dario Izzo on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 12 May 10
     
    A cool way of organizing a research group seminars (should we do it for the science coffee?)
Joris _

SPACE.com -- Venus Probe's Problems May Cause Japan to Scale Back - 0 views

www.space.com/...suki-japan-rethink-101217.html

space MAD

shared by Joris _ on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • We have to be more conservative to plan our next planetary mission, so it will never fail in any aspect."
  • the probe's initial failure will have a big impact on how JAXA plans future planetary missions
  • hew to more conservative ideas in the near future
  • Joris _ on 20 Dec 10
     
    what a shame! ambition and innovation have not been fairly rewarded ...
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  • Ma Ru on 20 Dec 10
     
    Did you try to run your algorithm on their problem as Dario suggested? I'm very curious!
  • Joris _ on 20 Dec 10
     
    I didn't have time yet. But formulating the failure with a MTBF or a FIT, you can easily imagine a more robust solution. Instead of one single burn, you would make several smaller burns - It will take more time and require more fuel though. Another "robust" approach is to consider weak stability boundary capture. Again it takes time, but chances of failure are lessen.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Dec 10
     
    would be a pity indeed!
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