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Japan plans to send a robot to the moon | The Australian - 1 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frg8y6-1225947783972

robot space moon

shared by Joris _ on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • the little android's oil bearings and ultrasonic sensors will not work in the lunar vacuum
  • The one-sixth gravity presents problems for stable movement, and Moon dust clogs joints.
  • the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa), the country's space agency. It runs the rockets needed to deliver their robot to the Moon and, so far, has been distinctly cool on the idea.
  • Joris _ on 04 Nov 10
     
    Interesting! I like the quote "Maybe China would allow that to be a one-way trip but, in Japan, it would have to be a return ticket" talking about a human mission ....
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Is It Time To Revamp Systems Engineering? | AVIATION WEEK - 1 views

www.aviationweek.com/...story.jsp

engineering

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  • They both believe the systems engineering processes that have served the aerospace and defense community since pre-Apollo days are no longer adequate for the large and complex systems ­industry is now developing.
  • Joris _ on 02 Nov 10
     
    1) it has to actively work and produce a result that's what you intended 2) the design must be robust. 3) it should be efficient 4) it should minimize unintended consequences. "But we have to establish a formal, mathematically precise mechanism to measure complexity and adaptability . . . [where] adaptability means the system elements have sufficient margin, and can serve multiple purposes." "We need to break the paradigm of long cycles from design to product" some interesting questions....
  • Joris _ on 03 Nov 10
     
    what is the outcome of the CDF study ? I think actually that optimisation is not at all the key point. As it is stressed in this news, it is robustness (points 2 and 4). This is something we should think about ...
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Robot's space debut 'giant leap for tinmankind' - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010110103743.html

robot technology space

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  • Joris _ on 02 Nov 10
     
    a robot Juxi talked about in a report, soon in the ISS
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changement_climatique__octobre_2010.pdf - 2 views

medias.lemonde.fr/...t_climatique__octobre_2010.pdf

climate change

shared by Joris _ on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 28 Oct 10
     
    Report commissionned by French ministry on the question of global warming and causes - in french though.
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China kicks off manned space station program - 2 views

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

china space MAD

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  • to complete construction of a "relatively large" manned space laboratory around 2020
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Video: DARPA and Boeing's DiscRotor Retractable-Blade Heliplane | Popular Science - 3 views

www.popsci.com/...gs-retractable-blade-heliplane

darpa technology aviation

shared by Joris _ on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 28 Oct 10
     
    a simple but innovative idea ...
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File-Sharing Group Mulls a Floating Pirate Ship of Servers in the Sky | Popular Science - 1 views

www.popsci.com/...oating-pirate-ship-servers-sky

shared by Joris _ on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The problem: Where can servers that store data frequently seen as unsavory be kept? The solution: Hanging from a giant balloon in the sky?
  • this idea isn't totally practical, since the group has limited resources and an airborne server presents a whole host of problems
  • ther suggestions included a low-level satellite
  • Joris _ on 25 Oct 10
     
    outcome of a brainstorming, or an example of thinking out of the box ... :)
  • Joris _ on 25 Oct 10
     
    we should propose fractionned servers with CubeSats ...
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Watch construction of Nasa's new Mars rover live on the web - 0 views

www.physorg.com/...10-10-nasa-mars-rover-web.html

nasa space

shared by Joris _ on 22 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 22 Oct 10
     
    nice!!! They always have excellent ideas!
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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
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SPACE.com -- Bigelow Aerospace Soars with Private Space Station Deals - 0 views

www.space.com/...tion-first-clients-101019.html

technology

shared by Joris _ on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • A private space company offering room on inflatable space habitats for research has found a robust international market
  • A question that continues to float through the halls of NASA and the Congress: Is there a commercial market for utilizing space?
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Space and the Biological Economy - 0 views

www.aiaa.org/content.cfm

BIO MAD space science

shared by Joris _ on 11 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • the U.S. space program has a robust life science program that is diligently working to innovate new approaches, research and technologies in the fields of biotechnology and bio-nanotechnology science, which are providing new solutions for old problems – including food security, medical needs and energy needs
  • more money be allocated to develop environmentally sound and energy efficient engine programs for commercial and private aviation
  • waste water program
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  • we lack fundamental knowledge about the entire effect of the photosynthesis system on food growth, and that space-based research could provide vital clues to scientists on how to streamline the process to spur more efficient food growth
  • From the start of the space age until 2010 only around 500 people have journeyed into space, but with the advent of private space travel in the next 24 months another 500 people are expected to go into space
  • Wagner indentified prize systems that award monetary prizes to companies or individuals as an effective way to spur innovation and creativity, and urged the Congressional staffers present to consider creating more prize systems to stimulate needed innovation
  • Joris _ on 11 Oct 10
     
    a bunch of ideas, iinitiatives, and good points about upcoming changes in space ...
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Qwiki - 8 views

www.qwiki.com

INF technology

shared by Joris _ on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 06 Oct 10
     
    "information experience" ... impressive
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SPACE.com -- Space Beer Headed for Zero Gravity Bar - 0 views

www.space.com/...testing-space-beer-100927.html

shared by Joris _ on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • It may not come in time for Oktoberfest, but the world's first beer to be certified for consumption in space will soon undergo tests in weightlessness to see if it is brewed with the right stuff.
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The seeds of disruptive innovation within the European Space Agency - 24 August 2010 > ... - 5 views

ewds.strath.ac.uk/...ce-Agency--24-August-2010.aspx

science

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  • Joris _ on 20 Sep 10
     
    :p
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