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

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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
Joris _

SpaceX teams with EADS to go after European launch contracts | Technology | Los Angeles... - 1 views

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spacex launcher

shared by Joris _ on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • it would work with EADS Astrium to market launch services to an array of European space agencies through 2015
  • Astrium, a subsidiary of the French-and-German-owned European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
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NASA's next destination: a near-Earth asteroid? | National | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle - 0 views

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NEO Human_Exploration

shared by Joris _ on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • At a workshop last month in Washington, D.C., NASA canvassed the scientific, human spaceflight and planetary defense communities about their priorities for a mission to a near-Earth asteroid.
  • an asteroid mission is possible as early as 2019 using a pair of enhanced Orion spacecraft with a two-person crew.
  • November 2019 and spend three months flying more than 7 million miles to an asteroid that's about 33 feet across.
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  • he crew would "park" their vehicle nearby and spacewalk over
  • After about five days the crew would climb back into one of the capsules and spend three months flying home.
Joris _

Swarming spacecraft to self-destruct for greater good - space - 06 September 2010 - New... - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...destruct-for-greater-good.html

swarm formation robust spacecraft

shared by Joris _ on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
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  • However, should one spacecraft in such a swarm begin to fail and risk a calamitous collision with another, it must sense its end is nigh and put itself on a course that takes it forever away from the swarm – for the greater good of the collective.
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BBC News - Old star wallows in 'steam bath' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...science-environment-11153086

science water

shared by Joris _ on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • an old giant star wallows in a "steam bath"
  • These spectrometers were able to confirm that CW Leonis' water was present very close in to the star, all the way down to near its surface - far too close to have come from comets.
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Sound Waves on Distant Star Reveal Sun-Like Cycle - 1 views

www.space.com/...ves-magnetic-cycle-100826.html

space phy

shared by Joris _ on 31 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Astronomers studying sound waves on a distant star have discovered that it has a magnetic cycle similar to our sun's solar cycle.
Joris _

A Singularity Approach to Space: Beamed Propulsion, AI, and Iridium on Steroids | Parab... - 8 views

www.parabolicarc.com/...ed-propulsion-iridium-steroids

technology

shared by Joris _ on 31 Aug 10 - Cached
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  • Joris _ on 06 Sep 10
     
    I looked at the wiki input on this, but I don't know what I should do. Aren't you writing the article. I definitely think there are some stuffs to pick up on the list and develop further.
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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
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OpenLuna Picks Up Where NASA's Moon Mission Leaves Off - 0 views

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MAD Open science

shared by Joris _ on 18 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The ambitious project will tap the resources of private enterprise to build several small scout rovers that will be shipped to the south pole of the moon via a single lander. Rock and earth samples will be returned to Earth for testing, then auctioned off to secure funding for the next phase of the plan
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Giant Nets Could Some Day Capture Space Trash - PCWorld - 2 views

www.pcworld.com/...e_day_capture_space_trash.html

MAD debris

shared by Joris _ on 16 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Joris _ on 16 Aug 10
     
    It was also presented during SpaceTech.
Joris _

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Sweden's Prisma satellites go their separate ways - 1 views

spaceflightnow.com/...11prisma

MAD technology space

shared by Joris _ on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
  • exotic green propellant maneuvering systems
  • In the two months since launch, controllers have powered up the satellites' navigation and formation flying equipment, tested its green propellant thruster, and successfully navigated around orbital debris threats.
  • a smorgasbord of payloads
Joris _

ATK Proposes Satellite To Fight Space Debris | SpaceNews.com - 0 views

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MAD debris

shared by Joris _ on 10 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The goal is to turn large debris particles that pose a threat to spacecraft into much smaller pieces that can be deflected by exterior shielding.
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Destroyed Chinese satellite close to ISS: official - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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debris

shared by Joris _ on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • If the calculations show that the debris is approaching the station at an unacceptably close range, the six astronauts will receive the order to take shelter in the two Russian Soyuz spacecraft which are docked with the ISS
  • it was already too late to carry out a manoeuvre to "divert the station from the rubbish"
  • Joris _ on 26 Jul 10
     
    I cannot find more info, but maybe they are just making a lot of fuss of it because it is from the Chinese exploded spacecraft. However, it seems to be a catalogued debris, so it is likely to be in the cm range or more
Joris _

Airbus Concept Has Weird Wings, Morphing Seats | Autopia | Wired.com - 6 views

www.wired.com/...airbus-concept-plane-2050

MAD technology concept

shared by Joris _ on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
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  • it reflects what experts in aircraft materials, aerodynamics, cabin design and engines came up with after considering what air transport might look like in 2050
  • Seems safe to say there are some within Airbus who truly are allowed to imagine something beyond normal aircraft interiors.
  • Joris _ on 21 Jul 10
     
    what a ACT's exercise should look like...
  • Joris _ on 21 Jul 10
     
    Maybe, you should propose this exercise to the team. You'll see there is not much imagination, unless, you consider imagination equals craziness (bullshit things ... and the too common blah blah in the act). I think this concept is an imaginative credible concept. "anything we might ever see" explains it well.
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25,000 new asteroids found by NASA's sky mapping - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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asteroid NEO

shared by Joris _ on 19 Jul 10 - Cached
  • WISE is discovering near-Earth asteroids that are on average larger than what's found by existing telescopes, which should help scientists better calculate their potential threat
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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
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