• The Launcher Ariane 5

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:40:48
    The launch of Ariane marked the qualification of this new-generation heavy launcher, paving the way for its successful commercial career. It was also a major milestone for the European space industry. The new launcher was developed to keep pace with trends in the commercial launch market, especially larger and heavier ...

  • STS-100 Status Report

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:40:48
    With the Kennedy Space Center reporting cloud cover, showers and gusty winds and with forecasters calling for more of the same for the rest of the week, flight controllers decided to bring Endeavour home to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base later today. Two opportunities to land ...

  • Reusable Launch Vehicles

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:40:48
    The faultiness ARD flight, launched by Ariane 5, confirmed EADS LAUNCH VEHICLES 's know-how with a capsule that is the forerunner to a future reusable vehicle. With other demonstrators under study, it will allow Europe to master atmospheric re-entry - which is vital for future programs. The acquisition of competence in ...

  • ISS cooling system considering by NASA

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:40:48
    "The questions for the day tasks were only partially fulfilled," said NASA is using on its website. According to ISS Manager Michael Suffredini expected a third deployment in space is necessary. Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson began their spacewalk at 13.19 BST clock. They spent eight ...

  • Managers Delay STS-104 Launch

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:40:48
    NASA Managers announced that Space Shuttle Atlantis and its five-member crew will not launch before early July to begin STS-104. The extra time will allow the International Space Station Program time to evaluate a problem with the station's new robotic arm, Canadarm2. The station arm will be used ...

  • From success to success Eads Launch Vehicles

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:40:48
    Eads Launch Vehicles spans all technologies needed to produce launch vehicles, developed through its lead role on all French ballistic missile programmers. The company has also played a critical role since the beginning of the Ariane programmed, which was launched in the 1970s. Technical expertise developed for ballistic missiles helped ...

  • Video: Singularity University Student Space Projects

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:18:29
    Parabolic Arc: An overview of the Singularity University student space projects from the school’s closing ceremony last Friday. © Douglas for Parabolic Arc, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: beamed propulsion, Singularity University, space Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

  • Masten Space Systems Wins NASA Suborbital Contract

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:44:07
    Commercial Space Watch: Masten Space Systems Wins NASA Suborbital Contract

  • NASA Advisory Council Commercial Space Committee Meeting 14 Sep 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:26:52
    Commercial Space Watch: NASA Advisory Council Commercial Space Committee Meeting 14 Sep 2010

  • Venus, Mars and Spica

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:13:20
    Astroblog: Venus, the bright star Spica and Mars form a triangle in the evening sky over Adelaide on Friday 29 August. Dim Saturn is down below, just above the trees. You will probably need to click to embiggen in order to see all the stars and planets clearly.Tonight (Wednesday, September 1) Venus and Spica are at their closest. For those of you not covered in cloud this sight should be very pleasing indeed.

  • Wyle to Play Key Role in New FAA Commercial Space Transportation Center

    Updated: 2010-08-31 21:25:10
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  • Video: Space Station Crew Spies Hurricane Earl

    Updated: 2010-08-31 21:21:14
    Breaking Orbit: NASA today posted video of Hurricane Earl taken by the Expedition 24 crew aboard the International Space Station as the storm—a Category 4 at the time—swirled northeast of Puerto Rico. Partially narrated by an unidentified crew member, the video was shot around 5:30 p.m. ET on August 30 from 218 miles (350 kilometers) above Earth. As of today, Earl is predicted to sweep northward along the U.S. East Coast, and it may make landfall as far up as Nova Scotia, Canada.

  • Briefs: More Falcon 9 contracts coming; Spare module for ISS

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:54:46
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  • More about NASA CRuSR contracts for MSS/Armadillo

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:45:20
    Masten Space Systems releases a statement on its new NASA contract: Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) Award! - Masten Space Systems blog. A couple of other reports on the contracts for Armadillo and Masten: /-- CRuSR makes its first awards - NewSpace Journal - (Jeff says Masten gets $250k, Armadillo $225k) /-- NASA Cash Rockets Two X-Prize Space Teams Into The Void (In a Good Way) - Fast Company

  • Briefs: House NASA bill; ATK tests 5-segment SRB; SD HLV

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:32:13
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  • NASA Satellite Captures Three Tropical Cyclones in One Image

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:24:06
    My father had a favorite adage when life was hectic: "There's lots of commotion in the ocean." That saying was never more true than the current situation in the busy Atlantic Ocean. The GOES-13 satellite captured this image earlier today (Tuesday Aug. 31) and visible are three areas of tropical commotion. The large and powerful [...]

  • Video: Hurricane Earl as Seen From Orbit by the ISS

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:15:50
    NASA: From an altitude of 218 miles, the International Space Station flies over Hurricane Earl as it churns as a Category 4 storm northeast of Puerto Rico near the northern Antilles islands. The station's Progress 37 cargo craft and the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft are in the foreground.

  • Superconducting Nanomesh Films Achieve Critical Current of 600 billion Amps per square meter, 8 to 60 times better than previous bests and will enable high performance magsails

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:03:12
    , skip to main skip to sidebar August 31, 2010 Superconducting Nanomesh Films Achieve Critical Current of 600 billion Amps per square meter , 8 to 60 times better than previous bests and will enable high performance magsails Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters Achieving the Theoretical Depairing Current Limit in Superconducting Nanomesh Films This critical current level of 600 billion amps per square meter is eight times better than the best thin film and sixty times higher than previous wires . We show the theoretical depairing current limit can be achieved in a robust fashion in highly ordered superconductor nanomesh films having spatial periodicities smaller than both the superconducting coherence length and the magnetic penetration depth .

  • UK Telegraph supports new Thorium Energy Amplifier Subcritical Accelerator Driven Reactor Project

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:00:12
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 UK Telegraph supports new Thorium Energy Amplifier Subcritical Accelerator Driven Reactor Project Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The UK Telegraph has written an article in support of new Thorium nuclear reactors based on the work of Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia , CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research A detailed study estimateed that the Rubbia thorium energy amplifier subcritical reactor would be twice as cheap as current nuclear power . Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal named after the Norse god of thunder , who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium , or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal . The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s

  • Video: Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor Tested

    Updated: 2010-08-31 17:57:22
    : Tuesday , August 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Video : Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor Tested Submitted by keithcowing on Tue , 08 31 2010 09:57. Space Exploration With a loud roar and mighty column of flame , NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute , full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight . The motor is potentially transferable to future heavy-lift launch vehicle designs . The stationary firing of the first-stage development solid rocket motor , dubbed DM-2, was the most heavily instrumented solid rocket motor test in NASA history . More than 760 instruments measured 53 test . objectives Prior to the static test , the solid rocket

  • Space Access: The NASA Authorization Battle: Why It Matters

    Updated: 2010-08-31 17:22:46
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  • Briefs: More on CRuSR awards; Space prizes roundup; ATK fireworks show

    Updated: 2010-08-31 06:29:55
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  • Briefs: SSI update; CSF hails NASA's first CRuSR contracts

    Updated: 2010-08-31 04:56:52
    The latest SSI update has been posted on line: Space Studies Institute Update July 2010 - Space Studies Institute - Aug.30.10. === The Commercial Spaceflight Federation congratulates Armadillo and Masten on their NASA contracts: CSF Congratulates Initial Winning Launch Providers in NASA’s Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program - CSF - Aug.30.10.

  • Young Exoplanet is Cloudy With a Chance of Heat Waves

    Updated: 2010-08-31 03:28:33
    Back in 2008, the first multi-planet system of extrasolar planets was imaged, and further study of the planets in this very young system is yielding some puzzling results. Astronomers using the Keck Observatory have been able to obtain the spectrum of one planet, HR 8799 b, revealing the temperature, chemical composition, and atmospheric properties of [...]

  • Graphite Foam Can Cool LED Lights and Lower Maintenance Costs

    Updated: 2010-08-31 00:47:43
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 Graphite Foam Can Cool LED Lights and Lower Maintenance Costs Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Oak Ridge National Lab has graphite foam for cooling LED lighting to double the lifespan and reduce . costs This technology will reduce temperatures and increase the life of the LED lighting systems , what it will really do is save municipalities millions of dollars every year in replacement fixture costs as well as maintenance . The newly licensed graphite foam invention offers many advantages over comparable heat sink materials such as copper and aluminum . Graphite foam's high thermal conductivity , low weight and easy machinability give the material greater design flexibility and make it a lighter , cheaper and

  • UAV Flying Minicopter with Robotic Hand

    Updated: 2010-08-30 23:45:08
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 UAV Flying Minicopter with Robotic Hand Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new remote-controlled helicopter is the first to have a robotic hand to pick objects off the ground and fly away with them . The helicopter can fly up to 80 miles per hour while carrying objects that weight as much as 4.5 pounds . It could pick up bombs or packages from areas that are too steep or rough for ground-based robots to access . They could even become a form of automated courier in urban areas , moving small packages from point to point in cities where trucks would have a hard time getting around . Its robotic hand has four fingers and runs on a single motor . The hand is made out of a material that helps to absorb shock and

  • Making Intense Attosecond Laser Pulses using a Conventional Femtosecond laser system

    Updated: 2010-08-30 23:37:44
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 Making Intense Attosecond Laser Pulses using a Conventional Femtosecond laser system Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new concept opens the door to creating an intense isolated attosecond pulse using a conventional femtosecond laser . system Physical Review Letters Infrared Two-Color Multicycle Laser Field Synthesis for Generating an Intense Attosecond Pulse We propose and demonstrate the generation of a continuum high-order harmonic spectrum by mixing multicycle two-color TC laser fields with the aim of obtaining an intense isolated attosecond pulse . By optimizing the wavelength of a supplementary infrared pulse in a TC field , a continuum harmonic spectrum was created around the cutoff region without

  • NASA Funds Experimental “Near Space” Vehicles

    Updated: 2010-08-30 23:02:46
    Commercial space companies Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems have been awarded a total of $475,000 to perform test flights of their experimental vehicles near the edge of space. The award is part of NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR), which seeks to develop commercial reusable transportation to near space for frequent, low-cost trips [...]

  • Armadillo Aerospace & Masten Space to get $475k from NASA

    Updated: 2010-08-30 22:21:24
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  • The Space Review this week

    Updated: 2010-08-30 20:37:18
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 10 SFF NewSpace 10 Space Access 10 2009 Review NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Mars Society . Conf Dayton , OH Aug . 5-8, 2010 SpaceUP DC unconference Washington , DC Aug . 27-28, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight ISPCS 2010 Las Cruces , NM Oct . 19-21, 2010 Puerto Rico Space Congress San Juan , Puerto Rico Oct . 24-27, 2010 Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange CRASTE Mountainview , CA Oct . 26-29, 2010 Space Manufacturing Critical Technologies for Space

  • Briefs: AIAA Space 2010 conference; LM asteroid mission

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:45:23
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  • ITAR reform effort by Obama administration

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:35:33
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  • MIT Seaswarm Oil Absorbing Robot

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:01:59
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 MIT Seaswarm Oil Absorbing Robot Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software http : www.blogger.com post-edit.g blogID=17555522 9221569040176362595 MIT has created a robotic prototype that could autonomously navigate the surface of the ocean to collect surface oil and process it on . site The system , called Seaswarm , is a fleet of vehicles that may make cleaning up future oil spills both less expensive and more efficient than current skimming methods . The researchers have developed two models of the : SeaSwarm one that burns the oil it collects and another that dispatches units to dump their tanks into a floating reservoir . The robot is 16 feet long by 7 feet wide and can gather up to 20 times its weight in oil . The

  • New Moon Mission: Chandrayaan-2 Payloads Selected

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:06:41
    Seven instruments will be aboard India's second unmanned mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced today. The mission, which is a cooperative effort between ISRO and the Russian Federal Space Agency, will include an orbiter, a lander and a rover, which officials hope will launch in 2013. The instruments will [...]

  • Google Provides Free Optical Character Recognition and results can be Translated

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:44:41
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 Google Provides Free Optical Character Recognition and results can be Translated Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Google Optical Character Recognition OCR allows your application to create editable Google Documents from highttp : www.blogger.com post-create.g blogID=17555522h-resolution images containing text such as faxes or scanned letters To perform OCR on a png , jpg , or gif upload , add the ocr=true parameter onto your upload : request POST feeds default private full ocr=true HTTP 1.1 Check the Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents” when you upload your scanned images JPEG , GIF , PNG or PDFs , and Google Docs will extract text and formatting from the scans for you to edit . away

  • The Status of the $1000 Genome Race

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:29:56
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 The Status of the 1000 Genome Race Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Omics Omics reviews the status of the race to the arbitrary standard of 1000 per genome with 30 times coverage for reagants only Applied Biosystems' SOLiD 4 platform can supposedly generate a genome for 6000, though even with pricing from academic core labs I can't actually buy that for less than about 12000 The SOLiD 4 hq upgrade is promised for this fall with a 3000 genome . target The SOLiD™ 4 System provides 100 GB for the 6,000 Quality Genome today , extendable to 300 GB for the 3,000 Quality Genome with conversion to the SOLiD™ 4hq System Complete Genomics deals only in complete genomes and only in bulk . Complete Genomics has already

  • NASA Crowdsources Historic Image Archive Data

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:55:47
    Who doesn't love looking at old pictures, especially ones from our first steps? In this case, these pictures are our first steps towards heading to space. NASA just added hundreds of images to The Commons area on the photo sharing site Flickr, and is looking for a little crowd-sourcing help to add data to the [...]

  • US Air Force Plans 2010-2030 Hypersonic systems, UAVs and lasers

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:26:13
    , skip to main skip to sidebar August 30, 2010 US Air Force Plans 2010-2030 Hypersonic systems , UAVs and lasers Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Here is more information on the US Air force plans for 2010-2030 42 megabyte presentation on Technology Horizons : Key Air Force Research Priorities During 2010-2030 The general themes are the air force is looking for more autonomous robotic systems , modular systems that can be rapidly and flexibly assembled and lower fuel usage . Below are screenshots of the hypersonic systems , small and large UAVs and lasers . If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on Reddit or StumbleUpon Thanks Supporting Advertising Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Thank You Posted by bw at 8 30 2010 Labels

  • New Mission to Trace Mars' Atmosphere for Clues to Life

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:50:00
    "The loss of Mars' atmosphere has been an ongoing mystery." Doug McCuistion, director of the NASA Mars Exploration Program The ExoMars Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on a 2016 mission will map the vertical distribution of...

  • Asteroid! A Major Impact Crater Occurs on Earth Every One Million Years

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:20:00

  • A Moment of Zen: A Tour of the Great Galaxies

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:14:00

  • New Tech: The Cosmos-Powered PC

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:10:00
    Scientists plan to use the International Space Station as a base for producing a new type of solar crystals. The production of thin-film crystals in the conditions of weightlessness gives them properties which are unattainable under Earth-bound conditions. This technology...

  • Astrox Hypersonic Vehicle Designs and the US Air Force Technology Priorities for 2010-2030

    Updated: 2010-08-30 06:55:26
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 29, 2010 Astrox Hypersonic Vehicle Designs and the US Air Force Technology Priorities for 2010-2030 Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software For more than a decade Astrox worked in semi-obscurity on several major hypersonic programmes , including the NASA X-43A scramjet and the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency DARPA Blackswift Astrox is featured prominently in Technology Horizons a 20-year roadmap for science and technology advances published by Werner Dahm , chief scientist of the US Air Force on July , 2010. Astrox has developed what Mark Lewis calls a mid-fidelity analytical tool to automatically show likely configurations and performance based on criteria such as inlet shaping and energy sources for thrust . Each

  • Geomagnetic Solar Storms and EMP

    Updated: 2010-08-30 02:02:18
    I wish to qualify my statement in the previous post where I wrote, ” I currently think that EMP attack is the second greatest risk we face, right behind a genetically engineered superplague.” What I should really say is that I think that any electromagnetic event that wrecks havoc on electronics is the second greatest [...]

  • Podcast: Planetary Rings

    Updated: 2010-08-30 01:29:10
    Saturn is best known for its rings. This huge and beautiful ring system is easy to spot in even the smallest backyard telescope, so you can imagine they were a surprise when Galileo first noticed them. But astronomers have gone on to find rings around the other gas giant worlds in the Solar System – [...]

  • South Korea Making Nuclear Reactors for Turkey and New Comanche Peak Reactors for Texas

    Updated: 2010-08-29 23:19:13
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 29, 2010 South Korea Making Nuclear Reactors for Turkey and New Comanche Peak Reactors for Texas Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Turkey and South Korea are planning in mid-November to enter into one of the most important phases of the process of building a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey worth nearly 10 . billion H T Dan Yurman Under an intention voiced jointly by Turkey and South Korea early this year , South Korea is expected to build Turkey's second nuclear power plant in Sinop in the Black Sea area . Under a separate agreement , Russia is due to build Turkey's first nuclear plant near the Mediterranean coast . The Korean power plant is planned to cost around 10 billion . South Korean nuclear plants also are

  • 2010 Humanity Plus Board Elections: Concluded

    Updated: 2010-08-29 22:32:25
    Congratulations to Max More, Howard Blume, and Tom McCabe for winning the Humanity+ board elections. Howard Blume is the newcomer. You may remember him as author of The Lucifer Principle. I don’t know a lot more about him other than that, but I welcome him to transhumanism. Tom and Max More, of course, have been [...]

  • Video: How NASA Makes Fake Vomit

    Updated: 2010-08-29 21:02:01
    : Tuesday , August 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Video : How NASA Makes Fake Vomit Submitted by keithcowing on Sun , 08 29 2010 13:02. After answering the question of how the space potty works , astronaut Mike Massimino now visits the Advanced Water Recovery Systems Development Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center . Chemists have been working hard to develop a next-generation trash bag for future exploration , including testing different forms of trash . and fake vomit . Watch as Massimino and the scientists lend their noses in the name of exploration and see if NASA's mixture is potent enough in this edition of NASA Behind the Scenes . 2010 SpaceRef Interactive . Inc Terms of Service User Login Username :

  • This Week in Space

    Updated: 2010-08-29 20:23:49
    Next stop space for this cosmic ray detector, Discovery gets ready to rollover for its final flight to space, reflections on a successful spacewalk, Curiosity extends its reach, Viking memories, new solar systems, a cosmic volcano, and Earth in fast-forward. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us [...]

  • Off Topic - Link to Randy Coutoure Beating James Toney in 3 Minutes of MMA Fighting

    Updated: 2010-08-29 17:37:21
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 29, 2010 Off Topic Link to Randy Coutoure Beating James Toney in 3 Minutes of MMA Fighting Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a link to an article with a video of Randy Coutoure beating James Toney in 3 minutes at UFC 118. take down within ten seconds and then full mount beating begins from top position . shifts to full leverage punches in the second minute After 2 minutes Coutoure tries to choke submit Toney Coutoure releases the choke and punches some more before applying a better choke and final submission If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on Reddit or StumbleUpon Thanks Supporting Advertising Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Thank You Posted by bw at 8 29

  • Global auto sales to hit 70 mln units this year: expert forecasts

    Updated: 2010-08-29 16:59:58
    : skip to main skip to sidebar August 29, 2010 Global auto sales to hit 70 mln units this year : expert forecasts Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Global auto sales are expected to reach 70 million units this year , as China continues to lead the new car market , a senior executive with Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co . . said In 2009, global auto sales only reached 60.99 million units due to the global economic downturn , according to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers OICA If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on Reddit or StumbleUpon Thanks Supporting Advertising Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Thank You Posted by bw at 8 29 2010 Labels : cars china world Global auto

  • DNA Nanotechnology and DNA Origami

    Updated: 2010-08-29 16:26:49
    skip to main skip to sidebar August 29, 2010 DNA Nanotechnology and DNA Origami Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns by Paul Rothemund(Caltech presented for the ECE550 course by Abdullah Akce 25 page pdf H T Eric Drexler at Metamodern The cost of DNA origami is from 1,000$ to 10,000$ per nmol . The scaffold strand dominates the total cost 80 The method cannot be scaled up arbitrarily requires scaffolds of larger size . sequences of staple strands should be . unique Design of Scaffolded DNA Origami a . the target shape b . discrete approximation c . hand-engineered folding path d . staple strand geometry e . generated staple strand DNA sequences synthesize the staple strands mix the scaffold and staple

  • The Search for 39 Billion Missing Suns Begins

    Updated: 2010-08-29 14:36:51
    Scientists working out of the CERN Labs in Switzerland have transported the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to NASA for preparation for space flight. The detector will aid the scientists in locating two elusive types of matter. When the space shuttle program's...

  • A Moment of Zen: A Merger of Great Galaxies

    Updated: 2010-08-29 07:00:00

  • Learning How To Fly Crews on an Atlas V

    Updated: 2010-08-29 00:26:36
    The NASTAR(R) Center, the premier commercial space training and research center in the world, has completed the initial phase of a research effort focused on commercial human spaceflight and systems development related to emergency detection and response using an Atlas V flight profile, under a contract with Special Aerospace Service (SAS) on August 16, 2010. read more

  • Astronomy Without A Telescope – Galactic Gravity Lab

    Updated: 2010-08-28 23:10:01
    Many an alternative theory of gravity has been dreamt up in the bath, while waiting for a bus – or maybe over a light beverage or two. These days it’s possible to debunk (or otherwise) your own pet theory by predicting on paper what should happen to an object that is closely orbiting a black [...]

  • Continuing Light Blogging to Continue Continuing

    Updated: 2010-08-28 17:07:54
    Hey guys, I know this is pretty lame, but it’s going to be a bit longer before I have anything useful to put up. I do have a pretty cool technology idea I’ve gotten permission to write about, but we’re doing an SBIR proposal on it first. There’s a lot more afoot in [...]

  • NASA's Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion Demonstration Mission

    Updated: 2010-08-28 16:38:03
    Tuesday , August 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts NASA's Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion Demonstration Mission Submitted by keithcowing on Sat , 08 28 2010 08:38. Space Exploration NASA MSFC is seeking a partner capable of providing a spacecraft bus as a part of a technology development proposal team . Responses to this RFI will provide information necessary for the selection of spacecraft providing partners for the proposal team in late Summer early Fall 2010. This RFI seeks input from vendors with experience and facilities for designing , fabricating , and integrating Low Earth Orbiting LEO satellites . Vendors must be able to provide low risk , highly reliable design solutions and have a history of successfully

  • Odd Mars Crater a Cosmic Mystery -Baffles European Space Agency Scientists (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2010-08-28 15:24:06
    An elongated crater on Mars, Orcus Patera, the enigmatic elliptical depression that lies near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet is a mystery, say European scientists scrambling for an explanation of its odd shape. Located between the...

  • Image of the Day: The Ghostly Beauty of Massive Star Death

    Updated: 2010-08-28 07:00:00
    Such a star death is violent even by the standards of our violent universe. If our Sun could become a supernova, which is can't because it's too puny, Earth's sky would would fill with the light of a sun that...

  • Space is the AnswerbyKim Peart Historians often find...

    Updated: 2010-08-28 06:30:07
    Blog Tools Edit your Blog Build a Blog RSS Feed View Profile August 2010 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 You are not logged . in Log in Entries by Topic All topics Adopt JPLSpaceFoundation Leeward Space Foundation Tripod Home Tripod Build Tripod Member Spotlight Register Your Domain Space Elevators Lycos Home Lycos Search Lycos News Leeward Space Foundation Saturday , 28 August 2010 Space is the Answer by Kim Peart Historians often find events in their research that did not seem to be that significant when they happened , but when later viewed in context , can gain a significant role in the pageant of history . The decision to build the space shuttle , for instance , may come to be seen as one of the great errors of space

  • 1959 - Twelve Men On The Moon

    Updated: 2010-08-28 05:53:32
    by Dave Fischer Copernicus, Eratosthenes and Project Horizon Image Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team recently released this image featuring the famous crater Copernicus with its ejecta splashed across much of the face of the Moon. Copernicus and the crater Eratosthenes lie just south of Mare Imbrium. To [...]

  • Animation: Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-28 03:50:56
    : Tuesday , August 31, 2010 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Animation : Asteroid Discovery From 1980 2010 Submitted by keithcowing on Fri , 08 27 2010 19:50. Planetary Science YouTube : View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones . The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system . Earth Crossers are Red . Earth Approachers Perihelion less than 1.3AU are Yellow . All Others are Green . Notice now the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit , most discoveries are made in the region directly opposite the Sun . You'll

  • Watch Titan Occult a Binary Star System

    Updated: 2010-08-27 20:31:50
    Scott Kardel from the Palomar Observatory just posted something extremely cool on his Palomar Skies website. Back in 2001, a group of astronomers used the 200-inch Hale Telescope equipped with adaptive optics to observe Saturn's moon Titan pass in front of a binary star system. The two stars are separated in the sky by just [...]

  • ‘Seven Planets’ Discovered in New Solar System -Earth's Twin Observed Soon?

    Updated: 2010-08-27 08:00:00
    Astronomers have discovered a new solar system that appears to have almost as many planets as our own. They found up to seven planets orbiting a star that is of a similar type to the Sun, including one that is...

  • EcoAlert: Earth's Shrinking Atmosphere

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:16:00
    The shrinking of the Earth's high outer atmospheric layer has been linked to a sharp drop in the sun's ultraviolet radiation levels. The research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and the University...

  • Shrinking Atmospheric Layer Linked to Low Levels of Solar Radiation

    Updated: 2010-08-27 03:32:24
    NSF: Large changes in the sun's energy output may drive unexpectedly dramatic fluctuations in Earth's outer atmosphere. Results of a study published today link a recent, temporary shrinking of a high atmospheric layer with a sharp drop in the sun's ultraviolet radiation levels. read more

  • Hilarious

    Updated: 2010-08-25 20:30:33
    I know I shouldn’t feed the troll, but Mark Whittington is sometimes amusing.  On his blog, he quoted a commenter to NASAWatch: A commenter named Robert B. has a great answer: Congress doesn’t trust NASA’s administrators to follow the will of Congress. The admins have proven that they will use the letter of the law [...]

  • In Which I Bash Space Colonization Again

    Updated: 2010-08-25 17:54:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HISTORY SPACE AND OTHER SPECULATIONS Rocketpunk Manifesto Days of Future Past Wednesday , August 25, 2010 In Which I Bash Space Colonization Again First let me be clear . I am talking here about my old friend the Plausible Midfuture . I'm not going to answer for AD 40,000, let alone 40 million . And this is obviously not about Romance , for which the rule of cool is sufficient , even if it dresses in Plausible Midfuture outfits as a rhetorical . flourish But really , guys n' gals , we are not going to be colonizing space any time soon . Well , probably not . Not in this century , not in the next , perhaps not in this millennium . The whole idea is rocketpunk in the sense of Late Steampunk , the imagined projection of a brief era into a

  • Automotive X Prize finalists

    Updated: 2010-08-23 02:53:53
    Site Navigation Blog Topics The Dead Sea Scrolls Oil spill in the gulf Vaccines Mayan calendar Swine Flu Minnesota geology Archive Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Mentors Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Copyright Information Contact Us Privacy Help Be part of the buzz . Login Register Automotive X Prize finalists by ARTiFactor on Aug . 22nd , 2010 in Energy Transformations 0 comments Add a new comment Automotive X Prize competition is almost over I have waited almost two years for this race . What kind of automobiles can qualify to win the 10 million Automotive X Prize The Zap Alias seems

  • ISEC awards it’s first prize

    Updated: 2010-08-15 06:48:57
    Gaylen R. Hinton is the winner of the very first prize awarded by the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC).  His paper, ‘Seven Deadly Assumptions about Space Elevators‘ was awarded an ‘Honorable Mention’ in the Artsutanov Prize award category. Gaylen received a framed Honorable Mention certificate, signed by both Yuri Artsutanov and ISEC Prize Chair Peter Swan.  [...]

  • The Space Elevator and the Strong Tether Challenge makes the news…

    Updated: 2010-08-14 18:48:25
    The local (Seattle, Washington) NBC affiliate is KING-TV.  They sent a crew to film Yuri and Jerome’s arrival at Sea-Tac on Thursday and another crew to film events, including the Strong Tether Challenge, at yesterday’s first day of the Space Elevator Conference. A segment on these topics made both the afternoon and evening news on KING-TV.  [...]

  • Results from the 2010 Strong Tether Challenge

    Updated: 2010-08-14 06:39:51
    In a word, disappointing.  No team’s entry seriously challenged for the prize.  No team’s entry performed even to 10% of what was needed to win the prize.  Even with three teams entering carbon-nanotube or carbon-nanotube-reinforced entries, no visible, forward progress was made. However, in another sense, progress WAS made.  Because of the way that the rules have [...]

  • The other two entries

    Updated: 2010-08-14 00:13:28
    Here are pictures of the other two entries in the Space Elevator - Strong Tether Challenge. The two loops are from the same competitor.  In one of my earlier posts, I showed a nanotube thread - this is the end result of them (Spaceward as sent multiple threads) being wound into a loop. The ‘long, shiny thing’ [...]

  • uStream TV ready to go for Strong Tether Competition

    Updated: 2010-08-13 22:47:48
    All hail Maurice Franklin from Microsoft for coming in at the last minute and rescuing the uStream TV broadcast of the upcoming Strong Tether Competition - Thanks Maurice! The URL to follow this is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-centennial-challenge—strong-tether-competition.  The feed is live now, you can see people setting up - it will probably be on and off between now and [...]

  • Another Tether entry

    Updated: 2010-08-13 19:35:07
    Just in the past few minutes, the third tether entry in the Strong Tether competition confirmed that they will compete.  A picture thumbnail of the nanotube loop being entered is included in this post (click on it for a full-size version). As you can see, this has little in common with the meter-sized loops from previous [...]

  • Carbon nanotubes are HERE

    Updated: 2010-08-13 17:45:16
    The picture thumbnail is of one of the entries in today’s Space Elevator Games - Strong Tether Challenge. This thread has now been wound into a loop and will be put on the “Tether Torture Rack” in today’s competition. I still don’t have the uStream details yet, but hope to have them in the next hour or [...]

  • Yuri Artsutanov and Jerome Pearson are HERE

    Updated: 2010-08-13 00:34:13
    Today I was very privileged to help welcome Yuri Artsutanov and Jerome Pearson to Seattle.  Everybody’s connections were on time so everyone showed up on time. Peter Swan, ISEC Director and Vice-President arrived first this morning.  Jerome Pearson arrived shortly thereafter and they waited behind Security for Yuri to appear.  He and Eugene Schlusser (Yuri’s translator [...]

  • Planetary Trio Provides a Warm-Up Act for Perseids

    Updated: 2010-08-12 23:20:09
    Planning to check out the annual Perseids meteor shower? Don't miss the pre-show when Mars, Venus, Saturn and the moon all come out to play.

  • Latest updates on the Strong Tether Challenge

    Updated: 2010-08-12 07:09:17
    Ben Shelef, CEO of the Spaceward Foundation, organizers of the Space Elevator Games, arrived in Seattle / Redmond today.  He tells me that there will be at least two contestants, and possibly a third, in this year’s Strong Tether Challenge.  All of the contestants are bringing entries made out of carbon nanotubes. This is über-mega-cool.  In [...]

  • Results from Japan’s 2010 JSETEC Competition

    Updated: 2010-08-12 00:05:04
    The Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA) held its 2nd annual Japan Space Elevator Technical & Engineering Competition this past weekend.  I received this email from Shuichi Ohno, president of JSEA: We finished our JSETEC competition 2 days ago. 15 teams bring 16 climbers. Each team tried 1-3 times. Champion is Kanagawa University team. (Speed was not high, but safety [...]

  • PRESS RELEASE – Space is the Answer – For immediate release

    Updated: 2010-08-10 06:05:01
    Blog Tools Edit your Blog Build a Blog RSS Feed View Profile August 2010 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 You are not logged . in Log in Entries by Topic All topics Adopt JPLSpaceFoundation Leeward Space Foundation Tripod Home Tripod Build Tripod Member Spotlight Register Your Domain Space Elevators Lycos Home Lycos Search Lycos News Leeward Space Foundation Tuesday , 10 August 2010 PRESS RELEASE Space is the Answer For immediate release : Mood energetic PRESS RELEASE Space is the Answer For immediate release Leeward Space Foundation announced today plans to establish an international system of local chapters to be know as Space is the Answer . chapters The purpose of establishing this network of local chapters is two . fold

  • Why spend money on space….?

    Updated: 2010-08-04 22:50:02
    It is often asked “Why spend money on space when we’ve got all these problems on Earth?” An eloquent response to this question was recently given by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in a talk at the University at Buffalo. You can view his 5-minute answer on YouTube. Tyson is host of the PBS series NOVA [...]

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