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skip to main skip to sidebar September 30, 2010 Namibia's Uranium production is up 17.7 from the first half of last year Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Namibia's Uranium production improved by 9.9 percent during the second quarter of 2010 compared to the preceding quarter . Similarly , year-on-year , it rose by 17.7 . percent The demand for uranium continued to be high , emanated mostly from China , India and South Korea , coupled with planned nuclear plant programmes across the globe due to increased demand for clean . energy Here is a four page fact sheet on prior Olympic Dam expansion . plans Namibia was fourth largest producer of uranium in 2009. Namibia produced 4626 tons of uranium i 2009. A 17.7 increase for the entire year would be 5444 tons
The US House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to accept the Senate’s version of NASA’s $19 billion fiscal 2011 budget proposal. The bill will now go to President Obama for his approval and signature, and if approved would provide $60 billion for NASA over the next three years, with money for development of commercial spacecraft, [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar September 30, 2010 Russian Orbital Technologies Companies targets 2016 space hotel launch Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Russian company Orbital Technologies has announced its plans to launch in 2016 a commercial space station that will be used as a space . hotel It will be able to hold seven people . Bigelow Aerospace is planing to deploy their inflatable commercial space station in 2014. Bigelow Aerospace plans to deploy our space station as early as 2014, ready to serve customers in 2015. Bigelow Aerospace clarifies that it will not be a space hotel . the first BA330 would hold six people on a long term basis Because our founder is also in the apartment business , the media sometimes reports that we are building a space
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a planet with about three times the Earth’s mass orbiting the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581. That in itself is cool news; a planet like that is very hard to detect.
But the amazing thing is that the planet’s distance from the star puts it in the Goldilocks Zone: [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar September 29, 2010 Earth like Planet in the Habitable Zone has been found Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A newfound planet , known as Gliese 581g , is estimated to be 3.1 to 4.3 times as massive as Earth , and makes a complete circuit around its sun in just under 37 . days If the planet has a rocky composition like Earth's , it would be 1.2 to 1.4 times as wide as our own planet , qualifying it as a super-Earth . Even more intriguingly , the brightness of the star much dimmer than our own sun and Gliese 581g's orbital distance 0.146 AU , less than half the distance between Mercury and our sun suggest that the planet's average surface temperature is between 10 degrees and minus-24 degrees Fahrenheit 12 to 31 degrees Celsius
skip to main skip to sidebar September 29, 2010 Metamaterial-based model of the Alcubierre warp drive to go up to 25 of the speed of light Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arvix Metamaterial-based model of the Alcubierre warp drive by Igor I . Smolyaninov of the University of . Maryland Alcubierre imagined a small volume of flat spacetime in which a spacecraft sits , surrounded by a bubble of spacetime that shrinks in the direction of travel , bringing your destination nearer , and stretches behind you . He showed that this shrinking and stretching could enable the bubble--and the spaceship it contained--to move at superluminal speeds . Igor Smolyaninov at the University of Maryland , points out that if these kinds of bubbles are possible in spacetime ,
An enticing new extrasolar planet found using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii is just three times the mass of Earth and it orbits the parent star squarely in the middle of the star’s “Goldilocks zone,” a potential habitable region where liquid water could exist on the planet‘s surface. If confirmed, this would be the most [...]
As the space shuttle program draws to a close, NASA is working to highlight the historic nature of each of the events. On Tuesday, Sept. 28th, the last External Tank of the shuttle program wheeled out of the Pegasus Barge – early. Storm clouds had been swirling around the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in the [...]
Here’s this week’s image for the Where In The Universe Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this image is from; give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft or [...]
The Cassini spacecraft recently swooped by Saturn’s largest moon Titan and captured images of large patches of clouds. “These are some of the largest clouds our cameras on Cassini have yet seen on Titan!” said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead, in an email announcing the image. “And the fact that we see them in [...]
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by John Williams over at Starry Critters. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #171. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an [...]
Congratulations to Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay on Astronomy Cast podcast #200! This week’s podcast is about the Mariner program, the first interplanetary series of missions. These successful spacecraft visited Mercury, Venus, and Mars, and laid the groundwork for the US missions to the outer planets. Let’s take a look at the program and [...]
Will there soon be another human destination in low Earth orbit, or is this a redundant pipe dream? Two Russian-based companies hope to build the first-ever commercial space station, named, fittingly, Commercial Space Station (CSS). Orbital Technologies and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energria) said in a press release that they will work together [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar September 27, 2010 An organic polymer thin film could absorb as much as 10 times more energy from sunlight than was thought possible Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software This schematic diagram of a thin film organic solar cell shows the top layer , a patterned , roughened scattering layer , in green . The organic thin film layer , shown in red , is where light is trapped and electrical current is generated . The film is sandwiched between two layers that help keep light contained within the thin . film Ultra-thin solar cells can absorb sunlight more efficiently than the thicker , more expensive-to-make silicon cells used today , because light behaves differently at scales around a nanometer a billionth of a meter say Stanford
skip to main skip to sidebar September 27, 2010 Virgin Galactic on track for commercial flights within 18 months Ad Support Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that Virgin Galactic is on track to offer commercial space travel within 18 months by March 2012 and that space hotels are next on the drawing . board H T Instapundit We just finished building SpaceShipTwo . We are 18 months away from taking people into space , Branson told a business conference in Kuala Lumpur , adding that the fare will start at 200,000 dollars . Virgin Galactic , which aims to become the world's first commercial company to promote space tourism , has already collected 45 million dollars in deposits from more than 330 people who have
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
HTML clipboardSpitzer Space Telescope (NASA's Spitzer) recorded the signs of a collision at high speed of the two planets in the system of young stars. One was the size of Mercury, the other - with our moon. The event happened a few thousand years ago. Artists from ...
Astronomers have increased the chances of a collision with Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 in XXII century. According to new estimates, a celestial body could meet the Earth with the probability of one chance in a thousand. Details of how scientists determined the probability of collision, are shown in a press ...
HTML clipboardAnnounced for the first time about a week ago, a helicopter Sikorsky Firefly (Firefly), which uses electricity to move through the air, July 26, was shown at the annual aviaforume AirVenture in Oshkosh (Oshkosh), Wisconsin. The implementation has been around in the air the idea of ...
In a few days astronomy enthusiasts will gather again in the largest gathering of observers from Europe, the Reencounters Astronomical Spring.They are already about 500 have made an appointment of 13 to 16 May in Capone sure Arson, a small town in Haute-Loire, which will host the twelfth edition of ...