The interesting case of 'buckyballs'
Updated: 2010-10-31 11:23:00
Spaceports: It was just three months ago that scientists first announced they'd found the 60-packs of carbon molecules, known as buckminsterfullerens, in a planetary nebula, the death shroud of an exploded star, according to findings from the Spitzer Space Telescope.This week, astronomers report four more sightings of buckyballs in planetary nebula, including one located beyond the Milky Way in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy about 210,000 light-years away, writes Irene Klotz for Discovery News.
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skip to main skip to sidebar October 29, 2010 High speed rail from Hong Kong to Beijing by 2012 and other amazing facts about China's high speed rail buildout click on the picture for a larger view of how Hong Kong will connect to China with high speed rail The Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railways began operation this year , and the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway is also expected to be operational by the end of 2011. The high-speed rail from Shanghai to Hong Kong is expected to begin service by the end of 2012 or in early 2013. By then , the fastest direct train from Shanghai to Hong Kong will take only 6 hours . Right now , traveling from Shanghai station to Kowloon Station takes nearly 19 hours . The Hong Kong-Shanghai high-speed rail journey is approximately
skip to main skip to sidebar October 29, 2010 BA-2100 module and other Bigelow Aerospace news the Bigelow BA-2100 models Hobbyspace reports that Bigelow Aerospace presented a model of the BA-2100 2100 cubic meter volume space hotel module . The current BA-330 has 330 cubic meters of volume Bigelow , in addition to showing off his modules , revealed for the first time the six sovereign clients that have signed memoranda of understanding to utilize his orbital facilities : the United Kingdom , Netherlands , Australia , Singapore , Japan and . Sweden The International Space Station has a pressurized volume of 837 cubic meters Popular Mechanics had info . The BA-2100 is over six times as large as the BA-330 and has multiple . decks The BA-2100's docking ends are about 25 feet in diameter , and
While historically, meteor showers were portents of ill omens, we know today that they are the remnants of ejecta from comets entering our atmosphere. Many showers have had their parent comets identified. But a new study is suggesting that two meteor showers, the December Monocerotids and the November Orionids, may share the same parent. (...)Read [...]
Intriguing images of brand new, fresh gullies on Mars has most of us thinking of one thing: water. But at least for one type of Mars gully, carbon dioxide frost is the impetus behind fresh flows showing up on images from orbiting spacecraft. “Gullies that look like this on Earth are caused by flowing water, [...]
[Update (15:00 UT Saturday): launch was delayed again. It is now set for Wednesday, November 3, at 15:52 Eastern time.]
Just a quick update: NASA has delayed the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery by a day due to gas leaks in one of the Orbiter Maneuvering System pods (those are the engines housed under the [...]
By now you may have heard the report that as many as 1/4 of all the sun-like stars in the Milky Way may have Earth-like worlds. Briefly, astronomers studied 166 stars within 80 light years of Earth, and did a survey of the planets they found orbiting them. What they found is that about 1.5% [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar October 28, 2010 Microwave-Assisted Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube AFM Tip Nanoletters Microwave-Assisted Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube AFM Tip A new , fast , alternative approach for the fabrication of carbon nanotube CNT atomic force microscopy AFM tips is reported . Thereby , the tube material is grown on the apex of an AFM tip by utilizing microwave irradiation and selective heating of the catalyst . Reaction times as short as three minutes allowed the fabrication of CNT AFM tips in a highly efficient process . This method represents a promising approach toward a cheaper , faster , and straightforward synthesis of CNT AFM tips They can make carbon nanotube AFM probes utilizing the microwave-assisted growth of CNTs directly on the apex of a commercially
In another case of NASA reusing and recycling spacecraft, two of the five THEMIS spacecraft — which were studying the cause of geomagnetic substorms here on Earth — have a new mission. They made some very unique and complex maneuvers to reach two different LaGrange Points, and will turn their focus on the Moon. Particularly, [...]
Quite a few things going on in the human spaceflight world, so will just post a few briefs: Of course top on the agenda is that space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to lift-off on its last flight ever, for the STS-133 mission. Launch is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT from Launch [...]
I had the chance to interview LCROSS principal investigator Anthony Colaprete about the latest findings released from the lunar impact of the spacecraft a year ago, and in addition to the article we posted here on Universe Today, I also did a podcast for the NASA Lunar Science Institute. If you would like to actually [...]
The day after the recent Space Elevator Conference in Redmond, Washington, I needed to drive Yuri Artsutanov and his translator (Eugene Schlusser) back to the Sea-Tac airport so that they could catch their flight. On the way, we stopped at the LaserMotive facility so that a) the LaserMotive people and Yuri could meet and b) [...]
There is a new book out which has a Space Elevator as a central theme. The title is Fatal Ascent and the author is Mr. Gordon McKinzie. I’ve just recently learned that Gordon was supposed to be at the recent Space Elevator Conference in Redmond, but a sudden and severe medical issue prevented him from [...]
On the USST website, they have a summary of their activities at the recent JSEA LASER competition as well as a couple of videos.
I had previously posted about the climb where they crash-landed, but didn’t post the one where they did much better. And I had posted a wrap-up of the competition here.
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Their summary of [...]
Exciting news - EuroSpaceward has today announced EuSEC - the first European Space Elevator Challenge!
This competition is being organized by WARR, the Scientific work-group for rocketry and space flight of the Technical University of Munich in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich, the Klaus Höchstetter Foundation, Lrt, the Institute of Astronautics and EuroSpaceward.
The theme [...]
Space Experience Curacao has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with XCOR Aerospace to begin passenger flights of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft from this Caribbean island in 2014. This announcement follows a similar arrangement with Yecheon Astro Space Center in South Korea announced last December.
XCOR Aerospace is one of two companies currently offering reservations for suborbital [...]