Week in Review: Gliding Toward the Future With Russia’s Donald Trump
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: Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search About Me Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Space Adventures to Announce Circumlunar Flight . This Week NASA Video : President Obama Visits . Week in Review : Gliding Toward the Future With Russia’s Donald Trump Posted by Doug Messier on April 30, 2011, at 12:09 pm in News Tags : CCDev Dennis Tito NASA Roscosmos Scaled Composites space shuttle space tourism SpaceShipTwo virgin galactic Vladimir Putin Will Pomerantz Comments : no responses 0 Comments Parabolic Arc’s Week in Review Space Tourism Turns Ten : The space community celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first private spaceflight by Dennis Tito . Since that time , six other millionaires have followed on seven government space missions Charles
Journey to the Stars Wandering through the realms of the cosmos , pondering its huge vastness Home About this site The Author Gallery Astronomy Projects Organizations Pink Contrail and the Crescent Moon On the walk from our house to the street one afternoon , a nice sight in the western sky caught my eyes the 27 illuminated waxing crescent Moon and a pink-colored sunlit contrail against a blue-violet sky . This contrast of colors looked just fascinating . Fortunately , I brought my Kodak digital camera with me and I was able to take a picture of it . It was a bit blurry though without using a sturdy . tripod Notice that while both the Moon and the cloud were illuminated by the same Sun , the cloud was pink and the Moon was so white . The answer lies in the fact that the atmosphere absorbs
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Astroblog: I've done my first Videocast of this months (May 2011) morning dance of the planets. The link is here, or you can watch the video below. The sound and images don't synchronize so well, as I had to do the sound recording on a different computer from the one the proto-video was on (don't ask). I may re-record it.
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard April 29, 2011 Carnival of Space 195 Earth if it was made of water and gravity was only thing shaping it 1. Universe Today GOCE Data Close Up : Around the World in Lumpy , Geoidy 3-D New looks at the latest info from GOCE showing Earth's geoid , which is essentially a map of the shape our world would be if its surface were covered by water and if gravity were the only thing shaping this global ocean’s surface . These great 3-D images were created by Nathanial Burton-Bradford . Vega00 also covered the GOCE . data 2. Centauri Dreams Spacecraft no more than an inch square will fly aboard the next and last Shuttle flight to the International Space Station . The work of Mason Peck Cornell University the micro-satellites weigh in at
Green flashes from the Sun at sunset are a rare phenomenon, but even rarer are green flashes from a setting Moon. With the unique atmospheric conditions at Cerro Paranal in Chile, a photographer from ESO’s Very Large Telescope managed to what are likely the best images ever taken of the Moon’s green flash. ESO Photo [...]
Endeavour’s final launch will have to wait a little longer. Problems with the the APU heaters on the shuttle has forced a scrub of today’s planned launch to the International Space Station. The APU system provides power to the hydraulic system for the orbiter. “Our NASA launch director Mike Leinbach has made the decision that [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard April 29, 2011 Qualcomm will have single dual and quad core snapdragon mobile chips at 2.5 Ghz by the end of 2011 A leaked Qualcomm presentation shows single dual and quad core Snapdragon mobile chips at 2.5 Ghz by the end of 2011. The MSM8270, MSM8930, MSM8960, and APQ8064, all based on the future Krait architecture , are expected to be as much as five times faster than their predecessors in raw CPU power and four times faster in graphics with console quality gaming . They will support 1080p displays 3D video 7.1-channel Dolby Surround Up to 20-megapixel camera should one . exist Qualcomm also claims they will outperform other dual and quad core chips that exist or are expected Tegra 3 is a quad core that is expected from
Wondering why the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure was delayed last night? Here’s your answer! NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured part of the lightning storm that delayed the rollback until nearly midnight local time at Kennedy Space Center. It was originally slated to start at about 7 pm. But the late rollback went off [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard April 29, 2011 Russia is reconfirming plans to build 32 nuclear reactors by 2020 Russia is planning to build 32 new reactors by 2020. Russia plans to increase the share of nuclear produced energy to about 23 of total energy production for the whole country , and to about 32 for European Russia , by 2020. The plan is to achieve this by commissioning 2 GW of capacity a year after 2013 through the construction of standardized nuclear reactors . With funding that is guaranteed , Russia should have 32.3 GW of new nuclear capacity by 2020 with additional funding , this would rise to 38.1 GW while 3.7 GW of nuclear capacity would be . decommissioned Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom has decided to focus on the
Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Making a Minnesota mummy Fracture-critical systems Vaccines 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 Apr 28 2011 Tornado paths in satellite imagery by Steve Ackerman 0 comments in Earth and Space Science A number of severe thunderstorms have swept through the SE US recently . Some storms generated tornadoes that were truly devastating . The news channels have many photos of the ground destruction . We can see
Over the next few weeks, skywatchers will have excellent viewing opportunities for the NanoSail-D solar sail. The satellite is coming to the end of its 95-day mission to test the viability of de-orbiting decommissioned satellites or space debris. NanoSail-D is now de-orbiting and slowly losing altitude in the Earths thin upper atmosphere. (...)Read the rest [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard April 28, 2011 Carbon nanotube transistors could enable large OLED screens New technology employs organic light emitting , diodes or OLEDs , tiny thin films that create light in response to electrical current . But making OLED displays that are much bigger than a smart phone’s has been problematic . While they consume less power overall , a serious burst of current is needed to fire up each pixel . Transistors that provide this much current are bulky and take up valuable screen space they also require elaborate , expensive construction and yield pixels that aren’t uniform , a problem that grows with display size . To skirt these issues , Rinzler and his colleagues used a network of carbon nanotubes to drive current . The
NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured 3-D images of severe thunderstorms that were spawning tornadoes over the eastern United States on April 28, detecting massive thunderstorms and very heavy rainfall. Tornadoes associated with this extremely unstable weather left at least 202 dead across the Eastern U.S, with injuries numbering over a thousand. (...)Read [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard April 28, 2011 China announces a new 60 ton space station project to complete by 2020 China announced plans to build a 60-ton space station , made up of three capsules , and develop a cargo spaceship to transport . supplies It is to be completed around 2020. The 18.1-meter-long core module , with a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters and a launch weight of 20 to 22 tons , will be launched . first The two experiment modules will then blast off to dock with the core module . Each laboratory module is 14.4 meters long , with the same maximum diameter and launch weight of the core . module The 60-ton space station is rather small compared to the International Space Station 419 tons and Russia's Mir Space Station 137 tons which served
, Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Congress to NASA : go to the Moon Talk at Ohio State University April 28 Goodnight , Earth If we didn’t go into space , we’d never see such beauty as this Sunset over Bolivia , as seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station . Click it to get the glorious full size . version And you know , this isn’t the reason to go into space , but it’s not a bad one . Not a bad one at . all April 27th , 2011 9:30 AM Tags : Bolivia International Space Station sunset by Phil Plait in NASA Piece of mind Pretty pictures Space 9 comments RSS feed Trackback 9 Responses to Goodnight , Earth” 1. Messier Tidy Upper Says :
Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS SDO’s first year in space with bonus voting Congress to NASA : go to the Moon Rocket envy Now this is . interesting On March 3rd , a Chinese news agency reported that China plans on building the world’s most powerful rocket , capable of launching a staggering 130 tons to . orbit A few weeks ago , NASA announced the White House NASA budget request for FY 2012 PDF stating that 1.8 billion dollars be spent on designing a new rocket system to replace the Shuttle and the canceled Constellation program The lift capability specifically mentioned in that budget outline 100 130 tons This is in line with the 2010 NASA
Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Radio interviews now available A Storm has arrived The lumpy 3D Earth Last month , scientists using the GOCE spacecraft released a model of the Earth’s geoid essentially , a shape telling you which way is down . If the Earth were a perfectly smooth sphere of constant density throughout , gravity would pull you straight down to the center perpendicular to the surface But if a dense hill were nearby , the gravity of that hill would change the direction of the force of gravity . The geoid maps that , and is very useful to understand things like ocean currents and . such The resulting geoid resembles a bizarre , lumpy
After over a year of work, ISEC is now officially recognized by the IRS as a 501c3 Corporation. What this means is that memberships in ISEC are now fully tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. And, it is retroactive to our corporate ’start date’ (November 8th, 2008) so any and all contributions you [...]
The Grand Prize for the 2011 NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest went to a team of seven high school students from Punjab, India, for their double-torus space settlement design called Hyperion. The winning design was selected from 355 submissions from 14 countries.
The Hyperion Space Settlement has a diameter of 1.8 kilometers and would provide a safe [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HISTORY SPACE AND OTHER SPECULATIONS Rocketpunk Manifesto Days of Future Past Tuesday , April 12, 2011 Fifty Years of Human Spaceflight Thanks to commenter Anita for reminding me of this benchmark anniversary , and Tony for adding a tidbit I hadn't known : At liftoff of the first human spaceflight , cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin called out Poyekhali Off we go In the following 50 years a total of 517 people have traveled into space using the international definition of space as beginning at an altitude of 100 . km Outer space has turned out to be a difficult environment for us . It is costly to reach living there requires extensive and specialized life support and prolonged exposure to space conditions , especially microgravity , is