Hot Fire Static Test Proves A-OK for Next SpaceX ISS Trip
Updated: 2012-09-30 06:01:19
moonandback: On Saturday, September 29, 2012, SpaceX completed a successful static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin engines. During this test, SpaceX engineers ran through all countdown processes as if it were launch day. All nine engines fired at full power for two seconds while the rocket was held down to the pad. This is the last major all-systems test in preparation for Falcon 9 and Dragon’s next mission to the space station, targeted for October 7.
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: Sunday , September 30, 2012 Hit-and-Run Science From A new hit and run Giant Impact scenario July 28, 2012 Figure 1a Five snapshots from the 30° impact angle and 1.30vesc impact velocity case cC06 showing cuts through the impact plane . Colour coded is the type and origin of the material . Dark and light blue indicate target and impactor iron Red and orange show corresponding silicate material . The far right shows the situation at the time of impact . At 0.52h , it can be seen how the impactor ploughs deep through the targets mantle and pushes considerable amount of target material into orbit . A spiral arm of material forms and gravitationally collapses into fragments . The outer portions of the arm mainly consist of impactor silicates and escapes due to having retained a velocity well
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home September 29, 2012 Halving the cost of superconductors will see major shifts from conventional infrastructure in 5 to 10 years Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet There are some significant utility scale high temperature superconducting HTS projects Southern California Edison says that exploiting the benefits of HTS over the next decade is most likely to start with niche utility scale projects to build a technology foundation while gradually expanding markets and growing the manufacturing capacity to supply . them Minervini added that microgrids” for isolated military bases and large urban data centers may provide another entrée by avoiding the need for investment by risk-averse . utilities Studies suggest that reducing the
Search Skip to content Home About the Coalition Benefits of Space Newsroom Legislative Activity Blog Education Station Related Links Contact Us Blog Follow : us NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence That Water Flowed on Mars 0 Comments September 29, 2012 Exploration Mars NASA Space and Science Curiosity's images of the Link outcrop in Mars' Gale Crater show rounded gravel and other signs of past flowing water . Image Credit NASA NASA’s Curiosity rover , still very early in its two-year search of Gale Crater for evidence of habitable environments , offered strong visual evidence this week that water flowed across the surface of Mars during a warmer earlier . period The findings from the robot explorer also known as the Mars Science Laboratory add to the possiblity the neighboring planet
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home September 29, 2012 Sloppy warp fields should be much easier to engineer Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Warp Field Mechanics 101 33 pages The idea of a warp drive in higher dimensional space-time manifold will then be briefly considered by comparing the null-like geodesics of the Alcubierre metric to the Chung-Freese metric to illustrate the mathematical role of hyperspace coordinates . The net effect of using a warp drive technology” coupled with conventional propulsion systems on an exploration mission will be discussed using the nomenclature of early mission planning . Finally , an overview of the warp field interferometer test bed being implemented in the Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory : Eagleworks at the
Now you see it, now you don’t! Around the solstices, the Solar Dynamics Observatory ends up having an “eclipse season,” where the Sun, Earth, and the SDO line up, and some of the images and video sent down from the spacecraft appear as though the Sun disappears for a while or just part of the [...]
Dawn image of Vesta showing its nearly circumferential equatorial grooves (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Even though NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has departed Vesta the trove of data it’s gathered about this fascinating little world continues to fuel new discoveries. Most recently, some researchers are suggesting that Vesta’s curious grooves — long, deep troughs that wrap around its equator, noticed [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home September 27, 2012 As of September 2012, Dwave Systems is able to use 442 qubits on its 512 qubit adiabatic quantum computer chip Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The qubit count of D-Wave's quantum processors have been increasing exponentially since the first chip . This animation takes a tour of the chips leading up to the latest processor : . Vesuvius' From 2 minutes into the video , the statement of 442 qubits reached this month If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 9 27 2012 Labels : adiabatic quantum computer dwave quantum computer qubits superconductors As of September 2012, Dwave Systems is able to use 442 qubits on its 512 qubit
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home September 26, 2012 US Crude Oil Production at 6.509 million barrels per day Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet US Daily Crude Oil Production for the week of Sept 21, 2012 was 6.509 million barrels per . day This is almost 150,000 barrels per day more than the peaks of 6.34 million barrels reached this summer . The US was last producing at this level in 1994-1996 when there was a plateau at about 6.3 to 6.7 million barrels per day . The new level is 800,000 barrels per day more than in January of this year and 1 million barrel per day more than the summer of 2011. This is 1.5 million barrels per day more than the production levels in much of 2007 and 2008. All US oil liquid production is at 10.8 million barrels per day . US
, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Two talks in the Old Dominion The life of a star , in 14 minutes A penetrating , double-ringed crater on Mars Mars is weird . Right I mean , it’s a whole other planet So you expect it to be weird . But then I see pictures like this one from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera , and I am reminded just how weird it : is Click to chicxulubenate . Most craters you see are pretty simple : something impacts the ground at high speed , BOOM and you get a crater like a dish tossed into soft sand . But this one has two rings , one inside the other . That can happen with
Over at one of the NASA websites, there is a very nice write-up about the Kansas City Space Pirates (KCSP) and how they performed in one of the NASA Centennial Challenges (the Power-Beaming competition). You can read it here… The captain of the KCSP team, Brian Turner, commented ‘We got some positive press on the actual NASA web [...]
Here is a list of the majority of articles that covered the recently completed Space Elevator Conference.
Leading off is Alan Boyle’s Cosmic Log post.
A post from RT.com.
A local (Seattle) Online news source, The SunBreak, had a story here.
David Appell posted his coverage of the conference at the online site of Scientific American (the graphics in this article were provided by ISEC’s [...]
ISEC has a new Twitter feed and a new “social media identity” - ISEC.ORG (or ISECdotORG for those sources, such as Twitter, that have a problem with ‘the period’)!
As ISEC’s President, I pledge to send out Tweets on a regular basis, so please Follow us on Twitter at ISECdotORG!
I’ve just Tweeted about the Board of Director [...]
I posted earlier about the LiftPort Kickstarter campaign; it has now raised over $96,000 - and there is only 11 hours to go (as of this post). If you want to contribute towards the rebirth of LiftPort, here’s a tangible way to show your support!
And, I also posted earlier about The Tower of Babel: NASA’s Great Endeavor, a new novel [...]
The current issue of the ISEC eNewsletter has been released. This newsletter contains a wrap-up of the just-completed Space Elevator conference, a status update on LiftPort’s Kickstarter campaign (which has now raised over $85K - wow!) and a status update on the upcoming EuSPEC (EuroSpaceward’s annual Space Elevator competition).
You can see the eNewsletter by visiting the ISEC [...]
As part of the “LiftPort 2.0″ relaunch, Michael Laine and company have created a Kickstarter campaign to finance some projects they want to do/accomplish.
Their initial goal was to raise $8K to finance some fairly low-grade experiments and they have totally blown by that (their campaign has raised over $60K at the time of this blog post - [...]