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Lunar Networks: Nancy Atkinson Universe Today This is absolutely lovely. Photographer Mark Gee says this incredible real-time video “is as it came off the memory card and there has been no manipulation whatsoever.” It shows the full Moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. Read more HERE. Lunar Pioneer, LLP The Lunar Century Group News Traffic via Lunar Networks http://lunarnetworks.blogspot.com
Space Fellowship: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. "TDRS-K bolsters our network of satellites that provides essential communications to support space exploration," said Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for Space Communications and Navigation at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "It will improve the overall health and longe [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 31, 2013 Wider War Risks Israel air strikes Weapon convoys in Syria Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Syrian state television said that military command had confirmed a scientific research centre north-west of Damascus was struck at dawn on Wednesday , causing . damage Two people were killed and five wounded in the attack on the site , which was engaged in raising the level of resistance and self-defence Earlier , diplomatic and security sources were cited in media reports as saying a convoy of trucks had been struck close to the Syrian-Lebanese border . The Israeli Defence Forces said it had no . comment Israel Long Range Capabiliy The Israel Air Force has dedicated the lion's share of it resources and effort on
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 31, 2013 Multimaterial multiverse simulation Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Technology Review discusses the metamaterial multiverse simulation Various theoreticians have pointed out that there is a formal mathematical analogy between the way certain metamaterials bend light and the way spacetime does the same thing in general relativity . In fact , it ought to be possible to make metamaterials that mimic the behaviour of not only our own spacetime but also many others that cosmologist merely dream about . Researchers have created a metamaterial containing many universes” that are mathematically analogous to our own , albeit in the three dimensions rather than four . They exploited the self-assembling nature of
One Astronomer's Noise: I’m there! If you are here as well, say hello to the pink-haired girl. If not, go here for where you can watch sessions online and follow us on Twitter and Google+ with #scio13. Also, if you haven’t been paying attention on Google+ over the last 30ish hours or so, this happened. TL;DR: the science suggested users list so far only has one female scientist. We’re getting positive responses from Google and MASSIVELY positive responses from people who can recommend their favorite STEM women. Check it out. And I’ll also add that if you are a science communicator, Google+ is the place to be right now for great content and community. More later!
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 30, 2013 The Cutting Edge of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Dr . Hearn give an overview of his program Optimization and Discrete Mathematics at the AFOSR Air Force Spring Review 2012. Discusses the cutting edge of optimization 25 of all scientific programming is spent on linear programming problems metamaterial design Describes the value of the travelling salesman problem and how they can take two local optima and make the move the next local optima using non-quantum systems . Just secret math Cracking or making a dent on travelling salesman problems means progress on all NP-complete . problems Band gap optimization photonic materials and crystalline structures circuit design
01 news 02 sub orbit 03 orbit 04 moon 05 planetary 06 environment 07 video search daily spaceflight news today's moon waning gibbous Thursday 31 January 2013 Book your flight Space travel is right around the . corner Let Moonandback get you on . board Sign up . now The Saber Astronautics Crew and the DragEN tether deployer . Docs Jason , Dan the inventor Alex , and intern Vik . Sydney Commercial Photography Orbit Innovative Deorbiter Tool Nets Aussie Space Company Deal Device Prevents Satellites from Becoming Space Junk SYDNEY , New South Wales Saber Astronautics , a space technology company in Sydney , has concluded a deal to provide a satellite instrument for the Manipal Institute of Technology in India . The instrument , the DragEN” tether deployer , is designed to prevent orbital
Image caption: Curiosity will conduct Historic 1st drilling into Martian rock at this spot where the robotic arm is pressing down onto the Red Planet’s surface at the John Klein outcrop of veined hydrated minerals. This panoramic photo mosaic of Navcam camera images was snapped on Jan. 25 & 26, 2013 or Sols 168 & [...]
NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade as the first of a new generation of communications satellites was launched to orbit on Wednesday, January 30 at 8:48 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral. See the launch video below. The TDRS system provides a critical communications link to Earth for the International Space [...]
We all know that space exploration, while certainly not the largest expenditure of most countries, doesn’t come cheap. But neither do big-budget science fiction films, either. Special effects, sets, special effects, popular acting talent… special effects… those all come with hefty price tags that make sci-fi and fantasy films costly ventures — although bigger definitely [...]
Space-for-All at HobbySpace Everyone can participate in space HobbySpace About Space-for-All Twitter Email RSS Prev Jan 30 European Student Earth Orbiter ESEO aims for 2015 launch by TopSpacer on January 30, 2013 at 3:13 pm Posted In : Amateur Student Satellite Here’s an update on the European Student Earth Orbiter ESEO project , which currently involves 9 European universities ESA’s student satellite takes important step towards space Education ESA The mission’s primary goal is to provide students with extensive , hands-on experience of a space project . This will equip them with the necessary skills to confidently enter the high-technology workplace of Europe’s . future The university collaboration is now working with ALMASpace . S.r.l an Italian company that is a spinoff of satellite
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 30, 2013 NASA makes prototype ice and water mining lunar robot Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet NASA has developed a water and ice mining robot for the moon and it is called RASSOR RASSOR , for Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot and pronounced razor , the autonomous machine is far from space-ready , but the earliest design has shown engineers the broad strokes of what their lunar soil excavator needs in order to operate reliably . We were surprised at what we could do with it , said Rachel Cox , a Kennedy Space Center engineer on the RASSOR team.The primary challenge for any digging robot operating off Earth is that they have to be light and small enough to fly on a rocket , but heavy enough to
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 29, 2013 6 Regions in China with a total over 200 million people have per Capita GDP over 10,000 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Per capita GDP in six municipalities , provinces and regions including Beijing , Zhejiang and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region surpassed 10,000 in 2012. For the first time , per capita GDP in East China's Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces as well as North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region surpassed 10,000 in 2012, while the per capita GDP in three municipalities Beijing , Tianjin and Shanghai stayed above 10,000 last year . Most economists are projecting 8.2 to 8.4 GDP growth for China in 2013 and 2014. The World Bank classifies high income economies as those with per capita GDP
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 29, 2013 Dwave Systems 512 qubits projected to be 10 billion times faster than an Alienware Workstation for a particular problem Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Venture Capitalist Steve Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson is an investor in Dwave Systems describes the speedup for Dwave Systems' Adiabatic Quantum . computers At 2000 to 4000 qubits , Dwave Systems adiabatic quantum computer should become faster than classical computers for discrete optimization problems . Dwave should reach that level of qubits by about 2015. Steve Jurvetson Describes How the Scaling Works if the Early Data Extrapolates If we suspend disbelief for a moment , and use D-Wave’s early data on processing power scaling see below then the
Asteroid 2012-DA14 will pass Earth closely on Feb. 15, 2013 (NASA) On February 15 a chunk of rock about 50 meters wide will whiz by Earth at nearly 8 km/s, coming within 27,680 km of our planet’s surface — closer than many weather and communications satellites. For those of you more comfortable with imperial units, [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 28, 2013 Table Top Neutral-Atom Accelerators Scaling to Million Electron Volt Energies Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Accelerating neutral atoms , contrary to laser-based as well as conventional particle accelerators , is a formidable feat , given the inert , neutral’ response of these atoms to accelerating fields . Our recent studies provide a crucial breakthrough in the generation of accelerated neutral atoms , with energies as large as an MeV , as a result of the interaction of intense lasers with . nanoclusters Laser-based plasma accelerators , on the contrary , follow radically different acceleration schemes and can produce GeV electron bunches in a wakefield-accelerator’ as well as proton energies of 60
. . skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 28, 2013 You Asked For It . You Got It . Flying Cars Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet A recent NBC News KCRA report indicates that Paul Moller after 50 years is finally going to release a flying car Sky Car 200 Moller has a partner with 80 million in funding from Athena Technologies and serious interest from China for a flying car production . plant Paul Moller has previously been sued for fraud and went through bankruptcy in 2009. Under the provisions of the memorandum , Moller International will team with this US company-led JV to jointly produce numerous models of its vertical take-off and landing VTOL . aircraft The JV will initially invest 80 million USD of a planned 480 million investment with the
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 27, 2013 130 mph Airships that can land without ground crews Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Aeros has completed its experimental rigid variable-bouyancy airship and accomplished the first of four tasks under its contract with the Pentagon's Rapid Reaction Technology . Office The 230ft-long Aeroscraft prototype , called Pelican , has completed a ground-handling demonstration showing the 36,000lb vehicle can move without assistance from ground personnel , controlled from the cockpit and using its air-bearing landing gear . The Pelican was heavier than air for the . demonstration A first float test principally demonstrated the unique lightweight rigid structure conception and Control of Static Heaviness COSH system
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home January 27, 2013 Dwave is on track to ten thousand qubits in 2017 and a Simple Explanation of How Dwave's Adiabatic Quantum System Solves Problems Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Dwave Systems has adiabatic quantum computing devices that have had 512 qubits since 2011. The qubits are organized into blocks of 8 . qubits The lines in the 8 qubit blocks are the qubits . There are 16 interconnections shown there but all 512 qubits have connections that are just as good low noise as the interconnections between qubits in the blocks When the problems are solved A generating function has to be produced which encodes the problem as zeros and ones and produces a real number result also zeros and ones The mathematically and
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Space-for-All at HobbySpace Everyone can participate in space HobbySpace About Space-for-All Twitter Email RSS Archive for Space Arts 2 . results Jan 23 Scott Phillips shapes wood into Shuttles by TopSpacer on January 23, 2013 at 6:58 am Posted In : History Space Arts Space Models Scott Phillips creates beautiful wooden models of the Space Shuttles : Former NASA worker carves wooden shuttles WAFF-TV Huntsville , AL Scott Phillips : Launched Into Space Shuttle Models Woodworker’s Journal eZine July.12.11 Scott Shuttleman” Phillips’ shuttle models collectSPACE Read the rest of this entry Comment Jan 22 Illustrating what’s to come by TopSpacer on January 22, 2013 at 10:48 pm Posted In : Space Arts Keith Cooper writes about artists like Chris Foss who create cover art and illustrations for
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, Wayne Hale From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump to : navigation search Wayne Hale Born 1954-07-05 July 5, 1954 age 58 Clovis , New Mexico Education BS , Mechanical Engineering Rice University MS , Mechanical Engineering Purdue University Occupation Engineer Employer NASA Title NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships N . Wayne Hale . Jr born July 5, 1954 is a former NASA . engineer 1 Previously a flight director and space shuttle program manager , Hale served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships 2 prior to his retirement on July 31, 2010. 3 Born in Clovis , New Mexico Hale earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University in 1976, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
: skip to main skip to sidebar SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HISTORY SPACE AND OTHER SPECULATIONS Rocketpunk Manifesto Days of Future Past Saturday , January 5, 2013 Worlds of Tau Ceti Habitable For Whom With the solstitial holidaze safely behind us Tau Ceti has an enduring whiff of the Sixties about it . Peace , love , dolphins . The connotations are not a fluke : Tau Ceti was lifted out of back-of-the-Greek-alphabet obscurity in 1960, when it and Epsilon Eridani shared the distinction of being the target stars for the Project Ozma SETI . experiment Yes , that was years before the Summer of Love , but especially in that pre-Internet era it took time for ideas to filter into the science fiction popular culture . Before Project Ozma , I doubt that many people had heard of Tau . Ceti It got the