International NEOShield Development Underway
Updated: 2012-02-12 17:00:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar Spaceports Spaceports will enable thousands of people from around the world to go to outer space . The Spaceports Blog endeavors to provide information linking those with interest in the pursuit of space to spaceport development and the people and vehicles that fly from . them Search This Blog Loading . Sunday , February 12, 2012 International NEOShield Development Underway for Global Defense NEOShield is a new international consortium to address impact threats to Earth and to organize prepare and implement mitigation measures . Near-Earth Objects NEOs have hit our planet in the past and are widely believed to have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs . The primary aim of NEOShield is to investigate in detail the three most promising asteroid
: , Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive NASA Seeks Game Changing Technology Payloads for Suborbital Flights AIA : Satellite Export Rules Have Cost 20.8 Billion , Quarter Million Jobs Posted by Doug Messier on February 12, 2012, at 8:40 am in News Tags : AIA export laws ITAR satellite manufacturers Comments : no responses 0 Comments Taken from Competing for Space : Satellite Export Policy and U.S . National Security , quot published by Aerospace Industries Association , January 2012 The United States’ restrictive export laws have devastated the nation’s satellite manufacturing industry , resulting in a loss of 20.8 billion in revenues and nearly 28,000 jobs annually over a 10-year period , according to a new
The Sky Above my astro-images , observations , and updates on Philippine Astronomy Orion Nebula 1, 2, 3 Orion Nebula is the best celestial object to practice deep-sky imaging by beginners like me . So far , I am doing quite well I hope , haha It is through practice that I’ve learned the importance of calibrating e.g . polar and drift alignment my mount to avoid noise such as star trails in long-exposure images and to save money autoguiders are too expensive Below are my three images of the Orion : Nebula My first try to image Orion Nebula at prime focus . Star trails were apparent . Dec . 7, 2011 Second try with 15 seconds exposure . No polar alignment and unguided . Jan . 21, 2012 My third try with 45 seconds exposure . No star trails but mount was poorly polar-aligned . Jan . 25, 2012 As
01 news 02 sub orbit 03 orbit 04 moon 05 planetary 06 environment 07 video search daily spaceflight news today's moon waning gibbous Sunday 12 February 2012 Book your flight Space travel is right around the . corner Let Moonandback get you on . board Sign up . now John Glenn and Scott Carpenter pose for pictures in front of the Mercury capsule . Image credit : Smithsonian Air Space Museum News NASA To Host Events Celebrating 50 Years Of Americans In Orbit CAPE CANAVERAL , Fla . In celebration of 50 years of Americans in orbit , NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will host several events Feb . 17 and 18 that will air live on NASA . Television On Feb . 17 at 10 a.m . EST , NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana will host an employee presentation on
: Astroblog Obscured by Clouds . The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer . Astroblog will cover my interests in astronomy , biology and Life , the Universe and . Everything Sunday , February 12, 2012 The Kepler-20 Exoplanetary System in Celestia Left : image The Kepler-20 solar system , simulated in Celestia Right image Simulation of the view from orbit around Kepler-20e , with Kepler-20b visible in the sky . Click on an image to . embiggen The Kepler-20 system made a bit of a splash back in December , when it was announced that the system , previously known to have three Neptune sized worlds in it , had two Earth-sized worlds in . it And this time Earth-Sized actually Means Earth-Sized , with the planets Kepler-20e being 0.87 times the radius of
EAAE News: Source: ESA ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbour spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosphere in the infrared, the orbiter found surface features were not quite where they should be.(read more)
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 11, 2012 Air pollution health costs ten to twenty times more than fixing the air pollution It costs 50 million per gigawatt to put 99 effective particulate air pollution control onto coal . plants China has about 650 GWe of coal power installed in 2011. It would probably be cheaper for China to do the particulate retrofits say 30 million per GWe Therefore 20 billion would enable a 99.5 reduction in particulates . The United States has 315 GWe of coal power installed in 2011. It would cost about 16 billion for electrostatic precipitators on all coal plants in the United . States Car pollution exhaust filters can reduce particulates by 98-99.5 The particle trap removed about 98 percent of all particles in the diesel
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 11, 2012 Carnival of Nuclear Energy 91 Yes Vermont Yankee has the 91st Carnival of Nuclear Energy the Vogtle . Edition This is a great week for nuclear energy : the NRC issued the first license for a new generation of nuclear power plant . Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle site in Georgia now have a Construction and Operating License . These AP1000 reactors have an advanced design , based on the Westinghouse PWR , but with more passive safety features and less piping . ANS Nuclear Cafe by Dan Yurman The U.S . Nuclear Regulatory Commission on February 9 in a 4-1 vote cleared the way for its Office of New Reactors to issue a combined construction and operating license COL to the Southern Nuclear Operating Company for two
The latest sunspot region to traverse the face of the Sun has nearly doubled in size as it aims Earthward, as seen in the animation above from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. (Click image to play the animation.) This is the second day in a row that the region has been seen expanding. (...)Read the rest [...]
NASA announced yesterday that it’s looking for new technology proposals using environmentally friendly fuels to launch payload. The space agency is hoping to move away from hydrazine, the fuel that currently launches anything that travels beyond the atmosphere from commercial satellites to private spaceflight and exploration probes. (...)Read the rest of NASA’s Going Green (514 words) [...]
As the number of exoplanets being discovered continues to increase dramatically, a growing number are now being found which orbit within their stars’ habitable zones. For smaller, rocky worlds, this makes it more likely that some of them could harbour life of some kind, as this is the region where temperatures (albeit depending on other [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 09, 2012 Dream influencing smartphone App from Japan Gizmag The Yumemiru app for iPhones and iPads can detect when you enter dream sleep and then plays a soundtrack to influence what happens in your . dreams The app uses a timer and the Apple device's microphone to detect when a user has entered REM sleep , which is when they're most susceptible to dreaming . Then it begins to play a soundtrack for the specific type of dream that the user selects , which could include sound effects or voices directing their dream . The available dreams include walking through a forest , visiting the beach , flying , becoming rich , and even romances specified for both men and . women The Yumemiru website in . japanese Here is the
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 08, 2012 Quantum Dot solar cells could increase conversion efficiency over 25 New quantum dot solar cells could increase the maximum efficiency of solar panels by over 25 according to scientists from the University of . Cambridge The Cambridge team , led by Professor Neil Greenham and Professor Sir Richard Friend , has developed a hybrid cell which absorbs red light and harnesses the extra energy of blue light to boost the electrical current . Typically , a solar cell generates a single electron for each photon captured . However , by adding pentacene , an organic semiconductor , the solar cells can generate two electrons for every photon from the blue light spectrum . This could enable the cells to capture 44 of the
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard February 09, 2012 NASA Working on implanted Biocapsules for multi-year treatment on demand Gizmodo The NASA Biocapsule—made of carbon nanotubes—will be able to diagnose and instantly treat an astronaut without him or her even knowing there's something . amiss Dr . David Loftus is the man who invented the NASA Biocapsule and has been awarded a patent for it . Loftus said we could be using Biocapsule on Earth within 10 to 15 years One of the primary threats in space is exposure to high levels of radiation . When astronauts travel beyond Low Earth Orbit i.e . to the Moon or Mars they are at risk of acute radiation exposure from solar particle events , sudden releases of intense radiation from the sun , which can damage bone
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 An astronomer’s paradise OK , a couple of more things about a Moon base Superbowl science 2012 Today in America is our most revered holiday : the Superbowl . I am not particularly invested in either team I had to look up who’s playing , to be honest but there is something about the game I like : science Yes , science of which there is plenty to be had during any sporting event . You just have to look for . it Last year , during the big game , I tweeted a series of science facts relating to football , and , when the game was over , collected them into a blog post I thought it
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Early last year, I posted about an iPad app developed by Mr. Shigeo Saito of the Japan Space Elevator Association (JSEA). Recently I learned that he has ported this application from the iPad to the iPhone - so, if you have an iPhone (and, I think there are a few of you that do), then [...]
David Appell, PhD and independent science journalist, has penned an article about the Space Elevator, partly based on his experience attending last year’s Space Elevator conference in Redmond.
At some point, it’s supposed to appear in the UK Magazine “Physics World” but you can read it now on his website. It’s a fairly comprehensive article.
And the [...]