Making the NSS Enterprise Spacecraft a
Reality (Source: Futurism)
This June, over 1,000 visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Air and
Space Museum were introduced to the ambitious Enterprise In Space
(EIS), an international program of the non-profit National Space
Society. The mission of EIS is to motivate students everywhere to
“reach for the stars.” According to Shawn Case, founder and chairman of
the EIS board of advisers, the team has “one of the best award-winning
space educator teams out there.”
EIS will design, engineer, build, launch, orbit, recover, tour, and
exhibit a spacecraft named NSS Enterprise containing over 100 student
experiments. Students will use a powerful artificial intelligence tool,
learning to apply science, technology, engineering, arts, and
mathematics (STEAM), and communicate in natural language with their
experiments.
The program will demonstrate and pioneer new technologies while
inspiring and encouraging space enterprise, and is a tribute to the
many great visionaries of science and science fiction. EIS will engage
and inspire the next generation – all ages and walks of life – by
igniting a renewed interest in space exploration and development. Click
here.
(6/29)
What Does It Take To Compete In
NewSpace? (Source: Forbes)
People may not know exactly what “NewSpace” is. But they know they are
excited about it. The concept has found a home in Seattle, a bona fide
rising space hub in the global arena. Click here.
(6/28)
Revealed: Blue Origin's Massive
Merritt Island Rocket Factory (Source: Florida Today)
Blue Origin last week released renderings providing a glimpse of what
the company’s new rocket factory will look like at Kennedy Space
Center’s Exploration Park.
The 475,000-square-foot main manufacturing building, to be completed by
late next year or early 2018, looks like a giant blue hangar with
shorter, white buildings branching from the sides. Plans show the
building will measure 725 feet long, 345 feet wide and up to 82 feet
tall. Click here.
(7/2)
NASA Announces Extension of Nine
Spacecraft Missions (Source: New York Times)
NASA has decided to extend the missions of nine older robotic explorers
that have lived beyond their original expectations. Click here.
(7/2)
China: World's Largest Radio Telescope
Completes Installation (Source: Xinhua)
The world's largest-ever radio telescope completed installation as the
last piece of 4,450 panels was fitted in the center of the big dish on
Sunday morning, a landmark step for its planned operation in September.
About 300 people, including constructors, experts, science fiction
enthusiasts and reporters, witnessed the installation in a karst valley
in Pingtang County of the southwestern province of Guizhou. (7/3)
Mysterious Martian Dunes Snapped by
Curiosity Rover (Source: Cosmos)
Strange sand formations somewhere between ripples and dunes have been
found on Mars, which scientists say will help them glean information
about the evolution of the planet's atmosphere. Ripples and dunes are
certainly not confined to Earth and Mars. Venus, Saturn's moon Titan
and even the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko have some kind of wavy
pattern etched into their surface.
But when Mathieu Lapotre from Caltech in the US and colleagues analysed
images of sand formations beamed back by Curiosity rover, which is
trundling around Gale Crater, they knew they were different to anything
on Earth. Their shape and spacing looked as though they were created by
water currents. But Gale Crater is a desert. So what was going on?
Lapotre's team drew on previous experiments that explored how ripples
form on Earth and modeled how these new "wind-drag" ripples might have
formed under the thin Martian atmosphere. They found the shape and size
of the Martian ripples matched their modeling. They also calculated the
effects of a thicker Martian atmosphere and found ripples would shrink.
(7/1)
Brighest Area on Ceres May be Due to
Hydrothermal Activity (Source: SpaceFlight Insider)
According to a new study by scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission, the
brightest area on Ceres, located inside Occator Crater, has the highest
concentration of carbonate minerals ever observed anywhere other than
on Earth. The study, published online in the journal Nature, is one of
two recent papers about the chemical composition of Ceres.
“This is the first time we see this kind of material elsewhere in the
Solar System in such a large amount,” said Maria Cristina De Sanctis,
lead author and principal investigator of Dawn‘s visible and infrared
mapping spectrometer. De Sanctis is based at the National Institute of
Astrophysics, Rome.
At nearly 80 million years old, Occator is still considered a young
crater. It is 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide and has a central pit that
is about 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide. In the center of the crater is a
dome structure that is covered in highly reflective material and has
radial and concentric fractures on and around it. (7/1)
Azerbaijan Decisive to Subdue "Space
Olympus" (Source: AzerNews)
Despite only two years pass of Azerbaijan's ceremonial launching of its
first national satellite Azerspace-1, the government assures it has
justified expectations. Launching of the first Azerbaijan
telecommunication satellite Azerspace-1 justified its economical
expediency, said Deputy Minister of Communications and High
Technologies Elmir Velizade said to journalists on June 30.
Azerspace-1 took his place on the global market of satellite systems.
Currently a whole bunch of countries use its resources and their number
increases rapidly, he added. The satellite has an anticipated life
service of 15 years. Just for June-July of 2013 satellite's profit
consisted of US$ 5 million. According to plan its overall income should
be US$ 600 million through the whole period of its service. (7/1)
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