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Jan 30, 2017
Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, space travel
Jan 29, 2017
Has The ‘Holy Grail’ Of Solid Metallic Hydrogen Finally Been Created?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: materials, space travel
Another write up on last week’s news on the Hydrogen metal discovery. Definitely impacting many industries tech, auto, construction/ building materials, etc.
It’s been over 80 years since the idea of metallic hydrogen was first theorized.
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Jan 29, 2017
Spaceworks may have a real-world stasis chamber for space travel by 2018
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Jan 26, 2017
Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: computing, space travel
For nearly 100 years, scientists have dreamed of turning the lightest of all the elements, hydrogen, into a metal.
Now, in a stunning act of modern-day alchemy, scientists at Harvard University have finally succeeded in creating a tiny amount of what is the rarest, and possibly most valuable, material on the planet, they reported in the journal Science.
For metallic hydrogen could theoretically revolutionise technology, enabling the creation of super-fast computers, high-speed levitating trains and ultra-efficient vehicles and dramatically improving almost anything involving electricity.
Jan 25, 2017
A Quick Rundown of the Alcubierre “Warp Drive”
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: information science, mathematics, physics, robotics/AI, space travel
In Brief Science fiction often serves as a curiosity catalyst for a lot of technological innovation. One such example is this Alcubierre Warp Drive, that would absolutely revolutionize the capability of humans to traverse the stars.
It’s always a welcome thing to learn that ideas that are commonplace in science fiction have a basis in science fact. Cryogenic freezers, laser guns, robots, silicate implants… and let’s not forget the warp drive! Believe it or not, this concept – alternately known as FTL (Faster-Than-Light) travel, Hyperspace, Lightspeed, etc. – actually has one foot in the world of real science.
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Jan 19, 2017
First quantum satellite surpasses expectations
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, quantum physics, space travel
More on the completion of phase 1 testing of by the Chinese on their Quantum Satellite as they have kicked their second phase that includes hacking.
Five space exploration projects to begin during 13th Five-Year Plan
Micius, the world’s first quantum satellite, has successfully completed four months of in-orbit tests since China launched it on Aug 16, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced.
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Jan 15, 2017
Designing Robots For Future Space Exploration
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
Jan 10, 2017
Positron Dynamics Paves the Road to the Final Frontier
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: biotech/medical, space travel
Ever since Jules Verne and before — perhaps as early as the 5th century B.C. — writers, philosophers and scientists have brought fantasies to life about spaceships carrying humans to other planets, solar systems and galaxies.
Of all the potential targets, only the moon thus far has hosted Earthling “boots on the ground.” Next on most wish lists is Mars. NASA’s tentative schedule designates the first manned mission sometime around 2030.
Aside from the formidable task of designing a safe, efficient vehicle to transport people and supplies, such a mission — depending on the positions of the two planets and other logistics — would take in the neighborhood of nine months each way. Not only is that a long trip, but it would also expose the human body to ambient space radiation for close to a year. Can’t this travel time, many have asked, be cut down somehow?
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Jan 4, 2017
A new space firm plans a commercial station to take over for the ISS
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: space travel
The International Space Station is getting on in years, and at some point in the next decade we’re going to learn the date of its shutdown. But what comes next? A new company called Axiom Space has a plan to launch a commercial space station in the next few years, which would get its start as a module attached to the ISS.
It’s easy to shrug off a plan from a company you’ve never heard of, but Axiom has some big names on board. For example, it’s led by one Mike Suffredini, who managed NASA’s ISS program for 10 years. The time is fast approaching that we need to come up with a successor to the ISS, and Axiom’s commercial station could be it.
The plan calls for the core module to be launched around 2020. There are two versions of this phase of construction; one in which the 9×5 meter module (known as Module 1) is launched in one piece, and another where it’s sent up in pieces and assembled in orbit. Assembling in space would take longer, but sending it up as a single payload would be expensive and risky. The completed Module 1 will have its own propulsion, so it will fly to the ISS after reaching orbit.
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