July 2, 2015
Mohenjo
Technical
aircraft, amazon, Autonomous Robots, business, Business News, deliveries, delivery, Drone, Drones, Federal Aviation Administration, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, NASA, NASA Langley, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles, vacation, Virginia Tech
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Drone deliveries in the U.S. will soon be an official, government-sanctioned activity.
A collaboration between NASA, Flirtey and Virginia Tech has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration fly unmanned aircraft on July 17 to deliver pharmaceuticals to a free medical clinic. The fixed wing aircraft from NASA Langley and multi-rotor delivery drones from Flirtey will become the world’s first autonomous aerial delivery services.
Organizers of the event hope to prove that drone usage need not be nefarious or purely for enthusiasts. In fact, the goal of these drones is to bring life-saving meds to an under-served community.
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February 21, 2015
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Breaking News, Science
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Spacewalking astronauts routed more than 300 feet of cable outside the International Space Station on Saturday to prepare for the arrival of new American-made crew capsules. It was the first of three spacewalks planned for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts over the coming week.
Altogether, Wilmore and Virts have 764 feet (233 meters) of cable to run outside the space station. They got off to a strong start Saturday, rigging eight power and data lines, or about 340 feet (105 meters). The longest single stretch was 43 feet (13 meters). “Broadening my resume,” Virts observed.
NASA considers this the most complicated cable-routing job in the 16-year history of the space station. Equally difficult will be running cable on the inside of the complex.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacewalkers-get-station-ready-new-u-s-spaceships-n310146
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February 6, 2015
Mohenjo
Technical
3d printing, amazon, business, Business News, camera, cubesat, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hotels, Hubble Space Telescope, human-rights, Jason Budinoff, mashable, medicine, mental-health, NASA, NASA engineer, research, Science, Science News, Space, technology, Technology News, travel, US & World, vacation
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NASA is already using 3D printing to make rocket engine parts, a space pizza maker and even physical photos from the Hubble Space Telescope. But by the end of September, one NASA engineer expects to complete the first space cameras made almost entirely out of 3D-printed stuff.
“As far as I know, we are the first to attempt to build an entire instrument with 3D printing,” Jason Budinoff, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said in a statement.
Budinoff is building a 2-inch (50 millimeters) camera for a CubeSat — a miniature satellite. The camera will have to pass vibration and thermal-vacuum tests next year to prove that it’s capable of space travel. Budinoff is also using 3D printing to build a 14-inch (350 mm) dual-channel telescope.
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http://mashable.com/2014/08/12/3d-printed-cubesat-camera/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
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December 30, 2014
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Science
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Call it the comeback of the year.
Last year, equipment failure caused NASA to deem its $600-million Kepler space telescope irreparable. But since then, astronomers and engineers devised an ingenious way to repurpose Kepler, whose mission has been to scour the cosmos in search of Earthlike planets.
And now, the planet-hunting probe not only has been reborn, but also has discovered a massive exoplanet some 180 light-years away.
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Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Kepler spacecraft hunting for planets in its second mission, K2.
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December 24, 2014
Mohenjo
Science
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Just in time for the holidays, NASA has released a new photo showing a spectacular light show created by a pair of merging galaxies 130 million light-years from Earth.
The photo is a composite image of the spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163, located in the constellation Canis Major.
The image is a mash-up of X-rays captured by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory (shown in pink), visible light data from the Hubble Space Telescope (shown in red, green, and blue), and infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (shown in red).
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Spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163.
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December 6, 2014
Mohenjo
Science
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NASA’s new Orion spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” Pacific splashdown Friday following a dramatic journey 3,604 miles beyond Earth. The achievement opens a new era of human exploration aimed at putting people on Mars.
The unmanned, 4½-hour test flight set at least one record: flying farther and faster than any capsule built for humans since the Apollo moon program.
“There’s your new spacecraft, America,” Mission Control commentator Rob Navias said as the Orion capsule neared the water 270 miles off Mexico’s Baja peninsula.
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Orion Spacecraft Launch
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October 7, 2014
Mohenjo
Technical
$6.8 billion, amazon, American spacecraft, Apollo-style spaceships, astronauts from the U.S., back to the future, Boeing, business, Business News, designed by Boeing and SpaceX, Hotels, human-rights, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, medicine, mental-health, NASA, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, NASA is going back to the future, research, Russians, Science, Science News, space shuttle fleet, space taxis, SpaceX, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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NASA is going back to the future with $6.8 billion in backing for Apollo-style spaceships designed by Boeing and SpaceX. Both companies have been given the go-ahead to build, test and fly their gumdrop-shaped “space taxis,” with the aim of transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station starting in 2017.
“Today, we’re one giant leap closer to launching our astronauts from the U.S. on American spacecraft,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011, NASA has had to rely on the Russians for rides to the station, at a cost topping $70 million per seat. Tuesday’s award is the latest phase in a years-long commercial effort aimed at fixing that situation — an effort that already has cost NASA $1 billion.
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September 27, 2014
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Science
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Conspiracy theorists have gotten the green light to chatter about another strange object on the Red Planet. This time it’s not a Mars rat or a jelly doughnut that’s been spotted in a photo taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, but a “traffic signal.”
The extraterrestrial “signal” was spotted by a British UFO enthusiast named Joseph White. Curiosity snapped the photo at 1:08 a.m. EDT on sol 753 (Sept. 19). You can see the original here.
“I have been following the images from NASA since the start and I flick through them on the NASA website every day,” White said, according to the Western Daily Press. “I saw this one and I thought ‘Hang on, that looks a bit strange.'”
While White said he believes what he spotted is “clearly intelligently designed,” as he wrote on his latest video on the Youtube Channel ArtAlienTV-Mars Zoo, the formation is most likely just a rock.
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August 12, 2014
Mohenjo
Science
'Cannae Drive', 'impossible' microwave propulsion system, amazon, business, Business News, electricity to produce propulsion, Hotels, human-rights, Impossible engine, medicine, mental-health, microwave propulsion system, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New York Times, research, Roger Sawyer, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration has produced something(fuel) out of nothing(empty space), paving a way to the stars in the process. The new ‘impossible’ microwave propulsion system, ‘Cannae Drive’ is a concept from inventor Roger Sawyer, which NASA was initially sceptical to test.
The propulsion system uses just electricity to produce propulsion. Usually, according to the law of “equal and opposite reactions, thrusters need to eject some mass. All scientists face the question of how to get the maximum thrust from the least amount of fuel.
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August 3, 2014
Mohenjo
Human Interest
amazon, business, Business News, climate, Colorado, Colorado River, groundwater, Hotels, human-rights, Lake Mead, mashable, medicine, mental-health, Mississippi River, NASA, research, Science, Science News, Southwest, technology, Technology News, THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, travel, U.S., US & World, vacation
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Even in mid-summer, the air is cold and restless atop the dividing line that separates the Colorado River watershed to the west from the drainage basins that eventually feed into the Mississippi River to the east.
Above the tree line in Rocky Mountain National Park, flowers have bloomed but are stunted, clinging to the surface to anchor themselves against the constant, battering winds. Pikas, which look like a cross between a chipmunk and a marmot, thrive at these cold, high altitudes, darting in and out of rock formations to the delight of summer tourists.
There are still a few snowdrifts in mid-July, leftovers from last winter, and soon the snows will begin again. Lately, though, the winter snows and late summer rainfall has not been nearly enough to put a dent in the drought that has gripped the Southwest since 2004.
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With a bathtub ring marking the high water line, a recreational boat approaches Hoover Dam as it makes its way along Black Canyon on Lake Mead, Tuesday, April 16, 2013, near Boulder City, Nevada..
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