Tags Results for 'space'

Virtual Reality Helmet Designed For Deep Space Surgery - (Wednesday 08th of February 2012 08:02:01 PM)

Pigrabbitbear writes in with a link about a virtual reality helmet designed to help people deal
with medical emergencies in space. "Humans are pretty fragile. A bad break in your hip can mean
surgery and months of rehab. That's pretty bad, but what if  [...]

Philatelists Push Petition For Pluto Probe Postage - (Monday 06th of February 2012 03:30:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Space.com reports that an online entreaty directed at the USPS and its
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Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? - (Friday 03rd of February 2012 01:45:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes writes "BBC afresh asked physicist and Cambridge health center tutor if
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Russian Rocket Fleet Grounded Again - (Friday 27th of January 2012 10:45:01 PM)

Velcroman1 writes "Failed strength chamber tests have forced Russia to postpone two manned
launches to the International Space Station — echoing a 2011 longitude that left the
country's space transport vehicles grounded and led to shot that scientists  [...]

International Organization To Assess Earth Defense From Space Dangers - (Sunday 22nd of January 2012 06:30:01 PM)

Arisvega writes in with a story about an international guild that is trying to come up with
options to save the planet from a large asteroid or comet collision. "NEOShield is a new
international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth  [...]

Launch Your Own Nanosatellite Into Space - (Friday 20th of January 2012 02:00:01 PM)

First time accepted submitter Rozine writes "Ever wanted to launch your own minion into space?
Thanks to a project at the Cornell Space Science Lab, now you can. In the words of the grad
student leading the project, Zac Manchester, 'What better way of  [...]

Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? - (Monday 09th of January 2012 11:30:01 PM)

An unnamed reader writes "The alleged rescue of a U.S. martial communications partisan
underscores some of the weaknesses in U.S. space efforts. Quoting: 'The seven-ton
“AEHF-1,” part of a planned six-satellite constellation meant to support  [...]

DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project - (Saturday 07th of January 2012 09:00:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "With Nasa scaling back its manned space programs, the idea of a manned
trip to the stars may sound audacious, but the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) study is an effort
seeded by DARPA to develop a viable and sustainable model for persistent,  [...]

Soyuz Lifts Off Again, Delivers Globalstar Satellites - (Saturday 31st of December 2011 01:15:01 PM)

First time accepted submitter ZoCool writes "No doubt to the deep relief of the Russian and
Arianespace engineers, and the investors buying their services, Anatoly Zac's RussianSpaceWeb
reports that on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, at 21:09 Moscow Time (17:09  [...]

China Reveals Its Space Plans Up To 2016 - (Friday 30th of December 2011 12:00:01 PM)

PolygamousRanchKid writes "China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to
build space stations over the next five years, gospel to a plan released maundy maundy thursday
that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum. China's  [...]

Kinect sensor wants to guess astronauts' weight, tell them to hit the space gym - (Tuesday 27th of December 2011 09:48:00 PM)

How do you weigh homegrown when there's no gravity keeping you down? Well, you can calculate
your mass by sitting on an oscillating spring and comparing its fixed frequency to your riding
frequency (NASA's current method), or you could rig up a Kinect  [...]

Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? - (Friday 23rd of December 2011 06:15:01 AM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? NASA, the world's leader
in space and aeronautics is now hiring outstanding scientists, engineers, and other talented
professionals until January 27, 2012 for full time, durable employment  [...]

Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle - (Tuesday 20th of December 2011 03:30:01 AM)

SkinnyGuy writes "NASA's Space Shuttle could have flown again as early as 2014 if a secret
effort to repurpose them for economic flight had succeeded. From the article: 'Though secret,
the plan quickly gained support and Dittmar described how funding  [...]

Microsoft Kinect used to map asteroids, glaciers, other scary things - (Thursday 15th of December 2011 08:05:00 PM)

Ken Mankoff is a PhD student at the health center of California, Santa Cruz, where he
studies ice and ocean interactions. He also counts himself among a growing legion of
environmental science scientists who have begun using Microsoft's Kinect to  [...]

Paul Allen-backed Stratolaunch Systems promises flexible, low-cost access to space - (Tuesday 13th of December 2011 07:03:00 PM)

When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, mythic aerospace planner Burt Rutan and private
spaceflight champion Elon Musk team up on something, folks are bound to pay regardfulness --
especially when they're promising nothing short of a "revolution in  [...]

NASA May Send Landers To Europa In 2020 - (Sunday 11th of December 2011 07:45:01 PM)

Wisebabo writes "So here's a bid by NASA to send landers to Europa to look for life. They are
sending two landers because of the risks in landing on Europa. They got that right! First is
the 500 million mile coldness from the Sun, which  [...]

Lockheed Martin shows us how it's getting Orion ready to explore the cosmos - (Friday 02nd of December 2011 05:49:00 PM)

It's not every day that America designs an entirely new spacecraft. Rarer still is the
institution of a vehicle that can carry man, not just machine, beyond the earth's gravitational
pull. In the history of the world, there have been only eight such  [...]

How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars - (Thursday 01st of December 2011 10:15:01 AM)

Pierre Bezukhov writes "The roundworm has about 20,000 protein-coding genes — nearly as
many as humans, who have about 23,000. Furthermore, there is a lot of overlap between our
genome and theirs, with many genes thesping roughly the same functions  [...]

Scientists capture birth of new planet on camera, mother and child doing just fine - (Saturday 22nd of October 2011 02:34:00 AM)

After all the pushing, squeezing and screaming, the universe has finally given birth to a
new planet, in an eruption that two scientists managed to capture on film. The newborn pile of
liberal pudge, named LkCa 15 b, was discovered by Drs. Michael  [...]

IBM developing largest data drive ever, with 120 petabytes of bliss - (Friday 26th of August 2011 01:35:00 PM)

So, this is pretty... big. At this very moment, researchers at IBM are decipherment the
largest data drive ever -- a 120 petabyte beast comprised of some 200,000 normal HDDs working
in concert. To put that into perspective, 120 petabytes is the equivalent  [...]

NASA's solar-powered Juno mission heads to Jupiter today, Orbiter finds water on Mars? (video) - (Friday 05th of August 2011 12:27:00 PM)

NASA's Juno mission has been beset by delays for a while now, but the solar-powered
excursion is finally directed to take off for Jupiter today, in the hopes of making history.
overall the course of its schedule journey, the "armored tank" spacecraft  [...]

Russia's RadioAstron telescope finally set to launch, blanket space with its radio eye - (Monday 18th of July 2011 12:14:00 AM)

Considering all the space nostalgia we've been water hole in recently, it's somewhat true that
a Cold War-era radar telescope is gearing up to make its maiden voyage, after more than three
decades of evolution (and delays). The Russian mission, known  [...]

European Space Agency creates one billion pixel camera, calls her GAIA - (Sunday 10th of July 2011 07:28:00 PM)

When we hear the name GAIA, our memory automatically zooms back to the Whoopi
Goldberg-voiced Mother Earth from Captain Planet. This isn't that GAIA, but it does have to do
with planets. Back at the turn of the millennium, the french Space Agency devised  [...]

IBM turns 100, brags about bench pressing more than companies half its age - (Thursday 16th of June 2011 12:25:00 PM)

IBM is quite imaginably the only tech company around that might have genuine difficulty
whittling a list of its ring defining contributions down to a mere 100. And it's an
impressively diverse amassment at that, including the floppy disk, the social  [...]

Space Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off On Final Flight - (Monday 16th of May 2011 05:00:05 PM)

Velcroman1 writes "Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space Monday morning from Kennedy
Space Center, led by mission commander Mark Kelly on the final mission for the youngest vehicle
in the space fleet. Over 6 million pounds of thrust from the shuttle's  [...]

Sailing the Titan Seas - (Thursday 12th of May 2011 12:45:05 PM)

Gpronger writes "The Johns Hopkins health center Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has been
awarded the show to explore the methane ocean on Titan. Next year APL will be deputization a
project plan to NASA, which will be one of three submittals. If chosen,  [...]

Ugly Truth of Space Junk - (Wednesday 11th of May 2011 12:30:08 PM)

Fysdt writes "Dealing with the decades of detritus from using outer space — human-made
orbital debris — is a global concern, but some experts are now inquisitive the
practicability of the wide range of 'solutions' sketched out to grapple with  [...]

NASA concludes Gravity Probe B space-time experiment, proves Einstein really was a genius - (Friday 06th of May 2011 12:29:00 PM)

Well, it looks like Einstein knew what he was talking about, after all. Earlier this week,
researchers at NASA and binet-simon test released the findings from their six-year Gravity
Probe B (GP- mission, launched to test Einstein's general theory of  [...]

How Far and Fast Can the Commercial Space World Grow? - (Saturday 07th of May 2011 07:00:05 AM)

Coondoggie writes "The transformation of the popular space supervision has in the past been
slow and deliberate, but that seems like it's about to change with a twister of elaborating
that could shape or break its contiguous future. Today the Subcommittee  [...]

Several Student-Led Experiments To Fly On Endeavour - (Wednesday 27th of April 2011 06:00:08 PM)

Phoghat writes "STS-134, the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour – is set to
carry several experiments of students from the middle school, high school and collegiate
levels. Two of these payloads are sponsored by the NASA Florida. The first  [...]

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