Archive for the ‘space travel’ category: Page 450
Sep 16, 2016
What Happens if SpaceX Beats NASA to Mars?
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
If the Elon Musk-led company beats the $20 billion federal agency to the red planet, here’s what the consequences would be.
Sep 16, 2016
Tiangong-2 is a Chinese Space Laboratory representing the second stepping stone by the China National Space Agency on a path to establishing a modular space station toward the beginning of the next decade
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: space travel
Tiangong translates literally to ‘Heavenly Palace’ and is China’s first space station program which, in its early stages, is not unlike the early Salyut space stations and the American Skylab – launched with equipment and supplies for a finite mission duration already on board and not serviced by cargo resupply vehicles.
China’s first Heavenly Palace arrived in orbit in late September 2011 after a flawless launch atop a Long March 2F rocket. Orbiting Earth over 300 Kilometers in altitude, Tiangong was first visited two months after launch when the uncrewed Shenzhou-8 spacecraft completed China’s first automatic docking in space.
Sep 16, 2016
Asteroids Will Be Rest Stops on the Journey to Mars, Says NASA Chief
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission will enable us to mine asteroids, exist in cislunar space, and facilitate the journey to Mars.
Sep 16, 2016
VIDEO: Self-replicating machines and galactic supremacy — Looking at von Neumann probes
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, space travel
A look at the concept of Self-Replicating Machines, Universal Assemblers, von Neumann Probes, Grey Goo, and Berserkers. While we will discuss the basic concept and some on-Earth applications like Medical Nanotechnology our focus will be on space exploration and colonization aspects.
Sep 15, 2016
Lockheed Executive Blows Lid Off of Secret Government Space Travel (Quantum Entanglement)
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: government, particle physics, quantum physics, space travel
Another (more in depth) on Lockheed’s efforts on Space Travel leveraging Quantum Entanglement.
It’s called quantum entanglement, it’s extremely fascinating and counter to what we believe to be the known scientific laws of the universe, so much so that Einstein himself could not wrap his head around it. Although it’s called “quantum entanglement,” though Einstein referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.”
Sep 15, 2016
‘Impossible’ Quantum Space Engine That Breaks Laws Of Physics Is About To Be Tested In Space
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: quantum physics, space travel
A couple of years ago, researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre discovered a thruster system which actually generates thrust, despite requiring absolutely no propellant. The implications of this discovery are far-reaching; applications for space flight and other technologies which require propulsion could one day become far cheaper, allowing space exploration to expand exponentially. The existence of this technology also further validates the fact that energy can be derived from tapping into the quantum vacuum, also known as “zero-point.”
Bottom line is that space is not empty, and the energy which lies within it can be used. This was experimentally confirmed when the Casimir Effect illustrated zero point or vacuum state energy, which predicts that two metal plates close together attract each other due to an imbalance in the quantum fluctuations (source)(source).
Sep 13, 2016
Quantum Entanglement & Space Travel
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, space travel
Now, if we could just get the US to launch our own Quantum Satellite in space.
Recent research has taken quantum entanglement out of the theoretical realm of physics, and placed into the one of verified phenomena. An experiment devised by the Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics, led by Professor Howard Wiseman and his team of researchers at the university of Tokyo, recently published a paper in the journal Nature Communications confirming what Einstein did not believe to be real: the non-local collapse of a particle’s wave function. (source)(source), and this is just one example of many.
Sep 12, 2016
Jeff Bezos’s New Rocket, Built to Carry Payloads and People — By Marina Koren | The Atlantic
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: space, space travel
“The founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin announced Monday the design of an orbital rocket called New Glenn.”
Tags: Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos