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China Makes Techonological Breakthrough With Quantum Space Satellite

Posted by Karen Hurst in government, quantum physics, space

Mar 9
2016

China’s Quantum Satellite — it’s now official China has beaten the US with their launch of a Quantum Satellite for secured communications. At this rate; US can possibly expect China has and will continue to advance its networking infrastructure. US Government has a good strategy in place.

Quantum space satellite, a satellite under the Chinese space program, is making waves in the country as it is the first satellite to deliver quantum communication in China, according to Chinese state media.

This new innovation is a breakthrough technology and it will be an asset for China’s power all over the globe.

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Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in space

Mar 8
2016

Mr. Bezos introduced reporters to Blue Origin for the first time on Tuesday, offering updates on his space tourism plans and a new engine that is being developed.

Blue Origin planning human test flights to space

Posted by Karen Hurst in space

Mar 8
2016

Private space company Blue Origin expects it will launch its first human test flights into space in 2017.

Terraforming Mars: Turning the Red Planet Green

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in engineering, environmental, space

Mar 8
2016

Here’s how scientists think we could turn Mars into Earth 2.0…

D3 Space Solar Proposal Presentation

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in energy, space

Mar 8
2016

Mars Had a Volcanic Blowup So Huge It Tilted the Planet

Posted by Sean Brazell in space

Mar 3
2016

Not a great time to be living on Mars, me thinks. wink

Space is so metal.

What One Year of Space Travel Does to the Human Body — By Marina Koren | The Atlantic

Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in space, space travel

Mar 3
2016

“The goal of the yearlong expedition is to better understand how the human body reacts to microgravity for long durations. Researchers say they hope the data acquired in this mission will help them figure out how to send humans on even longer missions, like one to Mars, which would take two-and-a-half years, roundtrip.”

Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts Just Got Even More Interesting

Posted by Sean Brazell in energy, space

Mar 2
2016

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are a source of endless fascination. But despite a decade of observations, not all astronomers are sure that they’re real. A study out in Nature today, which reports the very first recurring FRB, is now causing lingering skepticism to evaporate.

“I think this is pretty huge,” Peter Williams, an astronomer at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics who was not involved with the study, told Gizmodo. “For awhile, I wasn’t sure these things were genuinely astrophysical. This paper settles the question.”

And Williams is not one to take splashy new claims about FRBs—high energy radio pulses of unknown origin, which flit across the sky for a fraction of a second—lightly. In fact, he’s spent the last week raising major doubts about another recent study, which, as Gizmodo and other outlets reported, claimed to have pinpointed the location of an FRB in space for the first time.