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India sets sights on its own space station around 2030 World News

Jun 13
2019

2022: First astronauts.

Not content with just sending astronauts into the cosmos, India is also planning an ambitious project to develop and launch its own space station, the head of its space agency has announced.

Dr Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters on Thursday that the effort will be an extension of its Gaganyaan mission, which aims to blast New Delhi’s first ever astronauts into orbit by August 2022.

“We have to sustain the Gaganyaan program after the launch of the human space mission,” Sivan said.

Earth Is Now Approaching The Same ‘Meteor Swarm’ That Wiped-Out A Siberian Forest

Posted by Michael Lance in space | 1 Comment on Earth Is Now Approaching The Same ‘Meteor Swarm’ That Wiped-Out A Siberian Forest

Jun 12
2019

Are ‘one-in-a-thousand-year’ catastrophic impacts by meteors actually more frequent? Earth’s close call this summer with a meteor swarm will give astronomers a chance to figure out the risk potential.

The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in bioengineering, biotech/medical, food, space

Jun 11
2019

Asteroid mining. Gene editing. Synthetic meat. We could provide for the needs of everyone, in style. It just takes some imagination.

A 10-Year Odyssey: What Space Stations Will Look Like in 2030

Posted by Genevieve Klien in government, space

Jun 11
2019

NASA’s new plan for orbit conjures a striking view of government and commerce in space.

Planetary Landscapes

Posted by Alberto Lao in space

Jun 10
2019

🔥 Absolutely beautiful video created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it’s edge-on rings. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/44583965185/?fbclid…quZjFTDy_s

Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater

Posted by Quinn Sena in materials, space

Jun 10
2019

A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system—the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin—and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study.

“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,” said lead author Peter B. James.

Ph.D., assistant professor of planetary geophysics in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences. The crater itself is oval-shaped, as wide as 2,000 kilometers—roughly the distance between Waco, Texas, and Washington, D.C.—and several miles deep. Despite its size, it cannot be seen from Earth because it is on the far side of the Moon.

Electrifying quantum dots for lasers

Posted by Quinn Sena in quantum physics, space, transportation

Jun 9
2019

Compositional grading of colloidal quantum dots enables electrically driven amplification of light, bringing electrically driven lasers from these materials very close.