Archive for the ‘space’ category: Page 808
Oct 29, 2016
Multipurpose Robot Named Leonardo is Your Mars Companion of the Future
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space
As we continue moving forward in the colonization of Mars, how might we get along with our future Martian robot companions? — B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder.
Oct 29, 2016
Space, the Final Frontier for Cybersecurity? | Chatham House
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, governance, government, policy, space, treaties
“A radical review of cybersecurity in space is needed to avoid potentially catastrophic attacks.”
Oct 29, 2016
George Lucas Presents Two New Designs For His Beleaguered Museum — By Mark Wilson | Fast Company
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, space, space travel
“After being spurned in Chicago, Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art is looking for a West Coast home.”
Oct 28, 2016
Future Asteroid Miners Seek Solid Space Rock Plan
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, space
Once thought of as a pipe-dream, exploitation of the solar system’s asteroids is being planned by a growing community of asteroid mining companies and scientists.
NASA.
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Oct 26, 2016
Super-Cool Quantum Research Lab Heads to Space
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, space
Just WOW!
PULLMAN, Wash., Oct. 26 — Washington State University and NASA scientists are set to begin an investigation into the strange world of quantum physics on the International Space Station.
WSU physicists Peter Engels and Maren Mossman are part of a team studying the behavior of atoms laser-cooled to temperatures just a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, the point where they behave like one wave of discrete particles.
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Oct 26, 2016
EU Commission’s new space policy to invest in startups to boost private investment
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: policy, satellites, space
PARIS — The European Union’s executive commission on Oct. 26 unveiled a new space strategy that promises public investment to stimulate the creation of space start-up companies.
The Brussels, Belgium-based commission, which acts on behalf of the 28 European Union members — still including Britain for a couple of years — is already the biggest single customer for Europe’s Arianespace launch-service provider and for Europe’s satellite manufacturers.
The EU plans to launch some 30 satellites in the coming decade for the Galileo navigation and Copernicus environment-monitoring programs, which are the major beneficiaries of the commission’s space budget of 12 billion euros ($13.5 billion) between 2014 and 2020.