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Apr 12, 2016
Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance Join Forces to Foster a New Era of Sustainable Commercialization in Low Earth Orbit
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: space, sustainability
Colorado Springs, Colo., (April 11, 2016) – Bigelow Aerospace (BA) and United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced they are partnering to develop and deploy habitable volumes in Low Earth orbit (LEO). The volumes will be based on the Bigelow Aerospace B330 expandable module with the initial launch to orbit in 2020 on ULA’s Atlas V 552 configuration launch vehicle.
The B330 will have 330 cubic meters (12,000 cu ft) of internal space. The craft will support zero-gravity research including scientific missions and manufacturing processes. Beyond its industrial and scientific purposes, however, it has potential as a destination for space tourism and a craft for missions destined for the Moon and Mars.
“We are exploring options for the location of the initial B330 including discussions with NASA on the possibility of attaching it to the International Space Station (ISS),” said Robert Bigelow, founder and president of Bigelow Aerospace. “In that configuration, the B330 will enlarge the station’s volume by 30% and function as a multipurpose testbed in support of NASA’s exploration goals as well as provide significant commercial opportunities. The working name for this module is XBASE or Expandable Bigelow Advanced Station Enhancement.”
Apr 11, 2016
NASA Expands Economic Research to Advance Space Development
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: economics, space
The global space economy is growing, generating more than $300 billion a year in space-related activities, and attracting new, diverse participants and investors. A recent study also found more private money invested in commercial space development in 2015 than in the previous 15 years combined.
NASA has selected six new research proposals to understand the effective drivers of investments in the space economy.
In its second call for economic studies related to investments in the space economy, the agency picked studies that cover topics ranging from in-space manufacturing in low-Earth orbit (LEO) to the economics of resources obtained from near-Earth objects (NEO), such as asteroids.
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Apr 11, 2016
This Expandable Structure Could Become the Future of Living in Space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, space
A Nevada real estate magnate has poured $290 million into a wild dream of being a landlord in outer space. His first tenant: NASA.
Apr 11, 2016
Cosmic Speed Measurement Suggests Dark Energy Mystery
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: physics, space
A new measurement of how fast space is expanding disagrees with estimates based on the early universe, potentially pointing toward a break from the standard model of physics.
By Clara Moskowitz on April 11, 2016.
Apr 10, 2016
The Big Bang: Arriving at the site of creation
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: mathematics, quantum physics, singularity, space
Part 2
In part 1 of the journey, we saw the leading observations that needed explanation. Explanations that we want to do through the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. No technical and expert knowledge in these theories yet, only scratches of its implications. So let us continue.
THE RELATIVITY THEORY Deducing from the Hubble expansion, the galaxies were close in the distant past but certainly not in this current form as the telescopes now see them receding. In fact, if they were receding it also means they were expanding.
Therefore, when we reverse the receding galaxies into the far distant past they should end up at a point somewhere sometime with the smallest imaginable extension, if that extension is conceivable at all. Scientists call it the singularity, a mathematical deduction from the relativity theory. How did this immeasurable Universe made of clusters of galaxies we now see ever existed in that point called singularity?
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Apr 9, 2016
China Is Launching Oil Into Space in Order to Find More Oil on Earth
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: space
Apr 9, 2016
Team MASS is developing a 3D printed Martian habitat using laser sintered regolith
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, habitats, space
Apr 8, 2016
Video: Humans Could Engineer Themselves for Long-Term Space Travel
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: bioengineering, biological, genetics, space
Humans may need to genetically engineer themselves to withstand the harsh and unpredictable environments encountered during long-term space travel, one researcher says.
Apr 8, 2016
Meet Behrokh Khoshnevis, the Man Designing Robots to Build Colonies on Mars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, robotics/AI, space
When Khoshnevis imagines the future of colonies on Mars, he imagines very tall buildings, with a lot of protection from the elements.
“Gravity is one third of Earth’s, and therefore with less construction material we can build stronger structures out there, therefore we can build much taller,” he says. “The cost of energy for elevators and all that will be much less. Theoretically everything could be three times as high as here with the same consumption of energy,” he says.
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