El Nio Alert, The Wrath of God is Developing - Get Ready - NASA Alert
El Nio is a band of anomalously warm ocean water temperatures that periodically develops off the Pacific coast of South America. Extreme climate change pattern oscillations fluctuate weather...
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Geobot Presentation at NASA Ames
Our first presentation at NASA Ames Research Center featuring Geobot. Actually, the robot #39;s name is LittleFoot, as baptized by the AEE.
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NASA is gearing up to test an inflatable, saucer-shaped vehicle that could help astronauts explore the surface of Mars.
The space agency's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle is now fully assembled at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii the site of its first flight trial, which is currently scheduled for June 3, officials said.
The LDSD project aims to slow the descent of super-heavy payloads such as human habitat modules through the thin Martian atmosphere. It's developing a 100-foot-wide (30.5 meters) parachute and two devices called Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators (SIADs). [NASA's Inflatable Flying Saucer for Mars Landings (Photos)]
One SIAD is 20 feet (6 m) wide, while the other measures 26 feet (8 m) across. They are designed to fit around the rim of an atmospheric entry vehicle, like the one that helped NASA's 1-ton Curiosity roverland safely on the Martian surface in August 2012.
Curiosity is the heaviest object that has ever landed on Mars, and its mission pretty much maxed out the descent and landing capabilities of currently available technologies, NASA officials have said. LDSD hopes to raise that ceiling high enough to accommodate future human missions.
On June 3, a balloon will carry a test vehicle equipped with the 20-foot SIAD and the huge parachute to an altitude of about 23 miles (37 kilometers). At that point, the vehicle will be released and its booster rocket will kick on, taking it to Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound) and 34 miles (55 km) up.
The SIAD and big parachute will then deploy in succession, giving team members their first good look at how they perform in a Mars-like environment. (At such heights, the air is thin enough to be a good analogue for Mars' atmosphere, which is just 1 percent as dense as that of Earth).
NASA plans to webcast the demo live, airing video captured by the LDSD test vehicle, officials said.
"This first test is a true experimental flight test," LDSD principal investigator Ian Clark, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. "Our goal is to get this first-of-its-kind test vehicle to operate correctly at very high speeds and very high altitudes."
But something productive will come out of the flight even if all does not go according to plan on June 3, he added.
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NASA Readies Inflatable 'Flying Saucer' for June Test Launch
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NASA plans to test its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) experiment next month at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii.
The LDSD test is designed to investigate breakthrough technologies that will benefit landing future human and robotic Mars missions, as well as aid in safely returning large payloads to Earth. The NASA LDSD test over the Pacific Ocean will simulate the entry, descent and landing speeds a spacecraft would be exposed to when flying through the Martian atmosphere. During the test a large saucer-shaped disk carrying an inflatable inner tube-shaped decelerator and parachute system will be carried to an altitude of 120,000 feet by a giant balloon. After release from the balloon, rockets will lift the disk to 180,000 feet while reaching supersonic speeds. Traveling at 3.5 times the speed of sound, the saucer's decelerator will inflate, slowing the vehicle down, and then a parachute will deploy to carry it to the ocean's surface.
NASA has six potential dates for launch of the high altitude balloon carrying the LDSD experiment: June 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. The launch window for each date extends from 0700 to 0830 local time.
NASA's LDSD carries several onboard cameras. It is expected that video of selected portions of the test, including the rocket-powered ascent, will be downlinked and streamed live to several NASA websites.
NASA's LDSD program is part of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA's future missions.
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ALTERED STATES: Proof of NASA Censorship
Okay. I showed you the last two videos so that I could show you THIS video. The same place TWICE. But with MAJOR differences. Same angle, so I don #39;t want to hear from the NASA apologists...
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Dragon Heads Home
A month after delivering more than 2.5 tons of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station, the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft departed the orbital outpost May 18 and headed for...
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Friction between the United States and Russia over Ukraine won't spell the end of the International Space Station, the head of NASA said Monday, dismissing concerns that one of the world's most prestigious scientific endeavors could fall victim to political disagreement.
The comments by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden come a week after Russia warned that it could cease cooperating with the U.S. on the project after 2020. Although Japan, Europe and Canada are also members, all currently depend on Russian Soyuz capsules to take astronauts to the space station since NASA retired its shuttle fleet.
"There is no single partner that can terminate the international space station," Bolden told reporters in Berlin, where he was attending the city's annual air show.
Bolden said that the cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, on the International Space Station hadn't changed "one iota" in recent years. The project has withstood the increasingly frosty atmosphere between Washington and Moscow that saw the U.S. impose sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
Still, Bolden indicated that if for one reason or other a country should drop out of the project, the others would seek to continue.
"There is no one partner that is indispensable on the International Space Station," he said. NASA hopes that private companies such as Space X will be able to develop rockets and capsules to fly astronauts to the space station as early as 2017.
Asked whether there might be an opportunity to bring on board China, which NASA is currently banned from cooperating with on human space flight, Bolden said: "There is nothing that I see in the tea leaves that says our relationship is going to change."
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WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) --NASA's Kepler spacecraft -- a satellite launched in 2009 and tasked with scanning space for Earth-like planets orbiting around distant stars -- has been out of commission for almost a year.
But scientists at NASA recently came up with a temporary fix, and a jury-rigged Kepler is preparing to be put back on the job.
The spacecraft lost maneuverability in spring of last year after two of its four wheels broke. Its wheels were central in stabilizing Kepler's imaging instrumentation and pointing it in the right direction. With only two, Kepler spins out of control.
"The approval provides two years of funding for the K2 mission to continue exoplanet discovery, and introduces new scientific observation opportunities to observe notable star clusters, young and old stars, active galaxies, and supernovae," Kepler Project Manager Charlie Sobeck said in a statement.
Beginning at the end of the month, scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, will have the go-ahead to begin their next Kepler mission.
The craft will be positioned in such a way that pressure from the sun's rays keep the observatory stable. Kepler will only be able to work for 80-odd days at a time, after which it will have to be momentarily rotated to protect the imaging lens from direct sunlight.
Kepler's sole instrument is a called a photometer. It continually monitors the stars of a certain brightness, and periodically transmits its data to Earth.
Since its launch, Kepler as detected more than 3,800 potential exoplanets, and 960 of these have been confirmed by NASA scientists. That means more than half of all known alien planets have been discovered by Kepler.
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NASA has announced the five winners of its 2014 International Space Apps Challenge. The contest is an international "hackathon" aimed driving innovation for future space missions and to improve life on Earth. The categories are Earth Watch, Technology in Space, Human Spaceflight, Robotics and Asteroids.
Over 8,000 individuals participated in the challenge at 95 locations around the world from April 11-12. The contest was broken down into 40 challenges across the five categories and submissions included software, hardware, data visualizations, and mobile or Web applications. NASA judges selected a winner in each category, while social media users around the world chose a Peoples Choice favorite.
Among the winners was SkyWatch, which solved the "Alert-Alert" challenge and was selected as being the "Best Use of Data." Alert-Alert was one of challenges in the Technology in Space theme and asked participants to create a central place for information and visualizations of sky phenomena. SkyWatch provides a near-real-time visual representation of data collected from observatories around the world, giving users the coordinates of celestial events with their location plotted through Google Sky.
Android Base Station solved the "PhoneSat" challenge and was chosen as the "Best Use of Hardware." The PhoneSat challenge was also part of the Technology in Space category and asked participants to convert a smartphone into a satellite. Android Base Station uses a 3D-printed receiver to connect to satellites and transform a smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Aurora Wearables: Fashion meets Function solved the "Space Wearables" challenge, which was another from the Technology in Space category. It asked participants to design wearable clothing and accessories that could be useful in space. Aurora Wearables: Fashion meets Function is an internet-connected spacesuit designed for astronauts to wear on the International Space Station and beyond. The suit allows the wearer to stay better connected with people on Earth via social media, displays a weather status for their home location and has an in-built 3D printer for creating tools and parts.
Yorbit solved the "Earth as Art" challenge and was chosen as the Most Inspiring submission. Earth as Art was one of the challenges in the Earth Watch category and challenged participants to create a search tool for finding beautiful earth-observing satellite images. Yorbit allows users to search, personalize, and share photographs captured by NASA satellites orbiting high above Earth. The images can be edited and can be overlayed on Google Maps.
The last of the five submissions selected by the NASA judges was SkySnapper, which solved the "My Sky Color" challenge. It crowdsources photos of the sky taken by users to help assess air pollution based on the sky's color. The challenge itself was part of the Earth Watch category of challenges and asked participants to create a tool with which people can record the color of the sky using consistent and qualitative standards at a specific location.
The People's Choice Award winner was awarded to Space Helmet. This project was part of the Human Space Flight category and solved the "SpaceT" challenge, for which participants had to develop an app that takes advantage of the latest generation of wearable smart technology for a future space traveler. Space Helmet displays oxygen levels, heart-rate and other information for wearer astronaut on a head-up display.
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Despite two broken wheels had NASA's planet-hunting telescope spinning out of control, the Kepler Space Telescope is using the power of the sun to continue its search for Earth-like planets.
NASA announced that it even though the space telescope is down from four to two working wheels, the agency has approved a plan that will keep Kepler working for at least another two years. This newly reconfigured mission has been dubbed K2.
The telescope, launched in 2009, lost the use of one of the four wheels that control its orientation in space in May 2013. That was the telescope's second wheel failure.
With the loss of the second wheel, NASA could no longer manipulate the telescope's positioning and ground engineers struggled to communicate with it since the communications link went in and out as the spacecraft spun uncontrollably.
Several months later, NASA engineers reported that they were unable to get the two disabled wheels working properly again so Kepler would be unable to continue its original planet-hunting mission. At that point, NASA was working to figure out what other scientific research -- like searching for asteroids, comets or supernovas -- Kepler could do in its diminished capacity.
However, scientists came up with a way to keep the telescope focused on its original planet-hunting mission.
Engineers, according to NASA, discovered they could use the sun's radiation pressure to actually balance the telescope in space.
Protons of sunlight exert pressure on the spacecraft, NASA explained. If the telescope is positioned exactly, it can be balanced against the pressure like a pencil can be balanced on your finger. That means the telescope can be positioned without the use of the two damaged wheels.
The spacecraft will be rotated periodically to prevent sunlight from affecting the telescope lens.
The spacecraft will be able to focus on a specific part of the sky for about 83 days. After that point, the telescope will be rotated to protect the telescope from the sun. NASA expects Kepler to complete four of these studies every year.
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Evan Richardson bench press 352 pounds at Kentucky State NASA event 5/17/2014. Sophomore in high school.
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Meet Morpheus, NASA #39;s unmanned planetary lander and flying test lab that could revolutionize the future of space travel.
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