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Officials collected 770 entries between April 20-21 from more than 9,000 people in 83 cities around the world for this year's International Space Apps Challenge.
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An interplanetary weather app, a spot-the-space-station tool, and a Mars greenhouse concept are among the winners of the 2013International Space Apps Challenge. The contest solicited mobile apps and technologies that aid space exploration and enrich life here on Earth.
On Wednesday, a panel of judges from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and partners announced the winners of the contest, which collected 770 entries between April 20-21. More than 9,000 people from 83 cities around the world contributed to the apps submitted, according to NASA.
"TheInternational Space Apps Challengewas the culmination of months of planning, years of experimentation and thousands and thousands of hours of hard work from people across the globe who share in the excitement of building our collective future," Nick Skytland, NASA Open Innovation Program Manager, wrote in a blog post on open.NASA. "It is a shining example that transparency, participation and collaboration are alive and well at NASA." [10 Best Space Apps in the Universe]
Many of the contestants in the challenge, which is in its second year, used free cloud storage and services provided to all participants in the challenge by the company CloudSigma. "It's amazing to see the innovation coming out of this event, and we feel honored to have been a part of it,"CloudSigma Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Robert Jenkins said in a statement.
The teams behind the six winning apps receive invitations to the November launch of NASA's robotic Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) Mars probe from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and a Spaceflight Training course at the National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center in Pennsylvania.
The six "best in class" winners of the challenge are:
Best Use of Data: SolThis Kansas-produced app integrates weather data collected by the Curiosity rover on Mars with live weather conditions on Earth to give users a forecast for both planets at once.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows.
The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, said Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm.
The projects range from pharmaceutical research aboard Earth-orbiting habitats, to missions to the moon's surface, he said on Thursday, citing a draft of the report due to be released in a few weeks.
NASA intends to follow the International Space Station program with astronaut visits to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars about a decade later.
President Barack Obama's proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1 requests $105 million for the U.S. space agency to begin work on a mission to find a small asteroid and reposition it around the moon for a future visit by astronauts.
But private companies, including Bigelow Aerospace, have more interest in the moon itself, Bigelow told reporters on a conference call on Thursday.
William Gerstenmaier, NASA's head of space operations, said on the call "it's important for us to know that there's some interest in moon activity and lunar surface activity."
"We can take advantage of what the private sector is doing" in areas such as space transportation, life support systems and other technologies needed for travel beyond the space station's 250 mile high orbit, he noted.
NASA typically completes its mission planning before looking at what partnerships and collaborations may be possible, Gerstenmaier added.
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Nasa chief Charles Bolden has inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.
Mr Bolden checked on the progress a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes 105 million dollars (69 million) to jump-start the mission, which may eventually cost more than 2.6 billion dollars (1.7 billion).
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California and Glenn Research Centre in Ohio are developing a thruster that relies on ion propulsion instead of conventional chemical fuel.
Once relegated to science fiction, ion propulsion - which fires beams of electrically charged atoms to propel a spacecraft - is preferred for deep space cruising because it is more fuel-efficient. Engine testing is expected to ramp up next year.
During Thursday's visit to the JPL campus, nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains north-east of Los Angeles, Mr Bolden viewed an engineering model of the engine and peered through a porthole of a vacuum chamber housing the prototype.
Nasa is under White House orders to fly humans to an asteroid as a stepping stone to Mars. Instead of sending astronauts all the way to an asteroid, as originally planned, the space agency came up with a quicker, cheaper idea: haul the asteroid close to the Moon and visit it there.
The space agency would launch an ion-powered unmanned spacecraft to snare a yet-to-be-selected small asteroid in 2019 and park it in the Moon's neighbourhood. Then a spacewalking team would hop on an Orion space capsule that is currently under development and explore the rock in 2021.
Besides preparing astronauts for an eventual trip to Mars, Nasa said the asteroid-capture mission is designed to test technologies to deflect threatening space boulders on a collision course with Earth.
Scientists have said the redirected asteroid would pose no threat to Earth. If it inadvertently plunged through the atmosphere, it would burn up, they said.
Mr Bolden's JPL stop is part of his annual spring tour of Nasa centres around the country. His California journey began on Wednesday at the Dryden Flight Research Centre in the Mojave Desert where Sierra Nevada Corp is preparing its Dream Chaser spaceship for test flights later this year before it can make supply runs to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida.
In a notice posted on its procurement website, the U.S. space agency said it was looking for one or more companies to take over operations and maintenance of Launch Complex 39A.
The facility is one of two launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center built in the 1960s to support the Apollo moon program. Both were later modified for the space shuttles, which began flying in 1981.
NASA intends to refurbish Complex 39B for its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket and Orion deep-space capsule, designed to carry astronauts to destinations beyond the International Space Station, a $100 billion research complex that flies about 250 miles above Earth.
Pad 39A, however, is among the hundreds of shuttle-era facilities that NASA no longer needs.
"We're on track for significant commercial operations here at the Cape," Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana said last week at a National Space Club Florida meeting in Cape Canaveral.
NASA's Florida spaceport has demolished or transferred to commercial users more than 150 shuttle facilities, reducing its footprint by 1 million square feet (93,000 square meters), Cabana said.
Among the companies that have expressed interest in the pad are privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which leases a launch pad at the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for its Falcon 9 rockets. SpaceX has a second launch site in California and is shopping for at least one more U.S. site to accommodate its burgeoning manifest.
NASA is looking to have a five-year or longer lease on the property by October 1.
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For the administrator of NASA, directing and overseeing America's space program is only part of the job. It also requires vision and salesmanship to launch new programs, and persuade Congress to appropriate the funding in tight budget times.
So it is that Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut and retired Marine Corps Major General known for his quick wit, is stumping in California, visiting NASA facilities, meeting with scientists, and making his case to the media and the American people.
Inspecting a spaceship newly arrived for testing at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Bolden explained on Wednesday the rationale in the post-space shuttle era for commercializing crew transport to low earth orbit and the International Space Station.
At SoCals Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Thursday, checking ion thruster development, Bolden spoke for a mission to capture an asteroid and redirect it for a rendezvous with astronauts.
And on Friday, Bolden will head to the Ames Research Center in the Bay Area to spotlight 3D printing and PhoneSat miniature satellites.
Putting a man on the moon nearly half a century ago was a tough act to follow, but no NASA program has been able to capture the nation's interest and enthusiasm as did the Apollo lunar landings.
Bolden sees the next big thing as manned exploration of our neighboring planet Mars, and he has boosters in the White House and on Capitol Hill.
Im delighted to hear the NASA administrator speak about Mars as the ultimate destination, at least in the next 20 years, for human exploration, Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) said at Tuesday's hearing of the House Science Committee.
A tougher sell is convincing members of the House Science Committee that other programs advocated by Bolden, including an asteroid capture, contribute sufficiently to the Mars goal. Aviation Week quoted Space Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Steve Palazzo (R-MS) as saying it might instead be a detour.
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Nasa is looking for commercial operators to lease a historic launch pad in Florida used for the first Moon missions and by the Atlantis shuttle.
Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral has been unused since Atlantis retired in 2011.
At least two privately-owned space exploration companies are expected to bid for the contract.
The facility is one of two launch pads built in the 1960s as part of the Apollo Moon programme.
It has supported more than 90 launches since November 1967.
But after the end of Nasa's space shuttle programme two years ago, Complex 39A and many other facilities became redundant.
The US space agency said some 150 facilities at the Florida spaceport had been demolished or transferred to commercial operators, Reuters news agency reports.
"We remain committed to right-sizing our portfolio by reducing the number of facilities that are underused, duplicative or not required to support the Space Launch System and Orion," the space centre's director, Bob Cabana, said in a statement.
The Space Launch System and Orion is Nasa's next-generation deep space mission, designed to carry astronauts to destinations past the International Space Station.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.
Bolden checked on the progress Thursday a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes $105 million to jumpstart the mission, which may eventually cost more than $2.6 billion.
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and Glenn Research Center in Ohio are developing a thruster that relies on ion propulsion instead of conventional chemical fuel.
Once relegated to science fiction, ion propulsion which fires beams of electrically charged atoms to propel a spacecraft is preferred for deep space cruising because it's more fuel-efficient. Engine testing is expected to ramp up next year.
During his visit to the JPL campus, nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles, Bolden viewed an engineering model of the engine and peered through a porthole of a vacuum chamber housing the prototype.
NASA is under White House orders to fly humans to an asteroid as a stepping stone to Mars. Instead of sending astronauts to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, as originally planned, the space agency came up with a quicker, cheaper idea: Haul the asteroid close to the moon and visit it there.
Bolden said the original concept was impractical given the flat budget and praised the alternative as "ingenious."
"If you can't get to the asteroid, bring the asteroid to you," Bolden said.
The space agency would launch an ion-powered unmanned spacecraft to snare a yet-to-be-selected small asteroid in 2019 and park it in the moon's neighborhood. Then a spacewalking team would hop on an Orion space capsule that's currently under development and explore the rock in 2021.
Besides preparing astronauts for an eventual trip to Mars, NASA said the asteroid-capture mission is designed to test technologies to deflect threatening space boulders on a collision course with Earth.
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Quick update on NASA's amazing plan to lasso an asteroid: they're making progress on the ionpropulsion engine they'll need for the mission, one month after president Obama proposed giving NASA $100 mission to get this thing going.
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So far, NASA has a prototype of the ion propulsion engine, and they'd like to test it next year. The engine would be much more efficient than other fuel sources, making it just the thing we need to get to Mars, in theory.
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If you're asking yourself why NASA would want to lasso an asteroid in the first place (beyond the obvious headlines and bragging rights) the Associated Press has a good explanation:
"NASA is under White House orders to fly humans to an asteroid as a stepping stone to Mars. Instead of sending astronauts to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, as originally planned, the space agency came up with a quicker, cheaper idea: Haul the asteroid close to the moon and visit it there."
But this plan has more to it than just getting us one step closer to Mars, NASA officials say. For one thing, it could save us all from dying a fiery death by asteroid collision. Or, as we've explained before, we could mine it for minerals.
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Despite this, some lawmakers aren't that enthusiastic about the plan. As Space.com reported earlier this month, some in the House prefer an alternate plan that would just have us use the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, instead. In any case, the project is slated to grab an asteroid in 2019, and get spacewalkers on its surface in 2021.
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Newswise HAMMOND An increasing number of hazardous waste disposal sites are using nanotechnology and nanomaterials in their environmental remediation efforts, leaving open questions about the safety of such techniques.
An inaugural national workshop will be held at Southeastern Louisiana University June 5-7 to try to provide some answers to the questions and concerns on the safe use of nanomaterials in environmental remediation.
Nanomaterials are tiny engineered particles, often smaller than the width of a human air, that are being synthesized and formed to perform specific functions in medicine delivery, pharmacology, industry and environmental remediation.
While applications and results of nano-enabled strategies for environmental remediation are promising, there is still the challenge of ensuring such applications are both safe and sustainable, said conference organizer Ephraim Massawe. The federal government has established different projects coordinated by different agencies, called signature initiatives. We plan on generating information supportive of some of these federal initiatives.
The event, Nano-4_Rem_Anseers2013: Applications of Nanotechnolgoy for Safe and Sustainable Environmental Remediations, is a cooperative endeavor involving the university and agencies and institutions, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Institute of Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The Louisiana Board of Regents is providing partial financial support.
Four keynote speakers are slated to address the three-day conference, which will be held on the Southeastern campus. Speakers and topics include: -- Patrick OShaughnessy, professor of occupational and environmental health in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, Nanosafety: Current Issues and Guidance; -- Dongye Zhao, Huff endowed professor of environmental engineering at Auburn University: Application of Stabilized Nanoparticles for in situ Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater; -- Souhail Al-Abed of the EPA Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Cincinnati: Nanotechnology and the Environment: an Overview of Sustainable and Safe Applications in Site Remediation.
In addition, a representative of the National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office will speak at the workshop.
The program is intended for representatives of the environmental remediation community, nanomaterial vendors, consultants and contractors, academics, industry, health and safety regulatory agencies, and state and federal government agencies. Exhibitors will include companies showcasing instruments, equipment and new technologies used in environmental remediation and nanomaterial monitoring.
Additional details on the program and registration information can be found on the conference website: southeastern.edu/nano-5-rem-anssers.
Massawe said at least 30 EPA Superfund sites across the nation are currently using nanomaterials in remediation operations.
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By now, just about everyone with an interest in the field of nanotechnology has heard that Heinrich Rohrer, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), passed away this week at the age of 79 from natural causes.
It would be hard to overstate the impact that Rohrer and his colleague at IBM Zurich, Gerd Binnig, have had on the field of nanotechnology. The STM has become a cornerstone tool for characterizing and manipulating the world on the nanoscale. Through ever more refined iterations of the device, we are peering into the atomic scale with greater and greater clarity. Even the lay-est of laypersons can appreciate the STMs feats of prowess when they're put on display in videos in which atoms are made to perform stunts as if they're children in a home movie.
For a description of how the STM came to be and how it works, IBM Zurichs reporting on Rohrers life is both thorough and poignant and I recommend you take a look at it.
All I would add are my own personal recollections of Rohrer from a one-on-one interview I had with him and from joint interviews I and other journalists had with him and Binnig back in 2011 while attending the grand opening of IBM Zurichs new nanotechnology research facility, which IBM aptly named the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center.
In these interviews, I was struck by three things.
First, Rohrers absolute humility in his role in the development of the STM. He characterized himself as simply wanting to see if it would be possible to eliminate approximations of inhomogenities on surfaces and measure them precisely. Beyond his genius of simply asking the right question, he also had the good sense to hire a brilliant young scientistBinnigwho could help him in his quest.
Second, Rohrer was funny. Nearly everything he said during our brief time together had a wry twist of humor to it. It seemed to be humor borne of humility (not taking himself too seriously), pragmatism, and his sense that his role as a leader in a technology revolution was so unexpected that he just had to laugh at it.
Finally, I was struck by the chemistry between the two men. They expressed unflagging admiration for one another, despite being in some ways polar opposites. Rohrer was the pragmatist, while Binnig seems to have the touch of the poet. Interestingly, though, in the development of the STM those roles were reversed in that Rohrer was the idea guy and Binnig was the engineer who got the device built.
In any event, their contrasting personalities, humor, and chemistry were on clear display the day of the opening of the lab named after them.
After Binnig had carefully answered a question about their co-discovery of the STM, Rohrer quipped, "If you didn't quite understand what Gerd just told you, you are not alone."
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The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time.
But it was not nearly as helpful for materials scientists such as the ones constructing electronic circuits, who were more interested in surfaces. Exploring the details of those circuits required a completely new technology, the scanning tunneling microscope, which would provide images of individual atoms on surfaces.
Many scientists thought such a feat impossible. In 1979, however, physicists Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig of the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, patented such a device and forever changed the electronics industry. For their invention, they received the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics, an award they shared with physicist Ernst Ruska, who designed the first electron microscope.
Rohrer and Binning were known as the fathers of nanotechnology the construction and manipulation of extremely small objects because their device could be used to move atoms around on a surface.
Rohrer died of natural causes May 16 at his home in Wollerau, Switzerland, according to IBM. He was 79.
"The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope was a seminal moment in the history of science and information technology," John E. Kelly III, director of research at IBM, said in a statement. "This invention gave scientists the ability to image, measure and manipulate atoms for the first time, and opened new avenues for information technology that we are still pursuing today."
The pair's invention relies on a quantum-mechanical phenomenon known as tunneling, so called because the electrons pass through a supposedly impenetrable barrier, such as a vacuum. The phenomenon is the basis of scanning tunneling microscopy.
In tunneling, the tip of an electrically charged wire, for example, emits electrons in waves that roughly resemble the shape of a fountain. When two such devices are brought closely together, the overlapping waves partially merge and electrons flow through the gap, creating a small current.
Their device uses a stylus not unlike the needle of a record player. It is much smaller, however, converging to a point only one atom in diameter. In a high vacuum, the needle is brought close to the surface to be examined and a small electric charge applied, producing a current. The strength of the current depends on the distance between the point and the surface.
As the stylus is scanned back and forth across the surface much like the electron beam of a cathode ray tube in a television the current varies with the height of the surface. A computer moves the stylus up and down to keep the current constant. The record of those movements, converted into two dimensions, provides an image of the surface. The entire process relies on the current produced by tunneling.
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