NASA space shuttle launch today Endeavor to send “robot alien” space
The space shuttle Endeavor in the U.S. NASA will be released on 11 Eastern time U.S., as scheduled. 7 astronauts and concentrated on October 9th at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This space trip Endeavor send the "robot alien" developed by Canada and the experimental module "La Esperanza" developed by Japan to the International Space Station.
It is an arduous task that flight of Endeavor, which set a new record in the duration and the number of spacewalks by astronauts on flight tasks NASA to establish the International Space Station. This space trip will last 16 days as scheduled. Its main task is sent to the International Space Station two-armed robot named Dextre and the experimentalMars Array Technology Experiment (MATE)
Until Mars Pathfinder landed in July 1997, no solar array had ever been used on the surface of Mars. Pathfinder was designed for a relatively short duration mission compared to a 500 sol surface stay for a Mars sample return mission that would incorporate ISPP. Since making propellants and storing them cryogenically requires significant power, power generation over a long period of time is critical for mission success.
MATE will incorporate five different individual solar cell types, two different solar cell strings, and temperature sensors to characterize promising solar cell materials and designs. MATE will also incorporate two radiometers and a dual spectrometer. The dual spectrometer will measure the global solar spectrum from
Mars Atmospheric Acquisition and Compression (MAAC)
The most readily available resource on Mars is the atmosphere. Hence, carbon dioxide (CO2), which makes up more than 95% of the atmosphere, is the primary resource being considered for early Mars missions. However, the Mars atmospheric pressure is only 6 to 10 torr (0.1 to .15 psi), while most ISPP processes [...]
Comet Shoemaker-Levy &emdash; Collision with Jupiter
Between 17 and 22 July, over 20 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 will collide with Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System. The comet fragments will hit the atmosphere of Jupiter at speeds of over 200,000 km/hour.Scientists have never had the opportunity to study such a collision, and the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in [...]
Anglo-Australian Observatory telescopes help point Hubble Space Telescope
The two Anglo-Australian Observatory telescopes, the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) were used recently to pinpoint the area which will be intensively studied next year with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).Over the Christmas and New Year of 1995/96, the Hubble Space Telescope spent hundreds of hours examining a small patch of [...]
AUSSIES FIRST TO SEE LIKELY BLACK HOLE BIRTH
Australian astronomers may be witnessing what has never been seen before - a black hole being born as the core of a super-massive star collapses in on itself.And they have been pulling out all the stops in the [...]
NASA confirms discovery of water on the Moon
Washington (Notimex) .- The National Aeronautics and Space (NASA) have confirmed evidence of the existence of water on the moon, in a finding that would increase the interest in searching for life in space. NASA scientists reported finding evidence of water in small concentrations on the surface, but sufficient to provide billions of gallons, especially [...]
The Supermassive Black Hole Found To More Distant Today
Tomotsugu Goto of the University of Hawaii and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy at the center of a supermassive black hole nests, the most distant so far found. The galaxy, which is so distant as it was 12,800 million years ago, is as big as the Milky Way and contains at its core a [...]
The Ion Tiger, an unmanned hydrogen, flying for nearly 24 hours
The record duration flight of a pilotless aircraft has probably been beaten by an aircraft propeller drawing its energy - electricity - a fuel cell. Purely military equipment displays this performance bodes well for civilian applications and is very representative of a crazy idea: Aircraft electric.
The aircraft took off from Aberdeen (Maryland, USA) October 9 [...]
The asteroid Pallas seen by Hubble a protoplanet in the freezer
Taken in 2007 by the Hubble telescope, an image of the surface of the asteroid Pallas eventually talk. It reveals what planetary scientists have suspected for some time. Pallas is a protoplanet in the freezer, instructive relic of the early days of the formation of solar tendering system leads.
The theory of the formation of planets [...]
Footprints of the galaxy M31 has swallowed Other
Some stars and giant structures, many of them are first seen, and located around the Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, are probably remnants of smaller galaxies swallowed up by Andromeda, according to results of a new study.The new images, captured by an international team of astronomers, belong to the largest panoramic tracking Andromeda done [...]
Detection of rooms surrounding moons planets in other solar systems
Since the launch of the Kepler mission, NASA earlier this year, astronomers have waited with bated breath the first detection of an Earthlike planet around another star. Now, in what seems another case of science fiction turned into reality, a team of scientists led by David Kipping at University College London thinks they can find [...]
Showers of stones on the COROT exoplanet-7b?
A program used to simulate the volcanism on Io, a moon of Jupiter, the exoplanet rock recently discovered by COROT in orbit around a dwarf star in the constellation of the Unicorn is the seat of a strange phenomenon: there would rain of pebbles! “There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horatio, than [...]
The Montparnasse Tower is also a particle detector
As part of the International Year of Astronomy and the European Week of Physics of Astrophysics, various events are held and will end October 17, 2009. On this occasion, the Montparnasse tower acts as a detector of cosmic rays! Astroparticle physics has recently incorporated as a separate discipline, like the astrophysical relativity and especially of [...]
For 50 Years (52): Moon-3
Immediately after the successful outcome of his previous mission, Moon-2, Soviet technicians try to catch it again. Barely three weeks after the first lunar impact history, Korolev has decided to spend the next target of his long list of firsts moles, in this case the observation of the dark side of our satellite. The moon [...]
