The European Space Agency (ESA) is daring to dream big, with the organization’s latest project to implement human hibernation for space travel. The concept of sleeping while traveling to distant planets is a mainstay of sci-fi movies like Alien , Interstellar , and Passengers .
The ESA has assembled a team to study hibernation with the aim of using it in manned space missions as part of the Future Technology Advisory Panel. The team began by looking at current attempts to create hibernation technologies and considering what the impact would be on mission design. As a reference point, they considered a theoretical mission that would send six people to Mars and back within five years.
And here's another article:
NASA's Orion spacecraft to arrive Sunday and undergo environmental testing in Sandusky
The airport will be open to the public for anyone interested in watching the spacecraft being unloaded. Anyone who plans to attend should arrive no later than 1:30 p.m. The Super Guppy is scheduled to land at 2:30 p.m.
Space Temperature | Facts About Space 2019
Far outside our solar system and out past the distant reachers of our galaxy—in the vast nothingness of space—the distance between gas and dust particles grows, limiting their ability to transfer heat. Temperatures in these vacuous regions can plummet to about -455 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 kelvin). Are you shivering yet?
But why is the vacuum of space this cold? Well, it's complicated.
For physicists, temperature is all about velocity and motion. “When we talk about the temperature in a room, that’s not the way a scientist would talk about it," astronomer Jim Sowell of the Georgia Institute of Technology tells Popular Mechanics . “We would use the expression ‘heat’ to define the speeds of all the particles in a given volume.”
Space travel may change the human heart | Inverse
Humans have been venturing out into space for over 50 years now, but very little is known about the toll microgravity might take on the human body. With the age of commercial space travel fast approaching, it is increasingly critical to understand how our bodies adapt to space flight.
"Space is our next frontier. In the next 100 years, humans will be traveling through space all the time," says Joseph Wu , Stanford University professor and senior author on the study.
While you're here, how about this:
Israeli solar power generator going up to Space Station - ISRAEL21c
Israel's Beresheet spacecraft didn't quite succeed in its moon mission, but that isn't stopping Israelis from continuing to send new technology up into space.
Other than an unfortunate crash landing, the biggest obstacle to space travel is power. Fortunately, there's plenty of that from the sun. The challenge is how to capture solar energy efficiently and cheaply.
The latter is especially crucial for private space missions, where solar power systems represent a significant part of the total cost.
Pioneers push the business case for space | SmartBrief
If you've ever wondered why you keep seeing videos of Elon Musk and his team launching and landing rockets over and over again, Tim Hughes, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for SpaceX, says their motivation is simple: "Reusability is the Holy Grail of space."
The business case for expanding space operations for companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic gets better and better as the costs of going to space continue to decline. In fact, private corporations are now leading the way on space operations to the point where NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the audience at CME Group's annual Global Financial Leadership Conference that he wants his agency to be one of the biggest "customers" in the low-Earth orbit commercial business.
The future of space: Collaboration or competition? | SciTech Europa
Having launched the world's first satellite ( Sputnik 1 ), the Soviet Union was pioneering the journey into space and the race to dominate this battleground fuelled a fierce competition. Indeed, history was made when both Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first stepped onto the moon on July 21st, 1969. Such a landmark was achieved and positioned NASA as internationally dominant.
Commercial space travel has become something of a new private race, with a number of organisations developing heavy lift vehicles (rockets designed to send people into orbit). While initial efforts were focused on space tourism, private firms have helped the field to accomplish several firsts, including successfully returning the rocket stages to earth for reuse and the delivery of material to the International Space Station (ISS) with a non-government designed capsule.
Will China's Belt and Road Initiative include affordable space travel?
Beijing is aiming to create a "Space Economic Zone" by 2050, which may generate US$10 trillion worth of services per year. Ideas for this ambitious program were launched during the 40th anniversary of China's aerospace industry. But other space powers aren't sitting idly by...
The "economic space zone" will take form in the "near-earth space" which includes the moon, acording to a report on a recent front page of the Science & Technology Daily .
No comments:
Post a Comment