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Dec 21, 2016

Russia Tests Another Anti-Satellite Weapon as Battleground Space Looms

Posted by in categories: military, space

Just another reminder that America’s supremacy in space is increasingly unsecured.


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Dec 21, 2016

Fiber Optics For Quantum Technology Research

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, space

Back in September 2015, Gooch & Housego reported on our work with cold atom technology on the FreezeRay project. Now, just over a year later, we’re happy to say that Gooch & Housego has successfully won funding for involvement in two further programs, CASPA and REVEAL, in a competition for the commercialization of quantum technologies. The contest is supported by Innovate UK and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme.

CASPA (Cold Atom Space Payload) has the aim of developing a payload compatible with CubeSat and capable of producing cold atoms in space. As with all such projects, we are breaking new ground here and an effective demonstration of the prototype system – in this instance space will be the crucial first step towards commercializing instrumentation systems capable of recording minuscule changes in the earth’s gravitational strength. Such changes when mapped across the earth’s surface have the potential to be used in resource exploration or to geo-monitoring of polar ice mass, ocean currents and sea level changes.

CASPA will also evaluate the viability of using the technology in the provision of higher precision timing sources for next generation global positioning system (GPS) and also for deep space navigation. The program partners are e2v technologies Ltd, ClydeSpace, XCAM, Covesion, the University of Birmingham and the University of Southampton.

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Dec 21, 2016

‘Mars Ice Home’: Team Chips Away at Off-Earth House’s Design

Posted by in categories: habitats, space

The first pioneers on Mars may build their homes using the ice beneath their feet.

In November, a University of Texas research team reported that Mars’ Utopia Planitia region contains about as much water, in the form of buried ice, as Lake Superior does here on Earth.

This ice layer, which spans a greater area than the state of New Mexico, lies in Mars’ mid-northern latitudes and is covered by just 3 feet to 33 feet (1 to 10 meters) of soil, the scientists determined. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars].

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Dec 20, 2016

ESA’s ExoMars Prepares To Sample Lower Martian Atmosphere

Posted by in category: space

ExoMars will soon start aerobraking in Mars orbit in a years-long effort to sample Mars super-thin lower atmosphere in the ongoing search for trace gases indicative of life and active geology.


ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is preparing to aerobrake into parts of the unexplored Martian lower atmosphere in search of methane, water vapor and other possible signatures of life on the Red Planet.

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Dec 19, 2016

Grail satellite analysis indicates lava tubes on the moon could be up to 1000 to 5000 meters wide which would be ideal sites for massive moon colonies

Posted by in category: space

Slight variations in the moon’s gravitational tug have hinted that kilometers-wide caverns lurk beneath the lunar surface. Like the lava tubes of Hawaii and Iceland, these structures probably formed when underground rivers of molten rock ran dry, leaving behind a cylindrical channel. On Earth, such structures max out at around 30 meters across, but the gravitational data suggest that the moon’s tubes are vastly wider.

Other satellites had found the openings of large lunar lava tubes and caves.

  • The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has now imaged over 200 pits that show the signature of being skylights into subsurface voids or caverns, ranging in diameter from about 16 feet (5 meters) to more than 2,950 feet (900 m), although some of these are likely to be post-flow features rather than volcanic skylights.

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Dec 18, 2016

Japan is getting into the lunar mining business

Posted by in categories: business, space

JAXA has signed a memo of understanding with iSpace to create moon mining industry.

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Dec 17, 2016

Genetically Engineered Bacteria Will Be Our Martian Architects

Posted by in categories: genetics, space

And it will change how we think about construction here on Earth.

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Dec 13, 2016

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Boron Under Ancient Martian Lakebed

Posted by in category: space

NASA’s Mars Curiosity strikes again with the first ever discovery of boron at Gale Crater. This detection of Boron, a telltale chemical signature of evaporated liquid water, gives new impetus to the idea that Mars once had clement weather and habitable conditions.

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Dec 12, 2016

Violent Space Collisions May Have Naturally Produced ‘Impossible’ Quasicrystal

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A pretty epic recipe to creating a new kind of substance.

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Dec 9, 2016

AI Will Colonize the Galaxy by the 2050s, According to the “Father of Deep Learning”

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

In Brief

  • Jürgen Schmidhuber asserts that, by 2050, there will be trillions of self-replicating robot factories on the asteroid belt.
  • In a few million years, robots will naturally explore the galaxy out of curiosity, setting their own goals without much human interaction.

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