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• NASA reports Project 1640 explores the Atmosphere of Planets far away

  
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  Written by Whitney Clavin NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – Gone are the days of being able to count the number of known planets on your fingers. Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets — planets that orbit stars beyond our sun — and more than 2,700 other candidates. What are ...
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• Curiosity Reaches Out with Martian Handshake and Contemplates New Drilling

  
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  NASA’s Curiosity rover reaches out in ‘handshake’ like gesture to welcome the end of solar conjunction and resumption of contact with Earth. This mosaic of images was snapped by Curiosity on Sol 262 (May 2, 2013) and shows her flexing the robotic arm with dramatic scenery of Mount Sharp in the background. Two ...
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• NASA researching 100KW, 4MW and 60 MW thermal molten salt reactors for space

  
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  Ohio State University has performed some computational studies of molten salt reactors for NASA space applications. They looked at 4 MW thermal and 60 MW thermal reactors and flow dynamics and basic design. Molten salt reactors are an appealing technology for space because of their high temperature and low ...
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• Report: Toyota to produce low-volume hydrogen fuel-cell production vehicle by 2015, concept due at Tokyo this year

  
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  It would seem the days of all-electric cars and their experimentation in the real-world have just begun to settle into the daily grind of society much like the internal combustion engine has for over a century. But to change the game even more, automobile companies are once again beginning to focus on hydrogen ...
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• LCAC Hovercraft: US Navy’s Champion Schleppers Get SLEPped

  
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  LCAC versatility (click to view full) The US military calls them Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC). They’re high-speed, fully amphibious hovercraft capable of carrying a 60-ton payload (75 tons in overload) over water and land at speeds in excess of 40 knots and a nominal range of up to 200 nautical miles. ...
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• Cubesat with electric sail is in orbit

  
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  The Estcube cubesat satellite with a 10 meter electric sail is in orbit now. ESTCube-1 is the first Estonian satellite and it was built in Estonia by students from Tartu University, Estonian Aviation Academy, Tallinn University of Technology and University of Life Sciences. The project started in 2008 and is now ...
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• The Interstellar Mind of Robert Goddard

  
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  From Centauri Dreams : Astronautics pioneer Robert H. Goddard is usually thought of in connection with liquid fuel rockets. It was his test flight of such a rocket in March of 1926 that demonstrated a principle he had been working on since patenting two concepts for future engines, one a liquid fuel design, the ...
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• Solar impulse flies over san francisco.

  
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  photo | reuters | 23 april 2013 Solar Impulse flies over the Golden Gate Bridge, preparing for cross-country flight in May 2013. The cross-country electric aircraft is a hybrid propulsion system running off of solar and then switching over to battery night flying and landing. There’s something about this ...
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• A Rational Approach to Engine and Propeller Matching for High Speed Boats

  
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  The following paper was prepared by our President, Mr. Paul Bezzi, several years ago. We hope you find it interesting and useful.   Introduction.   I am writing this paper with the aim to help those deciding on which propulsion system to select for their particular application. The majority of yachts and ...
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• Volkswagen working on 10-speed DSG

  
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  Volkswagen have revealed a bit about its next-gen powertrain technology, in the process confirming the development of a 10-speed DSG, a high-performance diesel engine as well as a company-wide focus on plug-in hybrid and natural gas propulsion systems for its future vehicles. According to Volkswagen Group chairman ...
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• a minor/major change aboard "So It Goes"...

  
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  This just might make your head explode, hardly a surprise, and folks keep telling me things are looking up but not so much the numbers...Some times change is hard and you find yourself jumping through all sorts of hoops to avoid the reality of the need/want voice that is whispering in your ear...Im pretty sure that ...
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• Is this the century we begin to build starships ?

  
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  Starship Century is a symposium (May 21-23, 2013 in San Diego) coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction. Scientists address the challenges and opportunities for our ...
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• SpaceX’s Flying Tampon Successfully Elevates 820 Feet in the Air

  
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  In its latest trial run, SpaceX’s Grasshopper spacecraft, a 10-story tall Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) rocket,  soared to a height of 820 feet, hovered, then lowered itself back to the launchpad. The Grasshopper, and VTVL more generally, is a crucial tentpole for Elon Musk’s SpaceX initiative, which ...
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• Volvo C30 Electric cuts charge time

  
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  The Volvo C30 Electric will benefit from a new 22kW fast-charger that will allow the vehicle to reach full charge in about an hour and a half. The model will use the world’s first on-board charger that operates on a three-phase power supply while also being small enough to be installed in an electric car. When ...
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• Greatest story never told

  
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  It is that time of year again… time to think about the Earth… actually, EVERY day is earth day as long as we live on this planet. A few ways to consider making your pets greener this year and contributing to the health of the planet. 1. Feed your dog raw, fresh homemade food (locally grown organic) and/or ...
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• Buy Solar

  
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  Solel – Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia In October 2009, Siemens signed a $418-million contract to buy Solel Solar Systems. As part of the deal, Siemens will leave the company headquarters and some of its manufacturing facilities in Israel for at least five years. … Read Article Solar ...
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• Orbital Sciences Launches It’s Antares Rocket

  
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  From spaceref.biz : Orbital Sciences Corporation Sunday launched its Antares rocket at 05:00 p.m. EDT from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The test flight was the first launch from the pad at Wallops and was the first flight of Antares, ...
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• NASA Astronomers using Herschel Space Observatory discover oldest star producing Galaxy to date

  
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  Written by Whitney Clavin NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – Astronomers, including Matt Bradford, Jamie Bock, Darren Dowell, Hien Nguyen and Jonas Zmuidzinas of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, have discovered a dust-filled, massive galaxy churning out stars when the cosmos ...
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• Missions to Mars and Nuclear Fusion

  
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  “We are much closer today to being able to send humans to Mars than we were to being able to send men to the moon in 1961, and we were there eight years later. Given the will, we could have humans on Mars within a decade.” - Robert Zubrin Of all the planets in the Solar System beyond our own, none has captured ...
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