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Aug 15, 2017
Entrepreneurs are the next superpowers
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: business, singularity, space
Nextbigfuture interviewed Naveen Jain at the Singularity University Global Summit. Naveen K. Jain is a business executive, entrepreneur and the founder and former CEO of InfoSpace and a fonder of Moon Express, Viome, World Innovation Institute, Bluedot, iNome, TalentWise and Intelius. He was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon India’s “Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur,” and the receiver of “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for his pioneers in technology, he has been repeatedly honored for his entrepreneurial successes. Red Herring also recognized him as one of the “Top 20 Serial Entrepreneurs” and with the “Lifetime Achievement Award.” In 2015, Naveen Jain had a net worth of $2.2 billion.
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Aug 15, 2017
The Andromeda Study: A Femto-Spacecraft Mission to Alpha Centauri — Draft report finally published!!!
Posted by Andreas M. Hein in categories: energy, engineering, physics, space
“This paper discusses the physics, engineering and mission architecture relating to a gram-sized interstellar probe propelled by a laser beam. The objectives are to design a fly-by mission to Alpha Centauri with a total mission duration of 50 years travelling at a cruise speed of 0.1c. Furthermore, optical data from the target star system is to be obtained and sent back to the Solar system. The main challenges of such a mission are presented and possible solutions proposed. The results show that by extrapolating from currently existing technology, such a mission would be feasible. The total mass of the proposed spacecraft is 23g and the space-based laser infrastructure has a beam power output of 15GW. Rurther exploration of the laser — spacecraft tradespace and associated technologies are necessary.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03556
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Aug 13, 2017
NASA ‘Cribs’: Tour an Astronaut Habitat for Mock Space Missions (Video)
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: food, habitats, space
Ever wonder how astronauts will live on other worlds? Welcome to the Human Exploration Research Analog, or HERA, a habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston built to simulate the isolation of missions to deep space. You can take a tour of the HERA habitat with NASA interns in this new video in the style of the MTV series “Cribs.”
“HERA is a unique three-story habitat designed to serve as an analog for isolation, confinement, and remote conditions in exploration scenarios,” NASA officials explained in a video description. “This video gives a tour of where crew members live, work, sleep, and eat during the analog missions.”
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Aug 11, 2017
The billionaire space race
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: business, government, space
How the tech billionaires are planning to send you into space.
John Thornhill investigates whether big government or big business will fund the future of space exploration.
Aug 11, 2017
Kalpana Two was the result of a collaboration with a number of colleagues to design a comfortable 500 person space station
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
Aug 10, 2017
Cleaning up space rubbish means thinking like a gecko. Here’s why
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space
Aug 9, 2017
Did you know NASA is planning to capture an asteroid and put it in orbit around the moon?
Posted by Brett Gallie II in category: space
Aug 9, 2017
Chinese quantum satellite sends ‘unbreakable’ code
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: military, quantum physics, space
BEIJING (Reuters) — China has sent an “unbreakable” code from a satellite to the Earth, marking the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution technology has been realized, state media said on Thursday.
China launched the world’s first quantum satellite last August, to help establish “hack proof” communications, a development the Pentagon has called a “notable advance”.
The official Xinhua news agency said the latest experiment was published in the journal Nature on Thursday, where reviewers called it a “milestone”.
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Aug 9, 2017
The First Ever Blueprint for a Large Scale Quantum Computer has been Unveiled
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, computing, quantum physics, space
An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have today unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the most powerful computer on Earth.
This huge leap forward towards creating a universal quantum computer is published today (1 February 2017) in the influential journal Science Advances. It has long been known that such a computer would revolutionise industry, science and commerce on a similar scale as the invention of ordinary computers. But this new work features the actual industrial blueprint to construct such a large-scale machine, more powerful in solving certain problems than any computer ever constructed before.
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