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Robotic Repair System Could Rescue Us From Falling Satellites [Space Junk]As you probably already know, space is full of crap. It's not something the average Joe thinks about, but when the government starts blowing dead satellites out of the sky, it may be time to start worrying whether or not the gadget that brings soft-core pornography to your TV will end up crushing... |
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"Black Silicon" Advances Imaging, Solar Energywaderoush writes "Forcing sulfur atoms into silicon using femtosecond laser pulses creates a material called 'black silicon' that is 100 to 500 times more sensitive to light than conventional silicon, in both the visible and infrared spectrums, according to SiOnyx, a venture-funded Massachus... |
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Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes LiveBountyX writes "While America's attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Applications Office (NAO) &q... |
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Satellites to Predict Disease OutbreaksScientists hopt to use satellite data to predict cholera and other disease outbreaks. ... |
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Report Warns U.S. Could Lose Space-Spy DominanceAmerica is becoming so lousy at building spy satellites that "the United States is losing its preeminence in space," a Congressional intelligence report declares. What's worse, the decline comes as "emerging space powers such as Russia, India and China" are getting better and... |
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CO2 Monitoring Satellite, Virgin Galactic Team UpNASA is getting ready to launch a first-of-its-kind satellite that can measure the sources and sinks for carbon dioxide around the planet, in January 2009. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is an incredible new tool in the global effort to understand climate change that will fill in the gaps left... |
