Archive for the ‘space’ category: Page 887
Jun 30, 2017
Welcome: Welcome to the United Kingdom’s portal to the asteroid mining industry
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: materials, space
We are a new aerospace start-up company that aims to open up the possibilities and potential of an off-Earth commercial market. We aim to develop ground breaking technologies that will enable the extraction, processing and use of materials derived from the many millions of asteroids known to exist near Earth and further afield.
Jun 30, 2017
NASA to Test Fission Power for Future Mars Colony
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: nuclear energy, space
Jun 29, 2017
MIT space hotel wins NASA graduate design competition
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: habitats, space, transportation
The Managed, Reconfigurable, In-space Nodal Assembly (MARINA), developed by MIT graduate students, recently took first place at NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage Design Competition Forum. MARINA is designed as a habitable commercially owned module for use in low Earth orbit that would be extensible for future use as a Mars transit vehicle.
Image courtesy of the MARINA team.
Jun 20, 2017
Made in Space Talks ‘Teleporting’ and the Future of Space-Borne 3D Printing
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, space
Jun 19, 2017
NASA finds 10 new potentially habitable ‘Earth-like’ worlds
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: space
Jun 19, 2017
NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets — and 10 may be like Earth
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space
Jun 19, 2017
Researchers build first deployable, walking, soft robot
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space
(Phys.org)—Researchers have built the first robot made of soft, deployable materials that is capable of moving itself without the use of motors or any additional mechanical components. The robot “walks” when an electric current is applied to shape-memory alloy wires embedded in its frame: the current heats the wires, causing the robot’s flexible segments to contract and bend. Sequentially controlling the current to various segments in different ways results in different walking gaits.
The researchers expect that the robot’s ability to be easily deployed, along with its low mass, low cost, load-bearing ability, compact size, and ability to be reconfigured into different forms may make it useful for applications such as space missions, seabed exploration, and household objects.
The scientists, Wei Wang et al., at Seoul National University and Sungkyunkwan University, have published a paper on the new robot and other types of deployable structures that can be built using the same method in a recent issue of Materials Horizons.
