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01-9-12 dj under Events , Space Exploration   Email This Post Credits: ASX The University of Toronto Astronomy and Space Exploration Society (ASX) announced its 9th annual symposium. The ASX symposium is an event that aims to educate the public on space exploration related topics. Past symposium speakers include the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, Anousheh Ansari, and Dr. Carolyn Porco. The event’s topic this year is Space 2.0: What’s Next... Read Full Story

10-3-11 dj under Microsatellites , Q&A , Spacecraft Design   Email This Post Credits: NASA Dr. Mason Peck, head of the Space Systems Design Studio at Cornell University, answered a few questions for OrbitalHub readers about the Sprite spacecraft. Peck earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at UCLA as a Howard Hughes Fellow. A team at the Space Systems Design Studio focuses on Sprite, a... Read Full Story

08-22-11 dj under Astronomy   Email This Post Credits: ASPERA When Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, he did not receive it for his contributions to the understanding of gravity through his theory of relativity… actually he received it for a paper he wrote in annus mirabilis 1905 on the law of the photoelectric effect. At that time, relativity and the new perspective on gravity offered by Einstein’s theory was so... Read Full Story

08-1-11 dj under Robotic Exploration , Space Exploration   Email This Post   Credits: NASA/JPL     Juno is a NASA spacecraft scheduled to start its journey to Jupiter in a few days. Juno will help scientists understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. While the dense cover of clouds helps Jupiter keep its secrets away from Earth observers, Juno will get close enough to Jupiter so that fundamental processes and conditions characteristic to... Read Full Story

07-26-11 dj under Space Exploration   Email This Post   Credits: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University     You know the frustration you experience when the new hit of your favorite band takes too long to download on your iPhone? Imagine 30 years from now (an optimistic estimate)… you are one of the happy colonists who work around the clock to build one of the first outposts on Mars.     At the end of your shift in the hydroponics, you... Read Full Story

06-26-11 dj under Robotics , Space Exploration , True North Strong   Email This Post   Credits: MDA   MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) is a Canadian company that was incorporated in 1969 by two British Columbia entrepreneurs, John MacDonald and Werner Dettwiler. The company offers a broad spectrum of services. Currently, MDA is developing a Space Infrastructure Servicing (SIS) spacecraft that would operate as a refueling depot for... Read Full Story

06-17-11 dj under Sustainability , True North Strong   Email This Post   Credits: Ronald C. Wittmann   There are numerous examples of successful implementation of mitigation measures, but also some not so successful, and even failures. There are two cases that I will mention, one from each camp.   Cosmos 954 was a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite (RORSAT) powered by an onboard nuclear reactor. At the time, the Russian designers... Read Full Story

05-31-11 dj under Robotics , Space Exploration , True North Strong   Email This Post   Credits: Pat Rawlings     Excavation is a necessary first step towards extracting resources from the lunar regolith and building human settlements on the moon. NASA’s Lunabotics Mining Competition is designed to promote the development of interest in lunar regolith mining, which is especially challenging due to the unique properties of the lunar regolith... Read Full Story

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04-26-11 dj under Sustainability   Email This Post   Credits: NASA   The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has implemented the UN Space Debris Mitigation guidelines in a number of standards.   The standards prescribe requirements that are derived from already existing international guidelines, but they capture industry best practices and contain specific actions to be taken by hardware manufactures to achieve compliance... Read Full Story