Space: Telerobotics offers third way for exploration - ElectronicsWeekly.com
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Space: Telerobotics offers third way for exploration ElectronicsWeekly.com To do this, NASA would have to station astronauts at lunar Lagrangian point L2 - a gravitationally neutral area of space which lies about 60000 kilometres beyond the moon, in line with Earth. Mars is a bigger challenge, of course, as is Venus, ... |
Published on Thursday 24th of May 2012 02:20:19 AM
First instrument ready for James Webb Space Telescope - Sen - Space exploration network
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 Sen - Space exploration network | First instrument ready for James Webb Space Telescope Sen - Space exploration network The observatory will travel to a point four times further away from Earth than the Moon. There it will sit in sync with Earth at what is called a Lagrangian Point that is gravitationally stable with us as we orbit the Sun together. "First Light" Camera Ready for Space |
Published on Thursday 24th of May 2012 02:20:19 AM
Mining the Sky for Resources? - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
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Mining the Sky for Resources? Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Oh, we'll start small and aim them toward the Moon or Lagrangian Points (eg L5), giving plenty of time to discuss issues of law and care in space. But these fellows need to come up with just the right tone of prudence, avoiding the kinds of lines ... |
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Celebrity Billionaires Plan to Mine Asteroids for Profit -- and Prestige - ThomasNet Industrial News Room
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Celebrity Billionaires Plan to Mine Asteroids for Profit -- and Prestige ThomasNet Industrial News Room Tow the asteroid back to the Earth-Moon Lagrangian point L2 (a point of orbital equilibrium between the Earth and the Moon)? Put it into an orbit around the Moon? Put it into orbit around Earth? Or, the most expensive option, bring it down to the ... |
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The Triway into Space Declaration - The Space Review
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 The Space Review | The Triway into Space Declaration The Space Review These include highly eccentric Earth orbits (HEEOs) approaching Earth-Moon L1 (EML1) and potential orbits connected to Lagrangian libration points. If one includes Mars's orbiting moons, Phobos and Deimos, a more holistic picture emerges for possible ... |
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It's a bug - no it's a feature - of general relativity - Science 2.0 (blog)
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It's a bug - no it's a feature - of general relativity Science 2.0 (blog) In this blog I hope to get to a well known issue in general relativity, namely that gravitational energy needs to be defined for a spacetime volume instead of at a point. The goal is to sketch the Riemann curvature tensor and how it is related to this ... |
Published on Thursday 24th of May 2012 02:20:19 AM
DARPA Looking to Recycle Space Junk - VR-Zone
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 VR-Zone | DARPA Looking to Recycle Space Junk VR-Zone In short, Planetary Resources hopes to capture a near-Earth asteroid in the next few years and bring it into an orbit either around the moon or at one of Earth's lagrangian points. A space-based servicing capability would be greatly beneficial to a ... |
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