ESAIL: Electric SAIL propulsion technology was presented in late 2014 The ESAIL EU FP7 project (2011-2013) developed laboratory prototypes (TRL 4-5) of the key components of the E-sail. The project involved five countries, nine institutes and had a EU contributed budget of about 1.7 million euros E-sail construction • Positive tethers (10-20 km length made …
Elon Musk is the CEO of space launch company Spacex and Tesla the successful electric car company. Those companies are making major progress. Spacex expects to produce at least 180 rocket engines this year, with that number set to increase to 240 next year, and 400 in 2017, Shotwell told Reuters in an interview late …
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill. “This temporary increase in methane — sharply up and then back down — tells us there must be some relatively localized …
Theory and Experimental Work on Mach Effect Thrusters (MET) presentation. How do METs Mach Effect Thrusters work? • METs depend on “Mach’s principle” being correct. • Mach’s principle is the proposition that all inertial forces – the forces of reaction in Newton’s third law of mechanics – are produced by the gravitational action of all …
Here is a wikipedia list of the provinces and states with the biggest GDP. Zhejiang, Henan and Hebei are provinces in China with $460-607 billion in GDP in 2013. China’s faster growth should move them past Switzerland in about 2016 to 2022. Here is the 2013 list of nominal GDP for countries according to the …
Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen discussed the challenges of energy density, cost, reliability and lifespan for batteries enabling longer range electric mobility. Volkswagen spends roughly 13 billion Dollars on research and development each year. Winterkorn sees increasing the specific energy of lithium-ion cells to as much as 380 Wh/l …
By merging two seemingly conflicting theories, Laura Mersini-Houghton has mathematically proven black holes can never come into being in the first place. Black holes are thought to be the densist matter in the universe. Mersini-Houghton’s theory combine Hawking’s radiation theory with a fundamental law of quantum theory that states no information from the universe can …
Atoms of a new super-heavy element — the as-yet-unnamed element 117 — have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard periodic table. Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory located in Darmstadt, Germany, say they have created …