interstellar Archive

Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara, Directed Energy for Interstellar Study Starting at 26 minutes of this video. They are making progress with laser locking over kilometer distances. They are making 2 gram starchip prototypes. they are looking at …

Proposals using large light sails like the Starshot Breakthrough, require mirrors with lateral sizes of 4 × 4 m2, thicknesses of 0.05 lambda, reflectivities of 90 %, ppm level optical absorption and a total mass of only 1 gram. Photonics …

Stable flight of a laser sail is an essential requirement of beam-driven propulsion. Centauri Dreams talked to James Benford about work towards stable beam flight. It places considerable demand upon the shape of the sail and beam. James Benford takes …

The Carnival of Nuclear Energy blogs has changed its name to Nuclear Energy News Weekly. 1. Neutron Bytes – Dan Yurman – An Up and Down Week for Developers of Advanced Reactors In Washington, DC, the Third Way, a think …

A Pokemon Go ad from 2015 shows a crowd gathering in Time’s square to battle for a Myutwo. In real life hundreds (perhaps a thousand) gathered when a Vaporeon spawned in Central Park. Life imitating a commercial. Other real life …

A child exoskeleton frame helps children to walk and aims to prevent the setting in of sclorosis which results from a loss of agility. The technology has been jointly patented and licensed by CSIC and its spin-off, Marsi Bionics Furthermore, …

The Army is fast-tracking an emerging technology which gives combat vehicles an opportunity identify, track and destroy approaching enemy rocket-propelled grenades in a matter of milliseconds. Called Active Protection Systems, or APS, the technology uses sensors and radar, computer processing, …