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The Italian Space Agency (ASI) has released its “Strategic Vision Document 2010-2020 ‘(DVS). This is the first time that Italy has such a program whose time horizon extends over ten years, and therefore in line with the duration of conventional design, production and exploitation of space programs. This document also provides an update on the current status of the UPS and more specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of Italy in the space field, and the objectives that follow for the next decade.
Italy occupies an important place in space in Europe, particularly within the European Space Agency (ESA) which is the third largest funder with 13% of the total budget, behind France (28%) and Germany (20%). Today, ASI has been involved in over 50 projects with more than twenty countries, most in partnership with ESA, but also with the United States, Russia, Japan and India. Italy can also count on a solid industrial fabric, represented mainly by fifty companies, including four major companies share the majority of sales in the sector: Thales Alenia Space (47% of total revenues), Telespazio , Avio and Selex Galileo, Finmeccanica past three spot among their shareholders. The three largest firms combined (Thales Alenia Space Italia, Telespazio and Avio) totaled 77% of the turnover of the sector. With a total of approximately 5,000 employees in the space, Italy ranks third in Europe.
Among the strategic objectives defined in DVS, we note in particular the ambition of Italy to assert itself as a world leader in the field of Earth observation and the desire to revive a national activity in the field of telecommunications.
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Create a wheel able to face the worst nest-holes that humans have been observed so far n is one of the challenges facing aliens a team of students and professors from McGill University in Montreal loaded to the point and test a prototype wheel that will travel the new vehicle light lunar exploration.
The new lunar rover Canadian design will be used in lunar exploration missions to transport various payloads, equipment and crews, in addition to enabling the execution of various functions such as drilling and trenching, the integration of handling devices and related tools, as well as to accommodate the vision systems and communication at the cutting edge of technology.
The mechanical engineering professor Peter Radziszewski leading the team in a market of $ 11.5 million awarded to the company Neptec Design Group by the Canadian Space Agency.
“My students are as proud as I am to be part of the team Neptec Rover, because it gives us the opportunity to refine our previous prototype wheel adapted to travel on the moon, while providing a valuable and innovative space program Canada, “says Professor Radziszewski.
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The “Exploring the Physics of Inflation”, coordinated by the Observational Cosmology and Instrumentation of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) has been selected by the Ministry of Science and Innovation as one of seven projects Consolider-Ingenio 2010 from more than 100 proposals submitted. The call aims at cooperation between researchers and groups, and gives four million euros for its development over the next five years.
“Exploring the Physics of Inflation” is the observational study of the physics of the inflationary period the universe through data obtained from the cosmic microwave background by the experiment QUIJOTE (QU and I Joint Tenerife) and the Planck satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA). To this end, built a telescope and two instruments to 42 GHz, which will mean a substantial improvement both in the frequency range as the sensitivity of QUIJOTE experiment, located in Izaña Observatory (Tenerife).
This experiment, which currently consists of a telescope and two instruments under construction, will measure the polarization of the temperature fluctuations cosmic microwave background (residual radiation from the Big Bang, which occurred about 13,700 million years).
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The “Exploring the Physics of Inflation”, coordinated by the Observational Cosmology and Instrumentation of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) has been selected by the Ministry of Science and Innovation as one of seven projects Consolider-Ingenio 2010 from more than 100 proposals submitted. The call aims at cooperation between researchers and groups, and gives four million euros for its development over the next five years.
Exploring the Physics of Inflation” is the observational study of the physics of the inflationary period the universe through data obtained from the cosmic microwave background by the experiment QUIJOTE (QU and I Joint Tenerife) and the Planck satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA). To this end, built a telescope and two instruments to 42 GHz, which will mean a substantial improvement both in the frequency range as the sensitivity of QUIJOTE experiment, located in Izaña Observatory (Tenerife).
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The construction project of solar telescope in Ladakh progresses. This project called National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) was designed and is maintained by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) in Bangalore.
The cost of this project is estimated at Rs 150 crores or 24.9 million euros. In the words of Hasan Siraj Director of the IIA will allow the telescope to study the microscopic structures of the sun. Solar telescopes are specially developed to study the sun, they are part of the largest telescopes fixed. They are equipped with a flat mirror that allows you to track the sun and returning it to the telescope.
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Recently, the theory precedes observation in the sciences of the universe.
It allows to make predictions, which can be verified only when the technical means used to achieve sufficient accuracy. Like the gravitational lensing predicted by Einstein in 1936 and observed only in 1979, he became a scientist has the rare opportunity to see proof of his hypothesis in his lifetime.
So while the team of Peter Goldreich predicted the presence of oscillations in the year of Saturn’s B ring in 1985, it took the sending of a probe to prove it. The latter, named Cassini in reference to the Franco-Italian astronomer who was the first to observe four of Saturn’s moons in the seventeenth century, began its journey through the solar system in 1997 and is currently orbiting Saturn.
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The exploration of the Moon Is Still For Some Actors The Space, a goal as a dream.
Therefor, despite The Complete Abandonment Of The Constellation program by President Obama, Who foresaw The Return of American astronauts on the moon by 2020, a group of NASA engineers did “not admitted defeat.
Directed by Stephen Altemus at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Their project, Entitled “Project M”, AIMS to send a humanoid robot of great dexterity on the Moon, According To Them In A Thousand Days, and this one from January 2010. This alternative, Much less expensive Than The original plan of 150 one billion dollars, Would in this case less than $ 200 million.
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The scientific division of the Japanese Space Agency ( ISAS ) has just completed a campaign of experiments using balloons. It ran from August 16 to September 8, based on Taiki (Hokkaido ) in northern Japan . Scientists have conducted three scientific experiments and tested on two occasions to new technologies for future balls .
The agency began by conducting tests on a new type of engine has been developed to prepare propulsion technologies for future aircraft suborbital . The experiment was carried out through the dish versatile BOV that is usually used to recreate the conditions of microgravity when dropped at high altitude. This time that capsule carried a demonstrator breathing engine called “S -engine . ” The S -engine (thrust of 1.2 kN ) is intended to validate flight selected technologies developed in the program ATREX ( turbojet pre- cooled ) . This load of 794 kg was dropped from 30 km altitude , allowing the demonstrator to reach Mach 2. This experiment was initially scheduled earlier this year but was delayed due to weather .
flight was an opportunity to continue a program that takes place over several years at the ISAS . The experiment is to collect samples from the stratosphere in order to compare the long term. The gathering took place at an altitude ranging between 14.6 and 30 km and a total of twelve samples have been collected.
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Some rocks sedimentary contain metal particles that can tell us much about our past , “said site inauka.ru , citing the recent work of a Russian geologist on what he himself described as “events of cosmic dust ” .
microspheres magnetite , characterized by their surface and their size ( from 1-2 mcm to 40-60 mcm ) have been discovered in sedimentary rocks by Oleg Kortchaguina , a doctoral student in geological and mineralogical sciences and member of the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences . In addition to these microspheres, we find in these fractions , magnetic particles of various shapes made of iron and copper alloys , zinc and nickel , iron and nickel , as well as fused particles of magnetite.
The absence of contamination substantial of titanium and the shape almost perfect of the microspheres studied testament to their cosmic origin . The presence among the microparticles studied, native iron and iron alloy and nickel without oxygen also attest . The microspheres having essentially no nickel , they most likely a origin meteorite and belong to the category of dust meteoritic , particles of iron and alloys are either iron original meteorite , or micrometeorites.
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The Japanese government announced the removal of constraints on the timing of launches from the base of Tanegashima, having reached an agreement with the fishing community in the region of Kagoshima.
The two major launch bases and Japanese Uchinoura Tanegashima are located near Kagoshima in southern Japan. The surrounding population lives mainly from fishing and fishing lobbies were traded during the installation of the base in the 1960 agreements with the government disallowing launches than 190 days per year over two periods of the year (June to September and November to February), with the possibility to make some shots off period after obtaining a waiver.
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Italy occupies an important place in space in Europe, particularly within the European Space Agency (ESA) which is the third largest funder with 13% of the total budget, behind France (28%) and Germany (20%). Today, ASI has been involved in over 50 projects with more than twenty countries, most in partnership with ESA, but also with the United States, Russia, Japan and India. Italy can also count on a solid industrial fabric, represented mainly by fifty companies, including four major companies share the majority of sales in the sector: Thales Alenia Space (47% of total revenues), Telespazio , Avio and Selex Galileo, Finmeccanica past three spot among their shareholders. The three largest firms combined (Thales Alenia Space Italia, Telespazio and Avio) totaled 77% of the turnover of the sector. With a total of approximately 5,000 employees in the space, Italy ranks third in Europe.
The new lunar rover Canadian design will be used in lunar exploration missions to transport various payloads, equipment and crews, in addition to enabling the execution of various functions such as drilling and trenching, the integration of handling devices and related tools, as well as to accommodate the vision systems and communication at the cutting edge of technology.
It allows to make predictions, which can be verified only when the technical means used to achieve sufficient accuracy. Like the gravitational lensing predicted by Einstein in 1936 and observed only in 1979, he became a scientist has the rare opportunity to see proof of his hypothesis in his lifetime.
The agency began by conducting tests on a new type of engine has been developed to prepare propulsion technologies for future aircraft suborbital . The experiment was carried out through the dish versatile BOV that is usually used to recreate the conditions of microgravity when dropped at high altitude. This time that capsule carried a demonstrator breathing engine called “S -engine . ” The S -engine (thrust of 1.2 kN ) is intended to validate flight selected technologies developed in the program ATREX ( turbojet pre- cooled ) . This load of 794 kg was dropped from 30 km altitude , allowing the demonstrator to reach Mach 2. This experiment was initially scheduled earlier this year but was delayed due to weather .
microspheres magnetite , characterized by their surface and their size ( from 1-2 mcm to 40-60 mcm ) have been discovered in sedimentary rocks by Oleg Kortchaguina , a doctoral student in geological and mineralogical sciences and member of the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences . In addition to these microspheres, we find in these fractions , magnetic particles of various shapes made of iron and copper alloys , zinc and nickel , iron and nickel , as well as fused particles of magnetite.
The two major launch bases and Japanese Uchinoura Tanegashima are located near Kagoshima in southern Japan. The surrounding population lives mainly from fishing and fishing lobbies were traded during the installation of the base in the 1960 agreements with the government disallowing launches than 190 days per year over two periods of the year (June to September and November to February), with the possibility to make some shots off period after obtaining a waiver.