The latest NASA ScienceCast reports on combustion studies on the ISS:
Researchers experimenting with flames onboard the International Space Station have produced a strange, cool-burning form of fire that could help improve the efficiency of auto engines.
The Planetary Resources fund-raising for the ARKYD public access space telescope has reached 10,350 Backers and $916,582 pledged towards the $1,000,000 goal with 12 days to go. That’s a tremendous accomplishment for a space Kickstarter campaign but it actually seems a bit disappointing considering how fast the pledges were coming in during the first couple weeks. It looks like they will have to work hard just to make sure they reach the $1.0M goal, much less meet their $2M stretch goal to fund exoplanet searches.
Kickstarter campaigns often have a surge in the final few days as efforts intensify to meet the deadline. So it’s still likely they will beat the $1M goal and it will be interesting to see how far past it they get.
Follow their money raising rate at ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources :: Kicktraq.
The latest Spacevidcast show is now available online: Not Because it’s Easy – Spacevidcast Live 6.17 – Spacevidcast –
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First off, you can grab George’s book, “Not because it’s easy” on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Not-Because-Eas…
The ARKYD Kickstarter can be found here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1…
The wiki article for this episode can be found here: http://wiki.spacevidcast.com/en/6.17
In Space News we have China’s Shenzhou-10 launch and docking, ATV-4 docking, sending your own message to space, Planetary Resources and Congress has no love for NASA asteroid missions.
George Schellenger joins us to talk about his new book and gangs around in After Dark to also talk about Project Blue Pride.
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KONE Elevators of Finland has developed a super-strong, lightweight carbon fiber based cables that allow for much higher skyscrapers and are the first step towards fibers capable of space elevators: Lifts and skyscrapers: The other mile-high club: A new lightweight lift cable will let buildings soar ever upward – The Economist.
See also KONE UltraRope – The benchmark in high-rise technology and innovation
Brittany Manning points me to her excellent videos of space imagery combined with the words of Carl Sagan and the music of Daniel Hope: