Sentences with phrase «space based solar»

I have not decided against space based solar, yet.

«The magnitude of the looming energy and environmental problems is significant enough to warrant consideration of all options, to include revisiting a concept called Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) first invented in the United States almost 40 years ago.

This goes for «space based solar power» schemes as well.

Not exact matches

Such quick and easy access to space is likely to transform our society, heralding the development of everything from space - based solar power stations to asteroid mining.

He further revealed that Japan is presently exploring deeper and safer into the solar technology by preparing to deploy a space — based solar power collector by 2030.

The building will feature over 80,000 feet of mixed - use manufacturing and commercial office space and will be powered by solar, geothermal and wind energy to produce as much energy as it consumes on an annual basis.

Anticipating this next round of solar monsoons, the National Academy of Sciences recently released a study based on a workshop in summer 2008 that broadly addressed many of the socioeconomic ramifications of space storms.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.

Antti Pulkkinen, who leads NASA's «Solar Shield» satellite - based detection system at the Goddard Space Flight Center, said the cloud of ionized particles from Tuesday's violent «coronal mass ejection» will largely miss Earth, giving some North American residents a glimpse of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, this weekend.

He believes he has a business plan that can fly: integrating space - based solar and communications capabilities.

Dreamy - eyed physicists have effused about the potential of stellar power, also known by the more prosaic name of space - based solar power, or SBSP, since the 1960s.

In the past few years, space probes, improved ground - based telescopes, and orbiting observatories have shown us close - up pictures of hundreds of objects in our solar system.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has a working prototype for a space - based solar energy collector and distributor that would beat the cloudy - day problem.

In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.

More specifically, they will be limited to the solar energy that is normally absorbed by their planet — anything extra, including space - based solar, is out.

Space - based coronagraphs are more widely used in space weather research because of their wide - field solar views that are not interrupted by cloud cover or Earth's rotaSpace - based coronagraphs are more widely used in space weather research because of their wide - field solar views that are not interrupted by cloud cover or Earth's rotaspace weather research because of their wide - field solar views that are not interrupted by cloud cover or Earth's rotation.

«If someone was planning to build a future space base on one of these Solar System objects, for example to seek after signs of life, I would suggest they take an extra long ice bore and their fishing equipment,» jokes Jesper Lindkvist.

Solar storms can at times create radiation damage or introduce errors in satellite or spacecraft computer processors, causing them to function unpredictably, malfunction (sometimes permanently) or «misbehave» in other ways, Anderson says, adding that much of this activity goes unreported to the public because, particularly in commercial space - based systems, operators tend to be very reticent to admit they have had a problem that might discourage investors.

Peter Swan sees space - based solar power as the ultimate savior of a world starved for energy, and the space elevator as the only way to economically place the required infrastructure in space.

«It is the first time the technology has been available to make detailed, space - based measurements of both the sun and the solar wind under [the] extreme conditions» of an extended solar minimum, she says.

None of the conference participants could be accused of thinking small, whether the discussion is about a 100,000 - kilometer tether made of carbon nanotubes, space - based solar power, or man's ultimate destiny to seed the galaxy.

Last year, scientists announced that seven of those teensy dust particles — stuck in the Space Age gel — seem to come straight from the solar system's original embryonic cloud, based on initial analysis.

But before visiting the stars, the technologies needed to get there should be tested on a shorter mission within the Solar neighbourhood, says Claudio Maccone, a space scientist at Alenia Spazio, a space technology company based in Italy.

Tornado Terminator In 1998, the late physicist Bernard Eastlund suggested that we might control twisters with a space - based, solar - collecting microwave generator, which he called the Thunderstorm Solar Power Satelsolar - collecting microwave generator, which he called the Thunderstorm Solar Power SatelSolar Power Satellite.

These images are complementary to space - based telescopes, like NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which takes images primarily in ultraviolet light and does not have the capacity for the high - speed imagery that can be captured aboard the WB - 57F.

Space - based Solar Power offers a potential future energy source that is clean, fully renewable, and that provides baseload power.

Solaren isn't the only company pursuing space - based solar.

On the basis of magnetic data collected in real time and a chain of suitable numerical models it will eventually prove possible, rather as in conventional meteorology, to forecast space weather and prevent the impact of solar storms on Earth.

The European Space Agency (ESA) w3 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, to develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industSpace Agency (ESA) w3 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, to develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industspace, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, to develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industspace environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, to develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industspace, to develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industries.

Much clearer pictures of the sun and a «fire - hose» stream of data are now being gathered by NASA's space - based Solar Dynamics Observatory, Harvey said.

The Aditya - L1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be a unique space - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the Sun from the vantage location of the first Sun - Earth Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from ESpace Research Organization (ISRO) will be a unique space - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the Sun from the vantage location of the first Sun - Earth Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from Espace - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the Sun from the vantage location of the first Sun - Earth Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.

As some of these satellites have also been in space for more than twenty years, the technology is outmoded and the longevity limited for these space - based solar monitors.

Our laboratory experiments show that methyl isocyanate can indeed be produced on icy particles under very cold conditions that are similar to those in interstellar space This implies that this molecule — and thus the basis for peptide bonds — is indeed likely to be present near most new young solar - type stars,» said Niels Ligterink at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands.

The European Space Agency (ESA) w2 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industSpace Agency (ESA) w2 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industspace, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industspace environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industspace, develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industries.

To carry out novel investigations based on spectro - polarimetric observations with ground - based and space solar telescopes, with emphasis on the study of the magnetic field in chromospheric and coronal structures and its coupling with the underlying photosphere.

For now, Pevtsov, Panasenco, and Martin, and other solar physicists, will continue to mine data from space - and ground - based telescopes for common symptoms that lead to more reliable prediction tools.

Solar physics is currently very healthy given the success of recent space - based missions.

The ground - based observations complement solar observations from space.

Hinode (meaning «Sunrise») is a space - based observatory launched by the Japanese space agency JAXA in 2006, and since then it has changed our perception of the inner dynamics of the solar corona.

Abstract: We studied solar - like oscillations in 115 red giants in the three open clusters NGC 6791, NGC 6811, and NGC 6819, based on photometric data covering more than 19 months with NASA's Kepler space telescope.

(b) Observational study of space weather using the Solar Magnetic Activity Research Telescope (SMART) and the international ground - based solar observation network (CHSolar Magnetic Activity Research Telescope (SMART) and the international ground - based solar observation network (CHsolar observation network (CHAIN).

Based on the series of novels by James S.A.Corey, this space opera is set 200 years in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, which is divided and on the brink of war.

Search the solar system, travel through time and space, and infiltrate enemy bases in Gyruss, Time Pilot, Rush»n Attack, and Scramble.

Search the solar system, travel through time and space, and infiltrate enemy bases in Gyruss, Time Pilot,

-- RTS - style base building — FPS - style skill - based shooting — Gravity - enabled 3D space combat — 4 weapon specialisations — Conquer planets and build multiple bases — Competitive multiplayer matches — Unique experimental weapons, including moon bombardment, solar flares and black holes

You go around on large scale space based environment discovering some hidden secrets of the solar system.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989JBIS…42..567E Space - based solar shield to offset greenhouse effect British Interplanetary Society, Journal (ISSN 0007 - 084X), vol.

All I ask here is that readers be open to discussion of space - based solar power when they are considering our energy future.

The work is an estimate of the global average based on a single - column, time - average model of the atmosphere and surface (with some approximations — e.g. the surface is not truly a perfect blackbody in the LW (long - wave) portion of the spectrum (the wavelengths dominated by terrestrial / atmospheric emission, as opposed to SW radiation, dominated by solar radiation), but it can give you a pretty good idea of things (fig 1 shows a spectrum of radiation to space); there is also some comparison to actual measurements.

This shouldn't have us think, however, that there isn't a long - term need to have space - based solar power.