Um, I can't follow this article. This statement lost me, "This propulsion device uses a magnetron to produce microwaves for thrust" The magnetron I used produced microwave in the 8500 Mhz range out put into a wave guide. No thrust even though it was pulsed with about a megawatt power pulse. After that part, I couldn't catch up.
World’s most powerful telescope set to launch in 2018 NASA is building the biggest telescope the world has ever seen, and it will give scientists the opportunity to 'see' cosmic events that occurred 13.5 billion years ago - just 220 million years following the Big Bang. Named the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), it will be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, and is tipped to be fully operational within the next three years. "What the Webb will really be doing is looking at the first galaxies of the Universe," project scientist Mark Clampin told the press at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in the US this week. "We will also be able, with these capabilities, to look in very dark parts of the universe where stars are being born." The JWST includes a mirror 6.5 metres in diameter, which is three times the size of Hubble’s mirror, and it will have 70 times its light-gathering capacity. It will include four cameras and spectrometers, the latter of which is designed to take in light, break it down into its spectral components, and digitise the signal as a function of a wavelength for scientists to interpret. "We have sensors on board, equipment on board that will enable us to study the atmosphere of exoplanets spectroscopically, so we will be able to understand the composition of those atmospheres,” Matt Greenhouse, a JWST project scientist, told the press. "We can make big progress in the search for life." Unlike Hubble, which has spent the last 25 years orbiting Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope will go all the way out to one of the Lagrangian points - a set of five equilibrium points in every Earth-Moon System - 1.5 million kilometres (930,000 miles) away. This will keep it far enough away from the Sun so it’s not too hot, and will shelter it from radiation and "prevent it from being blinded by its own infra-red light," Jean-Louis Santini reports for the AFP. "It will follow Earth around the Sun over the course of the year. So it's in a Sun centre orbit instead of an Earth centre orbit," said Greenhouse. "Just as Hubble rewrote all the textbooks, Webb will rewrite [them] again." The telescope is expected to launch in October 2018. http://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-most-powerful-telescope-set-to-launch-in-2018
There was a Nova program on about a week ago about Hubble, fixing Hubble and this new telescope. Really interesting, catch it if you get a chance.
That article links to its main source: That's my favorite message board. I spend 10 times as much time there as here. I only lurk. You'll love this, conservatives. This Cuban lab is one of the 4 labs in the world that is doing these warp experiments. It got good results. Are any banana republics doing this? No. http://www.if.ufrgs.br/hadrons/HRojas1.pdf
About 3 times, I ordered materials from NASA. During Gemini 1965-66, I simply asked a question, and the PR department stuffed a brown envelope full of great color glossies of the capsule in orbit. What a bonanza. Around 1970, I received their catalogue of publications, and ordered the book of the decadal unmanned priorities selected by scientists, which I still have. The top priority of the 70s had been selected. It would be a large Space Telescope. ----------- When I worked at Boeing accounting a mile from its 15,000-employee Benaroya Space Center in Kent (a Seattle suburb), I lived alone in a singles apartment complex of 300 units. Most in the complex didn't work for Boeing, but a few did. One guy pinned a note on his door in about 1980. He was moving out because, it said, he had transferred to a new NASA project in another state. He would work on creating the lightweight skeleton for the new Space Telescope. ----------- Wednesday, April 29, 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the landing of STS-31, which launched Hubble out of its cargo bay on April 25--today. (The co-pilot was Charlie Bolden, currently NASA Administrator since 2009.) My ex-wife and I camped at Edwards AFB in our Volkswagen pop-top camper, with other space nuts in their RVs. Like any air field, it was windy all night, and the van bucked and woke me up a few times. At 6:40 AM, I watched Discovery sail over me at about 200 feet high. I was ready, but it surprised me because there was no warning noise as it jumped at us from over the horizon. I saw it for about 5 seconds recede into a pinpoint before it disappeared into the distance. The media said that it landed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-31
When were you there? I worked a mile away, at Kent Benaroya, in 1979-81. I lived in Kent next to its border with Des Moines. I drove the rush hour commute to U. of Washington night school, 1-hour each way on work nights, which was hell. I walked across the AF Academy in 1960 with my father as he spoke to cadets. Speaking of meeting a general, I met retired Jimmy Doolittle (of Doolittle's Raiders) and refused to shake his hand. He wasn't offended. In fact, the scoundrel laughed at me. ...Okay, it was because I was shy, about 7, and hid behind my father's legs. It was a chance encounter as we crossed paths, walking between buildings at Wright Patterson. The two laughed at me as my dad tried to get me to shake his hand. Doolittle had been the first president of the Air Force Association and my dad's brother had been a later one, so they were yucking it up while my little ego hid. I've already mentioned on this board that I saw Nikita Krushchev and John F. Kennedy in motorcades 4 years apart. Maybe someday I'll write those stories. How many Americans still living have a memory of seeing Krushchev? Must be under 5000, maybe under 1000.
Here is the prequel to the current thread, about the same discovery. http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/warp-speed-spacecraft-anyone.264966/
