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Showing posts with label Interstellar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interstellar. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Interstellar Travel. Part-Two.

New Discovery!

A British designer has invented what was considered ten years ago and Electro-Magnetic engine, which defies the laws of gravity explained by Sir Isaac Newton? This was thought to be another crank working in a shed, because his engine would do nothing here on Earth?

But once the machine is in a vacuum, it does something that defies all the known ideas we have on gravity? It works by  being bounced off the magnetic field of the Earth and is powered by the radiation, that already exists in Space.

I don't think they are ready yet to build one, in case they might loose control of it?

But now Star Trek is not as science-fiction as it was, and the development is continuing with the hope to fly one in Space soon? They have already worked out at NASA that a smaller object would move much faster than a larger one, but this new propulsion system may give Interstellar travel much sooner than we thought was possible?

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Interstellar Travel. Part-One.

Our nearest Neighbour.

Much of space science is currently being employed into the idea of sending a Laser powered sail spacecraft on a thirty year trip to our nearest neighbouring star, which is four light-years away. With our current technology it would take us two hundred years plus to get there and back.

At this time the only manned Space ship is the International Space Station, which is three-hundred miles up making a 45-minute circle of the Earth. The Russian Progress robotic and U.S. Dragon supply vessels are the only way of getting up and down, since the retirement of the ageing former Space Shuttles.

The next objective in to get a manned mission to Mars by 2035 or establish a southern-hemisphere Moon base, as a first step by 2028?

Prof. Stephen Hawking's is very keen to encourage the Solar sail project, but some believe it would be wise to test it out first within the known confines of the solar system? making a four hour journey to Pluto, instead of the ten years it took the New Horizon probe. 

It also remains unclear what is beyond Pluto in the Kuiper belt, which the second phase of the New Horizons will arrive at in 2019. One of the six believed moon type objects has already been spotted and a new planet Niku is on a 110 degrees plane between Neptune and Pluto. Meanwhile this small world is blue and is travelling backwards to the normal pattern of all the other planets rotation around the Sun.

The problems with Interstellar travel is the possibility of another rocky domain well beyond the Kuiper Belt that would be like a mine field to exit the Solar system, there is also believed to be another planet known as X9 somewhere out there with a very large gravity field?