Monday, July 26, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
First solar sail powered craft launched
Japan's IKAROS spacecraft has already successfully deployed the first solar sail in space, but today it made the only first that really matters: it successfully captured the sun's rays with its 3,000-square-foot sail and used the energy to speed its way through space. Each photon of light exerts 0.0002 pounds of pressure on the 3,000-square-foot sail, and the steady stream of solar exposure has succeeded in propelling the nearly 700-pound drone
Friday, July 02, 2010
Statement of Ben Rich - former head of the Lockheed Skunkworks
We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity….. Anything you can imagine we already know how to do.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)