Showing posts with label probe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label probe. Show all posts

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Could this thing make the "Sports model of Area-51" possible to operate?

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What if an annihilation reaction replaces the laser in that high-power ion-accelerator? The annihilation from the brightest light in the world. And that thing can use for making the next-generation aerial vehicles that are using plasma-ion thrusters for making them to flight. 

The graphene-laser-based high-energy ion accelerator can use to make the aerial vehicle act like the legendary "Area-51" sports model UFO. The idea is that the entire craft can be covered by using the graphene layer and the laser ray would replace by using the annihilation. 

That thing makes it possible to create the craft. Which the entire surface can cover by the ion thrusters. That thing makes it possible to create a craft. That can change its flight direction freely. The thing is that a high-power ion accelerator can be used as an ion engine, as I wrote recently. 

If researchers really will mount this kind of high-energy accelerating system in the probe. That operates at an asteroid belt or in the atmosphere of the other planets makes those probes extremely highly-maneuverable. 



Diagram 1)"(a) Schematics of the experiment. By irradiating a large-area suspended graphene target (LSG) with the ultra-intense J-KAREN laser, energetic ions are generated. (b) and (c) show the Raman spectrum and microscope image of graphene, respectively. (d) and (e) show the schematic drawing of stack detector using solid-state path trackers and Thomson parabola spectrometer (TPS), respectively. (g) and (f) show the typical data from TPS and stack, respectively. Credit: 2022 Y. Kuramitsu et al. Robustness of large-area suspended graphene under interaction with intense laser. Scientific Reports" (ScitechDaily, Graphene and an Intense Laser Open the Door to Extreme Energetic Ion acceleration)


But there is the possibility that this kind of system can be used in the Earth's atmosphere. That thing makes it possible to create an aerial vehicle that is extremely high-maneuverable. And also that thing makes it possible to create a stealth system that cannot be seen on the radar. 

The problem is how to make antimatter for the system? One version is to use a powerful magnetic field. That thing allows the system to pull protons or electrons through the thin gold layer. That thing turns some of those particles into anti-protons or positrons. And then that thing can use to make the extremely powerful light. 

The purpose of that light is to pump energy to the ions that are traveling in the system. The diagram of that graphene-based ion accelerator is above this text. And the explanations for the diagram are taken from ScitechDaily.com. 


https://scitechdaily.com/graphene-and-an-intense-laser-open-the-door-to-extreme-energetic-ion-acceleration/


Diagram 1) https://scitechdaily.com/graphene-and-an-intense-laser-open-the-door-to-extreme-energetic-ion-acceleration/


https://thoughtsaboutsuperpositions.blogspot.com/

Friday, February 11, 2022

The rocket that brings samples from Mars got its contractor. And that is Lockheed-Martin corporation.



Image 1)" This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface of Mars collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech" (ScitechDaily/NASA Selects Lockheed Martin Space To Build Rocket To Retrieve First Samples From Mars)


Lockheed-Martin took the contract for creating a rocket that brings the first samples from Mars. That launch will be the first that brings samples from other planets. The purpose of the mission is also to collect data for the first manned Mars mission.

 But that launch from another planet is same way remarkable as helicopter flight at Mars atmosphere. The rocket from Mars to Earth is the pathfinder for more difficult missions like bringing water samples from the icy moons of Jupiter. 

When we think about missions in the distant future. Those missions focused on more distant objects and planets like Neptune. There is needed a new type of technology to make the mission successful. 

Things like artificial intelligence are needed. To make the independently operating probes that can take the most interesting samples. The helicopter probes can mark places where their plasma spectrometers detect things like chlorophyll molecules. Or the independently operating helicopter can take samples from those points. The system that takes samples from Mars to Earth consists of three independent systems. 

The helicopter, the Perseverance rover, along with other rovers, and of course, the rocket are tools for that system. That rocket sends samples to Earth. And it can be similar to MGM-51 Lance tactical missile from the past. 




Image 2) MGM-52 Lance


And maybe some kind of laboratory vehicle where is more multi-use systems like scanning tunneling microscopes for pre-select samples that will load to rocket. Those samples are sent to Earth or Moon laboratories. That laboratory might connect to the launch platform of the rocket.

But that rocket must carry the fuel inside it for returning to Earth. Or it can use the electrolysis for breaking water on Mars. But that kind of system requires water. So the fuel and oxygen must load to rocket on Earth. The rocket itself can bases technology that is developed for tactical missiles like MGM-52 Lance or Pershing. The question is does that rocket use liquid or solid fuel. 

The moon-based laboratories must not be manned. The remote control modules can involve similar systems with BL-5 level laboratories. But on the Moon, those samples are not polluted. The remote-control systems make those modules easy to operate from Earth. 




Image 2)Daedalus spacecraft concept.


But of course, those samples can take to BL-5 laboratories that are needed to keep them sterile. If Earth bacteria infects those samples. They can cover or destroy the remains of life like Martian bacteria fossils.

The system that will travel to those distant planets is the probe that is controlled with highly sophisticated artificial intelligence. There might be man-looking robots onboard that are fixing errors and damages of those probes. The journey to Neptune takes a very long time and robot craft would not require that any person must stay years in the space. 

The probe for outer planets might look like Daedalus-probe that planned to send to Alpha Centauri. But for technical reasons that famous theoretical study project remains as the papers and drawings. Maybe someday in the future, that kind of plan turns to real space systems. And maybe that day is closer than we even think. If ten years ago somebody would say. Someday NASA will get samples from Mars to Earth that thing would claim pure fantasy. 

The system would be very independent. And it can select its samples itself. The capacity for independent operations is a key element for successful missions in Kuiper Belt. Those probes must select the target in seconds if they want to catch small asteroids that might be from other solar systems. After catching objects that seem interesting. The probe would put those asteroids in a cargo room and send them to Earth. 

And that is the final training for interstellar probes. The interstellar space probe is the thing that travels tens of years to stars. The technology that those missions require is similar. To that the probes that operate at the Kuiper belt require. 


https://scitechdaily.com/mars-ascent-vehicle-nasa-selects-lockheed-martin-space/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-31_Pershing


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-52_Lance


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus


Image 1)https://scitechdaily.com/mars-ascent-vehicle-nasa-selects-lockheed-martin-space/


Image 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-52_Lance


Image 3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus


https://thoughtsaboutsuperpositions.blogspot.com/

Saturday, December 18, 2021

For the first time probe has touched the Sun.

 

 For the first time probe has touched the Sun. 




NASA Parker probe has been dive in the Sun. That probe used interesting technology that helped to keep it cool. There could be possible to make the probe dive even deeper by using a magnetic field that pushes the plasma away from the probe. That would decrease the interaction between the probe and the plasma that comes from the Sun. 

The reason why Parker was sent to its mission. Is that it should collect data from the solar wind. The solar wind is high-energetic plasma that can destroy spacecraft. But there is another reason why close contact with the Sun is needed. The mission of probes like Parker is to collect data for the fusion tests. The power source of the Sun is fusion reaction. And the close contact with the Sun is the thing that can help to model the conditions that are making fusion possible. 

In some visions, the probes like Parker can collect antimatter from the solar atmosphere. The probe would travel to the sun.  Then that antimatter collector dives deep into the corona. Then it could open the solar sail and solar wind can push the probe back to Earth. 

Antimatter production is extremely expensive. And the probe could create it by putting the beta particles of the solar wind impact with gold leaf. Antimatter can use in fusion reactors to start the fusion reaction. 





The antimatter is creating an extremely high energy load. And that energy can use for starting and maintaining fusion reactions. The antimatter can make annihilate with material around the plasma-ring at Tokamak-type reactors. And that energy dose can start a fusion reaction. And it can raise the temperature after certain periods. The use of antimatter is to boost the fusion reaction in the fusion reactors. 

When the fusion reactor will start to turn too cold small dose of antimatter can turn the temperature to the needed level. The problem with the fusion rector is that the needed temperature is higher than in the Sun's nucleus. In the fusion reactors, the pressure of the nucleus of the sun must compensate by rising temperature to so high level. That the heat replaces missing pressure.  

The use of antimatter is one of the answers to how to create enough energy for starting self-maintaining fusion. But the high price would limit the use of antimatter for that purpose. So antimatter can collect from space. 


https://scitechdaily.com/parker-solar-probe-for-the-first-time-in-history-a-spacecraft-has-touched-the-sun/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak


https://likeinterstellartravelingandfuturism.blogspot.com/


Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The fleet of mini-probes can travel in the solar systems quite soon.



The new type of space mission might consist of a fleet of miniature probes. And the larger probes that are coming to an asteroid are marked by mini probes. Those systems are operating by using highly advanced artificial intelligence. And they can make many decisions by themselves. 

The NASAs "Psyche" probe is traveling to the asteroid belt and operates using solar-powered ion engines. But the successor of that interesting probe might be something else. It can be the swarm of miniature probes that are traveling in the solar system. 

The fleet of "mini Psyches" can operate in the internal solar system. The idea of the miniature space probes is similar to drone swarms. They are simpler, cheaper, and more limited than full-scale probes. But they can cover a larger area. The miniature probes can operate along with the full-scale probes. 

And search for things like minerals. The miniature space probes are the tool that can observe multiple asteroids in the same mission. The sensors of those systems might be magnetometer, laser-spectrometer which has combined with lidar and laser scanner. And a CCD camera that is connected with a spectrometer. The idea is that this kind of system are using so much integrated technology as possible. 

The sensors of those miniature systems are limited but things like laser systems can integrate into one package. The lens is turning the laser into an effective spectrometer. And when the lens is removed from the route of laser ray that system can vaporize material from the asteroid's surface. The chemical combinations of that material can observe by using the spectrometer. The same laser system can use as a communication tool. And it can also mark the place where the miniature probe is. 

The smaller probes can search objects for the larger-size probes that have more versatile sensors. The idea is that the system is operating by using both types of probes. A large group of simpler probes is searching for the most interesting asteroids from the solar system. And then the larger probes are driving themselves to that asteroid. 


https://scitechdaily.com/mini-psyches-give-insights-into-mysterious-metal-rich-near-earth-asteroids-that-could-one-day-be-mined/


https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-to-explore-unique-asteroid-for-clues-to-early-solar-system/


https://kimmoswritings.blogspot.com/


Friday, March 9, 2018

What kind of lifeforms might be live on Enceladus?


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https://futurism.com/alien-life-saturn-moon/

There is a moon named Enceladus orbiting a Saturn, what maybe has alien life form. This life form might exist because this moon has liquid water under its icy surface. And the liquid water is possible because the tidal power of Saturn keeps it warm. If we will find the living organisms in that place, that organism might be similar, what is found near “black smokers” at the bottom of the ocean. Those cells animals can synthesize oxygen in their bodies, and they don’t need free oxygen for their living.


But if there would be organisms what uses photosynthesis, their form might be like long seaweeds, what uses erupting icy geysers to raise very high from this moon surface. The eruption of geyser would pull those cell lines upwards, and that would help them to get enough light for photosynthesis. This is only thinking about this alien life form, and we are not sure is there an alien life in that icy moon.


And if there is an extraterrestrial life, we must ask next question about the life of that moon This question is, could that organism be a threat to us? There could be many things, what could influence that thing. One is that organism might be “Gaia”. This means that there are only one species of bacteria or amoeba in this moon. And that kind of organism might be very sensitive because it doesn’t need to fight for live space. So if those icy geysers would drive those cells high enough, would some of them travel near Earth. If those cells would be like covert lifeform, what has silicon cod, that organism might survive alive in empty space. But this is only theory.


There is one very small possibility that those cells could be travel to our home planet. It would be the scenario, that one of those geysers would drop some cells to the orbiter of Saturn, and then there would become the comet, what hits to those cells. When this comet or asteroid comes near Earth, that could deliver those cells to Earth. This scenario would not be probable, and if those cells could be live, that case would need the thing, that the asteroid or comet would turn around, and the shadow of this rock would cover them of the ultraviolet radiation of Sun.


But there is a possibility that there is no life in that life form on that moon. And it will give us an interesting opportunity to use Enceladus as a laboratory or as a "living lab", where the human race can test and analyze the evolution. In this case, to this moon would send the probe, what has tiny bacteria in the capsule. And when those bacteria would release to that moon, would the scientists discover, what evolution will make, if those organisms are in the fully isolated place. This test would mean that Enceladus would be polluted by biological organisms. Enceladus would be suitable for that kind of action because it is so far away from Earth. But this is the only vision, not the real experiment. But it is possible to send the probe to that moon, and deliver the organism to that surface.

Sources:

https://futurism.com/alien-life-saturn-moon/


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http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/what-kind-of-lifeforms-might-be-live-on.html

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