Day: August 5, 2018
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Searching for NEOs
If an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, they will most likely see it first. We’re talking about NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, which has now been in existence for 20 twenty years. CNEOS makes over 90 percent of the near-Earth asteroid and comet discoveries. It all began on March 11,…
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SOLAR POWER STATIONS, IN SPACE?
Is capturing and transmitting solar power from space close to being reality? The idea of capturing solar energy in space where the sun always shines and transmitting it back to our planet seemed not currently feasible and to be the science of Star Trek. The technology might be further along than you think. Early in…