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Gail Porter on 4kW Electro Scooter

A few nice ION ENGINE images I found: Gail Porter on 4kW Electro Scooter Image by Revolve Eco-Rally Electricycle City 4.0L Image by Revolve Eco-Rally

VASIMR Flux Probe

Plasma ion flux instrumentation being put to use in the exhaust plume of the Ad Astra Rocket Company’s VASIMR VX-100 plasma rocket. Additional plasma is created along magnetic field lines intercepting the collectors’ surface as secondary electrons are flung back upstream. Video Rating: 3 / 5

Li-ion Motors in NASA

www.li-ionmotors.com — Li-ion Motors at NASA, interview with Bruce Chesson, PM Space Center. NASA Video Rating: 0 / 5

Dawn Journey Above Vesta Asteroid 2011 NASA JPL 2min 720HD

video for embedding at scitech.quickfound.net JPL story: www.jpl.nasa.gov PASADENA, Calif. – A new video from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn’s framing camera, used to produce the visualizations, will help scientists determine the processes that formed Vesta’s striking features. […]

Porsche 918 Spyder

Some cool ION ENGINE images: Porsche 918 Spyder Image by Chris Wevers Opel Flextreme Image by gmeurope

Q&A: ion drive and vasimr rockets?

Question by Random Questions: ion drive and vasimr rockets? I fully understand how each of these systems operates and I don’t want to get into detail about it, but I wish to know some other information about them. The first is i know that they could travel longer than a conventional rocket but are they […]

1981 – Educational – NASA at Work – The Electric Propulsion Rocket

Brought to you by www.VideoArcheology.com Follow us on Twitter @ http Find more NASA at Work @ www.youtube.com Do you have a favorite memory pertaining to this video artifact? Please share your comments with us. Can you recognize or identify any of the actors or personalities? Please let us know. Do you know any of […]

ENGINEERING HELP NEEDED?

by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE Question by Cynthia Gomez: ENGINEERING HELP NEEDED? solar sails—large sheets of material that would work by reflecting photons. Since the momentum of the photon would be reversed, an impulse would be exerted on it by the solar sail, and—by Newton’s Third Law—an impulse would also be exerted on the sail, providing a force. […]

Is it possible to leave orbit without going extremely fast?

by FlyingSinger Question by Joseph: Is it possible to leave orbit without going extremely fast? I was curious if it was possible to engineer a plane/shuttle hybrid that could take off from a runway and then switch to non-chemical fuels when it reached a certain altitude. (VASIMR or others)? Basically, is it possible to leave […]

Spacecraft NASA Is Orbiting Massive Asteroid.mp4

ABC News – PASADENA, Calif. July 19, 2011 (AP) NASA’s Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 1.7 billion-mile journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space agency said Monday. The entry into […]

Auroral mechanism

Auroral mechanismAuroras result from emissions of photons in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 miles), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of solar wind and magnetospheric particles being funneled down and […]

Q&A: PHYSICS HELP WANTED ASAP?

Question by Cynthia Gomez: PHYSICS HELP WANTED ASAP? solar sails—large sheets of material that would work by reflecting photons. Since the momentum of the photon would be reversed, an impulse would be exerted on it by the solar sail, and—by Newton’s Third Law—an impulse would also be exerted on the sail, providing a force. In […]

PHYSICS PROBLEM HELP?

by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Question by John: PHYSICS PROBLEM HELP? solar sails—large sheets of material that would work by reflecting photons. Since the momentum of the photon would be reversed, an impulse would be exerted on it by the solar sail, and—by Newton’s Third Law—an impulse would also be exerted on the sail, […]

NASA Now Minute: Nanotechnology and Space

In this NASA now program, Dr. Mike Oye describes the scale of nanotechnology, how properties of matter change and how nanowires could be used in future space exploration. NASA Now Minutes are excerpts from a weekly current events program available for classroom use at the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus. Video Rating: 5 / 5