2013年4月10日水曜日

NICER

2013-04-08
Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer 
will be launched in 2017.

 NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.

PI is
Keith Gendreau

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/nicer/nicer_about.html



was successfully installed on the ISS
https://www.nasa.gov/nicer



2013年4月6日土曜日

TED elon_musk

http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spacex_solarcity.html

Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.