World’s First Ever HD Streaming Video Cameras On ISS

A Calgary company is building two new high-definition cameras that can stream images from the International Space Station and the company is called Urthecast, will make one high resolution and one medium resolution camera ready to operate next year. The project’s aim is to create an internet-based video streaming platform and allowing for online viewing of the footage being recorded in space. The system will actually consists of a pair of cameras, one still and one video, that will be mounted on the Russian arm of the station and this feeds won’t be your typical boring NASA……..

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Boeing Phantom Ray Aircraft

Boeing’s little delta wing is all grown up and flying on its own for the first time and drone took to the skies for 17 minutes over Edwards Air Force Base last week, proving its airworthiness and also showing off Boeing’s ability to quickly design and build a prototype advanced unmanned air system.Boeing will be running additional tests on the autonomous vehicle in the coming weeks in attempt to prep it for possible future surveillance and attack missions…………

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Adler Planetarium Grainger Sky Theater

Chicago’s Adler Planetarium to start projecting 8K by 8K images from this July, the most technologically advanced theater in the world and put cinema screens to shame.Grainger Sky Theater are about to show us what 64 megapixel images look like on a big screen and the picture inside the planetarium will come from 20 projectors hooked up to 45 computers processing data and also should provide the most lucid and captivating view unto our universe that one can get without actually exiting the Earth’s atmosphere………..

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The Best New Space Pictures

Stars glitter like dew on a cosmic rose in a new picture of interacting galaxies, released to celebrate the 21st birthday of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the picture shows the mirrors being prepped for cryogenic testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.he space shuttle Discovery deployed Hubble into orbit on April 24, 1990 and the infrared telescope will be 930,000 miles (1,500,000 kilometers) from Earth and will work at temperatures as cold as -390 degrees F (-234 degrees C)…………

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Panasonic AG-3DA1 Full HD 3D Camcorders

Panasonic’s AG-3DA1 camera will shoot 3D video and Robonaut vlogs on the International Space Station.Panasonic AG-3DA1 Full HD 3D camcorders is a full 1080p 3D video recorder with twin lenses and dual 2 megapixel 3MOS sensors………..

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Self-Strengthening Nanocomposite

Rice University Mechanical Engineers have developed a polymer based material that becomes stiffer when subjected to repeated stresses and it works much like muscles and bones that strengthen after working out……….

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VASIMR Plasma Rocket In Space

NASA and Ad Astra team up to test VASIMR plasma rocket in space and NASA is becoming besties with Ad Astra, makers of the VASIMR VX-200 plasma rocket.VASIMR VX-200 plasma rocket was assumed to be destined for use on the International Space Station because it requires far less fuel than conventional boosters…….

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