Incredible Technology

[Probe]

收集航天、太空上的一些新点子，偏向工程多一点，主要在space.com上找，看到好的点子就搬运过来。

1. http://www.space.com/28846-spiderfab-space-structures-incredible-technology.html
   使用 Spiderlike Robots 在太空中建造大型结构的新技术，可以考虑用在大型空间站的建造上。
2. http://www.space.com/28996-zero-gravity-cocktail-glass-tech.html 这个太有意思了，在太空失重环境下喝水用的杯子，使用了水表面张力的性质，3D 打印技术制造。
3. http://www.space.com/28999-nasa-deep-space-tech-grants.html NASA 支持的 12 项新技术，主要包括电推进、人类居住站、微小卫星三个方面。受到资助的公司有这些：（可以考虑加入设定什么的→_→）
   Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nevada
   The Boeing Company of Pasadena, Texas
   Dynetics, Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama
   Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International of Windsor Locks, Connecticut
   Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Denver, Colorado
   Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia
   Orbital Technologies Corporation of Madison, Wisconsin

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arxiv.org/abs/1404.7430
Coulomb drag devices: electric solar wind sail propulsion and ionospheric deorbiting

利用太阳风带电粒子的电场力可以作为推进，另外当飞到某个行星/卫星大气层的时候，可以用其产生的电场力来减速。

长这样，一堆电线往外成个网：

[Probe]

http://www.space.com/29306-cubesats-deep-space-exploration.html
微小卫星在深空探索中的应用。包括了三种任务，Lunar Flashlight, Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout and BioSentinel。

http://www.space.com/29359-squid-rover-nasa-niac-space-tech.html
NASA 资助的 14 种未来新技术，包括 ：

1. Squid Rover 用于欧罗巴的探索；
2. 使用集中的太阳光采集小行星上水的方案；
3. 风力机器人用于探索木星和土星（能源为气态行星的磁场和强风）；
4. 用于探索月球永阴陨石坑的水和挥发物的小型机器人；

完整列表：

• Virtual Flight Demonstration of Stratospheric Dual-Aircraft Platform (William Engblom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
• Thirsty Walls: A New Paradigm for Air Revitalization in Life Support (John Graf, NASA's Johnson Space Center)
• A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By (Michael Hecht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haystack Observatory)
• In-Space Manufacture of Storable Propellants (John Lewis, Deep Space Industries)
• DEEP IN Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration (Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Triton Hopper: Exploring Neptune's Captured Kuiper Belt Object (Steven Oleson, COMPASS Conceptual Design Team)
• Soft-Robotic Rover with Electrodynamic Power Scavenging (Mason Peck, Cornell University)
• Seismic Exploration of Small Bodies (Jeffrey Plescia, Johns Hopkins University)
• CRICKET: Cryogenic Reservoir Inventory by Cost-Effective Kinetically Enhanced Technology (Jeffrey Plescia, Johns Hopkins University)
• APIS (Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies): 100MT Of Water from a Single Falcon 9 (Joel Sercel, ICS Associates Inc.)
• WindBots: Persistent In-Situ Science Explorers for Gas Giants (Adrian Stoica, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• Thin-Film Broadband Large Area Imaging System (Nelson Tabirian, BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.)
• Aperture: A Precise Extremely large Reflective Telescope Using Re-configurable Elements (Melville Ulmer, Northwestern University)
• CubeSat with Nanostructured Sensing Instrumentation for Planetary Exploration (Joseph Wang, University of Southern California)
• Cryogenic Selective Surfaces (Robert Youngquist, NASA's Kennedy Space Center)