Military
space policy in 2012 "
... it might be interesting to think about what the next US president
is going to face in 2012. Geopolitically the world will probably not
look that much different. What is certain is that the laws of physics,
and above all the law of gravity, within the Earth-Moon system and
beyond will not have changed ... Operationally Responsive Space will,
by 2012, have produced a small number of useful satellites, but will
not have revolutionized the field. After a major embarrassment caused
by the publication of a satellite image that directly contradicted
the words of at least one major world leader, commercial remote sensing
satellites will have improved and will multiply as more and more politicians
will want to have their own private access to overhead imagery ...
" Taylor Dinerman, thespacereview.com (site accessed July
2008)
2012:
No Planet X "
... I'm sorry, but the "facts" behind the Planet X/Nibiru
myth simply do not add up. Don't worry, Planet X will not be knocking
on our door in 2012 and here's why …
universetoday.com (site
accessed May 08)
See also: Stitchiniswrong.com
An analysis of Zechariah Stitchin's
scholarship in which the author of this site puts several counters
to his argument about the approach of Nibiru (site accessed Aug
08)
See
also: 2012
and Planet X Bulletin "Surviving
2012 and the Planet X (Nibiru) flyby will depend on your ability to
think your way through it and that process begins with knowledge.
Whether you can afford to build a bunker or can barely afford a shovel.To
help you speed your own research efforts, we feature hundreds of research
links ..." 2012planetX.com (site accessed Mar 08)
See also: Planet
X, 2012 and More "They
found something large at the edge of our solar system ... 5-part
video series. As the co-author and publisher of Planet X Forecast
and 2012 Survival Guide, Marshall believes that 2012 will be a survivable,
evolutionary event.
See also: Extraterrestrial
section on this site
NASA's
new supercomputer aims for 10 PFLOPS by 2012 "SGI
and Intel Corp. are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that
they expect will pass the PFLOPS barrier next year and hit 10 PFLOPS
by 2012. A petaflop is a quadrillion floating-point operations per
second ... "We're
designing our next-generation rocket for getting to the moon and then
eventually to Mars," said Bill Thigpen, engineering branch chief
at NASA. ...According to SGI, the system will have more than 20,800GB
of memory, which is equal to the memory in average 10,000 desktop
PCs." computerworld.com (site accessed May 2008)
Transiting
Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) may be launched in 2012 "MIT
scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say
could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire
sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to
cross in front of bright stars. The system could rapidly discover
hundreds of planets similar to the Earth ...Google ...(has) ... provided
a small seed grant to fund development of the wide-field digital cameras
needed for the satellite. Because of the huge amount of data that
will be generated by the satellite, Google has an interest in working
on the development of ways of sifting through that data to find useful
information ..." io9.com (site accessed Mar 08)
British
mission to the moon by 2012 "Britain
could be sending its first mission to the Moon within five years after
it won the backing of Nasa. There
are plans to send an unmanned probe into lunar orbit by 2012. The
probe would fire four suitcase-sized sensors down to explore below
the lunar surface under a proposal called Moonlite. The
sensors are darts called "penetrators". Once embedded under
the surface, instruments in the penetrator would listen out for "Moonquakes"
..." news.sky.com (site accessed Dec 07)
See also: China
to launch remote-controlled lunar rover in 2012 "China
is planning to launch a remote-controlled lunar rover in 2012 to explore
the moon for three months as the second phase of the country's lunar
ambitions, said the chief scientist of China's lunar exploration yesterday..."
shanghaidaily.com (site accessed May 2007)
See also: Russia
to conduct first flight to the Moon in 2011-2012 "Russia
plans to conduct its first manned flight around the Moon in 2011-2012,
the president of a leading spacecraft company said Thursday, RIA Novosti
news agency reports.
'The
Energia Rocket and Space Corporation plans to explore the Moon in
three stages: a Soyuz spacecraft flight to the Moon, the construction
of a permanent base on the Moon (from 2010 to 2025), and the industrial
exploration of space around the Moon,' Nikolai Sevastyanov said at
the 5th Airspace Congress in Moscow.
He went
on to say that the main goals of the lunar exploration would be to
conduct astrophysical research of its surface, to transfer environmentally
unfriendly industries from the Earth to the Moon, and to extract raw
materials, including helium-3, to meet the increasing energy demand
on the Earth." Mosnews.com (site accessed Sep 2006)
See
also: "... the
unmanned flight will include a lunar orbiter that will fire 12 penetrators
across diverse regions of the Moon to create a seismic network, which
will be used to study the Moon's origin. After
firing the penetrators, the mother ship will deliver a polar station,
equipped with a mass spectrometer and neutron spectrometer, to the
surface. The objective of the station is to detect water ice deposits
in the polar zones of the Moon..." Rian.ru
(site accessed Dec 2006)
Space hotel sees 2012 opening ""Galactic
Suite", the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for
business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world
in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel
will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a
three-day stay ..." reuters.com (site accessed Aug 2007)
India
to set up Asia's largest telescope in 2012 "
... Asia's largest telescope "will enable us to see four to five
times deeper into space than before, and receive high-quality images,"
said Professor Ram Sagal of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational
Sciences ..." RIA Novosti (site accessed Aug 2007)
2012
–due to simultaneous polar reversal the gamma for the earth’s
core and sun can come close to 4/3 – what happens if the core
collapses? " ... Traditional physics
expects nothing to go wrong for another 6 billion years. But some
computer simulation studies are showing signs of trouble in the core
of the earth ... " indiadaily.com (site accessed Jul 2007)
Space
tourism in 2012 "EADS
unit Astrium said it plans to launch a space tourism programme next
year with a view to starting 90-minute, sub-orbital flights from 2012-2013.
The
price of the flight will be 'around 150,000-200,000 euros ..."
Forbes.com (site accessed June 2007)
See also: Marc
Newsom Designs Spaceship Planned for Orbit in 2012
blog.wired.com (site accessed June 2007)
Solar
storm warning This
week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense
solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led
by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than
the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could
produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar
Max of 1958. Nasa (site accessed Mar 2007)
See also: Next
solar storm cycle will start late "The
next 11-year cycle of solar storms will most likely start next March
and peak in late 2011 or mid-2012 – up to a year later than
expected – according to a forecast issued today by NOAA’s
Space Environment Center in coordination with an international panel
of solar experts."sec.noaa.gove (site accessed May 2007)
See also: Table
of different scientists' predictions as to timing and intensity of
solar storms members.chello.be
(site accessed May 2007)
See
also: Sunspot
activity to peak in 2012 A
new computer prediction says that the next cycle of sunspot activity
will be late but 30% - 50% stronger than the last cycle, peaking in
2012. Richard Behnke, director of the US National Science Foundation's
Upper Atmospheric Research Section says: "This prediction suggests
we're potentially looking at more communications and navigations disruptions,
more satellite failures, possible disruptions of electrical grids,
blackouts, and more dangerous conditions for astronauts." (site
accessed Mar 2006)
See also:
2010 to 2012 will have massive
Sun Storms and Solar flares causing massive communication malfunction
and mobile phone blackouts This
article states that the peak will be in 2010. IndiaDaily.com (site
accessed Jan 2007)
Article no longer accessible.
The Abysmal A
semi-scientific site containing a vast amount of information about
world calendars, lunar cycles, constellations, celestial rhythms,
solar cycles, history of time reckoning. TheAbysmal.wordpress.com
(site accessed Mar 2007)
Russian Shuttle Debut in 2012 "The
Russian Kliper space craft will make its debut flight in 2012, with
full operations to the International Space Station (ISS) ..... the
descent vehicle is to be reusable and to have glider-like properties..."
Nasaspaceflight.com (site accessed Jan 2007)
See
also: Novosti
Russia hopes to launch reusable spacecraft in 2012 (site
accessed Feb 2006)
2012:
India's Mars Odyssey Indian
space scientists are planning a 6-8 month probe of Mars looking at
a range of features including secrets hidden below the ground. Hindustan
Times (site accessed Nov 2006)
First Turk in space in 2012 Russia
has decided to send the first Turkish astronaut into space into 2012.
One hundred candidates will be considered. English.Sabah.com (site
accessed Nov 2006)
Details
of the 2012 transit of Venus Astronomical
information on where to watch the transit. www.venus2012.nl
(site accessed Sep 2006)
Russia
to launch mobile space labs "Russia
plans to launch two laboratory modules that would orbit near the International
Space Station beginning in 2012." NewScientistSpace.com (site
accesed August 2006)
NASA
to launch Radiation Belt Storm Probes in 2012 "Four
university teams will share $100 million to provide experiments and
supporting hardware for a future NASA mission to study near-Earth
space radiation. This type of radiation is hazardous to astronauts,
orbiting satellites and aircraft flying high altitude polar routes
... Called the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, the two-spacecraft mission
is scheduled for launch in 2012. The mission will study how accumulations
of space radiation form and change during space storms. Space weather
storms involve constantly changing magnetic and electric fields and
gusts of radiation particles that produce intense energy. This energy
can black out long-distance communications over entire continents
and disrupt the global navigational system." NASA (site accessed
August 2006)
China
plans exploration of the sun in 2012
"CHINA plans to conduct a 3-year exploration of the Sun with
three satellites beginning from 2012, the peak year for Sun energy,
which is expected to be the first study of its kind, Xinhua news agency
reported today. The
exploration will focus on Sun-Earth space environment to offer data
for space disaster alerts and develop the country's deep space exploration,
said Tu Chuanyi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Tu
said that the project might reveal how the solar system influences
the Earth's environment, which might improve the ability to forecast
weather." Sina English (site accessed July 2006)
NASA
Transits of Venus
Astronomical information relating to the rare transits
of Venus, one of which is scheduled for 2012. NASA
(site accessed Feb 2006)
Crew
Exploration Vehicle (CEV) in space by 2012
NASA Glenn Research Center will help oversee development of a spacecraft
that will return astronauts to the moon, a project worth at least
$2 billion and possibly hundreds of jobs over the next decade.
The Cleveland center will oversee development of the CEV's service
module, which would provide most of the power and propulsion for the
crew capsule as it heads to the International Space Station and, later,
to the moon and back. NASA wants it in space by 2012. Ohio.com
(site accessed May 2006) Article
no longer accessible
Nasa
is moving up its target year for the shuttle successor, the Crew Exploration
Vehicle (CEV), from 2014 to no later than 2012. iol
(site accessed Feb 2006)
China
plans unmanned moon landing by 2012 Orlando
Sentinel (site accessed April 2006)
Article
no longer accessible.
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