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A Japanese H-2B rocket launches the HTV-4 (Kounotori 4) robotic cargo ship toward the International Space Station on Aug. 4, 2013 Japan Standard Time (Aug. 3, 2013 EDT/GMT Call it one giant leap for robot kind: A small talking robot launched into space aboard a Japanese cargo ship Saturday (Aug. 3) to keep astronauts company on the International Space Station. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the humanoid Kirobo "robot astronaut" into orbit from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as part of nearly 3.5 tons of supplies and equipment to resupply the space station's six-person crew. Kirobo was packed inside Japan's unmanned HTV-4 (Kounotori 4) cargo ship when it launched into orbit atop the country's H-2B rocket at 3:48 p.m. EDT (1948 GMT), though it was early Sunday morning (Aug. 4) Japan Standard Time at the time of liftoff. The HTV-4 spacecraft will arrive at the space station on Aug. 9. "The flight goes very smoothly," a JAXA launch controller said as the HTV-4 spacecraft entered orbit. Kirobo was put through a series of zero-gravity and other safety tests before it was deemed ready for flight. Image posted June 27, 2013.Credit: Kibo Robot Project MEET KIROBO, THE TALKING ROBOT The Kirobo space robot is a diminutive mechanical person just 13 inches (34 centimeters) tall built to converse with astronauts on long space voyages. The robot, and its ground-based counterpart Mirata, are part of the Kibo Robot Project to study human-robot interaction technology. Kirobo speaks Japanese and is expected to talk to JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata when he arrives at the space station in November. Kibo, which means "hope" in Japanese, is the name of Japan's research laboratory module aboard the International Space Station. The name of Kirobo is a merging of Kibo and robot, project officials have said. Kirobo and Mirata were built by scientists and engineers at the by the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology. Both robots come equipped with voice-recognition and face-recognition technology, as well as a camera, emotion recognition and natural language processing. The Toyota Motor Corp., Robo Garage and the public relations company Dentsu Inc. are partners in Kibo Robot Project. "I want to help create a world where humans and robots can live together," Kirobo said when asked what its dream is by an official from Toyota Motor Corp., during the Kibo Robot Project's press unveiling in late June. You can follow Kirobo's mission online via Twitter using the name @Kibo robo.JAPAN'S SPACE DELIVERY Kirobo is just one piece of cargo among the thousands of pounds riding to the space station aboard Japan's HTV-4 spacecraft. Included among the 3.5 tons of cargo aboard are about 1,880 pounds (852 kilograms) or spare part and new experiment supplies to be attached to the station's exterior. "Among the items within Kounotori's pressurized logistics carrier are test samples for research experiments inside the Kibo laboratory, a new freezer capable of preserving materials at temperatures below -90 F, four small CubeSat satellites to be deployed from Kibo's airlock as well as food, water and other supplies for the station's crew," NASA officials said in an update. "The pressurized section also is delivering new hardware for the Robotic Refueling Mission to demonstrate robotic satellite-servicing tools, technologies and techniques." This is the fourth mission for JAXA's HTV program (the name is short for H-2 Transfer Vehicle) since 2009. The cylindrical disposable spacecraft are built to haul up to 6 tons of cargo to the International Space Station and then be discarded at the mission's end. HTV craft are called Kounotori (Japanese for "White Stork") and are about 33 feet long by 14.4 feet wide (10 by 4.4 meters). They carry supplies and equipment inside a pressurized section, which astronauts can access after the vehicle links up with the station. They also have an unpressurized section that can be accessed via the station's robotic to retrieve spare parts and other larger gear that can be stored on the orbiting lab's exterior. All JAXA HTV spacecraft are designed to be captured using by astronauts using the space station's robotic arm. After the HTV craft is grappled, it is then attached to an open berthing spot on the orbiting lab. NASA astronauts Karen Nyberg and Chris Cassidy will control the station's robotic arm in order to capture HTV-4 on Aug. 9. SPACE STATION'S ROBOT FLEET Japan's HTV spacecraft are just one of several robotic spacecraft that make regular shipments to the International Space Station. Russia's unmanned Progress spacecraft and the Automated Transfer Vehicles built by the European Space Agency also make periodic deliveries. Two private U.S. spaceflight companies also have billion-dollar contracts with NASA to provide robotic cargo deliver missions to the space station. The Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX has already launched two of 12 planned delivery flights for NASA using its Dragon space capsules as part of a 1.6 billion deal with the U.S. space agency. Unlike all other robotic cargo ships serving the station, SpaceX's Dragon capsules can also return hardware and experiments to Earth. NASA also has a 1.9 billion deal with the Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences Corp. for at least eight delivery flights using the company's new Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft. The Antares rocket flew its first test flight in April and is slated to launch the maiden Cygnus delivery mission to the space station in mid-September. The International Space Station is currently home to six astronauts representing three different countries and space agencies. Its Expedition 36 crew consists of three Russian cosmonauts, two American astronauts and an Italian astronaut representing the European Space Agency. NASA officials said the space station crew watched the HTV-4 launch via a live while soaring 260 miles (418 kilometers) over southwest Russia. The Japanese cargo ship will be captured via robotic arm on Friday, Aug. 9, at 7:29 a.m. EDT (1129 GMT) and be attached to the space station at about 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT). Courtesy of space.com The post Japan Launches Talking 'Robot Astronaut' Kirobo Into Space appeared first on Ancient Code.
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TO: Freedom of Information ManagerOffice of the Director of National IntelligenceWashington, DC 20511FROM: Larry W. Bryant3518 Martha Custis DriveAlexandria, VA 22302DATE: August 13, 2008John J. Callahan -- a retired U. S. Federal Aviation Administration official (and now also one of several recent UFO-cover-up whistleblowers) -- has publicly revealed his and other FAA employees' participation in a 1987 special meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington, D. C., to discuss and evaluate certain official evidence of the intrusive UFO encounter experienced on Nov. 17, 1986, by the Japanese flight crew (No. 1628) of a 747 cargo jet during that night in Alaskan sky. Also taking part in the 1987 meeting were representatives from President Reagan's scientific staff and three personnel from the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency. At the meeting's conclusion, one of the CIA attenders announced, "This event never happened; we were never here; we're confiscating all this data...."Accordingly, I hereby request that you furnish me a copy of the following CIA-received and CIA-generated records:(1) As pertain to the convening, attendance roster, briefings, minutes, and all other related documentation of the above-identified meeting;(2) As pertain to all other similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly occurring since Nov. 17, 1986, to date.Since I submit this request as a representative of the news media (principally as a columnist for the monthly newsstand periodical "UFO Magazine"), I ask that you waive all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling this request. For a sampling of my free-lance publication credits, see the author's blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com.By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.LARRY W. BRYANTDirector, Washington, D. C., Office of Citizens Against UFO SecrecyCopies furnished to:Editor, UFO MagazineChairman, Select Committee on Intelligence, U. S. SenateChairman, Committee on Science and Technology, U. S. House of Representatives More...See Also: "Is Anyone Accountable for Records?" "All UFO Secrets Must Be Disclosed" SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE ^ Grab this Headline Animator
Dr Carl Sagan- "I discover UFOs are real"
FIRST-UFOs.org- Well-known astronomer, astrophysicist and substantiation of original space science Dr. Carl Sagan not at home to Dr. J. Allen Hynek that he assumed UFOs were real. Sagan alleged to Hynek, that he knew UFOs were real but may possibly not talk publicly about the be connected with and possibly ability the detriment of scholarly prop.
(PRWEB) May 7, 2010 -- Well-known astronomer and astrophysicist Dr. Carl Sagan not at home to Dr. J. Allen Hynek that he assumed UFOs were real but avoided any persons statements to rail the detriment of scholarly research prop.
In an survey next research writer and maker Paola Leopizzi-Harris (http://www.paolaharris.com/home.htm) she told ZlandCommunications:
"My recollect is that Hynek alleged it was in the wings of one of the oodles Johnny Carson Tonight shows Sagan did. He directly alleged (to Hynek) in 1984, 'I discover UFOs are real, but I would not ability my research (Companionship) prop, as you do, to talk audaciously about them in persons.' "
This out of the blue vision about Carl Sagan, one of this century's most respected scientists and writers, has now been finished persons by Paola Leopizzi-Harris, a paramount socialize of Dr. Allen J. Hynek who worked next him from 1980 to 1985.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek served as a city dweller accurate psychiatric therapist to the U.S. Air Motivation Intention Near to the ground Duplicate from 1952 to 1969, initially prize a very vast and unimpressed viewpoint on no matter what coupled to the reality of UFOs. In one of his own reports he stated:
"I had started out as an vacant 'debunker,' prize vigorous joy in coming loose what seemed at first to be curious cases. I was the arch-enemy of relatives on high saucer groups and enthusiasts' who very dearly reception UFOs to be interplanetary." (Hynek, J. Allen. "The Hynek UFO Keep". Basin Publishing Co. 1977)
When going Intention Near to the ground Duplicate - the U.S. Air Force's pseudo-investigatory persons exchanges story line on UFOs, Hynek later wrote:
"Now, while, document which puts the UFO-U.S. government struggle in practically a new light has go round absent. The (UFO) authors carry finished effective use of documents released the length of the entity of the Room of News summary Act and other data which carry been finished absent to them... which show that the CIA and NSA protestations of ingenuousness and lack of receptivity in UFOs are vitality in need of equivocation."
Hynek went on to say: "For the government to stand for to espousal that UFOs are unreal in the face of the documents earlier than released and of other logical evidence on hand in this book is puerile and in a hint an disparage to the American the upper crust." ("The UFO Cover-up." Fire books, Simon ">CARL SAGAN ON JOHNNY CARSON'S "TONIGHT Be a sign of"
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A Soyuz-2.1b burn via a few satellites aboard has lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 8. The burn orbited seven satellites which sit astride a specially Meteor-M Nation remote sensing opening intentional for meteorological research and ozone and radiation monitoring in the near-Earth space. It weighs 2,778 kg and is built to occupation for five living. It was produced by the VNIIEM Homework and Labor Circle "Void Monitoring Systems, Know-how and Field and Electromechanical Complexes" which makes space monitoring and information power systems. The host of the Meteor-M 2 satellite was chief lay down for 2013 but consequently was tardy until June 28, 2014 and in the end stirred to July 8 due to ceremonial tribulations in the Fregat infusion.
The insignificant satellite Relek was produced by the Lavochkin Homework and Labor Bid which specializes in age group unmanned space exploration vehicles. The satellite is intentional for studying high-altitude electrical discharges, atmospheric phenomena and electron downpour from the Earth's radiation belts.
Russia's first private spacecraft DX1 prepared by the Moscow simple neatness Dauria Aerospace was built in the Skolkovo technology halt to guard the busy yourself of ships. This is the first such satellite in Russia.
The US satellite SkySat-2 guts tug and cope with data and relocate high-definition images and videos.
The British satellite TechDemoSat-1 guts guard the surface of the ocean floor and study slight space.
Other British craft UKube-1 is a 4 kg microsatellite. It guts weigh up the near-Earth space and its impact on spaceships.
The Norwegian satellite AISSat-2 is a 7 kg nano-satellite built to guard the busy yourself of ships and discriminate them.
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globe, az near highway 60 and 3rd street. first time i saw the bright orange lights it was at about 6:50 pm looking west above pinal mountains. No clouds, moon was up. Three large round bright orange lights in a horizontal line flashed on for about 2 seconds then fizzled out. then 2 orange lights flashed on then off, then one light on then off. they were above the horizon about 45degrees moving together (like on the side of a blimp) slowly from left to right (south to north) also saw jets flying north and south around the lights. thought the lights came from the jets, but they were so much bigger than the white flashing lights from the jets so i thought it was a ufo! my niece came out and we walked to the circle K on Highway 60 and 7th street. On the way back at 7:25 we saw and heard jets flying around. looking west again saw the three bright orange lights appear then dissappear, then two then one. My niece only saw the last light. we both saw Four jets in the shape of a square flew north made 180 degree turn together then east overhead, then turned north and back past me to the west. saw 4 to 6 jets circling the area for about 20 minutes. we got home, went inside and told my husband. Felt curious and a little scared. he came outside and we watched the jets making huge circles around Globe. i got my phone to make a video. walked out into the middle of the street looking south east at about 7:50 i saw them again, same sequence but this time they seemed closer. the orange lights went out like fireworks fizzling out. this time they were moving together slowly from right to left (south to north) I strained to see if there was anything there after the lights were gone, saw only small white lights from jets. it happened too fast to get a video. my husband walked out and saw the last light (just one orange ball light up and disappear). we stood outside for about 15 minutes and saw jets flying back and forth (north and south, then overhead to the west then back to the east.UFO NewsUFO News on FacebookEviland News Just For You
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A Dozen UFOs Near Whiteman AFBA Dozen UFOs Near Whiteman AFB By Roger Marsh - 14 min 19 sec ago A Missouri witness riding an Amtrak train near Warrensburg reported watching "12 bright, white orbs at airplane flight level moving in a varied pattern," according to March 21, 2013, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.The incident occurred about 1:35 p.m. on March 18, 2013. Warrensburg is a city in Johnson County, MO, population 23,218. The town is situated about four miles west of Whiteman Air Force Base. "I looked out the window (north side) at the view," the witness stated. "It was farmland fields. The sky was bright blue and there were large cumulus clouds as far as the eye could see. I typically look at cloud shapes and as I looked up I saw several bright, white objects flying and moving in a non-bird formation pattern." The witness had difficulty counting the objects. "Two would move one way and then two would move another way - all remaining in the loosely formed group. There were 12 of these things. They were much higher than birds of prey fly. They looked to be the height that aircraft fly and just behind them was a cumulus cloud." The witness believes that each of the objects were large. "The appearance of them was a very bright white and I have to think their size was large since I saw a vulture just seconds after they were out of view and its wingspan was about five feet across and these things were significantly higher than the vulture and appeared just as big." Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/missouri-witness-describes-12-large-ufos-near-whiteman-afb Credits: Google Maps Extra information about the article: Twelve bright objects were seen crossing the sky over Warrensburg, MO, about four miles west of Whiteman Air Force Base. View the here
