Posted on 07/30/2006 2:58:55 PM PDT by KevinDavis
BANGALORE: The ambitious "Chandrayaan" project of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was not just intended to land an Indian on the moon but to explore the vast mineral resources and abundant energy potential the earth's natural satellite had to offer, according to ISRO Satellite Centre Director K.N. Shankara.
Delivering the Dr. H. Narasimhaiah memorial lecture on "Innovative Space Technologies and Applications" at the Bangalore Science Forum here on Friday, Dr. Shankara said the planetary mission would explore the mineral wealth and energy sources such as Helium-3, which had the potential of solving future global energy demands.
Chandrayaan-I, he said, would see the Indian satellite orbiting 100 km above the moon and its terrain mapping stereo camera, with a high resolution of 10 metres, would explore the surface of the moon. A Deep Space tracking station was coming up near Bangalore to track the satellite, he said.
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Helium 3 is worthless without nuclear fusion technolgy. Of course, it's only 20 years in the future, same as it was 40 years ago.
Good. This is the kind of thing NASA should be doing.
Russia proposes mining helium-3 on Moon (commerce to space) ^
Posted by jb6
On News/Activism ^ 01/26/2006 12:37:47 AM EST · 38 replies · 857+ views
Interfex ^ | Jan 25 2006
MOSCOW. Jan 25 (Interfax) - Russia's Energia aerospace corporation is doing research on a project to mine helium-3, a potential fuel for future nuclear reactors, on the Moon and bring it to the Earth, and is due to finish the study before 2010, Energia President Nikolai Sevastyanov said on Wednesday. The Earth's known hydrocarbon reserves will last mankind "50 to 100 years with the present-day rate of consumption," Sevastyanov told a meeting at the Bauman State Technological University in Moscow. "There are practically no reserves of helium on the Earth. On the Moon, there are between 1 million and 500...
China announces plans to start astronaut training for next manned flight ^
Posted by ambrose
On News/Activism ^ 02/02/2004 4:14:21 AM EST · 7 replies · 65+ views
AP ^ | 2.2.04 | AP
China announces plans to start astronaut training for next manned flight Canadian Press Monday, February 02, 2004 BEIJING (AP) - Less than four months after it first reached the stars, China said Monday it would begin training astronauts in March for the country's second manned spaceflight - a mission that will likely include a crew of two, according to official media. The field of 14 astronauts will include Yang Liwei, who in October was catapulted into orbit as the lone astronaut aboard Shenzhou 5 for China's first manned space mission, the official Xinhua News Agency and the state-controlled Beijing Youth...
Moon plan to give U.S. control over energy sources ^
Posted by demlosers
On News/Activism ^ 01/26/2004 9:23:03 PM EST · 86 replies · 269+ views
The Hindu ^ | Monday, Jan 26, 2004 | Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW, JAN. 25. The United States is planning to use the Moon as a source of energy fuel that should help it establish ultimate supremacy on the Earth, a Russian newspaper said. An ambitious programme to build a manned base on the Moon by 2020 unveiled by the U.S. President, George W. Bush, earlier this month was not a re-election gimmick as American and international media described it, but a strategic economically project, the authoritative Izvestia newspaper said. A lunar base will enable the U.S. to bring back to Earth shiploads of Helium-3, a valuable fuel for thermonuclear reactors, which...
The Moon can provide electric power sufficient for 1000 years [Says Russian scientist] ^
Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism ^ 01/24/2004 1:42:28 PM EST · 46 replies · 4,430+ views
Pravda ^ | 01/24/2004 | Translated by: Andrey Nesterov
According to Academician and member of Council on Space of Russian Academy of Science Eric Galimov, the Moon can provide the mankind with electric power sufficient for 1000 years of use. "Scientists think that the Earth supplies of oil, gas and uranium will be exhausted in the 2150s, therefore currently the mankind is required to look for alternative sources of energy", he said in an interview to ITAR-TASS information agency. "Helium-3 is the most promising source of energy, its supplies in the upper layers of the Moon surface are about 500 million tons", the Academician said. There is no this...
Politics of a Lunar Colony: How to wean Earth from Oil to Helium-3 ^
Posted by rface
On News/Activism ^ 01/09/2004 7:32:52 PM EST · 22 replies · 239+ views
AP and also Special to SPACE.com | varried | Julie Wakefield, MARCIA DUNN
We've all heard, discussed or read the stories about how Bush is going to propose a new mission for NASA and the establishment of a colony on the Moon and then on to Mars - but I searched through the various posting of this story and saw nothing (very little) mentioned of the promise that HELIUM-3 holds as an energy source. I wonder why Bush hasn't held out the potential of HELIUM-3. The screaming about how oil based energy has harmed Earth is a talking point that Bush should use. "A big reason we are going to the Moon is...
There's Helium-3 In Them There Moon Hills ^
Posted by jaydubya2
On News/Activism ^ 12/21/2004 8:14:59 AM EST · 6 replies · 524+ views
Aero-News.net ^ | Tue, 21 Dec '04 | Unknown
And That Could Be Reason Enough To Return The current value of pure gold (Au), at today's price is $15,500 per kilogram. So consider: Helium-3 (He3) a rare particle on Earth but abundant on the Moons lunar surface (He3 is required for a fusion reactant - safe nuclear energy) has an energy value in today's dollars is $5.7 million per kilogram when compared to the value and energy potential of oil. On January 14, 2004 US President Bush announced a new vision for NASA that incorporated a human return to the Moon by 2020, follow-on exploration of Mars and other...
Mining The Moon ^
Posted by demlosers
On News/Activism ^ 12/28/2004 10:07:24 PM EST · 22 replies · 1,173+ views
popular mechanics ^ | October 18, 2004 | HARRISON H. SCHMITT
An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future. FUTURE MINERS: Robotic equipment would scrape and refine lunar soil. Helium-3 would be sent to Earth aboard a future space shuttle or perhaps be shot from an electric rail gun. A sample of soil from the rim of Camelot crater slid from my scoop into a Teflon bag to begin its trip to Earth with the crew of Apollo 17. Little did I know at the time, on Dec. 13, 1972, that sample 75501, along with samples from...
Moon gas could meet earth's future energy demands: scientists ^
Posted by cogitator
On News/Activism ^ 11/26/2004 1:30:35 PM EST · 27 replies · 1,091+ views
SpaceDaily ^ | 11/26/2004 | Agence France-Presse
Moon gas could meet earth's future energy demands: scientistsA potential gas source found on the moon's surface could hold the key to meeting future energy demands as the earth's fossil fuels dry up in the coming decades, scientists said Friday. Mineral samples from the moon contained abundant quantities of helium 3, a variant of the gas used in lasers and refrigerators as well as to blow up balloons. "When compared to the earth the moon has a tremendous amount of helium 3," said Lawrence Taylor, a director of the US Planetary Geosciences Institute, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. "When...
Moon gas could meet Earth's future energy demands: Scientists ^
Posted by Willie Green
On News/Activism ^ 11/26/2004 12:20:04 PM EST · 53 replies · 949+ views
Hindustan Times ^ | 11/26 | Jay Shankar (AFP)
For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Udaipur, November 26 -- A potential gas source found on the Moon's surface could hold the key to meeting future energy demands as the Earth's fossil fuels dry up in the coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Mineral samples from the Moon contained abundant quantities of helium 3, a variant of the gas used in lasers and refrigerators as well as to blow up balloons. "When compared to the Earth the Moon has a tremendous amount of helium 3," said Lawrence Taylor, a director of the US Planetary Geosciences Institute, Department...
Mining the moon for energy on Earth ^
Posted by Darkshadow
On News/Activism ^ 01/21/2004 4:51:15 PM EST · 17 replies · 439+ views
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | Jan. 19, 2004 | By SUSANNE QUICK
Mining the moon for energy on Earth Bush's space visions kindle zeal for project of Madison scientists By SUSANNE QUICKsquick@journalsentinel.com Posted: Jan. 19, 2004 Forget about drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison think all the energy we need for the next millennium can be found on the moon. UW-Madison Photo/Joe Koshollek Gerald Kulcinski, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering professor, displays the only helium-3 reactor in the world, which is in his lab at the university. Helium-3 litters the moon's surface, he says. The energy source, helium-3, literally litters the...
Why you heathen!! Fusion is "just around the corner"! All we need is a few trillion more dollars in research money to make it happen.
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