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Hypersonic Plane on the Drawing Board

VOA News

November 04, 2013

The successor to the world's fastest plane is in the works,

according to Lockheed Martin.

The hypersonic SR-72, when operational, could boast speeds up to

Mach 6, six times the speed of sound, and double the speed of the

now-retired SR-71 Blackbird, which has held the speed record

since 1976.

In a statement, Lockheed Martin said the "son of Blackbird" would

be so fast that "an adversary would have no time to react or

hide." The plane is likely to be unmanned.

"Hypersonic aircraft, coupled with hypersonic missiles, could

penetrate denied airspace and strike at nearly any location

across a continent in less than an hour," said Brad Leland,

Lockheed Martin program manager, Hypersonics. "Speed is the next

aviation advancement to counter emerging threats in the next

several decades.

Many of the advancements planned for the SR-72 come from the

rocket-launched Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2)

developed by Lockheed Martin and the Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency.

The HTV-2 research and development project was designed to

collect data on the technical challenges of hypersonic flight:

aerodynamics, aerothermal effects,  and guidance, navigation and

control.

The SR-72's design incorporates lessons learned from the HTV-2,

which flew to a top speed of Mach 20, or 13,000 mph, with a

surface temperature of 3500°F.

The company said the SR-72 could be operational by 2030.

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<EOT>

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VOA News

November 04, 2013

The successor to the world's fastest plane is in the works,

according to Lockheed Martin.

The hypersonic SR-72, when operational, could boast speeds up to

Mach 6, six times the speed of sound, and double the speed of the

now-retired SR-71 Blackbird, which has held the speed record

since 1976.

In a statement, Lockheed Martin said the "son of Blackbird" would

be so fast that "an adversary would have no time to react or

hide." The plane is likely to be unmanned.

"Hypersonic aircraft, coupled with hypersonic missiles, could

penetrate denied airspace and strike at nearly any location

across a continent in less than an hour," said Brad Leland,

Lockheed Martin program manager, Hypersonics. "Speed is the next

aviation advancement to counter emerging threats in the next

several decades.

Many of the advancements planned for the SR-72 come from the

rocket-launched Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2)

developed by Lockheed Martin and the Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency.

The HTV-2 research and development project was designed to

collect data on the technical challenges of hypersonic flight:

aerodynamics, aerothermal effects,  and guidance, navigation and

control.

The SR-72's design incorporates lessons learned from the HTV-2,

which flew to a top speed of Mach 20, or 13,000 mph, with a

surface temperature of 3500°F.

The company said the SR-72 could be operational by 2030.

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<EOT>

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<EOT>

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<EOT>

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<EOT>

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Study Finds Billions of Earth-like Planets

Rick Pantaleo

November 05, 2013

Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the

University of Hawaii, Manoa say that based on new analysis of

Kepler spacecraft data, one in five stars similar to our own sun

are orbited by planets about the size of Earth, with a surface

temperature that would be favorable to support life.

"What this means is, when you look up at the thousands of stars

in the night sky, the nearest sun-like star with an Earth-size

planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away

and can be seen with the naked eye," said UC Berkeley graduate

student Erik Petigura, who led the analysis of the Kepler data.

"That is amazing."

Petigura, along with his colleagues Geoffrey Marcy from UC

Berkeley and Andrew Howard from the University of Hawaii, have

had their analysis published online in the journal Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers point out that just because an exoplanet is

Earth-sized or is in an Earth-sized orbit does not automatically

mean that it can to support life, even if their orbits are within

a star's habitable zone, where temperatures are not too hot or

too cold.

"Some may have thick atmospheres, making it so hot at the surface

that DNA-like molecules would not survive," Marcy said. "Others

may have rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable

for living organisms. We don't know what range of planet types

and their environments are suitable for life."

Last week Marcy, Howard and their colleagues made news when they

announced that they found Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized exoplanet

with the same density and a core made up of the same mixture of

rock and iron as our own planet.

But since it orbits so close to its star, this newly-discovered

rocky planet has a blazing surface temperature of about 2,200

degrees Kelvin, which is far too hot to support life as we know

it.

The team focused on 42,000 stars that are like the sun or

slightly cooler and smaller. Among those stars, the researchers

said they found 603 candidate planets orbiting them. Of these

candidate exoplanets, only 10 were Earth-sized, meaning that they

were about one to two times the diameter of Earth and orbiting

their star at a distance that would provide life supporting

temperatures.

To find how many other Earth-sized planets residing in habitable

zones they missed in their search, the researchers put

planet-finding algorithms devised by Petigura through a number of

tests. In these tests, Petigura actually threw in some fake

planets into the actual Kepler data to find out which planets his

software could detect and which it couldn't.

"What we're doing is taking a census of extrasolar planets, but

we can't knock on every door. Only after injecting these fake

planets and measuring how many we actually found, could we really

pin down the number of real planets that we missed," Petigura

said.

Taking several factors into consideration, such these missing

planets, and that only a small number of Earth-like exoplanets

are situated in such way that they can be seen transiting in

front of their host stars from Earth, the team estimated that 22

percent of all sun-like stars in the galaxy have Earth-size

planets in their habitable zones.

"Until now, no one knew exactly how common potentially habitable

planets were around Sun-like stars in the galaxy," said Marcy.

Although they found all of the possibly habitable planets

circling around cooler K stars, or Orange Dwarfs, which are

somewhat smaller than our sun, the researchers said that the

results of their analysis could also be inferred to G stars like

the sun.

The researchers speculated that if the Kepler spacecraft hadn't

been crippled by technical malfunctions this past spring and was

able to fully continue its research mission, it would have been

able to gather enough data to directly detect some Earth-size

planets in the habitable zones of G-type stars.

This new, more thorough analysis of Kepler data made by the

researchers shows that "nature makes about as many planets in

hospitable orbits as in close-in orbits," said Howard.

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<EOT>

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Study Finds Billions of Earth-like Planets

Rick Pantaleo

November 05, 2013

Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the

University of Hawaii, Manoa say that based on new analysis of

Kepler spacecraft data, one in five stars similar to our own sun

are orbited by planets about the size of Earth, with a surface

temperature that would be favorable to support life.

"What this means is, when you look up at the thousands of stars

in the night sky, the nearest sun-like star with an Earth-size

planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away

and can be seen with the naked eye," said UC Berkeley graduate

student Erik Petigura, who led the analysis of the Kepler data.

"That is amazing."

Petigura, along with his colleagues Geoffrey Marcy from UC

Berkeley and Andrew Howard from the University of Hawaii, have

had their analysis published online in the journal Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers point out that just because an exoplanet is

Earth-sized or is in an Earth-sized orbit does not automatically

mean that it can to support life, even if their orbits are within

a star's habitable zone, where temperatures are not too hot or

too cold.

"Some may have thick atmospheres, making it so hot at the surface

that DNA-like molecules would not survive," Marcy said. "Others

may have rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable

for living organisms. We don't know what range of planet types

and their environments are suitable for life."

Last week Marcy, Howard and their colleagues made news when they

announced that they found Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized exoplanet

with the same density and a core made up of the same mixture of

rock and iron as our own planet.

But since it orbits so close to its star, this newly-discovered

rocky planet has a blazing surface temperature of about 2,200

degrees Kelvin, which is far too hot to support life as we know

it.

The team focused on 42,000 stars that are like the sun or

slightly cooler and smaller. Among those stars, the researchers

said they found 603 candidate planets orbiting them. Of these

candidate exoplanets, only 10 were Earth-sized, meaning that they

were about one to two times the diameter of Earth and orbiting

their star at a distance that would provide life supporting

temperatures.

To find how many other Earth-sized planets residing in habitable

zones they missed in their search, the researchers put

planet-finding algorithms devised by Petigura through a number of

tests. In these tests, Petigura actually threw in some fake

planets into the actual Kepler data to find out which planets his

software could detect and which it couldn't.

"What we're doing is taking a census of extrasolar planets, but

we can't knock on every door. Only after injecting these fake

planets and measuring how many we actually found, could we really

pin down the number of real planets that we missed," Petigura

said.

Taking several factors into consideration, such these missing

planets, and that only a small number of Earth-like exoplanets

are situated in such way that they can be seen transiting in

front of their host stars from Earth, the team estimated that 22

percent of all sun-like stars in the galaxy have Earth-size

planets in their habitable zones.

"Until now, no one knew exactly how common potentially habitable

planets were around Sun-like stars in the galaxy," said Marcy.

Although they found all of the possibly habitable planets

circling around cooler K stars, or Orange Dwarfs, which are

somewhat smaller than our sun, the researchers said that the

results of their analysis could also be inferred to G stars like

the sun.

The researchers speculated that if the Kepler spacecraft hadn't

been crippled by technical malfunctions this past spring and was

able to fully continue its research mission, it would have been

able to gather enough data to directly detect some Earth-size

planets in the habitable zones of G-type stars.

This new, more thorough analysis of Kepler data made by the

researchers shows that "nature makes about as many planets in

hospitable orbits as in close-in orbits," said Howard.

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<EOT>

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Study Finds Billions of Earth-like Planets

Rick Pantaleo

November 05, 2013

Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the

University of Hawaii, Manoa say that based on new analysis of

Kepler spacecraft data, one in five stars similar to our own sun

are orbited by planets about the size of Earth, with a surface

temperature that would be favorable to support life.

"What this means is, when you look up at the thousands of stars

in the night sky, the nearest sun-like star with an Earth-size

planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away

and can be seen with the naked eye," said UC Berkeley graduate

student Erik Petigura, who led the analysis of the Kepler data.

"That is amazing."

Petigura, along with his colleagues Geoffrey Marcy from UC

Berkeley and Andrew Howard from the University of Hawaii, have

had their analysis published online in the journal Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers point out that just because an exoplanet is

Earth-sized or is in an Earth-sized orbit does not automatically

mean that it can to support life, even if their orbits are within

a star's habitable zone, where temperatures are not too hot or

too cold.

"Some may have thick atmospheres, making it so hot at the surface

that DNA-like molecules would not survive," Marcy said. "Others

may have rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable

for living organisms. We don't know what range of planet types

and their environments are suitable for life."

Last week Marcy, Howard and their colleagues made news when they

announced that they found Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized exoplanet

with the same density and a core made up of the same mixture of

rock and iron as our own planet.

But since it orbits so close to its star, this newly-discovered

rocky planet has a blazing surface temperature of about 2,200

degrees Kelvin, which is far too hot to support life as we know

it.

The team focused on 42,000 stars that are like the sun or

slightly cooler and smaller. Among those stars, the researchers

said they found 603 candidate planets orbiting them. Of these

candidate exoplanets, only 10 were Earth-sized, meaning that they

were about one to two times the diameter of Earth and orbiting

their star at a distance that would provide life supporting

temperatures.

To find how many other Earth-sized planets residing in habitable

zones they missed in their search, the researchers put

planet-finding algorithms devised by Petigura through a number of

tests. In these tests, Petigura actually threw in some fake

planets into the actual Kepler data to find out which planets his

software could detect and which it couldn't.

"What we're doing is taking a census of extrasolar planets, but

we can't knock on every door. Only after injecting these fake

planets and measuring how many we actually found, could we really

pin down the number of real planets that we missed," Petigura

said.

Taking several factors into consideration, such these missing

planets, and that only a small number of Earth-like exoplanets

are situated in such way that they can be seen transiting in

front of their host stars from Earth, the team estimated that 22

percent of all sun-like stars in the galaxy have Earth-size

planets in their habitable zones.

"Until now, no one knew exactly how common potentially habitable

planets were around Sun-like stars in the galaxy," said Marcy.

Although they found all of the possibly habitable planets

circling around cooler K stars, or Orange Dwarfs, which are

somewhat smaller than our sun, the researchers said that the

results of their analysis could also be inferred to G stars like

the sun.

The researchers speculated that if the Kepler spacecraft hadn't

been crippled by technical malfunctions this past spring and was

able to fully continue its research mission, it would have been

able to gather enough data to directly detect some Earth-size

planets in the habitable zones of G-type stars.

This new, more thorough analysis of Kepler data made by the

researchers shows that "nature makes about as many planets in

hospitable orbits as in close-in orbits," said Howard.

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<EOT>

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Study Finds Billions of Earth-like Planets

Rick Pantaleo

November 05, 2013

Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the

University of Hawaii, Manoa say that based on new analysis of

Kepler sraft data, one in five stars similar to our own sun

are orbited by planets about the size of Earth, with a surface

temperature that would be favorable to support life.

"What this means is, when you look up at the thousands of stars

in the night sky, the nearest sun-like star with an Earth-size

planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away

and can be seen with the naked eye," said UC Berkeley graduate

student Erik Petigura, who led the analysis of the Kepler data.

"That is amazing."

Petigura, along with his colleagues Geoffrey Marcy from UC

Berkeley and Andrew Howard from the University of Hawaii, have

had their analysis published online in the journal Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers point out that just because an exoplanet is

Earth-sized or is in an Earth-sized orbit does not automatically

mean that it can to support life, even if their orbits are within

a star's habitable zone, where temperatures are not too hot or

too cold.

"Some may have thick atmospheres, making it so hot at the surface

that DNA-like molecules would not survive," Marcy said. "Others

may have rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable

for living organisms. We don't know what range of planet types

and their environments are suitahisr life."

Last week Marcy, Howard and their colleagues made news when they

announced that they found Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized exoplanet

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researchers shows that "nature makes about as many planets in

hospitable orbits as in close-in orbits," said Howard.

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<EOT>

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Study Finds Billions of Earth-like Planets

Rick Pantaleo

November 05, 2013

Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the

University of Hawaii, Manoa say that based on new analysis of

Kepler spacecraft data, one in five stars similar to our own sun

are orbited by planets about the size of Earth, with a surface

temperature that would be favorable to support life.

"What this means is, when you look up at the thousands of stars

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may have rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable

for living organisms. We don't know what range of planet types

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announced that they found Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized exoplanet

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pin down the number of real planets that we missed," Petigura

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"Until now, no one knew exactly how common potentially habitable

planets were around Sun-like stars in the galaxy," said Marcy.

Although they found all of the possibly habitable planets

circling around cooler K stars, or Orange Dwarfs, which are

somewhat smaller than our sun, the researchers said that the

results of their analysis could also be inferred to G stars like

the sun.

The researchers speculated that if the Kepler spacecraft hadn't

been crippled by technical malfunctions this past spring and was

able to fully continue its research mission, it would have been

able to gather enough data to directly detect some Earth-size

planets in the habitable zones of G-type stars.

This new, more thorough analysis of Kepler data made by the

researchers shows that "nature makes about as many planets in

hospitable orbits as in close-in orbits," said Howard.

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<EOT>

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Study Finds Billions of Earth-like Planets

Rick Pantaleo

November 05, 2013

Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the

University of Hawaii, Manoa say that based on new analysis of

Kepler spacecraft data, one in five stars similar to our own sun

are orbited by planets about the size of Earth, with a surface

temperature that would be favorable to support life.

"What this means is, when you look up at the thousands of stars

in the night sky, the nearest sun-like star with an Earth-size

planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away

and can be seen with the naked eye," said UC Berkeley graduate

student Erik Petigura, who led the analysis of the Kepler data.

"That is amazing."

Petigura, along with his colleagues Geoffrey Marcy from UC

Berkeley and Andrew Howard from the University of Hawaii, have

had their analysis published online in the journal Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers point out that just because an exoplanet is

Earth-sized or is in an Earth-sized orbit does not automatically

mean that it can to support life, even if their orbits are within

a star's habitable zone, where temperatures are not too hot or

too cold.

"Some may have thick atmospheres, making it so hot at the surface

that DNA-like molecules would not survive," Marcy said. "Others

may have rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable

for living organisms. We don't know what range of planet types

and their environments are suitable for life."

Last week Marcy, Howard and their colleagues made news when they

announced that they found Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized exoplanet

with the same density and a core made up of the same mixture of

rock and iron as our own planet.

But since it orbits so close to its star, this newly-discovered

rocky planet has a blazing surface temperature of about 2,200

degrees Kelvin, which is far too hot to support life as we know

it.

The team focused on 42,000 stars that are like the sun or

slightly cooler and smaller. Among those stars, the researchers

said they found 603 candidate planets orbiting them. Of these

candidate exoplanets, only 10 were Earth-sized, meaning that they

were about one to two times the diameter of Earth and orbiting

their star at a distance that would provide life supporting

temperatures.

To find how many other Earth-sized planets residing in habitable

zones they missed in their search, the researchers put

planet-finding algorithms devised by Petigura through a number of

tests. In these tests, Petigura actually threw in some fake

planets into the actual Kepler data to find out which planets his

software could detect and which it couldn't.

"What we're doing is taking a census of extrasolar planets, but

we can't knock on every door. Only after injecting these fake

planets and measuring how many we actually found, could we really

pin down the number of real planets that we missed," Petigura

said.

Taking several factors into consideration, such these missing

planets, and that only a small number of Earth-like exoplanets

are situated in such way that they can be seen transiting in

front of their host stars from Earth, the team estimated that 22

percent of all sun-like stars in the galaxy have Earth-size

planets in their habitable zones.

"Until now, no one knew exactly how common potentially habitable

planets were around Sun-like stars in the galaxy," said Marcy.

Although they found all of the possibly habitable planets

circling around cooler K stars, or Orange Dwarfs, which are

somewhat smaller than our sun, the researchers said that the

results of their analysis could also be inferred to G stars like

the sun.

The researchers speculated that if the Kepler spacecraft hadn't

been crippled by technical malfunctions this past spring and was

able to fully continue its research mission, it would have been

able to gather enough data to directly detect some Earth-size

planets in the habitable zones of G-type stars.

This new, more thoroïzfrvlysis of Kepler data made by the

researchers shows that "nature makes about as many planets in

hospitable orbits as in close-in orbits," said Howard.

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<EOT>