Super Falcon Submersible Unveiled

British engineer has built a high-tech, winged submersible that claims to “fly” beneath the water. Well, that is interesting. Recently, the California Academy of Science in San Francisco has unveiled the evolution submarine to the world.

The submarine is mainly the concept of Thunderbird 4, but in a whole new way, and it is called Super Falcon Submersible. It has the look of the aircraft and it is capable of reach the depth of 1500 feet and cruse through the ocean at 6 knots, which is around about 7mph. The range of Super Falcon Submersible is 25 nautical miles, which is nearly 28.8 miles.

Graham Hawkes, the British engineer who built the Super Falcon said,

After 20 years of prototyping, Super Falcon is our most advanced and elegant submersible yet, encompassing all the innovations we made in introducing underwater flight from the surface to the bottom of the ocean,

The Super Falcon Submersible has a pressure hull which is made out of carbon fiber. It has two cockpits with dual light control and the instruments are very much familiar with military pilots. The passengers don’t have to worry about “the bends” because the cabin pressure remains at one atmosphere. And it can go down into the water at speeds of up to 200 feet a minute and can come up to the surface twice as fast which is at a speed of 400 feet a minute.

The specification of the Super Falcon Submersible is,

Class

• High performance Winged Submersible.

Dimension

• While the wings are deployed, it is 3.0m.
• While the wings are folded, it is 1.4m.
• The height of the craft is 1.6m and length is 6.7m.

Cruise speed

• 2 to 6 knots.

Maximum Thrust

• 508lbs, 231kg.

Max Descent Rate

• 200 ft/min.

Max Ascent Rate

• 400 ft/min.

Payload

• 230 Kg (2 persons).

Cruise Range @ 5 knots

• 25 nautical miles.

Pitch/Roll (normal piloting range)

• +/- 30 degrees.

Life Support duration

• TBA 24 -72 hrs.

Batteries

• 7kWh Lithium Phosphate @ 48V

Swede Faces Nasa Hacking Charges

A Swedish teenage boy is on charge of hacking NASA and Cisco Systems in 2004. A central jury in San Jose, Calif., indicted 21-year-old Philip Gabriel Pettersson as the suspected hacker.

Pettersson who is also known as Stakkato, was on charges of interruption and stealing trade secrets. He was accused of breaking into the CPU system and network of San Jose at California-based Cisco in May 2004 and theft operating system code. In May and October of the same year, Stakkato allegedly broke into computers belonging to the NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division and the NASA’s Ames Research Center. And the most interesting matter is that Pettersson was only 16-year-old when he did this daring job.

Law said the maximum punishment for each charge of interruption and theft of trade secrets is 10 years in jail and a fine of $250K.

Mission to Discover Secret of Universe

“We know there must have been structure there at the time of the Big Bang, and possibly before the Big Bang,” “That’s what we hope this will tell us,” said Cambridge University physicist Professor George Efstathiou. Like Efstathiou many other scientists and astronomers now hope they can discover ‘The Secret of Universe’. The reason of their hope is a UK space mission. The European Space Agency (ESA) probes will be launched on May 14 into the space on a rocket named an Arianne 5 .

The researchers say the satellites can give answer of some major questions that make mystery in science like:

- How did the universe come into being?

- How stars as well as galaxies are born?

- Why does it look the mean it does?

Mission chief Professor David Southwood said “This is going to change our view of the universe and where we have all come from,” he added “We are talking about the origin of galaxies and stars and even life itself.”

The satellite gets two long space telescopes named Herschel and Planck. The telescope would probe the early history of the cosmos departing right back to the behind of time at the ‘Big Bang’ and perhaps before. Efstathiou said “We might find signatures of pre-Big Bang physics. We might find evidence of cosmic defects – superstrings in the sky”.

Features of Herschel:

• 7.5m Long
• Largest Telescope
• Get a Mirror with 3.5m Diameter
• High-Tech & Effective Sensors
• Far-Infrared Radiation Detector Incorporated

The telescope name is proposed after famous astronomer William Herschel who discover the Uranus. It is designed carefully to peer in dust clouds in order to observe and survey the mysterious and unsolved process of how  stars & galaxies are created.

Features of Planck:

The Telescope name is proposed after the father of quantum mechanics. It can research the minute fluctuations through the background ‘Echo’ left over from the mysterious Big Bang. The background is commonly known as Cosmic Microwave Background. It can help to map our universe with the excellent detail ever. The scientists hope the results will give effective clues to the structure of the early (infant) universe over 14 billion (roughly) years ago. It will completely change human perception, understanding and thinking of the major fundamental and primary principles of physics.

Funding body the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Professor Richard Holdaway said “Planck is going to allow us to travel right back to the very beginning of time.” Efstathiou said “Unravelling the physical information may tell us something about the warped geometry of the hidden dimensions.”

The findings can provide insights through the more vaunted String Theory as well. It occupies a complex eleven-dimensional universe and seven ‘Hidden’ dimensions over the four apparent dimensions of space with time.