An Aurora or Aurora Borealis (plural: auroras or aurorea) is also known as Northern Lights. Aurora Borealis is the phenomenon of the natural light display in the sky especially in very high latitude regions such as Arctic or Antarctic regions. An Aurora is caused due to the collision of high energy particles with the atoms in the thermosphere – the high latitude atmosphere.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the private rocket firm announced on 16th, this month that the first attempt to send one of its privately built space capsule to the International Space Station has been delayed to allow more time to prepare the vehicle, to show it can fly! The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by the SpaceX, was scheduled to launch toward the space station on Feb. 7, but the company has decided to postpone the flight to accommodate more engineering tests, to ensure that it a success.
However, the new launch date is still unknown, with SpaceX officials saying that the company is working with NASA to determine the best time for the test flight. As per the officials, “We are now working with NASA to establish a new target launch date, but note that we will continue to test and review data. We will launch when the vehicle is ready”.
The launch of the Dragon capsule atop SpaceX’s own Falcon 9 rocket is expected to be a critical step for the private spaceflight industry.The Dragon is expected to dock with the station on its first visit, leapfrogging ahead of previous schedules calling for an initial trial rendezvous without docking.It is designed to test the vehicle’s ability to carry cargo to the station.
Though Dragon is currently intended for unmanned supply flights to the International Space Station, SpaceX contends that the vehicle and the Falcon 9 are safe and reliable enough to carry people as soon as NASA will allow this, (after it will successfully show its ability on the unmanned mission) which would restore US manned space flight capability – currently unavailable following the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. Dragon has already flown once so far, making a successful orbital flight and return atop a Falcon 9 carrying a large cheese at the end of 2010 – the first time a private company had ever achieved such a feat.
A recent update from SpaceX tells explicitly of Dragon accordingly, it has “the power it needs for longer trips, whether to the Space Station or future missions to Mars”.
SpaceX’s planned flight is the second for the company under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.In order to realise such lofty goals, however,SpaceX must first show that the Dragon is not a one-shot wonder by achieving a solid record of unmanned missions to the ISS. The next hurdle will be manned operations, and then, perhaps, the real battle will begin, i.e. of one day carrying NASA astronauts and other paying customers to low-Earth orbit.
Accessing the Internet while you are on the go may not be possible at all places. There are situations where you may require to go online, but without any Wi-Fi hotspot around, you are helpless.So in such cases, tethering your android device may seem to be a good way out.Tethering your mobile phone is one smart way to access the Internet.Tethering means sharing the Internet connection of an Internet-capable mobile phone with other devices.This sharing can be offered either over a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi)or Bluetooth, or by a physical connection using data cable. If the tethering is done over a wireless LAN, the feature may also be called as a “mobile hotspot”. The Internet-connected android device thus acts as a portable router when providing tethering services to others also.Below are some easy steps how to tether your Android phone when you are left with no other means to access the Internet:
There are different ways to Tether your Android device but what I found to be the best approach was using the Android application called EasyTether. Most users found its use to be the easiest and less time-consuming in comparision to the other similar applications available in the market. The following steps would help you with tethering your Android phone:
Step 1: First of all, you have to visit the Android market and install the application called EasyTether on your device. This application is the fastest software for tethering Android phones.
Step 2: After getting the app for your device, you would also have to download EasyTether PC application on the computer you wish to use for tethering your phone. You will get every platform, so, whether it is windows or linux, you can easily connect to the internet. Once you have downloaded the application, run the program as prompted, and follow these instructions:
Step 3: On your android device:
Go to:
->Settings
->Applications
->Development.
Once you are in the Development tab, you would see USB Debugging as one of the options (as shown below):
Check the box against it and click ‘OK’.
Step 4:Now, connect the phone to your PC through cable or through wireless connection, and simply run the EasyTether application on your phone. Thereafter, select Enable USB Tether.
Step 5:Now, for the last step, go back to your PC, right-click on the EasyTether icon in the system tray and select Connect.
Wow! You are connected to the Internet!!!