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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Launch of Northrop Grumman’s 20th Cargo Mission to the Space Station (Official NASA Broadcast) - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
It is the first time the Northrop Grumman Cargo Cygnus spacecraft has flown on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.This Cygnus is named SS Patty Hilliard Robertson to commemorate the late NASA Astronaut Dr.Patty Hilliard Robertson,who perished in a plane crash in 2001.Among the experiments onboard Cygnus are a demonstration of robotic surgery in space,3D printing of small metal parts in space,and a test of heat shield materials.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Hubble’s Inside The Image: Antennae Galaxies - NASA Goddard
Credit:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Production and Post:Origin Films
Hubble Space Telescope Animation:
ESA/Hubble - M.Kornmesser and L.L. Christensen
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Hubble Uncovers Water Vapor In Small Exoplanet’s Atmosphere - NASA Goddard - planetary science
Credit:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris:Lead Producer
Cassandra Morris:Voiceover
Exoplanet Animation:ESA/Hubble,M. Kornmesser
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Airplane-size asteroid 2024 BJ flies closer than the moon in orbit animation - planetary science
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Asteroid 2024 BJ's closest approach to Earth on 27 January 2024 will be about 220,000 mi/354,00 km.It is about 68 ft/21 m wide.
Credit:Space.com
animation:NASA/JPL-Caltech
edited by [Steve Spaleta] https://twitter.com/stevespaleta
Friday, January 26, 2024
Britain's NATO influence ‘at risk’ if military does not strengthen | Lord Darroch - Times Radio
Lord Darroch is a former UK Ambassador to the US.
Administrator Bill Nelson announces the end of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - planetary science
A final batch of data from Ingenuity is pending as it is still in contact with NASA.
Next Crew Headed to Space Discusses Their Missions (Jan. 25, 2024) - begins at 6:35
SpaceX Crew-8 is slated for a mid-February 2024 launch.NASA Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson is slated for a 21 March 2024 launch aboard the Soyuz MS-25.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Sonification of Arp 140 - NASA Goddard - cosmology
In Arp 140,two galaxies interact,barred spiral galaxy NGC 275 and lenticular galaxy NGC 274.
Credit:NASA,ESA and R. Foley (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Processing:Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
Sonification:SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo,A. Santaguida)
Cosmology is the study of the origin and structures of the universe.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Monday, January 22, 2024
NASA test-fires Artemis moon rocket engines for first time in 2024 - NASA Stennis Space Center,Mississippi
These RS-25 main engines are a legacy Space Shuttle main engine newly built in an advanced version by Areojet Rocketdyne
for Artemis V and above.Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc (AJRD)
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Axiom Space prepares to launch crewed mission from KSC
Note:The mission has been put on hold while SpaceX does some additional checks.Axiom Space's first space station module is to be attached to the ISS in 2026.
Axiom Space Ax-3 - Meet the crew that will fly to ISS on SpaceX Dragon
The Axiom-3 crew are:Former NASA Astronaut and dual US-Spanish citizen Michael "LA" Lopez-Alegria;Mission Specialist Walter Villadei of Italy;Turkiye's first astronaut,Alper Gazeravci;ESA astronaut reserve member Marcus Wandt of Sweden.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Galaxy ring discovery challenges thinking on universe | BBC News
Cosmology is the study of the origin and structures of the universe.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
'Nobody expected this': Biden has 60 percent support from voters 65 and older
Quinnipiac University is a private university in Hamden,Connecticut.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
About the Einstein Probe and Einstein's prediction of Gravitational waves
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of Gravitational waves caused by massive events in the universe.These were not detected in Einstein's lifetime,however.The first indirect evidence of Gravitational waves was deduced in 1974 from the motion of a double neutron star system,leading to their maerger.The first direct observations of Gravitational waves took place on 14 September 2015 by the LIGO and Virgo collaboration.The signal was evidence of the inward spiral and merger of two black holes.A third possibility of detecting Gravitational waves would be the assyemetrical explosion of a supernova.So far,no such event has been detected,as supernovas are generally spherically symmetrical;only the mergers of black holes and neutron stars have been captured.
Einstein Probe explained - astrophysics
The Einstein Probe is a collaboration of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),ESA,and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE),Germany.The EP has nextgen X-ray instruments of high sensitivity and a very wide field of view to detect X-ray blasts from sources such as neutron stars and black holes.
NASA Discusses Upcoming Artemis Crew Missions (Jan. 09, 2024) - starts at 5:17
New Timetable for Artemis Crewed Missions:Artemis II - September 2025;Artemis III Lunar landing:September 2026
Why:Analysis of Artemis I data brought certain potential flaws to NASA's attention.Specifically,1.A small amount of charring that they hadn't expected occurred on the Orion heat shield,and they need to work through that to be comfortable with crew safety.2.A circuit issue with the life support system needs to be worked through.3.An issue with the launch abort system was identified and needs to be resolved.4.SpaceX has had setbacks with its Starship spacecraft,which is to serve as the lunar lander for the Artemis III astronauts.They need more time to process the issues and will do an uncrewed test with Starship landing on the Moon and then returning to Earth.The first priority is astronaut safety.We're not going till we're ready,NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.He doesn't think China will get astronauts to the Moon first.NASA and its industry partners are comfortable with the new schedule.
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
The first Vulcan rocket launch - 8 January 2024 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket operated nominally on its inaugural flight.The Peregrine lunar lander experienced a serious propellant anomaly while in Earth orbit and is not expected to reach the Moon.Some of the experiments onboard Peregrine may be operable,however,and Astrobotic Technology will salvage what it can of the mission.It was the first of NASA's new Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions,a high risk effort to encourage commerical access to the Moon,paving the way for crewed lunar landings by the Artemis missions.
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Hubble observes extreme weather on massive alien world - 4K Visualization - planetary science
The Hubble Space Telescope has been studying exoplanet WASP-121b (Tylos).It is a hot Jupiter-type planet.Extreme temperature changes may make it rain Iron at night.
Friday, January 5, 2024
ULA Vulcan rocket to launch moon lander on inaugural flight - mission simulation
Revised: will be the first flight by the Vulcan Centaur rocket by United Launch Alliance,a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.*Boeing (BA),Lockheed Martin (LMT).The launch is scheduled for no earlier than 8 January 2024.Astrobotic Technology Inc is a privately held Pittsburgh company that produces autonomous robots,robotic spacecraft,space systems,space payloads and telerobotics.
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Justice and the Law - Joy: Alleged Trump coup bandits still at large in Congress
Benjamin Wittes is editor-in-chief of Lawfare and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution.The Brookings Institution is a Washington think tank that conducts independent research to improve governance at the local,national,and global levels.
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
XPoSat deployment
Details about XPoSat:The satellite will carry out research in space-based polarisation measurements of X-ray emissions from celestial sources,including neutron stars and black holes.It will carry out long-term spectral and temporal studies of cosmic X-ray sources.It was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,India on 1 January 2024.
The game that made Magnus Carlsen the World Blitz Champion 2023 | Carlsen vs. Aronian
Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen won both the Rapid and Blitz World Chess Championships 2023 in Samarkand,Uzbekistan.He is the dominant figure in world chess today.The Russian Woman Grandmaster Anastasia Bodnaruk won the Rapid Championship,and her compatriot Woman Grandmaster Valentina Gulina won the Blitz Championship.
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