SpaceX launches 48 Starlink satellites amid Ukraine crisis
Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:19
SpaceX launched 48 more of the company's Starlink broadband Internet satellites on Wednesday morning from Florida.
The company's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off as planned at 8:45 a.m. EST into a mostly blue sky from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The launch was SpaceX's 10th in 2022.
"Time to let the American broomstick fly and hear the sounds of freedom," a SpaceX launch contro Moving right along - slowly but surely during Sols 3409-3410
Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:19
We are continuing to slowly move through this very challenging terrain - over the weekend we made it about 4 meters before the drive stopped when the rover sensed more difficulty. The attached image shows the deeper rover tracks over the undulating and rocky terrain, which has given us so much trouble driving and making it frequently unsafe to unstow the arm.
Despite all the challenges, th Massive bubbles at center of Milky Way caused by supermassive black hole
Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:19
In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of our galaxy. Since then, astronomers have debated their origin. Now, a study including University of Michigan research suggests the bubbles are a result of a powerful jet of activity from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The study, published in Nature Ast Mathematical discovery could shed light on secrets of the Universe
Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:19
How can Einstein's theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep insights into phenomena such as black holes and the birth of the universe. Now, a new article in Nature Communications, written by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and MIT, USA, presents results that cast new light on important challenges in understanding q Researchers unravel inner workings of galaxy clusters with 196 lasers
Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:19
Galaxies rarely live alone. Instead, dozens to thousands are drawn together by gravity, forming vast clusters that are the largest objects in the universe.
"Galaxy clusters are one of the most awe-inspiring things in the universe," said Prof. Emeritus Don Lamb, a University of Chicago astrophysicist and co-author on a new paper published March 9-one that may point the way towards solving a New research discovers link between disparate approaches to quantum gravity
Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:19
A new study by researchers from the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) discovers a unifying thread in two approaches to quantum gravity that were previously believed to be separate.
Finding a theory of quantum gravity - which would combine both quantum mechanical and gravitational effects - is one of the great unsol Fleet Space Technologies teams up with Seven Sisters Consortium
Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:19
Fleet Space Technologies is standing with some of Australia and the world's leading space and non-space organisations in a bid to further exploration of the Moon, Mars and the Earth.
The Seven Sisters is an initiative to discover abundant resources for humanity's exploration of space through the implementation of world-leading surface exploration and construction technologies developed wit Schedule tight for June launch of first Momentus tug
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 23:39
In-space transportation company Momentus says it is making good progress toward the first launch of its Vigoride space tug, but that the schedule is “tight” for a launch in June.
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Space programs moving up on DoD’s budget priority list
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 23:30
Pentagon funding for space programs will grow in the coming years as the U.S. military increasingly relies on satellites to conduct operations, the Defense Department’s comptroller Mike McCord said March 9.
Buzz Aldrin's famous 1969 moon walk picture sells at auction
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 18:42
More than 70 original NASA photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin's moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000).
The Aldrin image, which fetched 5,373 euros, shows the astronaut on the surface of the moon in July 1969 during the first manned lunar landing. It was famously used on the cover of LIFE magazine.
Armstrong, the first man to step onto the Moon, can be seen in the reflection of Aldrin's visor.
A total of 74 NASA photographs were put up for sale including 26 taken on the Moon during the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s.
UK bans space-related exports to Russia
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 16:27
New trade sanctions aimed at Russia’s space sector were announced March 9 by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
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Inside the Columbus science lab | Cosmic Kiss (In German, English subtitles available)
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 15:00
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Join ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on a tour of Columbus, Europe’s science laboratory on the International Space Station.
Cosmic Kiss is Matthias’s first mission to the Space Station and the Columbus module is one of his main workplaces. It is also where he sleeps in his crew quarters known as CASA.
Columbus is Europe's largest contribution to the orbital outpost and the first European laboratory for permanent, multidisciplinary research in space. It houses 16 standardised payload cabinets, known as racks, which host laboratory equipment and technical systems. This allows the facility to support research across a wide range of
Team chosen to be first to make oxygen on the moon
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 14:05
How to talk to extraterrestrials
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 14:04
In Steven Spielberg's 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," extraterrestrials communicate with humans through a catchy five-note sequence. In Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster "E.T.," a diminutive alien learns basic English from a children's TV show. More recently, in 2016's "Arrival," squid-like visitors use pictograms to make themselves understood to American scientists wielding whiteboards with words.
Finding moons' hidden oceans with induced magnetic fields
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 13:49
In the 21st century, planetary scientists have become increasingly aware that subsurface oceans consisting of liquid water exist within objects throughout the solar system. Because water is a universal requirement for life on Earth, these bodies—mostly moons—are enticing targets in the search for extraterrestrial life.
A primary way of deducing the existence of an unseen ocean is through an induced magnetic field. These fields originate from a unique application of Faraday's law of induction, which states that a time-varying magnetic field creates an electric current when applied to a circuit. Water that is salty enough to remain liquid in cold space environments is very conductive; at the same time, a moon's orbit through a planet's rotating magnetic field exposes the moon to a field strength that varies with time.