Balmy Days on Mars - Sol 3496
Wednesday, 08 June 2022 12:07
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Our drive was successful, and we ended with some lovely flat bedrock with some gorgeous veining running through it. As APXS payload uplink lead today, I saw several targets that the APXS team would have loved to analyze.
Sadly, the timing didn't work in our favour today. APXS prefers temperatures below -20 C - the colder it is, the better the data quality is. But daytime temperatures in Ga Cosmological gravitational waves: A new approach to reach back to the Big Bang
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Operating observatories around the globe target sky regions characterized by low contamination from Galactic radiation looking for the imprint of Cosmological Gravitational Waves (CGWs) produced during Inflation, the mysterious phase of quasi-exponential expansion of space, in the very early Universe.
A new study by the POLARBEAR collaboration, led by SISSA for the part concerning the inte Researchers create simulations studying the lifecycle of ancestor galaxy cities
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For the first time, researchers have created simulations that directly recreate the full life cycle of some of the largest collections of galaxies observed in the distant universe 11 billion years ago, reports a new study in Nature Astronomy.
Cosmological simulations are crucial to studying how the universe became the shape it is today, but many do not typically match what astronomers obse Hubble captures largest near-infrared image to find universe's rarest galaxies
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An international team of scientists has released the largest near-infrared image ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, enabling astronomers to map the star-forming regions of the universe and learn how the earliest, most distant galaxies originated. Named 3D-DASH, this high-resolution survey will allow researchers to find rare objects and targets for follow-up observations with the recent Perseverance has a pet rock
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How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't—it chooses you.
For the past four months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341—that's over 100 sols ago, in early February—a rock found its way into the rover's front left wheel, and since hitching a ride, it's been transported more than 5.3 miles (8.5 km). This rock isn't doing any damage to the wheel, but throughout its (no doubt bumpy!) journey, it has clung on and made periodic appearances in our left Hazcam images.
This is not the first time a rock has hitched a ride on a Mars rover mission.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity needs a patch to keep flying after sensor failure
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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has suffered a sensor failure, according to Håvard Grip, the chief helicopter pilot on the project. In a recent blog post on the NASA Science page, he described some of the challenges the tiny robot is experiencing in the harsh environment and also noted that a sensor failure is going to require a computer patch.
Comet Interceptor approved for construction
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ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission to visit a pristine comet or other interstellar object just starting its journey into the inner Solar System has been ‘adopted’ this week; the study phase is complete and, following selection of the spacecraft prime contractor, work will soon begin to build the mission.
France joins Artemis Accords
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France joined the U.S.-led Artemis Accords June 7, a long-anticipated but significant milestone for the effort to establish best practices for sustainable space exploration.
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NASA to launch 3 rockets from private Australian space port
Wednesday, 08 June 2022 07:17 Write a comment
NASA will launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month in the agency's first blast off from a commercial space port outside the United States.
Three suborbital sounding rockets will be launched from the Arnhem Space Center on Indigenous-owned land near the mining town of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory on June 26, July 4 and 12, said NASA and the launch pad's owner, Equatorial Launch Australia.
Tailor-made composites for tougher space structures
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An ESA-led project constructed a test cylinder using a novel method of laying down carbon fibre, then tested it to buckling point within a crushing machine that subjected it to the equivalent of 10 tons of force. The cylinder met its predicted specifications perfectly, outperforming a traditionally-made equivalent using the same constituent materials. The company involved, iCOMAT in the UK, has now been shortlisted for the 2022 JEC World Composites Innovation Award – recognised as one of the year’s global top three main innovations in the field of aerospace composites.
Mars sleeps with one eye open
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This scarred and colourful (by martian standards!) landscape shows part of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars. The image was taken by ESA’s Mars Express on 25 April 2022.
Space-enabled 5G links Japan and Europe
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Engineers have connected Japan and Europe via space-enabled next-generation 5G telecommunication links. It is the first time that such an intercontinental connection has been established between Europe and Japan.
Elon Musk reportedly extends timeline for potential Starlink IPO
Tuesday, 07 June 2022 21:29 Write a comment
SpaceX is unlikely to offer shares in its broadband company Starlink to the public until 2025 or later, according to a report citing comments its CEO Elon Musk made to employees last week.
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NASA's Europa Clipper Mission completes main body of the spacecraft
Tuesday, 07 June 2022 19:34 Write a comment
The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Over the next two years there, engineers and technicians will finish assembling the craft by hand before testing it to make sure it can withstand the journey to Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
The spacecraft body is the mission's workhorse.
Xona to test GPS-alternative demo satellite with customer
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Startup Xona Space Systems is preparing to demonstrate services from a test satellite to the first major customer for its planned navigation constellation.
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