Nine ways AR and VR used on the International Space Station
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:49
Even the most highly trained and experienced person sometimes needs a hand. For astronauts aboard the International Space Station, that helping hand comes from other crew members, experts on the ground, and increasingly, in the form of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).
The first use of AR on station, a set of high-tech goggles called Sidekick, provided hands-free assistance What's going on with the ozone?
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:49
World governments agreed in the late 1980s to protect Earth's ozone layer by phasing out ozone-depleting substances emitted by human activities, under the Montreal Protocol. The phase out of these substances has not only helped protect the ozone layer for future generations but has also protected human health and ecosystems by limiting the harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching Earth. On 16 China's cargo craft docks with space station core module
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:49
China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-3, carrying supplies for the upcoming Shenzhou-13 crewed mission, successfully docked with the space station core module Tianhe on Monday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
At 10:08 p.m. (Beijing Time), Tianzhou-3 completed a computer-orchestrated rendezvous and docking at the rear docking port of the Tianhe core module. The whole process Guardians begin migration to Space Force CACs
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:49
Space Force common access cards are being issued incrementally to Guardians after more than 18 months of collaboration across numerous organizations and five months of live testing with Guardians.
To produce a functioning USSF card, system and data owners across multiple agencies to include Air Force Personnel Center and the Defense Manpower Data Center, made critical systems changes to di How to catch a perfect wave: scientists take a closer look inside the perfect fluid
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:49
Scientists have reported new clues to solving a cosmic conundrum: How the quark-gluon plasma - nature's perfect fluid - evolved into matter.
A few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the early universe took on a strange new state: a subatomic soup called the quark-gluon plasma.
And just 15 years ago, an international team including researchers from the Relativistic Nuclear Col AFRL to showcase key programs, processes at Air, Space and Cyber Conference
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:49
The Air Force Research Laboratory will showcase several areas including Department of the Air Force Vanguard programs, COVID-19 response efforts, innovative capabilities for base defense and palletized munitions plus several avenues for sharing ideas or capabilities with the lab during the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Sept. 20-22, 2021. NASA Invites Media to Webb Telescope Prelaunch Events in French Guiana
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:33
NASA invites members of the media to register their interest in attending events in French Guiana ahead of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, a mission led by NASA in partnership with the European and Canadian space agencies. All-female crew in water-tank spaceflight study
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:22
This week 20 women are tucking themselves in a waterbed for five days as part of a dry immersion study to recreate some of the effects of spaceflight on the body. The campaign kicked off yesterday with the first two subjects at the Medes space clinic in Toulouse, France.
Starliner test flight likely to slip to 2022
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 10:47
A test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle, delayed by a valve problem in August, is unlikely to take place before some time next year, NASA official said Sept. 21.
NASA splits human spaceflight directorate into two organizations
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 10:19
NASA announced Sept. 21 that it is dividing the mission directorate responsible for human spaceflight into two organizations, one responsible for exploration systems development and the other for space operations, undoing a merger of two similar organizations a decade ago.
Gloomy moonscape for rover test
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 09:09
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Gloomy moonscape for rover test Terran Orbital acquires new satellite development facility
Wednesday, 22 September 2021 07:00
Terran Orbital, the parent company of Tyvak and PredaSAR, has acquired a new four-story facility in Irvine, California, to house satellite design, engineering and development.
Space Force looking for ‘unity’ in acquisitions despite a medley of agencies
Tuesday, 21 September 2021 22:17
Despite a medley of organizations overseeing space procurements, the Space Force and the intelligence community have stood up a coordinating group to make sure there is “unity of effort,” said Lt.
Soaring high: Pentagon's Space Force gets new uniform
Tuesday, 21 September 2021 21:00The US Space Force unveiled its new dress uniform design Tuesday, aiming to make a future-forward mark for the Pentagon's newest uniformed service.
The prototype for the new uniform for the Space Force's Guardians, as they have been officially designated, is a short navy blue jacket with a large flap over the right breast, secured by a diagonal line of six silver buttons.
It has a standing collar, and the service badge, with a delta-shaped rocket pushing into a star, is worn below the left breast.
The jacket is matched with grey trousers or skirts.
"Modern, distinctive, professional" the Space Force called it in a tweet.
"Every winning team needs a uniform! We started with the female design and then created the male prototype," wrote Chief of Space Operations General Jay Raymond.
Tested by Guardians, made for #Guardians. #SpaceForce physical training uniforms are currently undergoing wear testing. pic.twitter.com/6agT93uGDH
— United States Space Force (@SpaceForceDoD) September 20, 2021
Launched officially in December 2019, the Space Force was organized to address challenges of fighting war in the exosphere, seen as a distinct theater from the air force.
Similar designs with diagonal buttons holding down breast flaps have been seen for centuries in European and American uniforms, and are donned with large amounts of braid by marching band drum majors today.
Drones are accelerating OneWeb’s antenna tests
Tuesday, 21 September 2021 19:35
TAMPA, Fla. — OneWeb is using drones from Danish startup QuadSat to accelerate ground segment tests as it aims to bring part of its low Earth orbit broadband constellation online this year.