Virgin Galactic completes first human spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
Virgin Galactic has completed its third spaceflight and the first ever spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight, which took place May 22nd, sees New Mexico become the third US state to launch humans into space.
VSS Unity achieved a speed of Mach 3 after being released from the mothership, VMS Eve, and reached space, at an altitude of 55.45 miles before gliding smoothly to Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology chosen to design Lunar charging station
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology report that the companies have been selected to provide an innovative lunar charging solution for NASA. As electric vehicle charging stations are popping up across the globe, the Moon may soon join in the trend. NASA has selected five commercial teams to develop designs for vertically deployable solar array systems for the lunar surface as part of the Vert NASA software unlocks Martian rover productivity
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
Productivity pundits know lots of tricks to make the most of your day, so you can schedule enough time for important tasks while guarding against overload. Planning a day of work for a Martian rover puts a lot of the same strategies into practice.
When the Mars 2020 Perseverance's driving and science activities begin, dozens of mission personnel will start each planning session with a mass Republic of Korea signs onto Artemis Accords for lunar exploration
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
The Republic of Korea has become the 10th country to sign the Artemis Accords, which establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations participating in NASA's 21st century lunar exploration plans. Minister of Science and ICT Lim Hyesook signed the Artemis Accords for the country during a ceremony held May 24 in Seoul.
South Korea, whose official n Lockheed and GM team up for Lunar rovers for Artemis program
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
Lockheed Martin and General Motors Co. are teaming up to develop the next generation of lunar vehicles to transport astronauts on the surface of the Moon, fundamentally evolving and expanding humanity's deep-space exploration footprint.
NASA's Artemis program is sending humans back to the Moon where they will explore and conduct scientific experiments using a variety of rovers. NASA sought Deep oceans dissolve the rocky shell of water-ice planets
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
What is happening deep beneath the surface of ice planets? Is there liquid water, and if so, how does it interact with the planetary rocky "seafloor"? New experiments show that on water-ice planets between the size of our Earth and up to six times this size, water selectively leaches magnesium from typical rock minerals.
The conditions with pressures of hundred thousand atmospheres and tem Thirty year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy's giant planets
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the universe are similar to our own. With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawai?i, the 30-year planetary census sought to find where giant planets tend to reside relative to their host stars. Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang
Thursday, 27 May 2021 02:23
About 14 billion years ago, our universe changed from being a lot hotter and denser to expanding radically - a process that scientists have named 'The Big Bang'.
And even though we know that this fast expansion created particles, atoms, stars, galaxies and life as we know it today, the details of how it all happened are still unknown.
Now a new study performed by researchers from Uni Next New Frontiers mission will retain same set of destinations
Thursday, 27 May 2021 01:16
WASHINGTON — A delay of up to two years in the next New Frontiers planetary science mission competition won’t change the potential destinations for that mission.
NASA announced May 12 it was delaying the release of a draft announcement of opportunity for the fifth New Frontiers mission from this October to as late as October 2023.
Pentagon working with space industry to counter Chinese espionage
Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:02
WASHINGTON — Chinese attempts to steal U.S. space technology remain a problem despite significant efforts by the Pentagon to protect intellectual property data, the head of Air Force acquisitions Darlene Costello told lawmakers May 26.
SpaceX sets Falcon 9 fairing reuse mark with Starlink launch
Wednesday, 26 May 2021 19:56
WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched another set of Starlink satellites May 26 on a launch that highlighted an often-overlooked aspect of the company’s reusability efforts.
The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:59 p.m.
GM's newest vehicle: Off-road, self-driving rover for moon
Wednesday, 26 May 2021 19:10
Op-ed | Artemis 2026: Celebrating America’s 250th with the next humans on the moon
Wednesday, 26 May 2021 13:21
On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence. America should commemorate this historical milestone in 2026 by landing humans on the moon for the first time since 1972.
Sending humanity back to the moon in 2026 is not only technically feasible, but it also fits squarely in the projected timeline for NASA’s already existing plan to return astronauts to the lunar surface — the Artemis program.
Buildup to super blood moon eclipses the finale
Wednesday, 26 May 2021 12:55
In the end, the buildup seemed to eclipse the finale.
Reconstructing 3D magnetic topology of on-disk solar prominence bubbles
Wednesday, 26 May 2021 12:43
Solar prominences or filaments are cool and dense plasma structures suspended in the hot and tenuous corona.
Recent high-resolution solar limb observations reveal that some dark "bubbles" with bright arch-like boundaries form below prominences. It is puzzling that how these bubbles, semi-circular voids, form below dense prominences.
Ph.D. student Guo Yilin from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), together with Dr. Hou Yijun, Dr. Li Ting, and Prof. Zhang Jun, found and investigated an on-disk bubble based on stereoscopic observations for the first time.
The study was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
It is widely accepted that bubbles are closely related to the overlying prominence system and could eventually lead to the generation of a coronal mass ejection. This has serious effect on space weather.
"However, previous studies are all based on the solar limb observations or numerical simulations. If the bubble could be found on the solar disk, we could unveil the magnetic nature of the bubble," said Dr.