Ingenuity “hunkering down” during Martian dust storms and winter
Monday, 30 May 2022 21:26
Dust storms and changing seasons will limit the ability of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter to fly for the next several months, a project engineer said May 27.
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Space Force identifies national security launches funded in 2022 and 2023
Monday, 30 May 2022 18:10
The Space Force funded eight launches in fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Five were assigned to United Launch Alliance and three to SpaceX.
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Lawmakers seek another big increase for DoD ‘responsive launch’
Monday, 30 May 2022 15:40
A bipartisan group of House members is proposing to increase funding for tactically responsive launch to $150 million in 2023
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NASA targets June 5 for redo of Artemis moon rocket dress rehearsal
Monday, 30 May 2022 14:48
NASA discovered a bevy of headaches in its first three tries to run through a dress rehearsal countdown of the Artemis I moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center earlier this year. Now it's ready for attempt No. 4.
The agency is targeting a call-to-stations on Sunday, June 5, with a start of rollout at midnight, June 6, for the 4.4-mile, 11-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building back to Launch Pad 39-B.
The 5.75 million-pound, 322-foot-tall combination of the Space Launch System, Orion capsule and mobile launcher first made the trip on March 18 on the crawler-transporter 2, after which NASA attempted several times to complete the goal of filling and draining the core and upper stage with 730,000 gallons of super-cooled liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen while also simulating a countdown but without lighting the engines.
A series of pressure and valve issues stymied any completion of those tests and NASA managers decided to roll the lunar rocket back to the VAB. That allowed managers to solve the mystery of a malfunctioning 3-inch check valve in the upper stage that wasn't working on the pad.
Post-flight interview with Matthias Maurer | Cosmic Kiss
Monday, 30 May 2022 11:00
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Interview with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer after the conclusion of his 177-day mission on the International Space Station. During his time in orbit, Matthias supported over 35 European experiments and even more international experiments on board. The outcomes of these experiments will advance our knowledge in areas ranging from human health to materials science, benefiting life on Earth and the future of space exploration. Other highlights included his spacewalk to improve and maintain the Space Station. More about the Cosmic Kiss mission: https://www.esa.int/cosmickiss
Revisit Living Planet Symposium: watch session replays
Monday, 30 May 2022 08:00
Revisit Living Planet Symposium: watch session replays
AFRL sponsorship recipient wins NASA space manufacturing contract
Monday, 30 May 2022 07:47
Air Force Research Laboratory research sponsorship recipient, United Semiconductors, LLC (USLLC), is one of eight companies selected to work on a three-year, $21 million NASA contract to manufacture tools in space.
Almost two decades ago, AFRL's photonic materials branch began collaborating with Professor Partha Dutta at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and sponsoring his research on t Space Systems Command Issues Launch Task Orders for FY22 NSS Missions
Monday, 30 May 2022 07:47
Space Systems Command (SSC) ordered eight National Security Space (NSS) launch services under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement contract Friday; five to United Launch Alliance (ULA) for GPS III-7, USSF-23, USSF-43, WGS-11+, and USSF-16 using the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, and three to Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) for USSF-124, USSF-6 AI and machine learning are improving weather forecasts, but they won't replace human experts
Monday, 30 May 2022 07:47
A century ago, English mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson proposed a startling idea for that time: constructing a systematic process based on math for predicting the weather. In his 1922 book, "Weather Prediction By Numerical Process," Richardson tried to write an equation that he could use to solve the dynamics of the atmosphere based on hand calculations.
It didn't work because not enoug DLR presents technologies for decarbonisation across the economy
Monday, 30 May 2022 07:47
The German Aerospace Center will be presenting technologies, innovations and successful transfer and spin-off projects at Hannover Messe 2022. From 30 May to 2 June, at the 120-square-metre stand (Energy Solutions, Hall 13, D18), visitors will be able to gain an insight into DLR's research for a future climate-friendly energy supply system and for the decarbonisation of industrial processes and Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
Monday, 30 May 2022 07:47
Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot - and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab.
Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and even jump. The researchers also developed millimeter-sized robots resembling inchworms, crickets and beetles. Although the research is exploratory a Vacuum soak for satellite brain
Monday, 30 May 2022 06:16
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Vacuum soak for satellite brain Next SLS countdown rehearsal scheduled for June 19
Monday, 30 May 2022 01:20
NASA has tentatively scheduled the next attempt to fuel the Space Launch System and go through a practice countdown for June 19, two weeks after the vehicle returns to the launch pad.
Why Did Mars Dry Out? New Study Points To Unusual Answers
Sunday, 29 May 2022 10:47
Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks of past rivers, streams and lakes are visible today all over the planet. But about three billion years ago, they all dried up - and no one knows why.
"People have put forward different ideas, but we're not sure what caused the climate to change so dramatically," said University of Chicago geophysical scientist Edwin Kite. "We'd really like Up, Up and Away - Sols 3487-3490
Sunday, 29 May 2022 10:47
Our intrepid rover engineers again successfully navigated Curiosity a little higher up Mount Sharp (~5 m) and ~40 m on the ground, away from our previous location. The terrain beneath the rover included striated, dusty bedrock and sand ripples with coarse lag deposits.
As a member of the geology/mineralogy planning team and the APXS payload uplink lead today, I chose several interesting ar