Tag Archives: Space

Sharing directors is one thing, but aspetta on the catering. The latest episode of Are You a Charlotte?, Kristin Davis‘ charming rewatch podcast of Sex and the City, boasts director Allen Coulter, one of the in-house auteurs at HBO during their years of ascent in the late 1990s. And though the two shows had greatly different audiences and tones, he …

The Day Mars Died – 60th Anniversary of Mariner 4 – YouTube Watch On On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Rob Manning, JPL’s Chief Engineer Emeritus, to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later. Six decades ago this week, the Mariner 4 probe sped past Mars, …

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they affect our atmosphere and satellites. NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS for short, mission represents a pair of satellites that will fly in a sun-synchronous orbit — meaning they are always over the …

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, …

NASA finally announces 2025 space research grants, but lack of awards puts Tucson’s PSI in trouble  Tucson Sentinel Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES)-2025 Released  NASA Science (.gov) NASA ROSES-25 Amendment 2: Exoplanets Research Program Step-1  astrobiology.com NASA Seeks Proposals for Annual Space and Earth Sciences Research Program  ExecutiveGov NASA ROSES-25 Amendment 1: Restrictions on Interagency Awards  astrobiology.com Source link

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between solar activity and Earth’s magnetic field. When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking space weather and human behavior, could actually bridge such a vast …

Update (8:52 p.m.) – SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday night. It took off at 8:52 p.m. and carried 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. ————————— SpaceX is preparing for its second launch of the week from Vandenberg Space Force Base. A Falcon 9 carrying 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit is scheduled …

Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA’s Chandra spacecraft: ‘The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great’  SpaceView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in other words, it did 10% of the entire astronomical community’s annual job in less than half a day. Yeah, the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the …

Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby’s small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ocean on Earth. It was both a success and a failure. The success was that after Huby founded The Exploration Company in Europe, she managed to move nimbly with the “Mission Possible” spacecraft such that it cost less than $25 …