#spacecraft

Paper: Research and Development of the Tianzhou Cargo Spacecraft (2023)

#ATV #CargoSpacecraft #China #Launch #Research #Rideshare #SpaceStation #Spacecraft #Technology #TiangongSpaceStation #IndustryReportsPapersAndEBooks #SatelliteApplications #SpaceEconomy #SpaceSegment #Upstream

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/11/29/paper-research-and-development-of-the-tianzhou-cargo-spacecraft-2023/

Finished! BATTLE OF YAVIN, 9x12”, ink and watercolor on cotton. A special X-wing commission, so fun to get back into inky mode with my gray Micron pens!

(There’s prints if you’re interested. https://drose.studio/shop/battle-of-yavin-art-print/ )

#illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #StarWars #Spacecraft #SciFi #InkDrawing #InkyGoodness #MicronPen #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

Message in a bottle
Join the mission and have your name engraved on #NASA’s Europa Clipper #spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore #Jupiter's #Europa, an ocean world that may support life.
https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/

📆 1999 #NASA lost its $125-million #Mars #ClimateOrbiter because #spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to #metric measurements 📏 when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched.
None of #JPL’s rigorous quality control procedures caught the error 🐞 in the nine months it took the spacecraft to make its 461-million-mile flight to #Mars 🔴. The miscalculations were enough to throw the spacecraft so far off track that it flew too deeply into the #Martian atmosphere and was destroyed 💥 when it entered its initial #orbit around Mars https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-mn-17288-story.html

@NewScience101
So would love to see a spacecraft similar to the twin GRACE-FO spacecraft that are mapping groundwater on Earth.

A similar mission for mapping potential subsurface water on Mars in detail, who knows maybe there are still aquifiers deep down with secrets from a long distant wet past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRACE_and_GRACE-FO
#mars #gracefo #spacecraft

Malcolm Edwards & Harry Harrison, Spacecraft in Fact and Fiction, Orbis Publishing, 1979.
Cover: Chris Foss. #MalcolmEdwards #HarryHarrison #spacecraft #fact #fiction #ChrisFoss

25% off #sale on wall #Art like #posters and #Canvas #Prints:

A #photograph of #NASA’s #SLS #rocket that carried the new #Orion capsule to the Moon and back as part of its first full-scale test mission.

Get a print or other item with this image at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/artemis-i-at-lc-39b-heron-and-fox.html

#SpaceLaunchSystem, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #LC39B, #spacecraft

Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #atlantis #avgeek #aviationphotography #boeing747 #california #challenger #columbia #discovery #endeavour #enterprise #nasa #palmdale #pennsylvania #pittsburgh #planes #rockwellinternational #sts135 #smithsonian #spaceshuttleprogram #glider #highlight #landing #lowearthorbit #orbiter #reentry #shuttle #space #spacecraft #stevenfudvarhazycenter (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28156594716

More progress on my X-wing #wip commission. First the ink, then the color… gotta get this done next week. 😵‍💫

#inprogress #illustration
#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #StarWars #spacecraft #SciFi #InkDrawing
#MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

Kim Jong Un celebrates North Korea's new 'space power' after spy satellite launch

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrates with scientists and his family after the successful launch of a military spy satellite into orbit.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-25/north-korea-spy-satellite-successfully-launches/103150248

#SecurityIntelligence #WorldPolitics #UnrestConflictandWar #Spacecraft

Scientists will soon find out whether the Lucy mission works as intended
On Wednesday, the #spacecraft will come close to the small #asteroid #Dinkinesh. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/lucy-the-spacecraft-is-about-to-fly-by-lucy-the-asteroid/ #space

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#space #spacecraft #solarsystem #planets #spaceart #gaming #gamers #scifi #ufos #quasar #stars #gamergirl #gamingcommunity #gamingsetup #office

Join Pioneer 11's historic odyssey to Saturn! Witness its groundbreaking revelations that transformed our understanding of the cosmos.
https://skyheadlines.com/pioneer-11/
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#space #spacecraft #spaceflight #astronomy #saturn #cosmos #skyheadlines

#TBThursday

Soaring over Pluto, July 2015

© NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute

Full video and details: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21863

#NewHorizons #spacecraft #nasa #space #pluto #solarsystem #flyover #video #movie #pictures #sputnik #sputnikplanitia #plain #highlands #cthulhu #cthulhumacula #mountains #voyager #terra #voyagerterra #pioneerterra #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #research #exploration

#NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (#ASAP) cited #hope 🙏 that #Boeing’s latest issues with the #spacecraft are coming to a close for a launch in 📆 April https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/11/starliner-asap-nac

“The task requires astronomical precision, and automated guidance systems help aim Psyche's own laser. But should the test work out, the benefits are high: Because laser light has shorter wavelengths than radio waves, using optical light would allow #space missions to send 10 to 100 times more information per unit time than they currently do.”

#NASA's #Psyche #spacecraft just fired a #laser 10 million miles away https://www.space.com/nasa-psyche-asteroid-mission-laser-test-deep-space

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#NeverStopThrusting
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#spacex #space #starship #spaceexploration #engineering #spacecraft #future #rocketry #earth #starbase #mars #nasa

Wired: Here’s What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship https://www.wired.com/story/heres-whats-next-for-spacexs-starship/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #commercialspaceflight #Science/Space #Spacecraft #WhatGoesUp #Science #rockets #SpaceX #space

Hydrogen detected in lunar samples, points to resource availability for space exploration

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-hydrogen-lunar-samples-resource-availability.html

#space #spaceexploration #spacetech #spacetechnology #spacecraft #lunarbase #usnrl #navalresearchlaboratory

Bussard Ramjet in Our Culture: Focus on Larry Niven’s Works

#Science #ScienceFiction #SpaceTravel #Spacecraft #Technology #IndustryReportsPapersAndEBooks #SocioEconomic #SpaceEconomy

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/11/21/bussard-ramjet-in-our-culture-focus-on-larry-nivens-works/

Wonders of the Solar System

White Rock, Pollack Crater, Mars

https://themis.asu.edu/feature/21

#MarsOdyssey #mars #nasa #orbiter #spacecraft #themis #space #exploration #whiterock #dust #wind #sediments #dune #dunes #sand #pollackcrater #crater #solarsystem #wonder #solarsystemwonders #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #research #planet #planets #planetology #asu #seseasu

A study of the mounds that dominate the appearance of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth's larger lobe, named Wenu, by S.A. Stern and co-authors: https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/acf317

Arrokoth, formerly known as Ultima Thule, was visited by the #NewHorizons #spacecraft 4 years ago. This study finds that the mounds are broadly self-similar in many respects and interprets them as the original building blocks of #Arrokoth.

News article by #AGU for more insights: https://eos.org/articles/arrokoths-mounds-hint-at-how-planetesimals-form

#astronomy #astrodon #space

"If #China 🇨🇳 gets there first, they will get to set precedent that’s based on their values and their economic system" 😱. China has now landed #spacecraft on the #lunar 🌙 surface successfully three times this century, while the #US 🇺🇸 has not landed there since #Apollo 17 ⌛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/13/china-nasa-moon-landing-first

#Moon #ISRU #SpaceMining

Live: Four potential names for Australia's first Moon rover to be announced, ahead of public vote
By Tom Williams

The Australian Space Agency will reveal four potential names for the country's first Moon rover, as part of a national competition.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/live-updates-australia-moon-rover-names-shortlist-public-vote/103044826

#SpaceExploration #AstronomySpace #ScienceandTechnology #Spacecraft #GovernmentandPolitics #DefenceandNationalSecurity #Themoon #TomWilliams

Quantum chemistry experiment on ISS creates exotic 5th state of matter

https://www.space.com/quantum-chemistry-gas-cold-atom-lab-iss

#space #astronomy #cosmology #spaceexploration #spacetech #spacetechnology #spacecraft #deepspace

Wired: SpaceX’s Starship Lost Shortly After Launch of Second Test Flight https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-starship-second-orbital-test-flight/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Science/Space #environment #Spacecraft #wildlife #Science #rockets #TakeTwo #SpaceX #space #NASA

#FlashbackFriday

November 2009 - The Rosetta spacecraft performs a final swingby on its way to Comet 67P and captures this stunning view of our pale blue dot.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/First_view_of_Earth_as_Rosetta_approaches_home

#space #esa #rosetta #spacecraft #history #earth #photography #palebluedot #comet #comet67P #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #research #knowlegde #education

Rogue rocket that slammed into the moon last year confirmed to be Chinese vehicle

https://www.space.com/moon-crash-march-2022-china-rocket-body

#space #spaceexploration #spacetech #spacetechnology #spacecraft #rocket #china

Exciting arrival as Soyuz Spacecraft MS-24 brings 3 astronauts to the ISS. Join the journey as they embark on their space exploration mission.
https://skyheadlines.com/soyuz-spacecraft/
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#space #astronomy #spacecraft #russia #iss #skyheadlines

Global Collaboration in Space: Benefits and Challenges

#Artemis #Compatibility #Financial #HumanSpaceflight #IntellectualProperty #InternationalSpaceStation #Interoperability #Moon #Policy #SpaceAgencies #SpaceEconomy #SpaceExploration #SpaceStation #Spacecraft #Spaceflight #Standardization #PolicyLawAndRegulation #SocioEconomic #SpaceEconomy

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/11/14/global-collaboration-in-space-benefits-and-challenges/

While #NASA worked to retire the #Space #Shuttle, there was limited space in the #Orbiter Processing Facilities, so one Shuttle had to wait in the Vehicle Assembly Building.
On this occasion, the two Orbiters #Atlantis and #Endeavour meet nose-to-nose for a #photography session before continuing on to their destination.

Get a print or other item with this image at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/atlantis-and-endeavour-meet-heron-and-fox.html

#KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #Florida, #SpaceShuttle, #ShuttleProgram, #ShuttleAtlantis, #ShuttleEndeavour, #spacecraft, #Photograph

Lurdalagon Patera, Upulevo Fluctus, Mixcoatl, Loki, Dazhbog, Susanoo, Tvashtar, Pele, Wanajo, and many more...

New map of Io's volcanoes and volcanic activities from the Juno spacecraft just published in Nature Astronomy by AG Davies and co-authors: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02123-5

#io #volcanoes #volcano #map #jupiter #moon #juno #nasa #spacecraft #space#science #research #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #volcanology #nature

SpaceX workers face above-average injury rates as Musk prioritizes Mars over safety, report finds

https://www.engadget.com/spacex-workers-face-above-average-injury-rates-as-musk-prioritizes-mars-over-safety-report-finds-224235095.html

#space #spacecraft #spaceflight #spacex #mars #safety #industrialsafety #occupationalhealthandsafety

A #photograph of the #Apollo Service Module’s side, showing one of the four #thruster quads that helped the #spacecraft control its attitude and position.
Each #quad has four R-4D #rocket #engines.
Similar thrusters have been flying on spacecraft ever since, including the new lunar exploration spacecraft Orion.

Get a print or other item with this image at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/apollo-service-module-thruster-heron-and-fox.html

#Apollo, #ApolloServiceModule, #ApolloCSM, #ReactionControlSystem, #RCS, #ThrusterQuad, #R4D, #RocketEngine, #Photography

Paper: Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Space Medicine (2023)

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanSpaceflight #Medicine #SpaceMedicine #Spacecraft #Spaceflight #IndustryReportsPapersAndEBooks #SocioEconomic #SpaceEconomy

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/11/11/paper-challenges-of-artificial-intelligence-in-space-medicine-2023/

The #Apollo Display-Keyboard interface, or #DSKY (disky) provided a way for the Apollo astronauts to interact with the guidance computer and enter commands.
The #AGC was one of the first #computers to use integrated circuits. One was installed on both the Apollo #spacecraft and the Lunar Module.
This AGC was used on the #Apollo10 mission and is on display at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex.

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NASA, SpaceX Launch New Science, Hardware to Space Station

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-spacex-launch-new-science-hardware-to-space-station/

#space #spacecraft #spaceexploration #spaceflight #spacetech #spacetechnology #nasa #spacex

NASA’s robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of, setting the stage for miners to follow someday

https://www.space.com/nasa-robotic-prospectors-helping-asteroid-mining

#space #spaceexploration #spacetech #spacetechnology #spacecraft

The #Juno #spacecraft spotted evidence of a salty #ocean on #Jupiter’s biggest #moon

https://www.popsci.com/science/juno-salt-ocean-ganymede-jupiter/

A #vertical, #stitched #panorama of the #SpaceX #Falcon 9 #rocket and the #Dragon cargo #spacecraft at LC-41 before the #COTS2 demo flight for #NASA.
The SpaceX-extended flame trench directly faces the camera.

Get a print or other item with this image at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/spacex-cots-2-demo-heron-and-fox.html

#Falcon9, #Falcon9Rocket, #COTSDemo, #COTS, #LC41, #CCAFS, #Photography

NASA Seeks Students to Imagine Nuclear Powered Space Missions

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-seeks-students-to-imagine-nuclear-powered-space-missions/

#space #spacecraft #spaceexploration #spaceflight #spacemission #nasa

ESA's #spacecraft #PLATO is scheduled to be launched in 2026. At #mpsgoettingen it is flying already!

Wired: The Euclid Space Telescope’s Spectacular First Photos of Distant and Hidden Galaxies https://www.wired.com/story/the-euclid-space-telescopes-spectacular-first-photos-of-distant-and-hidden-galaxies/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #EuropeanSpaceAgency #Science/Space #astrophysics #Spacecraft #telescopes #darkmatter #StarBright #Astronomy #cosmology #galaxies #Science #space

“This is the most-instrumented hypersonic re-entry in history”

Asteroid sampler’s hypersonic return thrilled scientists: here’s what they learnt.

✍️ by Alexandra Witze for Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03318-6

#space #science #OSIRISREx #nasa #spacecraft #capsule #asteroid #ToBennuAndBack #hypersonic #physics #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #research

Think about it... This is #NASA performing remote maintenance and software upgrade on a nearly half a century old #spacecraft navigating at the edge of the solar system: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-software-patch-thrusters. 🛰️💾 #aerospace #engineering #STEM

China launches mystery satellite on Long March 7A rocket

https://www.space.com/china-tjs-10-mystery-satellite-launch

#space #spacecraft #spaceexploration #spaceflight #satellites #satellite #china

Nature Astronomy covers appreciation post

Voyager 1 in the interstellar medium (2021)

Image: Jack Madden, Rhode Island School of Design
Cover Design: Allen Beattie

https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/5/issues/8

Cherck out this brief Research Highlight by Nature: "Persistent plasma waves in interstellar space detected by Voyager 1" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01363-7

#space #voyager #voyager1 #spacecraft #solarsystem #plasma #waves #plasmawaves #physics #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #science #universe #astrodon #nature

“… researchers have discovered significant amounts of metals in aerosols in the #atmosphere, likely from increasingly frequent launches and returns of spacecraft and satellites. That mass of metal is changing atmospheric chemistry in ways that may impact #Earth’s atmosphere and ozone layer.”

Signatures of the #Space Age: #Spacecraft metals left in the wake of humanity’s path to the stars https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q4/signatures-of-the-space-age-spacecraft-metals-left-in-the-wake-of-humanitys-path-to-the-stars.html

#pollution

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair. More from NASA.com. https://flip.it/gq.Wb3
#NASA #Space #SpaceCraft #LucyMission

Returning astronauts to the moon is NASA's biggest challenge, but not its only one: report

https://www.space.com/nasa-biggest-challenges-return-to-moon-oig-report

#space #spacecraft #spaceexploration #spaceflight #nasa

#NASA’s tiny #spacecraft, and the #RSVvaccine shortage

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/03/1082942/the-download-nasas-tiny-spacecraft-and-the-rsv-vaccine-shortage/

Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #atlantis #avgeek #aviationphotography #challenger #columbia #discovery #endeavour #enterprise #nasa #planes #cryogenic #highlight #hypergolic #orbiter #rocket #solidrocketbooster #spaceshuttle #spacecraft #spaceplane (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28112721131

Eighty-two percent of senior executives in Deloitte’s 📆 2023 #space survey said that innovation in the #SpaceMarket is a priority for their organization. #SmallSats 🛰️ accounted for about 95% 📊 of #spacecraft launched in 2022. As of 2022, the global #SpaceSector had attracted private equity investments of about US$272 billion 💰 into 1,791 unique companies since 2013 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/aerospace-defense/future-of-space-economy.html

#InSpaceManufacturing #AdditiveManufacturing #SpaceRobot #SpaceSustainability #SpaceCompany

Nette Idee.

#SPACECRAFT SIZES seen in first person view!

https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=lw6qppma02s

Mir persönlich fehlen da die "Nostromo", der "Adler" aus "Mondbasis Alpha 1" und die "Spaceball 1".

Und ich frage mich, ab welcher Größe/Masse die Raumschiffe eine messbare Gravitation bekommen.

#ScienceFiction
#Raumschiff
#Nerdcore

Gaganyaan launch test
Abort system worked the best
Onward towards success

#gaganyaan #india #spacecraft #launchabort #haiku #poetry

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/india-celebrates-first-major-milestone-on-path-to-launching-astronauts/

#WashingtonPost 📆 October 21, 2023 The discovery sheds light on the #environmental aftermath of a growing number of #rockets 🚀, #satellites 🛰️ and other human-made #spacecraft that give off metal vapors 💨 as they reenter 🔥 the #atmosphere https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/21/satellites-rockets-shed-metals-space

#SpaceDebris

#Moon #Io from #Spacecraft #Juno
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231023.html

#APOD

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Spacecraft! HEAVY LIGHT is a #watercolor #painting of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launching last November. I was so sorry to miss a chance to see one in person when the Psyche mission delayed a week, but one of these days…

#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space
#MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

A lovely, vintage 1968 cover of Science Magazine to celebrate the international #ObserveTheMoon night, featuring a lunar gravimetric map of the earthside hemisphere, obtained by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft tracking data.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/161/3842

#moon #gravimetry #map #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #universe #space #science #research #cover #sciencecovers #lunarorbiter #spacecraft

Wired: Things Are Looking Up for Asteroid Mining https://www.wired.com/story/things-are-looking-up-for-asteroid-mining/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #CommercialSpace #Science/Space #Spacecraft #Asteroids #Science #mining #RockOn #space #Metal #moon

NASA launches spacecraft to a mysterious metal-rich asteroid

✍️ by @michaelgreshko for Science Magazine
📷 Joe Skipper/Reuters

https://science.org/content/article/nasa-launches-spacecraft-mysterious-metal-rich-asteroid

#MissionToPsyche #nasa #spacecraft #psyche #asteroid #universe #space #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #research

Spacecraft 18
#AI #AIGC #aiart #AIArtwork #nijijourney #nijijourney5 #nijiart #midjourney #MidjourneyAI #MidJourneyArt #midjourneyartwork #midjourneycommunity #spacecraft

If West Virginia University research pays off, debris that litters the #planet’s orbit and poses a threat to #spacecraft and #satellites could get nudged off potential collision courses by a coordinated network of #space #lasers.
#Engineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/eng10042303.html

#FAA wants rocket jockeys to clean up after their #space launch parties
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed rules for commercial space launch companies to address orbital debris, a growing threat to #spacecraft and #satellites.Options include conducting controlled re-entry; uncontrolled atmospheric disposal; moving upper stage to a storage or graveyard #orbit; retrieving the upper stage within five years; or pushing it into an Earth-escape orbit.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/22/faa_orbital_debris_rules/

We already pointed to issues for #ESAEuclid requiring extra time for commissioning. 👩🏼‍🏭 The #Euclid #spacecraft saw unexpected straylight 💡 and X-ray photons 🩻 from a hyperactive sun, and the fine guiding sensor 🔬 software was not yet to specifications.

It's starting to look better: Avoiding some sun-angles gets rid of straylight, while industry, ESA, and @ec_euclid scientists 👩🏿‍💻 are working on software updates and diagnostics.

👉🏻 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Seeking_Euclid_s_hidden_stars_commissioning_looks_up

#astrodon #astronomy

🛰️ #osirisrex, a #NASA mission to explore the asteroid #Bennu, has successfully returned to Earth with 250 grams of pristine #asteroid material.

🚀🤖🪐
This record-breaking amount was collected by the #spacecraft using a special mechanism and will be studied by scientists to learn more about the formation of our solar system.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/osiris-rex-returns-to-earth-bennu-asteroid-mission-videos

#STEM #Science #engineering #astronomy #geography #physics #space

📆 September 19, 2023 #IntuitiveMachines and #Astrobotic have built two commercially developed landers, named #NOVAC and #Peregrine, which are slated to launch later this year.
On most parts of the #moon 🌙, a two-week period of daylight is followed by 14 days of #lunar night 🌑, making it difficult for #spacecraft to survive. Near the south pole, however, where some areas are lit most of the time, the #SolarPanels on the sides of #VIPER’s body will allow the rover to operate for more than a hundred days. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/exploring-moon-permanently-shadowed-regions-water-ice

#SpaceCompany

Cheers to #OSIRISREx #ToBennuAndBack with this cover by Nature from back in 2019

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/568/issues/7750

#astronomy #astrophysics #nasa #spacecraft #asteroid #asteroids #astrodon #space #science #research #nature #cover #naturecovers

A little Chesley Bonestell to start your day, "Landing on Mars" from 1954 or '55.

#spacecraft #retrofuturism #mars

Nature Journal astronomy covers - 1993

Is there life on Earth?

Featuring a paper by Carl Sagan and co-authors on a search for life on the pale blue dot from the Galileo spacecraft, as a control experiment for the search for extraterrestrial life by interplanetary missions.

https://nature.com/articles/365715a0

#carlsagan #earth #palebluedot #life #galileo #spacecraft #nasa #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #research #nature #cover #naturecovers

Video shows #NASA #spacecraft flying through "one of the most powerful" #sun explosions ever recorded

https://flip.it/hGqSXV

#ESAEuclid is a space mission. While that means it's not susceptible to rain and clouds, it is affected by "SpaceWeather"!

The #sun ☀️ is ramping up its activity in the #SolarCycle, and when emitting substantial bursts, these will be noticed by 🛰️ #spacecraft - and Earth. For #Euclid this can mean many more hits by #cosmicrays.

(👉🏼 See also: https://www.euclid-ec.org/whats-in-euclids-first-light-images)

For Earth this can mean #aurorae! This picture of an #aurora above #Edinburgh just now was taken by our EC member Gordon Gibb.

Back to some space history neepery, hmm? I've previously spoken of the 1964 World's Fair in New York City as a last gasp of 20th century techno-optimism, and this is a little bit more from it. It's art of the Hall of Science's "movie hall", showing a Martin Marietta station and spaceship. It was printed in the Souvenir Book of the fair.

#WorldsFair #retrofuturism #1960s #space #spacecraft

Nature Journal astronomy covers - 2004

Dear ET...

How to communicate with distant aliens

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/431/issues/7004

#goldenrecord #nasa #voyager #spacecraft #et #nature #cover #naturecover #astonomy #astrophysics #space #science #research #astrodon #alien #aliens #aliencivilization

The pad (other than a fence) certainly looks great after that static fire. The "booster bidet" system seems to be working exactly as needed and the concrete around it is fully intact. If we have all 33 engines working this will mean the chances of a second Starship test launch in the next few weeks look to be quite high.

#SpaceX #Starship #FlightTest #Space #Spacecraft

News at 9PM: #India has successfully landed a #spacecraft near the #Moon's south pole, marking its entry as the fourth country to land on the #Moon. The #UK has achieved a medical milestone with its first-ever womb transplant. #Wagner's boss was listed as a passenger on a crashed plane in #Russia, where eight bodies have been found at the crash site. US President #Biden has been briefed on this incident. #BBC #News

Congratulations #ISRO and #India on becoming the fourth country to successfully perform a soft-landing on the #Moon, and the first to do so near the lunar south pole!

The #chandrayaan3 mission consists of the #Vikram lander and the #Pragyan rover. The #spacecraft was launched atop an #LVM3 #rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 14 July 2023 and successfully touched down between Manzinus C and Simpelius N craters a few hours ago at 12:32 UTC (23 August 2023).

You can find the initial announcement here: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-india-66576580

#lunarlanding #lunarexploration #lunarlander #lunarrover

India’s Chandrayaan-13 makes historic landing at Moon’s south pole

India successfully lands spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, making it the first country to do so.Indian PM Modi says missions success “belongs to all of ...
India’s Chandrayaan-3 makes historic landing at Moon’s south pole

WE HAVE DONE IT !!!!

#India becomes the 4th Nation to reach the #Moon & 1st to be on its South Pole!

Just a few minutes ago our #Spacecraft #Chandrayaan3 made a successful soft #MoonLanding
Congrats #ISRO & #Chandrayaan team.

From c1700 Book of Dreams (we don't just dream now!) this #Rajput #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Udaipur #Mewar #Rajasthan now at Los Angeles County #Museum of 'Moon-God #Chandra in His Antelope Chariot'

#Art #IndianHeritage #IndianMythology #Hinduism
@pvonhellermannn

#India lands #spacecraft near #SouthPole of #Moon in world first | The moon | The Guardian

Well done to #ISRO and India

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/23/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-mission

#Science #Technology #Space #Chandrayaan-3

This is the other picture by Northrop's "Todd" I mentioned yesterday. It's the N-205, which was proposed in 1958 as a trainer for the X-15 and Dyna-Soar.

While it's "just" a variant on the T-38 which is used down to this day as a more conventional supersonic jet training plane, this one is in my area of interest because of how it was to be flown. With a rocket assist, it would have done a ballistic arc up to 60+ kilometers (and almost 87 km in a later version). SPA-ACE!

#spacecraft #aerospace

#Luna25 : #Roscosmos said that measures to find and re-establish contact 📶 with the craft had failed, and that it calculated the failure of the adjustment meant that Luna-25 had deviated from its planned #orbit and “ceased its existence as a result of a #collision 💥 with the lunar surface.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/science/russia-moon-space-crash.html

#Telegram message : "On August 19, at about 14:57 Moscow time, communication with the Luna-25 #spacecraft was interrupted.
Measures implemented on August 19 and 20 to search for the spacecraft and communicate with it did not yield any results.
According to the results of preliminary analysis, due to the deviation of actual pulse parameters from the calculated ones, the spacecraft moved to a non-calculated orbit and ceased to exist as a result of collision with the surface of the #Moon.
A specially formed interdepartmental commission will investigate the reasons for the loss of the Luna."

🇷🇺 Russia's robot lander the Luna-25 #spacecraft crashed into the #moon after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported on Sunday.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-space-roscosmos-crash-658f5118c34cfa0f1501cc7522074323

#russia #space #Luna25

The #Russian space agency says its #Luna-25 #spacecraft has crashed into the moon

https://apnews.com/article/russia-space-roscosmos-crash-658f5118c34cfa0f1501cc7522074323

🇷🇺 #TASS The Lunar dust monitor registered a #meteoroid ☄️ impact 🕳️ event, most likely as of the #Perseids #meteor shower. Capturing of two photo 📷 images increased the knowledge about the #spacecraft’s #orbit 🧭. https://tass.com/science/1662519

#Luna25

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NEW HORIZONS at Jupiter (2007)

Featuring a montage of images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken from the #spacecraft New Horizons.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/318/5848

On #Jupiter, high-altitude clouds are shown in blue and deeper #clouds in red. Just visible in the #Io image is an ongoing volcanic eruption on its nightside, in which incandescent lava glows red beneath a high #volcanic plume lit by sunlight

#nasa #newhorizons #space #astronomy #astrodon #science

My current #SF movie bugbear: Non-rotating #spacecraft with a large rotating section for the human habitat. Bonus points if the habitable part spans both the rotating and non-rotating portions and the crew can move freely between them.

It's an absurdly complex #engineering challenge to build it this way, it introduces an open set of failure modes that would not otherwise exist and there's no good reason for any of it that I can think of.

Instead, rotate the whole ship, and if there are a few things which for some reason must not be rotated (scopes, antennae and cameras, perhaps?) place them in the smallest and simplest possible unpressurised nonrotating segment at the axis.

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Rosetta Visits Lutetia (2011)

Featuring asteroid 21 Lutetia, as seen by the Rosetta spacecraft from a distance of ~3500 kilometers in July 2010. Lutetia, 120 kilometers across, located in the asteroid main belt, is a remnant planetesimal from the time of our solar system's formation and is one of the largest asteroids that have been visited by a spacecraft.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/334/6055

#astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #asteroid #spacecraft #esa

Science Magazine Astronomy Covers

Ulysses at Jupiter (1992)

Featuring a drawing of the Ulysses spacecraft leaving Jupiter, traveling southward in the previously unexplored dusk sector. Also featured: the large Io plasma torus and a small Auroral Oval. Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/257/5076

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers #jupiter #ulysses #spacecraft #rendezvous #io #aurora #dusk #solarsystem #exploration #nasa #jpl

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Recording solar cycles (2019)

https://nature.com/natastron/volumes/3/issues/3

Image: World History Archive / Alamy Stock Photo (top); NASA/SDO, AIA, EVE, HMI science teams (bottom)
Cover Design: A. Beattie, A. Muñoz-Jaramillo, J.M. Vaquero

Feature article on the long-term sunspot number record: https://rdcu.be/bYZkg

#sun #sunspot #sunspots #visualization #nasa #sdo #spacecraft #solarphysics #physics #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #universe #space #science #research

Moon ji,

Our #spacecraft #chandrayaan3 has a successful lift-off.
It is in orbit. Our #spacemisson is on track
It will reach you on Aug. 23

The #rocket is a LVM3 M4 vehicle & not 'Rahu' which our ancient #IndianMythology sent to 'devour' you when he was starved!

He can be seen here, in this c1720 AD #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Nurpur or #Guler #Punjab hills #HimachalPradesh & now at #Chandigarh #Museum #India

Regards,
India.

@pvonhellermannn #art #mastoart #IndianHeritage #Isro

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Lunar impact (2016) - How this crater got its rings

Featuring a digital terrain model of the Orientale impact basin.
Credit: Ernest Wright, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

https://www.science.org/toc/science/354/6311

#moon #crater #topography #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #universe #grail #spacecraft #nasa #lunarcraters #craters #visualization

#ISRO confirmed that the #spacecraft has successfully entered its planned orbit around #Earth 🌏. The vehicle is expected to land near the #Moon’s 🌙 south pole towards the end of 📆 August. https://www.independent.co.uk/space/chandrayaan-india-moon-south-pole-b2375105.html

#Chandrayaan3

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Jupiter revisited (2018) - Juno mission offers a fresh perspective on the gas giant

Featuring a stunning view of the central cyclone at the planet's north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it.

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/555/issues/7695

Credit image: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #jupiter #cyclone #cyclones #juno #spacecraft #nasa #planet #planets

Timeline of #SpaceExploration

• 📆 1610 discovery 🔭 of the Galilean #moons 🪐 (of #Jupiter) 🇮🇹
• 📆 1944 First man-made object in #space 🇩🇪
• 📆 1949 First #mammal in #space 🇺🇸
• 📆 1959 First #spacecraft to reach the #Moon 🇷🇺
• 📆 1989 First #astrometric #satellite 🇪🇺
• 📆 2001 First #laser #satellite link 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
• 📆 2010 First #sample return from an #asteroid 🇯🇵
• 📆 2015 First #propulsive landing of an #orbital #rocket 🚀
• 📆 2022 First #asteroid ☄️ deflected by a #spacecraft 🇺🇸

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration

Picture : #Oumuamua 2017 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_20171025-16_gif.gif

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Signatures of the Sun's Center (2007) - featuring the SOHO spacecraft

https://science.org/toc/science/316/5831

#universe #sun #soho #spacecraft #sohospacecraft #helioseismology #stellarstructure #solarphysics #physics #esa #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #star

Soyuz MS-05, 28 July 2017, on its way to the International Space Station. Near Kökpek, Kazakhstan
#soyuz #rocket #spacecraft #Kazakhstan

Check out this jaw-dropping cover of the Nature Journal published in 2011

Europa's Great Lakes - Watery origins for surface chaos on Jupiter's icy moon

Credit image: Britney E. Schmidt & Deadpixel VFX/Jackson School of Geosciences/UTIG/Vetlesen Foundation/NASA.

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/479/issues/7374

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #europa #geology #chaos #geomorphology #jupiter #moon #satellite #galileo #spacecraft

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The Cassini mission (2017)

Art by James Tuttle Keane

https://nature.com/natastron/volumes/1/issues/9 @NatureAstronomy

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #cassini #spacecraft #saturn #planet #planets #space #science #research #natureastronomy #cover #art #coverart #covers #natureastronomycovers

A spectacular image of Sputnik Planum on Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, makes the cover of this 2016 issue of the Nature Journal

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/534/issues/7605

📷 NASA/Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab./Southwest Research Inst. Image composition and processing by P. Schenk & P. Engebretson.

#nasa #newhorizons #spacecraft #pluto #sputnikplanum #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research

A superb artist's rendition of the Kepler-9 system, with its two Saturn-size planets, makes the cover of the issue #6000 of Science Magazine back in 2010

Credit image: NASA/Ames/JPL Caltech/T. Pyle
https://science.org/toc/science/330/6000

#exoplanets #kepler #spacecraft #kepler-9 #nasa #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers

With Enceladus making the headlines for the detection, in data taken by the Cassini spacecraft Cosmic Dust Analyzer, of phosphates originating in its subsurface ocean, let's enjoy this 2015 Nature cover featuring some simulated eruptions from fractures in the moon's surface.

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/521/issues/7550

#enceladus #saturn #cassini #spacecraft #life #astronomy #astrobiology #astrophysics #space #science #research #universe #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #astrodon

New result from the Cassini spacecraft Cosmic Dust Analyzer

Evidence of phosphates in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, confirms that the water is alkaline. The finding provides clues about the geochemistry and origin of this moon and its ability to support life.

News & Views article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01886-1
research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05987-9

#enceladus #saturn #cassini #spacecraft #life #astronomy #astrobiology #astrophysics #space #science #research #universe

New observations of #Starlink Generation 2 'Mini' #spacecraft by Mallama et al. suggest that they are "fainter than Gen 1 spacecraft despite their larger size".

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657

#satellites

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Dawn explores Ceres (2016) - Featuring Ahuna Mons, a 4-kilometer-high cryovolcano formed by an eruption of ice from beneath the surface and an unnamed 17-kilometer-diameter crater.

https://science.org/toc/science/353/6303

#universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters

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MESSENGER Returns to Mercury (2008)

https://science.org/toc/science/321/5885

#universe #mercury #messenger #spacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem

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Along for the ride (2011) - The Trojan asteroid that shares Earth's orbit

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/475/issues/7357

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #trojan #asteroid #lagrange #lagrangepoint #lagrangepointL4 #orbit #orbits #nasa #wise #nasawise #mission #neowise #spacecraft

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Geology of Europa (1981)

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/289/issues/5793

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #europa #geology #jupiter #moon #satellite #voyager2 #mission #spacecraft #nasa #jpl

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Leaving the Heliosphere (2008) - Voyager 2 reports back

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/454/issues/7200

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #heliosphere #voyager #voyager2 #mission #spacecraft #nasa #jpl

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Sands of Titan (2015)

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/517/issues/7532

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #planets #planet #moon #moons #satellite #satellites #saturn #titan #cassini #spacecraft

Europe successfully launches #spacecraft toward the moons of #Jupiter https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/europe-is-about-to-launch-one-of-its-most-ambitious-missions-ever/ "Europe decided to fly the mission after NASA's Galileo and Cassini probes discovered that some of the moons around Jupiter and Saturn were covered in ice and likely harbored large, subsurface oceans where microbial life might exist." #NASA #ESA