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“#Astronauts perform 2nd spacewalk to swap station batteries” In this image taken from NASA video, commander Chris Cassidy, right, and NASA astronaut Bob Behnken perform their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday, July 1, 2020, to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station. (NASA via AP) Astronauts performed their second spacewalk in under…
“#SpaceX launches Air Force’s newest GPS satellite” SpaceX launched the military’s newest, most accurate GPS satellite Tuesday after a two-month delay due to the pandemic. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying the GPS satellite to orbit. The brand new first-stage booster landed on an ocean platform several…
“#Hat tip to ‘Star Trek’? US Space Force names new unit ‘SpOC’” The US Space Force will have a command unit known as SpOC, raising eyebrows from “Star Trek” fans The United States’ new Space Force military wing revealed Tuesday that one of its units would be named “Space Operations Command”—or “SpOC” for short, in…
“#Revealing the magnetic nature of tornadoes in the sun’s atmosphere” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The first direct measurements of the magnetic field in the chromosphere of the sun by a team including University of Warwick physicists has provided the first observational evidence that huge tornadoes in our sun’s atmosphere are produced by swirling magnetic fields….
“#Spacecraft helps identify solar radiation patterns that expose the moon” When the solar wind blows, Earth’s magnetosphere can flap in the breeze. When it’s strong enough, it can expose the Moon to particle radiation. Credit: Genna Duberstein/ADNET/Q.Q. Shi/Shandong Univ Which way the wind blows in space has new importance for astronaut safety at the moon….
“#Solar Orbiter ready for science despite COVID-19 setbacks” Solar Orbiter instruments. Credit: ESA-S.Poletti ESA’s Solar Orbiter has successfully completed four months of painstaking technical verification, known as commissioning. Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the spacecraft is now ready to begin performing science as it continues its cruise towards the sun. When Solar…
“#Astronaut says losing mirror on spacewalk was ‘real bummer’” In this image taken from NASA video, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, right answers a question as fellow astronaut Robert L. Behnken listens during an interview aboard the International Space Station, Monday, June 29, 2020. Cassidy, the commander of the International Space Station said Monday that losing…
“#Scientists demonstrate speed, precision of in situ planetary dating device” SwRI is designing the CODEX instrument to use radioisotope dating techniques in situ to determine the age of rocks on other planets or moons. With fiver lasers and a mass spectrometer, the 20-inch-cube instrument is designed to vaporize tiny bits of rock and measure the…
“#Japan to boost space cooperation with US in revised policy” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Japan said Monday it will step up its defense capability in space and improve its ability to detect and track missiles, while cooperating with the United States in response to what it called a growing threat from North Korea and China….
“#Habitat Mars: Learning to live sustainably on the red planet” The Mars Society prototype habitat in Utah conducts studies on what it would be like to live on Mars. Credit: Mars Society MRDS There’s quite a bit of buzz these days about how humanity could become a “multiplanetary” species. This is understandable, considering that space…