NASA Twins Readied for Moon Flight
Twin robotic probes to orbit Earth’s Moon are ready for their launch to chart our next-door neighbor’s gravity field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission by NASA will make use of two spacecraft that fly in tandem orbits...Space Station View of Menacing Hurricane Irene
It’s big, powerful, and has caught the eyes of astronauts on the International Space Station. The large and looming hurricane Irene was caught on camera yesterday from the ISS by astronaut Ron Garan. The image above shows the storm passing over the Caribbean. In a...Opportunity Mars Rover Begins Up-Close Inspection Duties
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is inspecting an interesting feature – a flat-topped rock. It was chosen by the rover team as a stop for inspecting with tools on Opportunity’s robotic arm, just a few days after the rover arrived at the western rim of...Book Review: The Case for Mars – The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (Revised/Updated)
The Case for Mars – The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner; Free Press – an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York; $16.99 (paperback); 2011. This is a revised and updated issue of the seminal...Solar-sensational! New Video View – Anatomy of a Coronal Mass Ejection
Scientists making use of NASA’s STEREO spacecraft have created the first detailed images of a three-day journey by solar wind that slams into the Earth at speeds up to a million miles per hour. Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Solar...NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons Probe: Healthy and On Course!
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – now en route to Pluto — remains healthy and on course. The probe is roughly 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is – well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. The craft was launched in January 2006. “From...Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Prepared for Acoustic Testing
Work on the Orion MPCV, or Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, has reached a new milestone. Last week at Lockheed Martin facilities near Denver, the Orion MPCV was crowned with a Launch Abort System. In that fully-stacked condition, the combined length of the coupled gear...Mars Rover at Endeavour Crater: New Rim Shots!
New imagery from NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has revealed more details from the rim of Endeavour crater. The Mars robot has rolled itself to the large impact crater that measures about 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter. In pulling up to the crater, Opportunity’s...China’s Experimental Space Laboratory: Tiangong I
China continues to press forward in its plans to loft an experimental space laboratory – and according to one space watcher, China’s Tiangong I may fly sooner than expected. According to Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of...Space Talk
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BLUE ORIGIN IPO WATCH
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin could go public in the coming years after raising $10B in external funding.
The company has reportedly sought a valuation near $130B.
A major development for the commercial space industry.
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NASA JPL just measured something wild: Earth's center of mass moves a few millimeters every year.
March snow: ~3 mm north.
November Southeast Asian monsoon: ~600 gigatons of water.
Old estimates were off by 7 mm.
Thread on how they did it: 🧵
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds Water Returned to the Same Place on Mars at Least Three Times - @ZMEScience https://buff.ly/LG0EQJc
The same Martian rocks show evidence of groundwater, a lake and later hot fluids, making them valuable targets for future searches.
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