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Sunday’s space news scan takes note of the Rosetta spacecraft’s successful flyby of the asteroid Lutetia on Saturday, a coup for the European Space Agency. NASA educators reach out to Orlando students to stress the importance of science and math. In Huntsville, laid off space workers unite to look for new professional opportunities close to home.
1. From Spaceflightnow.com: The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft carries out a successful flyby of the asteroid Lutetia at mid-day Saturday, collecting more than 400 images of the 4.5 billion-year-old space rock. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/10rosetta/
A. From Space.com: Saturday’s asteroid encounter took place 282 million miles from the Earth.
http://www.space.com/13422-photos-asteroid-lutetia-images-rosetta-spacecraft.html
2. From Rianovosti: Using a Proton rocket, the Russians launch a new Dishnet communications satellite on Saturday. http://en.rian.ru/science/20100710/159758098.html
3. From the Orlando Sentinel: NASA educational specialists gather in Orlando on Saturday to encourage students to study science, technology, engineering and math. The program includes robots, a hovercraft and an inflatable planetarium.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-nasa-science-day-20100710,0,3754048.story
4. From Spaceflightnow.com: NASA traditionally looks to the Department of Energy for the plutonium 238 it needs for the electricity to power robotic missions far from the sun. But supplies of the radioactive material are low, and NASA is awaiting Congressional approval to re-start plutonium production or permission to strike a deal with the Russians for plutonium. However, a third supplier may be in the wings, the European Space Agency. ESA considers Americium 241 to be an alternative. It could become part of a contribution for an international mission destined for Jupiter’s moons. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/09rtg/
5. From the Houston Chronicle: British Petroleum execs and others have compared the challenge of capping the Gulf Oil spill to NASA’s Apollo 13 rescue. Are they really comparable? The Chronicle asks some experts, including those close to the moon mission recovery.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7102865.html
6. From the Huntsville Times: Space professionals who are losing their jobs have banded together as the Huntsville Space Professionals. Middle aged and older, these folks hope to rescue their careers without leaving their home town. “It would be a shame for all that talent we have here to move out of town,” says one.
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/07/huntsville_space_professionals.html
7. From Florida Today: Larry Clark, ATK’s Florida director of engineering, looks back at a long career at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Currently, he’s part of a team preparing the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s final shuttle missions.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100711/NEWS02/7110322/Booster-rocket-work-winds-down
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