Category: 2. Space
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Russia blames Luna-25 crash on computer glitch
WASHINGTON — Russia says its first lunar lander mission in nearly half a century crashed in August because of faulty commands in an onboard computer during a maneuver. The Luna-25 spacecraft crashed Aug. 19 during a maneuver to lower the spacecraft’s orbit around the moon to set up a landing planned for two days later.…
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Goddard Earth Science Projects Featured at the American Geophysical Union
Welcome to the 2022 AGU It felt like the first day at a new school – scrambling out of the car in the carpool lane, backpacks swinging over our shoulders, then facing the large entryway of the new and daunting building. For a week in December, nearly 23,000 people roam the large Chicago convention center…
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6 things to know about NASA’s asteroid-exploring Psyche mission
This illustration, updated in April 2022, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Set to launch in August 2022, the Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft will arrive in early 2026 and orbit the asteroid—also shown in this illustration—for nearly…
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NASA’s Hubble Finds Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place
5 min read NASA’s Hubble Finds Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place This is an artist’s concept of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space. Called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), it shines intensely in blue light and evolves rapidly, reaching peak brightness and fading again in a matter of days, unlike…
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NASA expands purchase of commercial Earth-observation data with latest award
SAN FRANCISCO — In a dramatic expansion of the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program, NASA announced Oct. 2 that seven companies will compete for contracts with a maximum value of $476 million over five years. Airbus DS Geo, Capella Space, GHGSat, Maxar, PlanetiQ, Spire Global and Umbra were selected under the fixed-price, indefinite delivery, indefinite…
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Hubble captures intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 6951
Credit: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ESA, A. Filippenko (University of California – Berkeley), R. Foley (University of California – Santa Cruz), C. Kilpatrick (Northwestern University), and D. Sand (University of Arizona); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Bright blue spiral arms twist around the bright-white center of this starry galaxy. This new NASA Hubble…
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Plot thickens in hunt for ninth planet
Oct 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system of a modified law of gravity originally developed to understand the rotation of galaxies. Researchers Harsh Mathur, a professor of physics at Case Western…
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Gravitational distortion of time helps tell modified gravity apart from a dark force
Artist concept of Gravity Probe B orbiting the Earth to measure space-time, a four-dimensional description of the universe including height, width, length, and time. Credit: NASA With his theory of General Relativity in 1915, Albert Einstein revolutionized how we think about our universe. Rather than the cosmos simply providing the room for the planets and…
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NASA’s Honey Astrobee Robot Returns to Space
The International Space Station is abuzz with the return of one of NASA’s Astrobee smart robots. The yellow Honey Astrobee, one of three free-flying robots, was unboxed in space after spending nearly a year at its home base, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Honey had returned to Earth in September 2022 for…
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Experts Divided on the FAA Imposing Human Spaceflight Safety Regulations
One side-effect of the stop-gap spending bill passed by Congress to prevent a government shutdown last Saturday (September 30) was a three-month extension of the moratorium preventing the Federal Aviation […] The post Experts Divided on the FAA Imposing Human Spaceflight Safety Regulations appeared first on SpaceRef. Continue Reading News Source: spaceref.com