Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly

When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why
#AureFreePress #News #Space #Astronomy #NASA #JWST

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2391083-asteroid-hit-by-nasa-spacecraft-is-behaving-unexpectedly/

#NASA picking #Starship and Blue Moon for HLS is a *massive* step to enabling Mars missions. They will, together, demonstrate cryogenic refueling, a depot, and Active Boiloff Mitigation. The IMLEO of Artemis 3 alone is probably larger than any of the options of Mars DRA 5.0.

https://x.com/robotbeat/status/1700926609916604462?s=46

The Case for a Small Universe
#AureFreePress #Space #Astronomy #NASA #JWST

https://www.universetoday.com/163112/the-case-for-a-small-universe/

#NASA has some of super-cool interior design.

In 📆 2014, #NASA selected #Boeing and #SpaceX for the CCtCap contracts. Under the contract, Boeing received $4.2 billion 💰💰💰💰, and SpaceX received $2.6 💰💰 billion. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/starliner-update/

#Starliner #CrewDragon

#NASA #PerseveranceMarsRover captured #IngenuityHelicopter's #popupflight on #Mars
Video taken by the rover's #MastcamZimager from a distance of approximately 180 feet, shows the helicopter performing a preflight #wigglecheck
After rotating to the left, the helicopter then touched back down
Nasa's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully captured the 54th flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in thin Martian air.
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/watch-rover-captured-ingenuity-helicopters-pop-up-flight-on-mars-2431744-2023-09-06

September 6, 2021, #NASA’s #Perseverance #Mars rover successfully collected its first rock sample from a Martian boulder 🪨🔨🤖

https://forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2022/09/06/in-its-first-year-exploring-rocks-on-mars-what-did-perseverance-find/

#Chandrayaan3Lander Spotted On The #Moon By #NASA #satellite
#LunarReconnaissanceOrbiter #LRO captured a photograph of the lander of Chandrayaan-3
https://www.ndtv.com/science/nasa-posts-pic-of-chandrayaan-3-lander-on-moon-clicked-by-its-satellite-4363633

This happens a lot. Steve Vogel has a chapter in his book on how the #DOD made it happened at the #Pentagon. I have a chapter in my book about how #NASA made it happened at the #KennedySpaceCenter.

So #Musk is moving all #SpaceX launch streams to #Twitter /#X, if you didn’t think he was a risk to national security — Why should people *have* to use an unstable and allegedly N*zi-platforming website to see mostly #NASA missions? He is obviously negatively impacting SpaceX and NASA.

Waiting patiently to see SpaceX be nationalized at this point. And no, I will not be rejoining that hellhole to see streams. Neither should you.

SpaceX Crew-6 NASA mission splashes down off Florida after ISS stay ends

> The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour pierced the atmosphere at 17,000 mph, its heat shield enduring temperatures hotter than 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Over the course of an hour, the capsule eventually slowed to a leisurely 15 mph under a canopy of parachutes with a gentle touchdown in the Atlantic Ocean off Jacksonville, Fla.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197481976/spacex-nasa-crew-6-iss-returns-earth-splashdown #NASA #SpaceX #ISS

Merritt Island, Florida – The Dr. Kurt H. Debus Conference Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center celebrates Kurt Debus (1908–1983), the center’s first director and another Nazi scientist deeply involved in concentration camp labor. According to colleagues, Debus wore his SS uniform to work supervising the building of V-2 rockets; he also denounced a colleague to the Gestapo (the Third Reich secret police). #nazi #nasa #kennedyspacecenter https://forward.com/news/462704/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-united-states/

Ginny, the helicopter that #NASA and #JPL have on ANOTHER PLANET, has now flown 1 hour 40 minutes in 56 flights over 864 days.

The pioneering machine was originally intended to execute five flights over 30 days, as a demo in #Mars’ thinner atmosphere.

But cooler than all of that: a bit of the Wright Flyer is up there, making flights, on Mars.

https://www.space.com/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-flight-56

SpaceX Dragon mit Crew-6 dockt von der Raumstation – heute Abend live https://nerdswire.de/spacex-dragon-mit-crew-6-dockt-von-der-raumstation-heute-abend-live/ #AndreasMogensen #JapanAerospaceExplorationAgency #JasminMoghbeli #NASA #Roskosmos #SatoshiFurukawa

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230902.html

Image Credit & Copyright:
Lorand Fenyes https://fenyeslorand.hu/en/

#APOD #NASA #space #science

#Reuters 📆 August 24, 2023 Although #India's 🇮🇳 government allocated the equivalent of $1.66 billion 💵 for the department of #space for the fiscal year ending in March, it spent around 25% less 📉. #NASA has a $25 billion 💰💰💰 budget for the current year. The annual increase 📈 in NASA's budget - $1.3 billion - was more than what #ISRO spent in total 📊. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/chandrayaan-3-punches-home-indias-lead-budget-space-flights-2023-08-24/

#LaunchCost

Hoy, en mi #viernesdeescritorio para @podcastlinux Sigo con mi persecución a los #terraplanistas, demostrandoles que #Marte , para su dolor, tambien es redondo. Es una foto de la #Nasa durante la mision #MAVEN , en la que descubrieron que el #planetarojo tenia "cola". Sigo con mi #LinuxMint 21.2 #Cinnamon #Linux #GNU #GNUlinux #neofetch

Ex-NASA #surveillance van with retractable roof cameras goes on sale
#nasa
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1964294

La NASA ultima preparativos para la llegada de muestras de Bennu

Un equipo dirigido por la NASA en el desierto de Utah ultima su preparación para la llegada de la primera muestra de asteroide estadounidense.

https://www.europapress.es/ciencia/misiones-espaciales/noticia-nasa-ultima-preparativos-llegada-muestras-bennu-20230831113317.html

#ciencia #astronomia #nasa

#NASA 📆 July 12, 2023 #DSS23 started in 📆 February 2021 at the Goldstone, #California, #DSN Complex (with #OpticalCommunication
capabilities, which will be critical to communicate with #astronauts 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀 traveling to #Mars 🔴). NASA cannot use #RadioFrequency communications to carry higher data rates like those required for Mars without increasing
the size of its antennas 📡 or power of its radio transmitters. Therefore, the Agency is developing #optical communications (use
of light as a means of transmitting information through #lasers) https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-23-016.pdf

#DSOC #DeepSpaceNetwork #SpaceCommunication #LaserCommunication

Pictures : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breaking_ground_on_Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lcrd_new.jpg