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Jul 18, 2022
China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe just completed its number one goal
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space
Tianwen-1 is a historic victory for both the CNSA and space exploration.
Upon successful orbital insertion and landing, Tianwen-1 became a historic victory for the CNSA and space exploration. Before Tianwen-1, the only two successful missions to send an orbiter and lander to Mars were NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 missions in 1975. Prior to that, the Soviet Union had attempted this feat with their Mars 2 and 3 missions in 1971 and Mars 6 in 1973.
Mars 2 was an outright failure, with the lander being destroyed and the orbiter sending back no data. On Mars 3, the orbiter obtained approximately eight months of data, and while the lander touched down safely, it only returned 20 seconds of data. On Mars 6, the orbiter produced data from an occultation experiment, but the lander failed on the descent.
Jul 18, 2022
COLMENA, a new concept on lunar exploration
Posted by Adriano Autino in categories: economics, nuclear energy, space
Live now, on the Space Renaissance YouTube channel.
We are stepping at the gates of a new era in space exploration, one which will finally incorporate the inner solar system to society’s daily life and economics. The first step is the Moon, and the asteroids will probably follow. The surface of those bodies presents special challenges for human and technological activities as well as resource exploitation. These challenges, which include regolith, extreme thermal amplitude, high energy radiation and surface mineral mixing among others, open the door to new operational approaches. COLMENA is the pathfinder of one such avenue: using swarms of micro-rovers for scientific exploration, resource prospection or, eventually, mining The first COLMENA mission will deploy 5 microrovers (56 grams each) on the Moon surface by the end of this year, flying on board a private spacecraft. In the talk I will briefly explain the context, technical characteristics and objectives of the mission, as well as its future.
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Jul 18, 2022
Space scholars explain why NASA’s warning that China may try to claim the Moon is unlikely
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space
Jul 18, 2022
James Webb Telescope glitch had NASA engineers completely freaking out: ‘It was very serious’
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space
Jul 18, 2022
A cosmic time machine: how the James Webb Space Telescope lets us see the first galaxies in the universe
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: space, time travel
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Jul 18, 2022
NASA teases list of first celestial objects imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope
Posted by Tristan Hambling in category: space
On July 8th, NASA released a list of targets of nebulas and galaxies that will be revealed on July 12th, when the space agency debuts the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Jul 18, 2022
Human and machine intelligence merge to discover 40,000 ring galaxies
Posted by Tristan Hambling in categories: information science, robotics/AI, space
A new artificial intelligence algorithm called ‘Zoobot’ helped to identify 40,000 ring galaxies. What else is the astronomical AI capable of?
Jul 17, 2022
Lockheed Martin gets $59 million order for Stryker cyber and electronic warfare suite
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: energy, engineering, military, space
Lockheed Martin has been busy this year. In April of 2022, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and its U.S. Air Force partner announced that they had completed a free flight test of the Lockheed Martin version of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC).
Then just last month, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded the company a contract to construct the nation’s first megawatt-scale long-duration energy storage system. Under the direction of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), the new system, called “GridStar Flow,” will be set up at Fort Carson, Colorado.
In the same time frame, General Motors and the firm announced their plans to produce a series of electric moon rovers for future commercial space missions. The companies said they plan aim to test the batteries developed by GM, in space later this year. They also set the ambitious goal of testing a prototype vehicle on the moon by 2025.
Jul 17, 2022
This is what a thunderstorm on Jupiter looks like
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: climatology, space
It was taken by the James Webb space telescope and is one of the clearest images ever produced of the planet.