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Feb 15, 2022
Roving with Perseverance: Findings from One Year on Mars (Live Public Talk)
Posted by Alan Jurisson in categories: futurism, space
After a year on the Red Planet, what can Perseverance teach us about Mars’ watery past and our potential future? Tune in to find out!
Speakers:
–Jennifer Trosper, Mars 2020 Project Manager, NASA/JPL
–Dr. Katie Stack Morgan, Deputy Project Scientist, Mars 2020, NASA/JPL
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Feb 14, 2022
Monitoring the high seas at high altitude
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: government, space
Previously, aircraft ✈️ had to fly at 1,500 to 5,000 feet for airborne radars to detect illegal activity in our seas 🌊. With SeaVue Multi-Role, pilots can fly as… See more.
In some parts of the world, the sea is lawless, fraught with piracy, smuggling and illegal fishing.
To help navies and coastal authorities combat illegal activity, Raytheon Intelligence & Space has developed the SeaVue family of airborne radars, which detect small maritime targets such as illegal fishing vessels, go-fast boats and stateless ships—ships not registered to a country or government, on the high seas. RI&S engineers have added a new, upgraded radar to the family called SeaVue Multi-Role.
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Feb 14, 2022
Elon Musk — People Don’t Realize What’s Coming!
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: business, climatology, education, Elon Musk, law, space, sustainability
He’s absolutely right about birth rates and its implications for our species. OVER population is a disproven concept as far as our near and near-far future goes.
Elon Musk is the charismatic co-founder of PayPal and Tesla, as well as the founder of SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. He serves as CEO of Tesla and CEO/lead designer of SpaceX. Watch along as he explains why earth doesn’t have a lot of time left.
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Feb 14, 2022
Fun fact: If you laid the International Space Station out end-to-end on a football field…
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in category: space
Fun fact: If you laid the International Space Station out end-to-end on a football field… it would be really tough to play a game. 🙃
The International Space Station is 356 feet (109 meters) long, just about one yard shy of an American football field—including the end zones. Go deep on more space station fun facts this #SBLVI: https://go.nasa.gov/3swABkE
Feb 14, 2022
The Space Renaissance Academy opened the subscription to the Space Renaissance Ambassadors High Level Training Course
Posted by Adriano Autino in category: space
Feb 14, 2022
Official End Date for the International Space Station Announced
Posted by Len Rosen in category: space
By 2031 the ISS will have served as a continuous human habitation and microgravity lab in low-Earth orbit for more than 3 decades.
Feb 14, 2022
Stanford’s multi-finger gecko gripper could soon help astronauts grasp and manipulate objects in space
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, space
Researchers from Stanford University developed a robotic gripper that uses gecko-inspired adhesives to pick up both delicate and robust objects. An earlier concept was tested aboard the International Space Station in May 2021 to see its potential.