Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the agency will launch a different, but related “Gateway” at its Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. “Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex” is slated to open in March 2022.
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Help us turn December BLUE… register here for the space party:
www.f4f.space/bluemarblenight.
F4F is launching Blue Marble Night as a new spacer holiday, commemorating the Blue Marble photo taken by Apollo 17 on 7 December, 1972.
LAST CALL FOR VIDEOS!
Want to help?
We are setting up a celebration of the limitless inspiration of space. One that recognizes the fragility of our world while simultaneously infusing a sense of hope and awe. We will have the Overview Effect and our future in space as the main focuses. : Here is what you can do:
1. Recruit celebrities and regular people to record 30–60 second testimonials about the Overview Effect or their connection to space.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed a record-setting swing by the Sun, breaking two world records while making its pass.
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
Outlandish Deep Space project will seat four, have all-wheel drive and cost more than £2 million.
B-SURE program aims to develop fundamental understanding of microbial capabilities for bioproduction in space.
DARPA announced yesterday it is taking an initial step to explore and de-risk manufacturing capabilities in space with its Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth (B-SURE) program. https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-11-22
DARPA announced yesterday it is taking an initial step to explore and de-risk manufacturing capabilities in space with its Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth (B-SURE) program. https://t.co/Z7wVXs9MN6 pic.twitter.com/fZJj1EQUQQ
— DARPA (@DARPA) November 23, 2021
When astronauts left the International Space Station in early November to return home on the Crew Dragon Endeavour, they took the opportunity to do a fly-around of the ISS and take photos. NASA just released the new images, and they are a stunning look at both the orbiting outpost and our home planet.
The person behind the camera was ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. He began taking photos after Crew Dragon undocked from the Harmony module. Also on board were NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, and JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide. They had spent six months aboard the ISS.
“Bittersweet feeling about leaving the ISS,” Pesquet tweeted. “When you think about it, it’s really a magical place, almost impossible to reach and which gives you superpowers like flying, or going around the world in 1h30 … It still looks a bit like a daydream.”
The Metaverse Group describes itself as “the world’s first virtual real estate company”.
Decentraland space will be used to host virtual fashion shows for avatars.
There is a huge global effort to engineer a computer capable of harnessing the power of quantum physics to carry out computations of unprecedented complexity. While formidable technological obstacles still stand in the way of creating such a quantum computer, today’s early prototypes are still capable of remarkable feats.
For example, the creation of a new phase of matter called a “time crystal.” Just as a crystal’s structure repeats in space, a time crystal repeats in time and, importantly, does so infinitely and without any further input of energy—like a clock that runs forever without any batteries. The quest to realize this phase of matter has been a longstanding challenge in theory and experiment—one that has now finally come to fruition.
In research published Nov. 30 in Nature, a team of scientists from Stanford University, Google Quantum AI, the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems and Oxford University detail their creation of a time crystal using Google’s Sycamore quantum computing hardware.
