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Test What happen when it don’t have Atmosphere.
What happen when it don’t have Atmosphere.
Jun 22, 2020
Scientists plan a new orbiter mission to Pluto
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Researchers already are planning an ambitious spacecraft that will orbit the mysterious world.
Jun 22, 2020
Shares of Virgin Galactic surge after announcement that it will train astronauts for NASA
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Shares of Virgin Galactic shares jumped Monday after it signed an agreement with NASA that will allow the space tourism venture to train astronauts for trips to the International Space Station on flights to the edge of space.
The company — which is publicly traded but largely owned by founder Richard Branson and chairman Chamath Palihapitiya — announced on Monday that it signed a “Space Act Agreement” with NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which leads the agency’s astronaut program in Houston.
Shares of Virgin Galactic rose as much as 14% in early trading from its previous close of $15 a share.
Horizons mission — Soyuz(rocket) launch to orbit at 27000km/hr!! Astronauts launching for Space Station #MustWatch #SpaceExploration Info about mission: Soyuz MS-09 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 6 June 2018. It transported three members of the Expedition 56/57 crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew consisted of a Russian commander, and an American and a German flight engineer. The mission ended at 05:02 UTC on 20 December 2018.
Jun 22, 2020
Ocean Worlds May Be Common in Our Milky Way Galaxy
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
A team of U.S. astronomers has calculated internal heating rates for 53 terrestrial exoplanets and found that all of them are likely to have volcanic activity at their surfaces, and that at least 26% could be ocean worlds, with a majority similar in structure to the icy moons of our Solar System’s giant planets.
Jun 21, 2020
New Vertical Takeoff and Landing flying taxi has its roots in modern sci-fi films
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: robotics/AI, space
Flying automobiles have long been a staple of science fiction’s optimistic visions of tomorrow, right up there with rocket jetpacks, holidays on the moon, and robot butlers. And who wouldn’t want to climb into a vehicle capable of rising up into the air above the clogged arteries of traffic experienced on most major boulevards, highways, and freeways?
Now a lofty new air taxi being built by the Israeli startup firm Urban Aeronautics hopes to cash in on those promises with its new Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) car that unites technology with Jetsons-like futuristic dreams mostly only observed in films like Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Back to the Future, and most recently on TV in Season 3 of HBO’s Westworld.
Jun 20, 2020
Does Planet Nine really exist?
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: quantum physics, space
Quantum radar could find it.
For the past few years, the possibility of a new (and big!) planet hanging around in the far outer solar system has tantalized scientists and the public alike. Is “Planet Nine” out there or not?
This post by Dr. Robert Zubrin originally appeared at National Space Society.
Mars Is The New World
Among extraterrestrial bodies in our solar system, Mars is singular in that it possesses all the raw materials required to support not only life, but a new branch of human civilization. This uniqueness is illustrated most clearly if we contrast Mars with the Earth’s Moon, the most frequently cited alternative location for extraterrestrial human colonization.
Jun 20, 2020
NASA TV Coverage Set for Final Space Station Spacewalk Power Upgrades
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: energy, space
Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken are scheduled to go outside the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, June 26, and Wednesday, July 1, for spacewalks to begin the replacement of batteries for one of the power channels on the orbiting laboratory.
NASA Television and the agency’s website will broadcast the spacewalks live, along with a news briefing to discuss them.
The briefing will take place at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 24, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Coverage of the spacewalks will begin at 6 a.m. on the day of each spacewalk. The spacewalks will begin at around 7:35 a.m., and will last as long as seven hours.