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January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... lifetime ended up being more than twice its original design-life (32 years rather than 15). However, the NASA of the 2020s is clearly intent on reinventing itself. Today, it is no longer developing ‘technical specifications’ in-house; instead, ... for eight astronauts when we are only sending four astronauts to the Moon? The good news is that NASA is learning to think smaller and more innovatively and the private space station initiative is a...
13 June 2016
NASA signs an agreement with United Arab Emirates
...exchange scientific data via joint workshops. As the first field of collaboration between the two agencies, NASA and the UAE Space Agency formalised cooperation in the exploration of Mars by signing an Implementing ...discuss potential future projects that contribute to exploring the Red Planet. Missions to our martian neighbour by NASA have recently come under scrutiny by the U.S congress who have questioned whether such a mission is even...
08 August 2016
NASA Selects Five Projects for Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Study
...will be used to create a more powerful electric motor. Spanwise Adaptive Wing One of the ideas explored by NASA researchers is increasing airplane fuel, emissions and noise efficiency by reducing the size of the plane's vertical tail... batteries and allow aircraft to fly over increased distances. The five research teams include researchers from NASA's aeronautics centers in Virginia, California, and Ohio. The studies were selected from a series of ...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
...strong grip. An integrated drill will be used to provide final anchoring of the boulder to the capture mechanism. Credit: NASA artist’s concept The Asteroid Redirect Mission is expected to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid in near-earth space....gain invaluable experience for future manned Mars missions. According to Michele Gates, ARM program manager at NASA, “With KDP-B under our belt, ARM can now move forward to define partnerships and ...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... veteran take over the role on an acting basis. Gerstenmaier meanwhile will serve as “special advisor” to NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard. The reassignment will be effectively immediately, wrote Bridenstine in a memo to staff late...given to those who cannot be terminated outright. Since the announcement however, in an interview with Fox News, Bridenstine has said that the duo's longevity is one of the reasons for swapping roles around. ...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
.... Revolutionary breakthrough The vast majority of the more than 3,700 known exoplanets are unlike any of the planets in our solar system NASA’s upcoming Wide-Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST), to be launched...magnified brightness of the source star, shown in the top panel. WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey In Figure 1 we compare the region of orbital sensitivity of NASA’s Kepler mission and WFIRST to the orbits of planets in our solar...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...Kepler left off, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has begun to scan the skies with high hopes of matching, if not surpassing its predecessor by finding a treasure trove of exoplanets and perhaps landing ...large. With thousands more worlds left to uncover, NASA has already dispatched a replacement to carry on where Kepler left off. Launched in April 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to search for...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
.... Located at 4.2 light years (40,000 billion km), Proxima Centauri b is almost an ideal destination - as far as exoplanets go. But while this distance may be small by astronomical standards, it remains utterly vast on the human scale. The... evolution of black holes. He has been selected to lead observations of galaxies for a forthcoming NASA satellite called IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, to be launched in 2021). The HERITAGE project...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
...consuming. To overcome this, scientists have developed a new method to quantify the probability that any given exoplanet signal is in fact caused by a planet, without requiring any follow-up observations. This involves simulating ...at the teleconference yesterday, Natalie Batalha, co-author of the paper and the Kepler mission scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California said, “before there was a Kepler spacecraft there were...
