SpaceX Starship Indian Ocean Landing Burn & Splashdown: Boat View#1

SpaceX Starship Indian Ocean Landing Burn & Splashdown: Boat View#1

Congratulations to the SpaceX team on the successful ocean landing of Starship!

For the November 19, 2024 Sixth Flight Test summary and full webcast, visit:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6

The Super Heavy booster successfully lifted off at the start of the launch window with all 33 Raptor engines powering it and Starship off the pad from Starbase. Following a nominal ascent and stage separation, the booster successfully transitioned to its boostback burn to begin the return to launch site. During this phase, automated health checks of critical hardware on the launch and catch tower triggered an abort of the catch attempt. The booster then executed a pre-planned divert maneuver, performing a landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

Starship completed another successful ascent, placing it on the expected trajectory. The ship successfully reignited a single Raptor engine while in space, demonstrating the capabilities required to conduct a ship deorbit burn before starting fully orbital missions. With live views and telemetry being relayed by Starlink, the ship successfully made it through reentry and executed a flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

Data gathered from the multiple thermal protection experiments, as well as the successful flight through subsonic speeds at a more aggressive angle of attack, provides invaluable feedback on flight hardware performing in a flight environment as we aim for eventual ship return and catch.

With data and flight learnings as our primary payload, Starship’s sixth flight test once again delivered. Lessons learned will directly make the entire Starship system more reliable as we close in on full and rapid reusability.

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:
Height: 121m/397ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Learn more about Starship:
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 23 seconds
Capture Date: Nov. 19, 2024

Release Date: Nov. 23, 2024

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SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy Rocket Sixth Flight Test: Close-up In-flight View

SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy Rocket Sixth Flight Test: Close-up In-flight View

Congratulations to the SpaceX team on the successful ocean landing of Starship!

For the November 19, 2024 Sixth Flight Test summary and full webcast, visit:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6

The Super Heavy booster successfully lifted off at the start of the launch window with all 33 Raptor engines powering it and Starship off the pad from Starbase. Following a nominal ascent and stage separation, the booster successfully transitioned to its boostback burn to begin the return to launch site. During this phase, automated health checks of critical hardware on the launch and catch tower triggered an abort of the catch attempt. The booster then executed a pre-planned divert maneuver, performing a landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

Starship completed another successful ascent, placing it on the expected trajectory. The ship successfully reignited a single Raptor engine while in space, demonstrating the capabilities required to conduct a ship deorbit burn before starting fully orbital missions. With live views and telemetry being relayed by Starlink, the ship successfully made it through reentry and executed a flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

Data gathered from the multiple thermal protection experiments, as well as the successful flight through subsonic speeds at a more aggressive angle of attack, provides invaluable feedback on flight hardware performing in a flight environment as we aim for eventual ship return and catch.

With data and flight learnings as our primary payload, Starship’s sixth flight test once again delivered. Lessons learned will directly make the entire Starship system more reliable as we close in on full and rapid reusability.

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:
Height: 121m/397ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Learn more about Starship:
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 44 seconds
Capture Date: Nov. 19, 2024

Release Date: Nov. 23, 2024

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Rollout of China's Upgraded Landspace Zhuque II Methalox Commercial Rocket

Rollout of China's Upgraded Landspace Zhuque II Methalox Commercial Rocket

Little snow has arrived, it is the perfect time . . . An improved Landspace Zhuque-2E methane/liquid oxygen-fueled (methalox/CH4) carrier rocket has been moved in preparation for launch in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Landspace is a commercial world leader in methane/liquid oxygen powered rocket engines that have proved capable of delivering payloads to low-Earth orbit.

The new Zhuque-2E rocket has upgraded first stage engines and a new second stage with an engine nozzle that swivels. The Zhuque-2E will finally reach the 6 metric ton low-Earth orbit (LEO)/4 metric ton Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) capability Landspace planned. China's pioneering commercial space launch company, LandSpace, now has the opportunity to send heavy satellite payloads to Earth orbit before SpaceX's Starship does using methane/liquid oxygen engines.

LandSpace Technology Corporation is a Chinese commercial space launch provider based in Beijing. It was founded in 2015 by Zhang Changwu. In July 2023, the company's Zhuque-2 rocket became the first methane-fueled orbital launch vehicle in the world after reaching orbit on its second flight. LandSpace planned three Zhuque-2 launches in 2024 and another six in 2025.

The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) was founded in 1958. It was the first of China's four spaceports. The launch center has been the focus of many of China's historic space ventures, including the country's first satellite Dong Fang Hong I in 1970 and their first crewed space mission, Shenzhou V, on October 15, 2003. JSLC is now a home for many new Chinese commercial space launch firms, like Landspace.

Video Credit: Landspace
Duration: 23 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

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What’s Behind This Door? – Chamber A | NASA's Johnson Space Center

What’s Behind This Door? – Chamber A | NASA's Johnson Space Center

"What’s Behind This Door?" takes you behind the doors of facilities located at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, being used to return humanity to the Moon, through the Artemis campaign. This episode one takes place in Building 32 at NASA Johnson in the Chamber A facility. It features NASA subject matter expert, Steven Del Papa. He details the science behind the thermal testing conducted in the chamber.

Chamber A was upgraded to support the James Webb Space Telescope test program. Additions involved an ultra-clean hydrocarbon-free high vacuum pumping systems and the ability to simulate the extremely low temperatures of deep space (35K) within a 45 foot diameter by 80 foot tall shroud volume. The chamber systems are now able to maintain class 10,000 clean room conditions for ambient operations.

Learn more about Chamber A:

https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/chamber_a/

Video NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 37 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 19, 2024

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Blue Origin New Shepard Human Spaceflight Mission NS-28: "Apogee"

Blue Origin New Shepard Human Spaceflight Mission NS-28: "Apogee"

On November 22, 2024, Blue Origin successfully completed its ninth sub-orbital human spaceflight and the 28th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Emily Calandrelli, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Austin Litteral, James (J.D.) Russell, and Henry (Hank) Wolfond. Sharon and Marc Hagle both flew for the second time. Including [this] crew, New Shepard has now flown 47 people to space (three people have flown twice).

Apogee: This is the most distant point (ap-) on an elliptical orbit around Earth (-gee). The word is derived from the Greek "apogaion" meaning "away from the Earth". Earth in Greek is "gaia/ge".

Emily Dawn Calandrelli, seen at the beginning of the video, is an "American science communicator, engineer, author, commercial astronaut, and television presenter. She was the host and an executive producer of Xploration Outer Space and Emily's Wonder Lab."

Learn more: 
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-28-mission

Video Credit: Blue Origin
Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

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Space Station Crew on 25th Anniversary of China's First Uncrewed Spacecraft

Space Station Crew on 25th Anniversary of China's First Uncrewed Spacecraft

China's Shenzhou-19 crew aboard the orbiting Tiangong Space Station recorded a video to pay tribute to the heroes that dedicated their lives to China's space industry. The video was released on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, a day marking the 25th anniversary of the successful launch of China's first uncrewed spacecraft, Shenzhou-1, on November 20, 1999, from northwest China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

To date, China has launched 19 Shenzhou spacecraft, 14 of these have sent 24 astronauts into space with the number of total trips reaching 38.

Crew members, Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, were sent to the Tiangong Space Station on October 30, 2024, for a six-month long duration mission.

"On the same day 25 years ago, China's first uncrewed spacecraft was successfully launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The debut of the Long March 2F carrier rocket or CZ 2F shocked the world and the first flight of the Shenzhou-1 spacecraft made all the Chinese proud. China's crewed space program has taken the first step from blueprinting and dreaming to striving to realize the dream, laying a solid foundation for realizing the Chinese nation's millennium skyward dream," said Cai.

"Over the past 25 years, generations of astronauts have been confident, self-reliant and hardworking. With a coordinated national response and all people being of one mind, we have set new heights in exploring space again and again, including completing the strategic mission of three-step crewed space program, building the Chinese people's own space station, highlighting the Chinese Dream through realizing the Space Dream and writing a brilliant chapter in exploring the vast space," said Song.

"Our quest for the vast space will never end. Space exploration is a great feat in human history. It is an expedition with no end and we are always on the road. As astronauts in the new era, we must inherit the revolutionary traditions, shoulder the responsibility of building a great country, continue to climb on the shoulders of giants, and relay well the baton of history of our generation," said Wang.

"To accomplish our great mission, we must always remain true to our original aspiration. On such a memorable day, we pay tribute to all the heroes who have dedicated their youth, blood and even their lives to our country's aerospace industry. The prosperity is as you wish, please rest assured in the future," said the Shenzhou-19 mission crew.

Shenzhou-19 Crew:

Commander Cai Xuzhe (蔡旭哲)
Mission Specialist Wang Haoze (王浩泽)
Mission Specialist Song Lingdong (宋令东)

Video Credit: CCTV
Duration: 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 21, 2024

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Views of Martian Yardang Unit

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Views of Martian Yardang Unit

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on Nov. 2, 2024, the 4,352nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This mosaic is made up of 18 images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth. The color has been adjusted to match lighting conditions as the human eye would see them on Earth.

A yardang is an elongated ridge created by wind erosion. The Yardang Unit is a layer found at the uppermost reaches of the foothills at the base of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that Curiosity has been ascending since 2014. The color, texture, and tilt of the layers in the Yardang Unit make it distinct from lower layers on the mountain. Mount Sharp is an exciting place for scientists to study because it is made up of a number of layers, each representing a distinct era in the climate of ancient Mars.

Yardangs on Earth are formed by wind erosion, typically of an originally flat surface formed from areas of harder and softer material. The soft material is eroded and removed by the wind, and the harder material remains. The resulting pattern of yardangs is therefore a combination of the original rock distribution, and the fluid mechanics of the air flow and resulting pattern of erosion.

The word itself is of Turkic origin, meaning ‘steep bank’. The word was first introduced to the English-speaking world by the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin in 1903. In China, they are sometimes known as yadan from the Chinese adaptation of the Uyghur form of the same name.

Curiosity was built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operates Mastcam.

Celebrating 12+ Years on Mars (2012-2024)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

For more about Curiosity, visit: science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2024

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2025 Moon Phases—Earth's Northern Hemisphere | NASA Goddard

2025 Moon Phases—Earth's Northern Hemisphere | NASA Goddard

This visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2025, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight.

Video Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Data Visualization: Ernie Wright (USRA)
Producer & Editor: James Tralie
Duration: 5 minutes
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

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2025 Moon Phases—Earth's Southern Hemisphere | NASA Goddard

2025 Moon Phases—Earth's Southern Hemisphere | NASA Goddard

This visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2025 as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight.

Video Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Data Visualization: Ernie Wright (USRA)
Producer & Editor: James Tralie
Duration: 5 minutes
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

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Vehicles & Equipment for China's Crewed Moon Landing Missions: Quick Preview

Vehicles & Equipment for China's Crewed Moon Landing Missions: Quick Preview

A video from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) reveals prototypes of vehicles for China's first crewed lunar missions. They are a new Long March rocket, crew spacecraft, lunar landers, lunar rovers, and lunar EVA spacesuits.

China's crewed lunar landing missions are expected to start by 2030. They aim to carry out lunar scientific exploration and related technological tests, striving for breakthroughs in key technologies, such as repeated crewed Earth-Moon round trips, short-term lunar surface stays, and integrated human-robotic exploration, according to the CMSA.

With objectives incorporating landing, roving, sampling, researching and returning, the project seeks to establish an independent capability for long-term crewed lunar exploration.

It will coordinate the use of pre-flight crew tests and crewed lunar missions to conduct large-scale space science experiments. Scientists have outlined preliminary goals across three key areas: lunar science, lunar station science, and resource exploration and utilization, covering nine major research directions.

Currently, the production of prototypes for Long March-10 carrier rockets, crewed spacecraft (named "Mengzhou"), the lunar landers (named "Lanyue"), the lunar spacesuits (named "Feitian") and crewed lunar rovers is progressing as planned, along with related ground tests. A series of ground facilities and equipment designed to support these production and testing activities have been completed and put into operation.

Meanwhile, the construction of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's island province of Hainan has been prioritized and is advancing smoothly in readiness for these ambitious upcoming missions.

Video Credit: Xinhua/New China TV
Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

    

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Transporting NASA's Artemis II Moon Rocket Core Stage | Kennedy Space Center

Transporting NASA's Artemis II Moon Rocket Core Stage | Kennedy Space Center

The transport of the Artemis II Moon Mission core stage from Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center in Florid is explained by Artemis II Mission commander Reid Wiseman.

The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew under the Artemis campaign, sending NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, as well as Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.

Artemis II will launch no earlier than September 2025.

For more information about SLS, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/sls

Check the NASA Artemis II Mission page for updates:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

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Russia Launches Progress 90 Cargo Spacecraft | International Space Station

Russia Launches Progress 90 Cargo Spacecraft | International Space Station

The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 90 MS-29 cargo spacecraft is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following a a Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket launch at 7:22 a.m. EST (5:22 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Progress MS-29 will deliver 2,487 kg (~ three tons) of cargo, including technical equipment, medical, food, clothing, water and fuel to the ISS, according to Russia's Interfax. The launch took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock to the space-facing port of the orbiting laboratory’s Poisk module at 9:36 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 23. Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia will be on duty Saturday monitoring the cargo ship during its automated approach and rendezvous maneuvers.

Expedition 72 Updates:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia): Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 
For more information about STEM on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Video Credit: Roscosmos/CMG
Duration: 1 minute
Capture Date: Nov. 21, 2024
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

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SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy Rocket Sixth Flight Test Launch Highlights

SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy Rocket Sixth Flight Test Launch Highlights

Congratulations to the SpaceX team on the successful ocean landing of Starship!

For 6th Flight Test updates and the full webcast, visit:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6

In this 6th test flight, Starship’s upper stage flew the same suborbital trajectory as the previous flight test with splashdown in the Indian Ocean. An additional objective for this flight was to attempt an in-space burn using a single Raptor engine, further demonstrating the capabilities required to conduct a ship deorbit burn prior to orbital missions.

Several thermal protection experiments and operational changes tested the limits of Starship’s capabilities and generated flight data to inform plans for ship catch and reuse. The flight test assessed new secondary thermal protection materials and had entire sections of heat shield tiles removed on either side of the ship in locations being studied for catch-enabling hardware on future vehicles. The ship also intentionally flew at a higher angle of attack in the final phase of descent, purposefully stressing the limits of flap control to gain data on future landing profiles. Finally, adjusting the flight’s launch window to the late afternoon at Starbase enabled the ship to reenter over the Indian Ocean in daylight, providing better conditions for visual observations.

Future ships, starting with the vehicle planned for the seventh flight test, will fly with significant upgrades including redesigned forward flaps, larger propellant tanks, and the latest generation tiles and secondary thermal protection layers as we continue to iterate towards a fully reusable heat shield. Learnings from this and subsequent flight tests will continue to make the entire Starship system more reliable as we close in on full and rapid reusability.

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:
Height: 121m/397ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Learn more about Starship:
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Capture Date: Nov. 19, 2024

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NASA's Space to Ground: The Art of Space Science | Week of Nov. 22, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: The Art of Space Science | Week of Nov. 22, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what is happening aboard the International Space Station. The Russian Progress 90 cargo spacecraft is orbiting Earth and on its way to resupply the International Space Station after it lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:22 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, beginning its two-day journey to the space station. Packed inside Progress are nearly three tons of food, fuel, and supplies due to arrive at the orbital outpost when Progress automatically docks to the Poisk module at 9:36 a.m. EST on Saturday. Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia will be on duty Saturday monitoring the cargo ship during its automated approach and rendezvous maneuvers.

Expedition 72 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia): Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 
For more information about STEM on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 3 minutes, 21 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2024

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Extratropical Cyclone Whips over Pacific Northwest | NOAA-20 Polar Satellite

Extratropical Cyclone Whips over Pacific Northwest | NOAA-20 Polar Satellite

A strong extratropical cyclone hit the Pacific Northwest on November 19, 2024, bringing damaging winds and rain to the region. The storm knocked over trees and left nearly 600,000 people without power in Washington state on November 20, according to news reports.

This image shows the storm system at 1:50 p.m. Pacific Time (21:50 p.m. Universal Time) on November 19. Extra-tropical cyclones are large rotating weather systems that occur in the midlatitudes (generally more than 30° latitude away from the equator). Mature extratropical cyclones like this often feature comma-shaped cloud patterns that are the product of “conveyor belt” circulation. Heavy precipitation is often present near the low-pressure head of the comma. This image was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), also known as NOAA-20.

On the evening of November 19, the storm’s central pressure dropped to levels on par with a storm in October 2021. This saw the lowest pressure in about 50 years of records for that region, according to Chris Dolce, a meteorologist at The Weather Channel. The pace of the storm’s intensification was more than double the criteria for bombogenesis—a popular term that describes a midlatitude cyclone that rapidly intensifies into a “bomb cyclone.”

The plunging atmospheric pressure in the center of the storm caused winds to increase quickly on November 19. The National Weather Service in Seattle reported wind gusts of up to 77 miles (124 kilometers) per hour in the mountains southeast of Seattle.

The cyclone kicked off a long-duration atmospheric river that forecasters expect will park over Northern California and southern Oregon through November 22. The National Weather Service estimates that these areas could see rainfall totals of 12 to 16 inches (30 to 41 centimeters) over the duration of the storm.

Damaging winds from the strong storm knocked out power for thousands of people in Washington state.

NOAA-20, designated JPSS-1 prior to launch, is the first of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites called the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS).

Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin/VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE/Worldview/Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)

Article Credit: Emily Cassidy
Image Date: Nov. 19, 2024
Release Date: Nov. 21, 2024

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NASA Voyager Missions to The Outer Solar System: Short Film (1977) | JPL

NASA Voyager Missions to The Outer Solar System: Short Film (1977) | JPL

From the archives of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), this short film from 1977 describes the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft before they launched on their journey to Jupiter and Saturn later that year. It features early computer graphics, artist’s concepts of the outer solar system, and vintage footage of the antennas from NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) at Goldstone, California, as well as mission control and a clean room at JPL.

Voyager 1 and 2 are now the most distant human-made objects from Earth and the longest continually operating NASA spacecraft. After the twin Voyagers visited Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2 went on to visit Uranus and Neptune as well. Both spacecraft are now in interstellar space, the space between stars.

For more information on NASA's Voyager missions visit: 
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Duration: 4 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 21, 2024

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