NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew Announcement: Watch April 3, 2023

NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew Announcement: Watch April 3, 2023

Don't miss it! NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will announce the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on an Orion spacecraft during an event at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 3, 2023, from Ellington Field at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA's Artemis II Mission is the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface.

Watch the live YouTube event here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mua1Lysc_JQ

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producer/Editor: Phil Sexton

Producers: Aly Lee, Sami Aziz, Radislav Sinyak

Duration: 47 seconds

Release Date: March 28, 2023

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Behind The Mission: Scientist Sarah Kendrew | Space Telescope Science Institute

Behind The Mission: Scientist Sarah Kendrew | Space Telescope Science Institute

It takes many people working behind the scenes to help make astronomical discoveries possible. The European Space Agency’s Sarah Kendrew, who works at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, discusses her role as an instrument and calibration scientist—and why the Webb mission is not only for scientists. 

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: March 16, 2023

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Blue Origin BE-7 Thrust Chamber Assembly Hotfire Test | NASA Marshall

Blue Origin BE-7 Thrust Chamber Assembly Hotfire Test | NASA Marshall

On March 20, 2023, Blue Origin's BE-7 team conducted another successful Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) test at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Test Stand 116 in Huntsville, Alabama. Our tests on an upgraded TCA bring our cumulative test time to more than 4,000 seconds, and we are on track in our engine development path. This was a self-funded test as part of our campaign to advance our lunar capabilities.

Credit: Blue Origin

Duration: 40 seconds

Release Date: March 28, 2023  

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Earth’s Radiant Atmosphere: Orbital Sunset | International Space Station

Earth’s Radiant Atmosphere: Orbital Sunset | International Space Station

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast Argentina.

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the Earth's atmosphere in this Feb. 17, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina. Astronauts aboard the space station see 16 sunrises and sunsets per day.

Image Credit: NASA

Release Date: Feb. 17, 2023

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Uncrewed Russian Soyuz MS-22 Spacecraft Landing in Kazakhstan

Uncrewed Russian Soyuz MS-22 Spacecraft Landing in Kazakhstan

The uncrewed Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft made an automated, parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan at 7:46 a.m. EDT (5:46 p.m. Kazakhstan time) on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, after undocking from the International Space Station at 5:57 a.m.

Remaining aboard the station is the seven-person crew of Expedition 69 with Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, and Frank Rubio, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Andrey Fedyaev (Russia) and Dmitri Petelin (Russia).

Credit: Roscosmos

Acknowledgement: SciTech News

Duration: 3 minutes, 40 seconds

Release Date: March 28, 2023

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New Mars Images: March 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

New Mars Images: March 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Mars 2020 - Perseverance Rover: "You might know I carry a 'pet rock' in my left front wheel, which tumbled in there over a year ago. But did you know others have joined the journey too? I’ve picked up two additional hitchhikers, in my right front and rear wheels. Fine by me—let’s keep rolling!"

Mars2020 - sol 746

MSL - sol 3780

MSL - sol 3780

Mars2020 - sol 745

MSL - sol 3778

MSL - sol 3778

MSL - sol 3778

Celebrating 10 Years+ on Mars! (2012-2023)

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

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: March 17-27, 2023

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Uncrewed Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Undocking | International Space Station

Uncrewed Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Undocking | International Space Station

The uncrewed Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft (Russia) undocked from the International Space Station at 5:57 a.m. EDT, on March 28, 2023, heading for an automated, parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan at 7:45 a.m. (5:45 p.m. Kazakhstan time).

Expedition 69 officially began aboard the station at the time of undocking. Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev (Russia) is the station commander for the crew consisting of NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, and Frank Rubio, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Andrey Fedyaev (Russia) and Dmitri Petelin (Russia).

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (March 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

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. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

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) Education

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 4 minutes, 36 seconds

Release Date: March 28, 2023

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts Thank Kennedy Space Center Employees

NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts Thank Kennedy Space Center Employees

Crew-4 Employee Event: From left, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Kjell Lindgren prepare to serve cake to Kennedy Space Center employees during an appreciation event held at the Florida spaceport’s KARS Park on March 22, 2023

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren speaks to Kennedy Space Center employees

From left, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Kjell Lindgren take a photo with a Kennedy Space Center employee during an appreciation event

From left, NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Bob Hines sign posters for Kennedy Space Center employees

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren shakes hands with a Kennedy Space Center employee

The insignia representing the SpaceX Crew-4 mission

NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and Kjell Lindgren thanked Kennedy Space Center employees during an appreciation event held at the Florida spaceport’s KARS Park on March 22, 2023. Hines, Watkins, and Lindgren, along with the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on April 27, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. The crew remained at the orbiting laboratory for approximately six months, conducting critical science as part of the fourth crew rotation mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Image Date: March 22, 2023

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Recientemente en la NASA: El cohete de Artemis II a la Luna empieza a tomar forma

Recientemente en la NASA: El cohete de Artemis II a la Luna empieza a tomar forma

Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas This Week at NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA. 

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes

Original Broadcast Date: March 24, 2023 

Release Date: March 27, 2023

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Rocket Lab's Electron Launches Earth Observation Satellites from New Zealand

Rocket Lab's Electron Launches Earth Observation Satellites from New Zealand

Just seven days after a successful Electron mission from Launch Complex 2 in Virginia, USA, Rocket Lab has completed another successful mission from the other side of the planet at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, demonstrating responsive launch capability from two hemispheres and setting a new company record for fastest turnaround between Electron missions.

The mission also saw Rocket Lab successfully splash down Electron’s first stage in the ocean as part of the Company’s plan to make Electron a reusable rocket.

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. launched its 35th Electron rocket from Mahia, New Zealand, deploying two multi-spectral Gen-2 satellites to low Earth orbit for BlackSky through launch services provider Spaceflight, Inc.  

The mission, named “The Beat Goes On,” lifted off at 09:14 UTC, March 24, 2023, from Pad B at Launch Complex 1, Rocket Lab’s private launch site on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.

“The Beat Goes On” mission will deploy two BlackSky high-resolution, multi-spectral, Gen-2 satellites. As a secondary mission, Rocket Lab plans to recover Electron’s first stage after it parachutes back to Earth and splashes down in the ocean.

Credit: Rocket Lab/Phil Yeo

Release Date: March 24, 2023

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Temperature of Rocky Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b | James Webb Space Telescope

Temperature of Rocky Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b | James Webb Space Telescope

Rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b (temperature comparison)

This infographic shows five planets plotted along a horizontal temperature scale: Earth, TRAPPIST-1 b, Mercury, and two different models of TRAPPIST-1 b.

Rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b (illustration)

Rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b (secondary eclipse light curve)

Comparison of the dayside temperature of TRAPPIST-1 b as measured using Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to computer models showing what the temperature would be under various conditions. The models take into account the known properties of the system, including the planet’s size and density, the temperature of the star, and the planet’s orbital distance. The temperature of the dayside of Mercury is also shown for reference.

The dayside brightness of TRAPPIST-1 b at 15 microns corresponds to a temperature of about 500 K (roughly 230°C). This is consistent with the temperature assuming the planet is tidally locked (one side facing the star at all times), with a dark-colored surface, no atmosphere, and no redistribution of heat from the dayside to the nightside.

If the heat energy from the star were distributed evenly around the planet (for example, by a circulating carbon dioxide-free atmosphere), the temperature at 15 microns would be 400 K (125°C). If the atmosphere had a substantial amount of carbon dioxide, it would emit even less 15-micron light and would appear to be even cooler.

Although TRAPPIST-1 b is hot by Earth standards, it is cooler than the dayside of Mercury, which consists of bare rock and no significant atmosphere. Mercury receives about 1.6 times more energy from the Sun than TRAPPIST-1 b does from its star.

MIRI was developed as a partnership between Europe and the USA: the main partners are the European Space Agency (ESA), a consortium of nationally funded European institutes, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Arizona. The instrument was nationally funded by the European Consortium under the auspices of the European Space Agency. 

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency, J. Olmsted (STScI), T. P. Greene (NASA Ames), T. Bell (BAERI), E. Ducrot (CEA), P. Lagage (CEA)

Release Date: March 27, 2023

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Meet Arielle Valdez: NASA Diver & Astronaut Trainer | NASA Johnson

Meet Arielle Valdez: NASA Diver & Astronaut Trainer | NASA Johnson

Grab your swimsuit and goggles, and join us in the warm, pristine waters of a very exclusive dive site—NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab! This 6.2-million-gallon pool is a simulated microgravity environment where astronauts train for spacewalks, and it’s what NASA diver Arielle Valdez calls her office! Arielle walks—swims?—us through a day in the life of a NASA dive specialist and shares her story of how she went from diving shipwrecks across the world to training astronauts on an underwater, true-to-size mockup of the International Space Station. 

Dive deeper into the theme of this episode with this hands-on activity: https://www.nasa.gov/stem-ed-resources/diving-down-deep-gas-laws.html

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education

Credit: NASA STEM

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: March 27, 2023

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Celestial Object Z 229-15: Everything, in one place, all at once | Hubble

Celestial Object Z 229-15: Everything, in one place, all at once | Hubble

This luminous image shows Z 229-15—imaged here in beautiful detail by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope—a celestial object that lies about 390 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Z 229-15 is one of those interesting celestial objects that, should you choose to research it, you will find defined as several different things: sometimes as an active galactic nucleus (an AGN); sometimes as a quasar; and sometimes as a Seyfert galaxy. Which of these is Z 229-15 really? The answer is that it is all of these things all at once, because these three definitions have significant overlap. 

AGNs and quasars are both described in detail in the Hubble Word Bank, but in essence an AGN is a small region at the heart of certain galaxies (called active galaxies) that is far brighter than just the galaxy’s stars would be. The extra luminosity is due to the presence of a supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s core. Material sucked into a black hole actually doesn’t fall directly into it, but instead is drawn into a swirling disc, from where it is inexorably tugged towards the black hole. This disc of matter gets so hot that it releases a large amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, and that’s what makes AGNs appear so bright. 

Quasars are a particular type of AGN; they are typically both extremely bright and extremely distant from Earth — several hundred million light-years is considered nearby for a quasar, making Z 229-15 positively local. Often an AGN is so bright that the rest of the galaxy cannot be seen, but Seyfert galaxies are active galaxies that host very bright AGNs (quasars) while the rest of the galaxy is still observable. So Z 229-15 is a Seyfert galaxy that contains a quasar, and that, by definition, hosts an AGN. Classification in astronomy can be a challenge!

Image Description: A spiral galaxy. It has two almost-straight arms coming from the left and right of the core that meet a starry ring around the galaxy’s edge. The ring is bluish in color, and the core is golden and shining. A faint halo of light also surrounds the galaxy. There is one bright star with many diffraction spikes, and a few small stars all around on a black background.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, A. Barth, R. Mushotzky

Release Date: March 27, 2023

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Behind The Mission: Malynda Chizek Frouard | Space Telescope Science Institute

Behind The Mission: Malynda Chizek Frouard | Space Telescope Science Institute

Astronomical discoveries are possible thanks to the people working behind the scenes. The Space Telescope Science Institute's Malynda Chizek Frouard is part of the team at the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) in Baltimore, Maryland. MAST stores data from over 20 missions, including the Hubble and Webb space telescopes. 

She discusses how she went from the farms of Iowa to one of the most important astronomy resources in the world.

Learn more about the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST): https://archive.stsci.edu/

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Duration: 1 minute, 49 seconds

Release Date: March 16, 2023

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What’s Happening to The Earth's Ozone Layer? | European Space Agency

What’s Happening to The Earth's Ozone Layer? | European Space Agency

In the 1980s, scientists discovered a gaping hole in Earth's ozone layer, caused by humanmade chemicals. But thanks to the historical Montreal Protocol, the world came together to take bold action to save our planet. Decades later, we can see the steady recovery of the ozone hole. How did we do it? And what does space have to do with it? Join us as we explore the journey of the ozone hole, from its alarming discovery to the incredible strides made to fix it, and how satellites are helping us track its recovery.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: February 23, 2023 

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India's GSLV Mk-III Rocket Launches OneWeb Communications Satellites | ISRO

India's GSLV Mk-III Rocket Launches OneWeb Communications Satellites | ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launch vehicle (LVM3-M3) successfully launched 36 OneWeb satellites (OneWeb India-2 mission) from the Second Launch Pad (SLP) of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, India, on March 26, 2023, at 03:30 UTC (09:00 local time). In its 6th consecutive successful flight, the LVM3 carried 5,805 kg of payload to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

OneWeb statement: "This mission marks OneWeb’s second satellite deployment from India, highlighting the strong partnership with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) and ISRO and OneWeb’s commitment to provide connectivity across the length and breadth of India. Once activated, OneWeb’s coverage solutions will bring secured connectivity to enterprises, towns, villages, municipalities and schools, including the most remote areas across the country." 

Learn more: 

https://oneweb.net/resources/successful-launch-36-oneweb-satellites-isronsil-marks-key-milestone-enable-global

Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Release Date: March 26, 2023  

Duration: 5 minutes, 33 seconds

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