NASA – A News Week

Voyager 2 Phones Home After Communications Lost

3Aug

By Raeesa SayyadNo Comments

Science

Voyager 2 Phones Home After Communications Lost

After days of silence, NASA's Voyager 2 finally phoned home. "A bit like hearing the spacecraft's 'heartbeat,' it confirms the spacecraft is still broadcasting, which engineers expected," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a tweet Tuesday. Communication was lost with the 46-year-old spacecraft about two weeks ago when a wrong command was accidentally sent by flight controllers. That pointed Voyager 2's antenna the wrong way, tilting it 2 degrees away from Earth, according to JPL. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977 to explore far-away planets, and it's now more than 12 billion miles from Earth. The "carrier signal" was picked up during a routine scan of the sky by NASA's Deep Space Network, according to JPL. The signal doesn't mean all communication has resumed, but it ind...

New Horizons first experimentes with interstellar parallax

13Jun

By Karen CampbellNo Comments

Science

New Horizons first experimentes with interstellar parallax

Just because, a shuttle has sent back photos of the sky from so distant that a few stars give off an impression of being in unexpected situations in comparison to we'd see from Earth. In excess of four billion miles from home and speeding toward interstellar space, NASA's New Horizons has voyage so far that it currently has an interesting perspective on the closest stars. "It's fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth," said Alan Stern, New Horizons head agent from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "And that has allowed us to do something that had never been accomplished before—to see the nearest stars visibly displaced on the sky from the positions we see them on Earth." On April 22-23, the shuttle turned its long-ru...

This is what competitors need on their resumes. NASA is procuring space travelers to go to the moon and Mars

13Feb

By Karen CampbellNo Comments

Science

This is what competitors need on their resumes. NASA is procuring space travelers to go to the moon and Mars

NASA is searching for new space explorers. The new class will staff the organization's Artemis missions, which plan to set up a station on the moon and in the long run send people to Mars. "It's the best job, on or off the planet," Brandi Dean, a representative for NASA, revealed to Business Insider. The application time frame for the new companion opens March 2 and closes March 31. The pay go: $104,898 to $161,141. NASA doesn't have a set number of open positions, yet past accomplice sizes have extended from eight to 12. The last time the organization enlisted space explorers, more than 18,000 applications came in. The stuff to turn into a space explorer This is the first run through in quite a while that NASA is contracting space explorers, and the activity necessities...

For Boeing’s ‘First Starliner Test Launch’ Friday, Builds Excitement

17Dec

By Karen CampbellNo Comments

Science

For Boeing’s ‘First Starliner Test Launch’ Friday, Builds Excitement

The introduction experimental flight of a Boeing Starliner space traveler taxi for NASA is prepared to fly, with incredible climate expected for its launch to the International Space Station Friday (Dec. 20). A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the uncrewed CST-100 Starliner spacecraft from Space Launch Compex 41 here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station just before dawn on Friday. Liftoff is set for 6:36 a.m. EST (1136 GMT). "It's just incredibly proud and humbling to be here this week. It's really a culmination of years of really hard work by integrated NASA, Boeing and ULA teams," John Mulholland, VP and program director of Boeing's Commercial Crew program, said in a prelaunch news meeting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (Dec. 17). "This is really settin...

NASA: Will launch a ‘robot hotel’ to the Space Station on its next SpaceX resupply mission

4Dec

By Luke HartwigNo Comments

Science

NASA: Will launch a ‘robot hotel’ to the Space Station on its next SpaceX resupply mission

NASA will be sending something it calls a "robot hotel" to the International Space Station on board the following business resupply strategic, is set to launch on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week. The robot inn is all the more officially known as the "Robotic Tool Stowage" unit, or the RiTS for short, since NASA adores nothing to such an extent as it cherishes abbreviations. Depending upon the fact that they are so anxious to humanize robots, the "hotel" assignment probably won't be very as suitable as "garage" — this unit is basically an ensured parking spot for robots when not being used, shielding them from potential threats exhibited by being in space, including presentation to radiation, and the possibility to get hit by micrometeors and different garbage. The principal visi...

NASA to look for thoughts for an Artemis lunar rover

21Nov

By Dimple JaucianNo Comments

Science

NASA to look for thoughts for an Artemis lunar rover

NASA intends to give a call for thoughts for a lunar rover that could be utilized by future maintained missions to the moon and, in the same way as other different components of the Artemis program, be created in an partnership with industry. Talking at the SpaceCom Expo here Nov. 20, Tom Cremins, NASA partner administrator for system and plans, said the office will before long release a solicitation for data for an unpressurized lunar wanderer for use by space explorers on Artemis lunar landing missions. "We want that [rover] there when the first crews arrive and then be there subsequently to be able to be used potentially autonomously from the Gateway, to conduct operations and to add to the science objectives," he said. That RFI, which he said would be released "in the coming weeks,"...

14Nov

By Luke HartwigNo Comments

Science

NASA will chase for fossils on Mars

The Mars 2020 rover will research a intriguing type of mineral store known for delivering fossils on Earth. At the point when they consider fossils, most likely envision T. rex skulls and sauropod femurs. NASA's Mars 2020 rover will search for fossils on Mars, however not unreasonably kind of fossil. NASA featured another investigation in the diary Icarus this week that focuses out some captivating developments around the internal edge of Jezero Crater, the rover's arranged landing site. The agency compares these concentrated carbonate mineral stores to a bath ring around what had once been a lake 3.5 billion years back. "On Earth, carbonates help form structures that are hardy enough to survive in fossil form for billions of years, including seashells, coral and some stromatolites -- r...

Boeing submits Artemis lunar lander proposition to NASA

6Nov

By Karen CampbellNo Comments

Science

Boeing submits Artemis lunar lander proposition to NASA

Two weeks after a group drove by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin divulged plans for a lunar lander, Boeing presented its very own proposition to NASA on Tuesday, offering a shuttle that would dispatch on the company's incredible Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and convey astronauts to and from the moon's surface with less flights. NASA's quick advancing Artemis program calls for sending astronauts to the moon in Orion containers propelled by SLS promoters as ahead of schedule as 2024. In the wake of docking with a little, remotely amassed space station known as Gateway, two space travelers would move to a monetarily assembled lander and drop to a touchdown close to the moon's south shaft. The space explorers at that point would take off, come back to Gateway and head home in their Lockheed Mart...

Russia is making more Soyuz rocket to help NASA’s ISS missions

4Nov

By Jack CooperNo Comments

Technology

Russia is making more Soyuz rocket to help NASA’s ISS missions

While the US needs to lessen its reliance on Russian rockets, Russia itself is hoping to help for some time yet. Roscosmos boss Dmitry Rogozin as of late arranged the development of two more Soyuz MS shuttle, one of which will assist NASA with conveying space explorers to the International Space Station. The choice pursues a letter from NASA executive Jim Bridenstine cautioning of a deferral in beginning American business shuttle flights. The US may require additional seats in 2020 and 2021, Rogozin stated, and this additional shuttle will help when absolutely necessary. The other Soyuz vessel would be utilized for a space visitor trip due in late 2021, in spite of the fact that this would help free assets for different missions. As anyone might expect, Russia utilized the request as an ...

NASA shares spooky space photographs without a time to spare for Halloween

30Oct

By Luke HartwigNo Comments

Science

NASA shares spooky space photographs without a time to spare for Halloween

Pictures shared by NASA this week exhibit the spooky wonders of space only in front of the most absurd day of the year: Halloween. The office presented two pictures on Twitter: one of a divine wonder giving off an impression of being a galactic ghoul, and one of the sun looking like a consuming jack-o'- light. The "ghostly apparition," as NASA depicted it Tuesday on Twitter, was really a picture of two galaxies colliding, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in June. Each 'eye' is the bright core of a galaxy, one of which slammed into another," NASA clarified on its site. "The outline of the face is a ring of young blue stars. Other clumps of new stars form a nose and mouth." The head-on crash will give the galaxies a ring structure for around 100 million years, which is an uncommon inf...