Aerospace Education Links for February 2018

Aerospace Educations Links February 2018

Gravitational Lensing and Hubble Telescope View of Ancient Nascent Galaxy

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-first-close-look-distant-114711831.html

Specialized C-130 aircraft deployed to Korea-has cyberwarfare capabilities

http://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-deploys-ec-130h-electronic-warfare-aircraft-to-south-korea-2018-1

Chile soon will provide more than just winter fruit. New telescope in Andes nearing completion is scheduled to go online in 2019.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-offers-peek-ultra-wide-043600757.html

Citizen scientists with access to Kepler satellite data discover planetary system.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/citizen-scientists-discovered-unusual-solar-system-not-even-172857052.html

Testing and qualifications for SLS and Orion capsule seem endless. Engineers will be busy in 2018 and 2019.

https://www.space.com/39422-nasa-space-launch-system-orion-update-2018.html

The causes for Zuma satellite failure remain elusive. Major contractors SpaceX and Northrop-Grumman questioned by Congressional committee. NASA also an interested party.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-nasa-probed-zuma-spy-110158827.html

NASA experiments with new alloys that efficiently change wing shapes in flight.

https://newatlas.com/nasa-wings-memory-alloy/53053/

Tour the nation’s newest aircraft carrier

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/c363555b-4dce-35e1-a54f-568e2c4bddfa/ss_we-toured-the-largest.html

Video of SR-71 incident over N. Korea in 1981. History reverberates as tensions on the Korean peninsula escalate. Pilot testimonial.

http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-shot-missile-sr-71-blackbird-2018-1

SpaceX Falcon heavy cleared for launch, perhaps as early as the first week of February.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-heavy-121855321.html

Hard times for Russia’s heavy launch vehicle, the Proton rocket

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/russias-proton-rocket-falls-on-hard-times/

Night sky highlight: Blue Moon and total Lunar eclipse coming up this month

https://www.universetoday.com/138378/get-set-super-blue-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse/

A brief history of Russia’s historic launch complex Baikonur

https://www.space.com/33947-baikonur-cosmodrome.html

European Space Agency settles on two satellite designs to study dark side of the moon

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/esa-picks-two-tiny-spacecraft-072700965.html

***See amazing Mars panorama taken by Curiosity rover and check out its 5 year journey

https://www.yahoo.com/news/curiosity-apos-sweeping-mars-panorama-142900087.html

Blue Origin test fires its new powerful rocket engine again-successfully. First launch of heavy lift rocket scheduled for sometime in 2020.

https://www.space.com/39530-blue-origin-new-glenn-be-4-engine-test.html

The longest walk-for Russian cosmonauts on ISS

https://www.yahoo.com/news/space-station-cosmonauts-conduct-longest-030438756.html

The most powerful US launch hardware-how do the rockets stack up?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/09b9b8c3-2100-3479-bbae-cfccf6664f30/ss_spacex-falcon-heavy%3A-how-the.html

Damaged but still flying-Check out this story of flying heroics over Iraq

http://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-pilot-lands-a-10-warthog-manually-during-the-iraq-war-2018-2

New Space clock to be tested soon. How accurate is it?  How does it work?

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/nasa-test-key-deep-space-153500712.html

***Video of Falcon Heavy launch

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&p=video+of+spacex+falcon+heavy+launch#id=0&vid=989922633438b2e8015319c4e12d5c4e&action=click

***Amazing video of Falcon Heavy booster paired landings

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&p=video+of+spacex+falcon+heavy+booster+landing#action=view&id=1&vid=bbc0dc942476e4bb0ac71f98c2899417

Dream Chaser craft gets ISS resupply mission in 2020

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/dream-chaser-apos-first-iss-225500521.html

***Watch deployment test of solar panels of the next Mars lander scheduled for launch in May from Vandenberg AFB, CA

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/31fc0f0b-a9a7-3764-8504-d8c3bf93d093/ss_meet-the-next-mars-lander%3A.html

***Cassini captured two of Saturn’s largest moons in tandem neatly overlapping

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/96cb7914-2b96-3083-9f8f-b700b2e53c4c/ss_saturn%27s-contrasting-moons.html

Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies set to collide in 2 billion years. What happens then?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/andromeda-galaxy-brought-down-size-093012749.html

No funding for ISS in Trump budget proposal past 2024 may have an untoward affect on international partners

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-apos-budget-reportedly-proposes-143500624.html