Aerospace Education Links for April 2018

AE links April 2018

Neutron Star identified in our neighborhood, 200,000 light years away

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-release-stunning-images-one-130003144.html

NASA video composite of images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

https://www.space.com/40274-nasa-moon-in-4k-video-tour.html

SpaceX President at 2018 TED talks

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/spacex-president-ted-2018-4-1021214202

New storm on Saturn. Follow the planets this spring

https://www.universetoday.com/138939/new-saturn-storm-emerging/

NASA considering flying astronauts into deep space with interim second stage

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/nasa-likely-to-fly-first-deep-space-mission-on-less-powerful-rocket/?comments=1&post=35151321

NASA plans to accelerate missions with Boeing Starliner capsule focusing on astronaut transport to the International Space Station.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/13/nasa-hopes-to-have-boeing-delivering-astronauts-to.aspx

Powerful Atlas V booster to lift weather satellite payload into orbit

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ula-atlas-v-launch-to-feature-full-complement-of-aerojet-rocketdyne-solid-rocket-boosters-1021359937

Atlas V541 configuration http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ula-atlas-v-launch-to-feature-full-complement-of-aerojet-rocketdyne-solid-rocket-boosters-1021359937

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=Awr9CWlHF9JalDEAnFZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0NjZjZzZhBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Atlas+V541&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=25&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americaspace.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2Fgoesslaunchjohn.jpg&action=click

***Video obtained by drone of Kamchatka volcanos

https://vimeo.com/263459635

*How well do pilots understand weather? Not well according to Embry-Riddle quiz

https://www.flyingmag.com/embry-riddle-research-shows-many-pilots-struggle-to-understand-weather?enews041718

Additional weather products to be available on ADS-B in broadcasts

https://www.flyingmag.com/new-free-weather-products-coming-soon-to-ads-b-feed?enews041718

Dangerous pilot attitudes explained

https://www.flyingmag.com/pilot-attitudes-in-training?enews041918

*Learn about what it takes to be a payload integration specialist for an aerospace company

https://www.flyingmag.com/how-to-become-payload-integration-specialist?enews041918

Orion capsule to be built with over 100 3-D printed/manufactured parts

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/nasa-apos-orion-crew-capsule-154100388.html

What will the newest space telescope, TESS, try to accomplish? https://www.yahoo.com/news/exoplanet-nasa-apos-tess-mission-142507076.html

***Watch SpaceX launch and deployment of TESS

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/18/watch-spacex-launch-nasas-new-planet-hunting-satellite-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Innovative idea to collect plastic waste from the Pacific ocean to be tested soon. System was developed by teenager.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40560810/the-revolutionary-giant-ocean-cleanup-machine-is-about-to-set-sail?partner=feedburner

Blue Origin in race for acceptance of new, powerful rocket engine with capability to be reused up to 100 times.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/be-4-blue-origin/

***New Hubble telescope videos of lagoon nebula

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-releases-astounding-video-lagoon-030814579.html

New evidence for rapid glacial ice melt in southern hemisphere associated with changing climate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/23/one-of-the-most-worrisome-predictions-about-climate-change-may-be-coming-true/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b603981dd4ec

Grim warning about global warming effect on California

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-whiplash-between-drought-floods-study-175125823.html