Aerospace Educations Links January
2019
Mars InSight
lander making progress in mission, sets first instrument, a quake sensor, on
the surface of the red planet.
NASA’s New
Horizon spacecraft to fly-by and take pictures of distant solar system object
beyond the orbit of Neptune and send images back to Earth
Out of this
world astronomy events to look forward to in 2019
Space
Highlights 2018
OSIRIS-REx
goes into orbit around an asteroid after perfect rocket burn to establish
correct flight path.
NASA probe
returns high resolution images of Ultima Thule, the most distant body ever
visited up close by a man-made probe in the solar system. It has been a long
journey.
Jupiter
space probe Juno spots volcanic eruption on Jovian moon Io.
Whimsical
predictions for intergalactic collisions that would catastrophically affect our
Solar System
Chinese
rover begins exploration of the “dark” side of the lunar surface
Complicated
relationships between the companies contracted to design and build
transportation to the International Space Station suggests linked fates for
several of the companies
Meet Michele
Evans, the woman who leads the Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Division in
Dallas-Fort Worth
Citizens go
forth and discover your own exoplanet-how amateur astronomers are contributing
new discoveries to our knowledge of space
SpaceX still
trying to find a solution to catching nose cone fairings as they return to
Earth.
New tools
are being used to study the characteristics of Black Holes
New
technology being tested to convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to a type
of carbon- based fuel
An unusual
look back at Earth from asteroid probe Osiris-REx
Osiris-REx
sends back images of the asteroid Bennu that it now orbits as part of its
complicated mission to bring back a sample of the asteroid to Earth
China shares
images sent back from robotic probe based on the dark side of the moon
SpaceX
successfully completes launch of ten Iridium satellites that now complete a
launch program designed to provide a network of 75 on orbit devices.
Data review
from Cassini probe shows summertime showers on Jovian moon Titan
