Aerospace Links July 2020
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lunar-eclipse-double-meteor-shower-110600103.html
NASA signals intent to purchase more SLS booster rockets for
Artemis lunar program.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/nasa-sets-path-six-more-181312308.html
Boeing completes certification test
flights
https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeing-completes-737-max-certification-041507635.html
Disappearance of massive star poses a celestial enigma.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/star-vanishes-black-hole-174730590.html
US Navy announces graduation of first
female fighter pilot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/aviator-just-became-us-navys-155401041.html
South Pole wall discovered by astronomers using an unusual
technique reveal a zone of galaxies a billion light years across hidden behind
the barrier of the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-pole-wall-newly-discovered-193237713.html
Hubble Space Telescope shows new form of star-forming
nursery
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-hubble-just-captured-183345523.html
Images from New Horizon space craft’
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ll-able-see-five-planets-205800567.html
Insight into how our moon formed and when.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/moon-seems-pretty-old-actually-183000058.html
August 2nd is date set to return Crew Dragon
capsule to Earth. The story of the planned return.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-plans-bring-astronauts-back-232500864.html
Theories about the characteristics of Betelgeuse
https://www.yahoo.com/news/betelgeuse-mightve-dabbled-casual-celestial-210800285.html
China successfully launches dual probes to Mars
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-launches-bold-attempt-land-044726360.html
Autonomous passenger jets on the horizon as Airbus tests
automation to the extreme.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/airbus-self-flying-plane-just-120900008.html
SpaceX Dragon crew test scheduled for splashdown Sun. August
2
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/space-launch-live-splashdown-discovery-171800958.html
Delay in launch of new Martian rover Perseverance
extended to July 30th.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mars-rover-launch-delayed-july-235116238.html
Boeing Starliner passes
key parachute deployment test ahead of test flight.
https://www.engadget.com/boeing-starliner-parachute-test-110159702.html
Unusual planet spotted by
TESS space telescope
https://www.yahoo.com/news/core-gas-planet-seen-first-154511858.html
Spotlight on lack of
diversity in aerospace field
Asteroids discovered in
Hubble Space Telescope image of a dwarf galaxy by community viewers. How
community viewers enhance the Hubble team effort.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hubble-captures-sneaky-asteroids-galaxy-153916670.html
A brief history of the
fastest X-15 flight ever.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mach-6-7-monster-americas-170000206.html
Time lapse video of the
Sun released by NASA
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/nasa-releases-spectacular-1-timelapse-163539565.html
Bombardier adds the new Global 5500 to its stable
of executive jets
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bombardier-just-delivered-first-global-124900258.html
Astronomers discover a gas
giant exoplanet without its gaseous atmosphere
https://www.engadget.com/astronomiers-find-exposed-gas-giant-core-042946108.htmlsc
Hubble Space Telescope image
shows aging galaxy with little new star formation and a spherical center.
Looking forward to two new telescopes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasas-powerful-hubble-space-telescope-213300261.html
A novel space business
uses existing satellites to evaluate health of other satellites.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/high-earth-orbit-robotics-uses-131549234.html
Boeing software issues
must be resolved before next Starliner flight test says NASA
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-adds-more-safety-fixes-212047654.html
Curiosity rover heading
for its next destination. It will use an autonomous driving mode to avoid a
hazard.
https://www.engadget.com/curiosity-rover-next-martian-destination-033231854.html
Multiple Mars exploration
missions set to launch within the next month. Two are landers and one is an
orbiter.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/three-mars-missions-poised-launch-152320774.html
Differences in the
approach to development and engineering characterizes SpaceX vs Boeing human
spacecraft development. https://qz.com/1878725/boeings-software-troubles-show-an-engineering-culture-clash/?utm_source=YPL
Good time for comet
spotting in July
https://www.yahoo.com/news/naked-eye-comet-soaring-sky-183700645.html
Mars Perseverance Rover
mated to its Atlas launch vehicle as prep continues for launch at the end of
July
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-mars-rover-perseverance-attached-104125869.html
US and Japan sign
agreement to work together on lunar programs.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/nasa-signs-agreement-japan-cooperate-120933232.html
NASA upgrades antenna in Australia to improve
communications with interplanetary remote vehicles.
https://www.engadget.com/nasa-australia-deep-space-station-upgrade-133000935.htmlhttps://www.engadget.com/nasa-australia-deep-space-station-upgrade-133000935.html
NASA looks for ways to
mitigate the biological impact of manned and unmanned missions to the Moon and
Mars.
https://www.engadget.com/nasa-protect-moon-mars-human-contamination-093050521.html
Three nations set to
launch Martian missions within the next month.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/look-mars-come-fleet-spacecraft-050910431.html
Unusual star discovered by
Hubble Space Telescope suggests a new type of supernova
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-blast-sends-star-hurtling-083058016.html
The debate about the age
of the universe rages.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cosmic-expansion-tribes-entrench-positions-140116073.html
Planets putting on a show
in space during pre-dawn hours.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/see-5-planets-sky-month-nasa-reveals-233500045--abc-news-topstories.html
First
images of close approach to sun released by ESA and NASA.
James
E. Webb Telescope launch delayed an additional 7 months until October 2021. https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-delays-launch-8-8-225943424.html
Latest
3-D map of universe released by astrophysicists
https://www.yahoo.com/news/astrophysicists-unveil-biggest-ever-3d-map-universe-004852227.html
UAE
successfully launches Martian probe
https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-arab-emirates-launches-mission-010736979.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-arab-emirates-spacecraft-blasts-221252980.html
Boeing faces hurdles with
its attempt to send manned Starliner capsules to International Space Station
Star
with two gas giant planets photographed by Very Large Telescope.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-reveal-first-ever-photo-130000808.html
Mars
2020 mission launch window opens next week and has only 2 weeks for launch this
year or mission will have to be delayed for 2 years.
SpaceX
may launch first crewed Dragon mission (not part of a test program) in late
September.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/spacex-nasa-target-september-first-144500033.html
Stunning
image of Saturn captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-picture-saturn-195200707.html
