Yuma CAP Squadron 508 Aerospace Education Blog

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 2^nd 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 30^th.

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

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/the-surprising-reasons-there-are-so-few-black-scientists-in-the-space-industry-191326471.html

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.html https://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.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/nasa-esa-release-closest-images-ever-taken-sun-144300317--abc-news-tech.html

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

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/4f7c0e38-6535-3868-8390-bf8067b43cc8/what-went-wrong-with-boeing-s.html

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.

https://www.engadget.com/nas-as-mars-2020-rover-and-helicopter-are-nearly-ready-to-launch-162518162.html

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

Monday, June 29, 2020

June Aerospace Links

Aerospace Links June 2020

Hear astronauts describe what it will be like to fly SpaceX Crewed Dragon Capsule

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-astronauts-flying-spacexs-crew-145247348.html

All electric modified Cessna Caravan gets a test flight

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/magnix-aerotec-put-electric-cessna-173421571.html

Missing matter mystery solved

https://www.engadget.com/scientists-find-the-universes-missing-matter-using-cosmic-bursts-094512061.html

Mars 2020 rover mission reviewed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020

https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance/overview

The story of the X-1, the first of the X-planes and the first aircraft to break the sound barrier with Chuck Yeager at the controls.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/plane-changed-world-meet-bell-130000001.html

Saturn’s moon Titan moving away from the planet much faster than previously believed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/saturn-moon-titan-drifts-space-170839382.html

Star similar to Sun with planet comparable to Earth discovered by review of Kepler data.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-discovered-star-potentially-habitable-175600655.html

Mysterious periodic fast energy burst from galaxy far far away stumps scientists

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-fast-radio-bursts-detected-165850623.html

Studies of quasars help confirm one of Einstein's theories.

https://www.engadget.com/equivalence-principle-confirmation-174018796.html

Review of single engine Cirrus Vision Jet

https://www.yahoo.com/news/flew-2-million-personal-private-183409970.html

Honda industrial manufacturing computers are victimized by ransomware attack.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/honda-shuts-down-factories-cyberattack-124500852.html

Stellar Parallax studies from longest base ever, unleashed from diameter of Earth’s orbit

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/five-years-pluto-encounter-horizons-023000268.html

Launch of WST delayed to unspecified date after March 2021

https://www.engadget.com/coronavirus-delays-launch-nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-161528305.html

Take a tour of the International Space Station with views from a 360 degree camera

https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/international-space-station/WgFE9b04h8A0ww?sv_lng=-95.08533878466375&sv_lat=29.56040149436038&sv_h=66.24&sv_p=-13.299999999999997&sv_pid=2Lx7fxjE5hcAAAQvxgbyLQ&sv_z=1.0000000000000002

NASA competition award winning images

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-competition-gallery-pictures-122526726.html

New Airplane certification regulations likely in wake of Boeing 737 Max crashes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-key-u-senators-draft-164342398.html

Contract awarded to Astrobotics for delivery of lunar lander VIPER to lunar surface in 2023. https://www.yahoo.com/news/meet-griffin-lander-ferrying-nasas-180400985.html

NASA names new head of human space flight.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-names-head-human-spaceflight-171818607.html

Information about fast radio bursts in the universe; one found in our own Milky Way.

https://www.engadget.com/first-fast-radio-burst-in-milky-way-002145743.html

Virtual Reality (VR) headsets used for Starliner astronaut training.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronauts-starliner-space-theyre-training-150900337.html

Space craft makes close approach to study the Sun.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/closest-image-sun-184936131.html

A different view of space has been obtained by the New Horizons space craft as it speeds through the outer reaches of our solar system

https://www.yahoo.com/news/horizons-gets-glimpse-alien-sky-060000364.html

Estimating the number of planets with intelligent life in our galaxy

https://www.yahoo.com/news/looks-could-35-other-alien-202400730.html

Musk and SpaceX Starship development on fast track.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-building-floating-222130113.html

New NASA leader faces challenges getting humans on the Moon again by 2024.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-most-difficult-jobs-america-021705176.html

Major management changes are taking place at Boeing’s space programs.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/boeing-shifts-team-leaders-space-010125728.html

New X-ray view of the Universe revealed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breathtaking-map-x-ray-universe-080510577.html

High end business jet sales hold strong.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/private-jet-industry-seen-wave-121400303.html

New methods to search for extraterrestrial life to be supported by a grant.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-searching-universe-signs-alien-130325690.html

Hubble Space Telescope provides stunning images of two planetary nebulae

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hubble-star-death-173845601.html

Astronomers predict existence of intermediate sized black holes. Search for examples underway.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-hole-galaxy-speed-175643759.html

Strange collision involving a low mass black hole and a relatively small neutron star reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-neutron-star-discovery-baffles-143620760.html

Dragon return to Earth for ISS now scheduled for early August. Depends on success of spacewalks to replace older style space station batteries.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-aims-early-august-splashdown-010309613.html

Dimming of Betelgeuse is explained.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/betelgeuse-nearby-supergiant-stars-dimming-141102941.html

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Aerospace Links May 2020

Atmosphere of large exoplanet defies explanation by astronomers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hot-jupiter-bright-yellow-sky-200200485.html

What caused wide destruction of trees in Siberia over 100 years ago, a new theory

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tunguska-asteroid-impact-theory-172350208.html

The Earth’s magnetic pole is shifting

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-explain-magnetic-poles-wanderings-230401575.html

This is the black hole nearest to Earth

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-closest-black-hole-earth-120106100.html

SpaceX Starship development makes progress with engine test fire on prototype

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/spacexs-starship-prototype-successfully-completes-124759167.html

Amazing high resolution infrared image of Jupiter taken by telescope on big island

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-obtain-lucky-image-jupiter-124431157.html

NASA offers grants for educational institutions to encourage the development of space scientists

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/university-washington-wins-nasa-grant-023949478.html

SpaceX launch and mission plans detailed for May 27^th manned Dragon launch

https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-launch-riskiest-most-critical-153811890.html

New engine technology approved for NASA contracted mission

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/rocketlab-tests-hypercurie-engine-power-120753590.html

Mini rover tries for NASA approval for mission to land rover on the moon.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/cmus-tiny-robot-rover-passes-134514608.html

Web based simulator for Dragon docking with ISS

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/spacex-simulator-shows-actually-dock-181918494.html

Interview with two astronauts scheduled for first manned Dragon launch later in May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_gEt9xEI4g

NASA administrator in charge of human space flight resigns just a week before first launch of humans by a US space vehicle in almost a decade. No explanation has been provided.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-resigns-205529884.html

Thirty years of Hubble Space Telescope operations celebrated

https://www.yahoo.com/news/30-years-hubble-three-decades-215613410.html

How the actual manned Dragon launch and recovery should go down video of test mission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSA1B9GZ3TU

Surprisingly old disc galaxy find by Hubble Space Telescope and telescopes in Chile

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-discover-12-5-billion-014017303.html

How to watch prospective launch of Crewed Dragon to ISS

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/watch-upcoming-nasa-spacex-rocket-000029953.html

Aerospace company Virgin Orbit plans first orbital launch attempt from a modified 747 on Sunday, May 24

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/heres-virgin-orbit-hopes-achieve-201645244.html

See a beautiful time lapse image of Milky Way from southern hemisphere

https://www.yahoo.com/news/timelapse-captures-stunning-milky-way-055930795.html

China planning to launch Mars lander and rover this July

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-set-launch-mars-probe-114203384.html

Virgin Orbit launch is not successful

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/virgin-orbit-launcherone-rocket-falls-202555149.html

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Aerospace Links April 2020

OneWeb files for bankruptcy as its satellite network is still under construction. Most of employees have been laid off.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oneweb-files-bankruptcy-amid-covid-014704542.html

Large number of senior pilots of American Airlines decide to take early retirement offer.

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/03/26/american-airlines.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

NASA announces crews for the first SpaceX Dragon crewed missions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacexs-first-operational-crew-dragon-124352685.html

High resolution image of Mars released by NASA

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-releases-highest-resolution-image-015512315.html

James E. Webb telescope deployed to full extent in successful test by NASA.

https://www.engadget.com/2020-04-02-nasa-successfully-deploys-the-james-webb-telescopes-enormous-mi.html

Corona virus pandemic disrupts studies using Chilean telescopes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chilean-telescopes-explore-galaxies-brought-210411482.html

BepiColumbo spacecraft sweeps by Earth on its long and complex path to study Mercury.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mercury-bound-spacecraft-buzzes-earth-150726647.html

Astronomers gradually gathering more data about the 13 rings around planet Uranus.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/images-uranus-frozen-rings-only-135400387.html

Extremely bright supernova spotted in 2016. This probably originated from a star 100 times larger than our Sun.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supernova-bright-universe-173354717.html

New Pillars of Creation image from the Hubble Space Telescope published by NASA. It may be even better than the original.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-image-crowns-pillars-creation-221400705.html

How Mars lander is operated in the age of Covid-19 after shutdown of Jet Propulsion Lab where operators normally control the mission.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasas-curiosity-team-operating-mars-233125902.html

Study of Kepler satellite data by NASA scientists reveals an exoplanet very similar to earth in size 300 light years away. The planet appears to be the its star’s, a red dwarf type, habitable zone.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-discovered-another-earth-perhaps-215029727.html

Observational studies over decades of the motion of a star close to Milky Way’s supermassive black hole confirm Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/star-dancing-around-supermassive-black-171222171.html

In-space satellite servicing to become a commercial endeavor.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/space-satellite-servicing-proves-successful-122007888.html

New space telescope led by a consortium of European nations based in Switzerland begins operations in search of exoplanets.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/europes-cheops-telescope-begins-study-093812247.html

SpaceX Crewed Dragon launch to International Space Station with first two astronauts set for May 27.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-spacex-set-historic-first-164141061.html

Astronomers share favorite images from Hubble Space Telescope’s 30 years of operations.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/pics-telescope-changed-look-space-022811086.html

Friday, March 27, 2020

Aerospace Links March 2020

Astronomer discovers nearby galaxy with a double center

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-begin-unravel-mystery-held-224355088.html

SpaceX Starship prototype fails pressure test when fuel tank was loaded with liquid nitrogen. Test apparatus was destroyed. This is one of several failures during development of the new rocket.

https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-02-spacex-starship-sn1-prototype-implodes.html

New evidence of why the Milky Way galaxy is warped.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/milky-way-warped-galaxy-201443147.html

First SpaceX launch of crewed capsule set for sometime in May 2020.

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2020/03/10/spacex-president-heres-when-well-launch-humans.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

Space Launch System development fraught with cost overruns and delays.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasas-sls-moon-rocket-2-201949692.html

A quick look at new mission control room at Blue Origin in Florida

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/blue-origin-provides-sneak-peek-024018354.html

ExoMars2020 mission to Mars, a joint project of the European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos Space Agency, postponed until 2022 due to a number of pending technical issues that are yet to be resolved and tested.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exomars2020-coronavirus-played-part-postponement-105904659.html

Rocket Lab receives category 1 approval, needed for important missions, from NASA for its Electron launch vehicle.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rocket-lab-gets-nasa-certification-203718820.html

Cluster of Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn to be seen early Wednesday morning of March 17^th.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/set-alarm-moon-join-trio-151346799.html

Mixed NASA project management response to Covid-19 crisis. James E. Webb Telescope integration paused.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-confirms-commercial-crew-still-222936048.html

UK astronomers report diameter of Milky Way galaxy is an awesome 1.9 million light years

https://www.yahoo.com/news/milky-way-galaxy-edge-184630174.html

Bigelow Aerospace, builder of first inflatable module for space station, lays off all of its employees.

https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-24-bigelow-aerospace-shut-down.html

Hubble studies massive energy outputs of quasars caused by supermassive black holes across the universe.

https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-25-hubble-quasar-tsunami-illustration.html

Yuma CAP Squadron 508 Aerospace Education Blog

Sunday, August 30, 2020

August 2020 AE Links

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

July 2020 Aerospace Links