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Lunar equatorial surface temperatures and regolith properties

Principia Scientific 23 Oct 2021

Because LRO’s polar orbit is fixed in inertial space, the local time beneath the spacecraft varies slowly over the year until two complete diurnal cycles (one each from the ascending and descending orbit tracks) are captured by Diviner ... Each period of full longitudinal coverage is referred to as one mapping cycle.

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It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity that grounded Boeing’s Starliner

Ars Technica 20 Oct 2021

With less than five hours remaining in the countdown to launch, during a routine procedure, 13 of the 24 valves that control the flow of dinitrogen tetroxide oxidizer through the service module of the spacecraft would not cycle between closed and open.

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OSIRIS-Rex got to Know Bennu Really Well. Apparently, There’s now a 1-in-1,750 Chance That it’ll ...

Universe Today 13 Aug 2021

The team also expected the asteroid to be geologically quiet, but just six days after arriving in orbit, the spacecraft observed the asteroid ejecting bits of rock, due to rocks on the asteroid cracking because of the day-night heat cycle ... The spacecraft also scooped up a sample ...

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Ride onboard a flyby of Venus! Solar Orbiter captures gleaming view of the hellish world ...

The Daily Mail 13 Aug 2021

The spacecraft uses Venus' gravity to draw it closer to the Sun and tilt its orbit, swinging it up and out so as to 'look down' on the Sun ... Solar Orbiter is on its way to study the polar regions of the sun in a bid to better understand its 11-year cycle, as well as capture the polar regions.

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European Space Agency completes its double Venus flyby! BepiColombo swings by the planet - just ...

The Daily Mail 10 Aug 2021

The European Space Agency's (ESA) BepiColombo spacecraft has made its close approach to Venus, coming just 340 miles from the surface of Earth's twin planet ... The Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft swung by Venus, flying 340 miles from the surface of the planet, at 15.52 BST on Tuesday, August 10.

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European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter completes its second flyby of Venus - just 33 hours ...

The Daily Mail 09 Aug 2021

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has made its second flyby of Venus, just 33 hours before the BepiColombo craft makes its close approach ... 'A few minutes ago, as the spacecraft swung behind the planet for its Venus Flyby, New Norcia station lost contact as expected.'.

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European Space Agency prepares for back-to-back flybys of Venus: Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo will make ...

The Daily Mail 06 Aug 2021

Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo spacecraft will make history next week when they fly past Venus within 33 hours of each other, the European Space Agency confirmed ... Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo spacecraft will make history next week when they fly past Venus within 33 hours of each other, the European Space Agency confirmed.

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WATCH: Space Coast-Based All Points Presented Lockheed Martin Rigel Award for Work on Artemis Mission

Space Coast Daily 15 Jul 2021

Within Orion, it meant they were taking on life-cycle responsibility for design, developing and testing software to test and run the spacecraft through navigation, avionics, and life support systems ... of production— NASA Orion spacecraft provides support of up to 12 missions.

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What Is the Carbon Footprint of Space Tourism?

Treehugger 13 Jul 2021

Federal Aviation Administration's environmental assessment of the launch and re-entry of Virgin Galactic's spacecraft, one launch-land cycle emits about 30 tons of carbon dioxide, or about five tons per passenger.

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WATCH: Space Coast Based Tech Company All Points Awarded with Rigel Award for Work on ...

Space Coast Daily 10 Jul 2021

Within Orion, it meant they were taking on life-cycle responsibility for design, developing and testing software to test and run the spacecraft through navigation, avionics, and life support systems ... of production— NASA Orion spacecraft provides support of up to 12 missions.

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Kids can learn about Earth, solar system at Kearney Area Children's Museum

The Grand Island Independent 19 Jun 2021

KEARNEY — A traveling exhibit, Discover the Sun, Earth, Universe, has opened at the Kearney Area Children’s Museum at 5827 Fourth Ave. It can be seen through December ... - Follow the design-build test cycle of engineering. - Build a model spacecraft for your own mission to space ... Sundays ... .

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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer begins environmental testing

Eweekly 17 Jun 2021

“Once the door of the Large Space Simulator (LSS) is sealed, Juice will spend several weeks being subjected to extreme heating and cooling cycles under vacuum, to confirm the spacecraft is ready for its long journey through the Solar System to Jupiter.

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Juice moves into Large Space Simulator

Phys Dot Org 15 Jun 2021

Once the door of the Large Space Simulator (LSS) is sealed, Juice will spend several weeks being subjected to extreme heating and cooling cycles under vacuum, to confirm the spacecraft is ready for its long journey through the Solar System to Jupiter ... The LSS is Europe's single largest vacuum chamber standing 15 m high and 10 m wide ... Explore further.

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Juice moves into the Large Space Simulator

European Space Agency 14 Jun 2021

During a month-long test campaign the spacecraft will be subject to extreme temperature cycles under vacuum to replicate the heating and cooling that the spacecraft will ...

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Hitched to a Star

The Telegraph India 13 Jun 2021

Even mild space weather can be disruptive to creatures already evolved and settled; sunspots and solar storms, which wax and wane in an 11-year cycle, spray energy that can endanger spacecraft, astronauts and communication systems. A new cycle of storms will begin any day now, and astrophysicists are divided on how active or threatening it will be.