It was Sabrina Thompson’s 12th grade art teacher who told her she’d be a perfect engineer. But when a male physics instructor advised Thompson not to go to college because of her gender, his narrow-minded comments instead launched her on a journey that eventually landed at NASA. “I decided I was going to major in engineering to prove this guy wrong,” Thompson told Space.com. “You don’t tell me that I can’t do this thing. Because that’s the kind of kid I was. Honestly, it’s something that I don’t want other…
Read MoreMonth: November 2022
Chinese rocket body breaks up in orbit after successful satellite launch
China sent the Yunhai 3 environmental monitoring satellite into orbit on Friday (Nov. 11), on the second launch of the nation’s new Long March 6A rocket. The Long March 6A lifted off from the hilly Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China at 5:52 p.m. EST on Nov. 11 (2252 GMT; 6:52 a.m. Beijing time on Nov. 12), just hours before China launched its latest cargo mission to the Tiangong space station. The satellite entered its intended orbit, the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight (SAST), the state-owned manufacturer of the launch…
Read MoreNASA Awards Contracts for Acquisition of Liquid Hydrogen
NASA has awarded contracts to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Linde Inc. of Danbury, Connecticut, to supply up to approximately 15 million pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency.
Read MoreLiftoff! Successful Launch for JPSS-2, LOFTID
The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and our Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Read MoreSpace Station Science Highlights: Week of November 7, 2022
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of Nov.7 that included studying flammability of materials in microgravity, demonstrating technology for small robotic repair satellites, and capturing Earth images requested by students.
Read MoreScientists have traced Earth’s path through the galaxy via tiny crystals found in the crust
(Image credit: Triff/Shutterstock) This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Chris Kirkland (opens in new tab) is a professor of geology at Curtin University in Australia. Phil Sutton is a senior lecturer in astrophysics at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. The scientists are the authors of a recent study on Earth‘s path through the galaxy as part of the solar system. “To see a world in a grain of sand,” the opening sentence…
Read MoreMystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid
This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Uisdean Nicholson (opens in new tab) is an Associate Professor of Geoscience at Heriot-Watt University and lead author of the study describing the discovery. He is an expert in sedimentary and marine geology. Sean Gulick (opens in new tab) is a Research Professor of Geoscience at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies tectonic-climate interactions, the role of catastrophism in the geologic record and marine and planetary geophysical…
Read MoreWhat time is NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket launch on Nov. 16?
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA’s Artemis 1 mission will open a new era of U.S. space exploration when it launches to the moon this month, but exactly when it lifts off depends on several factors. Artemis 1, the first uncrewed test flight of NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon, is currently scheduled to lift off from Pad 39B of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on Wednesday (Nov. 16) Liftoff is currently scheduled for 1:04 p.m. EST (0604 GMT), weather permitting. You can watch the launch…
Read MoreUS military’s X-37B space plane lands, ending record-breaking mystery mission
The record-breaking sixth mission of the U.S. military’s X-37B space plane is finally over. The robotic X-37B touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida today (Nov. 12) at 5:22 a.m. EST (1022 GMT). The winged vehicle had spent 908 days in orbit — more than four months longer than any previous X-37B flight. The Boeing-built space plane also carried a service module on the newly completed mission, a first for the U.S. Space Force‘s X-37B program. “With the service module added, this was the most we’ve ever carried…
Read MoreSpaceX rocket launches 2 big telecom satellites on record-tying 14th mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch on its record-tying 14th mission Saturday (Nov. 12), and you can watch the action live. SpaceX is scheduled to launch Intelsat’s Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a two-hour window that opens at 11:06 a.m. EST (1606 GMT). You can watch live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company (opens in new tab). It will be the 14th liftoff for this Falcon 9’s first…
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