Paul Sutton

NASA

Artemis Missions

Just reposting a modified version of this:

Upcoming

Artemis 2

Artemis 3

Artemis 4

Completed

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#NASA,#Artemis,#Moon,#Missions

Space Exploration v Economics

A 3 part series by Dr Pamela L Gay @[email protected]

My 3 part series, Space Exploration v Economics, is LIVE.

1 – Science Budgets versus Congress and rising costs

2- NASA’s Fixed-Cost Contracts Change Vendor (and NASA’s) Risks

3 – Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 leaves NASA no room for mistakes

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#NASA,#SpaceExploration,#Economics

Intuitive Lunar Lander

“Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission made history on Feb. 22, with the first successful Moon landing*

This will be the first of several missions before the next Atemis mission to fly a crewed mission around the moon, before the Artemis III mission to land humans on the moon in a few years.

Exciting times ahead. You can read more about the IM-1 mission here

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#Space,#Moon,#Lander,#Mission,#IntuitiveMachines,#NASA

NASA Psyche Mission.

NASAs JSL next mission is to an interesting and perhaps unique Asteroid. Due to launch on October 12. The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Launch now scheduled for the 13th October

#NASA,#JPL,#Mission,#Psyche,#Asteroid,#Geology,

Artemis 2 training

With the 2024 Artemis 2 mission fast approaching, the mission teams are hard at work training for this important mission to fly humans around the moon and return safely to Earth. Read more here

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#NASA,#Moon,#Mission,#Atemis,#Artemis2,#2024

Euclid space telescope sends back first images

The Euclid space telescope has now sent back it's first images. As reported in New Scientist on 31 July 2023. You can read the full article here

So all good stuff, The telescope can exmine both visible and infrared light.

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#Space,#Euclid,#Astronomy,#Light,#InfraRed.#Visible,#ESA,#NASA,#Science

NASA Solar storm warning

This is pretty scary stuff, solar storms are known to be a high risk to technology on Earth. Looks like if anything happens we won't get much of a warning, We'd Have a 30-Minute Warning Before a Killer Solar Storm Hits Earth

Something to consider.

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#NASA,#Space,#Solar,#Storm.#Warning

Astronomy updates

A few updates from the world of Astronomy, these were published last week, just that my blog has lots of stuff scheduled.

Both the following are interesting:-

James Webb

We can discuss further on science forums.

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Just added this on 2/5/2023

In other news it is also #BlackHoleWeek, so if you head over to NASAs Black home basics page there is loads of useful information on the the subject. Be sure to follow NASA on the Fediverse too.

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#Astronomy,#News,#BlackHoleWeek,#NASA,#Cosmology

JUICE Jupiter mission launch attempt 2

Due to the weather, yesterdays JUICE launch was scrubbed, they will attempt another launch today.

The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Friday April 14th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.

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#NASA,#ESA.#JupiterMoons,#JUICE,#Astrobiology,#Mission,#Launch

Watch JUICE Jupiter mission launch today

The ESA Juice mission is due to launch on Thursday April 13th. According to Space.com the launch time is around 12:15 GMT.

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#NASA,#ESA.#JupiterMoons,#JUICE,#Astrobiology,#Mission,#Launch