We Need to Help Dr. Pamela: An Open Letter From Your Producer
Dear CosmoQuesters, In April 2020, covid was spreading like wildfire and I found myself unemployed because the company I had worked at for five years decided to cut staff to protect their profits as the world locked down. I was suddenly staring down a pandemic with no...
Chinese launches week of 11/14/2022
The Long March-7 Y6 rocket, carrying cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-5, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province Nov. 12, 2022. Credit: (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu) To wrap up the posts that would have been on the Daily Space last week, a...
Big Orange Rocket finally makes its debut
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop launches the agency’s Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16 from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Brandon Hancock NASA finally launched the first SLS...
ULA launches JPSS-2 for NASA
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 1 carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) and NASA’s Low-Earth...
Antares launches latest Cygnus to the ISS
Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket launched the S.S. Sally Ride Cygnus spacecraft November 7, 2022 from Wallops Island, Virginia for cargo delivery to crew aboard the International Space Station. (Credit: Northrop Grumman) On November 7th the 18th Antares rocket...
This Week in Space History: Twofer of Joy
This week in space history, we look back at both the Venera 4 mission which gathered information on Venus’ atmosphere and the supersonic test flight of the Bell X1.
When Clusters Collide Things Get Hot
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory images Abell 98, a system of galaxy clusters which includes a pair in an early stage of collision.
The Pillars of Creation Still Stand in JWST Image
The JWST has released an incredibly detailed image of the Pillars of Creation, an open cluster full of gas, dust, and star-forming regions.
Dealing with Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
A trio of asteroid stories: OSIRIS-REx’s sample of Bennu on schedule to return; researchers develop method to map asteroid density distribution; and 3200 Phaethon’s rotation speeds up.
Mars’s Potential Past Microbial Life Forced Underground
A team of researchers modeled how an emerging ecosystem of microbes on Mars could have impacted the climate, forcing the microbes deep underground.
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