Solar Orbiter’s First Images Reveal “Campfires” on the Sun
This morning, the European Space Agency and NASA released the first round of images from Solar Orbiter. Launched on February 10, this mission took a fast path to the Sun and is now sending back images from closer to the sun than any mission that has come before.
China’s Kuaizhou-11 carrier rocket fails in maiden flight
On July 10 at 4:17 am, the very first Kuaizhou 11 rocket launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China.
Successful Launch of APSTAR-6D Satellite
On July 9 at 12:11 pm UTC, a Long March 3B rocket launched the APStar-6D into geosynchronous orbit at the 134⁰E orbital slot.
Israel successfully launches Ofek 16 spy satellite into space
With no advance notice given to public media outlets, the Israeli Defense Ministry launched a Shavit 2 rocket from Palmachim Airbase at 0100 GMT Monday 6 July (9 p.m. EDT Sunday), or at 4 a.m. local time in Israel.
China launches satellite for space environment study
China launched another SUPER SECRET satellite aboard a Long March 2D at 11:44 pm UTC.
Rocket Lab Mission Fails to Reach Orbit
Rocket Lab had “Pics or It Didn’t Happen”, and it didn’t happen. Well, ok, it kind of happened.
The high-resolution multi-mode satellite and the popular science satellite Xibaipo were successfully launched
On July 3 at 3:10 am UTC, a Long March 3B rocket launched from Taiyuan carrying two satellites to orbit.
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Which Planetary Systems Will Survive
A new algorithm created by a team led by Daniel Tamayo is being set loose to try and figure out what planetary systems are and are not stable.
Massive Stellar Embryos Undergo Episodic Growth
Forming truly massive stars has been really hard to explain. As young stars form, they light up, and their light can push away infalling material, shutting off their growth. The bigger a star, the more brightly it will shine, and it seems like truly massive stars should shut off their own formation with their light.
Gigantic, Red, and Full of Spots
A team looked through data on the roughly 4500 red giant stars in the NASA Kepler data set and looked for stars that weren’t behaving in normal, boring, red giant kind of ways.
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