Roscosmos launches Meridian-M 19L satellite
Image from Roscosmos Twitter: https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1230497305071104000 On Thursday, February 20 at 08:25 UTC, the Russian Military launched a Soyuz-2 with the Meridian-M 19L satellite. At first glance, it looks like this mission went completely...
Year to Date Rocket Launch Statistics 2020/2/26
Here’s a running tally of a few spaceflight statistics for the year.So far, only one toilet has burned up in the atmosphere. There are 245 new satellites in orbit, with 231 of those launched by 16 rockets. By spaceport, here’s the breakdown of those rocket...
InSight into Martian Magnetic Fields
From seismic waves to gravity waves, InSight seems to be on a mission to study every possible kind of wave, including magnetic fields… which deals with electromagnetic waves.
InSight Detects Gravity Waves in Mars’ Atmosphere
InSight was designed to study both the inside of Mars and its atmosphere. An announcement that is likely to generate confusion is the discovery of gravity waves in the Martian atmosphere. This is one of those times when different branches of science have given radically different things confusingly similar names.
Carnival of Space #652
Check out this week’s sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends!
NASA’s InSight Detects MarsQuakes
In a special issue of Nature Geoscience which focuses on Mars science it was announced that MarsQuakes have been measured by InSight’s seismometer. The University of Maryland headline proclaims “First Direct Seismic Measurements of Mars Reveal a Geologically Active Planet.”
Death of Katherine Johnson
Today we learned that Katherine Johnson, the mathematician who calculated trajectories for so many of the early human space missions, has passed away at the age of 101.
CERN News: Antimatter Hydrogen Has the Same Quantum Quirk as Normal Hydrogen
Physicists at CERN have constructed an anti-hydrogen atom made of a positron and antiproton. These antimatter atoms are being used to test a principal called Charge-parity-time, which says that antimatter should behave exactly like regular matter.
Chang’E 4 Far Side Discovery
The Chang’e 4 and its Yutu-2 rover continue their exploration of the far side of the Moon. Geologically, this is a very different surface that may have formed when a blob of material hit the Moon.
Mars Insight Heat Probe Repair Plan
The NASA slogan, “Failure is not an option” sometimes leads to the most heroic and silly results. Ok… once it led to silly results… and that once is the case of the Insight Mission, and its mole burrowing tool.
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