American astronaut prepares for a year in space
Scott Kelly is preparing to be the first American to spend a continuous year in space. He #39;ll travel to the International Space Station in March along with a ...
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Superstar Zoom Space Animation ~ In and Out Of Eta Carinae
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Many satellites that monitor the Earth orbit relatively close to the planet, while some satellites that monitor the sun orbit our star. DSCOVR will keep an eye on both, with a focus on the sun. To cover both the Earth and sun, it will have an unusual orbit in a place called L1.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, spacecraft will orbit between Earth and the sun, observing and providing advanced warning of extreme emissions of particles and magnetic fields from the sun known as Coronal Mass Ejections or CMEs which can affect power grids, communications systems, and satellites close to Earth. DSCOVR will also observe our planet and provide measurements of the radiation reflected and emitted by Earth and multi-spectral images of the sunlit side of Earth for science applications.
DSCOVR's orbit will be at what is called the L1 point in space. L1 means the Lagrange point 1 which is approximately one million miles from Earth. Once launched, it will take approximately 110 days to arrive at its orbit.
At L1, the gravitational forces between the sun and Earth balance the centrifugal forces of a satellite to provide a quasi-stable orbit point requiring fewer orbital corrections (and therefore reducing fuel consumption) for the spacecraft to remain in its operational location for a longer period of time. Placing DSCOVR in orbit around the L1 point provides definite advantages, including the quality of the solar wind observations.
The L1 position will provide DSCOVR with a point of "early warning" when a surge of particles and magnetic field from the sun will hit Earth, if they have characteristics that will cause a geomagnetic storm for Earth. Unlike other satellite orbits that circle around Earth, spacecraft at L1 can always stay on the sunward side of our planet making it an ideal location for monitoring incoming solar wind. The amount of early warning ranges from approximately 45 to 30 minutes depending on the speed of the coronal ejected particles, but nonetheless, a sufficient amount of time for spacecraft and power grid operators to take appropriate actions to protect the systems from catastrophic failure.
The DSCOVR Earth science Instruments will be the very first looking at the Earth from the L1 point and will observe the whole sunlit Earth from sunrise to sunset (compared with a microscopic view from low orbits).
Other NASA satellites have used the L1 position for orbit, but this is the first time a NOAA satellite will orbit in L1. Previous NASA missions include: ISEE 3 launched in 1978, and ACE, Wind and SOHO currently in the L1 orbit.
The DSCOVR mission is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. NOAA will operate DSCOVR from its NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, process data at the SWPC for distribution to users within the United States and around the world. The data will be archived at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
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NASA has successfully flight-tested a prototype twin-fuselage towed glider that could lead to rockets being launched from pilotless aircraft at high altitudes a technology application that could significantly reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of sending small satellites into space. The first flights of the one-third-scale twin fuselage towed glider took place Oct. 21 from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.
The towed glider is an element of the novel rocket-launching concept of the Towed Glider Air-Launch System, or TGALS. NASA Armstrong researchers are developing the project, which is funded as a part of the Space Technology Mission Directorate's Game Changing Development program.
The 27-foot-wingspan towed glider was towed behind the Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone, or DROID, unmanned aircraft into the blue skies above Edwards Air Force Base. Minutes later the towline was released and the twin fuselage aircraft glided to a perfect landing on the dry lakebed. After reviewing wind conditions and checking the systems of both aircraft, mission managers decided to go for a second flight. As with the first, the glider was towed behind the DROID, leveled out in flight and the glider was released for another free flight to the dry lakebed. "We had a really good first flight," said John Kelly, TGALS project manager. "Both aircraft performed well."
"It flies fantastic," said Robert "Red" Jensen (pictured, below, standing), who piloted the dual-fuselage glider. "There were no squawks."
The goal is to build confidence with the aircraft and with tow operations before the final element an experimental rocket payload is mated with the glider and ultimately launched from the glider after its release from the DROID.
Gerald Budd, who for about three years has conceptualized and sought funding for the concept, piloted the DROID during the test flight and was pleased that the project had a successful first test flight. "It was surreal to watch it fly after all work it took to get here," Budd said.
If the project continues to succeed, Budd believes the ultimate goal would be to build a relatively inexpensive remotely or optionally piloted glider that will be towed aloft by a transport aircraft. Following release at about 40,000 feet, the glider would launch a booster rocket into an optimal trajectory to place its payload into low Earth orbit.
The glider was built primarily with commercial-off-the-shelf components, but some parts were manufactured at NASA Armstrongs Fabrication Branch. Assembly was accomplished in NASA Armstrong's Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research Lab, or model shop. In January, flights confirmed that towing and releasing a single-fuselage version of the aircraft by the DROID tow plane functioned as expected. The recent flights confirmed the dual-fuselage version also is airworthy.
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Taylor Swift Inspired Makeup Tutorial - Great for Freckle Faces and Red Heads
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It's fair to say that summer's still a long way off, but Rochelle Humes was channelling a sunshine vibe when she headed to the ITV studios on Monday.
Appearing on the Lorraine show, the Saturdays singer was pushing her own fashion range, wearing a striped lantern mini skirt from her own Very collection.
The 25-year-old teamed the number with a black V-neck top from high-street store, Zara, giving the look some edge with a leather biker jacket.
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Doing her bit: Rochelle Humes looked incredible in a lantern skirt from her Very collection as she headed to the ITV studios on Monday to talk to Lorraine about Red Nose Day
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The biggest stars in Hollywood came out Sunday night for the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The event, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, celebrated 2014's outstanding performances in film and primetime television.
Sixty-five actors were nominated, but only 13 people walked away with the Actorstatuette. However, not all the focus was on the SAG stage. Here are the best and worst dressed stars that caught our attention on the 2015 SAG Awards red carpet:
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Lupita Nyongo
Absolutely stunning! Lupita Nyongo was on hand at the Screen Actors Guild Awards to present an award alongside Jared Leto. The 31-year-old wore a striped watercolor Elie Saab gown with long sleeves and a deep V-neck cut. Nyongo gets double points for donning a shorter version of the dress for the Weinstein after-party.
Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory kept her SAG red carpet look simple yet elegant. Her red Romona Keveza gown hugged her svelte frame and her Forevermark diamonds were the perfect accessory to look like Hollywood royalty.
Melissa Rauch
Kaley Cuoco wasnt the only Big Bang Theory star turning heads. All eyes were on Melissa Rauch in a color block strapless Pamella Roland gown.
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Lupita Nyong'o is in love...with a print!
Never one to play it safe, the star of Star Wars: The Force Awakens turned heads when she walked the red carpet at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in L.A. Sunday. The actress modeled a floor-length, floral print gown that featured dramatic black stripes. The daring design came from Elie Saab's Pre-Fall 2015 collection, which was unveiled in December 2014. Nyong'o, 31, completed her look with Sophia Webster heels and Art-Deco-inspired Fred Leighton diamond earrings.
Nyong'o and Jared Leto, 43, co-presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries to Mark Ruffalo for The Normal Heart. Ruffalo was asleep on the East Coast, as he had to report to set Monday morning for Now You See Me: The Second Act. Nyong'o and Leto accepted on his behalf.
Micaela Erlanger styled both stars' looks.
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After the ceremony ended, Nyong'o changed up her lookslightly. When she arrived at The Weinstein Company and Netflix's 2015 SAG Awards after-party, held at Sunset Tower in L.A., the Jungle Book star wore a fit-and-flare Elie Saab dress that was reminiscent of her red carpet look, thanks to its striking floral pattern and stripe detail. Perhaps coincidentally, the dresses appear side-by-side in the look book!
At the event, Nyong'o partied with a handful of Orange Is the New Black stars, including Danielle Brooks and Lorraine Toussaint. She also took an Instagram selfie with Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series winner Uzo Aduba, writing, "Congratulations to my super-talented, sweet sweet friend, @uzoaduba for taking home the Actor tonight. Very well-deserved. @sagawards #oitnb."
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ATHENS, W.Va. COMPRES Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Przemyslaw Dera will speak at Concord University on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2014. His lecture begins at 5 p.m. in Room 400 of the Science Building on the Athens campus. There is no admission charge and the community is invited to attend.
Dr. Dera is an associate professor at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. The title of his lecture is Tales of Rock & Sand: A Crystallographic Journey From Hades to Heaven.
The presentation will highlight the most exciting recent experimental results and advances in methodology from research done at high-pressure, synchrotron X-ray laboratories. This work provides new insights into the properties, behavior and transformations of minerals and helps to decipher the puzzles of meteorites and deep Earth processes. High-pressure X-ray crystallography is one of the principal analytical tools of Mineral Physics research. New developments in equipment and methods have opened new opportunities to explore the behavior of crystals with much smaller sizes and at significantly higher pressures allowing new mysteries to be solved.
Dr. Dera received his Ph.D. (2000) in Physical Chemistry from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. From 2000 2007 he worked at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington D.C., first as Distinguished Barbara McClintock Postdoctoral Fellow, and later as Associate Staff Scientist. In 2007 he moved to the University of Chicago and the Center for Advanced Radiation Sources. Since 2013, he has been an associate professor at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology.
Professor Dera's main research interests involve the development of experimental methods to better study materials at very high pressure utilizing synchrotron X-ray radiation. He currently focuses on the properties of Earth-forming minerals and on understanding solid-state chemical reactions at high pressure.
Dr. Dera is being brought to Concord via the COMPRES Distinguished Lecture series in the field of Mineral Physics. COMPRES, the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences, focuses on the study of materials at high-pressure to achieve better understanding of fundamental Earth and planetary processes. COMPRES helps enable Earth Science researchers to conduct the next generation of high-pressure science on world-class equipment and facilities. It facilitates the operation of beam lines, the development of new technologies for high pressure research, and advocates for science and educational programs.
For additional information on Dr. Dera's upcoming lecture at Concord, please contact Dr. Stephen Kuehn, assistant professor in the Division of Mathematics, Science and Health, at sckuehn@concord.edu or 304-384-6322.
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NASA and Microsoft Collaboration Will Allow Scientists to #39;Work on Mars #39; - IGN News
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to work on a software called OnSight, which will allow scientists to work virtually on Mars via wearable technology. Read more here: http://www.ign.com/articles/2...
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Bientt un hlicoptre de la NASA sur Mars
Le JPL de la NASA vient de prsenter un projet d #39;hlicoptre qui assisterait les rovers sur Mars. L #39;article : http://www.sciences-mag.fr/2015/01/ils-veulent-envoyer-un-helicoptere-sur-mars/
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Milton W. Rosen, a rocket engineer and early NASA executive who led the United States first satellite venture, Project Vanguard, died Dec.30 at a retirement community in Bethesda, Md. He was 99.
The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said a grandson, Michael Shapiro.
Mr. Rosen began his career at the dawn of Space Age, conducting research on the development of radar and missiles at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. At the end of 1945, he teamed with nuclear physicist Ernst H. Krause to establish the labs first rocket development program.
Until then, the United States was limited in its high-altitude experiments, using only a finite supply of captured German V-2 missiles to conduct research. Mr. Rosen believed the labs experience developing and researching missiles during World War II would be the ideal foundation for studying the utility, functionality and design of rockets.
Within months, he, Krause and other colleagues began to design and develop the multistage Viking rockets. The high-altitude rockets, which were launched between 1949 and 1955, helped demonstrate the potential of space exploration.
I feel its inevitable that our youngsters will see a lot more [of space] than we have, Mr. Rosen said in an interview on the early 1950s CBS television show Longines Chronoscope.
From 1947 to 1955, he served as the rocket programs chief engineer and supervised development of the research missiles.
Mr. Rosen later was the technical director of a successor space program, Project Vanguard. More funds and attention were available to space programs after the Soviet Union launched the first satellite to successfully orbit Earth, Sputnik, in October 1957. Explorer 1 became the first U.S. satellite to do so, in January 1958.
A few months later, after a succession of launch failures, Mr. Rosen oversaw the success of Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite and the second U.S. artificial satellite placed in Earths orbit. It remains the oldest man-made satellite in orbit.
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Houston, weve got a workforce problem.
NASA may be a vanguard ofaerospace engineering, but when it comes to management, it lags far behind your typical corporate bureaucracy.Innovation suffers at the U.S. space agency because employees stay in their jobs too long and dont work well with colleagues or industry peers,according toan article published (PDF) in Space Policy. What many successful companies have learned to masterthe art of collaboration and how to keep their workforce stocked with the fresh ideas that come with eager new recruitshas eluded the space agency.
The article's authors,Loizos Heracleous,a professor of strategy and organization at Coventry (U.K.)-based Warwick Business School, and Steven Gonzalez, a deputy in the Strategic Opportunities & Partnership Development Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center, explain that NASA'sworkforce has stagnated because younger talent has turned to more exciting opportunities. NASAs near-monopoly on space travel, the authors point out, has been eroded by competition from such private and government-sponsored organizations as Elon Musk's SpaceX and China's National Space Administration.Employee turnover is down to 1.7 percent a year (minus retirees) from 10 percent to 15 percent during its heyday in the 1960s. Consequently,the workforce has grown older: Some 58 percent of employees are age 45 to 59, up from 38 percent in 1993.
Human resources departments tend tolove low employee turnover, taking it as a sign that workers are happy and find their jobs rewarding. Besides, attracting and training new recruits is expensive and time-consuming. But a workforce that's too stable can bea sign that no one wants your employees because they're, well, not that good.
The researchers propose some ways toencourage careermobility and partnershipsat the agencymethods that private sector companies use to stay innovative and familiar with cutting-edge technologies. NASA, they suggest, should create job-exchange programs with other high-tech organizations while encouraging scientists to collaborate with companies that have better ideas.
Some companies and government agencies have madesmart efforts to keep workers from languishing in dead-end jobs. At Sandia National Laboratories, employees can leave to start companies or help other organizations, knowing they have a job in case they want to come back. A NASA scheme like this would allow brilliant scientists to not only accomplish great things in NASA but can facilitate technology transfer and exchange with industry and universities, the authors write.
An additional organizational advance that appears to have passed NASA by is the emergence of the networked organization, such as Google or Apple, that use a combination of technology and culture to make it easier for units across the company to collaborate, as well as team up with outside organizations. NASA has started moving in this direction by experimenting with open innovation and collaboration with the private sector, the authors say, but its space centers are still too silo-structured. Moreover, any partnerships must be weighed against national security concerns.
Maybe the much-mocked cubicle culture can offer some lessons to rejuvenate an organization that once captured our imagination and inspired generations of scientists and dreamers.
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Pluto, get ready for your close-up.
After traveling nine years across more than 3 billion miles of space, a spacecraft the size of a grand piano is about to give humanity its first high-resolution view of the dwarf planet that's about two-thirds the size of our moon.
Nobody knows what the rendezvous will reveal. Pluto's icy surface may resemble an extreme version of Antarctica, with snow-capped mountains, steep crevasses and towering ice cliffs. The planet could be surrounded by rings of tiny ice particles, like its giant neighbor Neptune. There may even be evidence that an ancient ocean once sloshed beneath the frozen crust of its largest moon, Charon.
When it comes to Pluto, nothing is certain.
"Our knowledge of Pluto is quite meager," said planetary scientist Alan Stern, the principal investigator for the NASA mission known as New Horizons. "It is very much like our knowledge of Mars was before our first mission there 50 years ago."
New Horizons is poised to change all that. Sunday, the spacecraft's long-range cameras will begin snapping pictures of Pluto and its moons against a backdrop of stars. New Horizons has been taking detailed measurements of the dust and charged particles in the dwarf planet's environment since mid-January.
More data will be collected during the months leading up to the mission's big moment this summer: a close approach on July 14 that will take the spacecraft just 7,700 miles from Pluto's surface.
From that distance, New Horizons will be able to determine what the dwarf planet is made of, create temperature maps of its multi-colored surface, and look for auroras in its thin atmosphere. Scientists and the public will see the first high-definition images this summer.
Until now, the best pictures astronomers have managed to get consist of a few hazy pixels that were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope more than a decade ago. The resolution is so poor that if you looked at a comparable image of Earth, you wouldn't be able to distinguish the continents from the seas.
The instruments on New Horizons will take images so detailed that if they were pictures of Los Angeles, they would show individual runways at Los Angeles International Airport, said Stern, who is based at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 15 (Friday, January 23, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 3657-3658] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2015-01115]
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Nasa scientists in California are testing a concept Mars helicopter The small device would be launched to the red planet with another rover It would scout locations ahead for the rover to travel to and explore And it would be able to travel much greater distances than the rover Each day it could fly for up to three minutes and cover half a kilometre But it will have to contend with difficult conditions on the red planet Nasa has not revealed when the helicopter could go to Mars
By Jonathan O'Callaghan for MailOnline
Published: 13:35 EST, 26 January 2015 | Updated: 13:55 EST, 26 January 2015
Since July 2013, the Curiosity rover has travelled just over 23,300ft (7,100 metres) on the surface of Mars at an average of about 1,310ft (400 metres) per month.
But if a new Nasa project comes to fruition, future rovers could carry a small helicopter with them that could cover half a kilometre in just a single day.
The vehicle would perform daily flights to scout the surrounding area on Mars much faster than possible for ground based rovers.
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Nasa scientists in California are testing a concept Mars helicopter (illustration shown). The small device would be launched to the red planet with another rover. It would scout locations ahead for the rover to travel to and explore. And it would be able to travel much greater distances than the rover
The concept is currently being tested by scientists at Nasas Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
It is designed to provide an alternative to the slow, methodical progress required by rovers in order to avoid obstacles and plot a safe route across the red planet.
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