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☆ Investing in Space: Former NASA official explains 'shots on goal' approach to cargo moon landings
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Michael Sheetz | In Michaeljsheetz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

CNBC's Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. We're six years on from NASA declaring it would look to American companies to deliver cargo and research to the moon. As much as CLPS companies are bidding against each other for contracts, it's another example of what I've called space industry coopetition — simultaneous cooperation and competition. Already, Astrobotic represents that dynamic, holding a briefing with other CLPS companies to share the learnings from the company's first effort. But how many CLPS mission failures will NASA tolerate?

Persons: CNBC's Michael Sheetz, it's, Thomas Zurbuchen, Zurbuchen, Z, Astrobotic's, – Organizations: NASA, Payload, Aerospace

☆ NASA to name solar scientist as agency's science chief, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - NASA has picked a longtime solar scientist who heads its heliophysics division to become the U.S. space agency's science chief, according two people familiar with the decision. Nicola Fox, former top scientist on the Parker Solar Probe mission studying the sun, will be named this week as NASA's associate administrator for the agency's Science Mission Directorate, said the two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official announcement. Fox will lead NASA's science directorate, a unit with an annual budget of roughly $7 billion that oversees some of the agency's best-known programs from the robotic hunts for past life on Mars to exploring distant galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope. Fox will succeed Thomas Zurbuchen, a Swiss-American astrophysicist who had led the directorate since 2016 before his retirement in December. Sandra Connelly, formerly Zurbuchen's deputy, has been leading the directorate in an acting capacity.

☆ What's up there? Possible explanations for mystery objects downed by U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Military officials say that until they are able to recover the debris, they are unlikely to know for sure what the objects were. Scientists use balloons to study wind patterns, air quality, and other aspects of Earth's atmosphere. STILL UNEXPLAINEDThe object downed over Canada on Saturday was described by Canada's defense minister as resembling a balloon. Senator Marco Rubio, leaving a classified briefing on the objects on Tuesday, told reporters that they are no different than the hundreds of benign objects cited in past intelligence reports. "We've never shot down anything in over 65 years of NORAD, and in one week they shot down three things," he said.

☆ NASA's UFO panel convenes to study unclassified sightings
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Oct 24 (Reuters) - A first-of-its-kind panel organized by NASA opened a study on Monday of what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly termed UFOs, bringing together experts from scientific fields ranging from physics to astrobiology. The 16-member panel, convened with little fanfare, will focus its inquiry entirely on unclassified sightings and other data collected from civilian government and commercial sectors, according to NASA. The team's inquiry is separate from a newly formalized Pentagon-based investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, reported by military aviators and analyzed by U.S. defense and intelligence officials. Announcing the formation of its panel in June, NASA said: "There is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin." "Understanding the data we have surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena is critical to helping us draw scientific conclusions about what's happening in our skies," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate NASA administrator.

David Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Planetary Science Institute, called the new Webb image “just spectacular beyond words.”“Oh. Young stars, estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, are the bright red orbs in the image. New stars form within clouds of dust and gas as dense clumps of mass collapse under their own gravity and begin to heat up. The Webb Telescope captured this dynamic journey in progress, according to Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. These are baby stars that are forming within the gas & dust," he tweeted.

☆ In its first 100 days, the James Webb telescope peered deep into space, took beauty shots of faraway galaxies and glittering nebula, and saw a spacecraft slam into an asteroid
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In its first 100 days of observation, Webb has captured mind-blowing images, reaching astonishing cosmic distances. Webb captured violent interactions in a star system more than 5,000 light years awayWebb captured a series of 17 concentric dust rings spawned by the Wolf-Rayet 140 binary system. Webb took a 'deep field' image that filled astronomers with wonderThe James Webb Space Telescope's first deep field infrared image, released on July 11, 2022. Webb captured detailed views of the king of our solar system – JupiterWide-field view of Jupiter, captured by Webb. Webb snapped a beauty shot of the Carina NebulaThe star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared by Webb.

☆ NASA, SpaceX to study boosting Hubble telescope to higher orbit
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Officials at NASA have signed a Space Act Agreement with SpaceX to investigate the benefits and risks of having a private mission provide service to NASA’s nearly 33-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, boosting it to a higher orbit to extend its life, the space agency announced Thursday. Launched in 1990, the space observatory has had several servicing missions during NASA’s space shuttle era, with the last mission carried out in 2009. But the space agency retired the space shuttle in 2011, and no spacecraft has been back since. NASAThe effort to send a private mission to Hubble could be a part of a previously announced, privately funded SpaceX program called Polaris. Zurbuchen added that is all part of what SpaceX and NASA will explore as part of this Space Act Agreement.

The observatory's views, released Wednesday, include rare looks at Neptune's rings, providing some of the sharpest images of these ghostly features seen in more than 30 years, according to NASA. I ugly-cried when I saw THE FIRST JWST NEPTUNE IMAGES!" The images are the first that have been taken of Neptune's rings at infrared wavelengths, which can pierce through dust and gas that might otherwise obscure celestial targets. The Webb telescope's infrared instruments allow it to see planets, stars and galaxies beyond the range of human sight and other telescopes that see primarily in visible light. Along with its bright rings, the Webb observatory spied Neptune's fainter dust bands and seven of the planet's 14 known moons.

☆ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just snapped the clearest image of Neptune's rings in 33 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope show detailed views Neptune's rings. Neptune's rings taken in infrared by the James Webb Space Telescope, right. On the left is a composite of two images of Neptune's rings taken by Voyager 2. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, wrote about Webb's Neptune images on Twitter Wednesday. The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera image of Neptune and its rings.

☆ Șeful NASA, despre OZN-uri: Dacă ar fi de origine extraterestră, cred că aș ști
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-07 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Nelson a declarat că își propune ca agenția pe care o conduce să studieze în continuare fenomenele. Șeful NASA a adăugat că nu crede că OZN-urile sunt dovezi ale extraterestrilor care vizitează Pământul. „Cred că aș ști” dacă așa ar fi cazul, a spus Nelson. Secretarul de presă al NASA, Jackie McGuinness, a declarat că Nelson nu a înființat un grup de lucru formal pentru a începe investigarea OZN-urilor. Și odată ce am înțeles, este de genul: De ce nu ne-am gândit la asta?”, a spus acesta.

Persons: Bill Nelson, CNN, Nelson, Jackie McGuinness, Pentagonul, Thomas Zurbuchen Organizations: NASA, CNN

☆ Elicopterul Ingenuity al NASA a primit o nouă misiune pe Marte
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-01 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Elicopterul Ingenuity, aflat pe Marte, va avea o nouă misiune, chiar dacă cel de-al patrulea zbor, programat joi, a eşuat. Şi demonstraţia tehnologiei folosite pentru Ingenuity a fost un succes uriaş. Au făcut o treabă incredibilă şi au realizat toate obiectivele stabilite de NASA”, a explicat Thomas Zurbuchen, unul dintre directorii agenției americane, potrivit Mediafax. „Demonstrația tehnologiei eliopterului Ingenuity a fost un succes răsunător”, a spus Zurbuchen. Ingenuity își va începe noua fază a operațiunilor în aproximativ două săptămâni cu al șaselea zbor.

Persons: Ingenuity, Thomas Zurbuchen Organizations: NASA, Mediafax

☆ Elicopterul Ingenuity al NASA a primit o nouă misiune pe Marte, după „succesul uriaș” de până acum
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-01 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: NASAElicopterul Ingenuity al NASA a primit o nouă misiune pe Marte, după „succesul uriaș” de până acumElicopterul Ingenuity, aflat pe Marte, va avea o nouă misiune, chiar dacă cel de-al patrulea zbor, programat joi, a eşuat. Şi demonstraţia tehnologiei folosite pentru Ingenuity a fost un succes uriaş. Au făcut o treabă incredibilă şi au realizat toate obiectivele stabilite de NASA”, a explicat Thomas Zurbuchen, unul dintre directorii agenției americane, potrivit Mediafax. „Demonstrația tehnologiei eliopterului Ingenuity a fost un succes răsunător”, a spus Zurbuchen. Ingenuity își va începe noua fază a operațiunilor în aproximativ două săptămâni cu al șaselea zbor.

Persons: Ingenuity, Thomas Zurbuchen Organizations: NASA, Mediafax

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