All Set to Showcase Webb Telescopes First Full-Color Images
That show will be available on NASA TELEVISION, the NASA app, the agencys site, and different social media platforms. These first images will demonstrate Webb at its full power, all set to begin its objective to unfold the infrared universe.
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a special orbit around the Moon planned for NASAs future Artemis lunar station Gateway. Its six-month mission will help introduce a brand-new period of deep area exploration. Credit: NASA Ames Research Center.
CAPSTONE Team is Back in Touch with Spacecraft
After experiencing post-launch interactions issues on July 4, teams for NASAs Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE mission have re-established contact with the spacecraft. The team has determined that a poorly formatted command sent out to the spacecrafts radio caused the problems. Data gotten from the spacecraft indicate that it is in good health, and it ran securely by itself while it ran out contact with Earth. As initially planned, CAPSTONE is still anticipated to show up to its lunar orbit later this year on November 13. The objective will evaluate an unique, elliptical lunar orbit for Gateway, a Moon-orbiting station that is part of NASAs Artemis program.
NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion pill atop, in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the companys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Artemis I Moon Rocket and Spacecraft Back at Vehicle Assembly Building
On July 2, the Space Launch System, or SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for our uncrewed Artemis I mission finished the four-mile journey from launch pad 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. In the coming weeks, teams will make repairs, and carry out checkouts and activities before returning SLS and Orion to the pad. Presently targeted for launch no earlier than August 2022, the Artemis I flight test to the Moon will enable NASA to take a look at rocket and spacecraft systems before astronauts fly to the Moon on Artemis II.
Pace operations architecture. Credit: NASA
NASA Air Pollution Instrument Completes Satellite Integration
Engineers recently finished the first completely integrated powered screening of the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, or TEMPO instrument on the Intelsat IS40e satellite. Its measurements will reach from Puerto Rico and Mexico to northern Canada, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, encompassing the entire lower 48 states of the U.S.
Side-by-side images from NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft of the robotic arm as it descended came down the surface of asteroid Bennu (left) and as it tapped it to stir up dust and rock for sample collection (right). Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight
Asteroid Bennu Reveals Its Surface resembles a Plastic Ball Pit
After evaluating data from the OSIRIS-REx spacecrafts sample collection “TAG event” at asteroid Bennu in October 2020, scientists were amazed to learn that the spacecrafts arm sank almost half a meter into the asteroid. This was far deeper than anticipated and verified that Bennus surface is exceptionally weak. It turns out that the surface product on Bennu is so loosely loaded that stepping onto the asteroid might feel a bit like stepping into among those pits filled with plastic balls that you may see at a kids backyard. O-REx gathered a handful of material and kicked up approximately 6 tons of loose rock throughout the TAG occasion. It will return its sample of Bennu to Earth in September 2023.
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That program will be available on NASA TV, the NASA app, the companys site, and numerous social media platforms. After experiencing post-launch interactions issues on July 4, teams for NASAs Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE objective have actually re-established contact with the spacecraft. Presently targeted for launch no earlier than August 2022, the Artemis I flight test to the Moon will allow NASA to examine out rocket and spacecraft systems before astronauts fly to the Moon on Artemis II.
Its measurements will reach from Puerto Rico and Mexico to northern Canada, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including the entire lower 48 states of the U.S.
Side-by-side images from NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft of the robotic arm as it descended towards the surface area asteroid Bennu (left) and as it tapped it to stir up dust and rock for sample collection (right). Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight
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