The International Spaceport station is envisioned from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting laboratory that occurred on November 8, 2021. Credit: NASA
Getting ready for a more powerful spaceport station …
Building a more fuel-efficient airplane …
And a way to potentially anticipate solar flares …
A few of the stories to inform you about– This Week at NASA!
Preparing the Space Station for a More Powerful Future
On January 20, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata performed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to prepare for future upgrades to the stations power system. The stations existing power channels are being enhanced with brand-new roll-out solar varieties.
Artist principle of industrial aircraft families with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing setup from the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. Credit: Boeing
NASA, Boeing to Build a Greener, More Fuel-Efficient Airliner
On January 18, NASA announced a collaboration with Boeing to construct, test, and fly an experimental full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator aircraft focused on lowering emissions.
” And Boeings principle is a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing single-aisle airplane.”– Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator
Find out more about NASAs operate in aeronautics research at nasa.gov/ flight.
2 images of a solar active area (NOAA AR 2109) taken by SDO/AIA show extreme-ultraviolet light produced by million-degree-hot coronal gas (top images) on the day prior to the region flared (left) and the day prior to it remained quiet and did not flare (right). The modifications in brightness (bottom images) at these 2 times show different patterns, with patches of intense variation (black & & white locations) before the flare (bottom left) and mostly gray (suggesting low irregularity) before the quiet period (bottom right). Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/ Dissauer et al. 2022
Flashes on the Sun Could Help Predict Solar Flares
NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory has actually determined small-scale flashes in the upper layers of the solar atmosphere, the corona, that could assist us anticipate solar flares, which, in turn, could help us prepare for the disruptive effects of space weather storms here on Earth.
Teams finished the welding of the Artemis III core phase liquid oxygen tank dome at NASAs Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
Welding of Artemis III Core Stage Tank Dome Completed
Groups at our Michoud Assembly Facility recently completed welding of the Space Launch System, or SLS core phase liquid oxygen tank dome for Artemis III. The liquid hydrogen and the liquid oxygen tanks hold the propellant used to introduce the SLS and the Orion spacecraft into space.
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