WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit announced April 2 it has identified an airport in Japan as a potential site for launch operations, joining airports in the United States and Great Britain as hosts for the air-launch company.
Virgin Orbit said that, working with ANA Holdings and Space Port Japan Association, it selected Oita Airport on the island Kyushu as its preferred site. The company and Oita Prefecture, the local government, will work together on a technical study to confirm the feasibility of carrying out launch operations from the airport starting as soon as 2022.
Not to change the topic here:
Virgin Orbit designs new ventilator as part of Virgin Group's efforts to combat coronavirus |
While Virgin Orbit is usually building space technology, the new device is a ventilator designed for partially recovered patients and those not in intensive care, called a "bridge" ventilator. Such devices could free up more powerful, intensive care capable ventilators for patients in more severe conditions, the company said in a statement Monday (March 30).
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Virgin Orbit's version is designed to be mass-produced, and the company hopes that a design will be ready for production in early April, according to the statement.
Earth's Mini-Moon Has Stopped Orbiting And Started Chasing Our Planet Instead
2020 CD3 remains stationary in the image since it was being tracked by the telescope as it appears ... [+] to move relative to the background stars, which appear trailed due to the object's motion.
Gray called the orbit of temporarily captured object " a somewhat complicated dance around the earth and moon."
That dance comes with a chance of colliding with one object or the other, but in the case of 2020 CD, its dance eventually allowed it to "steal" a bit of energy from the Earth and moon, allowing it to escape back out to a longer orbit around the sun.
Virgin Orbit to Make Ventilators for Covid-19 Patients | Los Angeles Business Journal
Virgin Orbit developed a "bridge ventilator" for partially recovered Covid-19 patients that it will start making at its Long Beach manufacturing facility in early April, pending FDA approval.
Virgin Orbit, the Long Beach-based satellite launch company, plans to start producing ventilators designed for partially recovered Covid-19 patients at its Long Beach manufacturing facility in early April.
Virgin Orbit said it has developed a "bridge ventilator," a medical device that can be mass produced and is different from the costlier ventilators used in intensive care units.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Who Should You Let Into Your Coronavirus Quarantine Orbit? - WSJ
When it comes to socializing in the coronavirus age, Charlotte Guy and a friend are in the same boat. Literally.
'I'm in awe': NASA astronaut salutes coronavirus-fighting doctors and nurses from orbit | Space
Morgan's two companions aboard the ISS are fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, commander of the current Expedition 62. The trio will soon be joined by three colleagues: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner are scheduled to launch toward the orbiting lab aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 9.
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National Doctors' Day is celebrated in the United States every year on March 30 (though some countries use a different date). The first such observance was held in Georgia in 1933, according to the website doctorsday.org .
Orbit Fab gets award to test satellite refueling technology - SpaceNews.com
WASHINGTON — A startup that seeks to create refueling facilities in orbit for satellites has received a government grant to develop one essential technology for that system.
San Francisco-based Orbit Fab received an award from America's Seed Fund, a grant program run the National Science Foundation's (NSF), the company announced March 31. The company plans to use the $250,000 grant to test a docking system that will allow satellites to be refueled.
Manicouagan Crater Seen From Orbit - SpaceRef
The Manicouagan Crater in Quebec, Canada, is a favorite photographic landmark for astronauts which is near the height of the International Space Station's orbital trek of 51.6 degrees
Happening on Twitter
Ventilators are in short supply. So Virgin Orbit engineers have created a new kind of ventilator by mechanizing the… https://t.co/J9jc00XwIJ WIRED (from San Francisco/New York) Fri Apr 03 02:51:00 +0000 2020
Ventilators are in short supply in the US right now. So Ford, GM, and satellite-launch company Virgin Orbit are try… https://t.co/EveicpJSvd WIRED (from San Francisco/New York) Fri Apr 03 02:40:06 +0000 2020
Such an amazing achievement from @Virgin_Orbit! The team have designed and developed a bridge ventilator that can b… https://t.co/ccu8Ozv2eD HollyBranson (from London) Wed Apr 01 21:55:06 +0000 2020
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