Three humans are orbiting Earth today aboard the International Space Station following the return on Sunday of NASA's first commercial crew.
Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy and Flight Engineers Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner will stay in space until October. The orbital trio are continuing critical space research benefitting humans on and off the Earth as well as maintaining the orbital lab.
Back on Earth, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are adapting to Earth's gravity following a two-month mission on the station. Representing NASA's Commercial Crew Program, duo is the first crew to launch to space and splashdown on Earth inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle.
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NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 5 August, 2020 - Research and Orbital Plumbing Duties -
The Expedition 63 crew, with one U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station, juggled an array of space research and orbital plumbing duties on Wednesday.
Commander Chris Cassidy ran several test operations today of the Water Droplet Formation experiment that may improve fluid management on spaceships and faucets and showers on Earth. The veteran astronaut also analyzed water samples for microbes and checked on biology and robotics hardware.
Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Discovered by the Gravitational "Wobble" in the Small, Cool Star It Orbits
Illustration shows how the star’s motion around the center of mass between it and the planet causes a “wobble” in its motion through space. The VLBA’s ability to detect this minuscule effect revealed the presence of the planet. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
The technique has long been known, but has proven difficult to use. It involves tracking the star’s actual motion in space, then detecting a minuscule “wobble” in that motion caused by the gravitational effect of the planet. The star and the planet orbit a location that represents the center of mass for both combined.
Earth observation and research satellites ride Chinese rocket into orbit – Spaceflight Now
China sent an Earth observation satellite and a university-built research payload into orbit Thursday aboard a Long March 2D rocket.
The Long March 2D booster launched from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT; 12:01 p.m. Beijing time) Thursday, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency.
The two-stage rocket delivered its payloads into a polar orbit around 300 miles (500 kilometers) in altitude, with an inclination of 97.5 degrees to the equator, according to U.S. military tracking data.
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Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called "Blanets"
A team of scientists was studying how new exoplanets could form around black holes when they ran into a serious problem: figuring out what to call the class of theoretical worlds.
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The actual process, according to the Kagoshima University scientists behind the research submitted to The Astrophysical Journal for peer review last week, would be fairly similar to how regular planets form around stars, just under more extreme conditions.
In a rare event, astronomers discover Saturn-like planet orbiting small cool star, Science News |
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In a rare event, astronomers discover Saturn-like planet orbiting small cool star Photograph:( Twitter )
According to the reports, the giant planet looked like Saturn and was detected by a 'wobble' in star's motion.
A group of astronomers detected a giant planet revolving around a small cool star. The rare discovery is about 35 light-years away from Earth.
The report published in SpaceRef said that this was the first time that the technique was successfully employed with observations obtained from a radio telescope. The technique is usually used for detecting Jupiter-like planets in orbits distant from the star.
Special Topic: Small Planetary Moons - RocketSTEM
T hroughout "Ice and Stone 2020" I have genera lly used the term "small bodies of the solar system" to refer to comets and asteroids. However, there is another type of "small body" that we encounter throughout the solar system: these are the smaller moons that accompany many of the major planets.
The first two such objects to be discovered were the two moons of Mars. Mars had long been believed – not necessarily always for scientific reasons – to possess moons , and during the exceptionally close opposition of Mars in August 1877 – which, incidentally, was not much closer than the opposition on this coming October 13 – American astronomer Asaph Hall utilized the recently-constructed 66-cm refractor at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 6 August, 2020 - Working in the Kibo Laboratory - SpaceRef
NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy works inside the International Space Station's Harmony module servicing microbial DNA samples for sequencing and identification. Credit: NASA. (July 31, 2020)
Advanced space science, cargo transfers and orbital maintenance kept the three Expedition 63 crew members occupied Thursday aboard the International Space Station.
Commander Chris Cassidy spent a good portion of his day working inside JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Kibo laboratory module. The experienced shuttle and station astronaut retrieved the Handhold Experiment Platform-2 (HXP-2), packed with several experiments, from inside Kibo's airlock.
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