Meador began his investigation by considering whether it might be possible to find the ascent stage, which he assumed would be on the surface of the moon.
After adding data from GRAIL, Meador ran the simulation multiple times using different parameters to simulate conditions that likely existed from the time when the ascent was jettisoned on up to the present.
Pasadena Company Announces Plans to Launch New 'Orbiting Observatory' Satellite Constellation
A space technology company in Pasadena that already operates a system of Earth-studying satellites has announced its next generation 'orbiting observatory' satellite constellation, meant to provide scientists with precise measurements of our planet's surface, water, atmosphere and interior.
GeoOptics Orbiting Observatory to Monitor Changing Earth: Satellites Will Track Earth's
A leader in Earth remote sensing, GeoOptics Inc., today announced a major upgrade to its CICERO constellation of satellites to measure our evolving planet.
"In today's environment, in which precision Earth sensing is becoming ever more critical, GeoOptics is deploying a flexible observatory made up of dozens of small satellites.
International Space Station thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module -NASA | Reuters
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July 29 (Reuters) - The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said.
The seven crew members aboard - two Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and a European space agency astronaut from France - were never in any immediate danger, according to NASA and Russian state-owned news agency RIA.
Three hard-to-observe dwarf spherical galaxies orbiting the Milky Way - GulfToday
Using the European Space Agency's Gaia Observatory, an international team of astrophysicists at the University of Laguna and the Space Telescope Science Institute in the USA discovered three hard-to-observe dwarf spherical galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.
Dwarf galaxies attract a special interest from scientists because they were the first to form, and not many of them are left because they were destroyed by large galaxies such as the Milky Way.
GeoOptics orbiting observatory to scan evolving Earth – Geospatial World
Alex Saltman, Chief Executive Officer of GeoOptics said that GeoOptics is deploying a flexible observatory made up of dozens of small satellites whose real time services would satisfy a broad range of needs for government and civil users around the world.
The first CICERO-2 launches will realize several key milestones in small satellite Earth observation, including Global Precipitation Watch, Advanced GNSS Reflectometry (GNSS-R), and Triple RO.
Clouds and Haze over Malay Peninsula
An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photo while orbiting over Thailand and Malaysia. This region of the world is not often photographed from space due to persistent clouds. While still cloudy, this view offers a rare peek at both coasts of the Malay Peninsula.
All eyes on weather as Boeing looks to Starliner launch on Tuesday | Space
Weather concerns continue as NASA and Boeing look to launch the Starliner capsule on a vital uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday (Aug. 3).
"The greatest coverage of convection is expected to hold off until after the launch window," squadron officials wrote in a statement published Saturday (July 31).
Astronomers unexpectedly find strange planetary system where day and night look exactly the same
Astronomers have uncovered an strange new planet only 35 light years from Earth where night and day look exactly the same.
The exoplanet , called Coconuts-2b, is a gas giant six times the mass of Jupiter and is orbiting a low-mass red dwarf star over nine hundred billion kilometres from it - 6000 times more than the relatively short 151.87 million kilometres between the Earth and the Sun.
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