China’s robotic Chang’e 5 will be the 1st sample-return from the moon since the 1970s. It launched successfully last week atop a Chinese Long March 5 rocket. Now it’s reported to have entered orbit around the moon.
At 20:58 on November 28, the Chang’e-5 probe flew to the moon for about 112 hours and successfully ignited a 3000 N engine at a distance of 400 kilometers [248 miles] from the lunar surface. About 17 minutes later, the engine shut down normally. According to the monitoring and judgment of real-time telemetry data, the Chang’e-5 probe braked normally in recent months and entered the orbit around the moon smoothly.
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The ESA is spending $100 million to clean up one piece of space junk – BGR
We all love seeing rockets launch, carrying scientific equipment and sometimes human beings into space. It’s cool, and it’s proof that when humans put their minds to something they can accomplish great things. Unfortunately, launching things into space leaves a lot of trash behind, often floating in orbit around Earth for months or, in some cases, many years.
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Space junk is a huge problem that is growing bigger by the day. Discarded rocket components, bits and pieces of old, defunct satellites, and even abandoned space stations (looking at you, China) have cluttered the area around Earth in greater density than ever before. Now, as a new initiative by the European Space Agency suggests, cleaning up that trash is going to be a complicated and apparently very, very costly task.
Earth is 2000 light-years closer to the Milky Way's blackhole - SlashGear
ISRO and Russian satellites barely miss collision; how dangerous is this?
India's Cartosat 2F weighing over 700kg dangerously approached the Kanopus-V spacecraft at 1.49 UTC, on Friday, according to the Russian Space Agency. In a tweet, Roscosmos has said that the minimum distance between both Russian and foreign satellite was 224 meters. Both satellites are meant for Earth's remote sensing.
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According to a source that spoke to Zee Media, 1 kilometer is an ideal distance between satellites in orbit, whereas 224 meters is scary and can be counted as a near miss. Generally, when two satellites are predicted (based on calculations) to make a close pass, a decision is taken to manoeuvre one of them away in advance(usually days ahead).
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From Farmworker To Astronaut: Story Of Stockton's Jose Hernandez To Be Told In Netflix
Netflix has plans to shoot a movie based partly on books by NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez, who grew up in Stockton and worked the fields with his parents.
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Netflix plans to shoot a movie about one of Stockton’s hometown heroes — a kid who rose from working in the farm fields to reach for the stars.
NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez launched into space in 2009, spending 14 days orbiting the Earth. He was the first person to tweet in Spanish from space — fitting since he didn’t learn to speak English until he was 12.
ESA signs 102 million dollar deal with Swiss startup to bring back space junk- Technology News,
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a 86 million-euro ($102 million) contract with ClearSpace SA to bring a large piece of orbital trash back to Earth. ClearSpace is a Swiss startup that provides in-orbit servicing and space debris removal and was selected by ESA in 2019 for this mission. Clearspace-1 will launch in 2025.
Defunct man-made objects that are orbiting in space, particularly in Earth's orbit are called space debris. It can consist of natural debris from meteoroids as well. NASA estimated that there are more than 20,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball that are currently orbiting the Earth. It will only continue to build as the commercial space industry grows and more rockets are launched to orbit and deep space.
Today in history: Nov. 29 | Archives | lacrossetribune.com
Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning, and more events that happened on this day in history.
In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd, pilot Bernt Balchen, radio operator Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinney made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
In 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly left on a trip to Korea, keeping his campaign promise to assess the ongoing conflict first-hand.
NASA shares visual of stellar-mass black hole's 'superluminal ejection' in space
On November 27, NASA shared a time-lapse footage of a stellar-mass black hole, about eight times the mass of the Sun, drifting away from its orbiting companion star and carrying out superluminal ejection in space. The outburst activity was occurring at 80 percent the speed of light, according to astronomers. Dubbed as the MAXI J1820+070, the black hole X-ray binary was discovered by the AstroSat spacecraft and its galactic flare-up was captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
"The companion star orbiting the black hole has about half the mass of the Sun. The black hole's strong gravity pulls material away from the companion star into an X-ray emitting disk surrounding the black hole," the Space Administration said.
Happening on Twitter
China's Chang'e 5 enters lunar orbit for historic attempt to return moon samples https://t.co/3uOucZHPK3 https://t.co/oxGdMgqImH SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Sat Nov 28 23:03:33 +0000 2020
China's Chang'e-5 began its lunar orbit insertion burn at 1258 UTC, 400 km above the lunar surface. The 17min burn… https://t.co/fxbM90Z0aZ planet4589 (from Somerville, MA, USA) Sat Nov 28 19:20:28 +0000 2020
China sent the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to collect and bring back to Earth samples from the moon. The success of this m… https://t.co/drKvcGLl5G WSJ (from New York, NY) Sun Nov 29 01:00:00 +0000 2020
