This is so cool!
A piece of the Wright brothers’ first airplane is on Mars. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency revealed Tuesday.
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Cool! “Chinese spacecraft enters Mars’ orbit, joining Arab ship”
It’s getting crowded 🙂 : Chinese spacecraft enters Mars’ orbit, joining Arab ship
Cool! Emirates Mars mission probe orbits Mars
The Emirates Mars mission, named the Hope probe, has made the UAE the first Arab country and the fifth globally to reach the red planet.
Source: Mars probe: UAE becomes the first Arab country to reach Mars
Space: Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks
Awesome!
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth Thursday with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years.
Source: Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks
3 separate launches head to Mars this month: UAE/Japan, China and U.S.
The United Arab Emirates and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre have begun their first…
Source: United Arab Emirates begins historic first interplanetary mission – NASASpaceFlight.com
Ham Radio ISS – How to Call Space Station Astronauts
It’s a great story—but here’s what NASA told us.
Source: Ham Radio ISS – How to Call Space Station Astronauts
Well written news report. News reports suggested a ham radio operator in India contacted the SpaceX Dragon crew on board Dragon (one of the astronauts is a ham radio operator). The story notes many hams (including me) have, in fact contacted ISS (mailbox/APRS) or crew (two of the crew on board right now are ham radio operators) and that this is fairly common.
In this case it appears the original ham radio operator in India may have gotten confused with a press conference link.
Space: SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon may be ruining night sky
SpaceX may launch 30,000 more low altitude satellites added to the 12,000 it already plans to launch. OneWeb is launching 900 satellites and Amazon is planning over 3,000 satellites. There are predictions that any given moment, over 100 satellites will be visible crossing overhead, no matter where you may live.
Source: SpaceX and Starlink are changing the night sky, and fast – CNET
Demonstration of CIMON, aerospace robot on ISS is very cool
Astronomers propose global network of low cost receivers or cell phones #Astronomy #Radio
Astronomers have proposed a global network of radio receivers to search for fast radio bursts. Their concept would use either smart phones and an app listening to a portion of the cellular spectrum allocation, or a low cost device that could be plugged in to the USB port of personal computers.
Full paper available at the link.