Mickes space: juni 2016

torsdag 30 juni 2016

Mickes Space Flowers. Still growing. No flowers yet.

Space Station Live: A Look at the New Science Lineup.

NASA Commentator Pat Ryan talks with Yuri Guinart-Ramirez, the lead increment scientist for the International Space Station’s Expeditions 47 and 48, about some of the new experiments and science planned over the coming few months. That includes continuing research on the human crew members to find out how their bodies are impacted by being in weightlessness, plus new experiments, including: one that uses mice to gauge how the space environment may impact gene expression for those subjects and for their offspring, and one that will culture heart muscle cells grown from human skin cells to understand the negative effects of weightlessness at the cellular and molecular level.

Juno Mission.Time to Jupiter Arrival: 4 days.

NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, to peer beneath its cloudy surface and explore the giant planet's structure and magnetic field. Juno's twin magnetometers, built at Goddard Space Flight Center, will give scientists their first look within Jupiter at the powerful dynamo that drives its magnetic field. In this interview, Deputy Principal Investigator Jack Connerney discusses the Juno mission and its magnetometers.

NASA Agency Awards Recognize Outstanding Employee Contributions

During the 2016 NASA Honor Awards Ceremony on June 28 at Ames Research Center, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden presented Distinguished Service and Distinguished Public Service Medals to individual employees who have made extraordinary and indelible contributions to the agency’s mission success. These awards are the agency’s most prestigious and distinguished honors.

ScienceCasts: Monitoring Air Quality.

A global effort to monitor air quality is in the works as the US, Korea, and the European Union prepare to launch geostationary satellites capable of monitoring pollutants and other aerosols.

tisdag 28 juni 2016

OSIRIS REx: Countdown to Launch. 72 days.

Juno Mission.Time to Jupiter Arrival: 6 days.

Rosetta status.

Rosetta has another three months of science to collect before its historic mission comes to an end. But the mission is not resting on its laurels. It has just broken a new record by flying an orbit 7 kms from the comet’s centre – just 5 kms from the surface – and there are more breathtaking manoeuvres to come.

This film describes the orbits that Rosetta will undertake around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the changes in the amount of gas coming off the comet, and examines the importance of finding phosphorus and glycine - an amino acid that is essential for life.

It also discusses the mission’s most recent discoveries of Xenon and Krypton, together with most of their isotopes. These noble gases were detected by the ROSINA instrument during the period when Rosetta was flying extremely close to the comet. More important science is expected to be released during the next few months.

ESA Euronews.

Dozens of Euro 2016 matches are being beamed via satellite to television sets and phones all over the world this summer. But did you know that there is a technology, based on internet and satellite, that allows even a small football club to live stream their games and target a new audience?

Claudio Rosmino and the Space team travelled to Italy to see this innovation in action – and also to France to explore the science behind the technology.

D-News. Can We Use Space Lasers To Clean Up Space Junk?

måndag 27 juni 2016

This Week @NASA.

NASA announced June 20, astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The discovery of the planet outside our solar system was made using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The newfound planet is a bit larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. The planet is only 5 to 10 million years old. For comparison, Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. So, this makes it a relatively “newborn” planet -- one of a very few found to date. Also Expedition 47 returns safely to earth, the next ISS crew departs for launch site, SLS booster test, Orion water drop test, CST-100 Starliner hardware arrives and Rocket Week at Wallops Flight Facility this week at NASA.

OSIRIS REx: Countdown to Launch. 73 days.

OSIRIS-REx presents a new 321Science video about choosing a target asteroid for this sample return mission. This video explores what circumstances and characteristics make the asteroid, Bennu, the perfect target for the OSIRIS-REx mission. As we think about exploring, mining, even deflecting other asteroids, scientists and engineers will use similar processes to choose future targets.

Juno Mission.Time to Jupiter Arrival: 7 days.

Space to Ground.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

söndag 19 juni 2016

Juno Mission.Time to Jupiter Arrival: 16 days.

On June 16, NASA discussed the status of its Juno mission to Jupiter during a news briefing at the agency’s headquarters, in Washington DC. This Fourth of July, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft will arrive at our solar system’s most massive planet after an almost five-year journey. Once in Jupiter’s orbit, the spacecraft will circle the Jovian world 37 times during 20 months, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops. This is the first time a spacecraft will orbit the poles of Jupiter, providing new answers to ongoing mysteries about the planet’s core, composition and magnetic fields.

OSIRIS REx: Countdown to Launch. 81 days.

OSIRIS-REx rotates on a spin table at NASA's Kennedy Space Center during a weight and center of gravity verification test. The spacecraft is set to launch on September 8, 2016 on its mission to collect a sample of the asteroid Bennu.

OSRIS-REx. Ett reportage av Mikael Boström.

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer asteroid sample return mission (OSIRIS-REx) är det första Amerikanska uppdraget att samla in ett prov på en asteroid och returnera proverna till jorden för att studera och analysera. Analys av provet kommer att hjälpa forskare förstå det tidiga solsystemet.Asteroider är rester av de byggstenar som bildade planeterna och har aktiverat liv.Genom OSIRIS-REx prover kan vi ta reda på om asteroiden Bennu innehåller naturresurser som vatten,organiska ämnen och metaller. Framtida rymdforskning kan vara beroende av detta.
OSIRIS-REx mål.
Att ta ett kol rikt prov från asteroiden Benny och returnera provet för analys.
Resurs Identifiering : Kartlägga kemin och mineralogin hos en primitiv kolrik asteroid.
Mäta effekten av solljus på en liten asteroids omlopp , känd som Yarkovsky effekten, det lilla tryck som skapas när asteroiden absorberar solljus och åter avger denna energi i form av värme. Yarkovsky effekten skulle kunna leda till stora effekter på lång sikt för meteoriders och asteroiders omloppsbanor.
Dokumentera regolit skikt vid provtagningsplatsen.

OSIRIS-Rex kommer att lansera från Cape Canaveral, Florida, på en Atlas V 411 raket under en 34-dagars lanseringsperiod med början den 8 september, 2016. OSIRIS-Rex kommer
att kretsa runt solen i ett år, sedan använda jordens gravitationsfält för att hjälpa den på vägen på sin färd till asteroiden Bennu i augusti 2018 Den kommer använda en rad små raketmotorer för att matcha hastigheten vid asteroidmötet. Två månader efter mötet börjar nu rymdfarkosten en detaljerad undersökning av Bennu
Processen kommer att pågå under ett år, och som en del av det, kommer OSIRIS-Rex att kartlägga lämpliga provplatser. fter valet av den slutliga platsen, kommer rymdfarkosten att hämta ett prov med sin provtagnings arm. Den kommer att ha kontakt med ytan av Bennu cirka fem sekunder, under vilken det kommer att släppa ut kvävgas, förfarandet kommer att orsaka stenar och ytjord rörs upp och fångas i provtagningshuvudet.
Rymdfarkosten har tillräckligt med kväve för att tillåta tre provtagnings försök, och den kommer att samla mellan 60 och 2000 gram stenar och ytjord.

I mars 2021, påbörjas tidfönstret för avfärd från asteroiden och OSIRIS-Rex börjar sin hemresa till Jorden. Två och ett halvt år senare i September 2023 anländer rymdfarkosten
till jorden.
Provet i retur kapseln separeras från rymdfarkosten och träder in i jordens atmosfär. Kapseln innehållande den prov kommer att samlas in vid Utah Test and Training Range.
Under två år kommer forskar teamet kommer att katalogisera provet och genomföra analysen som behövs för att uppfylla uppdragets vetenskapliga mål. NASA kommer att bevara åtminstone 75% av provet vid NASA: s Johnson Space FlightCenter i Houston för ytterligare forskning av forskare över hela världen, inklusive framtida generationer av forskare.

Vetenskaplig nyttolast.
OSIRIS-REx innehåller fem instrument för att utforska Bennu, varje instrument innehåller viktig information för uppdraget. Dessa instrument används för fjärranalys eller scanning
av asteroidens yta. De kommer att kartlägga Bennu och ta fram sammansättningen av asteroiden, inklusive förekomst av mineraler och organiskt material.
OSIRIS-Rex Camera Suite
Ett system bestående av tre kameror som tillhandahålls av University of Arizona i Tucson
kommer att observera Bennu och ge global bild kartläggning, samt
kartläggning av provtagningsplatsen.
Sviten består av dessa kameror:
MapCam - en kamera som kommer att kartlägga ytan av
asteroiden i fyra färger.
PolyCam - en 8-tums (20 cm) teleskop som kommer att ta
den första bilden på asteroiden på ett avstånd på 2 miljoner kilometer från jorden.
och även ge hög upplösta bilder av ytan.
SamCam - en kamera som kommer att fota
provförvärvs händelsen och undersöka att provet
samlats upp framgångsrikt.
OSIRIS-Rex Laser höjdmätare.Från Canadian Space Agency i Saint-Hubert, QC
Kommer att användas för att mäta avståndet mellan rymdfarkosten och asteroidens yta och
kartlägga formen av asteroiden.
OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer. Från Arizona State University i Tempe.
Kommer att ge mineral- och temperaturinformation genom att observera
det termiska infraröda spektrumet.
OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer .Från NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
i Greenbelt, Maryland.
Kommer att mäta synligt och infrarött ljus
från Bennu, samt att identifiera mineraler och organiskt material.
Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer.
Ett student experiment från Massachusetts Institute of Technology
och Harvard University, båda i Cambridge, som kommer att följa
röntgenspektrum för att avgöra vilka element som är närvarande på
Bennus yta och hur rikliga de är.
Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism.Från Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
En ledad robotarm med en sampler huvud, för att samla in
prov från Bennus yta.
OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule. Från Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
En värmesköld med fallskärmar genom vilken rymdfarkosten
återgår med asteroid provet till jorden.
Två solpaneler som genererar mellan 1.226 watt och 3000 watt, beroende på rymdfarkosten avstånd från solen.
Mått, och vikt.
Längd: 6,2 m
Bredd:2,43 m
Höjd: 3, 15 m
Vikt: 2110 kg

Mikael Boström

Micke Space will visit Christer Fuglesang, the exhibition at House of technology in Lulea Sweden June 23.

As Sweden's first astronaut Christer Fuglesang has been through two space trips, 26 days in space and five spacewalks. His experiences, movies and pictures are the basis for an interactive exhibition about life as an astronaut, and of all the work behind human space exploration.
In the exhibition space journey given the opportunity to take a closer look at life on board by far the world's highest workplace - the International Space Station. Exhibition visitor must follow our Swedish astronaut from the day he was admitted as ESA astronaut until he became the first Swedish in space.
A visit to the exhibition means not only a deep dive into life aboard a space station. The exhibition also contains parts that deal with physical phenomena such as free fall but also how using different methods to create the conditions necessary for human beings to be able to be on the spot in space for longer periods of time. Space is an environment where everything from exercise and diet to the dressing and various types of research may completely new dimensions.

The exhibition and the film Space Journey is produced by Visualization Center in Norrkoping, Sweden.

My Falcon Heavy drawing is complete..

My Falcon Heavy drawing is complete.
When the Falcon Heavy will launch later this year, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world. With the ability to lift over 54 tons in orbit - a mass corresponding to a 737 jet loaded with passengers, crew, baggage and fuel. Falcon Heavy consists of three Falcon 9 engine grains whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, representing approximately eighteen 747 aircraft.
This rocket will be used by SpaceX to send people to Mars. The planned test flight will be in November or December this year. I will be on site at the Kennedy Space Center in the US in November/ December this year.

Welcome Back to Earth.

Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) were greeted in a traditional ceremony in Kazakhstan June 18, a few hours after their safe return to Earth from a 186 day mission on the International Space Station.

Expedition 47 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan.

Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) landed safely near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan June 18, hours after leaving the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake spent 186 days in space aboard the orbital laboratory.

Expedition 47 Crew Leaves the Space Station.

After saying farewell to NASA’s Jeff Williams and the rest of the crew onboard the International Space Station on June 18. Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) undocked from the ISS for the return trip to Earth. Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake spent 186 days in space aboard the orbital laboratory.

fredag 17 juni 2016

ScienceCasts: Twinkle Twinkle GPS.

Dynamic bubbles of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere can cause GPS signals to "twinkle" like stars, affecting the quality of navigation on Earth below. NASA recently conducted a mission called CINDI to investigate this phenomenon.

D-News. Atomic Oxygen Found On Mars! What Does It Mean?

When an oxygen atom exists as itself, chemists call it atomic oxygen. But why should we be so excited to find this in Mars' atmosphere?

Space to Ground.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Juno Mission.Time to Jupiter Arrival: 18 days.

Secrets lie deep within Jupiter, shrouded in the solar system's strongest magnetic field and most lethal radiation belts. On July 4, 2016, NASA's Juno spacecraft will plunge into uncharted territory, entering orbit around the gas giant and passing closer than any spacecraft before. Juno will see Jupiter for what it really is, but first it must pass the trial of orbit insertion.

torsdag 16 juni 2016

Planetary Post.

This month, Robert Picardo and Bill Nye took a trip to the Goddard Space Flight Center to see the James Webb Space Telescope being built in the clean room. This is the 5th installment of The Planetary Post, our monthly newsletter from Robert Picardo featuring the most notable space happenings.

onsdag 15 juni 2016

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket From Florida.

SpaceX successfully launched a pair of communication satellites Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Spaceflight Then, Now, and Next.

The 2016 John H. Glenn Lecture in Space History was held on June 14, at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater in Washington, DC. The featured speakers, Apollo 11 astronaut, Major General Michael Collins, USAF (Ret.) and Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and founder/CEO of Amazon.com, reflected on the invention and reinvention of spaceflight.