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Williams Leads Station as Crew Swap Operations Continue....Expedition 72 is officially underway with NASA astronaut Suni Williams as its commander aboard International Space Station. Meanwhile, the nine orbital residents are awaiting more visitors while also preparing for the next crew departure. Williams took command of the orbital outpost when NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub undocked from the Prichal docking module at 4:36 a.m. EDT on Monday. The trio inside the Soyuz MS-25 crew ship parachuted to a landing in Kazakhstan at 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Kazakhstan time).

Williams, who arrived at the station with NASA Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore on June 6, will lead orbital outpost operations until February when she and Wilmore are scheduled to return to Earth with the SpaceX Crew-9 members aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft. Williams was busy Tuesday readying standard emergency equipment ahead of Crew-9’s upcoming arrival. Wilmore explored how specialized substances gel and coarsen possibly leading to advancements in the pharmaceutical, food, and 3D printing industries.

NASA and SpaceX teams have adjusted the next launch opportunity for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Sept. 28, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida due to expected tropical storm conditions in the area. The change allows teams to complete a rehearsal of launch day
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024...-continue/

Newswire News monitoring:
NASA sets to coverage for Agency's SpaceX crew-9 launch docking coverage of upcoming prelaunch & launch activities for agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to International Space Station.
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronaut Nick Hague & Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to orbiting laboratory for an approximate five-month science mission. This is ninth crew rotation mission & the 10th human spaceflight mission for NASA to the space station supported by Dragon since 2020 as part of agency's Commercial Crew Program.

Friday, Sept. 27: 11:30 a.m. – One-on-one media interviews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida with various mission subject to matter for the experts.

@1:15 p.m. – NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Panel: Space Station 101 with the following participants:
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free
Robyn Gatens, (director), NASA's International Space Station Program,& acting director, NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Division Jennifer Buchli, chief scientist, NASA's International Space Station Program John Posey, Dragon engineer, NASA's Commercial Crew Program. 

Coverage of the virtual news conference will stream live on NASA+, YouTube, Facebook, and the agency's website.

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Williams took command of the orbital outpost when NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub undocked from the Prichal docking module at 4:36 a.m. EDT on Monday. The trio inside the Soyuz MS-25 crew ship parachuted to a landing in Kazakhstan at 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Kazakhstan time).

Williams, who arrived at the station with NASA Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore on June 6, will lead orbital outpost operations until February when she and Wilmore are scheduled to return to Earth with the SpaceX Crew-9 members aboard the Dragon spacecraft. Williams was busy Tuesday readying standard emergency equipment ahead of Crew-9’s upcoming arrival. Wilmore explored how specialized substances gel and coarsen possibly leading to advancements in the pharmaceutical, food, and 3D printing industries.

NASA and SpaceX teams have adjusted the next launch opportunity for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Sept. 28, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida due to expected tropical storm conditions in the area. The change allows teams to complete a rehearsal of launch day activities Tuesday night with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, which rolled to Space Launch Complex-40 earlier in the day. Following rehearsal activities

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NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson Returns to Earth After 184 Days—watch Landing Video. Dyson land on Earth after 184 days aboard Int'l Space!, hard to imagine being stuck for whopping 184 days, let alone a spacecraft traveling through space.

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson & her team have shown us just about is possible. On March 23, Dyson launched into space, arriving at Int'l Space Station on March 25 as video circulate in internet, she & Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub & Oleg Kononenko made their landing back home.
What did Tracy Dyson accomplish in space?.
According to NASA, while aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, Dyson’s research consisted of working with a 3D printer to produce cardiac tissue samples, potentially aiding in Earth-bound tissue and organ transplants. Additionally, she worked with a hardware that could be used in pharmaceutical production by crystallizing model proteins, and also “ran a program that used student-designed software to control the station’s free-flying robots, inspiring the next generation of innovators.”

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Earth to have new mini-moon for 2-mths
Earth to capture a '2nd moon' NASA says.

Earth will capture a miniature, "2nd moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. Wew moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5.will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe path & stick around for a little less than two mths be4 escaping Earth's gravitational pull then going back to its regular orbit around the sun.
"According to latest data available from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Horizons System, the temporary capture will start at 15:54 EDT (on Sunday) and will end at 11:43 EDT on November 25," mini-moon event expert & Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos told Space.com.

2024 PT5 is part of "the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow orbits very similar to that of Earth at an average distance to the sun of about 93 million miles," Marcos said asteroid poses no threat to the planet, will travel about 2,200 miles per hour while maintaining a distance of around 2.8 million miles from Earth. By comparison average distance between Earth & the moon is 238,855 miles. Moon is also considerably larger, about 2,159 miles in diameter compared to the asteroid's slim 37-foot width.

Unlike the moon, 2024 PT5 won't be observable to the casual stargazer because of its size.
"The object is too small & dim for typical amateur telescopes and binoculars. However, the object is well within the brightness range of typical telescopes used by professional astronomers," Marcos said.

NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System first spotted the asteroid Aug. 7. This
Mini-moons have occurred in the past. The 2022 NX1 asteroid joined Earth's orbit in 1981 and 2022, according to BBC News.

"This story highlights just how busy our solar system is, how much out there that we haven't discovered, be'cos this asteroid was only discovered this year," astronomer and podcaster Dr. Jennifer Millard told BBC News.
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-earth-mini...onths.html

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Earth to have new mini-moon for 2-mths
Earth to capture a '2nd moon' NASA says.

Earth will capture a miniature, "2nd moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. Wew moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5.will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe path & stick around for a little less than two mths be4 escaping Earth's gravitational pull then going back to its regular orbit around the sun.
"According to latest data available from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Horizons System, the temporary capture will start at 15:54 EDT (on Sunday) and will end at 11:43 EDT on November 25," mini-moon event expert & Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos told Space.com.

2024 PT5 is part of "the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow orbits very similar to that of Earth at an average distance to the sun of about 93 million miles," Marcos said asteroid poses no threat to the planet, will travel about 2,200 miles per hour while maintaining a distance of around 2.8 million miles from Earth. By comparison average distance between Earth & the moon is 238,855 miles. Moon is also considerably larger, about 2,159 miles in diameter compared to the asteroid's slim 37-foot width.

Unlike the moon, 2024 PT5 won't be observable to the casual stargazer because of its size.
"The object is too small & dim for typical amateur telescopes and binoculars. However, the object is well within the brightness range of typical telescopes used by professional astronomers," Marcos said.

Dr. Jennifer Millard told BBC News.
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-earth-mini...onths.html

NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System first spotted the asteroid Aug. 7. This
Mini-moons have occurred in the past. The 2022 NX1 asteroid joined Earth's orbit in 1981 and 2022, according to BBC News.

"This story highlights just how busy our solar system  is, how much out there that we haven't discovered, be'cos this asteroid was only discovered this year," astronomer and podcaster
https://www.news18.com/viral/earths-seco...67427.html

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Black hole shot a beam through space: NASA copy can snapped stunning footage.
Extraordinary cosmic view.

Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Alec Lessing (Stanford University) / Mike Shara (AMNH) / Acknowledgment: Edward Baltz (Stanford University) // Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
https://sea.mashable.com/space/34437/bla...ng-footage

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Black hole shot a beam through space:

NASA copy can snapped stunning footage.
Extraordinary cosmic view.

Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Alec Lessing (Stanford University) / Mike Shara (AMNH) / Acknowledgment: Edward Baltz (Stanford University) // Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
https://sea.mashable.com/space/34437/bla...ng-footage

https://sea.mashable.com/space/34437/bla...ng-footage

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How to see the ‘comet of the century’ this week
Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas) last visited 80,000 years ago.

A comet that visits the solar system every 80,000 years is set to pass Earth in the coming days, in what some astronomers are describing as the “comet of the century”. First discovered in January last year, the Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas) is finally becoming visible to the naked eye as its trajectory takes it closer to the Sun.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/come...21286.html

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NASA Turns Off Science Instrument to Save Voyager 2 Power. Mission engineers at NASA have turned off plasma science instrument aboard Voyager 2 spacecraft due to probe’s gradually shrinking electrical power supply.

Traveling more than 12.8 billion miles (20.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, the spacecraft continues to use four science instruments to study the region outside our heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun. The probe has enough power to continue exploring this region with at least one operational science instrument into the 2030s.

Mission engineers have taken steps to avoid turning off a science instrument for as long as possible because the science data collected by the twin Voyager probes is unique. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space, the region outside the heliosphere.

The plasma science instrument measures the amount of plasma (electrically charged atoms) and the direction it is flowing. It has collected limited data in recent years due to its orientation relative to the direction that plasma is flowing in interstellar space.

Both spacecraft are powered by decaying plutonium lose about 4 watts of power each year. After twin Voyagers completed their exploration of giant planets in 1980s, mission team turned off several science instruments would not be used in study of interstellar space. That gave the spacecraft plenty of extra power until a few years ago. Since team turned off all onboard systems not essential for keeping probes working, including some heaters. In order to postpone having to shut off another science instrument, they adjusted Voyager 2’ voltage is monitored.

On Sept. 26, engineers issued the command to turn off the plasma science instrument. Sent by NASA’s Deep Space Network, it took 19 hours to reach Voyager 2, and the return signal took another 19 hours to reach Earth.
Mission engineers always carefully monitor changes being made to the 47-year-old spacecraft’s operations
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/0...r-2-power/

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Strongest sun solar flare captured.X-class flares are must intensive...
https://youtube.com/shorts/hZ-kRa34_R0?s...me1WN006XA

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Black hole shot a beam through space: NASA copy can snapped stunning footage.
Extraordinary cosmic view.

Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Alec Lessing (Stanford University) / Mike Shara (AMNH) / Acknowledgment: Edward Baltz (Stanford University) // Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
https://sea.mashable.com/space/34437/bla...ng-footage

https://youtu.be/OUfq-cuTw-Q?si=FN7404IdD9dg5MgH

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https://sea.mashable.com/space/34437/bla...ng-footage

The M87 galaxy is monstrous contains several trillions of stars, compared to our Milky Way's hundreds of billions & the supermassive black hole center is shooting an outstretched beam of energy into space. Hubble Telescope, operated by NASA & European Space Agency captured new image of energetic cosmic event, which produces a beam of superheated gas 3,000 light-years long (a single light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles). NASA calls this jet "blowtorch,"& it seems to be triggering many stars near its trajectory to erupt.

"We don't know what's going on, it's just a very exciting finding," Alec Lessing of Stanford Uni, who led research into finding, said in an agency statement. "This means there's something missing from our understanding of how black hole jets interact with their surroundings."

Black holes themselves produce no light. But material can rapidly spin around black holes, forming a vibrant "accretion disk" that radiates light. & sometimes material falling into a black hole can "become rerouted" into 2 jets, firing in opposite directions, NASA explained. In Hubble telescope image below, colossal elliptical galaxy M87, which is shaped like a giant egg, looks like "a translucent, fuzzy white cotton ball," ESA explained. The jet, as you can see, is wavy blue beam blasting out from galactic core, home to supermassive black hole (it has the mass of 5.4 billion suns).

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NASA spacecraft has roamed billions of miles — but hasn't reached the 'edge'

New Horizons mission continues to surprise scientists.
https://sea.mashable.com/space/34506/nas...d-the-edge

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While spacecraft has whizzed away at 300 million miles/year, the New Horizons team has continued to collect data about Kuiper Belt. What's more, using Japanese Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, New Horizon's scientists detected a population of previously unknown cosmic objects. The group could be sprawled out to almost 90 times as far as Earth is from sun, according to a recent paper published in Planetary Science Journal.

(The discovery suggests Kuiper Belt may span much farther once thought), or there is perhaps another such belt even farther away than one scientists have known about since 1990s. New finding could mean spacecraft has a longer journey ahead — scale of billions of more miles — before it gets to interstellar space, the place outside the region affected by the sun’s constant flow of material.
https://sea.mashable.com/space/34506/nas...d-the-edge

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A mysterious Planet Nine, J1249+36 is one of just a handful of hypervelocity stars identified in the Milky Way

"hypervelocity" stars are extremely rare, but we've just spotted a particularly special example. 

A star named CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) not only exceeds the galactic escape with a velocity at around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second, it's a very rare type of tiny, ancient, main sequence star called an L subdwarf, which happens to also be one of the oldest in the Milky Way.

First spotted by citizen scientists combing through telescope data for signs of the – and although far from the fastest we've seen, it represents something of a challenge to astronomers; namely, how did it get so breathtakingly fast?

NASA has once again pushed boundary with launch of its recent technological exploration called Project Icarus. In an ambitious attempt to find alien life, a spaceship will rocket across space at an astounding 1,000,000 kilometres per hour. 

Packaged with cutting-edge technology, spacecraft is setting out on a mission to investigate unexplored areas of the universe, raising the prospect of finding evidence of alien life.

The solar sail permits spacecraft to travel at high speeds, which, prior was perceived to be impossible. This marks it one of the fastest objects created by humankind to travel into space. It is said to travel at 1,000,000 kilometres per hour, it breaking records & if it is successful, it might open doors for further research into furthest regions of our galaxy and beyond.

Over ages, rocket technology has evolved dramatically. Chinese & Mongolians began developing rockets in 13th century, they began launching rocket-powered arrows at one another. Since then, a lot has changed. We now have ion engines, solid & liquid rocket propellants, & solar sails with more advanced technology. However, the idea & vision of solar sails are not new. In writings titled “Somnium”, renowned planetary motion scientist Johannes Kepler initially proposed in 17th century, sunlight maybe utilised to push spaceships, until 20th Century same concept was confirmed by scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky of Russia described basic idea behind how solar sails could actually function.

How NASA’s Project Icarus is Revolutionising Space Travel with..

 A Solar Sail Revolution, solar sail sounds more like a fictional movie or story found in novel, a reality we all living on earth, solar sails are a mysterious magnificent method crossing void space, use sun’s photons, or light from sun, to move spaceship forward. Unlike traditional fuels, solar sails do not require fuel or a tank with fuel in it. Solar sails depend on consistent push of solar radiation. Given, it lowers spacecraft mass & increases mission time, it presents huge benefit for long-term space exploration. With solar sail covering several hundred square meters, spacecraft used for Project Icarus is able to gather solar energy at an astounding rate. 

NASA was able to create a mission this propulsion system can rapidly go great distances, spaceship travelling at speed of 1,000,000 km per hour, which is faster than anything humankind has ever produced. 

Due to fact, solar sail can operate longer periods of time with more efficiency, it may becoming preferred propulsion technology for upcoming deep-space research & their missions. It is a concept that is keeping researchers scientists on their feet.

Project Icarus is a ground-breaking expedition advances space exploration in addition to breaking speed records, ship ot
spacecraft’s trip to Mercury, which is being powered by a solar sail, is stretching the
bounds of what is feasible paving way for future missions that may go well beyond what is currently achievable. There is little doubt, this mission will advance knowledge of solar system & how we explore it.
https://www.eldiario24.com/en/nasa-launc...craft/828/

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Spacecraft’s trip to Mercury 48 million miles.

Mercury is the first planet from Sun and Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Mercury is an average distance of 48 million miles (77 million km) from Earth. The precise distance between the two planets depends on where they are in their respective orbits.

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Ancient Star Seen Zooming Through Space at 600 Kilometers Per Second. Most of the stars in the Milky Way tread sedate orderly orbital measures around the galactic center, not the case for everything. "hypervelocity" stars are extremely rare". A star named CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) not only exceeds galactic escape with a velocity at around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second

Proxima Centauri, nearest star to our solar system, is approximately 4.24 light-years away from Earth, that means light travels at a speed of approximately 299,792 kilometers per second, would take roughly 4.24 years to travel from our planet to Proxima Centauri.

(Eubanks) NASA isn't only one pursuing this kind of research. Breakthrough started its Starshot project in 2016 to combine nanometer-sized spacecraft with light sails in 2017, NASA began funding it project targeted launching mission to Alpha Centauri by 2069, 100 yrs after Apollo 11.

Small spacecraft are easier to accelerate than larger probes, traditional fuel sources alone are not powerful or plentiful enough to push craft to light speed. Philip Lubin a prof of physics at Uni @California, Santa Barbara ideas on interstellar travel inspired Starshot team, told Live Science these craft will likely rely on light instead.

Similarly momentum carried by light transferred to spacecraft, causes it to recoil & accelerate." System is basically a gigantic flashlight — it's a giant laser array [on Earth]," Lubin said. If craft are sailboats, then laser light is wind in their sails.
Technology to create test such craft, such as communications equipment small enough to fit is still being developed, there's no physical reason to believe such a spacecraft couldn't conduct a flyby mission of Alpha Centauri, Lubin said.

Such mission behave much like Voyager 1 & 2 probes transmit high-resolution images of the star system back to Earth, some of which might contain our first look at Proxima Centauri's potentially habitable planet. Lubin stressed that a journey to Alpha Centauri would be a long-term endeavor, Eubanks said he's confident that big advances could come this century. I think, we'll reach Alpha Centauri with small probes launching in this decade 2040s & thus arriving in 2060s," Eubanks said. "Significantly larger probes should be possible by end century, without unexpected breakthroughs in propulsion physics, I think crewed missions will be a task for next century."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ever-reach-al...41116.html
"'I'm thinking, if only >we'll can reach Alpha Centauri system, with small probes...Lehh. Launching in this decade of the 2040s, thus maybe...arriving in 2060s."...a good try.

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It's exciting stuff. The reason the team has been pursuing this very specific kind of decay channel so relentlessly for more than a decade is because it's what is known as a "golden" channel, meaning not only is it incredibly rare, but also well predicted by the complex mathematics making up the Standard Model of physics.

That rarity and precision makes it a highly sensitive gauge for detecting new physics. Yet it was only by collecting an incredible amount of data covering countless particle collisions that the team could confirm their discovery as accurate according to the famous 'five sigma' standard of statistical certainty.

"This difficult analysis is the result of excellent teamwork, and I am extremely proud of this new result," Lazzeroni says.

[grotesqueness]

still got the

Extended Standard Model of Particle Physics

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The production of kaons is not particularly difficult, if you have the right equipment. Using the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN, the researchers fire a beam of high-energy protons at a stationary beryllium target. This produces a secondary beam of about a billion particles a second, about 6 percent of which are a kind of kaon that's charged.

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It's exciting stuff. The reason the team has been pursuing this very specific kind of decay channel so relentlessly for more than a decade is because it's what is known as a "golden" channel, meaning not only is it incredibly rare, but also well predicted by the complex mathematics making up the Standard Model of physics.

That rarity and precision makes it a highly sensitive gauge for detecting new physics. Yet it was only by collecting an incredible amount of data covering countless particle collisions that the team could confirm their discovery as accurate according to the famous 'five sigma' standard of statistical certainty.
https://www.sciencealert.com/cern-confir...ew-physics

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The production of kaons is not particularly difficult, if you have the right equipment. Using the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN, the researchers fire a beam of high-energy protons at a stationary beryllium target. This produces a secondary beam of about a billion particles a second, about 6 percent of which are a kind of kaon that's charged.

https://www.sciencealert.com/cern-confir...ew-physics

Kaons don't have a long lifespan; they form, and decay, in a hundred millionth of a second. 

So, in that secondary beam, kaon decay is happening constantly, generally turning into a super heavy cousin of the electron called a muon, and a neutrino.

In around 13 out of every 100 billion kaon decays, however, the result is an antineutrino, a neutrino
& an unstable particle made of another flavor of quark and an antiquark called a pion.

"Kaons and pions are particles containing quarks. The fact that quarks are of different types (up, down, strange, charm, beauty, top) is called flavor," Lazzerino told ScienceAlert.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-sta...per-second

https://www.sciencealert.com/cern-confir...ew-physics

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https://www.sciencealert.com/neutrinos

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Nasa spacecraft receives laser signal from 290 million miles away. Breakthrough could transform our exploration of the solar system, space agency says.

Nasa has successfully sent a laser signal about 290 million miles, smashing previous records and potentially transforming our exploration of the solar system. Milestone was reached by Nasa’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, which is exploring whether it is possible to use lasers to send messages deep into space. Lasers can send data at rates up to 100 times that of the radio frequencies used today, allowing for more complex and high-definition data, but they also require much greater precision to work.

It was sent to the Psyche spacecraft, which launched in October 2023. Its main mission is to study an asteroid with the same name, but it is also carrying the Nasa experiment to test laser communication through space. The distance – which equates to about 460 million kilometres – is roughly the same as that between Earth and Mars when they are their most distant. Nasa hopes that laser technology can help empower future crewed missions to Mars, among ofter exploration of our solar system, so the successful test marks a major breakthrough.

Milestone is significant. Laser communication requires a very high level of precision, & before we launched with Psyche, we didn’t know how much performance degradation we would see at our farthest distances,” said Meera Srinivasan, the project’s operations lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. "Now the techniques we use to track & point have been verified, confirming optical communications can be a robust and transformative way to explore the solar system.” Nasa administrator Bill Nelson sent his congratulations to the team involved, on Twitter/X. “Extraordinary achievement will transform way we explore own solar system.”

Late last year, Nasa had successfully completed one such transmission from 10 mil miles away, in that time since, it has broken through a whole set of records as Psyche continues to travel further from Earth, included the first ultra high-definition video beamed from space happened late last year – when Psyche sent pictures of a cat named Taters. As the distance from Earth increases, the speed of the connection is reduced. When it was 33 miles away, spacecraft could receive data at its max rate of 267 megabits per/2nd – when latest record was broken in summer, it's hitting maximums of only 8.3 megabits per sec.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa...25500.html

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https://www.nasa.gov/live/

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https://www.nasa.gov/live/

Upcoming Events....All times listed U.S. Eastern, time between late March to  November, All broadcasts will stream on NASA+ unless otherwise noted....

Thursday, Oct. 10...10:40 a.m.—ISS Expedition 72 in-flight interview KGW-TV Portland, Oregon, NASA flight engineer Don Pettit. Stream on NASA+

3 p.m.—NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 farewell from the International Space Station. Stream on NASA+

Friday, Oct, 11 11:35 a.m.—ISS Expedition 72 in-flight interview WBZ-TV, Boston, with NASA ISS commander Suni Williams. Stream on NASA+

Sunday, Oct. 13 1 a.m.—NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 departure from International Space Station. Dragon Endeavour spacecraft hatch closure is scheduled for 1:30 a.m. Stream on NASA+

2:45 a.m.—Undocking of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 from International Space Station. Undocking scheduled for 3:05 a.m. Stream on NASA+

3:25 a.m. (approx.)—The conclusion of Dragon Endeavour spacecraft’s departure from the International Space Station, coverage continue with audio only. Full coverage will resume on NASA+ ahead of de-orbit burn then splashdown

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https://sea.mashable.com/space/34437/bla...ng-footage

Astronomers using Hubble have discovered that a blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole seems to cause stellar eruptions 🧵👇
https://x.com/HUBBLE_space/status/1839304140800897479

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NASA Turns Off Science Instrument to Save Voyager 2 Power. Mission engineers at NASA have turned off plasma science instrument aboard Voyager 2 spacecraft due to probe’s gradually shrinking electrical power supply.

Traveling more than 12.8 billion miles (20.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, the spacecraft continues to use four science instruments to study the region outside our heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun. The probe has enough power to continue exploring this region with at least one operational science instrument into the 2030s.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/0...r-2-power/

Mission engineers taken steps to avoid turning off science instrument for as long as possible b'cos the science data collected by twin Voyager probes is unique. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space region outside the heliosphere. Plasma nstrument measures the amount of plasma (electrically charged atoms) & direction it is flowing & collected limited data in recent years due to its orientation relative to the direction plasma is flowing in interstellar space.
Both spacecraft are powered by decaying plutonium lose about 4 watts of power each year. After twin Voyagers completed their exploration of giant planets in 1980s, mission turned off several science instruments not used in study interstellar space gave craft plenty of extra power a few years more, all others onboard not essential for probes working, including heaters. they adjusted Voyager 2’ voltage is monitored.

On Sept. 26, engineers issued command to turn off plasma science instrument. Sent by NASA’s Deep Space Network took 19 hours to reach Voyager 2, & return signal took another 19 hours.
Mission engineers always carefully monitor changes being made to 47-year-old craft’s op.

Mission engineers have taken steps to avoid turning off a science instrument for as long as possible because the science data collected by the twin Voyager probes is unique. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space, the region outside the heliosphere.

The plasma science instrument measures the amount of plasma (electrically charged atoms) and the direction it is flowing. It has collected limited data in recent years due to its orientation relative to the direction that plasma is flowing in interstellar space.

Both spacecraft are powered by decaying plutonium lose about 4 watts of power each year. After twin Voyagers completed their exploration of giant planets in 1980s, mission team turned off several science instruments would not be used in study of interstellar space. That gave the spacecraft plenty of extra power until a few years ago. Since team turned off all onboard systems not essential for keeping probes working, including some heaters. In order to postpone having to shut off another science instrument, they adjusted Voyager 2’ voltage is monitored.
https://youtube.com/shorts/uCf7z_gYlNM?s...tS_V958a7x-

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Mission engineers taken steps to avoid turning off science instrument for as long as possible b'cos the science data collected by twin Voyager probes is unique. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space region outside the heliosphere. Plasma nstrument measures the amount of plasma (electrically charged atoms) & direction it is flowing & collected limited data in recent years due to its orientation relative to the direction plasma is flowing in interstellar space.
Both spacecraft are powered by decaying plutonium lose about 4 watts of power each year. After twin Voyagers completed their exploration of giant planets in 1980s, mission turned off several science instruments not used in study interstellar space gave craft plenty of extra power a few years more, all others onboard not essential for probes working, including heaters. they adjusted Voyager 2’ voltage is monitored.

On Sept. 26, engineers issued command to turn off plasma science instrument. Sent by NASA’s Deep Space Network took 19 hrs to reach Voyager 2, & return signal took another 19 hrs.

Mission engineers is carefully monitor changes being made to old 47-year-old craft’s..
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