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DARPA moon tech study selects 14 companies to develop a lunar economy

DARPA selects 14 companies to develop a lunar economy | Why is there so much military interest in the moon? | Halo around full moon spotted during SpaceX launch

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December 8, 2023

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DARPA selects 14 companies to develop a lunar economy

(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

We've seen the movies and read the books about what it would be like to have a habitat on the moon, but in order to turn our Sci-Fi fantasy into a reality, scientists must lay out some groundwork.

Full Story: Space (12/8)

Why is there so much military interest in the moon?

(DARPA)

Over the last few years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, has increasingly zeroed-in on the moon. A trio of DARPA undertakings look to advance technologies for use on the moon. DARPA kick-started its Novel Orbital moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass Efficient Design (NOM4D) program. Last month, DARPA threw in some "LOGIC" into the mix via the Lunar Operating Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium, or LOGIC for short. DARPA has also initiated the 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study to spur the development of an integrated future lunar infrastructure for "peaceful U.S. and international use."

Full Story: Space (12/8)

Skywatching

Halo around full moon spotted during SpaceX launch

(Gilbert E. Plumer)

An ethereal halo of light around the full moon created by ice crystals from overhanging clouds recently shone bright during a SpaceX rocket launch in Florida, setting the stage for a stunning time-lapse photo that captured the luminous ring and streaking rocket in the same frame.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

Spaceflight

NASA nails down OSIRIS-REx parachute problem

(NASA/Keegan Barber)

"After a thorough review of the descent video and the capsule's extensive documentation, NASA found that inconsistent wiring label definitions in the design plans likely caused engineers to wire the parachutes' release triggers such that signals meant to deploy the drogue chute fired out of order," agency officials wrote.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

Science & Astronomy

Scientists study violent 'superflares' on massive stars

(NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory/Emily Mason)

Scientists may have solved the physics behind massive and violent "superflares" that rip free from stars thousands of times as bright as the sun. Our host star regularly erupts with solar flares that can impact Earth and, if strong enough, disrupt communications and power infrastructure on a global scale. But these solar flares are mere child's tantrums compared to the thousands of "superflares" that NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Kepler space telescopes have seen blasting from stars between 100 and 10,000 times brighter than the sun.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

SpaceX

SpaceX, Space Force to launch secretive X-37B space plane

(U.S. Space Force/Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks)

The space plane is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a 10-minute window that opens at 8:14 p.m. EST (0114 GMT on Dec. 11). If SpaceX webcasts the launch as expected, you'll be able to watch the action live here at Space.com.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

Technology

Space Force radar to 'identify emerging threats' in orbit

(U.S. Space Force/Craig Weiman/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia have signed an agreement to develop a deep space radar capable of keeping an eye on what's happening in geosynchronous orbit.

Full Story: Space (12/8)

Entertainment

'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 5 review

(Apple TV+)

A new body in the Solar System starts a multi-trillion-dollar gold rush, while the shockwaves from a certain someone's departure continue to resonate on Mars.

Full Story: Space (12/8)

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Tomato lost in space for 8 months in orbit found at last

Tomato lost in space for 8 months on ISS found at last | Satellites watch Japan's new volcanic island grow | After 25 years, NASA preps for the end of ISS

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December 7, 2023

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Tomato lost in space for 8 months on ISS found at last

(NASA)

Let's start off with a space story that bears fruit ... literally. Astronauts on the International Space Station have found a tomato that's been lost for eight months, finally solving a mystery spawned by a past crewmember.
"Our good friend Frank Rubio ... has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato, but we can exonerate him," the ISS crew says.

Full Story: Space (12/6)

Satellites watch Japan's new volcanic island grow

(ESA/USGS)

A new image taken from space shows that an island forged in volcanic fire on the Pacific Seas off Japan at the end of Oct. 2023 is still rising from the sea. The new volcanic island, which has been named Niijima - meaning "new island" in Japanese - was imaged by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on Nov. 27.
The continued growth of the island shows that the underwater volcanic activity that birthed the island off the southern coast of Iwo Jima is continuing.

Full Story: Space (12/6)

After 25 years, NASA preps for the end of ISS

(NASA)

The space station turned 25 years old on Dec. 6, and NASA is preparing for the pioneering outpost's end. The agency just celebrated the milestone mission that docked the first two International Space Station modules in 1998. In the runup to that event, NASA updated its private proposal request to help deorbit the station when it retires in 2030 or so.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

Spaceflight

NASA astronaut will celebrate Hanukkah in space

(NASA)

A NASA astronaut will "light" felt candles to celebrate Hanukkah in space. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli plans to conduct the traditional lighting of the menorah in felt, given that the agency and International Space Station wisely have restrictions against using fire aboard a spacecraft. The lighting will be done during Hanukkah, the Jewish festival which begins at sundown local time on Dec. 7.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

India sets sights on a moon base by 2047

(ISRO)

India is setting long-term goals that could see the country establish its own moon base before 2050. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S. Somanath set out a provisional, integrated roadmap for exploring the moon in a Nov. 28 talk at a symposium organized by the Indian Society of Geomatics and the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. The plan would build on India's recent lunar achievements and progress in human spaceflight ambitions.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

Science & Astronomy

'Extragalactic' intruder may lurk near Milky Way's black hole

(Miyagi University of Education/ NAOJ)

Astronomers may have discovered an extragalactic intruder among stars that orbit the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*. The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach our galaxy's monster black hole.

Full Story: Space (12/7)

SpaceX

SpaceX launches its 90th orbital flight of 2023

(SpaceX)

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Dec. 7 in what was it's 90th mission of the year. The Falcon 9 rocket, making its 9th flight, carred 23 new Starlink satellites into orbit.

Full Story: Space (12/6)

Search for Life

Could we detect life signs from Saturn moon Enceladus?

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus seem to be the tendrils of a vast subsurface ocean — and have scientists curious if their fluid might carry life signs, organic molecules. But if scientists want to study those organic molecules, they'll need to find a careful way of collecting them without destroying them.

Full Story: Space (12/7)