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U.S. Space Force general selected to lead Trump's $175 billion Golden Dome space defense program

Space Force general selected for Golden Dome program | NASA legend Gene Kranz returns to mission control | Private Ax-4 mission to the ISS is 'go' for launch June 8

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Space Force general selected for Golden Dome program

U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a plan for his ambitious "Golden Dome" missile defense shield this week, stating it will cost $175 billion and take about three years to develop - but some experts say the price tag could be many times higher.

(NASA)

NASA legend Gene Kranz returns to mission control

Gene Kranz, who served in Apollo mission control as "White Flight," was at the head of the room when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Apollo 13 "had a problem." He may have never said "Failure is not an option," but his record of success has earned him a prestigious award.

Spaceflight

(Axiom Space)

Private Ax-4 mission to the ISS is 'go' for launch June 8

The next private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just completed a major milestone ahead of its upcoming launch. Houston-based company Axiom Space completed an internal Flight Readiness Review (FRR) on Wednesday (May 21) ahead of the launch of the company's fourth crewed mission to the ISS. Ax-4 is on track for a liftoff next month on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a multinational crew aboard a brand-new Dragon spacecraft. The mission is scheduled to get off the ground on June 8 at 9:11 a.m. EDT (1311 GMT), from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

(LandSpace)

Tile-shedding private Chinese rocket launches 6 satellites

The Chinese company LandSpace launched its methane-powered Zhugque-2E rocket on Saturday (May 17), carrying a batch of six satellites to orbit. Zhugque-2E lifted off Saturday at 12:12 a.m. EDT (0412 GMT; 12:12 p.m. in Beijing) from Site 96 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center's Complex-43, in northwestern China's Gobi Desert. The mission, carried out by LandSpace for commercial satellite maker Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Research Institute, known as Spacety for short, carried six Tianyi satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO).

Science & Astronomy

(NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now

Long before it became the giant planet we see today, Jupiter was even bigger and had a much stronger magnetic field, according to a new study that looked back in time to reveal what the world was like in its early years.

Technology

(Starfish Space)

Starfish Space satellite will attempt 1st commercial docking

Starfish Space plans to make history on its second-ever mission, which is set to lift off next month. On Tuesday (May 20), the Seattle-based startup unveiled the outline of the groundbreaking flight, which is called Otter Pup 2. It will send one of Starfish's small Otter satellite-servicing vehicles to low Earth orbit (LEO) on SpaceX's Transporter 14 mission, which is scheduled to lift off in June.

Search for Life

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Perseverance rover rolls into 'Crocodile' plateau on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has made to a new region on Mars, which may contain some of the Red Planet's oldest and most interesting rocks. Perseverance landed inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater in February 2021, on a mission to search for past signs of Mars life and collect dozens of samples for future return to Earth.

Star Wars

(ILM/Lucasfilm)

'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' at 45: Stop-motion master Phil Tippett on creating the iconic Battle of Hoth

Today marks the 45th anniversary of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," which was released in theaters by 20th Century Fox on May 21, 1980, and has been aptly christened by adoring fans and sagacious critics as one of the greatest sci-fi sequels ever made. Two-time Academy Award-winning visual effects wizard Phil Tippett ("Return of the Jedi," "Jurassic Park," "Starship Troopers") and his talented ILM team shot the movie's pivotal stop-motion sequences in Lucasfilm's warehouse headquarters in San Rafael, California. These iconic scenes transported audiences to the icy world of Hoth for the rebel base opening's camel-like tauntauns and menacing Imperial AT-AT Walkers.

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> На онлайн коллоквиум по теоретической физике в четверг 22.05 будут
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> 1) 10:00:00 по московскому времени: Yakov Fominov (L.D. Landau
> Institute of Theoretical Physics Russian Academy of Sciences)
> Superconducting Diode Effect
>
> In this talk, I will discuss the rapidly developing field of
> nonreciprocal effects in superconducting transport, also known as the
> superconducting diode effect. The essence of this phenomenon lies in
> the asymmetry of a system's properties when a supercurrent flows in
> opposite directions. Such an effect requires the simultaneous breaking
> of time-reversal and inversion symmetries. The underlying physical
> mechanisms can vary significantly, including effects of magnetic (and,
> more specifically, exchange) fields, spin-orbit interactions, and
> geometric asymmetry of the system. These effects can lead to
> nonreciprocal charge transport both in systems homogeneous along the
> current direction and in Josephson junctions.
>
> BIOGRAPHY
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> Prof. Yakov Fominov holds two PhDs in Theoretical Physics — one from
> the Kapitza Institute (Russia, 2003) and another from the University of
> Twente (Netherlands, 2003) — as well as a Doctor of Physics and
> Mathematics degree from the Landau Institute (2019). Since 2005, he has
> been a permanent member of the Landau Institute, where he currently
> serves as Deputy Director. Since 2023, he has also headed the Chair for
> Problems in Theoretical Physics (Gor'kov Theory Group) at the Moscow
> Institute of Physics and Technology. His research focuses on the
> superconducting proximity effect in hybrid structures (including normal
> and ferromagnetic metals), the Josephson effect in mesoscopic
> junctions, odd-frequency superconductivity, and superconducting spin
> valves.
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>
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> 2) 11:00:00 по московскому времени: Jiang-Ping Hu (Institute of Physics
> Chinese Academy of Sciences)
> Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Kagome Lattices
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> In this talk, I will discuss quantum states in Kagome lattices with the
> time reversal symmetry breaking. Both theory and recent experimental
> progress will be reviewed. A brief review of this type of states will
> be given for cuprates and Kagome lattice superconductors. We will
> discuss a specific model to show the existence of loop current states
> which break the time reversal symmetry as ground states. In particular,
> we will address the superconducting diode effect can be used to probe
> such quantum states.
>
> BIOGRAPHY
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> Prof. Jiang-Ping Hu is currently a researcher and the Deputy Director
> of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received
> his BS from Peking University in 1994, MS from the Institute of
> Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997 and PhD
> from Stanford University in 2002. His main research interests are
> theoretical condensed matter physics. He has made seminal contributions
> to topological physics, high-temperature superconductivity, and
> strongly correlated electron theory, with more than 280 publications
> and an H-index of 85. He was selected to be a Fellow of the American
> Physical Society in 2018, and was awarded the Zhou Peiyuan Prize for
> Physics in 2019, a New Stone Researcher in 2023.
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