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𝐏𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝: 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Exciting news from the White House as NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration is tasked with developing a "lunar time standard" in preparation for establishing a permanent scientific base on the moon by January 2026. Did you know that time on the moon flows slightly slower, causing devices like our trusty Apple Watches to gradually fall behind? This innovative move reflects our transition into a spacefaring civilization, reminiscent of science fiction tales. Imagine, before conquering satellites and planets, we're dispatching a "synchronization station" to shape our cosmic existence. It turns out, we're not just Terrans; we're Protoss in the making! 🌕 https://lnkd.in/gtDYuEpZ 🚀 #SpaceExploration #LunarTimeStandard #FutureFrontiers

NASA sent a cat video into deep space, 19 million miles away, to test a new way of communicating across vast distances. While we can already communicate with astronauts in space, like on the International Space Station, through video calls and data transmission, communicating with spacecraft in deep space, like those heading to Mars or beyond, is much more challenging. The problem is that as the distance increases, it becomes harder and takes longer to send and receive messages. In deep space, signals can take minutes or hours to travel, and they can be disrupted by planets or solar events. NASA's test with the cat video was to improve and ensure that we can still send and receive information, even over these huge distances. They used a system called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), which can handle the long delays and disruptions in signals that happen in deep space. By successfully sending the cat video, NASA tested this system's ability to transmit large, data-intensive files through space, aiming to make communication in deep space as reliable as it is closer to Earth. This is important for future missions to faraway places in space, where good communication will be essential. Source: NASA Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/ #NASA #catvideo #viral #spacekitty #internetfame #NASAcat #spacevideo #spaceexploration #outerspace #NASAfun #catsofNASA

SpaceX to launch NASA gamma-ray space telescope in 2027 SpaceX has been selected by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration to launch the COSI observatory, a gamma-ray space telescope, in August 2027. The mission aims to study high-energy phenomena in the universe, including matter-antimatter interactions and stellar life cycles. The fixed-price launch contract is valued at $69 million, with COSI's total mission cost excluding launch being $145 million. This mission marks another addition to Falcon 9's busy launch schedule, which has already seen significant activity in 2024, including missions for SpaceX's Starlink constellation. https://lnkd.in/dm385Kwx

TIME? THERE IS NO TIME IN SPACE: As the commercial space industry grows and more nations are active at the Moon, there is a greater need for time standardization. So, NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time. “This will enable a future lunar ecosystem that could be scalable to other locations in our solar system.” https://lnkd.in/gEq4P5pY #auguryit #space #nasa #spaceX

#uspoliticalcommentary #nasa #2ndtrumpadministration #usspacepolicy #nasaspacepolicy #2ndtrumpadministrationandnasa - Opinion - A few helpful suggestions for President Trump on NASA space policy https://lnkd.in/dyhrGpgj

According to SpaceNews, NASA said last week that the Dragonfly mission, which will send a rotorcraft to Titan to study its habitability, had been confirmed to go into full-scale development ahead of a launch in mid-2028. The total cost of the mission, including launch and operations, is now $3.35 billion, far higher than when NASA selected the mission in 2019 as the latest in the New Frontiers line, which had a cost cap excluding launch and operations of $850 million. NASA said that the costs included in the cap had doubled because of a series of replans to the mission caused by budget pressures, as well as supply chain and related pandemic impacts. NASA will also spend more on a heavy-lift launch vehicle to allow Dragonfly to reach Titan on schedule in 2034 despite two years of launch delays. https://lnkd.in/eXsQBGmG

Intuitive Machines's #Moon lander is facing trouble as its #solarpanels are not directed towards the sun to collect enough energy, likely ending the mission prematurely after the lander tipped over last Friday. In addition, two of the #spacecraft's antenna are pointing to the ground which severly limits the craft's ability to transfer data back to #Earth. The mission was planned to last 7-10 days originally with five NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientific payloads on board and one commercial one. It has also been revealed that several test procedures were not run on the ground to cut some corners, saving time and money, some of which almost led to a complete mission failure. Flight controllers were able to find workarounds and so the "historic landing is due in no small part to extremely quick thinking on the part of flight controllers." #spaceexploration #moonlanding #nasa 24

Sad but eventually inevitable ... the International Space Station will face a fiery fate in the not-too-distant future and - given its size - we better prepare for the biggest piece of space gear coming down ever. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration contracted with SpaceX to build a de-orbit vehicle that manages the EOL processes in a controlled way and makes sure that the ISS doesn't hit populated areas since it can not be expected that all components burn entirely as the station enters the atmosphere. NASA had considered other options - besides accepting an uncontrolled re-entry with all its risks - such as bringing it back piece by piece or providing a booster mechanism to increase the station's orbit and park it in a location far away from the atmospheric drag where it would be safe from uncontrolled re-entry. Both were found to be too expensive. #spaceexploration CNET 05 https://lnkd.in/eAyd2QGg

I’m quite astounded by the speeds NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Parker Solar Probe is reaching — nearly 400,000 mph, and it's only going to get faster! 🚀 Knowing that something made by humans has been able to travel over 500 times the speed of sound really blows my mind. 🤯 It puts things in perspective regarding what the future of space travel could look like. 🌌 Imagine if, one day, we could cover the distances between the stars at these sorts of speeds: dissipating the enormous distances that seem impossible today into realizability, opening up possibilities we can just dream of right now. ✨ The journey of Parker Solar Probe could be a window into that future where the universe would feel all the more reachable. 🌠 📌 Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dZwn5g7e #SpaceExploration #NASA #ParkerSolarProbe #SpeedRecords #FutureOfTravel #InterstellarDreams #SpaceTech

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Parker Solar probe clocked in at more than 635k kilometers per hour, making it the fastest object ever made by humans. Launched in 2018 on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy, the probe has been circling the #Sun in orbits that become ever smaller (thus making the probe to go faster) to inspect the outer corona in a first-of-its-kind mission. While this velocity is definitely amazing, the sobering fact is that even at the projected peak velocity of the probe at about 690k kilometers per hour, it would still need more than 1560 years to cover one light year, so about 6600 years to reach the nearest neighboring star Proxima Centauri. We'll need something much faster to get there eventually. #spaceexploration 20 https://lnkd.in/e5-Gp_ez