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Save the date: Vigil Mission Workshop on 8 November in Coimbra, Portugal! Excited to announce that ESA’s Vigil, Europe’s #SpaceWeather mission, will be sending data from deep space 24/7 for the first time. How can its data be utilized best? Join us for the Vigil Mission Workshop, held right after the European Space Weather Week 2024 in Coimbra, Portugal. #WorkshopHighlights: Vigil mission status: Overview of the mission objectives, preparation status, and preparation for mission data utilization. Data utilization plans and proposals: Plans and proposals for operational space weather applications and scientific research. Interactive discussion: Expectations and visions on the Vigil mission and long-term prospects of space weather monitoring.

Have you ever had to track a collections move? What about a collections move for large objects--maybe a rocket or an airplane? Come learn how Transformation Registration Specialist, Emily Weeks, and the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (NASM) teams worked to keep their massive (or sometimes minute) objects tracked, located, and moved appropriately during the NASM Transformation! RSVP on the NEMA website to register: https://ow.ly/rtBH50R5Ji6

The hybrid space architecture which integrates government and commercial sensors for more resilience and persistence doesn’t just apply to earth observation. Near earth space situational awareness can benefit as well - now that there is the first commercial satellite WFOV SSA constellation on orbit. My colleagues in defense and the IC need to take a hard look at NorthStar whose WFOV sensors can discern extremely small objects with unrivaled location precision. And do it in LEO, MEO, HEO and GEO simultaneously. Then after detecting anomalous events, tip and cue other sensors for follow up characterization shots. Revolutionary stuff from the commercial industry.

Going to the AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustic Conference next week in Rome? Lucky you! I would recommend to check out these presentations by Simon Bouley and colleagues! Why I like this research work? Here's the deal: You are an aero-acoustic engineer doing aero-acoustic wind tunnel studies. Business as usual. BUT! Imagine you could see the studied noise sources right there, in front of you. And imagine that you could sneak inside the flow and you could put your ear next to these sources. Imagine to be able to know each sources' frequency content, strength, directivity, and that you can move away walls and obstacles in a snap of a finger... What would you do with those super-powers?

How do you install a massive rocket into a Museum? Very carefully! Check out this timelapse of the move and install of the Blue Origin New Shepard "Propulsion Module 4-2" booster. #artifacthandling #artifactrigging #iweissllc #iweiss #rigging

What does museum security encompass? In this article, we step away from our favorite agents of deterioration of incorrect relative humidity and incorrect temperature, and we talk about 5 key aspects of museum security you should be aware of when thinking about protecting collections and visitors at collecting institutions. https://bit.ly/3TmNrQe #security #museums #preventativeconservation

Here is GUERRILLA 72”x 144”pictured here in a Hauser+Wirth space. This is an exploration of how paintforms, brushwork, pattern and concealment work together as well as how the confluence of analog and digital methodologies produces interesting and sometimes acccidental artifacts.

Together with Institut für Flugsysteme und Regelungstechnik, OKAPI:Orbits is implementing the CASCADE activity, funded by European Space Agency - ESA through GSTP. In this activity, we are investigating and implementing means how to pro-actively coordinate space traffic through the application of the rules of the road approach. We have recently published the paper "Enabling efficient satellite mission design with rule-based collision avoidance", authored by Simon Burgis, on the methods and approach towards defining and analysing suitable rules between constellations, and supporting tools to analyse the resulting workshares. For some more weeks, the full paper is freely accessible (link in the comments), so make sure to give it a read!

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