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She was a great launch on a great day! Two payloads - two orbits! NEONSAT-1 will perform Earth-observation of the Korean Peninsula for KAIST, which will then pair the satellite’s data with artificial intelligence to monitor for natural disasters in the region. NEONSAT-1 is the first of 11 satellites for KAIST’s planned constellation to image the Korean Peninsula several times daily. NASA’s ACS3 technology demonstration uses composite materials - or a combination of materials with different properties, in its novel, lightweight booms that deploy from a CubeSat to support a solar sail. Just as a sailboat is powered by wind in a sail, solar sails employ the pressure of sunlight for propulsion, eliminating the need for conventional rocket propellant. Data obtained from the ACS3 demonstration will guide the design of future larger-scale composite solar sail systems that could be used for space weather early warning satellites, near-Earth asteroid reconnaissance missions, or communications relays for crewed exploration missions.

There are over 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe yet there is also a “future visibility limit”! Objects beyond this limit will never enter our observable universe at any time in the infinite future. The reason for this is that light emitted by objects outside that limit would never reach us. The below image is taken from the official site of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Black Holes Are No Vacuums! While black holes have a strong gravitational pull, they don't suck everything nearby like a cosmic vacuum cleaner. If the Sun were replaced by a black hole of the same mass, Earth would still orbit it in the same way. The below gif is NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's visualization of the movement of Black Hole.

The first ever all european commercial astrenauts mission will be take place today. This journey will be handle by the cooperation of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration , European Space Agency - ESA, SpaceX and Axiom Space. It will be first human spaceflight for Türkiye and Turkish Space Agency as well. Life in space more closer than ever. Defense in space is more crucial than ever!

The moon is just the first step into space for humanity! At ASCENDxTexas, Nujoud Merancy, Deputy Associate Administrator - Strategy and Architecture Office at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, detailed their Moon-to-Mars strategy. Today, we saw how NASA strategy is well on the way to developing functional pathways: not just to get humans to Mars, but to have an ecosystem to go back and forth between Earth, the moon, and Mars. We will get to Mars, but we need to work together to get there! #AIAA #ascendspace

Then, we had the exciting intervention of Carlos Garcia-Galan from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who spoke about the objectives of the 'Moon to Mars' program and about how inspirational it can be for children, the future scientists 💻🧪🔭🛰 #SSSIF2024

March 2024 was the warmest March on record. Last month continues a streak of records, with the last 10 months each the warmest for their respective months in NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's temperature record, GISTEMP. The global mean temperature anomaly for March 2024 was 1.39°C above the 1951-1980 March average. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/epBCwa-Q

What are Pulsars? These are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic radiation out of their magnetic poles. Pulsars can rotate incredibly fast, with some completing hundreds of rotations per second. The below gif is posted by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Thanks to the team at NASA Ames Research Center for a great visit. Did you know our #aeronautics team is leaning forward to transform the future of airspace operations? Researchers presented the long-running efforts in aeronautics at Ames that have helped lay the foundation for NASA’s work related to #wildfire response. These include a project to help integrate #drones into the airspace with Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management, their application to disaster response with the Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations project, and how those informed NASA’s newest effort to make wildfire response more targeted and adaptable. The research and models the team are building today are enabling that future. #nasa #research #technology #unmannedaircraft

We just delivered the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Engineering Development Unit 1 to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for optical testing. Launching in 2035, LISA will be the first space-based gravitational wave observatory orbiting the sun, helping scientists see into previously invisible corners of space and detect major astrological events that have shaped our universe. The level of complexity and precision required to detect gravitational wave signals is what makes LISA so ambitious. In collaboration with the European Space Agency - ESA and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, we’re designing the telescope according to a very demanding set of requirements, including extreme resiliency to thermal changes due to the telescope's proximity to the sun. Learn more about LISA: https://bit.ly/4aYZieL