SpaceX ‘s Falcon 9 returned to flight, launching successfully from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California today, just four and a half months after a fiery explosion destroyed Facebook’s AMOS-6 satellite. An investigation conducted by SpaceX concluded that the September 1 explosion was likely caused by a failure of a pressurized second-stage tank.
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SpaceX launches first rocket since explosion in Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company’s first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:54 a.m. carrying a payload for Iridium Communications Inc., which is replacing its entire global network with 70 next-generation satellites.
Hidden figures: What Trump’s AG pick Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows
As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie “Hidden Figures,” which my wife Judith and I saw three days earlier. The film is based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly about three African-American women in the early 1960s who lived in the segregated South while working on NASA’s first manned space missions.
SpaceX Launches First Rocket Since Explosion
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company’s first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago. The two-stage rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:54 a.m. carrying a payload for Iridium Communications Inc., which is replacing its entire global network with 70 next-generation satellites.
SpaceX sends 10 satellites into orbit, lands rocket booster on drone…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 satellites, lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Jan. 14, 2017. Four months after a launch pad explosion, SpaceX returned to flight Saturday morning, delivering 10 satellites into orbit and landing its first-stage booster on a floating drone ship.
Astronauts upgrade station power system in six-hour spacewalk
U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough left the station’s airlock at about 6:30 a.m. EST to begin his second spacewalk this month. He was joined minutes later by French crew mate Thomas Pesquet, a rookie astronaut making his first spacewalk.
Science briefs: Latest NASA missions to explore asteroids
Fossilized remains of husked fruit found in Argentina are prompting experts to reevaluate the age of the tomato and tomatillo. MUST CREDIT: Ignacio Escapa – Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio.
‘Hidden Figures’ is about people, not mathematics
From the hidden pages of history second-time director Theodore Melfi has bookmarked a true story about three African-American women who helped save the space program back in the ’60s. “Hidden Figures” is based on a same-named non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly.
SpaceX finances ‘on a knife edge’ following disastrous rocket explosion
SpaceX finances ‘on a knife edge’ following disastrous rocket explosion – and Elon Musk is relying on satellite internet service being a success to fund his Mars plans, leaked figures show Elon Musk watched in horror as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 burst into flames and rained debris over the Atlantic Ocean in 2015. The botched takeoff led to delayed launches, hindered the firm’s ability to fulfill contracts and contributed to annual loss and drops in revenue.
Spacewalking astronauts upgrade orbiting lab’s power grid
The International Space Station’s solar power grid got three more top-of-the-line batteries on Friday during the second spacewalk in a week. This photo made by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency shows him in a selfie photograph with the Earth reflected in his visor, during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017.
Spacewalking astronauts upgrade orbiting lab’s power grid
The International Space Station’s solar power grid got three more top-of-the-line batteries Friday during the second spacewalk in a week. Commander Shane Kimbrough and French crew member Thomas Pesquet plugged in three new lithium-ion batteries, adding to the three hooked up last week.
Spacewalking astronauts upgrade orbiting lab’s power grid
This still image taken from video provided by NASA shows U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a space walk outside the International Space Station, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017.
Edmonds CC students participate in NASA-funded undergraduate research
From left, Edmonds CC students Cali Drake, Stephanie Bernard, Chris Nguyen, and Thinh Pham participated in a NASA-funded undergraduate research project during fall quarter. Edmonds Community College students have partnered with a local technology company to test how well plasma jets can eliminate specific types of bacteria from the surface of spacecraft.
NASA Study Finds a Connection Between Wildfires and Drought
The Suomi NPP satellite detected these fires in Africa on January 30, 2016. Ichoku hypothesizes that such fires play a significant role in altering rainfall patterns.
Kepler’s unusual orbit
A couple more interesting things about the just-launched Kepler telescop e – then we’ll let it get on with the business of searching for distant planets. The spacecraft will be controlled, at times, by college kids working alongside professional operators.
Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old
In this Feb. 13, 1971 file photo, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. conducts an experiment near a lunar crater, using an instrument from a two-wheeled cart carrying various tools. On Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, a California-led research team reported that the moon formed within 60 million years of the birth of the solar system.
Hubble Looks at Voyager’s Future
Nothing built by humans has ever gotten as far from our planet as Voyager 1, which is now almost 21 billion kilometers from Earth. We’ve talked about the future of both Voyagers before in these pages – Voyager 1 passes within about 1.6 light years of the star Gliese 445 in some 40,000 years, its closest approach to a neighboring star.
Cyprium Partners makes Stone an MD
Cyprium Partners said Jan. 11 that it promoted Nicholas Stone to Managing Director. Stone oversees Cyprium’s Chicago office and will lead the firm’s origination and marketing related activities.
Killer Asteroids are Hitting Earth, but NASA has a Plan
Scientists at NASA are closely monitoring an asteroid that could potentially reel towards Earth as it nears orbit. The incoming asteroid called Bennu would have catastrophic effects should it hit Earth, reports showed.
Hidden Figures Read More
We’ll start with three reasons to see Hidden Figures in theaters: Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae, and Octavia Spencer. These three brilliant actors portray the black women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, an achievement that restored the nation’s confidence and turned the Space Race around.
Davis: Kelowna’s movie news and reviews
While you may be favouring your pocketbook looking at the expenses you incurred over the Holiday Season, it does not mean you must forego the movie experience. If you head over to Landmark Cinemas Encore in West Kelowna you can get some great deals on recent movies.
Watch a Fake Trailer For ‘Hidden Fences,’ the “Movie White…
The Golden Globes are generally regarded as the most useless film award ceremony, but the show itself can prove perfectly entertaining . The alcohol flows freely at the Globes, which means everyone is bit looser and ready to be a little sillier, should the proper occasion arise .
Hubble captures ‘Shadow Play’ caused by possible planet
Washington, Jan 10 : Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They’re so small and faint that it’s hard to spot them.
Hidden Figures’ Topples – Rogue One’ in Final Box Office
Walt Disney Co. ‘s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was toppled from its three-week run as box-office leader by “Hidden Figures,” the 20th Century Fox film about a group of black women mathematicians who play a crucial role in the U.S. space program in the 1960s.
Syracuse native set to make history with future NASA mission
NASA has selected a central New York woman for a mission to space that will make her the first African-American woman to live on the International Space Station as a crew member. Syracuse native Jeanette Epps will serve as a flight engineer for a mission that’s scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan in May 2018.
Hidden Figures’ Dethrones – Rogue One’ With $22.8…
On Sunday, the “Star Wars” prequel and the Fox drama had finished a neck-and-neck race with “Rogue One” coming out on top by $200,000. Now, estimates show that “Hidden Figures” pulled ahead by roughly $1 million.
2017 Total Solar Eclipse: A Magnet for Scientists … and Hordes of People
The 2017 total solar eclipse , which will be visible across the contiguous United States, will be a scientific marvel and a potentially life-changing experience for people who view it. But experts warn that it will also be a logistical nightmare.
West Virginia native featured in ‘Hidden Figures’ film
A West Virginia native is one of the elite team of female African-American mathematicians at NASA featured in a new film, “Hidden Figures.” The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington reports the film tells the story of West Virginia State University graduate Katherine Johnson, now in her 90s, who helped win the space race against the Soviet Union.
Syracuse native set to make history with future NASA mission
NASA has selected a central New York woman for a mission to space that will make her the first African-American woman to work as a crew member on the International Space Station. Syracuse native Jeanette Epps will serve as a flight engineer for Expeditions 56 and 57, the first of which is scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan in May 2018.
NASA’s NuSTAR Spacecraft discovers two nearby Black Holes that have been hidden until now
Monster black holes sometimes lurk behind gas and dust, hiding from the gaze of most telescopes. But they give themselves away when material they feed on emits high-energy X-rays that NASA’s NuSTAR mission can detect.
NASA spots short-lived Tropical Depression 01W
In just 24 hours after Tropical Depression 01W formed in the Philippine Sea it was already falling apart. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the depression and saw the large, weakening depression being affected by wind shear.
NASA sees storms affecting the western US
VIDEO: This animation of visible and infrared imagery from NOAA’s GOES-West satellite shows a series of moisture-laden storms affecting California from Jan. 6-9, 2017. view more Extreme rain events have been affecting California and snow has blanketed the Pacific Northwest.
It’s Your Last Chance To See The Comet That Won’t Be Back For Another 1,000 Years
You’ve still got time to get a look at the New Year’s comet that everyone’s talking about at brunch, but don’t wait much longer to fix your eyes on the sky. NASA is reporting that the comet, officially named C/2016 U1 NEOWISE, will be visible through January 14, giving you about a week to dust off your binoculars and scope out the perfect spot to catch a glimpse.
NASA announces two new asteroid missions
Lucy, which will launch in 2021, is going to visit the mysterious Trojans – a group of asteroids in orbit around the planet Jupiter – while also paying a visit to a separate, smaller asteroid on the way. Psyche on the other hand, which launches in 2023, will be heading towards 16 Psyche – a 130-mile-wide object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Hubble creates interstellar road map for future galactic trek
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is creating a road map for the two Voyager spacecraft, that will travel through unexplored territories beyond our solar system, by measuring the material along the probes’ future trajectories. Even after the Voyagers run out of electrical power and are unable to send back new data, which may happen in about a decade, astronomers can use Hubble observations to characterise the environment of through which these silent ambassadors will glide.
This week in science: fate, it seems, is not without its sense of irony
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according… I was promised miraculous cures, I was told of colonies on the moon and Mars. But all I got was this stupid Facebook … I was promised miraculous cures, I was told of colonies on the moon and Mars.
Hidden Figures
HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson , Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world.
Scotland poised to reap benefits of private space travel
IT was an arena where the great powers once fought it out without coming to blows, a hot zone in a cold war where the rockets were instruments of peace and exploration instead of violence. But this week a private company will boldly go back into space as the march to claim the skies from government agencies continues apace.
Box office update: ‘Hidden Figures’ wins Friday in tight race with ‘Rogue One’
Taraji P. Henson, back left, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Mone, back right, in “Hidden Figures.” Based on the story of an unheralded team of black female mathematicians and engineers working for NASA during the Mercury and Apollo missions, the film grossed $7.6 million toward a projected $20-million weekend.
Hubble Discovers Comets Plunging onto a Young Star
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets plunging onto the star HD 172555, which is a youthful 23 million years old and resides 95 light-years from Earth. Credits: NASA, ESA, A. Feild and G. Bacon The above illustration image shows several comets speeding across a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust and heading straight for the youthful, central star.