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WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessWhy the Artemis II Crew Stays in Quarantine Before Their Journey to Moon
ABC FeedsNASA delays Moon mission by at least a month due to hydrogen leak
By Jacinta Bowler
A hydrogen leak has pushed back NASA's plans to launch the Artemis II mission to send humans around the Moon to March, at the earliest.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-02-04/artemis-2-mission-delayed-hydrogen-leak/106302956
#SpaceExploration #ScienceandTechnology #Science #Space #TheMoon #Spacecraft #JacintaBowler
Knowledge Zone#OnThisDay The Soviet Union's #Luna 9 became the first #Spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon (1966).
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing #Voting rights to male citizens regardless of race (1870).
#Benelux Economic Union was founded (1958), creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
AstroHydeIn addition to #space exploration and #science I do wonder if going back to the moon will be an adventure we can share that helps bring people together 💫
Fingers crossed the Feb8 launch goes forward! #ArtemisII #artemis #lunar #moon #spacecraft #spaceexploration #astronomy #Astrodon #launch #liftoff
ARGVMI~1.PIFIs the SpaceX representative aware that radiating heat into #space is extremely slow? Like, dramatically slower than even air cooling, let alone water cooling. And most data centers these days are using water cooling.
Space is basically a giant Thermos bottle, and we all know how slowly heat leaks out of a Thermos bottle. One of the main engineering problems in designing a #spacecraft is to keep its energy usage low so it doesn't cook itself.
BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨💻Top level peeps at Blue Origin told employees they are "pausing" flights of its New Shepard rocket to focus resources on "human lunar capabilities" aka future missions to land humans on the moon. Employees indicate they think this is the cancellation of the program. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/30/nx-s1-5694644/blue-origin-pauses-space-tourism-flights-to-focus-on-lunar-lander #Space #BlueOrigin #NewShepard #Moon #MoonLanding #Rocket #SpaceTravel #SpaceCraft #SpaceTourism
NiftyLinksOrbital House of Cards – CRASH Clock Metric
Researchers have updated the possibility that satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) could collapse after accidental collisions quickly cascade into a vicious cycle where initial collisions create a huge vortex of dangerous space debris, which creates even more collisions, and then even more collisions – just like a massive vehicle pileup on an ice covered interstate highway…this cascading collision scenario is known as the Kessler syndrome.
The researchers propose a new metric, the CRASH Clock, that measures the timescale for a possible Kessler like scenario to occur after a severe loss of space situational awareness. They propose the CRASH Clock is currently 5.5 days, which is the window of opportunity to recover/stop a wide spread cascading collision event. https://futurism.com/space/earths-lower-orbit-rapidly-collapse
DL full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643 #Space #Satellites #LEO #KesslerSyndrome #Kessler #SpaceCraft #CrashClock #SatelliteCollision #SpaceJunk
💧🌏 Greg CocksNASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field [SAA]
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https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-watching-a-huge-anomaly-growing-in-earths-magnetic-field <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/qpdQcw_52iM?si=Hn0EZkOGJOMihC71 <-- shared @nasa video - “NASA Explores Earth's Magnetic 'Dent'”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly <-- shared SAA wiki
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https://youtu.be/6hD52H7rQak?si=OBGYbK8Czbi0uwlc <-- shared video – “Watch [a visualisation of how the] Earth's magnetic shield protect[s] the planet from a pelting by the solar wind…” [narrated so well (of course!) by #liamneeson !!!!]
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #geology #structuralgeology #magneticdent #magneticanomaly #magneticfield #SouthAtlanticAnomaly #SAA #spaceweather #geomagnetism #satellite #SWARM #orbitalspacecraft #spacecraft #risk #hazard #hardening #magneticfieldstrength #protection #CME #coronalmassejection #sun #solar #solarwind #NASA #ESA
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https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-watching-a-huge-anomaly-growing-in-earths-magnetic-field <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/qpdQcw_52iM?si=Hn0EZkOGJOMihC71 <-- shared @nasa video - “NASA Explores Earth's Magnetic 'Dent'”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly <-- shared SAA wiki
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https://youtu.be/6hD52H7rQak?si=OBGYbK8Czbi0uwlc <-- shared video – “Watch [a visualisation of how the] Earth's magnetic shield protect[s] the planet from a pelting by the solar wind…” [narrated so well (of course!) by #liamneeson !!!!]
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #geology #structuralgeology #magneticdent #magneticanomaly #magneticfield #SouthAtlanticAnomaly #SAA #spaceweather #geomagnetism #satellite #SWARM #orbitalspacecraft #spacecraft #risk #hazard #hardening #magneticfieldstrength #protection #CME #coronalmassejection #sun #solar #solarwind #NASA #ESA
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