#KinetX, founded in 📆 1992, is No. 10 on the list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies 📊 of 📆 2024 https://www.fastcompany.com/91037713/kinetx-most-innovative-companies-2024

#SpaceCompany #SpaceNavigation

Space

Physical Sciences
#Astronomy #AstroPhysics #Cosmology

General
#AsteroidMining #Asteroids #AsteroidThreat #Astrodon #Astronomers #AstronomyMastodon #AstroPhotography #AstroTuesday #BlackHole #BlackHoles #CelestialBodyLanding #ClearSkies #Comet #Comets #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #DeepSky #DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) #Exoplanets #Galaxy #Galaxies #Gravity #GravitationalWaves #HallEffectThruster #HumanSpaceflight #HumanSpaceflightBasics #HumanSpaceflightHealth #HumanSpaceflightSecurity #ISRU (in situ resource utilization) #LaunchCost #Lunar3dPrinting #MoonMining #NightSky #Observatory #Planetarium #PlanetsryScience #PrivateSpaceflight #Pulsars #Quasars #ReusableLaunchVehicle #RocketEngine #RocketScience #SatelliteImprovement #SatelliteInternetAccess #Satellites #SBSP (Space-based Solar Power) #SmallSat #SolarPhysics #Space #SpaceAgency #SpaceCommunication #SpaceCompany #SpaceCraft #SpaceColonization #SpacecraftComparison #SpacecraftPropulsion #SpaceDebris #Spacedon #SpaceEnergy #SpaceEvent #SpaceExploration #SpaceFood #SpaceForce #SpaceHabitat #SpaceHistory #SpaceHotel #SpaceIndustry #SpaceInfrastructure #SpaceLogistics #SpaceMaintenance #SpaceMastodon #SpaceMining #SpaceNavigation #SpacePhotography #SpacePlants #SpacePolitics #SpacePort #SpaceRegulation #SpaceRobot #SpaceScience #SpaceSciFi #SpaceShip #SpaceScience #SpaceStation #SpaceSuit #SpaceTelescope #SpaceTourism #SpaceWelding #SpaceX #StarGazing @starrytimepod #TimeToOrbit #Universe

Organisations
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) 🇨🇦
#EuropeanSpaceAgency (#ESA) 🇪🇺
European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) 🇪🇺
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (#JAXA) 🇯🇵
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (#JPL) 🇺🇸
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (#NASA) 🇺🇸
Space Telescope Science Institute (STSciI) 🇪🇺

Missions
#Artemis (#NASAArtemis) #BepiColombo #Cassini COBE #Euclid #EuclidMission #EuropaClipper #Hayabusa2 #InternationalSpaceStation (#ISS) JupiterIcyMoonExplorer (#Juice) #JuiceMission #Juno #Gaia #MMX #Magellan #Voyager1 #Voyager2

Space Telescopes
#SpaceTelescope #Telescope

#ChandraXRay (#Chandra) #ESAEuclid #EventHorizonTelescope #Hubble #HubbleSpaceTelescope (#HST) #IXPE #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST (#Webb) #Kepler #MIRI #NIRcam #NIRISS #NIRSpec #Spitzer

Earth Observatories
#Arecibo 🇵🇷 #AtacamaLargeMillimeterArray (#ALMA) 🇨🇱 #CerroTololo 🇨🇱 #EuropeanSouthernObservatory (#ESO) 🇩🇪 #Haleakala 🇺🇸 #Herschel (#WHT) 🇮🇨 #Keck 🇺🇸 #KittPeak 🇺🇸 #LIGO 🇺🇸 #MaunaKea 🇺🇸 #Paranal 🇨🇱 #Parkes 🇦🇺 #RoqueDeLosMuchachos 🇪🇸 #SquareKilometreArrayObservatory (#SKAO) 🇦🇺 #VeryLargeTelescope (#VLT) 🇨🇱

Mastodon Observatories
Abbey Ridge Observatory 🇨🇦 @abbeyridgeobs
Burke-Gaffney Observatory 🇨🇦 @BGO
Hamburg Observatory 🇩🇪 @HambObs
Las Cumbres Observatory 🇦🇺 🇿🇦 🇮🇨 🇨🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇨🇳 @lco
Mount Burnett Observatory 🇦🇺 @mbo
Rubin Observatory 🇨🇱 @VRubinObs
Stella-Luna Observatory 🇺🇸 @StellaLunaObs
Westport Observatory 🇺🇸 @WestportObservatory

Astrophotography
Andrea Luck @andrealuck
Astronomy Picture of the Day @APoD
Cathie LeBlank @cathieleblanc
Craig Kolb @cek
Dan Kagelmacher @ManyWorldsAstro_@mastodon.social
David Blanchflower @DavidBflower
DGMc @Astrobum
Frank Adler @adfr
jdsoubeyran @jdsoubeyran
Kreegan99 @kreegan99
Landru79 @Landru79
Loran Hughes @WestwoodAstro
Mollenberg Observatory @MollenbergSky
Naztronomy @naz
Noom @noom
Philo @philo
Roger Sliva @rsliva@astrodon.social
Simeon Schmauß @stim3on
UniversoMagico @UniversoMagico

Solar System
#Sun #SolarCorona
#KuiperBelt

Planets
#Mercury
#Venus
#Earth
• #Moon #Lunar
#Mars
• #Phobos #Deimos
#Jupiter
• #Callisto #Ganymede #Europa #Io
#Saturn
• #Enceladus #Mimas #Titan
#Uranus
• #Ariel #Miranda Titania
#Neptune
• #Triton

Dwarf Planets
#Pluto
• #Charon
#Ceres
Makemake
Haumea
#Eris

Hypothetical
#PlanetX

Beyond
OortCloud
#ProximaCentauri
#SagittariusA*
#MilkyWay
#Andromeda (#M31)
#Pleiades (#M45)

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Challenges of #SpaceNavigation : If #Earth were the size of a softball, the #ISS would be orbiting just above the seams, the #Moon would be a #marble about 2 meters away, and #Mars would be 1.2 to 2.4 kilometers away. The targets are small and moving. https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/navigating-space/challenges

Chris Potts compared the target requirements of #landing the #Spirit rover inside a specific #crater on Mars 🔴 to being able to shoot a #basketball 🏀 through a hoop 9000 miles away.
Since there’s no #GPS in outer space, navigators process the radiometric tracking data received from the #DeepSpaceNetwork (#DSN) to determine the #spacecraft’s #position and velocity. They also use optical data, where the spacecraft takes a picture of the star background to help refine the spacecraft’s trajectory https://www.universetoday.com/37934/the-navigators-how-we-fly-spacecraft-around-the-solar-system

When a #spacecraft is launched from #Earth 🌍, its forward #velocity combined with the gravitational pull of Earth cause it to travel in a curved path. As the spacecraft heads toward another #planet 🪐, the #gravitational pull of that planet factors in to the path the spacecraft takes. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/lets-go-to-mars-calculating-launch-windows

The spacecraft departs #Earth 🌍 at a #speed of about 39,600 kph. The trip to #Mars will take about seven months and about 480 million kilometers https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/cruise

#SpaceNavigation