Week of January 31, 2016
This section is a curated list of articles, white papers, concepts, events, videos, and data releases. Some listed items may not be current but are nonetheless quite interesting.
Articles & Sites of Interest
- Galaxy Magazine archive
- USDOE: Energy Department Announces New Investments in Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors to Help Meet America’s Carbon Emission Reduction Goal
- New Study Zeros in on Plate Tectonics’ Start Date
- McGill: Nearing the limits of life on Earth
- Planetary Society: NASA Could Choose Mars Human Landing Site during next Presidential Administration
- Planetary Society: Europa Budget Bulge
- NASA: Rocketology - NASA’s Space Launch System
- Centauri Dreams: Proxima Centauri & the Imagination
- NASA: Ceres - Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets for 215 Years
- RAS: 1 trillion kilometres apart: a lonely planet and its distant star
- First launch from Russia's new Far East spaceport to be in April
- Planetary Society: Postcards from Clementine
- SPACEREF: New Theory Aids Search for Universe's Origin
- Phys.org: Mars rover Opportunity busy through depth of winter
- Spaceflight Insider: Euclid spacecraft set to unravel the universe’s mysteries
- Centauri Dreams: KIC 8462852: No Dimming After All?
- Centauri Dreams: Bradley Schaefer - A Response to Michael Hippke
- NASA: Pluto's Blue Atmosphere in the Infrared
- NASA: Pluto’s Widespread Water Ice
- BBC: Russia's troubled Vostochny space port readies for lift-off
- Pale Red Dot: The Doppler Method and Proxima Centauri
- UCLA: Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet
- Planetary Society: What's up in solar system exploration - February 2016 edition
Concepts & White Papers
- High Frontier: The X-33: Nothing ventured, nothing gained
- arxiv: Science Learning via Participation in Online Citizen Science
- Russian ultraviolet astronomy's long road to space
- NTRS: Mars Surface Tunnel Element Concept
- The Europa Clipper
- Eos: Europa Clipper Mission Concept
- Europa Clipper Update
- arxiv: Pluto's atmosphere from the 29 June 2015 ground-based stellar occultation at the time of the New Horizons flyby
- RAS: A nearby young M dwarf with a wide, possibly planetary-mass companion
- arxiv: Gravitational microlensing as a probe for dark matter clumps
- arxiv: The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XL. Searching for Neptunes around metal-poor stars
- arxiv: A Neptune-sized Exoplanet Consistent with a Pure Rock Composition
- NASA: Companies Selected to Provide Early Design Work for Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission Spacecraft
- NTRS: Asteroid Redirect Mission Concept: A Bold Approach for Utilizing Space Resources
- arxiv: How to Directly Image a Habitable Planet Around Alpha Centauri with a ~30-45cm Space Telescope
- arxiv: Space telescope design to directly image the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri
Events & Involvement
Videos
- X-33 VentureStar - single stage to orbit space plane
- Aerospike Engine (test demonstration)
- Skylon - single stage to orbit space plane
- Sabre jet engine for Skylon
- Astronomy in the year 2020
- CNBC: Boeing builds the most powerful rocket ever made
- Himawari: Glittering Blue - a day in the life of earth
- JPL / DLR: Flight Over Dwarf Planet Ceres
- Jan 24, 1986 - Voyager 2 makes closest approach to planet Uranus, at an altitude of 81,500 km, no further missions are yet in planning to surpass this
- Jan 24, 1986 - Voyager 2 makes closest approach to Uranian moon Miranda, at an altitude of 29,000 km
- Jan 25, 2004 - MER-B rover (Opportunity) lands safely on the surface of Mars in Eagle crater
- Jan 25, 2006 - discovery of exoplanet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, using a method known as gravitational microlensing, it was the first rocky / icy planet discovered around a main sequence star
- Jan 26, 1949 - Hale telescope sees first light through a 200" mirror, becoming the largest aperture telescope until it is surpassed by the BTA-6 in 1976
- Jan 27, 1951 - Nuclear weapons test Operation Ranger proceeds at the Nevada Test Site
- Jan 27, 1967 - Apollo 1 experiences a fatal malfunction during a fully stacked test, killing three astronauts inside the capsule, Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee
- Jan 28, 1958 - The Lego company patents design of Lego Bricks
- Jan 28, 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger launches on mission STS-51-L; this is the final launch of the Challenger orbiter after experiencing a fatal malfunction with a solid fuel booster resulting in the destruction of the orbital stack during ascent
Data
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