By Passant Rabie, Published by Gizmodo, 11 March 2024 After three years of uncontrolled descent, the 2.9-ton cargo pallet has finally fallen to Earth. On Friday, March 8, a pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico following an unpredictable
Image Credit: SpaceNews Midjourney illustration By Debra Werner, Published by SpaceNews, 11 March 2024 Space-related applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning are often confined to the ground because moving AI onboard satellites, while promising, is significantly more difficult. “Running AI in space is like running a marathon on the moon
Soseong-ri: The South Korean village fighting the US military By Bruce Gagnon, Posted in Organizing Notes, 8 March 2024 Soseong-ri, South Korea, was a sleepy farming village before the arrival of the US military's Terminal High Altitude Aerial Defense (THAAD) missile system. The THAAD base was built on a golf
NASA is looking for people who want to train to become astronauts and take part in its next missions to the Moon. (Image: NASA) By Paige Cockburn for All in the Mind,Published by ABC News, 8 March 2024 Imagine never leaving your workplace for six months. Now imagine you're stuck
ISS batteries orbital ground track (8 March) (ESA) Published by The European Space Agency, 8 March 2024 UPDATE (8 March, 11:00 CET): The reentry of the ISS batteries is now expected between approximately 15:35 CET and 22:25 CET on 8 March. Original text (7 March, 20:00 CET): The European Space Agency
In 2021, astronauts on the space station jettisoned this equipment pallet. The space junk has been orbiting Earth for the last few years. It most likely made its reentry on March 8, 2024, over the Pacific. Some fragments should have survived to hit the ocean. Image via NASA/ Jonathan McDowell on
Close-up of a solar eruptive prominence as seen in extreme UV light. Photograph: Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo By Meredith Garfalo, Published by Space.com, 7 March 2024 In 2021, a solar storm was recorded by multiple different spacecraft and the results tell quite the story. Space weather may seem like
ABC‘s David Muir (2/22/24): “We have just learned now the landing was a success.” By Karl Grossman, Published by Fair, 7 March 2024 “In a historic lunar accomplishment, the first private spacecraft to land successfully on the Moon touched down on February 22,” the journal Nature (2/23/24) trumpeted the following day. That
