NASA advisory board worried about SpaceX fueling processes
NASA advisory board worried about SpaceX fueling processes Bart Leahy November 5th, 2016 The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fairing with the Amos-6 satellite falls moments after the explosion on Sept. 1, 2016. Image Credit: Mike Wagner / USLaunchReport.com Experts on a NASA advisory board have expressed concerns about SpaceX’s plan to fuel Falcon 9 with astronauts aboard. The safety advisory springs, in part, from the explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket during a static test on September 1. Unprecedented pr..>> view originalCelebrating saving the Ross Sea
Climate change is turning into a race between politics and physics
On Friday, a major milestone arrived for global climate change diplomacy. The so-called Paris climate agreement, an international accord forged last December by countries across the world, became a legal reality far sooner than almost anyone anticipated.The rapid pace with which countries have ratified the agreement underscores the urgency many nations feel in the wake of a string of record hot years and ever more severe climate impacts. Next week in Marrakesh, Morocco, leaders from around th..>> view originalTMT wants to resume construction in 2018: Pace of contested case could impact deadline
HILO — TMT International Observatory plans to resume building its giant telescope in April 2018, a board member said. It’s just a question of where. The TIO board announced this week that it selected Spain’s Canary Islands as a backup site to Mauna Kea if it doesn’t regain a construction permit through a second contested case. But the organization also is facing a self-imposed deadline that appears to leave little room for error. “We need to start construction in April 2018,” said Fiona Harriso..>> view originalYour role in melting Arctic sea ice: How your CO2 emissions add up.
Sorry polar bears, the Arctic Ocean might be free of sea ice before 2050. According to new calculations, for every metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted, about three square meters (approximately 32.3 square feet) of Arctic summer sea ice disappears. And, with humans currently emitting about 35 to 40 million tons of CO2 each year, the future doesn't look very frozen.It's not hard to rack up those emissions. About 2,433 miles of driving – roughly the distance from Washington, DC to Las Vegas – or ..>> view originalDepressing new photos show Europe's Mars probe exploded into pieces
Jan Woerner, the ESA's director general, as Schiaparelli was supposed to land on Mars. Reuters When the European Space Agency (ESA) lost contact with half of its ambitious ExoMars 2016 mission — the Schiaparelli lander — on October 19, the probe was falling from the Martian sky like an incendiary bomb. Previous photos showed the crash site in black-and-white, but new color photos paint an even clearer view of Schiaparelli's final moments. The 8-foot-wide probe s..>> view originalHere comes a once-in-a-lifetime supermoon
By mid-November, Chicago’s World Series afterglow will have faded and the hotly contested presidential election will be done and dusted, but North Americans will have one more "once in a lifetime event" to look forward to: The biggest, most spectacular supermoon in decades.On November 14, skywatchers will be rewarded with a lunar close-up, the result of a coincidence between the moon’s elliptical orbit and the position of the Earth and Sun. A "supermoon" is the colloquial term for when a full m..>> view original
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