February 17, 2016
The European Space Agency successfully launched its Sentinel-3A oceanic monitoring satellite this past week aboard a Russian Rokot booster.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/europe-is-launching-sentinel-3a-the-latest-in-its-all-seeing-satellite-network-copernicus
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/esa/sentinel-3a-earth-observing-satellite-successfully-launches-plesetsk/
The U.S. launched its NROL-45 spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base this past week, aboard a Delta IV booster.
http://www.space.com/31888-us-spy-satellite-dazzling-launch-nrol45.html
Japan has delayed the launch of an X-Ray observatory until the end of the week due to bad weather.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/15/national/science-health/launch-japanese-x-ray-satellite-rescheduled-wednesday-weather-may-remain-concern/#.VsPB3bQrLs1
NASA has released additional images Saturn's moon Tethys as a the Cassini space probe continues to wind down its mission.
http://www.sci-news.com/space/nasas-cassini-spacecraft-saturns-moon-tethys-03626.html
A new study suggests that the amount of mass that Saturn's volcanic moon Enceladus ejects into Saturn's magnetosphere is roughly equivalent to the mass escaping from the planet's atmosphere.
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-saturn-enceladus-amount-plasma.html
NASA has released a geological map of Pluto's "heart" region, compiled from photographs captured by the New Horizons spacecraft. The map uses color-coding to identfy terrains of different origin.
http://stgist.com/2016/02/nasa-maps-mysterious-pluto-heart-with-new-horizons-help-6946
http://www.space.com/31930-pluto-geology-map-new-horizons.html
No comments:
Post a Comment