Damn you, coronavirus. Damn you. Now you’ve gone too far: James Webb Space Telescope, Moon mission work paused
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First crew launch in US since 2011 could happen by May, 34 more OneWeb sats, and astros share their top isolation tips
SpaceX and NASA named the date for Commercial Crew – kind of. “Mid to late May” could be when the US will finally see its astronauts launched from American soil once again, following the end of the Space Shuttle programme in 2011. It is quite the gap.
Our favourites included NASA 'naut Annie McClain, who shared an epic Twitter thread (helpfully available on the NASA site) with survival tips, but top marks must go to ESA’s astro-in-training, Matthias Maurer, who simply said: “I plan my Corona time like a space flight. 3 weeks to the moon and back: max 2 rolls of toilet paper.”
Finally, Brit would-be orbital rocket botherer Skyrora is getting in on the hand sanitiser action. A first batch of the gear is undergoing testing before production ramps up.
Corona coronavirus hiatus: Euro space agency to put Sun, Mars probes in safe mode while boffins swerve pandemic
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No sound on this video so you can do your own commentary I guess.
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Uranus wobbles and loses gas!
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16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe
Impressive!
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This is both really cool and deeply worrying… fits the timeline though, doesn’t it.
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Or this is El Reg’s joke for April Fool’s day.
I hate this timeline. Nothing seems too absurd anymore.
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Soichi to join three-spaceship club, SpaceX is going to the Moon (no, really), and rocket boffins step up COVID-19 fight
Sun storm probe OK’d: ‘Our motivation is a fascinating signal that we have detected for decades but never been able to make an image of’
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If you thought black holes only came in S or XXXL, guess again, maybe: Elusive mid-mass void spotted eating star
Artist’s impression of size ratios:
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Do you want to be an astronaut when you grow up? Yeah, you and 12,000 others: NASA flooded with folks hoping to visit Moon, Mars
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A couple of days ago, Venus and a fingernail Moon:
ETA: there is a better photo in the If you see something, post slmething thread.
I gotta do some sorting this weekend; right now too much is scattered across phone, tablet and four cameras.
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NASA’s classic worm logo returns for first all-American trip to ISS in years: Are you a meatball or a squiggly fan?
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ESA missions back doing science after precautionary pandemic plug pull: We talk to space boffins about Mars Express emergency command line
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I’m a worm fan.
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