Новости за 20.10.2022

NASA leaders, including Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, will participate in the 2022 ASCEND conference, hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Las Vegas from Monday, Oct. 24, through Wednesday, Oct. 26.

VASI will be installed on the DAVINCI mission’s descent sphere to parachute through Venus’ atmosphere. VASI measurements will provide new information about Venus’ temperature, pressure and winds and will provide the primary altitude reference for the descent sphere’s atmospheric composition instruments during the plunge into Venus’ atmosphere.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just before boarding the Dragon Freedom crew ship, undocking from the International Space Station, and returning to Earth, completing a 170-day space research mission.

Follow-up DART observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are already revealing the clearest image of a stunning surprise – a newly developed second tail of ejecta.

Astronomers looking into the early universe have made a surprising discovery using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: a cluster of massive galaxies in the process of forming around an extremely red quasar.

NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) mission tests a new inflatable heat shield that could enable large-scale missions to Mars, Venus, and Titan, as well as re-entering Earth's atmosphere.