Astro Campers SCoPE Out New Worlds
10 Aug
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Astro Campers SCoPE Out New Worlds

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NASA Space Technology Teachers at Smokey Mountain Elementary School have collaborated with the NASA Science Activation (SciAct) program's Smoky Mountains STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Collaborative (SMSC) and project coordinator, Randi Neff, to create a summer camp for students who are passionate about STEM topics. What started as a small summer camp has since evolved into Astro Camp, a two-week community program from the NASA Astro Camp Community Partners (part of the NASA SciAct program infrastructure) with many engaging student activities.Many students have enjoyed this camp from the beginning, and those who have participated annually have become increasingly interested in more challenging and robust activities to continue their learning adventures. With the help of SciAct's NASA SCoPE (the NASA Science Mission Directorate Community of Practice for Education) team, Neff was able to connect teachers...
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NASA Teams Change Brakes to Keep Artemis Crew Safe
10 Aug
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NASA Teams Change Brakes to Keep Artemis Crew Safe

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NASA Space Technology Recently, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center met with engineering teams at a central Florida amusement park to share knowledge on a new braking system NASA is using for its launch pad emergency egress system for Artemis missions.“We have a new magnetic braking system for the Artemis emergency egress system and NASA hasn’t used this technology on the ground infrastructure side before to support launches,” said Jesse Berdis, mobile launcher 1 deputy project manager for EGS. “I realized we have neighbors 50 miles from us in Orlando that are essentially the world experts on magnetic braking systems.”For Artemis, teams will use a track cable that connects the mobile launcher to the terminus site near the perimeter of NASA Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39Bwhere four baskets,...
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U.S. Army gears up for space warfare, drawing lessons from Ukraine
08 Aug
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U.S. Army gears up for space warfare, drawing lessons from Ukraine

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Col. Princeton Wright, Army capability manager for space and high altitude at the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command (center), speaks Aug. 6 at the Space and Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: SMDCWASHINGTON   The U.S. Army is taking cues from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine to prepare for a new era of space-based warfare.“The war in Ukraine has given us a stark warning: the character of war is changing,” said Col. Princeton Wright, capability manager for space and high altitude at the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC).Wright spoke during a panel discussion Aug. 6 at the Space and Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville, Alabama.The conflict in Ukraine has served as a stark demonstration of modern electronic warfare capabilities, with Russia’s deployment of jamming systems and other disruptive...
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PLD Space to start building French Guiana launch facilities next month
08 Aug
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PLD Space to start building French Guiana launch facilities next month

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Top Stories Tamfitronics PLD Space vice president of sales and customers Pablo Gallego (left) with sales manager César Bernal at Small Satellite Conference 2024 in Logan, Utah. Credit: PLD SpaceTAMPA, Fla. — As Arianespace ramps up following Ariane 6’s July maiden flight from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana, a Spanish venture is preparing to become the first non-institutional launcher to reach orbit from the base next year.PLD Space plans to start building launch facilities for its Miura 5 rocket in October from the Diamant site at Guiana Space Centre, cofounder and chief business development officer Raúl Verdú told SpaceNews.Diamant has been dormant for decades after once being used for the French rocket of the same name, and “in the area where we are there is nothing,” Verdú said, “we have to do everything from scratch.”PLD...
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