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Program Manager at NASA Glenn Earns AIAA Sustained Service Award
- Program Manager at NASA Glenn, Christopher Pestak, has been awarded the 2025 Sustained Service Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
- The award recognizes Pestak's dedication and efforts in service to AIAA, the aerospace community, and the engineering profession.
- Pestak oversees and coordinates the work of 350 contractor employees on the Glenn Engineering and Research Support (GEARS) contract at NASA Glenn Research Center.
- He joined NASA in 1983 and will be recognized for his service during an AIAA awards ceremony in January.
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NASA Glenn’s Office of Communications Earns Top Honors
- NASA Glenn Research Center’s Office of Communications earned top honors in the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)’s Cleveland Rocks Awards.
- The Best in Show award was presented to NASA Glenn for their Solar Eclipse Campaign.
- They also received awards for Integrated Communications Campaign, Events, and Tactic – Best Use of X.
- Kristen Parker, the Director of NASA Glenn's Office of Communications, received the Best in Show award.
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An Evening With the Stars: 10 Years and Counting
- NASA Glenn Research Center hosted an event called 'An Evening With the Stars: 10 Years and Counting'.
- The event showcased research and technology innovations from Glenn subject matter experts.
- Presentations were given by NASA Glenn's stars of the evening, including Nikki Welch, Tim Smith, and Carlos Garcia-Galan.
- The event attracted sponsors and guests from more than 50 companies, universities, and organizations.
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Need to Accurately Measure Time in Space? Use a COMPASSO
- German project COMPASSO aims to prove the feasibility of quantum optical clocks in space for accurate time measurement.
- Existing atomic clocks used in navigation systems have limitations in terms of accuracy and size.
- COMPASSO will utilize advanced technologies including iodine frequency references, a frequency comb, and a laser communication terminal.
- The mission is planned to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025 to compare its accuracy with existing alternatives.
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A Binary Star Found Surprisingly Close to the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
- Astronomers have discovered a binary star system known as D9, surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way.
- Binary stars are not expected to form or survive near black holes due to tidal forces, but the D9 system is young and estimated to merge into a single star within a million years.
- The discovery of D9 was made using data from the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) and the Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observations in the Near Infrared (SINFONI).
- Finding binary stars near Sagittarius A* could provide insights into the formation of such systems in the vicinity of supermassive black holes.
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NASA Partners with US Patent and Trademark Office to Advance Technology Transfer
- NASA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to enhance technology transfer.
- The collaboration aims to transfer federally-developed technology into the private sector.
- The agreement includes conducting a study of technology transfer best practices and sharing the findings with the tech transfer community.
- The study's results will be shared at the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer's national meeting.
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Spacewalkers Exit Station for Science and Robotics Work
- Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducted a spacewalk to install an experiment package and new electrical connector patch panels.
- They also relocated a control panel for the European robotic arm attached to the Nauka module.
- Ovchinin and Vagner wore Orlan spacesuits with red and blue stripes respectively.
- This was the 272nd spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.
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Happy holidays from space!
- New images and gifts from outer space continue the tradition of holiday celebrations in space. Mars looks as if it has a light dusting of snow in images taken by the European Space Agency’s High Resolution Stereo Camera. The contrasting layers of ice and dust are clearly visible, characteristic of the seasonal martian ice caps. Alternating dark and light-colored layers trace out the distinctive seasonal polar layered deposits formed during regolith deposition, when layers of volatile ices freeze with varying amounts of dust trapped within.
- NASA released a recent image of star cluster NGC 602, which shows what looks like a festive wreath with twinkling lights. The image combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with a previously released image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
- NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched on December 21, 1968 and astronauts William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell became the first humans to spend Christmas in space, orbiting the moon 10 times over 20 hours and sending a famous Christmas broadcast.
- NASA Astronauts Sunita Williams and Don Pettit and the crew aboard the ISS received festive supplies and gifts from a SpaceX Dragon capsule for the holidays.
- Last year, galaxy cluster MACS0416 was identified as the Christmas tree galaxy cluster, following imaging from the Hubble and JWST observatories. MACS0416 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters that will eventually combine to form an even bigger cluster.
- The image of NGC 2264 combines Chandra data with optical data captured by astrophotographer Michael Clow using his telescope in Arizona last year. NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old.
- The contrasting layers of ice and dust on Mars are characteristic of the seasonal martian ice caps. Alternating dark and light-colored layers are clearly visible, tracing out the distinctive seasonal polar layered deposits formed during regolith deposition.
- Galaxy cluster MACS0416, known as the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster, shines in the image created by the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST that combines visible and infrared light.
- MACS0416 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters that will eventually combine to form an even bigger cluster. The image was created by combining infrared observations from the JWST with visible-light data from Hubble.
- NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched on December 21, 1968, and astronauts William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell became the first humans to spend Christmas in space, orbiting the moon 10 times over 20 hours and sending a famous Christmas broadcast.
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Starlink Introduces First Nationwide Satellite Texting Service in New Zealand
- Starlink, SpaceX’s ambitious satellite internet project, has launched its first nationwide satellite texting service in New Zealand.
- The service leverages Starlink’s low-Earth orbit satellite constellation to establish a connection directly between devices and satellites.
- New Zealand serves as a pilot market, but Starlink plans to expand satellite texting services to other countries in the near future.
- Starlink’s satellite texting service is likely to set a precedent for similar initiatives worldwide.
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Get in the Know: Does Sound Define Space?
- Can sound define space? Co-hosts Faraz Shah and Ella Hazard explore the relationship between music and design in their podcast, Sense of Space. They discuss the parallels between creating music and architectural design, emphasizing the goal of crafting an experience for others. They also highlight the use of pattern, repetition, and moments of surprise in both music and interior design. The podcast delves into the concept of tempo and pace in relation to architectural circulation. Overall, the episode prompts listeners to pay closer attention to the role of sound in shaping our spatial experiences.
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K2 Space will fly its extra-large satellite for the first time in 2026
- K2 Space plans to fly its extra-large satellite for the first time in 2026.
- The startup is banking on the assumption that launch costs will continue to drop as heavy-lift vehicles like SpaceX's Starship become operational.
- The satellite mission, called Gravitas, will carry Department of Defence payloads under a $60 million contract.
- K2 Space is focused on creating large spacecraft at a low cost with lead times of less than three months.
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Cosmonauts Prepare for Science and Robotics Spacewalk
- NASA coverage is underway for a spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.
- The spacewalk will involve installing an experiment package, new electrical connector patch panels, and relocating a control panel for the European robotic arm.
- The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 10:10 a.m. EST and is expected to last about six hours and 45 minutes.
- This will be the second spacewalk for Ovchinin and the first for Vagner.
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Jupiter’s moon Io doesn’t have a shallow ocean of magma
- Jupiter's moon Io, known for its volcanic activity, does not have a magma ocean, according to a recent NASA-supported study.
- Io's volcanic activity is powered by tidal interactions resulting from its eccentric orbit around Jupiter.
- The study suggests that tidal forces do not always lead to global magma oceans on moons or planetary bodies.
- These findings have implications for the study of exoplanets experiencing tidal heating, such as Super-Earths.
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55 Years Ago: Apollo 13, Preparations for the Third Moon Landing
- NASA continued preparations for its planned third Moon landing mission, Apollo 13, then scheduled for launch on March 12, 1970.
- NASA announced the selection of the Fra Mauro region of the Moon as the prime landing site for Apollo 13, favored by geologists because it forms an extensive geologic unit around Mare Imbrium, the largest lava plain on the Moon.
- Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin had returned from their Giantstep Presidential goodwill tour on Nov. 5, 1969.
- For the first time in nearly four weeks, on Dec. 10, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard F. Gordon, and Alan L. Bean stepped out into sunshine and breathed unfiltered air.
- On Dec. 10, 1969, NASA announced the selection of the Fra Mauro region of the Moon as the prime landing site for Apollo 13, located about 110 miles east of the Apollo 12 touchdown point.
- During the first of the two spacewalks, Apollo 13 Moon walkers Lovell and Haise planned to deploy the five ALSEP experiments.
- Apollo 13 astronauts Lovell, Haise, Young, and Duke participated in a geology training field trip between Dec. 17 and 20 on the Big Island of Hawaii.
- Preparations for the fourth Moon landing mission, Apollo 14, continued as well.
- December 18 – The sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, held its world premiere in London, with George Lazenby as Agent 007.
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Does the Sun make noise?
- The sun doesn’t make noise for us because sound needs a medium to carry it and the space between us and the sun is almost a perfect vacuum.
- Given how big and energetic the sun is, it has some elements like vibrations and oscillations within it that are at least sound-like.
- The sun's activity is low-frequency which means it's not perceivable by human ears.
- Clip recordings of oscillations or solar winds by Johns Hopkins and Stanford are not real sounds but sonification recordings of distant phenomena to turn their signals into sound waves so they can be more easily understood by scientists and others.
- Sound is used by humans to make sense of the environment and is used as a learning tool like in the case of data condensing by scientists.
- The sounds of sun spots when turned into sound can be heard as cycles that sound like a heartbeat.
- The sun is roughly 100 times wider than Earth, making it especially active lately, with eruptions distorting GPS, degrading communications, and creating auroras.
- Sonification is like viewing a vivid infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope on a phone screen, its for experiencing a phenomenon not for the human senses.
- Scientists convert data into sound to figure out what's happening and sometimes to recognize patterns that they wouldn't have noticed.
- Like Earth, the sun has its own activity cycle and is presently in the solar maximum, where auroras are seen in many places.
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