We’re back for 2023! This week a look ahead to Foundation S2, Dead Space is the year’s first triple-A sci-fi game, new superpower dramedy Extraordinary, NASA’s James Webb telescope bags its first exoplanet, big new sci-fi out of Asia and cancellation carnage for sci-fi over the holidays.
Submitted by ionscifi on September 27, 2022 - 09:29
NASA's little DART satellite hit its target asteroid 11 million kilometres away. Hooray!
Now begins a process of observation and analysis to measure what impact it had on the asteroid's trajectory and if such a system could be used to defend our planet.
Submitted by ionscifi on September 27, 2022 - 03:49
In a little over five hours at 9:14 AM AEST, a NASA satellite will hit an asteroid. Deliberately.
This is the first mission in their Double Asteroid Redirection TEST (DART) program to assess the viability of a targeted satellite impact to alter an asteroid's path.
Submitted by ionscifi on September 5, 2022 - 07:14
After a recurrence of one of the two problems which saw the first Artemis I launch scrubbed - a hydrodgen leak on an umilical quick disconnect - the second was also scrubbed.
NASA made three attempts to fix the problem during launch but ultimately called it off and ruled out any further launch attempts in early September.
Submitted by ionscifi on September 2, 2022 - 21:03
NASA have scheduled their second launch attempt for the Artemis I rocket with a two hour launch window starting at 2:17 p.m. EDT on September 3, which locally will be 4:17 a.m. on September 4.
An opinion piece has been published on Bloomberg about the new reality of privatised space in light of the situation with American astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station and the Russian space agency's "joke" that they might leave him there.
He correctly describes the situation. Space is now and will increasingly be commercial. But he slips in an extremely dubious assertion.
