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This week, we’ve received some very cool information from Hubble Networks, which turned the primary firm in historical past to attach a Bluetooth chip to a satellite tv for pc. The startup has stayed comparatively low-profile, however with this tech validation they’re seeking to develop — and join presumably billions of Bluetooth-enabled units.
Certainly one of Hubble’s satellites in a terrestrial check chamber. Picture Credit: Hubble Community
Slides and audio from a nonpublic NASA assembly reveal the bold plans the company has for its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Bringing these plans to fruition is essential for personal area firms, together with Rocket Lab, Northrop Grumman and others, and will ease launch pad congestion on each coasts.
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Saturday, November 2, 2019, in Virginia. Picture Credit: NASA / Invoice Ingalls
Over at The New York Occasions, Kenneth Chang recounts how a gaggle of scientists recognized 27,500 newly found asteroids within the photo voltaic system — together with round 100 “near-Earth” asteroids, or those who cross inside Earth’s orbit.
Close to-Earth asteroid, laptop art work. Picture Credit: Science Photograph Library – ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI / Getty Pictures
We’re wanting forward this week… On Monday, Might 6 (in the present day!), Boeing is hoping to make historical past by carrying two NASA astronauts to the Worldwide House Station utilizing its Starliner capsule for the primary time. The mission will take off at 10:34 PM EST.
Godspeed Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams! Godspeed Starliner!
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. Picture Credit: NASA
