 | | Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version | | | |   | | (NASA) | Happy Friday, Space fans! It's been an eventful night in space, or rather, on the road to get to space, at least. NASA's Artemis 2 rocket was transported from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, to Launch Complex-39B overnight, completing its journey around 10 a.m. EDT. Now safely at the pad, NASA will begin systems checks and preparations to launch the rocket with a crew of astronauts around the moon as soon as April 1. Read our story to learn more. | |  | | (Rocket Lab) | An Electron rocket topped with one of Synspective's Earth-observation Strix satellites is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Friday at 2:10 p.m. EDT (1810 GMT; 7:10 a.m. on March 21 local New Zealand time), on a mission called "Eight Days a Week." | | | Space Quiz: How wide are the treads on NASA's crawler-transporter 2 vehicle that rolls the Artemis rocket to the launchpad? | | |   | | (Starry Night) | Happy Spring! Today at 10:46 a.m. EDT, the vernal equinox occurs, when spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Everywhere on Earth has 12 hours of day and night, and the sun crosses the celestial equator while in the constellation Pisces. About 30-40 minutes after sunset, scan the western horizon for a now 5%-illuminated waxing crescent moon, then look below for a brilliant Venus that glows low in the west as the Evening Star, slowly reclaiming the dusk sky after its superior conjunction in January. | | |  | | (ESA - P. Carril, 2013) | Scientists are breathing a sigh of relief. A satellite that generates artificial solar eclipses in space has reestablished contact with its handlers after a month of silence. The European Space Agency announced yesterday (March 19) that it has gotten back in touch with the Coronagraph spacecraft, one of the two satellites that make up its Proba-3 mission. The Coronagraph had been silent since mid-February, when an anomaly knocked it offline. | |  | | (NASA) | Two NASA astronauts prepared the ISS for the addition of a new solar array on the first U.S. spacewalk in almost a year. Expedition 74 crewmates Jessica Meir and Chris Williams ventured outside of the space station's Quest airlock for seven hours on Wednesday (March 18) to install a mount for an advanced power-producing solar panel. | | |  | | (NASA/ESA/L. Hustak, J. Olmsted, D. Player and F. Summers (STScI))) | An exoplanet so light that it would float on water, were there an ocean large enough, is continuing to frustrate astronomers by concealing its closest secrets with a layer of haze thicker than any ever seen on a planet before. And no, you can't eat it. | | |  | | (© Dana Jason Wood, NOAA) | Heads up! Several Ohio residents have already claimed to have found chunks of the meteor, including one family from Medina County who found a walnut-sized rock in their driveway. But AMS meteor expert Robert Lunsford adds a note of caution to any hoping to pinpoint fragments of the meteor. | | |  | | (Lego) | Available for purchase on April 1, Lego is releasing a Tintin Moon Rocket set, which is the toy brick manufacturer's first-ever Tintin set, and it will feature 1283 pieces, six minifigures (including Snowy the dog), all in spacesuits and helmets and it will be largely designed for display purposes instead of play. | | |  | | (NASA) | On March 20, 1987, NASA launched an Indonesian communications satellite called Palapa B2-P. It would later become the first satellite owned by the Philippines. Almost 10 years after the satellite launched into orbit, Pasifik Satelit Nusantara - the Indonesian company that owned it - sold it to the Mabuhay Satellite Corporation in the Philippines. The country had been trying to establish its own satellite network for decades. | | | | Stay up-to-date on all things space science, news, and entertainment by subscribing to our newsletters. | |  | | | | | | When you purchase through links in our content, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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