Part 2: Eric Lichtblau on "The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men" Cassini–Huygens. Nearly a decade after entering orbit, on April 3, 2014, NASA reported that evidence for a large underground ocean of liquid water on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, had been found by Cassini.
According to scientists, evidence of an underground ocean suggests that Enceladus is one of the most likely places in the Solar System to "host microbial life".[4][5] On June 30, 2014, NASA celebrated ten years of Cassini exploring Saturn and its moons, highlighting the discovery of water activity on Enceladus among other findings.[6] Overview[edit] A summary of Cassini's achievements after a decade in orbit[6] On April 16, 2008, NASA announced a two-year extension of the funding for ground operations of this mission, at which point it was renamed to the Cassini Equinox Mission.[10] This was again extended in February 2010 with the Cassini Solstice Mission. Naming[edit] Objectives[edit] Huygens' explanation for the aspects of Saturn, Systema Saturnium, 1659. Itinerary[edit] History[edit] Instruments[edit] Space Foundation. Eric Schlosser – Introduction. CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN SITS on the eastern slope of Colorado’s Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of Colorado Springs.
From a distance, the mountain appears beautiful and serene, dotted with rocky outcroppings, scrub oak, and ponderosa pine. It looks like the backdrop of an old Hollywood western, just another gorgeous Rocky Mountain vista. And yet Cheyenne Mountain is hardly pristine. One of the nation’s most important military installations lies deep within it, housing units of the North American Aerospace Command, the Air Force Space Command, and the United States Space Command. During the mid-1950s, high-level officials at the Pentagon worried that America’s air defenses had become vulnerable to sabotage and attack. Fifteen hundred people work inside the mountain, maintaining the facility and collecting information from a worldwide network of radars, spy satellites, ground-based sensors, airplanes, and blimps.
What’s behind Colorado’s ascent as a top aerospace state? - Colorado Space Coalition. Darpa’s Giant Folding Spy Satellite Will Dwarf All Other Space Telescopes : WIRED. Ball Aerospace delivers one-of-a-kind cryogenic electronics for NASA's James Webb space telescope. The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. cryogenic flight electronic boxes recently shipped to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems for the James Webb Space Telescope are unlike any previously designed and manufactured.
"Nothing was typical about this innovative solution," said Robert D. Strain, Ball Aerospace president. "To our knowledge, we are the only company that has ever created these kinds of electronics for a space telescope, and we're proud of the ingenuity at Ball that enabled this breakthrough. " Electronics on a spacecraft are usually kept warm, operating over a temperature range from 4°F to 131°F. The Webb electronics are collocated with each of the telescope's 18 hexagonal cold primary mirror segments and therefore must be operated at the same temperature as the primary mirror segments. "We learned through this challenge that trying to unlock the secrets of the Universe can require difficult and amazing engineering on Earth," said Strain. Darpa’s Giant Folding Spy Satellite Will Dwarf All Other Space Telescopes : WIRED.