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Filtering by Tag: NASA
It was a thrill to join The Project on the desk to share the news of NASA’s DART Mission making history as they successfully intercepted an asteroid demonstrating that we can deflect a potential Earth-colliding one in future through an impact with a spacecraft.
Read MoreAn insane week of astronomy meant that I was able to explain the latest astrophysics discoveries to over a million viewers with The Project - but from the desk! This is a big deal, and my nerves knew it! The live studio audience really helps ramp up the energy too..!
Read MoreFun chat in my regular space segment on ABC Breakfast News about the astoundingly ambitious Juno mission to Jupiter, seriously it's still wondrously madly insane to try this orbit but NASA managed. Here's my thoughts in ABC The Drum. I then got to show off a beautiful new image by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula and finally a triple star system found by ESO that has a planet around it (and which doesn't experience night for hundreds of years at a time).
Read MoreFun chat on the ABC Breakfast TV couch describing the latest in 3D printing tech - on board the International Space Station! It allows astronauts to print off any spares as needed, including a new tool designed by a high school student! I also chatted about Saturn's flawless rings seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to have a blemish by a nearby moon's gravity and CSIRO's upgrading of the largest telescope on Earth, China's FAST.
Read MoreThis is quite frankly an astounding feat of engineering but NASA's MMS mission has flown through a magnetic reconnection event - this is where titanic eruptions from the Sun slam into Earth's protective magnetic field and it snaps, releasing energy which we see as an aurora (at best, at worst it destroys our electricity grids!)
One of the most challenging computational puzzles and these observations will be key to understanding this physics. It's also the same physics that limits us in perfecting nuclear fusion power on Earth so something we can all hope is solved and soon!
Read MoreI was able to spend some time on the astoundingly ambitious Breakthrough Starshot mission to Alpha Centauri (which I've written about in Cosmos Magazine and theconversation). A private enterprise initiative that will see some incredible technologies pursued to try and reach a star within a human lifetime. Then onto a critical tech development as NASA technology to get CO2 from the Martian atmosphere finds its way into craft beer... Finally a little shout out for the ESO observation of the Fornax cluster.
Read More2016 is shaping up to be an incredible year for space exploration with ESA’s ExoMars spacecraft heading to Mars, NASA’s Juno mission reaching Jupiter on 4th July and an entirely new type of telescope called LIGO looking out into the universe for Einstein’s final prediction Gravitational Waves..!
Read MoreI explained to Channel 10 that NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has seen the solar wind from the Sun strip Mars of 100g of atmosphere a second (that’s a quarter pounder burger of air). During solar storms this can increase 10x-15x as much meaning that the younger and more active Sun was easily capable of stripping Mars of it’s atmosphere. This turned Mars from a world of oceans 4bn years ago into the desolate desert it is today. It also highlights the importance of our magnetic field on Earth which protects us from a similar fate!
Read MoreNASA has undertaken a year long isolation experiment with 6 volunteers living in a dome no more than 11m wide and 6m to practice psychological survival techniques for the voyage to Mars. Unbelievably one of the volunteers brought a ukulele along to learn. They're first out of the airlock I'm guessing.
Read MoreNASA has an outrageously cool new spacecraft concept for landing ever larger cargo loads onto Mars. And yes it looks like a flying saucer.
Read MoreNASA launched a new spacecraft DSCOVR to monitor the Sun and warn us of impending, potentially highly damaging, solar outbursts known as Coronal Mass Ejections.
Read MoreNASA is getting back into the crewed spaceflight game and although I am huge fan of SpaceX and reckon it will be the default choice for Low Earth Orbit we still need the NASA genius to get us to Mars.
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