16 November 2020
SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS
... of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA. “It is an honor to have our Japanese ...NASA and SpaceX for their tremendous effort to make this happen.” Rubins, Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi will participate in a...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
... astronauts; but we could do much more by extending work currently undertaken on Earth to a microgravity environment. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins sequenced DNA in space for the first time ever for the Biomolecule Sequencer investigation, using Oxford...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... with observatory latitude, as shown in Table 2, but let us take Cerro Pachón, in Chile, as a reference case. The Vera C Rubin Observatory houses the Simonyi Survey Telescope and will carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... telescope fields of view were smaller, the problems were manageable. Now, however, new instruments such as the Rubin Observatory are deliberately widening their fields of view to enable more efficient searches for targets such as near...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... and technology who helped advance our understanding of the Universe around us; Piers Sellers, John Glenn, Vera Rubins, Ann Caracristi and Deborah Jin, again, to name but a few…. The list it seemed was pretty endless...
21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
...) in Pasadena, California. Like one of NASA's other famous rovers – Curiosity – which is currently drilling holes on the Vera Rubin Ridge, InSight has a full-scale working model, aptly named ForeSight, which allows the team to test...
