Vice President Kamala Harris, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and dozens of other Capitol Hill lawmakers won't be present for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech Wednesday before a joint meeting of Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Voters across the nation found themselves with a serious decision to make this November, as the Border Czar responsible for allowing 11 million illegal immigrants to enter the country demanded a promotion.

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Characterizing near-Earths asteroids (NEAs) is critical if we hope to eventually stop one from hitting us. But so far, missions to do so have been expensive, which is never good for space exploration. So a team led by Patrick Bambach of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany developed a mission concept that utilizes a relatively inexpensive 6U CubeSat (or, more accurately, two of them) to characterize the interior of NEAs that would cost only a fraction of the price of previous missions.  The mission, known as the Deep Interior Scanning CubeSat mission to a rubble pile near-Earth asteroid, or DISCUS, was initially floated in 2018. Its central architecture involves two separate 6U CubeSats equipped with a powerful radar. They would travel to opposite sides of an NEA and direct a radar to pass through the NEA’s interior. To understand more about the mission architecture, it’s best to look at the type of asteroid best suited to being visited by DISCUS. The authors suggest one about the size of Itokawa, the target of the first Hayabusa mission. It’s about 330 meters in diameter, right in the size range the mission planners were looking for, and is designated as a “rubble pile,” meaning the interior is relatively sparse. Understanding how to stop an asteroid strike is one of DISCUS’s primary mission drivers. Fraser discusses how we can do it. A sparse interior is critical to the mission objectives, as an asteroid’s density can dramatically impact the scientific toolkit needed to characterize it. For DISCUS, the mission team plans a radar antenna known as a half-dipole. This would transmit at a relatively low frequency, which is more likely to pass through larger objects. Additionally, they plan to use a radar technique known as stepped-frequency modulation, which changes the radar’s frequency to allow for the broadest range of characterizations. The opposing spacecraft on the other side of the asteroid would then receive these radar signals, analyze whatever waveform deformations occurred, and correlate that to the materials the radar had to pass through. Calculations show that this technique should enable a resolution of a few tens of meters for the interior of an asteroid about the size of Itokawa. However, they also have to be run through another spectral analysis technique called computed radar tomography. This technique is often used in radiology diagnoses on Earth—the name CT scan comes from—but it can also be used to analyze the interiors of solid objects in the solar system. The radar techniques DISCUS uses are also used on Earth, as described in this video on bistatic radar.Credit – Nicole Bienert YouTube Channel However, the science payload is only one part of the DISCUS package and would ideally only take up 1U of the 6U allotted on each probe. The other five would be taken up by a series of off-the-shelf components, including a propulsion system (2U), communication system (1U), and avionics suite (1U). The dipole antenna and solar panels would deploy outside the standard CubeSat housing, allowing for better power collection and signal strength. One of the most critical selections is the propulsion system, which would enable an acceleration of around 3.2 km/s, allowing DISCUS to match speeds with at least some NEAs. Alternatively, the mission plans to slingshot the craft around the Moon to get a boost of up to 4 km/s and gain access to even more asteroids. A particular asteroid stood out to the team as they developed the mission design in 2018. Asteroid 1993 BX3 came within 18.4 times the distance to the Moon back in 2021 and was traveling at a speed that DISCUS could match, so the mission design team was hoping to have a prototype up and running to allow for a launch to that particular asteroid. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, and there hasn’t been much work on the mission concept since the paperback in 2018. However, more and more missions are targeting NEAs, and CubeSats are becoming increasingly popular. Eventually, a CubeSat mission will visit one of these objects and likely will be based at least partially on some ideas from DISCUS. Learn More:Bambach et al. – DISCUS – The Deep Interior Scanning CubeSat mission to a rubble pile near-Earth asteroidUT – Swarms of Orbiting Sensors Could Map An Asteroid’s SurfaceUT – Swarming Satellites Could Autonomous Characterize an AsteroidUT – Asteroid Samples Were Once Part of a Wetter World Lead Image:This illustration shows the ESA’s Hera spacecraft and its two CubeSats at the binary asteroid Didymos. Image Credit: ESA The post A Pair of CubeSats Using Ground Penetrating Radar Could Map The Interior of Near Earth Asteroids appeared first on Universe Today.

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The two largest rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, agreed Thursday at Beijing to form a unity government together. Twelve smaller Palestinian factions also signed the deal. The summit was hosted and brokered by China, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi present for the talks. “An agreement has been reached on post-Gaza war governance and the establishment of a provisional national reconciliation government,” Wang stated. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, and Mahmoud al-Aloul, the deputy head of Fatah, both took part in the talks. Haniyeh’s presence is especially noteworthy as he was one of those issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in May along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Beijing is not party to the ICC. The unity deal contains four main parts: the creation of a provisional unity government, the establishment of a unified Palestinian leadership before the next legislative election, a free and fair legislative election, and a declaration of unity in the midst of the current conflict.  The agreement is aimed at preserving Palestinian rule in Gaza following the current conflict, precluding any separate deal whereby a single faction would work with Israel.  Hamas and Fatah, though historically rivals, have signed unity agreements in the past at Cairo in 2011 and at Algiers in 2022, though neither agreement was ever implemented. It is unclear what immediate effect the scheme has, or whether it will be implemented. Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz released a statement following the deal saying that “in reality this [joint control of Gaza and the West Bank] won’t happen because Hamas’s rule will be crushed and Abbas will be watching Gaza from afar.” The post Fatah and Hamas Sign China-Brokered ‘Unity Deal’ appeared first on The American Conservative.

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