Considerable effort goes into the design of space suits and space agencies across the world are always working on improvements to enhance safety and mobility of the designs. NASA is now working with Collins Aerospace to develop their next generation spacesuit for the International Space Station. The new designs are tested extensively and recently‚ the new design was subjected to a ZeroG flight on board a diving aircraft.  Collins Aerospace are an American technology company based in Charlotte in North Carolina. They were selected to develop the new suit as a replacement to the existing garments used by NASA.  The official name of the suits are extravehicular mobility units and they have been worn for over two decades.  Once a prototype for the new suit was developed the project entered its test phase with one of the key elements‚ the microgravity or ZeroG test. To simulate ZeroG aircraft are taken on a parabolic flight. The pilot takes the plane to an altitude of around 24‚000 feet and then pulls up increasing the climb angle to 45 degrees. Reaching an altitude of about 32‚000 feet the plane is then put into a dive where the plane and its occupants experience ZeroG. For those inside‚ they will float around for between 20 and 30 seconds.  The only people who’ll be floating above the floor on January 4th are the astronauts on board the International Space Station. This photo shows onboard the NASA KC-135 that uses a special parabolic pattern to create brief periods of microgravity During this time of simulated weightlessness‚ engineers‚ scientists and students on board can conduct experiments in a space-like environment without having to venture into space. It was during a flight like this that the prototype was tested to ensure it met all system and safety requirements.  Following on from the ZeroG flight test‚ Collins will continue on to the next test by subjecting it to a vacuum within a specialised chamber to simulate the vacuum of outer space. Additional tests will see the suit submerged into NASAs Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory which is a 13m deep pool in Houston. Within this facility further microgravity like conditions will be experienced and it is here that astronauts train for spacewalks before heading out into space.  Hubble Servicing Mission astronaut training in the water of the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston‚ Texas‚ February 2009. Credit and copyright: Michael Soluri. Once its ready for service‚ the suit will further enhance NASA’s extravehicular (activities outside spacecraft) capability while in low Earth orbit. Astronauts will use it to support International Space Station maintenance tasks to ensure its continued operations and development.  Source : Collins Aerospace Tests NASA Space Station Suit in Weightlessness The post Next Generation Spacesuit Gets Tested in Weightlessness appeared first on Universe Today.

Beamed communication in space is almost exclusively tracked by one network – NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) is used to communicate with nearly every spacecraft that has made its way past the Moon. Until recently‚ that has meant exclusively using radio communication‚ which can be extremely slow compared to other forms. But a recent test shows that‚ with some modification‚ DSN’s telescopes can communicate using a much more modern type of technology – space lasers.  To the chagrin of Star Wars fans everywhere‚ space lasers are not yet ubiquitous. But one application in particular has been paving the way for them to become more widely accepted – being used as a communication system. Psyche‚ NASA’s probe currently on its way to visit its namesake in the main asteroid belt‚ is equipped with the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment – in other words‚ it has a space laser. After it launched in October 2023‚ Psyche began communicating with its ground link at Palomar Observatory. But another interlocutor was eavesdropping on the pair’s laser communication. Scott Manley explains to importance of DSN.Credit – Scott Manley YouTube Channel A DSN dish at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex was retrofitted with an optical communication array to become a “hybrid” antenna that can communicate using both radio and optical (i.e.‚ laser) frequencies. And it locked onto Psyche’s test DSOC signal within a month of the spacecraft’s launch.   After establishing the link‚ it downloaded data from the DSOC link at an astonishing 15.63 megabits per second‚ or around 40 times faster than the antenna would have received data if only using its standard radio transceiver. It even downloaded a high-resolution picture of the Psyche team at JPL that they had uploaded to the probe before sending it on its way. To track a relatively faint laser signal from such a far distance‚ the hybrid antenna had to use some new technical tricks‚ including a series of ultra-precise mirrors and cryogenically cooled single-photon detectors made out of nanowire material. The setup mirrored the one specifically designed for the DSOC experimental at Palomar‚ and it worked exactly as expected. Group photo of the JPL team responsible for DSOC that was downloaded by the retrofitted DSN antenna.Credit – NASA / JPL-Caltech It also served as a precursor for more grandiose plans. Engineers plan to scale up the system to a 64-segment mirror reflector rather than the seven segments in the current iteration. DSOC itself is setting communication speed records for being so far away from Earth. It will continue to do so as it continues past the orbit of Mars on its way to its target asteroid. DSN already has 14 operational antennae scattered on three continents‚ and retrofitting these reflectors on them is relatively trivial compared to setting up an entirely new dish network. Doing so might eliminate some of the bottlenecking problems we previously noted had been beginning to affect DSN’s problem. For example‚ the antennas could continue to use radio frequency signals for relatively low data rate tasks‚ such as telemetry monitoring‚ while relying on retrofitted optical communication systems for more data-intensive work‚ such as sending back video or high-resolution images. So far‚ the DSN’s plans for retrofitting‚ or even generally updating‚ are still in the early stages. But this proof of concept demonstration proves that the system of dishes isn’t dead yet‚ even if it is planned to be blasted by space lasers. Learn More:NASA – NASA’s New Experimental Antenna Tracks Deep Space LaserUT – We’re Entering a New Age When Spacecraft Communicate With LasersUT – NASA Tightbeams a Cat Video From 31 Million Kilometers AwayUT – NASA Uses Powerful Transmitters to Talk to Deep Space Spacecraft. Will Other Civilizations Receive Those Signals? Lead Image:Deep Space Station 13 with retrofitted optical reflector in the middle.Credit – NASA / JPL-Caltech The post One of NASA’s Radio Dishes Can Now Track Space Lasers Too appeared first on Universe Today.

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After the sugar rush hangover of sweet sweet Taylor Swift and her boo Travis Kelce celebrating the Chiefs repeat as Super Bowl champs (where was the Biden endorsement?)‚ we must remember that this is an election year‚ where two elderly men are set to engage in rhetorical combat. One of them needs a nanny‚ and the other–well Donald J. Trump has his own issues. In a campaign speech in Conway‚ South Carolina last Saturday‚ Trump told rally goers that he’d withhold protection for NATO members who were “delinquent.” “One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said‚ ‘Well sir‚ if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia‚ will you protect us?’ I said‚ ‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’ He said‚ ‘Yes‚ let’s say that happened.’ No‚ I would not protect you.” Trump then added: “In fact‚ I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.” Source: USA Today Well‚ there’s some problems with that statement‚ and I have questions. First‚ NATO doesn’t work that way. There’s no “dues‚” only a target obligation for nations to try to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense (against Russia!). Russia spends 4.1% of its GDP on its military—that’s a bigger chunk than either the U.S. or China. The Russians intend to spend $160 billion on their military somewhere between 2023 and 2024—they stopped publishing budget numbers in mid-2023. A couple of other things that don’t work the way Trump says (and he was POTUS for four years‚ so he should know). NATO doesn’t really exist without the United States. Russia has nuclear weapons‚ lots and lots of them. The U.S. is the only nation on earth (not even China) that can mount a reasonable deterrent against Russia should a war not go Putin’s way. Russia possesses thousands of low-yield battlefield nukes. If the U.S. wasn’t backstopping NATO as an Article 5 partner‚ very little could stop Putin from exercising nuclear blackmail and hegemony. Also‚ America is the only nation on earth that possesses long-range logistics to project power anywhere in the world‚ and quickly. There is literally no hot spot we can’t reach. Without America‚ NATO is an empty shell. Oh‚ it can fight without us‚ but without America‚ it’s reduced to a one-front-at-a-time army. What would Trump‚ if he wins in November‚ expect Europe to do to protect itself from Russia? Does he really want Poland building nuclear weapons? Is it a good idea to‚ as J. Robert Oppenheimer suggested in 1945‚ to let everyone have nukes? Does Trump think that there will be less of a chance of nuclear war in Europe if all the European states had them? Or does Trump prefer the Russians eating Europe one oblast at a time? The backdrop for this conversation is Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin‚ or rather Carlson’s sitting by while Putin monologues. Many Trump supporters think Putin is sincere‚ and that he loves his country. They are wrong. He doesn’t love it; he doesn’t even like it a little bit. What Putin loves is the USSR‚ and he has made it his life’s mission to recreate the former superpower that created him. For 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union‚ Russia has been at war to reconstruct its former empire. Russia takes a small bite‚ occupying one or more so-called “breakaway” republics. Then‚ using those as a base of operations (and after replacing the local population with loyal Russians)‚ it swallows the whole. Concepts like international laws governing warfare‚ avoiding civilian casualties‚ or not laying complete waste to population centers are cast aside as polite niceties unsuited for Russian warfare. But Russia cannot attack a NATO country‚ as long as the U.S. is standing with NATO. Does Trump really believe that NATO can exist without the United States? Does he really believe that Putin would stop with Ukraine‚ when he can also have the Baltic states‚ and then‚ Poland? Should Trump get in to power and act on his threat‚ to “encourage them to do whatever the hell they want‚” that would essentially mean NATO is dissolved. Once dissolved‚ the ties that bind nations like Turkey to the U.K.‚ or Germany to Estonia will not be restored. Putin could roll right in to Lithuania‚ Latvia‚ and Estonia. He could cut off Poland from the Baltics and Belarus from the Russian stronghold of Kaliningrad. And there would be no Article 5 to stop him. Before even that happens‚ Putin might win (ahead of schedule) a ceasefire or treaty in Ukraine‚ due to the lack of American support that our Congress—specifically Republicans in the House of Representatives—refuse to provide. This would free up an enormous amount of Russian equipment and troops from that front‚ allowing them to deploy elsewhere. Even Poland may not be able to survive a renewed Russian army‚ if NATO was not there to support them. So when Putin speaks his lies about Russian history‚ and the unification of Slavic people under the Russian flag‚ and a large number of American people believe it‚ or at least believe he’s being sincere (a KGB officer is never sincere)‚ that creates an incredibly dangerous situation for Europe. You may not think you care about Europe’s fate‚ but you should. Putin‚ or whoever succeeds him‚ with access to the breadbasket of Ukraine‚ and free navigation in the Black Sea‚ buttressed by friendly relations with Turkey‚ which identifies more with Putin than the West‚ is nothing less than the recreation of the halcyon days of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik glory. And if you think Russian dominance of Europe is a good thing‚ then the ghosts of Harry S. Truman‚ Dwight D. Eisenhower‚ John F. Kennedy‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ Richard M. Nixon‚ Gerald R. Ford‚ and Ronald W. Reagan will haunt your life. (Jimmy Carter still lives or he’d join them.) The consequences of America’s pull-out will be world-altering and terrible. Germany will have to make its own deal. Poland will be threatened. And the nuclear armed resurgent superpower will be a threat to our nation—a threat we spent decades defeating. Thirty years of Russian war tells us exactly what will come. Or you can believe Putin that he loves his country; that Ukraine‚ Lithuania‚ and Poland have no history independent of Russia‚ a historical lie that is easily refuted. You can believe that Europe doesn’t need an American umbrella of protection‚ because everyone should make their own nuclear weapons‚ and that will make the world safer. Or you can‚ like Trump‚ say “do whatever the hell they want.” We may find out exactly how badly that turns out for us. Follow Steve on Twitter @stevengberman. The First TV contributor network is a place for vibrant thought and ideas. Opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of The First or The First TV. We want to foster dialogue‚ create conversation‚ and debate ideas. See something you like or don’t like? Reach out to the author or to us at ideas@thefirsttv.com. 

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