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Insta360 X2 Action Cameras Captured This Amazing 360-Degree View of Earth from Space

Insta360 X2 Action Cameras Captured This Amazing 360-Degree View of Earth from Space

Insta360 X2 Action Camera Earth from Space
At the beginning of this year, two Insta360 X2 action cameras were launched into space aboard a solar-powered satellite and both are now orbiting the planet, capturing incredible 360° views of the stars, the Milky Way, and Earth. This is officially the first time ever a 360° action camera has reached outer space.



To make this achievement possible, Insta360 collaborated with Media Storm and SAR satellite company Spacety. It took approximately 12 months to modify the action cameras, including six months of R&D. One important modification was making the casing as well as internals capable of withstanding extreme heat and cold. Since the satellite circles the globe every 90 minutes, temperatures range between -94°F and 122°F (-70°C and 50°C).

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Insta360 is no stranger to attaching its action cameras in unconventional ways. In 2022, falconry expert Paul Kilma mounted Insta360 RS to an eagle for a unique birds-eye view. This year, Karman Space attached Insta360 X3 to their Eclipse weather balloon and sent it 86,000ft (26km) into the stratosphere. This time, it was X2’s turn to venture further into space,” said the company.

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Airbus Detumbler Device Will Keep Decommissioned Satellites from Tumbling, Reduce In-Orbit Space Debris

Airbus Detumbler Device Will Keep Decommissioned Satellites from Tumbling, Reduce In-Orbit Space Debris

Airbus Detumbler Device Satellites
The Airbus Detumbler is an innovative device specially designed to prevent decommissioned satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) from tumbling. It was launched on November 11 and will be tested in space on the Exotrail and EnduroSat mission during early 2024. This magnetic damping device can be securely attached to just about any satellite.


Airbus Detumbler Device Satellites
How does it work? Detumbler boasts a central rotor wheel and magnets that interact with the Earth’s magnetic field. When the satellite is orbiting normally, the rotor acts like a compass following the magnetic field, but should it begin to tumble, the rotor movement induces eddy currents acting like a friction torque, thus damping the motion.

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Airbus Detumbler Device Satellites

The in-orbit demonstration of the Detumbler is scheduled for early 2024 on a mission from Exotrail (SpaceVan) which will include the Exo-0 nanosatellite from EnduroSat. Dedicated detumbling tests will take place to verify the ability of the Detumbler to dampen movement,” said Airbus.

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Rare Look at the NASA Tire Assault Vehicle (TAV) Used to Pop Space Shuttle Tires

Rare Look at the NASA Tire Assault Vehicle (TAV) Used to Pop Space Shuttle Tires

NASA Tire Assault Vehicle TAV Space Shuttle
Photo credit: DutchSpace]
You’ve seen a Bugatti Chiron race a space shuttle, but did you know the CR-990 NASA Tire Assault Vehicle (TAV) is what engineers used to test its tires? It’s based on a remote-controlled 1:16 scale Tamiya Tiger II tank, which included custom-built sides, hull roof, side skirts, and front armor.


NASA Tire Assault Vehicle TAV Space Shuttle
The tank turret was replaced with a small camera situated next to a DeWalt drill motor equipped with a 3/8-inch bit, both of which were connected to a Black and Decker battery. A video signal was then transmitted to a portable black-and-white TV. When all was said and done, the entire rig cost NASA less than $3,000 to build.

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NASA Tire Assault Vehicle TAV Space Shuttle

This is pretty good. I was stationed at Edwards AFB from 1990-1996. I remember doing a test back then. We used our robot and a battery powered MAKITA drill. The understanding was the procedure would relieve the tire of excess pressure after a shuttled landed with hot braking,” said Robert Sims.


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International Space Station Astronauts Share Thanksgiving Message and the Food They’ll Eat

International Space Station Astronauts Share Thanksgiving Message and the Food They’ll Eat

Astronauts Thanksgiving International Space Station
Photo credit: NASA | Mike Hopkins
NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, along with ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, as well as JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa share a Thanksgiving message from the International Space Station.



They also show off Thanksgiving dinner consisting of roast turkey, cranberry sauce, butternut squash, corn, and a cranberry apple dessert. No, this isn’t the hot meal that most are accustomed to, but rather pouches of pre-made food items. Some items in the past that astronauts enjoyed include sweet potatoes, green beans, macaroni & cheese, and jellied cranberry sauce for the roast turkey. If you’re wondering why most of the food is in pouches, the reason is to prevent it from floating away. Most packaging have Velcro strips on them so it can be attached to a table or tray.

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James Webb Space Telescope Observes Milky Way’s Star-Forming Region Sagittarius C with NIRCam

James Webb Space Telescope Observes Milky Way’s Star-Forming Region Sagittarius C with NIRCam

NASA James Webb Space Telescope Sagittarius C NIRCam
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Samuel Crowe (UVA)
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of the Milky Way galaxy like never before. This includes the star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), located approximately 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

In addition to the estimated 500,000 stars in the image, Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) also captured a cluster of protostars, resulting in outflows that glow like a bonfire in the midst of an infrared-dark cloud. Why is this significant? Well, there’s never been any infrared data on this region with the level of resolution and sensitivity that Webb can provide, so astronomers are seeing lots of features here for the first time.

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NASA James Webb Space Telescope Sagittarius C NIRCam

The galactic center is a crowded, tumultuous place. There are turbulent, magnetized gas clouds that are forming stars, which then impact the surrounding gas with their outflowing winds, jets, and radiation. Webb has provided us with a ton of data on this extreme environment, and we are just starting to dig into it,” said Rubén Fedriani, a co-investigator of the project at the Instituto Astrofísica de Andalucía in Spain.


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NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope Discover Most Distant Black Hole Yet

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope Discover Most Distant Black Hole Yet

NASA Chandra James Webb Space Telescope Most Distant Black Hole
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant black hole yet that began its life a mere 470 million years after the big bang. It can be found in a galaxy called UHZ1 in the direction of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, located 3.5 billion light-years from Earth.


NASA Chandra James Webb Space Telescope Most Distant Black Hole
The most recent Webb data revealed the galaxy is much more distant than the cluster, clocking in at 13.2 billion light-years from Earth, when the universe was just 3% of its present age. On the other hand, Chandra detected intense, superheated, X-ray emitting gas in this galaxy after two weeks of observation, a trademark for a growing supermassive black hole. What the teams discover here will help them better understand how supermassive black holes can reach colossal masses soon after the big bang.

We needed Webb to find this remarkably distant galaxy and Chandra to find its supermassive black hole. We also took advantage of a cosmic magnifying glass that boosted the amount of light we detected. This magnifying effect is known as gravitational lensing,” said Akos Bogdan of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA).

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ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Captures First Image, Shows Horsehead Nebula in New Light

ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Captures First Image, Shows Horsehead Nebula in New Light

ESA Euclid Space Telescope First Image Horsehead Nebula
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Euclid Space Telescope on July 1st, and today, it provides us with its first image: the Horsehead Nebula. Located 1,375 light-years from Earth, Horsehead is known for the dark cloud shaped like a horse’s head, part of the constellation Orion.



Unlike other telescopes, Euclid needed only one hour to capture this dazzling image of the Horsehead, showcasing the mission’s ability to quickly observe an unprecedented area of the sky in extreme detail. This new data of the stellar nursery will help scientists locate many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars.

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ESA Euclid Space Telescope First Image Horsehead Nebula

We are particularly interested in this region, because star formation is taking place in very special conditions. Gaia has revealed many new members, but we already see new candidate stars, brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects in this Euclid image, so we hope that Euclid will give us a more complete picture,” said Eduardo Martin Guerrero de Escalante, Legacy Scientist for Euclid of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife.

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What Earth Looks Like from Space, as Captured by Tiny 2mm Coin-Sized Camera Lens

What Earth Looks Like from Space, as Captured by Tiny 2mm Coin-Sized Camera Lens

Earth from Space 2mm Camera Lens Trisat-R CubeSat
Ever wonder what Earth looks like from space, as captured by a nanosatellite? If so, the European Space Agency (ESA) will show you just that, as the image above was snapped by a tiny 2mm coin-sized camera lens on the TRISAT-R CubeSat from Slovenia.


Earth from Space 2mm Camera Lens Tristar-R CubeSat
Earth from Space 2mm Camera Lens Tristar-R CubeSat
The shoebox-sized TRISAT-R CubeSat was made from three standardized 10-cm boxes and marks Slovenia’s second space mission. This nanosatellite flew on Europe’s inaugural Vega-C launch last year to medium-Earth orbit, at 6000 km (3728 mi) up. Its orbital path took it right through the heart of the ionosphere, which is an electrically active layer of Earth’s atmospherem as well as the inner Van Allen radiation belt.

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The resulting picture of Earth is very low resolution as these highly miniaturized cameras were not intended to perform terrestrial imaging, plus TRISAT-R satellite employs magnetorquers for its attitude control, so that precision pointing is difficult to achieve. Our main interest has been in capturing examples of the ‘Black Sun effect’ – commonplace in terrestrial digital imaging, where over-saturation of pixels can cause very bright areas to appear dark. We have succeeded in these investigations, but have also been lucky enough to acquire images like these,” said Dr. Kramberger, Project Manager from the Iztok Kramberger of the University of Maribor.

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NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes Capture Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster

NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes Capture Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster

NASA James Webb Hubble Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster
NASA’s James Webb and Hubble space telescopes used their specialized instruments to capture an expansive, yet festive, image of galaxy cluster known as MACS0416 by combining visible as well as infrared light data. It’s been nicknamed the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster and located approximately 4.3 billion light-years from Earth.


NASA James Webb Hubble Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster
By combining both Webb and Hubble space telescopes, astronomers were able to discover a multitude of galaxies outside the cluster and a sprinkling of sources that vary over time, possibly due to gravitational lensing. What do the colors mean? The bluest galaxies you see relatively nearby, while the redder ones more distant as detected by Webb.

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We’re calling MACS0416 the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster, both because it’s so colorful and because of these flickering lights we find within it. We can see transients everywhere,” said Haojing Yan, lead author of one paper describing the scientific results.

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Work Begins on NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope, Will Map Universe Like Never Before

Work Begins on NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope, Will Map Universe Like Never Before

NASA SPHEREx Space Telescope Map Universe
Work begins on NASA’s SPHEREx (Specto-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope and once completed, it will stand nearly 8.5 feet tall (2.6 meters). Cone-shaped photon shields, which are being assembled in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, give SPHEREx its distinctive shape.



Three nested cones surround SPHEREx’s telescope to protect it from the light as well as heat of the Sun and Earth.To complete two all-sky maps every year, the spacecraft will sweep over every section of the sky, similar to scanning the inside of a globe. A launch is planned for no later than April 2025 and the mission is set to measure the abundance of water ice in interstellar clouds of gas and dust, where new stars are born, to help scientists better understand where the key ingredients necessary for life originated.

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We’re not just concerned with how cold SPHEREx is, but also that its temperature stays the same. If the temperature varies, it could change the sensitivity of the detector, which could translate as a false signal,” said Konstantin Penanen, JPL’s Payload Manager for the mission.

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