Orbit

Not past it in a blur, alongside it for months, using nothing that hasn't already flown.

And the US military maneuvering real satellites across three orbital regimes in the first exercise of its kind.

Plus the sky for both hemispheres.

New moon tomorrow afternoon, so tonight is about as dark as September gets, and there's a run of solar storms arriving that could put aurora at both ends of the planet.

He was a southern sky observer before he was a comet man.

Last story, and it's a change of subject entirely.

On Tuesday, US Space Command announced it had just completed something called Apollo Maneuvers 2026, the first live fly exercise of its kind using real satellites actually moved across three different orbital regimes.

Live fly meaning not a simulation?

Her work as project scientist helped set the standards for NASA's operation of large scientific projects.

Space-based astronomy had begun on a very small scale following World War II, as scientists made use of developments that had taken place in rocket technology.

The first ultraviolet spectrum of the sun was obtained in 1946, and NASA launched the Orbiting Solar Observatory, OSO, to obtain UV, X-ray, and gamma-ray spectra in 1962.

An orbiting solar telescope was launched in 1962 by the United Kingdom as part of the Ariel program, and in 1966, NASA launched the first Orbiting Astronomical Observatory mission.

AOA-1's battery failed after three days, terminating the mission.

It was followed by Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, which carried out ultraviolet observations of stars and galaxies from its launch in 1968 until 1972, well beyond its original planned lifetime of one year.

The OSO and AOA missions demonstrated the important role space-based observations could play in astronomy.

In 1968, NASA developed firm plans for a space-based reflecting telescope with a mirror of 3 meters, or 9.8 feet in diameter, known provisionally as the Large Orbiting Telescope, or Large Space Telescope, LST, with a launch dated for 1979.

Um, So I'm excited to play more of it on Switch 2 and everything.

So that's why I said this weekend is going to be kind of weird because Orbitos is Thursday and then Friday is Onimusha, Way of the Sword.

But I did play that demo.

I did enjoy it.

Lo extraordinario es que Wu-Ohg 64 forma parte de un sistema binario.

Orbita alrededor de una estrella compañera.

Las interacciones binarias podrían estar provocando la transformación.

Cuando dos estrellas masivas orbitan muy cerca la una de la otra, pueden intercambiar material.

Air Combat Command sought air superiority and delivered support to forces on the surface.

Air Mobility Command moved personnel and materiel, including wartime airlift, through Air Mobility Express.

Orbital Defense Command controlled major orbital defense assets.

A signals intelligence organization collected and interpreted emissions that could reveal hostile movement or intentions.

These commands answered different questions.

I know that through your role, you also interact with a lot of startups.

And in fact, there is an accelerator program, Orbital Edge, that actually offers half a International Space Station Flight Access, this program.

You want to talk a little bit about that and are there still opportunities for startups to get involved?

There are.

That was designed around non-dilutive funding.

So we partnered with Boeing Corporation to provide funding for companies that had an interest in taking their aircraft their technology, their products to space.

We expanded that just a little over a year ago to Orbital Edge Accelerator, which is specifically focused on a need to get to space to support it.

And in this construct, we partnered with different venture capitalists who were able and willing and interested in providing funding for space-focused startup companies.