STP94 - All You Need To Know About Solar Sails - With Amber Dubill and Dr Grover Swartzlander
This week we set sail on a mission to find out more about solar sailing. And we’re joined by Amber Dubill and Dr. Grover Swartzlander to find out more as their work has just been awarded a phase 3 grant as part of the Nasa Innovative Advanced Concepts project.
Amber Dubill:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-dubill/
Dr. Grover Swartzlander:
https://twitter.com/GroverSwartzlan
NASA-Supported Solar Sail Could Take Science to New Heights:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-supported-solar-sail-could-take-science-to-new-heights
NIAC:
This Week’s Launches:
Thu 2nd June 2022: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2C: Geely Constellation Group 01:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6964
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Fri 3rd June 2022: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Roscosmos: Soyuz 2.1a: Progress MS-20:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4098
Sat 4th June 2022: Launch Site One: West Texas, USA: Blue Origin: New Shepard: NS-21:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6946
Sun 5th June 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2F/G Shenzhou 14:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4352
Wed 8th June 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Nilesat-301:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/3176
Sun 12th June 2022: FAILED: Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA: Astra: Rocket 3: Tropics Flight 1:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6122
This Week’s Other News:
France becomes 20th nation to sign Artemis Accords for moon exploration:
https://www.space.com/france-signs-artemis-accords-moon-exploration-nasa
NASA just picked these 2 companies to build next-gen spacesuits for the moon, space station:
https://www.space.com/nasa-selects-companies-build-spacesuits-moon-space-station
James Webb Space Telescope will release its 1st science-quality images July 12:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images-july-12
James Webb Space Telescope hit by micrometeoroid just months into flight:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-suffers-micrometeoroid-impacts
NASA to buy 5 more astronaut missions from SpaceX:
https://www.space.com/nasa-buy-five-more-spacex-astronaut-missions
SpaceX's Starship rocket project can continue in South Texas, FAA review finds:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-faa-environmental-review-approval
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has a 'pet rock' along for the ride:
https://www.space.com/mars-perseverance-rover-pet-rock
Image Credits: MacKenzi Martin
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A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is hosted by the National Space Society.
In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 20,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
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Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.
In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
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