Last week NASA announced that they would begin working with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a joint program to model sonic booms — a key technology in the effort to create a viable supersonic commercial aircraft in the 2030-2035 time frame (you have to start somewhere). A vast collection of NASA archival images, video and audio collections were made available to the public this past week. The new portal, located here, stores more than 140,000 digitized high-resolution NASA photographs, audio and film clips. There’s a stream of the audio available, but I’ll be on the phone, so if you’ve got any burning questions you want asked, Tweet @alexismadrigal, AIM: gatobarb, or post a comment. Audit’s Steve McIntyre, who told NASA about it on Saturday, August 4. Hansen and company made the corrections and thanked McIntyre on Tuesday, August 7. On the page where the data is publicly available, McIntyre is now credited for pointing out the error. Even with the brief lapse in its star camera, the orbiter collected vital data on X-rays, gamma rays, and charged particles using its High-Energy Neutron Detector. Using PSLV-C37, ISRO set a global record in 2017 by launching 104 satellites in one go.

The most famous space mission in human history marked the first time that human beings had set foot on another celestial body. By any measuring stick, the American space program, kick-started by a tiny Russian satellite in 1957, stands as both a towering scientific success and a triumph of the human spirit. It will be the first human object to reach interstellar space. 12,500-pound UARS satellite won’t know where the dead spacecraft will crash until around two hours before it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The XMPP Office Hours are presentations by the community on XMPP related topics. NASA researchers are on a quest to take the boom out of sonic booms, a development that could lead to a new generation of supersonic aircraft and perhaps even usher in a new era of supersonic passenger flight. Once NASA has crunched all the data, the next step is modifying a jet to make its sonic boom more of a sonic rumble. Soon, the lander won’t make enough energy to run its heaters and will freeze in the sub-120 degrees Celsius temperatures, ending its operative life.

To make it even more juicy, no less august a figure than NASA’s own James Hansen, the godfather of global warming science, was implicated in the foul-up. NASA’s recent declaration that water ice is present on Mars holds out the hope that some form of life did, or does, exist. Ambitious goals to launch manned missions to the moon and Mars are cutting into funds for other, critical scientific goals. Saturn and Mars will be bright in the western sky and the 2 day old moon will be setting just over an hour and a half after the sun so if you have keen eyes you should be able catch all three along side all the fireworks! Being able to rest your arms on your lap or chair is such a given on Earth, I can’t imagine having to use up energy to keep your arms at your side. Anyway, NASA wasn’t having this nonsense of being dragged in to back up someone’s climate change denial, and they shut it down quickly, simply responding, “Do not misrepresent NASA. At the very least the agency is going through its most unsettled period of transition since Nixon shot down the Apollo moon missions 35 years ago.

The new name also comes with a new logo that pays homage to the original Apollo 11 logo which has the same Eagle facing the other direction (image after the jump). In January 1967, Gus Grissom, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, was killed along with two crewmates, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, when their Apollo 1 training capsule caught fire during a test at Cape Canaveral. Sure, you could look to one of the excellent Office alternative distributions, like LibreOffice. Learning Microsoft Office gives you transferable skills that you can use anywhere, throughout your career. The City University of New York provides Microsoft Office 365 for Education to students at participating colleges via the Microsoft Office in Education program. The goal of the program is to produce an economically viable, environmentally comparable, quiet hypersonic airplane. The new-age 3D printers produce three-dimensional structures with complex shapes and geometries based on digital files created using CAD software. Microsoft OneDrive is a file hosting service that allows users to sync files and later access them from a web browser or mobile device. Caffe: This library is used when working with deep learning and it allows developers to switch between the GPU and the CPU.