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From a space shuttle trying to plow into an asteroid (on purpose) to a plummeting rocket helicopter Earth, 2022 offered surreal moments in a space that could have been ripped from the pages of a science fiction film script.
between memorable events were the billionaires’ plans to explore the cosmos and the scientists trying to find answers to complex questions, just to discover deeper mysteries.
Researchers managed to grow plants on lunar soil for the first time, when engineers successfully tested an inflatable heat shield that could land humans on Mars. And scientists determined that a rare interstellar meteor crashed into Earth almost a decade ago.
Here’s a look at 10 times space travel and exploration felt more like a plot from a Hollywood movie than real life.
A NASA spacecraft has successfully pushed into Dimorphos, a small asteroid that orbits a larger rock named Didymos. While this collision looked like something out of the 1998 movie “Armageddon,” the Double Redirection Asteroid test was a demonstration of deflection technology — and the first used for planetary defense.
Many turned on the 26th of September to watch as Dimorphos surface first came into view, the camera shot out Live pictures back. The view ended after the spacecraft collided with an asteroid, but images taken by a space telescope and an Italian satellite provided dramatic photographs.
Targeted mission For the first time, humanity intentionally changed the movement of celestial objects in space. The other side of the boat lunar asteroid orbit for 32 minutes. Neither the Dimorphs nor the Twins pose a threat to Earth, but the double asteroid system was a perfect target for testing deflection technology.
Astronomers have been chasing the radio peak in space since their 2007 discovery; but a mysterious radio burst with a similar pulse pattern earlier this year.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are intense, billion-second-long bursts of radio waves with unknown origins — which only fuels speculation that their cause is more alien than cosmic.
Astronomers think the “pulse signal” came from a galaxy about 1 billion light-years away, but the location and the cause of the rupture is unknown.
Additionally, astronomers also detected a powerful radio laser wave, known as a megamaser, and a giant celestial object spinning a release of energy unlike anything they had seen before.
Speaking of alien objects, astronomers are making a new leap in understanding odd radio circles, or ORCs. No, they are not humanoid goblins from “The Lord of the Rings books, but these fascinating objects have baffled science since their discovery in 2020.
The distance of the circle is so large that each one measures about 1 million light-years across – 16 times larger than our own Milky Way. Astronomers believe that it takes 1 billion years for the circles to reach their maximum size, and that other galaxies have expanded so large in the past.
Astronomers have taken a new photo of the odd radio circles using the South African Observatory’s MeerKAT radio telescope, concluding possible theories that could explain these celestial oddballs.
Black holes are known for misbehaving and tearing apart stars — so astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope were surprised when they saw a black hole nurturing a star at birth.
Their observation reveals a gaseous cord radiating from the black hole at the center of the dwarf galaxy to the stellar nursery where stars are born. The gas stream provided by the black hole is triggered a fireworks show of star birth as it interacted with the clouds, which led to the formation of clusters of stars.
This year, astronomers also captured an image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and Hubble explored the only black hole wandering the Milky Way. And the X-ray signals from black holes turn into eerie sounds we won’t soon forget.
Rocket Lab, a US-based company that launches from New Zealand, seems to be trying to recover its rocket launchers. to have happened to Earth after launch. In 2022, the company made two attempts to develop a helicopter hook attachment. The wild show is all part of the Rocket Lab’s plans to save money by recovering and reusing rocket parts after the satellites have been anchored in space.
The first attempt in May appeared to go as planned when a helicopter suggested a run. But the pilots made the decision to drop part of the rocket due to safety concerns.
On the second attempt, the rocket never came into view, and the pilots confirmed that they could not return to the dry factory. In a tweet, the company reported there was data loss event during rocket reentry.
NASA flew its first virtual assistant on a mission to the moon with the space agency’s historic Artemis 1 flight – version of Amazon’s Alexa.
While not exactly like HAL 9000, the voice of the antagonist’s assistant in “2001: A Space Odyssey” has plenty of sparkle. humorous comparisons.
The Artemis 1 mission was undeveloped, but the NASA command team used a voice assistant named Callisto to light the cabin and control the music during the flight. He had no ability to open or close the doors, according to the record.
I just witnessed the Artemis mission, and NASA is still evaluating how the voice recognition system can be included in future missions.
More Italian mogul Yusaku Maezawa picked up eight passengers who he said would join him on a trip around the moon, powered by SpaceX’s yet-to-be flown Starship spacecraft. The group includes American DJ Steve Aoki and popular space YouTuber Tim Dodd, better known as the Daily Astronaut.
The mission, called Dear Moon, was announced in early 2018 with the intention of flying from 2023. Maezawa initially intended to take a group of artists with him on a six-day trip around the moon but later announced that he had broadened his definition. “artist.” Instead, Maezawa announced in a video last year that he would be open to people from all walks of life, as long as they saw themselves as artists.
Separately, Dennis Tito — who became the first person to make a trip to the International Space Station in the early 2000s — made his own plans for lunar travel with SpaceX.
Chunks of space debris have been found in a field in Australia’s Snowy Mountains, and NASA and the authorities have confirmed that the matter is likely. pieces of hardware from the SpaceX Dragon capsule intended to be sent back to Earth’s atmosphere by spacecraft in May 2021.
It is a common space obstacle to fall to Earth. But it is far less common for objects to wind on earth for most of the space garbage is deposited in the ocean.
Perhaps among the most unique space shuttles in the world, SpinLaunch aims to whisk satellites around in a sealed vacuum chamber. and they will send them into space rather than put them on rockets.
The company began testing a scale-down version of its technology last year, but the project is slated for 2022. SpinLaunch marked its 10th test flight in October.
There is also a science fiction connection. SpinLaunch founder Jonathan Yaney quotes the work of Jules Verne – “Journey to the Center of the Earth” author who died more than 50 years ago before the satellite first traveled to space – as the inspiration for SpinLaunch.
It is not clear whether the company will always enjoy the technology. But in the meantime, this group will be in the New Mexico desert trying to bring art to life.
If not surreal enough watching Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and other celebrities trip to space in a self-propelled, suborbital rocket last year, hearing the rocket explode a little more than a year later over West Texas — albeit on a journey without passengers — was a hiccup moment that the adage “space brought) difficult.” But the capsule of the crew that carried the science projects and other inanimate to be paid on the 12th of September to land successfully.
“The capsule landed safely and impacted the designated hazard area,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in September. Bezos’ Blue Origin has been in limbo ever since and has not returned to flight.
And while Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is still based, neither of the suborbital space tourism spearheading the launch will be conducting routine flights next year.
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