Wednesday, April 12, 2023: The first ever image of a black hole (on the left) appears much sharper after a machine learning makeover (on the right). Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study), D. – Tereza Pultarova First ever black hole portrait gets an AI makeover Let's hope this guy made it to safety before liftoff. In addition to being shy, pale-throated sloths also are one of the slowest mammal species on Earth. Although Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is considerably less busy than Cape Canaveral, with only three Ariane 5 and two Vega launches conducted in 2022. Notoriously difficult to find, pale-throated sloths seem to prefer quiet areas with little tourism, so it's surprising that one decided to move right into a spaceport. – Tereza Pultarova Space pair's waiting for Starship launchįriday, April 13, 2023: The launch of the European Jupiter mission JUICE from Kourou, French Guiana, had an unexpected spectator on Friday, April 14: a rare pale-throated sloth that seemed to enjoy the sunshine near the Ariane 5 assembly building.Īccording to the website (opens in new tab), pale-throated sloths only live on the northeastern coast of South America in countries such as Venezuela, Guiana, French Guiana, Surinam and northern Brazil. The concept space station could be ready to fly in the early 2030s after the end of life of the International Space Station. In its basic configuration, LOOP features a habitation deck, a science deck and a centrifuge deck, where inhabitants may receive a temporary relief from zero gravity conditions. The habitat is designed for a four-person crew but could be adjusted to accommodate up to eight spacefarers, Airbus said in a statement (opens in new tab).Īt 26-foot-wide (8 meters), LOOP is designed to fit into the fairing of the upcoming generation of superheavy launchers, Airbus said, and thus could be deployed with one launch and habitable immediately after reaching orbit. The multi-purpose orbital module called LOOP features three customisable decks that are connected via a tunnel surrounded by a greenhouse. Tuesday, April 18, 2023: European aerospace giant Airbus has unveiled a new concept space habitat that will be more spacious and comfortable than existing space stations. – Tereza Pultarova Airbus unveils future space habitat concept An additional spacewalk is planned for Thursday (May 4) to deploy the radiator that has been moved to Nauka and connect it to mechanical, electrical and hydraulic lines, NASA said in a statement (opens in new tab). The two will conduct another spacewalk on Tuesday, April 23, to relocate an experimental airlock from Rassvet to Nauka. The Tuesday spacewalk was the fourth for Prokopyev and the second for Petelin. The science module also accidentally fired its thrusters shortly after its arrival and caused the space station to spin around its axis The astronauts used the help of the European robotic arm to move the radiator from Rassvet to Nauka, which notoriously arrived at the orbital outpost in July 2021 after suffering problems with propulsion. Wednesday, April 18, 2023: Russian cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev completed a nearly eight-hour spacewalk on Tuesday, April 19, relocating a radiator between two modules of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
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