![]() ![]() The Somali Ministry of Youth and Sports has suspended the chairwoman of the country’s athletics federation after viral footage of an untrained sprinter competing in Chengdu, China, on Tuesday, August 1, circulated online.Footage released by FISU, who run the World University Games, shows the women’s 100 meter sprint.Nasra Abukar Ali, who was part of a delegation chosen to run for Somalia at the games, can be seen lining up at the start of the race.Ali almost immediately falls behind her competitors, disappearing out of the camera’s view. If you are a Space buff and want to watch, check out NASA Television, the Nasa app, or the agency’s website. Live coverage is being held for the mission, which will start at 10.30am EDT on July 1, which is about 3.30pm in the UK, with the launch expected no later than 11.11am (4.11pm UK time). The rocket is aiming to reach the ‘ Lagrange point’ - which is 1.5 million km from Earth. Lift-off will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, USA, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It is hoped the space telescope will create a giant map of the structure of the universe over time, by “observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky”.Įuclid will explore how the universe as a whole, and the galaxies within, have grown over time while looking at the role of gravity, and “the nature of dark energy and dark matter, two of the biggest modern mysteries about the universe,” says the ESA. On the website, ESA says the mission is designed to “explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe”. What is ESA’s Euclid mission?Įuclid is a mission being undertaken by the European Space Agency in conjunction with Nasa, which will see the spacecraft launch.Įuclid has a telescope attached which will allow astronomers to delve deeper into Space than ever before. NASA plans to launch its new deep space laser communication system in 2022.But what is Euclid, where is it going, and what is it looking for? Here is everything we know. Talk about an inventor ahead of his time. "Bell demonstrated it right here in Washington, D.C., between a laboratory that was on the roof of a school just near the White House over to his laboratory that was just a few blocks away," says LGS Innovations' Kelly. ![]() Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor who brought us the telephone, built something called the photophone in the 1880s that transmitted sound using light from the sun. Using light to transmit data and video may be the future of space communications, but it's actually quite an old idea. In other words, about the size of a hobbyist's telescope." "Between 4 to 8 inches," he says, "maybe as large as a foot. "The data rates that we're aiming for this demonstration are 200 gigabits per second, 200 billion bits per second," says Bryan Robinson, associate group leader of the optical communications technology group at the lab.Īnd with a laser in low Earth orbit, you don't need a big telescope to capture the photons. Laser systems can transmit much more data than a radio signal, so they could replace traditional radios on spacecraft.Īt MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, engineers are building a miniature system they're planning to send into low Earth orbit space next year. NASA's not just interested in using laser communication from deep space. If the receiver is running down the field, the quarterback has to throw it to where the receiver is going to be when the ball gets there. This "point ahead" system is like throwing a pass to a receiver in football. You have to point it to where the Earth is going to be when the light signal arrives. "You may receive the signal from the Earth, but you can't just point back at the direction that you got the signal from," says David Israel, principal investigator on NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration mission.īecause by the time your transmission gets to where the Earth is, the Earth has moved out of the beam. Even travelling at the speed of light, a laser beam can take as long as 20 minutes to go from the Earth to Mars. There's one curious problem when pointing a laser from such a great distance. "Keeping pointed in the right direction and receiving a strong signal is going to be a physics challenge for sure," Kelly says. Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centerįrom Mars, Earth appears as a small dot. ![]()
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