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Magnetar SGR 0418 Has One of the Strongest Magnetic Fields in the Universe
TOPICS:AstronomyAstrophysicsEuropean Space AgencyMagnetarNeutron StarUniversity College LondonXMM-Newton
By UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory August 15, 2013
Artist impression of a magnetar with a 'magnetic loop'. This is the interpretation of data collected by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope of the magnetar known as SGR 0418, which boasts one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. In order to maintain such a strong magnetic field, the magnetar must have a twisted internal magnetic field, which manifests itself as a small region on the star's surface, somewhat similar to the localized magnetic fields anchored in sunspots on the Sun. ESA/ATG Medialab
Using ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope, researchers have discovered that magnetar SGR 0418+5729 has one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.
A team of astronomers including two researchers from UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory has made the first ever measurement of the magnetic field at a specific spot on the surface of a magnetar. Magnetars are a type of neutron star, the dense and compact core of a giant star which has blasted away its outer layers in a supernova explosion.
Magnetars have among the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. Until now, only their large scale magnetic field had been measured. However, using a new technique and observations of a magnetar in X-rays, the astronomers have now revealed a strong, localized surface magnetic field on one.
Magnetars are very puzzling neutron stars. Astronomers discovered them through their unusual behavior when observed in X-ray wavelengths, including sudden outbursts of radiation and occasional giant flares. These peculiar features of magnetars are caused by the evolution, dissipation and decay of their super-strong magnetic fields, which are hundreds or thousands of times more intense than those of the more common type of neutron stars, the radio pulsars.
The magnetic field of a magnetar can have a complex structure. The most obvious, and easy-to-measure, component is the large scale external magnetic field, which is shaped (and behaves) much like a regular bar magnet's. This is known as the dipolar field.
The study was carried out on a magnetar called SGR 0418+5729. A few years ago, this star was discovered to have a relatively gentle dipolar magnetic field compared to other magnetars. However, the star was showing the typical flaring and bursting activities seen in other magnetars, leading scientists to suggest that the star's magnetic activity might be caused by a field hidden beneath its surface.
This new study, based on observations from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope, has finally found evidence that SGR 0418+5729 is indeed concealing a very strong magnetic field in its interior.
"This magnetar has a strong magnetic field inside it, but it is hidden beneath the surface. The only way you can detect that is to find a flaw on the surface, where the concealed magnetic field can leak out," says Silvia Zane (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory), one of the co-authors of the study.
Such magnetic leaks would also explain the outbursts and flares of radiation observed from magnetars. The warped magnetic field trapped inside the star builds up stress below the magnetar's surface, occasionally breaking its 'crust' apart and releasing sudden flashes of X-rays.
Magnetars are far too small – only around 20km across – and distant for even the best telescopes to see any details on their surfaces. They appear just as dots of light in astronomers' observations. So the team had to look for indirect signs of variation on SGR 0418+5729's surface. To do this, they measured how the magnetar's X-ray emissions varied as the star rotates.
"SGR 0418+5729 rotates once every 9 seconds. We found that at one point during the rotation, the magnetar's X-ray brightness drops sharply. That means something on or near one part of the surface is absorbing the radiation," adds Roberto Turolla (an honorary professor at MSSL and co-author of the study).
The team believes that a concentration of protons over a small area of the magentar's surface – perhaps as little as a few hundred meters across – is absorbing the X-rays. The protons are confined to a small volume near the surface by a strong, localized magnetic field emerging from the magnetar's interior, giving powerful evidence that a strong and twisted internal magnetic field lurks beneath the surface.
"This exciting discovery also confirms that, in principle, other pulsars with relatively low external magnetic fields might conceal a similar strong magnetic field in the interior. As a result, many pulsars may switch on and become active flaring magnetars for a while, so in the future we may discover much more magnetars than what we previously thought. This call for a major revision of our current ideas of magnetic field formation and amplification in neutron stars," explains Zane.
The study is published in the journal Nature.
XMM-Newton is a flagship of the European Space Agency. Operated by the European Space Agency, the satellite was built and designed by an international consortium which included UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
Publication: Andrea Tiengo, et al., "A variable absorption feature in the X-ray spectrum of a magnetar," Nature 500, 312–314, 2013; doi:10.1038/nature12386
Image: ESA/ATG Medialab
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C. Peter O'Connor | August 15, 2013 at 9:25 am | Reply
Has anyone noticed work such as that depicted in this article has experienced a dramatic upsurge since the deposit of my work on the subject with the World's academia in June 2011?
It's just a great pity that those involved are not endowed with the professionalism to provide me with the credit I deserve for my fundamental contribution.


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In August 1955 the RAND Corporation sponsored a meeting of 17 organizations, all of whom had ordered a IBM 704 scientific and engineering-oriented mainframe computer. RAND aimed to provide a forum for the sharing of information and programs among users (and prospective users) of the IBM 704 to reduce the cost and redundancy of each user developing programs that already existed among other 704 users. "SHARE," as the resulting group was named, became the first computer user group, and grew to a membership of 47 installations within the first nine months.
Membership in SHARE offered access to an IBM-maintained library of 300 computer programs, among other benefits. To facilitate this exchange of software, SHARE members agreed to limit customization of system hardware. Previous attempts to share programs among users of the earlier IBM 701 computer (1953) were hampered due to site-specific customizations that often made programs incompatible between what were technically identical machines. SHARE obliged its members to exercise a cooperative spirit, to help foster a level of standardization and cooperation among members. While members were not bound to follow the group's recommendations, the cooperative atmosphere was largely successful in developing compatible computer installations for the purpose of exchanging software and support. This community involvement is often credited with accelerating the acceptance of IBM's 704 computer into industry.
SHARE, in addition to directing user activity, also provided feedback to IBM to influence hardware and software development and support for the purpose of ensuring that the products and services of the company were best suited for the demands of IBM's user community. SHARE's large size and active community provided the group influence within IBM. SHARE members themselves conducted pioneering developments, including applications and operating systems, such as the SHARE Operating System (SOS) for the IBM 709 computer in 1959.(1)(2)(3)
In 1974 SHARE created a Security Project led by Barry Schrager. This effort led to work within IBM to create the security product known as Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), announced in 1976, as well as Schrager's subsequent efforts to create an independent security product called ACF2 (1978).(4)
Following SHARE's lead, a user group around Remington Rand's UNIVAC formed USE (Univac Scientific Exchange) in December of 1955, along with Burroughs and Bendix user groups in 1956. While SHARE was dedicated to scientific and engineering use of IBM mainframe computers, its business-oriented counterpart, GUIDE, formed one year later.(5)
SHARE remains a resource for enterprise computing specialists, with a membership of over 20,000 individuals from more than 2,000 IBM customers. These customers include FORTUNE 500 companies, academic institutions, municipal, state, and federal government agencies, and industry consultants. SHARE is an independent organization, but maintains close ties with IBM.(6)
CBI has the archival records of SHARE(7), the international offshoot GUIDE(8), as well as user groups from Univac(9) and DEC(10).
1 : Charles J. Bashe, et al., IBM's Early Computers (MIT Press, 1986), 347-349.
2 : Emerson W. Pugh, Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology (MIT Press, 1995), 187-188.
3 : Paul Armer, "SHARE--A Eulogy to Cooperative Effort," 123-127, in Annals of the History of Computing 2 no. 2 (April 1980), 122-129.
4 : e-book http://www.share-sec.com/Data-Security-Download.html
5 : Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing (MIT Press, 1998), 88.
6 : http://www.share.org/p/cm/ld/fid=4
7 : SHARE, Inc. Records, 1955-1994 (CBI 21)
8 : GUIDE International Corporation Records, 1970-1992 (CBI 84)
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10 : Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) Proceedings and Publications, 1962-1992 (CBI 150)
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Alicia Keys Returns With "Keys" Ft. Lil Wayne, Pusha T, Swae Lee, Khalid, Lucky Daye & More
"Keys" arrives as a two-disc feature of over two dozen tracks labeled the Originals or Unlocked versions.
In Spring 2022, Alicia Keys will release her graphic novel, Girl on Fire, and when she wasn't working on its development, she was mapping out her skincare brand, Keys Soulcare. The Grammy winner has managed to balance those two projects with her live shows and home life, but she also found the time to squeeze in her eighth studio album, a double-disc feature titled Keys.
The release follows her 2020 album Alicia and in a recent interview with Marie Claire, the singer spoke about her current approach to music, her life, and her overall career. "I'm reaching a place where I'm much more confidently clear about the power I possess," said Keys. "I've always been strong and determined. I haven't not known my power, but now I'm clearly aware of all of it, as opposed to just pieces of it."
Features on the project include Lil Wayne, Pusha T, Swae Lee, Khalid, Lucky Daye, and Brandi Carlile. Stream Keys and let us know what you think.
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Why a Major Measles Outbreak Could Strike Texas Soon
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"We know that if, for instance, a single kid gets measles, on average up to 20 other kids will get infected."";
From Texas Standard:
Outside of election year politics, few issues generate as much intense outrage – on both sides – as that of mandatory childhood vaccination.
According to the National Institute of Health, public concern about the adverse effects of vaccines has been part of our conversation since the first smallpox inoculation by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796.
But it is difficult to refute the data, which points to a dramatic decrease in mortality and morbidity as a result of routine childhood immunizations, which have accelerated due to laws mandating them since the 1950s. But there were always exceptions for moral, religious or personal reasons. Last year, nearly 45,000 kids in Texas were exempted for non-medical reasons.
That number is growing, which worries experts. Many warn that the state is set to become a major anti-vaccine battlefield. Among them is Dr. Peter Hotez, the Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and a pediatrics professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
"The vaccine rates [in Texas] are as high as most other states overall, but the worry is that there are these intense pockets where children are not being vaccinated," Hotez says. "Some of the private schools in Texas – where half the kids are not being vaccinated. ... And then even in the public school systems, the numbers are approaching 5 percent of kids who are not being vaccinated."
Hotez says a major measles outbreak could strike Texas as soon as winter or spring 2018 – and could affect the Austin area in particular.
"The reason we get concerned about that is because once those exemption rates are going above 5 percent, we can predict that we can start seeing measles outbreaks," Hotez says. "Of all the diseases that we vaccinate against, we worry about measles the most because it's the most highly transmissible of all the infectious agents. We know that if, for instance, a single kid gets measles, on average up to 20 other kids will get infected."
When it comes to the argument for mandatory vaccinations without exceptions, Hotez says he doesn't fully agree. He says there are legitimate medical exemptions. For example, if a child is known to be immunocompromised or undergoing cancer therapy, they cannot receive certain live vaccines.
"But I would absolutely eliminate all the non-medical exemptions," Hotez says. "That is what happened in California. Unfortunately, in California, they waited until there were horrific measles outbreaks. … I wanted to prevent that here in Texas. And that's why I've been out there in this last year, because we are at that point where we are going to start seeing measles epidemics and I am worried that children will be severely neurologically damaged or even die because of measles a consequence of this."
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Західне Каванго () — є однією з 14 адміністративних областей Намібії. Область утворена 8 серпня 2013 шляхом поділу області Окаванго на Західне і Східне Каванго. Площа — 23 166 км². Населення — 107 505 чол. (2011). Адміністративний центр — місто Нкуренкуру.

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На території області Західне Каванго розташований національний парк Мангеттена.

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Названа по імені проживаючої тут народності каванго.

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В адміністративному відношенні область Західне Каванго підрозділяється на 8 виборчих районів.

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Who Will Populate The Earth During The Millennium?
I discovered a well argued article from rapturesolution.com that I believe accurately answers this question and I would encourage you to take a look.
In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones.
In fact, unless the Lord shortens that time of calamity, not a single person will survive. But for the sake of his chosen ones he has shortened those days.
-- Someone survives the tribulation. It is not the pre-trib raptured saints. This must be the elect who were saved during the 7 year apocolypse. I get the types and shadows of the Old Testament, but here God clearly steps into make an exception.


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The NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) is responsible for procurement of launch services for NASA uncrewed missions and  oversight of launch integration and launch preparation activity, providing added quality and mission assurance to meet program objectives. LSP operates under the NASA Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD).

Since 1990, NASA has purchased expendable launch vehicle launch services directly from commercial providers, whenever possible, for its scientific and applications missions. Expendable launch vehicles can accommodate all types of orbit inclinations and altitudes and are ideal vehicles for launching Earth-orbit and interplanetary missions. The Launch Services Program was established at Kennedy Space Center for NASA's acquisition and program management of expendable launch vehicle missions. A NASA/contractor team is in place to meet the mission of the Launch Services Program, which exists to provide leadership, expertise and cost-effective services in the commercial arena to satisfy Agency wide space transportation requirements and maximize the opportunity for mission success.

Primary launch sites are Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) in Florida, and Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California. Other launch locations are NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska.

History

Operations

NASA Launch Services II
The LSP acquires space launch services using the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II Contract. Once a year, launch services contractors can be added to or offloaded from contract. The following contractors are attached to the NLS II Contract.
 Northrop Grumman – Antares
 United Launch Alliance (ULA) – Atlas V
 United Launch Alliance (ULA) – Delta IV Heavy
 SpaceX – Falcon 9
 SpaceX – Falcon Heavy
 Northrop Grumman – Pegasus XL
 Northrop Grumman – Minotaur-C
 United Launch Alliance (ULA) – Vulcan Centaur
 Blue Origin – New Glenn

Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare missions
In January 2022, NASA awarded contracts to 12 launch services contractors to support Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions. The contractors selected are:
 ABL Space Systems of El Segundo, California
 Astra Space Inc. of Alameda, California
 Blue Origin Florida LLC of Merritt Island, Florida
 L2 Solutions LLC of Houston, Texas
 Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Chandler, Arizona
 Phantom Space Corporation of Tucson, Arizona
 Relativity Space Inc. of Long Beach, California
 Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California
 Spaceflight Inc. of Seattle, Washington
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California
 United Launch Alliance LLC of Centennial, Colorado
 Virgin Orbit LLC of Long Beach, California

Partnered with spacecraft customers
The LSP works with U.S. Government spacecraft program offices to define launch requirements for their programs and then engage with launch services contractors to deliver a compatible solution. LSP has relationships with various agencies and organizations:
Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, located at the California Institute of Technology
NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, in California's Silicon Valley
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama
Several U.S. Universities, launching small research satellites (CubeSats)
International partners
Other Government Agencies:
Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

Collaboration with U.S. Space Force
LSP also works with the United States Space Force (USSF), via coordination by the launch services contractors. For launches at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) and Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), the Space Launch Delta 45 and Space Launch Delta 30 commanders, respectively, are the Launch Decision Authority.

For launches from CCSFS, guardians, Space Force civilians and contractors from throughout Space Launch Delta 45 provided vital support, including weather forecasts, launch and range operations, security, safety, medical and public affairs. The wing also provided its vast network of radar, telemetry, and communications instrumentation to facilitate a safe launch on the Eastern Range. Among work done by the Space Force is Mission Flight Control, which ensures public safety during launch.

Operating locations
The LSP management, business office, and engineering teams support from the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center.
The Launch Services Program operates Hangar AE on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It is LSP's Launch Communications Center. For Florida launches, many of the primary LSP engineers on console are in Hangar AE. For launches from California and other launch sites, many of support LSP engineers are on console there. Launch services contractors and spacecraft engineers will often operate out of the Hangar also. It gathers telemetry for rocket launches beyond those worked by LSP.

LSP also maintains resident offices at:
 Vandenberg Space Force Base (California)
 United Launch Alliance (Centennial, CO and Decatur, Alabama)
 Orbital Sciences (Dulles, VA and Chandler, Arizona)
 SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA)

Mission risk posture and launch services selection
NASA has specific policies governing launch services. NASA uses a certification system for rockets launched by its contractors, and for validation purposes it requires the certification process to be "instrumented to provide design verification and flight performance data", with post-flight operations, anomaly resolution process, and a flight margin verification process, with 80% predicted design reliability at 95% confidence.

Additional advisory services
In addition to providing end-to-end launch services, LSP also offers Advisory Services. This "is a consulting service to government and commercial organizations, providing mission management, overall systems engineering and/or specific discipline expertise; e.g. mission assurance, flight design, systems safety, etc., as requested." By example, the LSP Flight Design team provides general information regarding the launch vehicle performance available via existing NASA contracts. This non-traditional service allows LSP to "expand its customer base and assist these customers in maximizing their mission success by using NASA LSP's unique expertise." The four general categories of advisory services are:
 SMART (Supplemental Mission Advisory and Risk Team)
 Design and Development
 Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
 Independent Review Teams (IRT)
 Spacecraft naming

Upcoming launches
The schedule below includes only Launch Services Program (LSP) primary and advisory missions. The NASA Launch Schedule has the most up to date public schedule of all NASA launches. The NASA Kennedy News Releases will also have updates on LSP launches and mission accomplishments. Additional NASA pages which mention future launch dates are the Launch Services Education Program, NASA Goddard's Explorers Program, and NASA Goddard's Upcoming Planetary Events and Missions.

The ELaNa Launch Schedule has the upcoming schedule of CubeSat missions, which occur on both NASA and non-NASA launches.

Research

Technical subject matter expertise
The Launch Services Program team also performs research relating to launching uncrewed NASA spacecraft. Research and technical analysis topics include:

 Flight Design analysts work on the intended course, or trajectory, of the rocket.
 Telemetry engineers get tracking stations to cover all the mandatory portions of flight. Analysts from many disciplines review this data post-flight.
 Weather Forecasters Balance Experience with Technology
 The Failure Analysis and Materials Evaluation Lab assists the program by examining failures and figuring out what went wrong
 Collision Avoidance (COLA)
 Upper-level Winds on Day-of-Launch; collaborations with groups such as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) and Space Launch Delta 45.
 Slosh Fluid Dynamics

Slosh fluid dynamics experiments

SPHERES-Slosh will be performed on the SPHERES Testbed on the International Space Station. The experiment launched on the Cygnus capsule going to the ISS via Orbital Sciences Corporation Commercial Resupply Services Orb-1 mission on an Antares on 2014.01.09. The Cygnus arrived at the ISS on 2014.01.12 and will spend five weeks unloading the cargo.

The SPHERES-Slosh investigation uses small robotic satellites on the International Space Station to examine how liquids move around inside containers in microgravity. A water bottle's contents slosh around differently in space than on Earth, but the physics of liquid motion in microgravity are not well understood, which affects computer simulations of liquid rocket fuel behavior. LSP leads a team that includes Florida Institute of Technology  and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research is sponsored by the Game Changing Development (GCD) program (within NASA Technology Demonstration Office (TDO)'s Space Technology Mission Directorate).

The experiment is a water tank with cameras and sensors that will be mounted between two SPHERES satellites inside the ISS. During testing, the SPHERES will move to purposely agitate the water and cause the fluid inside to slosh around, like it might in a rocket or spacecraft tank during flight. The data collected will be one of a kind. Three initial tests are expected to happen with the first couple months of launch.

"The current inability to accurately predict fuel and oxidizer behavior can result in unnecessary caution, requiring extra propellant to be added along with additional helium for tank pressurization. A better understanding of fluid slosh could not only decrease this uncertainty, but increase efficiency, reduce costs and allow additional payloads to be launched." Understanding from this experiment could help improve design/operations of rocket tanks and control systems.

NASA's Brandon Marsell, co-principal investigator on the Slosh Project: "Modern computer models try to predict how liquid moves inside a propellant tank. Now that rockets are bigger and are going farther, we need more precise data. Most of the models we have were validated under 1 g conditions on Earth. None have been validated in the surface tension-dominated microgravity environment of space." (via Langley Research Center article)

Slosh is the first project on the ISS to use 3D printed materials for its experiment. NASA's Jacob Roth, project manager on the Slosh Project, on the first science session: "The results from our first checkout run are proving interesting. While not too unexpected, the bubble/liquid interaction behavior appears to be exhibiting a slightly different interaction than current models predict." The team will be altering the tests for the second session based on the preliminary results.

Videos
Space Station Live: Fluid Motion Study Using Mini-Satellites - Reel NASA Interview with LSP's Dr. Paul Schallhorn to explain the experiment
Space to Ground - 1/17/14 - Reel NASA update on ISS includes launch of SPHERES-Slosh

The 2008-2010 slosh related tests on SPHERES were performed with a single SPHERES spacecraft and, in some cases, the addition of a battery pack Velcroed on to the SPHERES spacecraft. These tests were to better understand the physical properties of the SPHERES spacecraft, notably the mass properties, prior adding any tanks to the system. Some of the tests also attempted to excite and then sense slosh within the SPHERES  tank. Florida Tech designed the slosh experiments for Test Sessions 18/20/24/25.

Cryogenic orbital testbed
The Cryogenic Orbital Testbed (CRYOTE) is a collaboration between NASA and commercial companies to develop an orbital testbed that will demonstrate cryogenic fluid management technologies in space environments. "The testbed provides an in-space environment in which the fluid transfer, handling, and storage of liquid hydrogen (LH2) and/or liquid oxygen (LO2) can be demonstrated."

The research is funded by the NASA Innovative Partnership Program (IPP) in the Office of the Chief Technologist. "The partners involved in the development of this system include United Launch Alliance (ULA), Sierra Lobo, Innovative Engineering Solutions (IES), Yetispace, and NASA Glenn Research Center, Kennedy Space Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center."

Outreach

Educational outreach
NASA's Launch Services Program Educational Outreach provides awareness to students, teachers and the public about NASA's exciting spacecraft missions and how the world benefits from them. Distance learning via video conference connects students to LSP experts

The office also coordinates activities and educational booths at events for NASA and the public. The outreach is performed by both members of the LSP Educational Outreach Office and LSP experts throughout the program.

The LSP Educational Outreach Office created the Rocket Science 101 Game. Students can pick a NASA mission, select the right rocket, and build a rocket to send the spacecraft into orbit. There are three different levels for varying ages and it is available for the computer and Apple/Android devices.

CubeSat Launch Initiative and Educational Launch of Nanosatellites

NASA and the Launch Services Program are partnering with several universities to launch small research satellites. These small satellites are called CubeSats. The CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) provides opportunities for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned for upcoming launches. As of February 2015, CSLI has selected 119 spacecraft since 2010.

The Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) program is a part of CSLI. ELaNa manifests the CubeSats selected by CSLI onto upcoming rocket launches. CubeSats were first included on the launch of LSP missions in 2011. ELaNa missions are not manifested exclusively on LSP missions; they have been a part of NRO/military launches and ELaNa V will be on an International Space Station resupply launch. ELaNa mission numbers are based on the order they are manifested; due to the nature of launching, the actual launch order differs from the mission numbers.

In 2014, as a part of the White House Maker Initiative, CSLI announced its intention to launch 50 small satellites from 50 states within five years. As of July 2014, there were 21 "rookie states" that had not previously been selected by the CSLI

In October 2015, NASA's LSP, with funding partnered by Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, "awarded multiple Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) contracts to provide small satellites (SmallSats) -- also called CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites -- access to low-Earth orbit." Three companies received $4–7 million firm fixed-price contracts. The intention of the VCLS contracts is to provide alternatives to the current rideshare-type approach for launch of small satellites.

Community Involvement
STEM teams are sponsored and mentored by NASA's Launch Services Program.

FIRST Robotics: Team 1592 - Bionic Tigers
FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1592 (the Bionic Tigers) is out of Cocoa High School (CHS) and Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy. The founding mentors of the team were Analex contractors working for LSP; the team has had NASA LSP engineering mentors ever since 2006.

Merritt Island High School StangSat
Merritt Island High School, in partnership with California Polytechnic State University, has a team building a CubeSat as part of Kennedy Space Center's Creating Understanding and Broadening Education through Satellite (CUBES) pilot project. The team's StangSat was accepted by the CubeSat Launch Initiative and launched 25 June 2019 as part of ELaNa XV, via the Space Test Program, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

The satellite, named StangSat after the school's Mustang mascot, will collect data on the amount of shock and vibration experienced by payloads while in orbit.,

On June 15, 2013, the team launched an engineering unit of StangSat on the Prospector-18 rocket; the suborbital flight took off from the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in California's Mojave Desert. The other satellites on board were Rocket University Broad Initiatives CubeSat, or RUBICS-1 (KSC); PhoneSat (ARC); and CP-9 (CalPoly). Though the parachute deployed early, resulting in a hard landing, all four satellites were able to collect usable data.

The team will be only the second high school to launch a satellite into orbit, after Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology's TJ3Sat in November 2013 (another ELaNa mission).

Social media
NASA's Launch Services Program maintains social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter. NASA Kennedy Space Center social media accounts frequently post news involving LSP activities.

NASA has compiled a page will all its flagship social media accounts across many different platforms. The spacecraft section of this page has accounts for many of the spacecraft launched by NASA LSP.

NASA Public Affairs posts pictures and videos of NASA LSP spacecraft and rockets as they go through processing and launch.

A launch blog is also stood up for each launch campaign and is always updated on launch day by Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs.

Since NASA Socials were started in 2009, NASA LSP has participated in many for the launch of its missions: Juno, GRAIL, NPP, MSL, KSC 50th/MSL Landing, RBSP, MAVEN and more. NASA Socials allow social media followers to receive VIP access to NASA facilities and speakers. The participants post about their experiences with NASA, performing outreach to their networks. NASA LSP has provided speakers for these events, along with tour guides and other support. NASA Socials were formerly known as Tweetups.

NASA has created many apps, some of which feature NASA LSP and its spacecraft. One popular app is Spacecraft 3D, which features several spacecraft launched by LSP. Developed by JPL, the app allows uses to take 3D tours of many JPL spacecraft using a printed piece of paper and their phone or tablet. Users can rotate and zoom in on the spacecraft, along with deploying movable parts of the spacecraft such as solar arrays, masts, and booms. By deploying and retracting these parts, a user can get a sense of how the spacecraft goes from the launch configuration on top of the rocket to operation configuration when it's collecting scientific data.

See also

 Commercial Spaceflight Federation
 List of Launch Services Program launches
 Spacecraft Assembly and Checkout Building

References

External links
 Kennedy Resource Encyclopedia (includes some of the Technical Capabilities and Services and Facilities associated with LSP)
 SPHERES-Slosh Experiment
 CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI)
 Explorers Program

NASA oversight
NASA programs


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Zoom In! Learning Science with Data
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The world is increasingly data-driven. To thrive in this world, students a new level of data literacy — the ability to solve problems and support arguments using data.
Zoom In! Learning Science with Data is creating curriculum modules that build high school students' skills in using authentic data sets as they explore core topics in biology and earth science. Developed by Education Development Center (EDC) and supported by the National Science Foundation.
Each Zoom In blended learning module is a 3-4 day, standards-aligned science inquiry, with digital supports for students as they read and analyze data to answer a scientific question, debate their interpretations, and take notes and write a culminating argument, supported by evidence.
EARTH SCIENCE MODULES
Climate: How is Climate Really Changing?
Using the NOAA dataset on Global & US annual temperature over 120 years, students identify long-term trends in their home state, across the US, and globally, then forecast future temperatures. Students will be asked to rebut a false claim about climate change using evidence, in a writing task. (NGSS core idea: ESS3.D Global Climate Change)
Plate Tectonics: What South American city is at greatest risk of a major earthquake?
Using the USGS dataset on Significant Earthquakes in South America, 1820-2018, students analyze historical data on earthquakes, infrastructure, and population in six countries to determine the region of highest risk. Students will write a memo to the mayor of the city they think is at greatest risk from a major earthquake, and cite evidence to support their claim. (NGSS core idea: ESS2.B Plate Tectonics and Lg-scale system interactions)
Exoplanets: Where will we find the next Earth?
Using the NASA dataset, Exoplanet Archive, Kepler Objects of interest, students analyze data to identify the three most promising "Earth-like" planets discovered by NASA's Kepler Telescope. Students will recommend to NASA which exoplanet is the best choice for further exploration in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth, using data as evidence to support their claim. (NGSS core idea: ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System)
BIOLOGY MODULES
Evolution: Skyros Wall Lizards — What are the Ecological Causes for Gigantism?
Using the Skyros, Greece Lizard Dataset from the Digital Data Repository Dryad, students analyze anatomical and behavioral data for Skyros Wall Lizards to determine the selective pressures that contribute size differences between island and mainland lizard populations in Skyros, Greece. Students make a claim about the extent to which predation, food availability, or both promote gigantism in the Skyros wall lizards, using data to support their claim, in a writing task. (NGSS core idea: LS4.C: Adaptation)
Trophic Cascades: What Happened When Wolves Were Reintroduced to Yellowstone?
Using rearcher-developed datasets with population counts of wolves, elks, bears, berries and aspen trees from the Digital Data Repository Dryad, students analyze data to determine how the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone Park affected other animals and plants in the ecosystem. Students explain how the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone affected the elk population, and other animals or plants in the ecosystem, citing data to support their arguments in a writing task. (NGSS core idea: LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning and Resilience)
Polymorphism: What Makes Some Mammals Molt?
Using researcher-gathered data on geographical and seasonal variation in coloration of rabbits, hares and weasels (Scott Mills, Ph.D., Univ of Montana), students Investigate environmental factors that may affect the color change in certain mammal species. Students identify the polymorphic species they think may adapt to climate change, and which will need human protection, citing data to support their arguments in a writing task. (NGSS core ideas: HS-LS2-6 to 8 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics HS-LS3-1 & 2 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits)
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, grant # 1621289. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


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Double it up
8:10 pm : Thursday, 27 December 2018 | christmas, music
In 1983 the Electric Light Orchestra released their album Secret Messages. Originally conceived as a eighteen-track double album, it was ultimately slimmed down to a single volume with a miserly ten tracks - or eleven if you bought the cassette or CD. This was allegedly due to the economic situation of the time. It was a fate that befell the band Squeeze too - their 1981 album East Side Story would have been a double, but wound up being a single album. Thank you Margaret Thatcher.
Only 35 years later do we finally get to taste the double album, on vinyl too. Never mind all this compact disc nonsense. Downloads? Now you are just taking the mick!
Seventeen tracks are present. OK, so one of the originally planned songs is absent from this release. Side two of the album was supposed to feature this horridly fawning number that was embarrassingly titled Beatles Forever. It's absence leaves that side of the album four minutes shorter than the others, but that's all very well. Believe me, it was a dreadful song. Lennon was shot in 1980, and in 1981 ELO paid tribute to him by incorporating a Lennon medley into their live set. Come 1982, it was no surprise that Jeff Lynne would take it upon himself to write a song about the band that ultimately gave ELO their sound. The song was shelved, and years later he would come to work with the three remaining Beatles. Is it any surprise that he grew to dislike that song? It is drearily slow, it essentially just name-checks various Beatles songs, and tells us how he wish he could write a song like they did. Ho-hum.
Nevertheless, it is most satisfying to see the long-awaited release of the song Hello My Old Friend - Jeff's tribute to his home town of Birmingham. Sad canals with green-black water, skinny dogs and beer crates - this song has it all. A near eight minute masterpiece which was criminally cut from the 1983 original. Jeff poured his all into this song - the most intriguing drum machine pattern of all time, early 70s Moog synth, full string section, kiddies singing Frère Jacques - you could not want for more! And it took a whole 35 years for it to finally reach the general pubic... er, public.
The best flipping Christmas present I have ever received.


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Home › Articles › "Lost in Thought" and "The Dig": Let the Cult of the Amateur Arise!
"Lost in Thought" and "The Dig": Let the Cult of the Amateur Arise!
Andrew Petiprin
We need more amateurs.
In her new book Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life, Zena Hitz, a practicing Catholic and Tutor in the great books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, makes the case for the life of the mind for everyone. Hitz has a PhD from Princeton, but she tells us that the intellectual life requires no degree at all. "It is a source of dignity," Hitz argues, and Lost in Thought is a universal call to braininess.
Passion both for discovery and service, born out of intellectual inquiry detached from mere academic success, is a rarity these days. With our world fracturing into an unfortunate binary of elites and everyone else, we need more ordinary people to advise, explain, explore, and most of all lead, primarily because they love what they do, not because they want (or need) to show off their expensive educations.
As psychologist Julia Shaw wrote in a 2017 article called "The Real Reason We Don't Trust Experts Anymore":
When experts talk, they often fill the air with complicated words and unintelligible acronyms. Experts seem to want non-experts to rise to their level of sophistication, rather than approaching non-experts with appropriate language.
Contrast that with intellectually alive amateurs, whose vocation is to translate lofty ideas into understandable language because their love for transcendent things is too exciting not to share.
I was in the middle of reading Hitz's excellent book when I watched the new movie The Dig, now streaming on Netflix, which offers a wholesome, almost sacred, portrait of English amateurism of bygone days. Directed by Simon Stone and based on the true story of the excavation of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, in the late 1930s, The Dig stars Ralph Fiennes as the autodidact Basil Brown, hired by the aristocratic Edith Pretty, played by Carey Mulligan, to dig up the mysterious burial mounds on her property. Brown describes himself as an "excavator," not an archaeologist. He talks like a working man, but he devours mountains of scholarly books in his free time. In this way, Brown's character reminds me of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, eighteenth-century amateur astronomers whom Hitz profiles in Lost in Thought. About the Herschel siblings and others, Hitz notes, "Anyone tempted to doubt the incomprehensible depth and vastness that the intellect opens to us might spend some time looking at the work of amateur students of nature."
Basil Brown's dig uncovers a once-in-a-generation archaeological find—an unprecedented Anglo-Saxon trove beneath the mounds, including an entire intact warship. Professional scholars from Oxford, Cambridge, and London swiftly push Brown aside and take over the excavation. Despite his hurt, Brown remains with the project, and in several key moments, his love for his subject proves a more valuable commodity to the team than the experts' credentials. It is no accident a man who left school at age twelve is able to find what eminent scholars have ignored for centuries.
Mrs. Pretty continues to rely on Brown both professionally and personally, as she worries about her health and her young son's future. Despite Brown's coarse accent and lack of formal education, he possesses deep wisdom guided by unwavering principles. He is trustworthy, because he has been formed in virtue by an intellectual life pursued for its own sake. As Hitz writes, "The inwardness of the mind at leisure unlocks the dignity that is so often denied or diminished by social life and social circumstances."
Brown is absorbed in the depth of his work, often sitting alone in his room, pacing about, reading, smoking his pipe, or looking at the stars through his telescope while the pros are relaxing at the pub. He is always thinking, and always preparing. In Lost in Thought, Hitz offers several similar examples of very ordinary people's success being undergirded by an intellectual formation of intense, private thinking. Albert Einstein's time in the patent office and Malcolm X's time in prison are two such examples; but the best one by far is Hitz's exposition of the story of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Hitz notes that our Lady was not chosen because she was ignorant of what she was getting herself into. Rather, as the Church Fathers believed, "Mary was learned in the Hebrew scriptures; she had studied the law and meditated daily on the prophets." Mary said yes to God because she was intellectually prepared for everything God asked of her, even though no one in the world would have thought so.
The Dig is not a perfect film. Fiennes is superb, as expected. The extremely versatile Lily James is always wonderful to see on screen, but her character's story of anguish in her young marriage almost hijacks the plot at the end. There is an accompanying "woke" element, which is subtle but annoying because it feels forced and distracts from the whole. Additionally, a photographer friend of mine observed that the beautiful English landscapes may not have been captured on film as well as they could have been. But The Dig succeeds by shining the spotlight on the intellectual life in the character of Mr. Brown, and by reminding us, through Mrs. Pretty, that there are people in the world willing to see beyond worldly qualifications.
Zena Hitz concludes Lost in Thought,
Anyone seeking a good human life benefits from learning in all of its breadth and depth. Nor need one work in a university or attend one to cultivate the virtue of seriousness. Zeal for the fundamentals in life is fueled by aspiration, by imagining forms of human life that we wish to inhabit or become.
The real Basil Brown was not recognized for his achievements in his lifetime, but the artifacts he helped unearth are now prized possessions in the British Museum. Because of this great amateur and intellectual, any person of any class or education level can better imagine the culture of medieval Britain. Better still, anyone can imagine for himself a life of reading, studying, contemplating, and discovering—the foundation of a Christian life.
With Lost in Thought and The Dig, may a renewal of the intellectual life and the cult of the amateur begin.
Basil Brown
Intellectual formation
Andrew Petiprin is Fellow of Popular Culture at the Word on Fire Institute. He is an author and former Anglican cleric who came into full communion with the Catholic Church on January 1, 2019. He earned an M.Div. from Yale University and an M.Phil from Oxford University.
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The liquidators appointed are Kerry Bailey and Trevor Birch from PKF, and they will have a statutory obligation to investigate the conduct of the company's directors in the period running up to the insolvency.
D&D went into administration on April 20, leaving unsecured creditors with total debts of almost £10.5 million, according to the creditors' report.
The list of creditors includes Bodegas Muriel, owed £4.05 million in total: £2.8 million through the Muriel brand and a further £1.25 million through its Eguia brand. French wine group AdVini is listed as being owed £1.28 million and La Gioiosa £772,000.
Administrators failed to find a buyer for the business, and were continuing to sell off stock. But best estimates by administrators leave it with a £6.5 million hole in funding for creditors.
Prior to its collapse, D&D had been working with invoice discounting firm Centric since a management buyout occurred in January 2011.
For more breaking news on D&D, check back on harpers.co.uk next week, and see our July 13 issue.