Satellites in orbit are essential to the day-to-day operation of the planet, but they are also the most vulnerable, and not due to human activity. Rather, it is the Sun. As a result of increased solar activity and several geomagnetic disturbances, the Earth's atmosphere is heating up. According to a report on spaceweather.com, solar geomagnetic storms have injected several terawatts of energy into Earth's upper atmosphere, causing the temperature to rise. A geomagnetic storm is a disruption in the Earth's magnetic field brought on by the entrance of charged particles from a CME. When these particles interact with the Earth's magnetic field, they can cause a variety of electromagnetic and electrical disturbances. CMEs, or Coronal Mass Ejections, are immense explosions of plasma and m...

Falcon-9 rockets from Elon Musk's SpaceX will deliver sustenance, experiments, and science to the International Space Station (ISS). On Monday, the 28th commercial resupply mission will launch with over 3000 kilograms of cargo bound for the orbiting laboratory. The CRS-28 mission will launch at 9:17 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station. The mission was scheduled to launch on Sunday, but SpaceX delayed the launch due to strong winds in the recovery area. The 45th meteorological Squadron of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station has predicted a 60% probability of favorable meteorological conditions for launch. WHAT is NASA launching to the International Space Station? The Dragon spacecraft aboard the Fa...

Associative polymers, which have unique self-healing and flow capabilities, may work differently at the molecular level, according to a University of Virginia study. LIHENG CAI, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering and chemical engineering at UVA, led the study and said the new discovery has important implications for the countless ways these materials are used every day, from engineering recyclable plastics to human tissue engineering to controlling paint consistency so it doesn't drip. New associative polymers made by Cai's UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science postdoctoral researcher Shifeng Nian and Ph.D. student Myoeum Kim allowed the finding, which was reported in Physical Review Letters. A theory Cai co-developed before joining UVA in 2018 led t...

It has been suggested that the three areas receive about 18.5 billion rupees combined. The yearly development program includes a number of different agricultural research and cybersecurity initiatives, one of which being the Hemp Authority project from the time of the PTI. The authorities want to produce smart cards, mobile SIMs, and chips domestically in an effort to lower the country's import cost and preserve national data. At the same time, the budget recommendations contain agricultural research and cybersecurity initiatives, including the Hemp Authority that was established during the time of the PTI. The projected allocation for information technology, agricultural, and space research in the next budget is Rs1 billion greater than it was in the budget for the previous ...

Last year, scientists found that "per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances," or "forever chemicals," might poison rainfall worldwide, making it unsafe for human consumption. A study of previously secret industry records has shown that these chemical manufacturers knew about the hazards but suppressed that knowledge. The investigation examined DuPont and 3M PFA papers. Industry papers demonstrate that PFAS was "highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested" by 1970, forty years before the public health community. "The industry used several strategies that have been shown commonly to tobacco, pharmaceutical, and other industries to influence science and regulation, most notably suppressing unfavorable research and distorting public discourse," the researchers wrote...

The scientists created the "Massive Generator for Plasma Burst Experiments" (Magpie), a pulsed energy generator that can generate 1.8 million amperes in 240 nanoseconds. Imperial College London scientists created a revolving plasma disk in the lab to imitate black hole disks. Black holes, too. They cannot radiate because their gravitational force pulls everything that exceeds their outside limits, including light, the fastest stuff in the cosmos. Thus, a human entering a black hole is entirely shut off from this world since whatever light, radio signal, or scream he sends to us bounce back into it. Because of this, current telescopic photographs show a black hole as a black ball encircled by bright rings of matter beyond its bounds. The mass surrounding the black hole may f...

Japanese scientists intend to launch a wooden satellite in 2024. Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese logging giant, tested a high-durability wood aboard the ISS to explore if terrestrial materials might survive orbital life.The Independent said that their testing indicated minimal wood degradation and high strength. After Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata returned the wood samples from the International Space Station, they were tested for strength and crystal structure. After 10 months in orbit, Kyoto University found no cracking, warping, peeling, or surface damage in the samples. Scientists found no mass change in the recovered wood samples before or after space exposure. The worldwide research group expects Magnolia wood, or "Hoonoki" in Japanese, to be ut...

NASA astronauts on the International Space Station are preparing for a June 9 spacewalk to install new solar arrays while performing health and scientific experiments. The solar array-carrying SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle may be delayed by weather at Kennedy Space Center. A cargo-laden U.S. resupply ship is counting down before takeoff to restock orbiting outpost occupants. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg will install one of two roll-out solar panels on the space station's starboard-side truss structure on June 9. In the Quest airlock, the pair configured spacesuits and spacewalk gear on Friday morning. Hoburg checked his EMU with NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio in the afternoon. The International Space Station's Expedition 69 ended the week with spaces...

The European Space Agency (ESA) commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express spacecraft on Friday by displaying images sent by the spacecraft approximately every 50 seconds. Given the relative positions of Earth and Mars yesterday, it took approximately 17 minutes for signals from the spacecraft to reach our planet. This meant that the live broadcast that occurred on Friday stretched the definition of the term "live" somewhat. Nonetheless, this is the first time that near-instant images from Mars have been shown to the public. The European Space Agency broadcast the first Mars "live" transmission. "Oh, here it is! This is the first image from Mars, and it's the closest you'll ever get to the red planet unless you voyage there yourself. "This is Mars 16 minutes ag...