NASA’s New Laser Satellite Launched into Orbit

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 141
*NASA’s new laser satellite launched into orbit
The future of space communications has been launched into orbit by NASA. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration together with a joint NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation were launched as part of the U.S. Space Force's Space Test Program 3 mission.
*Hubble back to full operations
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now back up and running after technicians were able to recovered the last of the orbiting observatory’s four primary instruments – the Imaging Spectrograph.
*Russia sends two more space tourists to the ISS
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Japanese space tourists and a Russian Cosmonaut have docked successfully with the International Space Station.
*Space Station antenna destroyed by space debris
Meanwhile, astronauts have finally been allowed to undertake a space walk outside the International Space Station to repair a broken antenna.
*The Science Report
Growing calls for a third booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the wake of the Omicron variant
IBM build the first quantum computer with over a hundred quantum bits or qubits on a chip.
Iran’s actions are causing a nuclear crisis which is destabilizing the entire Middle East
Alex on Tech: global chip shortage
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