The International Space Station is imaged by the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor during a flyby of the orbiting laboratory on November 8, 2021. Credit: NASA
Preparing for a more powerful space station…
Building a more economical aircraft…
And a way to possibly predict solar flares…
A few of the stories to tell you about – this week at NASA!
Preparing the space station for a more powerful future
On January 20, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to prepare for future upgrades to the station’s power system. The station’s existing power channels are supplemented with new solar arrays.
An artist’s concept of a family of commercial aircraft with a transonic truss wing configuration from the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. Credit: Boeing
NASA, Boeing will build a greener and more economical plane
On January 18, NASA announced a partnership with Boeing to build, test and fly an experimental full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator aircraft aimed at reducing emissions.
“Boeing’s concept is a single-aisle transonic truss-wing aircraft.” — Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator
Learn more about NASA’s work in aeronautics research at nasa.gov/flight.
Two images of a solar active region (NOAA AR 2109) taken by SDO/AIA show extreme ultraviolet light produced by million-degree-hot coronal gas (top images) the day before the region flared up (left) and the day before it remained quiet and did not ignite (right). Luminance changes (bottom images) at these two times show different patterns, with patches of intense variation (black and white areas) before the flare (bottom left) and mostly gray (indicating low variability) before the quiet period (bottom right). Courtesy: NASA/SDO/AIA/Dissauer et al. 2022
Flashes on the Sun can help predict solar flares
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has identified small-scale flares in the sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona, that could help us predict solar flares, which in turn could help us predict the destructive effects of space weather storms here on Earth .
Teams completed welding of the liquid oxygen tank dome on the Artemis III core stage at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker
Welding of the tank dome of the Core Stage Artemis III is complete
Crews at our Michoud Assembly Facility recently completed welding the space launch system, or liquid oxygen tank dome, on the SLS main stage for Artemis III. The liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen tanks contain the propellant used to launch the SLS and the Orion spacecraft into space.
Here’s what’s happening this week @NASA
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