Quickly: Space Science Reviews has a Lucy paper, a Lucy mission science procedure paper: Olkin, C. Vincent, M. Adam, C. et al. Mission Design and Concept of Operations for the Lucy Mission vol. 220 art. 47 s11214-024-01082-1 Interesting, except it’s… Read More »Note, Paper: More Lucy, reprise
Yet more picks from the 2024 SPIE telescopes conference (because the full program is just too extremely large): 13092-4 Cubesats for Rapid Infrared and Optical Surveys mission13103-1 Teledyne Digital Imaging’s Recent Contributions to Astronomy and Planetary Science13103-3 SIRIS : a new… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… view too…
Hard to pick, but: some personal faves from the 2024 SPIE astro-specific conference. You can view via the search function of the SPIE site. 16 June 13096-2 Instrumentation at the Subaru Telescope 13096-3 The Paranal instrumentation programme 13092-12 The legacy of SOFIA and… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… view…
The 2024 SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference is big, really big. For lack of days and days of time and effort, my observations: – The era of submillimeter/Terahertz astronomy is coming, or arguably here… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… two
It’s time. The 2024 SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) is holding its even-year telescope conference (this time, Yokohama, Japan): spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/astronomical-telescopes-and-instrumentation Did I say IAU GA was big? SPIE is bigger. The IAU is topical, covering astronomy. SPIE as a… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… whew
The IAU General Assembly is the big meeting. THE meeting. This year, it’s in Cape Town, South Africa. Something as big as “Astronomical Union” might deserve better than a blog post, but here’s one post, to start off with. It’s… Read More »IAUGA 2024- Cape Town
The tech media has gotten hold of this, but I’ll add my own context. The International Planetary Probe Workshop was held this week, hosted by Langley Research Center, in nearby Williamsburg, VA. The press makes much of OSIRIS-REx being an… Read More »IPPW ’24- Planetary Probes
I gave an update on the Vera Rubin Observatory. Undeniably, VRO is (will be…) a game changer. Also noteworthy but less newsworthy: the SPHEREx spacecraft is built: spherex.caltech.edu SPHEREx, for Spectro-PHotometric ices and Epoch of Reionization Explorer, is a NASA… Read More »First Light (Flight) in Sight…
Planetary Science Journal is very new. Yet, it’s highly pertinent to this blog, as the title indicates (truth in advertizing!). This paper in PSJ vol. 5 is, umm, important: Sanchez, J. A. Reddy, V. Thirouin, A. The Population of Small… Read More »Note, Paper: PSJ P. S. N.s
Quite the interesting Planetary and Space Science for July (volume 246): Alvarez, S. R. Sosa Oyarzabal, A. Comet P/2003 T12 (SOHO): A possible fragment o… art. 105902.2024.105902Gramigna E. Lasagni Manghi R. Zannoni M. et al. The Hera Radio Science Experi… art.… Read More »Note, Paper: Plan A