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Note, Paper: Big-arus

Lots in Icarus for 15 Mar (vol. 429), and this is in a mid-month “extra” issue: Lin, S. Wang, X. Chen, N.  Direct solar radiation distribution and driving mechanisms on planetary surfaces – Moon, Mars, Ceres, and Mercury  Article 116402 … Read More »Note, Paper: Big-arus

SPHEREx science, in Science

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The launch of SPHEREX has been pushed back to Tuesday night. For a quick rundown of (one of) the mission’s primary drivers, see this recent article in Science. Of course, the spacecraft and its spectrometer are useful for multiple investigations,… Read More »SPHEREx science, in Science

2025 IEEE Aero Conference

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The annual 2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference for 2025 is going on right now. Montana, all week. It’s one of the big ones on the calendar. The program, if you can bear it: https://www.aeroconf.org/program/schedule Some excerpts of note, in my humble… Read More »2025 IEEE Aero Conference

MORE Small-Bod Jobs

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Wow, the NEOSM mission is staffing up. Again, from Planetary Exploration Newsletter: NEAR-EARTH OBJECT (NEO) SURVEYOR SURVEY SCIENTISTNASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a planned mission (launch: September 2027) with a goal of finding, identifying, and characterizing potentially hazardous asteroids… Read More »MORE Small-Bod Jobs

Small-Bod Jobs

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Courtesy of Planetary Exploration News, two job openings: NEAR- EARTH OBJECT (NEO) SURVEYOR ASSISTANT SURVEY SCIENTISTNASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a planned mission (launch: September 2027) with a goal of finding, identifying, and characterizing potentially hazardous asteroids in our… Read More »Small-Bod Jobs