Acta Astronautica vol. 220 (Jul 2024) is a good one: Nath, A. Developing algorithms to determine an Asteroid’s physical properties and the succ… p. 62 2024.04.019 Schulc, M. Czakoj, T. Novák, Even et al. Validation of SiO2 neutron cross sections… Read More »Note, Paper: Push it
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
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
JUICE is running, Europa Clipper is built and in checkout for launch this year… and the small-body community is onboard. Space Science Reviews- no lightweights- had been running a “collection” (articles aligned in theme, but not date like in the… Read More »Note, Paper: E-Ticket!
Not well shared: The Vera Rubin camera is in Chile, on-mountain. There was a fair amount of coverage of the LSSTCam’s completion, at Stanford’s SLAC lab, in April. But with little fanfare, the pre-ship review passed, the camera was packed… Read More »First Light in Sight…