[inaudible conversations] the committee on space will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized tour declare a recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitle the International Space station addressing operational challenges you have the written testimony biographies and truth and testimony disclosure for todays with this is part or recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Good morning welcome to our hearing today and i want to thank our witnesses for taking time to appear before the committee. Since 2013 the program has experienced a number of challenges we have thank committed to identifying challenges to address them and reach our goal and Justin Lehigh commitment. At the iss have had water leaks third three times with one during a spacewalk. April 26 an unmanned russian vehicle damage stave reflector while docking with the. Host team per could generate 14, a false alarm of the ammonia leak caused the crew to retreat into the russian segmen
This virus really doesnt care. The more you have no location the more virus production the wider spread can occur. But occur. But we need to be thinking about in the way of security and why this is different than what it has been prior this is the first time in north america we have had a high pack virus travel teefive wild birds to north america, the first time, and it is because it has adapted itself to these dabbling ducks and is moved across the bering strait. It never happened it never happened before. Low path may be, not high path. So what is different now is we at least have to consider bio security where was fine and well and good for what we were dealing with prior to this we must not consider to me after more importantly the density of farms does facilitate the potential for rapid transmission. We are dealing with a contagious virus. We are dealing with a situation where the ventilation fans that are used to maintain the proper environment of the chickens are turned on. Mate
If we could here in space we would discover that the sun is in fact incredibly noisy. The sun makes sound in its inside yes the connection near the surface excites. Sound waves which youre looking at here is a pattern that we presents the motion inside the sun that are associated with a particular mood. Measuring the frequency of this mood will tell us about the conditions in the sun within this region. Until last year these helio seismic measurements only allowed scientists to evaluate movements in the outermost layers of the sun. But now by analyzing other waves theyve been able to penetrate right to the center this was made possible thanks to data provided by the soho satellite which is part of a joint mission by nasa and the European Space agency the satellite has spent the
past sixteen years measuring the rhythmic oscillations that walked the shape of the sun. Experts were surprised that the suns core rotates faster than its surface as the core grew out of that original rotating g
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ESA has signed a euro 340 million contract with Airbus Defence and Space UK to develop the Vigil satellite. This satellite will improve early warning systems for severe space weather events, such a