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Rocket Lab s launch of the Electron Rocket at the Mahia Peninsula goes smoothly. The satellite project is being part-funded by the New Zealand Government and run by the non-profit U.S. Environmental Defense Fund, among others. University of Auckland will take over operations from Rocket Lab after about a year, and will host the control centre at its central Auckland campus.
Rocket Lab founder and chief executive Peter Beck said he had suggested the idea of New Zealand’s involvement with the satellite to the Government, after he heard about the proposed mission through international collaborators. Beck said, despite that initial discussion, Rocket Lab had to bid at arm’s-length to develop and operate the mission control. “We suggested [New Zealand’s involvement], but the Government took it from there.”
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IMAGE: Astronomers using NASA s Chandra X-ray Observatory have announced the discovery of an important type of titanium blasting out from the center of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a
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Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This discovery, made with NASA s Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be a major step in pinpointing exactly how some giant stars explode.
This work is based on Chandra observations of the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia A (Cas A), located in our galaxy about 11,000 light-years from Earth. This is one of the youngest known supernova remnants, with an age of about 350 years.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) was established in 1890 as research unit of the Smithsonian Institution concentrating on studies of solar radiance. Sixty-five years later, SAO assumed responsibility for establishing an optical network for tracking the first artificial satellites. From this pioneering effort, the size and scope of SAO grew with the international space program to include major research in virtually all branches of astrophysics, as well as in areas of earth and planetary sciences.
Since 1955, when its headquarters moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, SAO has pursued such research in close collaboration with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and Harvard University Department of Astronomy. On July 1, 1973, the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard University formalized their collaboration now known as the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) to coordinate the related research activities of the two observatories under a single director. To