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Westport Observatory @WestportObservatory@vmst.io
· 5mo ago
Don't miss our next free lecture! Join us May 19 at 8pm as MIT aerospace engineer Erik S. Bailey — veteran of multiple NASA Mars landings — takes us on a whirlwind history of robotic planetary landers from 1966 to today. Hear from the engineer who helped make it happen at the Westport Observatory or join live on Zoom & YouTube. Free & open to all! https://was-ct.org/events/erik_bailey_2026/ #WestportObservatory #Mars #NASA #Space #JPL #MarsLanding #Connecticut #Aerospace
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Philip C James @PhilipCJames@mas.to
· 5mo ago
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BTW, a neat tool for viewing the status of the #NASA/#JPL Deep Space Network can be found at https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
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Philip C James @PhilipCJames@mas.to
· 5mo ago
Good Morning, all, just a brief reminder that America is not just Trump and Trump is certainly not America... With a personal peripheral historical dalliance with the domain of space science, I remain in awe of what our species has achieved in beginning the physical exploration of our Cosmos, and America has been a huge part of that effort. The round-trip light travel time to/from Voyager 1 is almost _two_days_ (it's >15,000,000,000 miles from Earth). BZ! #NASA, #JPLhttps://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating - NASA Science
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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating - NASA Science

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the

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