Pandemic-driven liquid oxygen shortage threatens ULA, SpaceX launches - Yahoo News Canada

The ongoing reverberations from the COVID-19 pandemic are continuing to make themselves felt in the most unlikely of places: spaceflight. On Friday, NASA took the unexpected step to ground a September satellite launch due to pandemic-related shortages of liquid oxygen (LOX), and there may be more launch delays yet to come.

Demand for oxygen has only risen with the Delta variant, which in many cities pushed hospitalization and ICU admittance rates back to where they were at the start of the pandemic. But oxygen isn’t just used in ventilators. The space industry uses LOX as an oxidizer in rocket propellant, often in combination with other gases like liquid hydrogen. (That’s why there can be so much steam during a launch -- it’s the hydrogen reacting with the oxygen to form water.)

NASA and United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, said the launch date for the Landsat 9 satellite will now take place on September 23.

ULA isn’t the only launch company to potentially be impacted by the LOX shortage. "We're actually going to be impacted this year with the lack of liquid oxygen for launch," SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said last week during a panel at the Space Symposium. “We certainly are going to make sure the hospitals are going to have the oxygen that they need, but for anybody who has liquid oxygen to spare, send me an email.”

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, was more tempered a few days later on Twitter, saying that the LOX shortage “is a risk, but not yet a limiting factor.”

Even beyond the actual supply of oxygen, the gas shortage is also being exacerbated by widespread shipping delays as coronavirus-related disruptions continue to impact the supply chain. ULA CEO Tory Bruno added on Twitter that a contractor who handles nitrogen transportation to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California was diverted to assist with LOX delivery in Florida.

It's not just the space industry that’s feeling the effects of the LOX squeeze: Shortly before NASA announced the launch delay, Orlando, Florida officials sent out a separate notice urging residents to conserve water, as LOX is used to treat the city’s water supply.

“Nationally, the demand for liquid oxygen is extremely high as the priority for its use is to save lives, which is limiting the supply that [Orlando municipal water utility] OUC is receiving,” Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said on Facebook. “There could be impacts to our water quality if we do not immediately reduce the amount of water we need to treat.”

As early as May of last year, the nonprofit Center for Global Development called COVID-19 a “wake-up call” for ensuring an adequate supply of oxygen to hospitals.

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China is looking to build ginormous miles-wide 'megastructures' in space - Daily Mail

China is looking to build ginormous miles-wide 'megastructures' in space including solar power plants, tourism complexes, gas stations and even a facility to mine ASTEROIDS

• The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) directed research
• This included to design new lighter weight materials for launch into Earth orbit
• Other research projects will include robotic systems to build structures in orbit 
• The structures may be decades away, with research happening over five years 

By Ryan Morrison For Mailonline

Published: 14:29 BST, 31 August 2021 | Updated: 16:56 BST, 31 August 2021

China is planning to build miles-wide 'megastructures' in orbit, including solar power plants, tourism complexes, gas stations and even asteroid mining facilities.

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced a new five-year plan, directing researchers to develop technologies and techniques.

The structures will require lightweight materials to allow larger objects to get into orbit with existing rockets. Researchers will also need to adopt technology to allow for in-orbit assembly and control.

The Chinese government said there is an 'urgent need' for megaprojects in space that would require ultra-large spacecraft to keep them in orbit. 

The first project of this type will be a solar power station in high orbit, that will be about a mile wide and 'beam' electricity back to a base station in China to feed into the grid by 2035. Increasing to a megawatt of electricity by 2050.

Other projects could include new massive orbital platforms covering miles of space, dwarfing the International Space Station which is just 350ft across.

China is planning to build miles-wide 'megastructures' in orbit, including solar power plants, tourism complexes, gas stations and even asteroid mining facilities

China is planning to build mile-wide 'megastructures' in orbit, including solar power plants, tourism complexes, gas stations and even asteroid mining facilities. It could also include space stations like the International Space Station, constructed over decades from new modules

China sent its first crew to the Tiangong space station earlier this year. A modular platform that will be built up over the coming years with new additions built on Earth and sent to space

CHINESE SPACE PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT 

Space-based solar power

The Chinese government recently opened a research facility to study space-based solar power.

They plan to build a mile wide solar plant and use microwaves to beam signals back down to the Earth. 

They hope to have a megawatt facility in orbit and operational by 2050.

Space-based 32ft aperture telescope

Various departments of the Chinese government are working on a new 'in-orbit' telescope project. 

It would have a massive 32ft aperture, which is over twice the size of the NASA James Webb space telescope.

Tiangong space station

China launched the first module of its Tiangong space station earlier this year with plans for future expansion.

It is similar, but significantly smaller than the ISS with new modules added gradually over time. 

These megastructures could include space stations like the ISS, which was built up in parts in orbit, with the most recent module added earlier this year.

China already has its own space station travelling above the planet, named Tiangong - first occupied this year.

It plans to gradually expand its size over the coming years, with new research modules and even a telescope.

It is unclear if this will form the basis of a wider base of operations, or if a new facility will be launched in the future.

No specific details have been revealed by the NSFC over the megastructures.

Some, like the space based power plant and giant 32ft aperture telescope, are already in the works, but the new details are about research directions.  

It came in the form of a document published revealing guidelines for researchers on how to access funding.

It directs researchers to focus on making these large-scale projects possible.

Specifically it orders them to focus on developing 'major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources'.

It also wants experts to focus on the 'exploration of the mysteries of the universe, and long-term habitation in orbit'.

The new project isn't designed to actually put these structures in orbit, but rather spend the next half decade minimising the weight of spacecraft and materials.

It will require multiple rocket launches to build something like a mining facility around an asteroid.

However, finding new, lighter weight but durable materials, could reduce the number of trips and make it more cost effective. 

A 2020 study published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that space-based construct was essential to drive space-based technology forward.

'With the rapid development of space technology and the increasing demand for space missions, the traditional spacecraft manufacturing, deployment and launch methods have been unable to meet existing needs,' the report found. 

'In-space assembly (ISA) technologies can effectively adapt to the assembly of large space structures, improve spacecraft performance, and reduce operating costs.'

The Chinese government plans to put a megawatt scale solar power station in orbit and beam the electricity back to Earth for use in the Chinese power grid by 2050

This allows for the creation of 'fixed structures such as space infrastructure, gas stations, space manufacturing facilities, space tourism complexes, and asteroid mining stations spacecraft,' the report added.

But to reach this stage, a number of new technologies need to be developed - not just new materials, but advances in robotics and artificial intelligence.

The proposals for research funding include modelling for orbital dynamics, and simulations for controlling a space-based assembly process.

The Chinese government is expected to release about $2.3 million for five research projects exploring large structures in orbit and how to make them feasible.

The Chinese government have directed researchers to create lighter weight materials that would require fewer launches to build structures in Earth orbit in the future

Other work being developed by China includes a huge telescope project that will be built in space from parts shipped up from the ground, in partnership with the University of Surrey in the UK, rather than on the Earth and sent to orbit whole.

Known as the Ultra-Large Aperture On-Orbit Assembly Project, the current focus is on how to automate intelligent on-orbit assembly.

It will have a 10 metre aperture, more than double the size of the NASA and ESA James Webb Space Telescope's aperture, scheduled to launch later this year.  

The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) is currently building a test facility in Chongqing, that will eventually receive power beamed down from solar power stations in orbit - with small scale tests starting next year. 

Developed by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the Voyager Station could be operational as early as 2027, with the infrastructure built in orbit around the Earth

'As human exploration of space continues to surpass Earth's orbit, the in-space manufacturing and assembly of large space structures are essential for human sustainable exploration,' said Zhihui Xue, a roboticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It isn't just China exploring these concepts, a recent report for the UK government suggested the country invest in its own space-based solar plant, and a number of private developers are working on space station concepts.

Among them is one being developed by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC).

The Voyager Station could be operational as early as 2027, with the infrastructure built in orbit around the Earth rather than on the ground and shipped up.

It will feature a series of pods attached to the outside of the rotating ring and some of these pods could be sold to the likes of NASA and ESA for space research. 

China reveals plans to launch a fleet of mile-long solar panels into space to beam energy back to Earth by 2035 – and says the system could have the same output as a nuclear power station by 2050  

China plans to launch a fleet of mile-long solar panels into space by 2035 and beam the energy back to Earth in a bid to meet its 2060 carbon neutral target. 

Reports suggest that once fully operational by 2050, the space-based solar array will send a similar amount of electricity into the grid as a nuclear power station.

The idea for a space power station was first suggested by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov in 1941 and has been explored by several countries including the UK and US.

Above the Earth there are no clouds and no day or night that could obstruct the sun's ray – making a space solar station a constant zero carbon power source. 

However, the Chinese government appear to be ready to go from exploring the science and technology behind the idea, to putting a system into practice. 

In the city of Chongqing, the Chinese government has broken ground on the new Bishan space solar energy station where it will begin tests by the end of the year, with the hope of having a functioning megawatt solar energy station by 2030. 

It isn't clear how much the full space power station will cost to launch or operate, but it is expected to be operational by 2035 and at capacity by 2050. 

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NASA’s big rocket misses another deadline, now won’t fly until 2022 - Ars Technica

Enlarge / The launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is integrated with the core stage in June.

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Publicly NASA is still holding onto the possibility of a 2021 launch date for the debut flight of its Space Launch System rocket. This week, an agency spokesperson told Ars that "NASA is working toward a launch for the Artemis I mission by the end of this year."

However, a source said the best-case scenario for launching the Artemis 1 mission is spring of next year, with summer the more realistic target for a test flight of the heavy lift rocket and Orion spacecraft. The space agency is already running about two months behind internal targets for testing and integrating the rocket at Kennedy Space Center, and the critical pre-flight tests remain ahead.

NASA's Kathryn Hambleton acknowledged that the space agency has seen schedule slips. "The agency continues to monitor the rise of COVID cases in the Kennedy area, which combined with other factors such as weather and first time operations, is impacting our schedule of operations," she said. "Moving step by step, we are progressing toward launch while keeping our team as safe as possible."

Earlier this summer technicians and engineers in Florida completed stacking the SLS rocket, along with its side boosters. A "mass simulator" for Orion was then placed atop the rocket. At present NASA and its contractors are working on vibration tests of the assembled rocket, with the goal of better understanding the difference between the natural vibrations of the full stack versus those caused by external forces. This information will be fed into flight software.

NASA originally hoped to complete this work in July, but Hambleton confirmed to Ars that this vibration, or "modal" testing, is ongoing in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.

Following this testing, the mass simulator will be removed, and the Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system will be stacked carefully on top of the rocket. This process may take a few weeks. Following this assembly and further tests, the SLS stack will be rolled to Launch Pad 39B for a "wet dress rehearsal," during which the vehicle will be fueled and much of an actual countdown simulated. However, the vehicle's engines will not be fired. A source said this wet-dress test will likely take place in November or December.

Following this test, the vehicle will be rolled back into the Vehicle Assembly Building for final checks and closeouts. Assuming the wet dress rehearsal proceeds nominally and other activities continue on schedule, the SLS rocket could launch next spring. However if there are further delays, or if the wet dress rehearsal identifies new issues, the launch would more likely slip to next summer.

Hambleton said NASA plans to soon offer an update on launch dates. After modal testing and stacking of Orion on top of the rocket, she said the agency will release a projected date for the wet dress rehearsal and the launch of the rocket itself. "As always, we will fly only when we are ready," she said.

Although years late and many billions of dollars over budget, the launch of this rocket will in some ways be a minor miracle. For a large bureaucracy like NASA, completing complex human spaceflight tasks is difficult. And the SLS rocket is complex both technically and politically.

Concerned about job losses after the space shuttle retired, Congress imposed this rocket on the space agency, down to dictating its various components to ensure that space shuttle contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Aerojet Rocketdyne continued to receive substantial space program funding. Each contractor was given a "cost plus" contract that ensured funding but provided little incentive for on-time delivery.

The legislation creating the Space Launch System was passed in October 2010, at which time the rocket was expected to be ready for operations in 2016. One of the key legislators behind the rocket's creation was then Florida-Senator Bill Nelson. He relentlessly fought against the Obama administration's effort to see if private companies, such as United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, could more efficiently build a large rocket for NASA. The space agency and its traditional contractors could do the job better than anyone, he said.

"This rocket is coming in at the cost of what not only what we estimated in the NASA Authorization act, but less,” Nelson said at the time. “The cost of the rocket over a five- to six-year period in the NASA authorization bill was to be no more than $11.5 billion.” Later, he went further, saying, "If we can't do a rocket for $11.5 billion, we ought to close up shop."

More than a decade later, NASA has spent more than $20 billion to reach the launch pad. And Nelson is no longer a US Senator, he is the administrator of the space agency. The shop remains open.

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Russian segment of International Space Station causes concern - Prensa Latina

Moscow, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) The flight director of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, Vladimir Soloviov, considered it worrying that the national module of the ISS is in a state of obsolescence, the local press reported.

Some of the equipment reached the end of its shelf life, Soloviov, who is also the general designer of the main group of Operational Control of the Space and Rocket Energy Corporation told the RIA-Novosti news agency.

He said that around 80 percent of the flight systems in the Russian part of the station are in this situation, 'which means that irreparable failures could occur at any time.'

Soloviov reported on Monday on the detection of cracks in the Zarya cargo module, dating from 1998, while there were air leaks reported on the Zvezda modules several occasions in 2019 and 2021.

The spokesman for the Russian Space Agency (RosCosmos), Vladimir Ustímenko, issued statements to the TASS news agency assuring that the security and functionality situation aboard the ISS is under control.

However, in April, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov declared that the status of the ISS left much to be desired, so Russia would focus on building its own orbital station.

The Rocket and Space Corporation Energia is tasked with ensuring that the first base module for the new Russian orbital station is ready by 2025.

The shelf life of the ISS expires in 2024. Roscosmos assured that the decision on its future would be made based on its actual technical conditions.

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This moon mission is landing in Labrador's Mistastin Lake crater - CBC.ca

A group of scientists and hopeful future astronauts are landing in Labrador this week to learn about minerals and rocks commonly found on the moon — and in one of the planet's most well-preserved craters. 

Gordon Osinski, director of Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, is leading the field team, which includes Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA astronaut Matthew Dominic. 

The Mistastin Lake crater was formed about 30 to 35 million years ago — relatively recently, in astronomical terms, Osinski said.

Its rocks, despite their age, have been heat-preserved by the impact from an asteroid or comet slamming into the Earth.

"They're preserved at Mistastin and they're not in many other parts of the world," Osiniski told CBC Radio's Labrador Morning. 

At Mistastin Lake, an iPad-based app will be used by the researchers to locate outcrops and take field photographs. (Submitted by Jeffrey Renaud)

It takes about three days to get to the crater from London, Ont., the same time it takes to go to the moon, he said. As well, the crater is made up of similar particles: anorthosite. 

"When you look at the moon, you basically see white and dark areas, and those white areas on the moon are also anorthosite," he said. "Here [in Labrador], it's one of the only impact craters in the world that formed in essentially the exact same rock that we also find on the moon."

Anorthosite was first identified when astronauts on the Apollo missions brought back rocks from the moon. Then in the 1970s, Geological Survey of Canada geologists discovered the same rocks in Labrador, proving the crater was formed by meteor impact, not a volcanic eruption, Osinski said. 

Osinski first visited the Mistastin Lake crater in 2009, but this will be his first time there with astronauts. His job is comparable to a space mission for the next two weeks.

The field team will train the astronauts in collecting rocks, using tools and team building. On the research side, Osinski and his students will be studying the destructive and beneficial effects of meteor impacts.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques and Gordon Osinski on a previous field training expedition at West Clearwater Lake impact structure in 2014. (Submitted by Jeffrey Renaud)

Osinski said the tools have highly evolved since the Apollo missions. The team will be using iPads to locate outcrops, take photographs, make sketches and record notes. The team will use drones and lasers to collect aerial photographs and map the area.

"Laser scanning instruments … that could give you a really accurate 3-D model of the outcrops and the rocks that we'll be looking at," Osinski said. 

The team will also be using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to instantly analyze the chemistry of rocks. 

"Typically you would collect a sample, bring it back to your lab and you might get information on the chemistry weeks or even months later," he said. "With this particular instrument, in real time, we might be able to fine tune our hypotheses or select the best samples again to bring back."

Osinski hopes soon a Western University satellite could be launched and instruments could be sent with rovers going to the moon and Mars. He said the ultimate goal is to have astronauts once again walking on the moon and help them from behind the scenes. 

A Google Image arieal shows the full Mistastin Lake Crater. (Google Images)

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Astrophysicist Solves Century-old Mystery of How Planets Reflect Light - News18

In a rare feat, an astrophysicist from the University of Bern, Switzerland, has discovered closed-form solutions – a formula solvable in finite steps – to the century-old problem in astronomy – the relationship between the reflectivity of a planet and its phase curve – the brightness of the planet as a function of the phase angle. The phase angle is the angle between the falling and reflected rays. In the case of observing a planet from Earth, the phase angle is the angle between the sunlight falling on the planet and the reflected light from the planet reaching Earth.

Heng’s solutions uncover the relationship between the light reflected by a solar system planet and the shape of its phase curve that only depends upon the angle of scattering – the angle at which the surface of a solar system body scatters sunlight.

“The ground-breaking aspect of these solutions is that they are valid for any law of reflection, which means they can be used in very general ways,” says Heng, who made the discovery, in a statement. The research, which Heng produced in collaboration with two other scientists, was published on August 30 in Nature Astronomy.

In 1916, an influential American astronomer Henry Norris Russell posed the problem of calculating reflected light from planets in a widely noted paper. According to Russell, the albedo – the percentage of sunlight reflected by a planet -and the phase curves of the planets could tell about their properties. In a paper, Russell also derived the stellar magnitude of the sun, the moon and the planets using their photometric observations. However, he could not find a general solution that could apply to all the bodies equally. In 1981, American lunar astronomer Bruce Hapke came up with an analytic solution to the problem, however, he also could not find a closed-function solution that could simply express the apparent relationship between the albedo and the phase curve, irrespective of the solar system body.

Building on the work of the pioneers, Heng’s solutions will offer a long-awaited resolution and help astronomers efficiently analyse decades of data, helping us know more about planets and their moons by just looking at the sunlight they reflect.

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Research explores the role of cameras in employee fatigue during virtual meetings - News-Medical.net

More than a year after the pandemic resulted in many employees shifting to remote work, virtual meetings have become a familiar part of daily life. Along with that may come "Zoom fatigue" – a feeling of being drained and lacking energy following a day of virtual meetings.

New research conducted by Allison Gabriel, McClelland Professor of Management and Organizations and University Distinguished Scholar in the University of Arizona Eller College of Management, suggests that the camera may be partially to blame.

Gabriel's research, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, looks at the role of cameras in employee fatigue and explores whether these feelings are worse for certain employees.

There's always this assumption that if you have your camera on during meetings, you are going to be more engaged. But there's also a lot of self-presentation pressure associated with being on camera. Having a professional background and looking ready, or keeping children out of the room are among some of the pressures."

Allison Gabriel, McClelland Professor of Management and Organizations and University Distinguished Scholar,  Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

After a four-week experiment involving 103 participants and more than 1,400 observations, Gabriel and her colleagues found that it is indeed more tiring to have your camera on during a virtual meeting.

"When people had cameras on or were told to keep cameras on, they reported more fatigue than their non-camera using counterparts," Gabriel said. "And that fatigue correlated to less voice and less engagement during meetings. So, in reality, those who had cameras on were potentially participating less than those not using cameras. This counters the conventional wisdom that cameras are required to be engaged in virtual meetings."

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Gabriel also found that these effects were stronger for women and for employees newer to the organization, likely due to added self-presentation pressures.

"Employees who tend to be more vulnerable in terms of their social position in the workplace, such as women and newer, less tenured employees, have a heightened feeling of fatigue when they must keep cameras on during meetings," Gabriel said. "Women often feel the pressure to be effortlessly perfect or have a greater likelihood of child care interruptions, and newer employees feel like they must be on camera and participate in order to show productiveness."

Gabriel suggests that expecting employees to turn cameras on during Zoom meetings is not the best way to go. Rather, she says employees should have the autonomy to choose whether or not to use their cameras, and others shouldn't make assumptions about distractedness or productivity if someone chooses to keep the camera off.

"At the end of the day, we want employees to feel autonomous and supported at work in order to be at their best. Having autonomy over using the camera is another step in that direction," Gabriel said.

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Journal reference:

Shockley, K. M., et al. (2021) The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment. Journal of Applied Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/apl0000948.

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Western University’s space dreams taking shape with simulation in Labrador - Global News

Western University‘s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, known as Western Space, will be holding a two-week simulation in northern Labrador at the Mistastin Lake meteorite impact crater.

Western Space director Gordon Osinski is leading the September expedition, which is meant to mirror a mission to the moon.

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Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA astronaut Matthew Dominic will, under Osinski, train in sampling and collecting rocks and practise other skills relevant to future missions to the moon. Cassandra Marion, Canada Aviation and Space Museum science advisor, will act as base camp manager.

Like a trip to the moon, the trip to the impact crater will take about three days of travel, but instead of a spaceship, it will be by commercial flight and then twin otter plane.

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The Mistastin Lake impact crater is also one of just two craters in the world with substantial amounts of the bright white anorthosite, which is uncommon on Earth but makes up the bulk of the lunar highlands, Osinksi said in a release.

The mission will focus on training in new technologies and team-building, with a goal of helping to provide data to help prepare for future lunar missions.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever -- a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats.

SpaceX's latest cargo delivery showed up Monday at the International Space Station after a day in transit. Overseeing the automated docking was NASA astronaut Megan McArthur.

"No one's ever sent me a spaceship for my birthday before. I appreciate it," she radioed after the capsule arrived.

Launched Sunday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the capsule contains lemons, cherry tomatoes, avocados and ice cream for McArthur and her six crewmates, along with a couple tons of research and other gear.

The shipment arrived just a few days ahead of the first of three spacewalks.

Starting Friday, the two Russians on board will perform back-to-back spacewalks to outfit a new laboratory that arrived in July.

Then a Japanese-French spacewalking duo will venture out Sept. 12 to install a bracket for new solar panels due to arrive next year. That NASA-directed spacewalk should have occurred last week, but was postponed after U.S. spacewalker, Mark Vande Hei, suffered a pinched nerve in his neck. Station managers opted to replace him with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever — a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats.

SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up Monday at the International Space Station after a day in transit. Overseeing the automated docking was NASA astronaut Megan McArthur.

”No one’s ever sent me a spaceship for my birthday before. I appreciate it,” she radioed after the capsule arrived.

Launched Sunday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the capsule contains lemons, cherry tomatoes, avocados and ice cream for McArthur and her six crewmates, along with a couple tons of research and other gear.

The shipment arrived just a few days ahead of the first of three spacewalks.

Starting Friday, the two Russians on board will perform back-to-back spacewalks to outfit a new laboratory that arrived in July.

Then a Japanese-French spacewalking duo will venture out Sept. 12 to install a bracket for new solar panels due to arrive next year. That NASA-directed spacewalk should have occurred last week, but was postponed after U.S. spacewalker, Mark Vande Hei, suffered a pinched nerve in his neck. Station managers opted to replace him with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

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Reopening TN schools, colleges to focus on students' mental health - CanIndia News

With schools for higher classes and colleges reopening in Tamil Nadu from September 1, the main focus will be on emotional and mental health of the students as also the teaching and non-teaching staff, say experts

Students have not attended physical classes since a long time, except for two months till the second wave of the pandemic struck earlier this year, leading to the shutting down of educational institutions.

The Tamil Nadu government have already directed the management of schools and colleges as well as teachers and student counsellors to focus mainly on the mental and emotional health of students.

The School Education Department has directed the management to engage the help of acclaimed professional counsellors to look after the mental well-being of students. An online study and survey conducted by the department has found that students were battling emotional disorders including anxiety and depression. Some students were facing panic attacks and displayed aggressive behaviour.

Dr Sujatha Muthuswamy, a child psychologist from National Institute of Mental Health, Bengaluru and presently working at a private hospital in Madurai, told IANS that “school managements must first concentrate on the mental well-being of children. Several students were brought to me by their parents after showing erratic behaviour and I could find that some of them were facing panic attacks and some were facing depression and others anxiety for no reason at all. So concentrating on the mental health of children is more important rather than stressing them to do well in exams.”

Many students, according to counsellors, are panicking about going back to schools and many who turn into adults are facing both the physical and emotional changes of their adolescence.

Talking to IANS, J. Alageshwari, Student Counsellor at Srinikethan group of schools, said: “We know that students will take some time to settle down on campus and we have already started off with sensitising teachers to give time for the students to do so and to ensure that they are into the school routine.”

Several private schools had mechanisms to reach out to students and parents through online. Schools have been directed to conduct regular counselling for teachers and students who report mental health issues including anxiety and depression.

The school managements have also arranged professional mental health counsellors to support the students and teachers if they show anxiety, depression, or aggressive behaviour.

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Astronauts ‘floating pizza party’ on International Space Station leaves netizens stunned; watch video here - Firstpost

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet recently shared a video of fellow astronauts enjoying pizza aboard the spacecraft

Screengrab of the party on the International Space Station. Image courtesy: Instagram

Pizza parties with friends or family have always been the best time either on weekends or special occasions. But have you heard of a ‘floating pizza party’? Yes, such a pizza party did happen.

A group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) came up with a special plan to have a pizza party, which has left social media users fascinated.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet recently shared a video of fellow astronauts enjoying pizza aboard the spacecraft. Pesquet, who is known to post interesting snippets from his stay at ISS, has surprised his followers with a new video this time.

Pesquet captioned the video as a “floating pizza night with friends,” saying that it almost felt like a Saturday on Earth. Adding that a good chef never reveals their secrets, Pesquet said he made the video so viewers could be the judge.

The astronaut ended his caption with a joke, saying the pizza had “everything but pineapple, that would be a serious offence in Italy.”

Watch the video here.

In the 1.24-minute clip, the astronauts can be seen holding the pizza and trying their best in adding various ingredients on top of it. Sadly, all the ingredients including the pizza are seen floating in the air and the astronauts are firmly holding on to them in order to finish making the pizza and eating it.

Surprisingly, the video concludes with all the astronauts having a gala time and enjoying their floating pizzas together.

So far, this clip has collected over 7 lakh views. Soon after being shared on social media, the video caught everyone’s attention leaving social media users scaptivated by its uniqueness.

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SpaceX Takes Remotely Controlled Drug Delivery System to the ISS - Interesting Engineering

The International Space Station (ISS) is a unique laboratory available to mankind. The micro-environment, the extreme conditions, and the demanding requirements of space make it an excellent test field for new ideas and devices. Reaching the ISS laboratory this Monday is a next-generation implantable drug delivery system that can be operated remotely and could be used to treat and even prevent chronic ailments back on Earth. 

The system is one of the many science experiments that were launched on the Commercial Resupply Services 23 (CRS-23), undertaken by SpaceX and NASA. The third mission for SpaceX, under an agreement, where privately operated spacecraft transport cargo and supplies to the ISS, used the Cargo Dragon 2 capsule, and reused a Falcon 9 booster, NASA said in a press release.  

Considered insignificant and irrelevant to human existence just a couple of decades ago, experiments on the ISS are now looked at as a gateway to the science of the future. As colonization of planets comes closer to reality, it is pertinent to know the impact of space travel on humans and also if materials known on Earth retain their properties in different environments. More than 3,000 experiments have been carried out onboard the ISS so far, Nature reported last year. 

Joining the list is the remotely controlled implantable drug delivery system, developed by Professor of Nanomedicine, Alessandro Grattoni, and his team at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. The purpose of the implantable drug delivery systems is to deliver precise quantities of medication only to target delivery sites in the body. While previous iterations have used specialized membranes to do this passively, Grattoni and his team have now developed an active system that can be controlled remotely using an app. 

Faraday Research Facility (FRF), a multi-purpose research facility that is designed to connect with the ISS, houses the system. Inside the FRF are smaller chambers that can hold different experiments in place to be conducted in space. Developed by ProXopS, LLC, the FRF can hold up to 12 research environments in place and can be operated from the ground using the ISS Wi-Fi. 

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Grattoni's trial system consists of sealed containers of saline tubes that will be operated from the ground. If successful, a future flight will use this system to deliver drug doses in rodent subjects, enabling complex drug dose regimens without stressing the subjects, the press release said. Apart from using the system for telemedicine back on Earth, it might also be utilized in astronauts who are on long-duration space missions and for diseases such as hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, and sleep disorders. 

Also on board the FRF is an experiment from the Girl Scouts who have sent ants to see how they colonize in low-gravity environments.

Onboard the cargo that will dock on Monday is a robotic arm from GITAI Japan to the feasibility of using robots to do routine and hazardous tasks in orbit. The technology could also be applied for disaster relief and servicing of nuclear power plants, back on Earth, said a NASA press release.  

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Astronauts on the ISS will also use a device that will attach to their iPad and take images of their retina. This is expected to improve our understanding of Space-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS), seen in two-third of the astronauts, who have spent a month or longer in space. 

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• Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its 23rd shipment for NASA to be delivered to the International Space Centre. The Falcon-9 rocket launched 'Dragon' cargo capsule carrying ants, avocados, cheese, veggies and a robotic arm for NASA's crew in the International Space Centre. SpaceX also achieved its first successful landing of a booster on a drone ship. Watch the full video for more details.

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