This Week’s Top Space Stories!: Times Of Nation

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity performs its 13th flight on the planet, Firefly announces what caused last week’s rocket launch failure and a meteor streaks across southern England. These are some of the top stories this week from Space.com.

Meteor streaks across the southern English sky.

A meteor over Southampton coast (Image credit: Solent Ships)

Last weekend (Sept. 5), the night sky over England’s southern coast was illuminated by a bright meteor. Video footage of the fireball was captured at 10:45 pm local time from the Red Funnel Ferry Terminal in Southampton.

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Full story: Brilliant meteor lights up sky over southern England coast (video)

Inspiration4 all-civilian crew scheduled to fly Sept. 15.

The Inspiration4 crew, from left: Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux.

The Inspiration4 crew, from left: Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux. (Image credit: John Kraus/Inspiration4)

The SpaceX Inspiration4 private mission to Earth orbit is now slated to launch next Wednesday (Sept. 15), one day later than previously scheduled. If all goes according to plan, the mission will launch from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to bring the all-civilian crew into space.

Full story: Launch of SpaceX’s private Inspiration4 mission slips by 24 hours

See also: SpaceX’s Inspiration4 all-civilian spaceflight: When to watch and what to know

Another delay for James Webb Space Telescope’s launch.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was fully assembled for the first time in August 2019.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was fully assembled for the first time in August 2019. (Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)

The team behind the next major space telescope have announced yet another launch delay. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) recently announced that the James Webb Space Telescope will not launch until Dec. 18 at the earliest. The spacecraft’s most recent target launch date was Oct. 31.

Full story: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launch delayed to December

Russian film crew are given medical greenlight to launch to space station.

Actor Yulia Peresild (left), cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center) and director Klim Shipenko (right) are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station on Oct. 5, 2021.

Actor Yulia Peresild (left), cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center) and director Klim Shipenko (right) are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station on Oct. 5, 2021. (Image credit: Roscosmos via Twitter)

Members of a Russian film crew met with the Chief Medical Commission at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow, Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos last week. They were deemed medically fit to launch up to the space station. Film director Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresild are scheduled to launch to the orbiting laboratory on Oct. 5, where they will spend about a week and a half filming portions of a movie called “Challenge.”

Full story: Russian film crew deemed medically fit for Oct. 5 launch to space station

Cosmonauts performed the 50th Russian spacewalk.

Expedition 65 flight engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov work outside of the International Space Station to run data and power cables to the new Russian multipurpose laboratory module

Expedition 65 flight engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov work outside of the International Space Station to run data and power cables to the new Russian multipurpose laboratory module “Nauka” during a spacewalk on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (Image credit: NASA TV)

International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 65 flight engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov recently performed the 50th spacewalk originating from the Russian segment of the station. On Thursday (Sept 9), they stepped into the vacuum of space to begin routing cables for the station’s new Nauka science module. This spacewalk was an extension of work that began during their previous extravehicular activity on Sept. 3.

Full story: Cosmonauts outfit new science module on 50th planned Russian spacewalk outside space station

Ingenuity performs its 13th flight on Mars.

Ingenuity flew for the 13th time on Sept. 4, 2021 on Mars.

Ingenuity flew for the 13th time on Sept. 4, 2021 on Mars. (Image credit: NASA)

On Sept. 4, NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity took to the planet’s skies once more. The tiny chopper has now flown 13 times over the Red Planet’s surface, and during its most recent jaunt, Ingenuity captured images looking southwest of the South Seítah region of Jezero Crater. Ingenuity arrived to Mars on Feb. 18, packed away within the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover.

Full story: Mars helicopter Ingenuity flies low and slow on lucky flight 13

See also: Perseverance rover collects 2nd Mars sample (photos)

The story of megacomet Bernardinelli-Bernstein’s discovery.

An image taken by the Dark Energy Survey shows Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein in October 2017.

An image taken by the Dark Energy Survey shows Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein in October 2017. (Image credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Bernardinelli & G. Bernstein (UPenn)/DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Acknowledgments: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab)/M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)/J. Miller (NSF’s NOIRLab))

The names of two scientists have been immortalized thanks to their remarkable solar-system discovery. Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein have lent their surnames to a megacomet thought to be the largest icy body known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein may be more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) across and was spotted from data collected by a telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile from 2013 to 2019.

Full story: The ‘megacomet’ Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade. Here’s the discovery explained.

Super-precise clock creators awarded the Breakthrough Prize.

The gravitational waves emitted by two black holes as they spiral into each other, shown in a simulation.

The gravitational waves emitted by two black holes as they spiral into each other, shown in a simulation. (Image credit: C. Henze/NASA Ames Research Center)

Physicists Hidetoshi Yatori and Jun Ye won the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on Thursday (Sept. 9), receiving $3 million in the process. They are being awarded for their work in developing a highly-precise clock, called the optical lattice clock, that could allow scientists to study the universe in new ways. This timekeeper is a step beyond atomic clocks.

Full story: Super-precise clock tech wins $3 million physics Breakthrough Prize

Planetary radar yields its 1,001st asteroid detection.

Radar images of the sizable asteroid 2016 AJ193 marked the 1,001st such object scientists have observed using the technique.

Radar images of the sizable asteroid 2016 AJ193 marked the 1,001st such object scientists have observed using the technique. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Scientists used a powerful asteroid-detecting tool called planetary radar to detect the 1,001st space rock found via this system. Scientists employ this technique by shooting a beam of radio light to a solar system object and then waiting for the photons to bounce back to Earth. The 1,001st detection happened in August 2021, and astronomers have been using this technique since the 1960s.

Full story: Astronomers hunting asteroids with radar surpass 1,000th space rock detection

Firefly announces the cause of last week’s rocket launch failure.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket lifts off on its debut launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sept. 2, 2021. The rocket failed 2 minutes, 30 seconds into the flight.

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket lifts off on its debut launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sept. 2, 2021. The rocket failed 2 minutes, 30 seconds into the flight. (Image credit: Everyday Astronaut/Firefly Aerospace)

Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based company that conducted its first-ever orbital test flight last week (Sept. 2), recently announced what caused its rocket to fail shortly after launch. According to company representatives, one of the Alpha rocket’s first-stage Reaver engines unexpectedly shut down approximately 15 seconds after liftoff.

Full story: Firefly Aerospace traces rocket launch failure to premature engine shutdown

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