Counting down. One year until Parker’s closest approach to the Sun!
Nasa mission lines up to 'touch the Sun' bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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This is such an exciting idea, using the heat from a small nuclear reactor to melt ice and tunnel into the oceans of icy water moons.
Earlier this year, a team of experts gathered to discuss a mission concept to detect water and search for life under the icy crusts of moons that orbit Jupiter and Saturn: the cryobot, a cylindrical probe that employs state-of-the-art technologies to drill and investigate beneath the ice: science.nasa.gov/science-res…
ALT Conceptual image of a cryobot breaching into the ocean of Europa and searching for signs of life.
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An iconic photo of our SunRISE spacecraft, ready to launch! These spacecraft are individually highly capable but will act in concert in orbit to create a virtual radio telescope 10km in diameter! My gratitude to the team at @NASAJPL SDL and @UMich for this historic milestone.
Ready for their moment in the Sun ☀️
A fleet of six cereal box-size satellites known as SunRISE are complete and awaiting final testing. Once launched, they will act as one giant radio antenna that will study solar radio bursts. go.nasa.gov/46EsTac
ALT Six identical cereal box-size satellites are aligned in a row and slightly angled toward the right of the frame. This vertical shot is lit up in soft shades of orange, purple, and light blue. The small satellites appear as a box laid flat with an orange coloring on the top and then two black solar arrays sticking out of each side. They are placed on black stands for the picture.
Happy to see two of our #ParkerSolarProbe SWEAP papers on this list of influential articles in Astrophysics!
Discover the Top Cited Papers from North America.
Including 64 influential #articles in our #Astrophysics & #Astronomy subject, published with our partners @AAS_Office, @PASPjournal and SISSA. See our award webpage ow.ly/xk7h50Q6teV
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Excited to share that we have been selected as nuclear fuel and component manufacture for an @AFResearchLab JETSON program. Under this program we will help mature technology for high power fission systems for spacecraft.
#News: BWXT Selected as Nuclear Fuel and Component Manufacturer for Air Force Research Laboratory’s JETSON Program bwxt.com/news/2023/11/08/BWX…’s-JETSON-Program
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A few hours ago #ParkerSolarProbe set a few new records with its 17th and closest solar flyby to date. Just 4.5 million miles from the surface of the Sun and moving about 395,000 miles an hour! Now we wait until it’s far enough from the Sun to tell us it’s safe.
Advanced reactor developers need 19.75% enriched HALEU for demonstration reactors. Excited that we’ll be manufacturing two metric tons of HALEU out of existing scrap material.
#News BWXT to Manufacture HALEU Feedstock for Advanced Reactors bwxt.com/news/2023/08/30/BWX…
#BWXTnews
If you’re interested in #nuclear technology for #SpaceExploration tune in Wednesday for this free and informative discussion
Join @ANS_org this Wednesday, August 30, from 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET, and learn about the latest advances in #nuclear technology used for #spaceexploration.
The event is free, but registration is required. Learn more at e.ans.org/MDk5LVlMVS02MzAAAA…
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Great summary of our DARPA X-NTRV demonstration of nuclear thermal propulsion in space and why we have wanted this technology for so long.
This is exceptional.
arstechnica.com/space/2023/0…
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Exciting news! @DARPA is proceeding with the final design and construction of an Experimental Nuclear Thermal Rocket Vehicle (X-NTRV) under the DRACO Program. @BWXT will provide the reactor and fuel for overall lead @LMSpace and launching in 2027 darpa.mil/news-events/2023-0…
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Why do I care about @swmcintosh predictions of solar maximum? We’re about done with our six @NASASun @NASAJPL @umclasp SunRISE spacecraft, which will make the first images of low frequency solar radio bursts from space. The bursts we’re interested in are precursors to… 1/4
Ten days to go in June 2023. Every chance that the monthly average sunspot number will punch the 150 mark for the first time in #SunspotCycle25
#ParkerSolarProbe is running autonomously, 28 million km from the Sun and closing for its 16th solar encounter. Closest approach is this Thursday June 22 at about 8am eastern, 9 million km or about 13.3 solar radii from the Sun.
Really exciting #ParkerSolarProbe discovery! Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within coronal holes
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Always nerve wracking when something doesn’t want to deploy on a spacecraft. For SunRISE we have 36 antennas to release after launch! So happy for RIME and @ESA_JUICE
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Had an unplanned encounter with a wonderful group of people @UChicago this evening…
Thanks to all who visited our booth at the annual ANS Student Conference! Interested in following up for more #career info? Check us out at bwxt.com/careers.
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