As we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, F1.com chats to Laura Mueller about her first 18 months as Race Engineer to Esteban Ocon at Haas, and the journey she has been on along the way.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch targeted for no earlier than August 30. The observatory will survey the sky about 1,000 times faster than Hubble with a field of view at least 100 times wider, helping scientists study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets. Spaceflight Now reports: NASA's next great observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center aboard the agency's massive Pegasus barge late Sunday morning. The spacecraft was nestled inside its protective case, which NASA nicknamed the "Chariot" in keeping with the "Roman" theme. That said, telescope is named not for the ancient empire, but instead for NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, Nancy Grace Roman. "She was a key person in our exploration of space. She understood that in order to better understand the universe, you have to go in space," said Lucas Paganini, the program executive for Roman. "That's why she's called the 'Mother of Hubble' because she made Hubble possible."
[...] Roman is designed to operate near a fixed point in space called Lagrange Point 2, about 1.5 million km away from the Earth on the side opposite the Sun. It's designed to operate there for a minimum of five years, but Paganini said with the propellant onboard, it will likely last for 10 years or more. The telescope is+ equipped with a 300 megapixel camera called the Wide Field Instrument, which features 18 detectors. It was developed by BAE Systems (formerly Ball Aerospace). "It's going to allow us to observe at least 100 times wider field of view than what we can do with Hubble. Same resolution, but a wider area, 1000 times faster," Paganini said. "So what takes Roman a year to observe, it would take Hubble thousands of years. So it's definitely much more efficient."
The observatory also features a chronograph instrument, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will allow Roman to observe the faint light of exoplanets near their stars. Paganini said Roman will also help scientists better understand dark matter and dark energy, the combination of which he calls the "dark universe." "100 years ago, we discovered that the universe was expanding. 25 years ago, we discovered that it was expanding at an accelerated pace and that's what led to a Nobel Prize," Paganini said. "What we don't quite know yet is if that acceleration is changing in ways. We don't know if it's actually dark energy, what is producing it, or is it simply that we don't understand gravity at all. "So eventually, we'll see if the laws of physics that we use these days are the right ones for what we are observing. But at the end is, we're trying to understand a very human question, which is where do we come from and where are wea heading in this universe that is our neighborhood?"
[...] Roman is designed to operate near a fixed point in space called Lagrange Point 2, about 1.5 million km away from the Earth on the side opposite the Sun. It's designed to operate there for a minimum of five years, but Paganini said with the propellant onboard, it will likely last for 10 years or more. The telescope is+ equipped with a 300 megapixel camera called the Wide Field Instrument, which features 18 detectors. It was developed by BAE Systems (formerly Ball Aerospace). "It's going to allow us to observe at least 100 times wider field of view than what we can do with Hubble. Same resolution, but a wider area, 1000 times faster," Paganini said. "So what takes Roman a year to observe, it would take Hubble thousands of years. So it's definitely much more efficient."
The observatory also features a chronograph instrument, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will allow Roman to observe the faint light of exoplanets near their stars. Paganini said Roman will also help scientists better understand dark matter and dark energy, the combination of which he calls the "dark universe." "100 years ago, we discovered that the universe was expanding. 25 years ago, we discovered that it was expanding at an accelerated pace and that's what led to a Nobel Prize," Paganini said. "What we don't quite know yet is if that acceleration is changing in ways. We don't know if it's actually dark energy, what is producing it, or is it simply that we don't understand gravity at all. "So eventually, we'll see if the laws of physics that we use these days are the right ones for what we are observing. But at the end is, we're trying to understand a very human question, which is where do we come from and where are wea heading in this universe that is our neighborhood?"
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Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive and estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon, has been jailed at the high court in Edinburgh for five years and three months after he admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.
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PRAAG (ANP/RTR) - De Tsjechische president Petr Pavel is boos dat de regering hem niet heeft opgenomen in de officiële delegatie van het land voor de NAVO-top in Turkije over twee weken. Pavel stapt naar het Grondwettelijk Hof, omdat hij vindt dat de top onder zijn bevoegdheid valt.
De Tsjechische regering, onder leiding van de rechts-populistische Andrej Babiš, maakte maandag bekend dat de president thuis wordt gelaten. Babiš reist samen met zijn ministers van Defensie en Buitenlandse Zaken naar Ankara.
Vorig jaar leidde Pavel, een voormalig NAVO-generaal, nog de Tsjechische delegatie. Sinds Tsjechië in 1999 lid werd, deden de presidenten dat vrijwel altijd.
Babiš en Pavel hebben al maanden ruzie over wie er naar de NAVO-top gaat. Tsjechië is een van de weinige landen binnen de alliantie die afgelopen jaar de oude NAVO-norm van 2 procent uitgaven aan defensie niet haalde. Pavel hamert vaak op meer defensie-uitgaven, terwijl Babiš in andere zaken wil investeren.
BORK!BORK!BORK! Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty person? Some distressed digital signage on the island of São Miguel in Portugal's Azores is running on empty, judging by today's entry into the files of signage silage. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader, a Coca-Cola display has clearly had too much of the carbonated beverage and urgently needs to free up some space, a feeling many an over-caffeinated techie will be familiar with after chugging one Diet Coke too many. It's tricky to work out what operating system is running behind the scenes. Running Windows with 200 MB or so of disk space is only for the brave (or foolhardy), but we suspect this might be Ubuntu Unity warning onlookers that the volume is fit to burst. While there is an option to ignore the message (assuming the viewer can find somewhere to plug in a mouse or keyboard), doing so might be the computing equivalent of dropping some Mentos into a bottle of Coke and standing well back. While a good old-fashioned poster would never show an error message, thus obscuring whatever message Coca-Cola is trying to convey via the medium of a bottle top, Ubuntu isn't a bad choice for digital signage. Assuming it is indeed the operating system running behind the scenes, security maintenance could continue well past the display's lifetime, and there are plenty of tools to deploy, provision, and manage the hardware. All of which makes the pop-up a little incongruous. Somewhere, a distant dashboard is flashing red to indicate the signage storage is not what it might be. But on a well-managed system, surely the customer would never be aware of any issues. Kiosks and digital signs are about keeping their internals well tucked away from prying eyes after all. Except here. A volume is getting dangerously full. The same effect can be created by pouring a sachet of Pop Rocks/Space Dust* into one's mouth and chugging a glass of Coke. The result could be your very own storage error. Possibly through your nostrils. ® *Also known as popping candy.
