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#ESA:
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Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds
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"Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted an extraordinary blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km per second."

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/Flaring_black_hole_whips_up_ultra-fast_winds

9.12.2025

#AGN #BlackHole #JAXA #NGC3783 #Röntenstrahlung #SchwarzesLoch #SMBH #SRON #Weltraumteleskop #XMM #XRISM #Xray

Successful launch of #NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission #PACE! 🚀 🛰️

Its three instruments #OCI, #HARP2, and #SPEXone will give valuable data on phytoplankton in oceans, cloud formation, and fine particles in the atmosphere, to better monitor ocean health, air quality, and climate change.

The NL-built SPEXone polarimeter was developed by #SRON and #AirbusNL, supported by #TNO, to give unsurpassed polarimetric accuracy.

https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov/

#KeepingPACE #Airbus

And indeed: no launch today!

The launch of NASA’s PACE mission has been rescheduled for 8 Feb 07:33 CET / 06:33 GMT, see https://blogs.nasa.gov/pace/

Had I already mention it has an NL-built instrument on board? SPEXone, an amazing polarimeter!

NASA TV will be live-streaming the launch, presumably still at https://youtube.com/live/AtP0upSa_pU

#KeepingPACE #NASA #PACE #SPEXone #OCI #HARP2 #SRON #AirbusNL #TNO #Airbus

EDIT: delayed until 8 Feb.

It’s not looking great for tomorrow morning, currently the weather is about 50% for launch, see https://blogs.nasa.gov/pace/

Keep your fingers crossed for the launch of NASA’s PACE mission, with SPEXone!

Currently foreseen for 7 Feb, 07:33 CET / 06:33 GMT. NASA TV will be live-streaming it at https://www.youtube.com/live/AtP0upSa_pU

#KeepingPACE #NASA #PACE #SPEXone #OCI #HARP2 #SRON #AirbusNL #TNO #Airbus

EDIT: plus another 24h makes everything shift to the 8th, same times!

Alas, 24h delays because of strong winds!

Tomorrow morning 7 Feb, again at 07:33 CET / 06:33 GMT - the launch of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission PACE, carrying the NL-built SPEXone instrument.

Launch stream: 7 February from 06:45 CET / 05:45 GMT at https://www.youtube.com/live/AtP0upSa_pU

#KeepingPACE #NASA #PACE #SPEXone #OCI #HARP2 #SRON #AirbusNL #TNO

EDIT: delayed until 8 Feb, see next posts.

Tomorrow morning at 07:33 CET / 06:33 GMT - the launch of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission PACE, carrying the NL-built SPEXone instrument.

Pre-launch briefing: today 5 February at 15:00 CET / 14:00 GMT at https://www.youtube.com/live/03HJCnQBkpY

Launch stream: 6 February from 06:45 CET / 05:45 GMT at https://www.youtube.com/live/AtP0upSa_pU

#KeepingPACE #NASA #PACE #SPEXone #OCI #HARP2 #SRON #AirbusNL #TNO

"Die „X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)“ ist für den Start am 28. August 2023 bereit, um die energiereichsten Objekte und Ereignisse im Kosmos zu beobachten. So wird sie die Entwicklung des Universums und die Struktur der Raumzeit enthüllen. Eine Information der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation (ESA)."

https://www.raumfahrer.net/esa-die-naechste-grosse-x-ray-mission-startet-bald/

#Athena #Astronomie #ESA #Genf #HeatPipe #Japan #JAXA #Raumfahrt #Resolve #Röntgenastronomie #Röntgenstrahlung #SRON #Tanegashima #XARM #XRISM

25.8.2023