Mikið um að vera í geimnum á árinu
Þó árið 2019 sé einungis ný byrjað hefur mannkynið þó náð tveimur áföngum í geimnum. Bandaríska geimfarið New Horizons hefur flogið fram hjá Ultima Thule, fjarlægasta fyrirbæri sem geimfar hefur kannað. Þá lentu Kínverjar fari á fjarhlið tunglsins og er það í fyrsta sinn sem slíkt er gert.
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NASA fixes Hubble gyroscope by turning it off and on again
In an attempt to correct the erroneously high rates produced by the backup gyro, the Hubble operations team executed a running restart of the gyro on Oct. 16th. This procedure turned the gyro off for one second, and then restarted it before the wheel spun down. The intention was to clear any faults that may have occurred during startup on Oct. 6th, after the gyro had been off for more than 7.5 years. However, the resulting data showed no improvement in the gyro's performance
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COMET LANDSCAPE
This image shows a portion of 67P/C-G as viewed by Rosetta on 22 September 2014, only one and a half months after the spacecraft had made its rendezvous with the comet. At the time, the spacecraft was 28.2 km from the comet centre (around 26.2 km from the surface). Amateur astronomer Jacint Roger Perez, from Spain, selected and processed this view by combining three images taken in different wavelengths by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on Rosetta.
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