Jonathan Amos
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Journalist. Former BBC Science Correspondent. Way too interested in icebergs for my own good.
Cambridge, UK
Joined January 2010
RT @NASAWebb: Hello deep field, our old friend. We've come to look at you again! 👋. We last saw this region through @NASAHubble’s eyes. Web….
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Michele Dougherty - an inspiring appointment. Astronomer Royal.
bbc.co.uk
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
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I visited the island a few years ago to see their work. They are able to fill cracks and holes and then stress/age the new concrete to look like the old. You couldn't tell where the repair had been made. But they needed more funds, especially to make good the big old cell block.
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What would be really useful is if the US Government gave a big grant to the Concrete Preservation Institute who are doing a such an amazing job restoring the historic buildings and preventing them crumbling into SF Bay.
basf.com
A great morning at Alcatraz with @SecretaryBurgum. Under President Trump, we are Making America Safe Again.
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There is some genuinely exciting stuff taking place in the UK space sector but I make the usual caveat with the Size and Health report: of the total income in the space sector (£18.6bn), a little under half is DTH TV. It's essentially Sky TV subscriptions.
Our latest Size and Health report of the UK space sector has been released, which shows that:. 🛰️ Space and satellite services are worth £454 billion to the economy. 🚀 Number of space organisations rose to 1,907. 💼 Employment in space sector up by 7%
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The thing that slightly surprised me when looking at the Beyond EPICA ice cores in the freezer was how clear they were - like glass. But you could just see the tiny bubbles of trapped atmosphere that record Earth's climate from more than 700,000 years ago.
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I reported quite a bit on the "space jump" story, getting to know Felix, etc. I was commentating in the London studio on the big day, talking to pictures time-delayed by 60secs in case of disaster. But I knew he'd jumped when I heard the gasp of studio gallery in my ear piece.
"sometimes. you have to get up really high. to understand how small your are. I'm ~ coming ~ home ~ now". -- Felix Baumgartner
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'Sparring in space' – BBC gains rare access to US base tracking global missile strikes
bbc.com
From their base in Colorado, Space Force units track missiles fired anywhere in the world.
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The IP for the pre-cooler, heat-exchanger is still with the administrators, as I understand it. ESA is interested for the same old reason: space launch. But hypersonics in the military sphere is in vogue and Europe is lacking in competence/capability.
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To clarify, b/c I misread the FN release. INVICTUS will be a platform to test various hypersonic technologies for UK/Europe. Anyone with a hypersonic propulsion proposal could bid to use it. Obvs, some ex-RE staff are involved but it's not obvious their SABRE tech will be.
After Reaction Engines went bankrupt we were wondering who would acquire their technology and whether they'd still be interested in space planes. "Frazer-Nash has announced it is leading a new research programme, known as INVICTUS, to develop a comprehensive concept design for a
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Err, guys. Your lead story by some distance is the one about Afghan soldiers, the data leak and the extraordinary subsequent use of super injunctions by HMG. The lead is not some story about a TV chef.
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Iceberg A23a update. It's lost another couple of large chunks in the past few days. Are we getting close to a major fragmentation event? Likely so.
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So, we all wondered where the Reaction Engines IP would end up. It seems to have been ingested into this - INVICTUS, a Frazer-Nash-led project to develop a Mach-5 vehicle. It will use RE's pre-cooler heat-exchanger tech.
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RT @or_bit_eye: 🔴 ⚠️ 🛰️ ☀️ ♨️ In the 2nd day of the ongoing #heatwave, temperatures have exceeded 30°C in the 4 nations, with the hottest d….
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Look, no ice! My favourite CryoSat map (with help from Jason-1). The shape of the ocean floor.
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And here it is, folks. Hinted at by Macron in his speech to both houses of the UK parliament earlier this week. The British government is joining the French government in pumping up @EutelsatGroup / OneWeb. The UK should be leveraging OneWeb for all it's worth.
The United Kingdom is set to participate in the contemplated capital increase alongside our core shareholders. With the UK entering for a total of €163.3 million, this expanded €1.5 billion operation reinforces our strategy and secures the financing of our growth in LEO.
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RT @dpoddolphinpro: Introducing Breaking Space: @NASASpaceflight's brand new channel dedicated to rapid-release explainers on everything Sp….
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2 million sq km is the size of Saudi Arabia. It would take one of these vessels 180 years to map the entire ocean floor, but with a fleet you could accomplish the task very rapidly. It really is time for an ocean equivalent to Project Apollo @seabed2030.
A few weeks ago, I revealed a plan to design and build a 23-meter, hyper-efficient ocean mapping vessel. It would have a Kongsberg EM124 sonar, crew of just 1-2, and semi-autonomously map, potentially, over 2 million sq km per year. Hoping other countries or NGOs may buy one too.
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