NASA’s New Laser Satellite Launched into Orbit

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.<br />SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 141<br />*NASA’s new laser satellite launched into orbit<br />The future of space communications has been launched into orbit by NASA. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration together with a joint NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation were launched as part of the U.S. Space Force's Space Test Program 3 mission.<br />*Hubble back to full operations<br />NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now back up and running after technicians were able to recovered the last of the orbiting observatory’s four primary instruments – the Imaging Spectrograph.<br />*Russia sends two more space tourists to the ISS<br />A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Japanese space tourists and a Russian Cosmonaut have docked successfully with the International Space Station.<br />*Space Station antenna destroyed by space debris<br />Meanwhile, astronauts have finally been allowed to undertake a space walk outside the International Space Station to repair a broken antenna.<br />*The Science Report<br />Growing calls for a third booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the wake of the Omicron variant<br />IBM build the first quantum computer with over a hundred quantum bits or qubits on a chip.<br />Iran’s actions are causing a nuclear crisis which is destabilizing the entire Middle East<br />Alex on Tech: global chip shortage<br />Listen to SpaceTime with our universal listen link: <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime" rel="noopener">https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime</a> <br />Sponsor Details:<br />This episode of SpaceTime is brought to you with the support of NordVPN…The world’s leading VPN provider. Making your online data unreadable to others. <br />Check them out and get a special holiday season discount offer (73% off), plus help support SpaceTime… visit <a href="https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary" rel="noopener">https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary</a> or use the coupon code STUARTGARY at checkout. Thank you…<b