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Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a year on the International Space Station in 2015, launched an NFT today to raise funds to support Ukraine.
Kelly released the NFT, his first, as part of an art project he calls "Dreams Out of This World", which features images inspired by his spaceflight drawn as postcards for people to buy.
Kelly told Space.com that he thinks the metaverse will be a big part of our future.
Kelly has been outspoken against Russia since the war began. He gave back a Russian medal he received for his nearly yearlong mission and traded words with the Russian space agency chief.
The International Day of Human Spaceflight is also known as the NFT announcement, and it was made by Kelly today. On this day in 1961, a Soviet cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin went into space and returned to Earth. It was the first time a human was in space. The first crewed space shuttle Columbia would be launched by NASA on the same day as the 20th anniversary.
The first human spaceflight by Gagarin, the first spacewalk by Leonov and the first woman in space are some of the firsts that Russia has accomplished in human spaceflight. Russia built the first space stations in the form of a spaceship.
Russia's ongoing invasion into Ukraine has subdued some celebrations of the country's space feats, but others have found ways to celebrate despite the war by Separating the spirit of space exploration from the country's current actions on Earth.
The U.S. Space Force said that Russia was jamming the U.S. gps signals.
Gen. David Thompson, Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations, told NBC Nightly News that the Ukrainians are being blocked from using U.S. gps systems for navigation and mapping.
He told NBC Nightly News thatUkraine may not be able to use the gps device because they don't have a usable signal.
The American-built Navstar system is available to many countries around the world. Europe and China both use their own satellite navigation systems, while Russia has its own.
A mass grave has been captured by a Maxar Technologies satellite. The photo was taken on March 31, 2022. On March 10, it took a photo of the area, which appeared to show the initial excavation of the makeshift grave.
CNN reported that a mass grave on the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints may hold hundreds of bodies. Our story can be read here.
The chief of Russia's space program is threatening to pull his country out of the International Space Station over sanctions imposed against the country.
The sanctions against Russia are designed to kill the Russian economy, according to a series of posts on Saturday.
I believe that the restoration of normal relations between partners in the International Space Station and other joint projects is possible only if illegal sanctions are lifted.
While he has threatened to end Russia's involvement in the International Space Station, cooperation between Russia and the partners has not changed.
Several companies have been keeping a close watch on the war in Russia using satellites from space.
Satellite photos of Ukraine can be seen in our gallery.
A space tourist who launched off the Earth on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday took a small Ukrainian flag to space to show his support for Ukraine.
Jim Kitchen, a faculty member of the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School andentrepreneur, launched on a suborbital flight on Blue Origin's New Shepard mission. Kitchen, a world traveler, took the small Ukrainian flag and passport he used to visit the country as part of the flight.
Kitchen told Space.com that he brought the Ukrainian and American flags with him in his passport and released them to let them know that his heart is with them.
Here are other space impacts from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
As the country battles to defend itself against Russia, it is seeking entry into the European Union, a move that could potentially provide a boost for the country's space industry.
In an Op-Ed on Space.com today, a space reporter with the Ukrainian space startup ProminAerospace talks about the benefits of membership in the E.U.
Grant funding for space projects will be available to Ukrainians who are members of the EU. European companies will be able to hire Ukrainian workers without bureaucratic obstacles and conduct joint training.
In related Russia-Ukraine news, here is the latest that has happened in recent days.
The European Space Agency is scrambling to find new rocket rides for at least five new space missions after Russia stopped sending its own rockets to Europe. Tereza Pultarova has the full story here.
Two of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites, the Earthcare Earth monitoring satellite, a dark energy detector, and a French national satellite. A Russian rocket was scheduled to launch in September. Plans for a September 2022 launch have been scrapped after Russia-Europe space cooperation broke down. After missing its 2020 launch due to parachute issues, the mission is being evaluated for a 2024 launch and may have to wait.
Kinzhal missiles have been deployed by Russia in the war in Ukraine. The weapons have a range of hundreds to thousands of miles and are difficult to track and shoot down.
Russia's Kinzhal missiles can fly at speeds of at least Mach 5 and have been looked at by our friends at Live Science. Here is what we know so far.
OneWeb has found a new rocket ride for its internet satellite constellation after Russia suspended its Soyuz rocket launches for the U.K. company and pulled out of a European partnership with Arianespace.
The remaining satellites of OneWeb will be launched by the Falcon 9 rockets. Spaceflight Editor Mike Wall has a full story here.
The move is interesting for both OneWeb and SpaceX, who are competitors in the satellite internet market. The Starlink megaconstellation is being developed to provide high-speed broadband around the world. OneWeb wants to do the same for different customers.
The yellow and blue flight suits worn by three cosmonauts on the International Space Station and Ukraine have been the subject of media reports.
The flight suits of the three astronauts were bright yellow with blue patches, the colors of their home country of Ukraine, when they boarded the space station on Friday. Space.com commented on the striking flight suits and their colors.
The flight suits are from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, where all three of the cosmonauts graduated, according to the statement from the Roscosmos.
The design of the uniform was agreed upon long before current events.
Russia has claimed that it used its new Kinzhal hypersonic missile in combat for the first time. According to media reports, the missile was used to attack an underground warehouse.
Kinzhal is an air-launched missile that is five times the speed of sound and about 3,800 mph. It is one of several advanced weapons.
The United States, Russia, China, and North Korea have all developed hypersonic weapons because of their speed and ability to be tracked and shot down. Hypersonic glide weapons can be used to launch on rockets and return to Earth on long glide paths.
Russia has developed a missile called Avangard.
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Three Russian cosmonauts who launched to the International Space Station on Friday donned yellow and blue flight suits when they entered the space station and joined seven crewmates already aboard.
The three Russian astronauts launched to the station on a Russian rocket. About 3.5 hours later, the lab arrived. When they entered the station 2.5 hours later, they were wearing bright colored flight suits that were the same colors as the Ukrainian flag.
It's unclear if the clothing choice was in support of Ukraine, a school the cosmonauts attended or just a coincidence. But it was definitely noted by former NASA astronauts watching the docking.
"Three Russian cosmonauts who just docked with the ISS arrive in Ukrainian yellow!" former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who flew a yearlong mission on the space station with cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from March 2015 to March 2016, tweeted Friday, in both Russian and English.
Wow. Wow. Terry Virts, a former NASA astronaut, said well done.
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The European Space Agency said this week that a Russian embargo on European countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia will keep a Mars rover stuck on Earth until 2026.
The launch of the ExoMars rover was scheduled to take place in September on a Russian-built rocket. Russia and the European Space Agency stopped cooperation after the country invaded Ukraine. The planned September launch of the ExoMars rover was nixed by Russia's space agency.
The agency is trying to find a new partner to launch the rover by the end of the century. A new rocket and a non-Russian built landing platform are required.
Tereza Pultarova has the full story here.
The person is Tariq Malik.
Scott Kelly said this week that he will back off his social media spat with Russia's space agency chief after receiving a letter from NASA asking its former astronauts to refrain from comments that could jeopardize the ongoing U.S.-Russian cooperation on the International Space. Space.com contributor Elizabeth Howell has a story.
Kelly has spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine on his social media accounts, with the Russian ambassador to the US responding directly to him on the internet. Mark Kelly spoke out against Russia's invasion from his position as a U.S. Senator.
A student from the US is studying for a PhD in Ukraine.
Space.com Senior Writer Tereza Pultarova spoke with the author about why he chose to study in Kyiv.
The person is Tariq Malik.
The Polaris Program, a private spaceflight project spearheaded by an American billionaire, gave nine Starlink internet terminals to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
We are humbled to share 9 @SpaceX Starlink units were donated to our clinic & foundation partners in Ukraine and Poland. These units, coordinated by the @PolarisProgram team, provide critical internet connection to treatment centers supporting Ukrainian patients. pic.twitter.com/mqOJDc4bnyMarch 14, 2022
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The foundation partners in Ukraine and Poland received 9 Starlink units. St. Jude's representatives wrote in a statement that these units provide critical internet connection to treatment centers supporting Ukrainian patients.
The Polaris Program is a set of three private spaceflights that will launch Isaacman and other crewmates into Earth space. The first mission, called Polaris Dawn, will launch by the end of 2022, carrying a crew of four. The world's first private spacewalk will be featured. The first crewed flight of the new Starship rocket will be followed by a second Polaris mission.
Here are the latest space impacts from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"I can tell you for sure: Mark is coming home on that Soyuz," Joel Montalbano, the manager of NASA's International Space Station program, said during a news conference today (March 14). "We are in communication with our Russian colleagues; there's no fuzz on that."
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New satellite images taken by the Worldview-2 satellite show Russian military forces firing on the Ukrainian city of Kyiv. The full story can be found here.
The new photos were taken on Friday, March 11, and show new views of the fighting and destruction caused by the ongoing war.
Satellite photos taken on Thursday, March 10 show the effects of the war in other parts of the country. Residential buildings and supermarkets were destroyed in the invasion of Ukraine.
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was taken over by Russian military forces early in the conflict. You can see the images below.
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As the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine spread, here's what else happened in the space industry.
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Satellite images collected by Maxar Technologies on March 8 and 9 show damage to civilian structures in the besieged city of Mariupol, as well as the movements of armored vehicles elsewhere in the country.
The new images were taken by the company's World View 2 and World View 3 satellites. Maxar officials said that it has been difficult to image Ukraine from space due to heavy cloud cover.
The damage to Mariupol was revealed by the satellites on March 9.
On Tuesday, the World View 3 satellite observed the region around the capital of Ukraine.
You can see the images and read the full story here.
The United Kingdom banned all space-related exports to Russia on Wednesday as it tightened economic sanctions on the country.
The space export sanctions were announced by the U.K.'s Foreign Secretary.
In the face of Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine, we will continue to support the country diplomatically, economically and defensively.
The full story can be read here.
Scott Kelly said today that he will give back a Russian spaceflight medal he received in protest of the country's invasion of Ukraine.
Kelly said on Wednesday that he was returning the Russian medal for Merit in Space Exploration that was presented to him. The medal will be sent to the Russian embassy. Good luck.
He was referring to the current deputy chairman of Russia's security council, who was the nation's president from 2008 to 2012 and its prime minister from 2012 to 2020.
Kelly has been vocal about his opposition to Russia on social media.
Kelly and a Russian cosmonaut spent nearly a year in space in 2015 and 2016 as part of a long-duration spaceflight experiment on the International Space Station.
Spaceflight Editor Mike Wall has a full story here.
The Ukrainian flag will be flown in space and back later this year on a private spaceflight by a group of American billionaires, as a show of solidarity with the people of Ukraine.
We stand with the brave citizens of Ukraine and all those who are fighting for freedom around the world. The flag will be taken by the Polaris Dawn crew to a place in space that is beyond the reach of tyranny.
The full story can be found here.
Over the next few years, he has bought three more missions on the rockets that will launch them. The first-ever private spacewalk by the end of 2022, a second flight on a Dragon capsule and the first crewed flight on the new Starship spaceship are included. The Polaris Program is flying all three missions.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the science agency that oversees the Large Hadron Collider, will not enter into future science collaboration with Russian scientists after a Ukrainian scientists requests a halt to any Russian science cooperation due to that country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The announcement was made after a meeting of the council. Tereza Pultarova wrote the full story. Russia is not a formal member of the organization.
The military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and the resulting loss of life and humanitarian impact were condemned by the 23 Member States of CERN.
The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency traded barbs with Scott Kelly on Monday, March 7, amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Kelly spent nearly a year on the International Space Station in 2015 and 2016 and returned to Earth on a Russian spaceship. On Sunday (March 6), Kelly wrote in Russian that the country's recent covering up of international flags on a Soyuz rocket was hurting Russia's space program.
If you don't have those flags and foreign exchange, your space program won't be worth a damn.
Get off, you moron! Kelly askedimon why he deleted the tweet. Kelly asked if he should not want everyone to see what kind of child he is.
The full story can be read here.
The person is Tariq Malik.
Димон, ты почему удалил этот твит? Не хочешь, чтобы все увидели, какой ты в сущности ребёнок? pic.twitter.com/xSScT2cSGuMarch 7, 2022
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The effects of the unprovoked attack on Feb. 24 have already reached into space.
The United Kingdom government, which is a financial backer of OneWeb, was demanded by Russia to sell its holdings in the company and offer assurances that the satellites would not be used for military purposes. OneWeb pulled its personnel from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the mission was to launch from. The launch is on hold.
All Russian launches from the French Guiana spaceport have been halted by the Russian federal space agency.
Germany's space agency has stopped cooperation with Russia because of a black hole-hunting instrument on a Russian satellite. The eROSITA instrument was placed in safe mode. It is on a Russian satellite.
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The International Space Station's operation is continuing as usual, according to NASA and Roscosmos. The station is currently home to six people, four of which are American. Mark Vande Hei of NASA and two cosmonauts will return to Earth with a new Russian crew after they launch to the station later this month.
Here is a list of the space impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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