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| USRA scientists and engineers make air travel more sustainable | At most airports today, departures are managed in the order in which aircraft push back from the gate. This frequently overloads runways and causes delays on the ground before takeoff. USRA staff in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center and the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) have developed a new traffic management technology called the Integrated Arrival/Departure/Surface (IADS) Traffic Management system which improves surface traffic conditions and situational awareness for air traffic managers. The IADS is forecasted to save over 7 million gallons of jet fuel and 75,000 tons of CO2 emissions every year after it is fully deployed.
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| Council of Institution Meetings | USRA has 114 member institutions in the U.S. and worldwide, which are divided into nine regions. While USRA’s annual meeting of the Council of Institutions invites all member university representatives to participate, three regional meetings are held throughout the year to touch base with smaller groups. The larger annual meeting focuses on USRA governance such as establishing USRA bylaws, electing the USRA Board of Trustees, electing new member universities and guiding public policy advocacy. At the regional meetings, university representatives present activities from their departments and voice issues and concerns affecting the university space science community.
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| | SOFIA Confirms a Spiral Galaxy's Invisible, Opposing Arms | NGC 7479, also known as Caldwell 44, is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar-shaped center filled with stars (as is characteristic of a majority of spiral galaxies), and S- shaped arms. However, looking at features of NGC 7479 that are hidden from the naked eye reveals another pair of arms bending in an opposite direction to the visible galaxy. SOFIA observed ionized carbon emissions to help confirm these counter-arms. The results were published in The Astrophysical Journal.
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| | Deep Neural Networks Find 301 More Planets Increasing Kepler's Total Count | Using a new deep neural network called ExoMiner, a team of scientists from USRA, NASA, and other institutions recently added 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a multitude of distant stars.
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| | SOFIA Observes Star Formation Near the Galactic Center | The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, imaged the ionized carbon characteristics of Sagittarius B (Sgr B), a molecular cloud of gas and dust in the center of the Milky Way.
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| | USRA Admitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced the admission of USRA as an Observer Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
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| | USRA's Assaf Anyamba's Invited Talk at COP-26 | USRA’s Dr. Assaf Anyamba was invited to present the results of his research at the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP-26, as it’s commonly known, in November 2021. This prestigious and high impact conference was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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| | Astronomy Magazine Features News on the Naming of Henson Crater | The news release issued by USRA on Matthew Henson was picked up by several media outlets. Astronomy magazine reported on it—thanks to the efforts of Dr. David Kring.
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| Coming Soon |
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13-17 December | | AGU Fall Meeting | |
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24 December | | USRA Holiday | |
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31 December | | USRA Holiday |
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