tisdag 30 juni 2015
Mission Updates: Countdown to Pluto - June 30, 2015.
The first Mars airplane ?
Could
this prototype become the first Mars airplane? In preparation for the
first aircraft flight on Mars in the 2020s, the Armstrong Flight
Research Center plans to test a prototype of a Mars airplane later this
year. This aircraft will help determine the suitability of landing sites
for future astronaut missions on the Martian planet.
Details: http://go.nasa.gov/1GXjLxf
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måndag 29 juni 2015
Asteroid Day.
Hello,
I just signed the petition, "Help make the 100x acceleration of the discovery and tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids real!."
I think this is important. Will you sign it too?
Here's the link:
Thanks,
Mikael
söndag 28 juni 2015
NASA Administrator Statement on the Loss of SpaceX CRS-7.
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
on the loss Sunday of the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS-7)
mission.
“We are disappointed in the loss of the latest SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. However, the astronauts are safe aboard the station and have sufficient supplies for the next several months. We will work closely with SpaceX to understand what happened, fix the problem and return to flight. The commercial cargo program was designed to accommodate loss of cargo vehicles. We will continue operation of the station in a safe and effective way as we continue to use it as our test bed for preparing for longer duration missions farther into the solar system.
“A Progress vehicle is ready to launch July 3, followed in August by a Japanese HTV flight. Orbital ATK, our other commercial cargo partner, is moving ahead with plans for its next launch later this year.
“SpaceX has demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in its first six cargo resupply missions to the station, and we know they can replicate that success. We will work with and support SpaceX to assess what happened, understand the specifics of the failure and correct it to move forward. This is a reminder that spaceflight is an incredible challenge, but we learn from each success and each setback. Today's launch attempt will not deter us from our ambitious human spaceflight program.”
“We are disappointed in the loss of the latest SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. However, the astronauts are safe aboard the station and have sufficient supplies for the next several months. We will work closely with SpaceX to understand what happened, fix the problem and return to flight. The commercial cargo program was designed to accommodate loss of cargo vehicles. We will continue operation of the station in a safe and effective way as we continue to use it as our test bed for preparing for longer duration missions farther into the solar system.
“A Progress vehicle is ready to launch July 3, followed in August by a Japanese HTV flight. Orbital ATK, our other commercial cargo partner, is moving ahead with plans for its next launch later this year.
“SpaceX has demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in its first six cargo resupply missions to the station, and we know they can replicate that success. We will work with and support SpaceX to assess what happened, understand the specifics of the failure and correct it to move forward. This is a reminder that spaceflight is an incredible challenge, but we learn from each success and each setback. Today's launch attempt will not deter us from our ambitious human spaceflight program.”
SpaceX, NASA Managers Discuss Vehicle Mishap Following CRS-7 Launch.
New Crew Access Tower Takes Shape at Cape.
The metal segments that will be stacked to form a complete crew access tower later this year are taking shape a few miles from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The work by Boeing and United Launch Alliance is critical in readying the launch site for a crew flight test to certify their systems in 2017 for operational missions to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
lördag 27 juni 2015
Hololens is Going to the International Space Station.
NASA . IRIS: A Slice of Light.
On
June 27, 2013, NASA launched IRIS, the Interface Region Imaging
Spectrograph. IRIS gives us our first detailed image of a layer of the
sun’s atmosphere called the chromosphere. Boasting the highest temporal
and spatial resolution to date, IRIS provides imagery and a special
kind of data called spectra. In this video, we will look at IRIS data
from a solar flare on March 11, 2015.
Earth from Space: Central California.
Falcon 9, Ready for Flight.
Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX’s Dragon supply
ship Saturday after the capsule’s Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired
up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check.
The Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine Merlin 1D first stage engines at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) Friday as hold-down clamps kept the the 208-foot-tall booster firmly on the ground at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad.
The engines throttled up to full power, then shut down a few seconds later. The prelaunch engine firing — called a static fire by SpaceX — is the company’s last major test before clearing the rocket for final countdown preparations.
“I heard it was very successful — full-duration — and that clears the next coming days up to launch on Sunday morning,” said Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of mission assurance and launch chief engineer.
Fresh food and time-sensitive experiments will go into the capsule Saturday.
Liftoff is timed for Sunday at 10:21:12 a.m. Swedish time: 16.10.
The Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine Merlin 1D first stage engines at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) Friday as hold-down clamps kept the the 208-foot-tall booster firmly on the ground at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad.
The engines throttled up to full power, then shut down a few seconds later. The prelaunch engine firing — called a static fire by SpaceX — is the company’s last major test before clearing the rocket for final countdown preparations.
“I heard it was very successful — full-duration — and that clears the next coming days up to launch on Sunday morning,” said Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of mission assurance and launch chief engineer.
Fresh food and time-sensitive experiments will go into the capsule Saturday.
Liftoff is timed for Sunday at 10:21:12 a.m. Swedish time: 16.10.
Falcon 9 Static Fire Confirms Rocket Ready for Flight.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket passed a critical engine test today as
preparations remain on track for Sunday’s launch, Hans Koenigsmann of
SpaceX told reporters Friday. The static fire test at Space Launch
Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station fired the nine engines
for less than a second to confirm that the rocket is ready to lift a
Dragon spacecraft loaded with more than two tons of cargo and
experiments to the International Space Station.
Liftoff is scheduled for Sunday at 10:21 a.m. EDT. Swedish time: 16.10. The weather forecast stands at 90 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time.
For details into all aspects of the mission, read the SpaceX_NASA_CRS-7_PressKit.
Liftoff is scheduled for Sunday at 10:21 a.m. EDT. Swedish time: 16.10. The weather forecast stands at 90 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time.
For details into all aspects of the mission, read the SpaceX_NASA_CRS-7_PressKit.
fredag 26 juni 2015
Vintage Space. Gemini, NASA's Overlooked Middle Child.
The Gemini program is the program that taught NASA how to live and work in space. It saw the first spacewalk and the first rendezvous and docking, and also put all these new abilities together by the end of the program. In 20 months, NASA went from orbital flights to having the skill set to land men on the Moon.
The program has been chronicled in a new book showcasing rare images from the program.
Credit: Amy Shira Teitel
Supercomputer Shows How an Exoplanet Makes Waves.
A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that greatly increases collisions among the orbiting debris. Patterns in the collisions and the resulting dust appear to account for many observed features that previous research has been unable to fully explain.
Astronomers Erika Nesvold (UMBC) and Marc Kuchner (NASA Goddard) essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions of years. It is the first full 3-D model of a debris disk where scientists can watch the development of asymmetric features formed by planets, like warps and eccentric rings, and also track collisions among the particles at the same time.
SpaceX will try once again.
SpaceX will try once again, on Sunday, to land the first stage of its
Falcon 9 rocket on a boat.
The daring maneuver will take place during the launch of the company's robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station for NASA.
The daring maneuver will take place during the launch of the company's robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station for NASA.
Earth from Space: San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
NASA Seeks Ideas for human landing sites on mars
NASA is advancing the Journey to Mars by starting the conversation about
where humans may one day land on the Red Planet. The agency is hosting a
conference this fall to collect proposals on areas on Mars that would
be of high scientific research value while also providing natural
resources to enable human explorers to safely land, live and work on
Mars.
NASA's first Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars will be held Oct. 27-30 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. The conference will start the process for choosing sites on Mars that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey spacecraft along with any future missions over the coming decades could then further image to create better maps and provide valuable scientific data of these potential Exploration Zones.
NASA hopes to engage scientists, technologists and experts in human exploration during the conference, fostering collaboration among the teams that will enable humans to live on and explore Mars in the coming decades.
Potential "Exploration Zones" will need to offer compelling science research while also providing resources that our astronauts can take advantage of during their pioneering of the Red Planet. First explorers are expected to be limited to about 60 miles (100 km) of travel from their landing site due to life support and exploration technology requirements.
The life expectancy of the existing MRO and Odyssey spacecraft being limited, NASA is eager to take advantage of the remaining operational years of those Martian imagers to gather high resolution maps of potential exploration zones while the spacecraft, already well beyond their design lifetime, are still operational.
NASA’s efforts for building the knowledge and capabilities for sending humans to Mars is underway today, with spacecraft monitoring Mars from orbit and rovers on the surface, the International Space Station being used to test systems and to learn more about the health impacts of extended space travel, and the development and testing of the next generation of launch and crew vehicles -- the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crewed spacecraft underway
As we explore the path to Mars, we gain new knowledge and capabilities that will make life better here on Earth, right now. This preliminary work on potential landing sites will facilitate dialogue about this next giant leap in human experience.
Source: NASA
NASA's first Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars will be held Oct. 27-30 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. The conference will start the process for choosing sites on Mars that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey spacecraft along with any future missions over the coming decades could then further image to create better maps and provide valuable scientific data of these potential Exploration Zones.
NASA hopes to engage scientists, technologists and experts in human exploration during the conference, fostering collaboration among the teams that will enable humans to live on and explore Mars in the coming decades.
Potential "Exploration Zones" will need to offer compelling science research while also providing resources that our astronauts can take advantage of during their pioneering of the Red Planet. First explorers are expected to be limited to about 60 miles (100 km) of travel from their landing site due to life support and exploration technology requirements.
The life expectancy of the existing MRO and Odyssey spacecraft being limited, NASA is eager to take advantage of the remaining operational years of those Martian imagers to gather high resolution maps of potential exploration zones while the spacecraft, already well beyond their design lifetime, are still operational.
NASA’s efforts for building the knowledge and capabilities for sending humans to Mars is underway today, with spacecraft monitoring Mars from orbit and rovers on the surface, the International Space Station being used to test systems and to learn more about the health impacts of extended space travel, and the development and testing of the next generation of launch and crew vehicles -- the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crewed spacecraft underway
As we explore the path to Mars, we gain new knowledge and capabilities that will make life better here on Earth, right now. This preliminary work on potential landing sites will facilitate dialogue about this next giant leap in human experience.
Source: NASA
onsdag 24 juni 2015
Space Station Astronauts Grow a Water Bubble in Space (3D Side by Side)
tisdag 23 juni 2015
Preview of Private Space Trips from Blue Origin.
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