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VIDEO REPORT: Update on NASA’s Orion Program
Supported by team members across the nation, the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Colorado is leading the development effort as NASA’s prime contractor for the Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. Image credit: NASA SOURCE: NASA – A NASA-Industry Team Effort.
Artist’s Concept of a SEP (Solar Electric Propulsion System)
Using advanced Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) technologies is an essential part of future missions into deep space with larger payloads. The use of robotics and advanced SEP technologies like this concept of an SEP-based spacecraft during NASA mission to find, … Continue reading
VIDEO REPORT: NEW Hypersonic SpaceLiner to fly from Europe to Australia in just 90 minutes!
The rocket-powered hypersonic plane SpaceLiner, designed by the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Systems, aims to send passengers from Europe to Australia in 90 minutes by 2050. The design is expected to evolve, but currently includes a rocket booster … Continue reading
Posted in Avionics, Design, News and politics, Space, Technology & Science, Travel, Trends, World / International Affairs
Tagged Australia, aviation, Booster (rocketry), German Aerospace Center, NASA, orbiter, rocket booster, space, space systems, SpaceLiner, transportation, United States, Walter Dornberger
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Earth’s Space junk and the Kessler Syndrome
Last month DoD released an updated space policy that officials said reflects how the environment has changed in recent years, specifically the emergence of non-state threats and the growing amount of derelict rockets and satellites — “space junk” — in … Continue reading
Posted in Avionics, Design, Environment, Military, News and politics, Space, Technology & Science, World / International Affairs
Tagged climate, deputy defense secretary, John Plumb, NASA, nasa orbital debris, NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, nasa scientist, science, Space debris, United States, United States Department of Defense, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, United States Secretary of Defense
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VIDEO REPORT: America’s ability to deliver & return ISS cargo has been RESTORED thanks to SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-1 capsule
The SpaceX Dragon capsule parachuted back to Earth Sunday afternoon with 2,000 pounds of science experiments and old equipment from the International Space Station. CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — An unmanned Dragon freighter carrying a stash of precious medical samples from … Continue reading
Space Shuttle Endeavour now inside the newly built Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center in Los Angeles
Endeavour inside the newly built Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, The retired space shuttle Endeavour, mounted on its strongback overland transport frame, is pictured inside the newly built Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California … Continue reading
VIDEO REPORT w/ INFO GRAPHIC: NASA’s Curiosity lands on Mars – 7 minutes of TERROR
For more info, visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labratory in Pasadena, California at: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
Posted in Architecture, Avionics, Design, Geography, Geology, History, Hobbies, Military, News and politics, Space, Technology & Science, Travel, Trends, World / International Affairs
Tagged Gale, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, Pasadena California, technology
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VIDEO SIMULATION: Meet the “Lynx” Rocketplane by X-COR that can take off AND land horizontally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgmu62gV28w&feature=colike
This simulation is a high-quality demonstration of how the “Lynx” Rocket-plane (aka “Suborbital Vehicle”) by X-COR takes off and lands horizontally.
Total Flight time is going to be approximately 30 minutes (from take-off to landing).
Posted in Avionics, Design, Hobbies, Holiday, News and politics, Space, Technology & Science, Travel, Trends, World / International Affairs
Tagged Lynx, NASA, Payload (air and space craft), Private spaceflight, Reusable launch system, Rocket-powered aircraft, RocketShip Tours, space, Sub-orbital spaceflight, XCOR Aerospace
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VIDEO REPORT: See the shadow of the moon on the surface of the Earth from the ISS
As the Moon came between the Earth and the Sun, causing a rare solar eclipse, International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit captured imagery of the shadow cast on Earth on May 20th, 2012. Using filters that only pass light when … Continue reading
VIDEO REPORT: U.S.A.F.to step up “SPACE-JUNK” tracking
The Air Force will improve its ability to track space junk later this year when airmen begin using a new suite of equipment to help them watch it all, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said last week. Schwartz said … Continue reading
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Tagged International Space Station, Joint Space Operations Center, NASA, Norton Schwartz, Situation awareness, space, Space debris, United States Air Force
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