Merry Christmas to all my fellow space travellers!
** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Merry Christmas to all my fellow space travellers!
Launch of a Proton-M/Briz-M with the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite:
A long look back:
The view from above:
Space station research update:
Tim Peake's message to Her Majesty The Queen:
ESA 2016 preview:
This week:
SpaceX planning to use the barge again for Falcon 9 booster landing during the next launch which is scheduled for 17th January:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-idUSKBN0UM2F420160108
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-idUSKBN0UM2F420160108
They still need to pull barge landing off, as apparently on a lot of falcon heavy launches, centre F9 will be to fast and to far down range for a return to land. Or that's what I've read anyway.
And this is still a f9v1.1 the last one to ever fly, and so less performance and less fuel than the last launch.
And this is still a f9v1.1 the last one to ever fly, and so less performance and less fuel than the last launch.
NASA's Ames Research Center performing the biological research and technology development necessary to enable NASA's long-term human exploration mission:
ESA's ExoMars programme to investigate the Martian environment and to demonstrate new technologies paving the way for a future Mars sample return mission in the 2020's:
Two missions are foreseen within the ExoMars programme: one consisting of an Orbiter plus an Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module, to be launched in 2016, and the other, featuring a rover, with a launch date of 2018
Two missions are foreseen within the ExoMars programme: one consisting of an Orbiter plus an Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module, to be launched in 2016, and the other, featuring a rover, with a launch date of 2018
A look back at the Falcon 9 launch and landing:
Preview of Tim Kopra and Tim Peake's spacewalk:
The spacewalk scheduled to take place on Friday January 15th starting at 12:55 GMT (07:55 EST).
More:
http://blogs.esa.int/tim-peake/2016/01/07/tim-peakes-spacewalk-overview/
It will be live here:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
The spacewalk scheduled to take place on Friday January 15th starting at 12:55 GMT (07:55 EST).
More:
http://blogs.esa.int/tim-peake/2016/01/07/tim-peakes-spacewalk-overview/
It will be live here:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
Friday spacewalk animation:
Kevin McPherson of NASA’s Glenn Research Center about the Telescience Support Center, which connects crew members on board the International Space Station to scientists on the ground while they work on those scientists’ experiments and channels the data from the experiments back to the ground:
Tim Kopra and Tim Peake's spacewalk is today, it starts at 12:55 GMT (07:55 EST).
It will be live here:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
and there will be BBC TV coverage.
The Spacewalk will also be covered on Stargazing Live tonight on BBC Two at 21:00.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z2yvl
Details of the spacewalk are a few posts above.
It will be live here:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
and there will be BBC TV coverage.
The Spacewalk will also be covered on Stargazing Live tonight on BBC Two at 21:00.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z2yvl
Details of the spacewalk are a few posts above.
Tim Kopra and Tim Peake's spacewalk is about to start!