The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 13 Jul 2014 at 20:53

Away we go:

Cosimo · 14 Jul 2014 at 16:59

ORBCOMM OG2 Mission 1/ Falcon 9 launch live:

More:

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/spacex_orbcomm_presskit_final.pdf

Cosimo · 15 Jul 2014 at 17:45

A look back at the Launch Control Centre with some great historic moments:

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2014 at 07:42

Rosetta arrives at the comet at an altitude of 100 km in the first week of August, and will move progressively closer over the following two months, with the intention to orbit at an altitude of just 10 km, depending on the comet's activity. For Philae's deployment in November, Rosetta will come to within a few kilometres of the surface.

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2014 at 08:47

Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo craft arrives at the station this morning. Grapple expected around 11:39 BST. Live coverage starts here at 10:15:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2014 at 17:22

Cygnus arrives at the station:

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2014 at 19:42

To mark the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11, launched on July 16th 1969 we begin with two short documentaries:

bitslice · 16 Jul 2014 at 21:46

Anyone know anything about this?

China Media Claims Successful EMP Attack on Japanese Spy Satellite

http://chinadailymail.com/2014/05/0...te-destroyed-control-chip-with-secret-weapon/

http://www.asian-defence.net/2014/05/china-media-claims-successful-emp.html

Appears to have gone unreported by anyone? :confused:

Sounds like BS though

Cosimo · 17 Jul 2014 at 08:17

More on Apollo:

Cosimo · 17 Jul 2014 at 10:00

Work on Mars continues:

The sparks that appear on the baseball-sized rock (starting at :17) result from the laser of the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover hitting the rock.

ChemCam's laser zapping of this particular rock was the first time the team used Curiosity's arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera to try and capture images of the spark generated by the laser hitting a rock on Mars. Their efforts were a success.

The video is compiled from single images from the MAHLI camera, taken during the 687th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (July 12, 2014).

Since Curiosity landed in Mars' Gale Crater in August 2012, researchers have used ChemCam's laser and spectrometers to examine more than 600 rock or soil targets. The laser itself has been fired more than 150,000 times. The process, called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, hits a target with pulses from the laser to generate sparks, whose spectra provide information about which chemical elements are in the target. Multiple laser shots are fired in sequence, each blasting away a thin layer of material so that the following shot examines a slightly deeper layer. In this case, "Nova" displayed an increasing concentration of aluminum as a series of laser shots from the rover penetrated through dust on the rock's surface.

Cosimo · 18 Jul 2014 at 09:43

More Apollo:

Cosimo · 19 Jul 2014 at 08:34

Cosimo · 20 Jul 2014 at 10:18

So here we are, 45 years ago on the 20th of July 1969 Apollo 11 land on the moon:

Cosimo · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:20

.... and finally:

Cosimo · 21 Jul 2014 at 10:29

Launch of a Soyuz 2-1A rocket with the Foton-M #4 research satellite payload:

Cosimo · 22 Jul 2014 at 07:16

Away we go, departure at 23:45

Cosimo · 22 Jul 2014 at 13:29

Soyuz Rocket rollout for Progress M-24M which launches tomorrow at 22:44 BST:

Glaucus · 22 Jul 2014 at 21:12

Another successful soft sea landing for spaceX, yet again they couldn't recover it. It went kabbom, when it body slammed into the sea, possibly caused by it's own wave caused by it's engine.

Shame the camera iced up, but still, miles better than the last one.

Cosimo · 24 Jul 2014 at 07:19

Progress 56 arrives at the station:

Cosimo · 24 Jul 2014 at 08:16

A little late but Progress 56 on it's way:

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