This week:
** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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NASA and Bigelow Aerospace will make a second attempt to expand the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) today at 14:00 BST (09:00 EDT).
Live coverage will begin at 13:45 on NASA TV:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
Live coverage will begin at 13:45 on NASA TV:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
BEAM expanded to three times the size it was on Thursday:
Operations paused until 17:10 BST.
Operations paused until 17:10 BST.
BEAM expanded to its full size:
Now for the timelapse of the year...
Thaicom 8 launch and landing:
ESA's Clean Space initiative is studying an active debris removal mission called e.Deorbit, which will target an ESA owned derelict satellite in low orbit, capture it, then safely burn it up in a controlled atmospheric re-entry:
Tim Peake speaks to ITV:
Expedition 48/49 crew scheduled to go up on June 24:
Orbital ATK conducted a full power test of the upgraded first stage propulsion system of its Antares rocket using new RD-181 main engines:
The 30 second test took place at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) Pad 0A.
The 30 second test took place at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) Pad 0A.
Life aboard the station:
History Time...
Fifty years ago, Surveyor 1 landed on the lunar surface on June 2, 1966. It was America's first spacecraft to make a powered soft landing on the moon:
Fifty years ago, Surveyor 1 landed on the lunar surface on June 2, 1966. It was America's first spacecraft to make a powered soft landing on the moon:
This week:
Where are they. The location of BEAM and docked craft:
The module measured just over 7 feet long and just under 7.75 feet in diameter in its packed configuration. BEAM now measures more than 13 feet long and about 10.5 feet in diameter to create 565 cubic feet of habitable volume. It weighs approximately 3,000 pounds.
The module measured just over 7 feet long and just under 7.75 feet in diameter in its packed configuration. BEAM now measures more than 13 feet long and about 10.5 feet in diameter to create 565 cubic feet of habitable volume. It weighs approximately 3,000 pounds.
Soldato
Is BEAM truly fully expanded? It appears it’s only two thirds expanded in the above video and subsequent images.
Another rollout, this time a Proton-M/Breeze-M which will deploy the Intelsat 31/DLA-2 communications satellite:
Into BEAM we go:
Monthly ISS Research Video Update for May: