The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 30 Apr 2013 at 17:04

Avoiding space junk.... the 3,100-pound Cosmos 1805:

Tibbz2 · 30 Apr 2013 at 17:18

Spook187 said:
Goodbye Herschel

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_closes_its_eyes_on_the_Universe

It's a shame, but I guess we can remember it as one of Europe's greatest achievements on the space exploration front

Spook187 · 30 Apr 2013 at 23:09

Stunning.

Cosimo · 1 May 2013 at 12:01

Some interesting history:

Cosimo · 2 May 2013 at 10:05

Published today:

A must for the space library.

Cosimo · 2 May 2013 at 11:46

Send your name to Mars on the MAVEN mission:

http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/maven/main/index.html

Cosimo · 3 May 2013 at 10:28

Cosimo · 4 May 2013 at 09:38

Cosimo · 4 May 2013 at 12:09

Work in progress:

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/difficult_parachute_tests.html

Cosimo · 7 May 2013 at 09:46

Vega Flight VV02 launches from the Guiana Space Centre with the Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1 satellite payload:

http://www.arianespace.com/news-mission-update/2013/1042-success.asp

Cosimo · 10 May 2013 at 07:22

Westyfield2 · 10 May 2013 at 10:20

What's this about the space station having a leak?

Cosimo · 10 May 2013 at 11:24

Westyfield2 said:
What's this about the space station having a leak?

Apparently there is a leak in the outboard port-six (P6) solar array truss segment:

http://www.spaceflight101.com/iss-us-eva-21-updates.html

Cosimo · 10 May 2013 at 17:07

That leak:

Update:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition35/e35_051013.html

Westyfield2 · 10 May 2013 at 17:12

Cheers

.

Glaucus · 11 May 2013 at 07:11

I love TW@N, awesome stuff. Curiosity has received some software updates, and this site shows growth/destruction of several places. Biggest one being Las Vegas growth.

http://earthengine.google.org/#intro

Cosimo · 11 May 2013 at 07:39

Glaucus · 11 May 2013 at 07:44

very nice video off a tour of the Moon including one appollo landing site, in HD.

Cosimo · 11 May 2013 at 12:08

The spacewalk to work on the ammonia leak will begin in around thirty minutes. Live coverage is here:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Spook187 · 11 May 2013 at 12:12

Cosimo said:
The spacewalk to work on the ammonia leak will begin in around thirty minutes. Live coverage is here:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Watching now

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