The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Glaucus · 31 Jul 2013 at 00:39

Curiosity ask us anything on reddit (allready finished)
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jd005/we_are_engineers_and_scientists_on_the_mars/

Cosimo · 31 Jul 2013 at 08:07

A look back:

Cosimo · 31 Jul 2013 at 15:35

Cosimo said:
More on that water:

Part 2:

Cosimo · 1 Aug 2013 at 17:52

Happy Anniversary!

This needs some good music.

Cosimo · 2 Aug 2013 at 16:32

Shame that the one year only starts at 3:33.

Cosimo · 3 Aug 2013 at 06:53

Cosimo · 3 Aug 2013 at 12:21

The fourth Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV-4, is set for launch aboard an H-IIB launch vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan at 20:48 BST (15:48 EDT).

Launch can be watched from JAXA here:

http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/htv/live_e.html

or from NASA:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Cosimo · 4 Aug 2013 at 10:00

HTV-4 will berth on August 9.

Cosimo · 5 Aug 2013 at 22:11

Judgeneo · 6 Aug 2013 at 19:49

ESA funding skylon feasability study
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23590080

Maybe we will finally get funding to go ahead next year

Cosimo · 7 Aug 2013 at 07:27

Glaucus · 7 Aug 2013 at 20:25

This should be a good google hangout tomorrow.
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/events/cg9jcsfsgrv7l7486mq504kckss

We're excited to announce we'll be hosting a Hangout with some of the great innovators of our time,+Elon Musk and +Richard Branson, in a conversation moderated by Googler +Yonca Brunini. They'll discuss entrepreneurship, space travel, and advice for entrepreneurs around the world. They'll take questions from entrepreneurs at tech hubs like the +Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship South Africa, +Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship - Caribbean, and +Virgin Money. We're excited to hear from these two entrepreneurs who embody 10x thinking, and to be inspired by their vision for the future. Tune in on Thursday, August 8th!

9am California time
11am Jamaica time
5pm UK time
6pm South Africa time

Cosimo · 8 Aug 2013 at 07:50

Launch of WGS-6 (Wideband Global Satcom) on a Delta IV rocket earlier this morning:

Cosimo · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:35

Now this is the way to explain things, excellent.

Cosimo · 9 Aug 2013 at 14:58

Cosimo · 13 Aug 2013 at 17:39

A detailed look at EVA 34 which will take place on August 16:

MEDIA ADVISORY M13-123

NASA Television to Broadcast Two Russian Spacewalks in August

NASA Television will provide live coverage as two Russian cosmonauts venture outside the International Space Station on spacewalks Friday, Aug. 16, and Thursday, Aug. 22.

NASA TV coverage will begin at 10 a.m. EDT both days.

Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin will install equipment for the arrival of a new Russian module and begin preparations for the installation later this year of an optical telescope.

The two cosmonauts will exit the Pirs airlock at about 10:40 a.m. on Aug. 16 for a spacewalk scheduled to last about 6.5 hours. They plan to continue routing power and Ethernet cables for the future arrival of the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, which will be launched aboard a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They also will install on the Poisk module a panel of experiments designed to collect data on the effects of the microgravity environment in low-Earth orbit..

The spacewalks will be the 172nd and 173rd in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the seventh and eighth of Yurchikhin’s career and the second and third for Misurkin. Yurchikhin will wear a Russian Orlan suit bearing red stripes, and Misurkin will wear a suit with blue stripes. Misurkin’s suit also will be equipped with a U.S. helmet camera to provide close up views of the work he will be performing outside the station.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Cosimo · 14 Aug 2013 at 07:53

One step closer:

http://www.spacedev.com/ss_space_exploration.php

Glaucus · 14 Aug 2013 at 19:48

The dream chaser just doesn't interest me, seems to have no point tto it, other than lets copy the general shape of space shuttle. Odd shape which much reduce weight on liftoff of the rocket, with little to no benefit. Should be assigned to the scrap heap with the SLS. And money invested elsewhere.

I love de Grasshoper, can't wait for there real attempt, possibly next month.

On August 13th, the Falcon 9 test rig (code name Grasshopper) completed a divert test, flying to a 250m altitude with a 100m lateral maneuver before returning to the center of the pad. The test demonstrated the vehicle's ability to perform more aggressive steering maneuvers than have been attempted in previous flights.

Grasshopper is taller than a ten story building, which makes the control problem particularly challenging. Diverts like this are an important part of the trajectory in order to land the rocket precisely back at the launch site after reentering from space at hypersonic velocity.

Glaucus · 15 Aug 2013 at 22:24

It looks like something out of KSP.

This sped-up movie from the Curiosity rover shows Phobos (the larger of Mars' two moons) passing in front of smaller Deimos. Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.

Cosimo · 17 Aug 2013 at 07:46

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