U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott crew member of the 18th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) gestures prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. Garriott, a computer game designer, reached space Sunday aboard a Russian rocket, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream as his astronaut father watched with
Across the Internet today and yesterday there have been rumors flying around just about on every technology news site about NASAs supposed plan to purchase the $131 million unmaned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, which is Japans space agency. This was apparently to ensure continued cargo and supplies would reach astronauts due to NASAs plan to ground the ageing Space Shuttle in 2010 and replace it wi
Across the Internet today and yesterday there have been rumors flying around just about on every technology news site about NASAs supposed plan to purchase the $131 million unmaned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, which is Japans space agency. This was apparently to ensure continued cargo and supplies would reach astronauts due to NASAs plan to ground the ageing Space Shuttle in 2010 and replace it wi
Two studies based on data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life. One study, published in the July 17 issue of Nature, shows that vast regions of the ancient highlands of Mars, which cover about half the planet, contain clay minerals, which can fo
Want to send your name on a mission to the moon? NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. Fortunately for you, the deadline of June 27, 2008 has been extended to July 25 by popular demand. So whats your waiting for? Don't waste time scanning at your PC's
NASAs Constellation Program which is its mission to set up a base on the moon by the year 2020 and the subsequent development of modules that will achieve this, Is replacing the ageing space shuttle by 2010 with the 2 new mo
NASAs Constellation Program which is its mission to set up a base on the moon by the year 2020 and the subsequent development of modules that will achieve this, Is replacing the ageing space shuttle by 2010 with the 2 new mo
Mercury is shrinking, NASA craft finds; a cool clue: 'lobate scarps'
Measurements by the Messenger spacecraft show the innermost planet has lost more than a mile in diameter over its history because of the cooling of its core.
By John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 4, 2008
Mercury is not just the solar system's shrimpy kid brother, at least since Pluto was kicked out of the
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Currently the mission is in the early planning stages. Although the price of the mission is lower than for most other spacecraft, a launch vehicle must be ready f
"One day after a picture-perfect landing on Mars, NASA’s Phoenix lander seemed Monday to be in perfect health. The spacecraft has redundant systems to survive the failure of some components, and mission controllers have drawn up contingency plans for possible problems. At a news conference on Monday, NASA released a photograph made possible by another engineering tour de force. On Sunday, the Ma
"NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down in the northern polar region of Mars on Sunday and has sent back its first pictures of the planet's surface. The Phoenix represents NASA's sixth successful landing on Mars and was the first to be photographed."[via cnet news]
NASA has released the image of Mars taken from Phoenix spacecraft. This black and white self-portrait shows the leg of Phoenix, nestled in the Martian soil.
On Sunday, May 25, 2008, Phoenix NASA spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars , starting three months examining a site chosen for the probability of having frozen water within reach The lander's robotic arm.
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"NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft made a safe, flawless landing Sunday on Mars. During the final, tense minutes of the descent, long stretches of quiet in the mission support room were punctuated by cheers and clapping as confirmation of crucial events like the deployment of the parachute were confirmed. Then, at 7:53 p.m. Eastern time, Richard Kornfeld, the lead communications officer for entry, desc
Picture taken from Phoenix(Click The Picture To Enlarge)(Click The Picture To Enlarge)NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.Radio signals received at 4:53:44 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53:44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars
By Irene KlotzMay 26, ReutersPASADENA, Calif - A small science probe blazed through the salmon-colored skies of Mars on Sunday, touching down on a frozen desert at the planet's north pole to search for water and assess conditions for sustaining life, NASA officials said.The spacecraft, known as Phoenix, landed at 4:53 p.m. PDT after a do-or-die plunge through the planet's thin atmosphere. It marke
A collection of custom vector spacecraft shapes for Adobe Photoshop by retoucher07030. Those are just outlines but I'm pretty sure someone will find them useful. Note if you're a CS3 user you can export and use the shapes is Illustrator (select + copy in Photoshop and paste in Illustrator) Download linkVectot Art
The image above shows a portion of the Phoenix Mars Lander after it landed on Mars. The touch down took place on Sunday, 25 May 2008 in the northern polar region of the planet after a 422 million-mile flight from Earth.On the Net: Image gallery showing images relating to the Phoenix Mission and Mars. Images of the Phoenix Mission are provided by NASA, JPL-Caltech, and the University of Arizona.
"NASA scientists have built a dynamic little spacecraft in record time. It may someday rendezvous with asteroids, orbit Earth or Mars, and land on the moon -- for roughly one tenth the price of a conventional unmanned mission. The new vehicle is designed around what Marshall's team calls a Modular Common Spacecraft Bus. It has a versatile octagonal box shape that can carry up to fifty kilograms of instruments so long as they can fit within the space sits atop the engine."[via wired]
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On April 28th of 2003 the spacecraft GALEX, which means Galaxy Evolution Explorer, was sent into space with the mission of observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history through an incorporated telescope.
This mission which was originally planned to last only 29 months was extended and is still active [...]
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On 2 of December, 1995 a spacecraft called SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) was launched into space with the mission of studying the internal structure of the Sun, it’s extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind which is a stream of ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the Solar [...]
SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer) (Ancient Greek: Σελήνη, moon), better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya (かぐや, Kaguya), is the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft. Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and NASDA (both organizations that are now part of the Japan Aero Space Exploration Agency, or JAXA), the spacecraft was launched September 14,2007-wikiThere are two models, the first is a colored but simplified version while the second is un-colored and a little bit complicated. The downloads are at the bottom.SELENE Satellite Papercraft
The shape of a spacecraft may be crucial to keeping its crew safe on long flights. The ideal form, according to Ram Tripathi, a spaceflight engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, US, is a grapefruit spiked with cherries on sticks.
This bizarre design might be the only way to protect the crew from cancers triggered by the searing radiation environments they would experience on longer space trips, Tripathi says in a new study.
The major radiation sources are galactic cosmic rays, charged particles that comprise anything from electrons up to the heavy metal elements and ’solar particle events’, which throw out protons and helium nuclei.
The electrons, protons and heavy-metal ions such as iron and uranium whiz through the void and can all cause cancers. But aluminium shielding capable of staving the radiation off on extended journeys would be prohibitively heavy, burning too much fuel.
“Exposure from the hazards of severe space radiation in
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft lifted today from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.This is the first step that should continue during eight years mission, Dawn Spacecraft goal is to describe the cosmology of the solar system's earliest epoch 4.5 billion years ago by exploring the massive asteroid Vesta and the planet Ceres, both of which are in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Nasa hope to discover the secrets of the solar system and how it was born. It’s the first world effort to send spacecraft to explorer these asteroids.Asteroid Vesta and the planet Ceres are both the biggest asteroids in belt between Mars and Jupiter. In last year Ceres started to be called the dwarf planet. Source & Image:nasa
A NASA probe blasted into space early Thursday, kicking off an unprecedented mission to explore the two largest asteroids in the solar system. Riding atop a Delta 2 rocket, NASA's Dawn spacecraft launched toward the asteroids Vesta and Ceres at 7:34 a.m. EDT (1134 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. "In my view, we're going to be visiting some of the last unexplored worlds in the solar system," said Marc Rayman, Dawn director of system engineering at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. Dawn's eight-year mission will carry the 2,685-pound (1,212-kilogram) probe across three billion miles (4.9 billion kilometers) on NASA's first sortie deep into the asteroid belt, a ring of space rocks that circles the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. By visiting the bright, rocky asteroid Vesta and the large, icy Ceres, researchers hope Dawn will shed new light on the formation of planets and solar system's early evolution
DEBKA - US and Indian military sources say that, if successful, the twin launch by the same Polaris/TecSat vehicle Sept. 17-20 will add Israel to the few nations with imaging radar reconnaissance satellites able to distinguish camouflaged vehicles from rocky terrain – by night and through foliage.The Israeli military satellite will lift off along with India’s first military recon spacecraft, Cartosat 2A. They will be fired in an approximately 600-km polar orbit atop the same Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from an island in the Bay of Bengal. The data-gathering features of Polaris 1 are especially pertinent for a potential attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.Israeli satellite’s ability to “see through” cloud and foliage and distinguish between camouflaged vehicles and rocks, provide an answer for Iran’s ingenious camouflaging methods employed by Hizballah in the 2006 Lebanese war.
Well boys and girls, last year we showed you how to build your very own H-bomb, and today for all you budding astronauts, we are going to build our very own Shuttle!Simply follow the simple instructions and before you know it, you could be ready to put your very own space-station into orbit just like the big guys!(P.S. If necessary, refer to the wiring diagram for the more complex computer systems!)Your "up and away" scribe;Allan W Janssen
Marie-Curie ‘Early Stage Researcher’ Fellowship/Studentship
Dynamics of Tethered Spacecraft
School Of Electronics And Physical Sciences - Department Of Mathematics And Surrey Space Centre
Close Date Monday, August 20, 2007
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Salary: circa €27,000 p.a. plus allowances
Applications are invited for a 3 year Marie-Curie Research Fellowship/Studentship to work on the mathematical modelling,
Marie-Curie ‘Early Stage Researcher’ Fellowship/Studentship
Dynamics of Tethered Spacecraft
School Of Electronics And Physical Sciences - Department Of Mathematics And Surrey Space Centre
Close Date Monday, August 20, 2007
(Ref 6169)
Salary: circa €27,000 p.a. plus allowances
Applications are invited for a 3 year Marie-Curie Research Fellowship/Studentship to work on the mathematical modelling,
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I really love Homeworld 1 & 2, fantastic games, I don't know what the hell I'm doing half the time, but I imagine this would be the case if I really was in charge of a large fleet of spaceships, so extra points for realism there. It's a shame e3 2006 didn't deliver the goods with the annoucement of Homeworld 3 : ( to make myself happier I have found some wonderful spaceship papercraft!Homeworld spaceship papercraft can be found here.
Note: This article was quoted from Phoenix Mars Mission site for education and reference purposes.
May 25, 2008 — NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm.
Radio signals received [...]
Note: This article was quoted from Phoenix Mars Mission site for education and reference purposes.
May 25, 2008 — NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm.
Radio signals received [...]
Note: This article was quoted from Phoenix Mars Mission site for education and reference purposes.
May 25, 2008 -- NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the ...
