STS-100 Status Report
With the Kennedy Space Center reporting cloud cover, showers and gusty winds and with forecasters calling for more of the same for the rest of the week, flight controllers decided to bring Endeavour home to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base later today.
Two opportunities to land at Edwards are available today. For the first, the deorbit burn would occur at 10:03 a.m. central time with landing at 11:11 a.m. The second would see a deorbit burn at 11:39 a.m. and touchdown at 12:47 p.m. Forecasters said weather at Edwards is ideal.
Endeavour, which was launched April 19, brought an advanced and more powerful
Managers Delay STS-104 Launch
NASA Managers announced that Space Shuttle Atlantis and its five-member crew will not launch before early July to begin STS-104. The extra time will allow the International Space Station Program time to evaluate a problem with the station's new robotic arm, Canadarm2.
The station arm will be used to lift STS-104's primary cargo, the Joint Airlock, out of Atlantis's payload bay and attach it to the station. Managers will meet in mid-June to evaluate a new launch date for STS-104. Meanwhile, Atlantis transferred from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, Tuesday night. It will be attached to the External Tank in the
ISS cooling system considering by NASA
“The questions for the day tasks were only partially fulfilled,” said NASA is using on its website. According to ISS Manager Michael Suffredini expected a third deployment in space is necessary. Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson began their spacewalk at 13.19 BST clock. They spent eight hours and three minutes outside [...]
Reusable Launch Vehicles
The faultiness ARD flight, launched by Ariane 5, confirmed EADS LAUNCH VEHICLES ’s know-how with a capsule that is the forerunner to a future reusable vehicle.
With other demonstrators under study, it will allow Europe to master atmospheric re-entry - which is vital for future programs. The acquisition of competence in atmospheric re-entry is a necessary [...]
From success to success Eads Launch Vehicles
Eads Launch Vehicles spans all technologies needed to produce launch vehicles, developed through its lead role on all French ballistic missile programmers. The company has also played a critical role since the beginning of the Ariane programmed, which was launched in the 1970s. Technical expertise developed for ballistic missiles helped ensure the credibility and success [...]
The Launcher Ariane 5
The launch of Ariane marked the qualification of this new-generation heavy launcher, paving the way for its successful commercial career. It was also a major milestone for the European space industry. The new launcher was developed to keep pace with trends in the commercial launch market, especially larger and heavier satellites. The baseline version of [...]
Moon to Mercury
HTML clipboardSpitzer Space Telescope (NASA’s Spitzer) recorded the signs of a collision at high speed of the two planets in the system of young stars. One was the size of Mercury, the other - with our moon. The event happened a few thousand years ago. Artists from NASA immediately made movie. Our [...]
Astronomers have increased the chances of a collision of Earth with an asteroid in 2182
Astronomers have increased the chances of a collision with Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 in XXII century. According to new estimates, a celestial body could meet the Earth with the probability of one chance in a thousand. Details of how scientists determined the probability of collision, are shown in a press release, the Spanish Foundation for [...]
Firefly - the first electric helicopter from Sikorsky
HTML clipboardAnnounced for the first time about a week ago, a helicopter Sikorsky Firefly (Firefly), which uses electricity to move through the air, July 26, was shown at the annual aviaforume AirVenture in Oshkosh (Oshkosh), Wisconsin. The implementation has been around in the air the idea of creating an electric helicopter [...]
The twelfth Meeting Astronomical Spring approaching
In a few days astronomy enthusiasts will gather again in the largest gathering of observers from Europe, the Reencounters Astronomical Spring.They are already about 500 have made an appointment of 13 to 16 May in Capone sure Arson, a small town in Haute-Loire,
On Mars, there are even star dunes …
There are countless geological curiosities observed by the probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Lately, these are dunes star Harries camera has photographed.
New storm on Saturn fans raise the alarm
Through their regular observations Saturn, Amateur astronomers were the first to discover a new storm, allowing scientists to shine over the instruments of the Casino spacecraft.
In short: a first book Planck complete coverage of the sky
On May 14, 2009, the Adriane rocket launched Herschel and Planck space. Intended for observation Mother Satellite Planck just completed its first full coverage of the sky. Online on the website of HFI Planck France we can see the daily status of the mission.
The wild ride of a massive star observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The Hubble and Very Large Telescope foes (The European Space Agency) come to study a star 90 times more massive than the Sun moving at 190,000 km / h, the victim of a cosmic game of pinball.
YU55 2005: Portrait of an asteroid NEO
Passing near the Earth last month, the asteroid YU55 2005 has been an intensive campaign of observations. Purpose: Ensure that it will not venture too close to our beautiful planet soon.
