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 the space station. They succeeded this does not remove a faulty pump. According to NASA, it was not to solve the pump of the ammonia lines. When a valve came out of toxic ammonia, then had the repair work will be interrupted. According to the U.S. space agency experts to advise the mission control on
NASA probe the borders of the solar system “enraged” by aliens?
While the experts of the American aerospace agency NASA are trying to decipher suddenly changed data from an interplanetary probe Voyager 2, located on the border of the solar system, the German scientist seriously suggested that the most incredible, but the most obvious explanation for UFO enthusiasts: probe captured by aliens and now they are trying to contact him via Earth. (more...)
In NASA successfully tested a system to rescue the ship “Orion”
Employees of NASA conducted a successful test of the system of salvation, being developed for spacecraft Orion. More information about the tests reported in the press release of the American space agency. Here can be seen made during the test photos.
Broken down spacecraft NASA
Employees of NASA discovered a problem with the spacecraft Voyager 2, which has been in orbit for more than 30 years, according to the site’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA.
With the Baikonur launch site the fifth in 2010, launching rocket “Proton”.
April 24,2010 in 15 hours 19 minutes Moscow Time from the Beckoner commodore launched a space rocket Proton-M rocket with U.S. telecommunications satellite AMC-4R (AMC-4F).
Start ILK was held in normal mode. In line with the launch cyclorama orbital assembly (spacecraft AMC-4R, mounted on the upper stage Brisk-M) separated from the third stage rocket and continued [...]
To the 65 anniversary of Victory: In the night sky
The dream of becoming a pilot Fyodor Kozyrev appeared in early childhood. He was lucky: when he entered to study at the school from the plant Stankolit, very close was flying club, where he enrolled in his joy.
NASA releases a images from the Spitzer Space Telescope
A new window on the universe was opened on 18 December with the release of the first images of new telescope spatial Spitzer Space Telescope, better known as the Infrared Space Telescope Facility.
The last space shuttle launch postponed until November 2010
The last space shuttle launch postponed from September 2010 to November. Reported portal Space.com. Now the last shuttle, which will go into orbit, will not “Discovery”, which, as planned, will start on September 16, and Endeavour. Previously it was assumed that the Endeavour will fly to the ISS on July 29.
NASA has postponed launch of Space Shuttle
Starting the last space shuttle program NASA Space Shuttle
moved to November 2010 in connection with the need to complete the work on
improvement of the alpha magnetic spectrometer (AMES), which will be installed
on the International Space Station (IS).
NASA has refused to rescue rover “Spirit”
The U.S. space agency (NASA) decided to abandon further
attempts to rescue rover "Spirit" (Spirit), stuck in the sand of the Red Planet
in April 2009. Corresponding message appears on the site NASA.
NASA is selling the Space Shuttle
The era of space shuttles is disappearing. The fastest flying
machines ever built by mankind will be replaced soon by the Ares IX rocket that
will replace them to take over the next NASA space missions.
However, the ferries do not deserve to stay in oblivion. With their success on
their backs, their fate is predictable to a [...]
NASA returned the first images of Solar Observatory
Resolution referred to the device image is ten times higher
than the standard image HDTV.
In the photographs obtained by SDO visible parts,
NASA is preparing a new mission to Venus
The space agency NASA said on plans to send new mission to
Venus, but this time the planet will not send another orbiter, and the two air
ball with scientific equipment, which came down from space into the atmosphere
to better study the features of its sulfuric clouds and acid vapors. In
addition, this mission will see the [...]
ISS astronauts second time out in the open space
American shuttle Discovery astronauts Clay Anderson and Rick
Mastrachcho on Sunday completed the work during the second of three planned
spacewalks, said in a statement on the website NASA.
On the satellite CryoSat-2 will decrypt Siral polar ice
Siral is the main instrument for CryoSat -2. This
interferometer radar altimeter will the new generation ice polar supervision. To
better understand how it works we interviewed Lawrence Rey, program manager at
Thales Alenia Space Siral,
