Operator command radio
The operator executes (carries) and issuing a set of control commands onboard the spacecraft and control the exchange of information between ground-based and space objects. (more...)
Astronomers have discovered how to behave in the world before death
Scientists led by Coelho Helliera, an astronomer at the University of Keeley in Britain have discovered a new planet outside solar system that has the unusual parameters of rotation around its star, according to which a celestial body must join forces with its star in less than one million let. (more...)
NASA successfully launched space shuttle Atlantis to the ISS
Space Shuttle Atlantis on Monday, November 16, launched from
the spaceport at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Start transmit to NASA.
NASA will explore the outer solar system
NASA will launch in January, the New Horizons spacecraft to
Pluto, the only planet never been visited by a robotic probe, and which features
would help unravel the mysteries of the origins of our solar system .
New reserves of ice on Mars
The U.S. probe MRO has discovered large quantities of ice
beneath the surface of the planet red, this time far from the poles.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) continues to scrutinize the soil and the
subsurface of Mars for the fifth consecutive year.
The largest telescope in the world is Toulouse
An Ariane 5 will propel the Herschel satellite with a giant
mirror manufactured by EADS-Astrium and Boostec. While the launch date
approaches, the engineers are crossing their fingers that the mission was
flawless. Rarely has a space program has cost so dear. Rarely has also
incorporated many new technologies on two satellites responsibility to remove a
portion of our questions [...]
Pluto’s composition
Pluto’s composition is unknown, but its density (about 2 gm/cm3) indicates that it is probably a mixture of 70% rock and 30% water ice much like Triton. The bright areas of the surface seem to be covered with ices of nitrogen with smaller amounts of (solid) methane and carbon monoxide. The composition of the [...]
The first flight of Concorde
On March 2, 1969, there are exactly 40 years and three hours, the first prototype of the supersonic Concorde tore the ground for the first crystallizing the efforts of thousands of technicians and engineers and inaugurating a new era of civil air transport .
Airport Toulouse-Blagnac, March 2, 1969, 15 h 38. The device was [...]
The delivery flight of a Concorde was an April Fool
After the announcement (March 31) in several flights of Concorde at the upcoming Paris Air Show, many wanted to believe. But it was a joke that leaves a bitter taste in some …
A plastic that prevents before breaking
When subjected to a voltage too high, polymer blushes … It is then time to stop the twist. For this signal, U.S. physicists have included in the material of molecules capable of initiating chemical reactions under the effect of mechanical stress.
Airbus A380 which is scheduled arises at Roissy-CDG
In this Tuesday, June 2, 2009, the news is dominated by air the drama of flight AF 447 of Air France, the Airbus A330 jet, which disappeared yesterday at sea in the Atlantic Ocean. At a time when research takes place in an attempt to recover the remains of the aircraft, another Airbus flying between [...]
Salon du Bourget 2009: A crisis in the cuckoos and old to celebrate
This Monday, June 15, 2009 opened the forty-eighth edition of the Salon International de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace, also known as the Paris Air Show. Bringing together the cream of the production of aeronautical earth, commercial, military, business and tourism, to Le Bourget airport, LFPB for pilots, north of Paris, the exhibition is reserved for [...]
Solar Impulse aircraft solar Bertrand Piccard, was built!
In 2012, Bertrand Piccard will pursue the full rotation of the planet in an airplane with a single source of energy is the sun. The first prototype, HB-SIA, will be used for preliminary tests. It has been presented. The goal? Demonstrate that solar energy can be used in many fields. “Nobody can pretend that you [...]
Apollo 11: footsteps on the Moon
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not sleep long. They are currently equipped to finish inside the small lunar module Eagle. Hours earlier, the LM landed in a cloud of dust somewhere in the Sea of Tranquility, the smooth area that is easily identified with the naked eye, looking at the moon.
Viewed closely, the [...]
Space tourism: the WhiteKnightTwo stole
The aircraft carrier Virgin Galactic, which will carry the SpaceShipTwo, the vehicle designed for a suborbital parabola, has just made its first public flight at the airshow in Oshkosh, the United States.
Richard Branson, boss of Virgin Galactic, was aboard for the flight of WhiteKnightTwo (WK2), in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. More great aviation event in the [...]
