Category: Space
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Weekly Space Blog 6/22
Lots of great news this week Herschel ends operations This week the Herschel team send the final commands to shutdown the spacecraft following a series of tests that were performed on the spacecraft after the primary mission finished because of the depletion of the helium coolant that cooled the primary instruments. Since April the team…
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Weekly Space Blog 6/15
This week SpaceX sign military agreement, Chinese Astronauts, Chris Hadfield, Opportunity and Kepler keep giving, and much more. SpaceX This week SpaceX signed a framework agreement for potential Military launches in the future. Under the agreement the air force will evaluate the Falcon v1.1 rocket over at least three launches as well as all the…
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Touch Tomorrow festival
Yesterday we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for the Touch Tomorrow festival, there were lots of activities for the kids to do and some fun exhibits for everyone to learn about advances in robotics. The event sponsored by NASA was an opportunity for people to learn about the Space Launch System (SLS), visit a Moon…
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This week we have a lot of news
This week we have a lot of news related to Space, enjoy. SpaceX Rocket Test This week SpaceX CEO tweeted that they had tested fired their most powerful Rocket yet, with 1.3m lbs. Here is a copy of the image, looking forward to seeing this vehicle in flight. Boeing Marching on with CCiCap milestones This…
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Soyuz launch, ARKYD Kickstarter, Astronaut Abby
Welcome to my new weekly blog on all things Space, this week we take a look at the latest Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, the ARKYD Kickstarter project and Astronaut Abby a 15 year old with an amazing vision for STEM and Space. Soyuz Launch On Tuesday this week Karen Nyberg, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca…
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Liftoff of Falcon 9 with Dragon
This morning SpaceX successfully launched their latest Falcon 9 witth Dragon towards the international space station. Following an aborted launch on Saturday that was traced back to a faulty value on engine 5 SpaceX successfully fixed, validated and prepared for launch this morning. After the 9 minute ride to orbit which was performed flawlessly by…
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3 Weeks and Counting to SpaceX Launch
In just over three weeks SpaceX is scheduled to launch their second and hopefully last COTS demo mission. Today we are going to take a look in detail at the Dragon spacecraft and what a successful mission will mean for SpaceX and the US space industry in general. Dragon Designed and built by SpaceX the…
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More Delays
Last year Russia suffered from the lose of a Progress vehicle that resulted in several delays to manned launches and the possibility of having to de-man the Space Station which has been constantly occupied since November 2000. Thankfully they were able to resolve the problems and the station returned to a full crew before the…
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Latest News from ISS
Today Mike Suffredini, the Manager of the International Space Station made several announcements today during a teleconference aired live on NASA’s web site. Here is a summary of them. Computer Hardware/Software Upgrade Mike confirmed today that they had just completed a comprehensive upgrade of the Computer Software and Hardware used to control the space station…
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Pale Blue Dot
This week during the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society a number of announcements were made about recent discoveries, today we will take a looks at some of these. One of the most significant is the announcement that almost every star in the galaxy has at least one planet orbiting it. Recently we discussed…