Space Station to Probe for Antimatter
The largest scientific instrument to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) is being readied for flight to the orbiting complex early next year. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector. The AMS-02 will...Desert RATS Rover Mobile, but Rustic
Astronaut Stan Love and NASA geologist Jake Bleacher have wrapped up their Desert RATS Space Exploration Rover test drive with some pretty down to Earth impressions of the prototype for a mobile habitat that would enable new generations of explorers to traverse the...First Photo! NASA Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet Target
Sixty days before its flyby, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft has snapped a picture of its quarry – comet Hartley 2. The spacecraft is on track for a November 4 flyby of the comet, ready to inspect Hartley 2 for over two months. The spacecraft is on an extended...James Webb Space Telescope Task: Spotting Exo-planet Volcanoes
One new assignment for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Spot erupting volcanoes on rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2014. JWST will find the first...Challenger Center Heads to Arizona for NASA Desert RATS
Coalition for Space Exploration Continues its Support of Participatory Exploration at NASA For the next ten days Challenger Center will be reporting live from NASA’s Desert RATS in Arizona as humans use robots and rovers to learn what it would be like to live...Happy 33rd, Voyager I
Sunday marked the 33rd anniversary of NASA’s Voyager I launching, the second of twin spacecraft that conducted historic flyby missions of the solar system’s outermost planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2 lifted off on Aug. 20, 1977....Just In! Raw Images of Saturn Moon – Dione
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has churned out new images of the moon, Dione. Imagery was taken on Sept. 4, 2010 and includes the best views of Dione’s north pole region that Cassini has captured to date. “Just in … crisp, detailed raw images from...Clutter in the Cosmos – Tough Challenges Ahead in Removing Space Junk
ANAHEIM, California – Dealing with the messy facts of orbital debris circling the Earth is receiving the attention of researchers here at SPACE 2010, a major meeting of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). A look at how to deal with derelict...Orbiter Tribute Posters–download yours now!
Space Talk
@ThePrimalDino As a ksp vet myself I’m sure it wasn’t easy! Are you planning on making a youtube vid about how it works?
@Asomr1 I’m thinking about doing a mission to Duna with it and posting it to youtube. Not sure when it will be though
@ThePrimalDino @mightbejell0 SRBs are counted as .5th stage in US so no Shuttle is still a 1st stage
@SCEtoAUXs @mightbejell0 Shuttle can only be counted as a first stage when on the RS-25s.
After the tank drops, and the shuttle switches to OMS engines to complete orbit insertion, it is absolutely a second stage.
I’m not guaranteeing anything, but I’m going to make a huge push to try to make it out for this. I really can’t promise anything but man I really want to see this!
@DJSnM Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight
@asherbphotos Same here - Not sure how i'll pull it off
The worst nightmare for remote cameras almost happened for @tweetsiphotos and I today.
Absolutely horrifying how close of a call we both had. 💀
