Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. With the Critical Design Review phase behind them, NASA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin turn their attention to preparation of the...
News from the Division of Planetary Sciences’ 47th Annual Meeting
The Division of Planetary Sciences met in Maryland last week to discuss many of the landmark planetary science missions happening in the solar system right now. These include New Horizons’ visit to Pluto, MESSENGER’s final orbits around Mercury, and spacecraft...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 16, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activity from across the globe. Will humans explore beyond Mars? NASA’s advanced exploration division marks progress with the development of a habitat for deep space...
This Is What The Orion Service Module’s Propulsion System Looks Like
Now this is some engineering. You’re looking at a model-though sadly, not a working one-of the propulsion systems that will power the Orion European Service Module (ESM). Developed by Airbus Defence and Space, the system is now being delivered to NASA’s...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, November 13, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. U.S. and Soviet Cold War space vets Buzz Aldrin and Alexey Leonov reunite in Switzerland. Astronomers spot bright pulsar burst from beyond the...
The 20th anniversary of STS-74
On this day in 1995, STS-74 launched from the Florida coast. STS-74 was the 73rd space shuttle flight, and the second shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir. With a crew of five, STS-74 was notable in that it was the first joint U.S.-Russian mission to...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, November 12, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA shapes a milestone driven timeline for the first planned test flight of the agency’s Space Launch System exploration rocket,...
Project HARP: The Space Gun
Remember Project HARP? This was an experiment began in the 1960s to launch a small satellite from an artillery piece, with the ultimate goal of bringing down launch costs. While the project eventually shut down due to funding concerns, it was successful in launching...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The FAA’s George Nield offers some reasons to embrace Moon Village, a proposed far side moon settlement. Multi-national studies examine...Space Talk
@SpaceArchivist_ Yes, the LVSA might be a slight issue, so try it whichever way works best for you!
as for KSP, I appreciate the offer, but i love to show off my own KSP stock stuff so ill probably do that myself, but i do thank you for the offer!
@SpaceArchivist_ could you replace the ICPS with centaur V?
I'm working on a video about SLS centaur V, and one of the points im going to discuss is how massively overkill current SLS is for CV, and that this, much smaller SLS could also do such a thing, and would like to give the audience a
@SpaceArchivist_ and of course, Ill credit you in video!
What a strange configuration
Hey as a completely unrelated fun fact did y'all know that Orion can only be integrated vertically?
We're not rebuilding the same pad for New Glenn. We're moving to a horizontal/vertical hybrid configuration to get us flying again this year at 36A. We were already working on something similar for 9x4 at 36B. Let me explain what that means. We mate the stages horizontally in
@ThePrimalDino @Tygget getting Orion to LLO with CV would definitely require a refill in LEO, and at that point it would make more sense to just use a beefier cislunar transporter
@serendistant @Tygget yup. especially given how tall that rocket would be. it would be very unwieldy
We’re at the Great American State Fair in DC, where we’ve got live feed of NASA astronauts @Astro_Jessica and @Astro_ChrisW replacing a wrist joint on the @Space_Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm during their spacewalk! Tune in here: http://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/us-spacewalk-95/
