Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Findings from Cassini, a joint U.S. European spacecraft mission to Saturn, suggests the moon Enceladus hosts a global ocean beneath its icy...
James Webb Space Telescope’s backplane being integrated at Goddard
The James Webb Space Telescope, humanity’s next great observatory, is getting closer and closer to launch. The telescope’s backplane recently arrived at Goddard Space Flight Center for integration. The backplane is a crucial component that is responsible...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Today’s (Tuesday) space news scan offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Reaching Mars could help to solve pressing issues at home. Space likely to figure in U.S. presidential decision — quietly, if...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, September 14, 2015
Today’s (Monday) space news scan offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The next U.S. president should consult with the aerospace industry on nation’s exploration goals, according to op-ed. New Pluto...
Astronaut Frank Culbertson on 9/11
Today, Exploredeepspace remembers the tragedy that befell the United States 14 years ago and forever changed the world.
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, September 11, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin displays an eagerness to rev up public enthusiasm for space with a new Mars book for children. Engineers...
Japan’s H-II Transfer Vehicles – a six-year perfect record
On this day in 2009, Japan’s HTV-1 was launched on a maiden flight to resupply the International Space Station. HTV-1 arrived seven days later, and was grappled by the station’s Canadarm and docked to the Harmony port. This mission solidified Japan’s...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, September 10, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Assembly of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Orion capsule assigned to the first space test flight of the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket has...
SLS is bringing back the thunder
NASA’s Space Launch System will be the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. With one variant standing over 400 feet tall, SLS will be taller than London’s Big Ben, and more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. The 70-metric-ton...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/
