James Webb Space Telescope’s Sunshield getting closer to spacecraft integration
Northrop Grumman recently tested a revolutionary new “sunshield” for the James Webb Space Telescope. The sunshield will protect the telescope’s extremely delicate instruments from solar radiation while the telescope’s mirrors point outward into...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. A 2016 federal budget lapse could disrupt NASA, national security space priorities. U.S. moon, Mars human exploration initiatives need more...
Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Path to Mars
Aerojet Rocketdyne, besides being the annual winner of the most awesome company name in history, has a critical role in the development of SLS, Orion, and new technologies that will enable the human exploration of deep space. Take a look at this video that shows how...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, September 4, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. An Earth bound, yearlong Mars mission simulation raises a question: What will I miss most? Astronomers not ready to give up to very distant...
Viking 2’s 39-year landing anniversary
On this day in 1976, the Viking 2 Mars lander touched down on the red planet, becoming only the second spacecraft to successfully soft-land on Mars. Viking 2 remained active for over three years, returning extremely valuable data on the planet’s surface...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, September 3, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The soon to open feature film, The Martian, is as realistic as it gets, suggests a top NASA planetary scientist. Women scientists were a...
David Hitt’s RS-25 experience
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s David Hitt recently authored a blog post about his close-up experience at the RS-25 test fire in August. As a senior writer for NASA’s SLS team, David has had the opportunity to see several actual launches, but an engine...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. There is sound, then space: NASA’s Orion prime contractor will subject the developing human spacecraft to acoustic forces during ground...
Expedition 45 launches to the ISS tonight
Don’t forget–tune in to NASA TV tonight to watch Expedition 45 launch to the International Space Station at 12:34 a.m. EDT. This will be a taxi flight aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, taking up Sergey Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov of Roscosmos and Andreas...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/
