Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, July 31, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The feature film The Martian, based on the book of the same name, opens in theaters Oct. 2 with a realistic look at surviving on the red...
NASA preparing Orion Spacecraft for drop tests
In May, NASA’s Langley Research Center received Orion’s heat shield from December’s Exploration Flight Test, and will be integrating it into a crew module mockup and conducting several drop tests to simulate ocean landings. Using test dummies and...Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, July 30, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA and Lockheed Martin make changes to Orion capsule fairing separation system in response to December flight test. Star explosion solves a...
Watch today’s Orion Fairing Separation Test Live!
Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for Orion, is hosting a Google Hangout today for an Orion fairing separation test. Using a series of precisely-timed, explosive charges and mechanisms, the team will evaluate design changes they’ve made to the...
TODAY’S DEEP SPACE EXTRA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s technology investments bring scientists closer to discovery of life beyond the Earth. Some in Congress call for more spending on...
JPL’s Heliophysics Summer School
Today is the start of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Heliophysics Summer School in Boulder, Colorado. Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduate teachers and instructors will meet with NASA scientists to learn about the interactions between...Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Experts suggest a moon base could offer a less costly means of reaching Mars with human explorers. NASA’s Dava Newman brings more than...
The 51st Annual Joint Propulsion Conference
The 51st Joint Propulsion Conference kicks off today in Orlando, FL. Participants will be discussing next-gen commercial and government-sponsored launch systems, orbital insertions, satellites and interstellar propulsion. This conference regularly produces fascinating...Today’s Deep Space Extra – Monday, July 27, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Could NASA’s commercial models for launching supplies and humans to the International Space Station enable a near term, cost saving...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/
