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The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as it is rotated from a vertical to a horizontal position in preparation for being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
jsc2019e012763 (March 6, 2019) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft stands at the ready March 6 prior to its encapsulation into the nose fairing of the Soyuz booster rocket. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Viking 1 spacecraft 1975: The mating of the Obiter and Lander elements of the Viking spacecraft is shown at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Two Vikings will be launched on August 11 and August 21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and are scheduled to arrive at Mars in July 1976. The lander elements of each spacecraft will be soft-landed on the planet’s surface and test for signs of life.
The above is from some non-NASA site, associated with a similar photo (linked to below). If indeed Viking 1, this mating occurred March 8, 1975, in Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Building/Facility? No. 2 (SAEB No. 2/SAEB 2 and/or SAEF No. 2/SAEF 2/SAEF II), located in the KSC/CCAFS? Industrial Area.
So…neither here nor there; but either the SAEBs were redesignated as SAEFs between Viking and Voyager, or it’s just another case of undisciplined, interchangeable & “whatever, it’s close enough” naming ‘convention’ by NASA whoevers.
"building":
history.nasa.gov/SP-480/ch12.htm
"Building", "Facility", either, both, mix 'n' match, take your pick. Page 2, third/last paragraph, under "2.0 LDEF MISSION PROFILE"...good grief:
www.researchgate.net/publication/24298829_Composite_mater...
Credit: ResearchGate website
"Facility":
www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/history/50thgallery/19...
Immediately to the right and just above the two camera-facing thermal control louvers (beneath the square red protective covers), the dual cylindrical housings of the two high-resolution television cameras can be seen, responsible for the countless amazing images of Mars & its moons.
The U.S. flag and mostly obscured U.S. Bicentennial emblem are visible on the white insulative/protective cover of the main propulsion unit.
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.
On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket.
The encapsulation process for the H-IIA is very different than for most U.S. rockets. For U.S. rockets, the fairing is usually in two pieces that close around the payload like a clamshell. To install the GPM Core Observatory into the fairing of the H-IIA rocket, first the Core Observatory and the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) are set up in scaffolding in the Encapsulation Hall. Then, the fairing is lifted above and lowered onto the fitting. When only a few feet remain above the final position, stanchions support the fairing while technicians go inside to complete the electrical connections. When this is completed, they remove the stanchions and lower the fairing to its final position, where it is bolted in place.
The GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. The GPM Core Observatory anchors this network by providing observations on all types of precipitation. The observatory's data acts as the measuring stick by which partner observations can be combined into a unified data set. The data will be used by scientists to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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The MetOp-SG-A1 satellite being enclosed within the Ariane 6's rocket fairing - a key milestone that marks the end of hands-on work for the team, and always an emotional moment. No one will actually see the satellite anymore – the fairing will not be opened until three minutes 30 seconds after liftoff as MetOp-SG-A1 is taken into orbit around Earth.
MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites that will deliver global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis. The A-type satellites, the first of which is the soon-to-launch MetOp-SG-A1, carry six instruments, including the European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer.
Credits: ESA - M. Pédoussaut
Before proceeding with encapsulation, the team needs to make sure that the clearance between the satellite and the fairing is ok.
The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite will be carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher.
Once safely in orbit and fully commissioned, this new satellite will begin its mission to map Earth’s oceans and land surfaces with its powerful optical and radar systems. The Sentinel-3 mission is set to play a key role in the world’s largest environmental monitoring programme – Copernicus.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Red, green & blue sand inside small glass bottles. This is my entry in the Pinoy Pentaxian Photo Challenge for week 9 which has a theme of: Simplicity.
My idea was to photograph the primary colors as my take for simplicity. The choice to create bokeh in the background is to put the focus more on the bottles and make the photo as straightforward as possible. =)
Sentinel-2A being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing.
Liftoff from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is set for 23 June at 01:52 GMT (03:52 CEST; 22:52 local time on 22 June), on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
For more information on the mission, visit www.esa.int/sentinel2
Credit: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2015
Encapsulating a Winter's morning here in Nottingham.
Crispy crackle partially covered snow, freezing fog closing in giving almost peripheral vision.
The MetOp-SG-A1 satellite being enclosed within the Ariane 6's rocket fairing - a key milestone that marks the end of hands-on work for the team, and always an emotional moment. No one will actually see the satellite anymore – the fairing will not be opened until three minutes 30 seconds after liftoff as MetOp-SG-A1 is taken into orbit around Earth.
MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites that will deliver global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis. The A-type satellites, the first of which is the soon-to-launch MetOp-SG-A1, carry six instruments, including the European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer.
Credits: ESA - M. Pédoussaut
The sculpture ‘Sacrifice’ encapsulates the message at the heart of the Anzac Memorial in Sydney. Designed by sculptor George Rayner Hoff the sculpture is based on the story of the Spartan warrior from ancient Greece. Spartan men were raised as warriors from boyhood and, when marching to war, were told to come home with their shield or on it - a warning to be victorious or die in the attempt. Rayner Hoff has created an image that depicts the weight of the dead young warrior carried on his shield by his mother, sister and wife nursing infant child. The sculpture Sacrifice uses the analogy of the Spartan warrior being returned to his loved ones dead on his shield to evoke the emotion experienced by the families of the young men who died in the Great War 1914-18.
In the BOOK OF THE ANZAC MEMORIAL published in 1934. The sculpture Sacrifice is described "with great dramatic power it portrays the recumbent form of an Anzac whose soul has passed to the Great Beyond, and whose body, borne aloft upon a shield by his best loved – mother, sister, wife and child – is laid there as a symbol of that spirit which inspired him in life, the spirit of Courage, Endurance and Sacrifice. There is no pomp, no vain glory, no glamour in this group; rather is there stark tragedy, grim reality and bitter truth. But it is the truth which tells not only of the brutality of war and of the suffering it engenders, but of the noblest of all human qualities – self-sacrifice for duty."
Sacrifice is located in the Hall of Silence and, again from the BOOK OF THE ANZAC MEMORIAL, "so that all who enter the Hall of Memory must gaze down upon it, thereby making physical and mental acknowledgement of the spirit which it symbolises..."
Sacrifice was cast at the Morris Singer Foundry, London.
It is difficult in a way to describe or encapsulate Rowland Emett's work! Emett (1906 - 1990) was foremost a cartoonist and illustrator but he also designed whimsical kinetic scultures and models based on his drawings, several of which were for commercial or advertising projects. Transport, such as steam trains and trams were close to Emett's heart and much of his work and this 1952 brochure, by the British Travel Association, plays on his sense of fancy to the greatest extent!
The event featured three typical London red Central Area buses making their way in a 'caravan' across the US and back, along with 'authentic Cockney conductors' and a team of mechanics and engineers to make sure the vehicles did their duty. Hmm and "attractive girls". The brochure shows a vivid description of the buses and crews, a map of the journey with the major stops and an exhortation to "visit Britain", the latetr being the main reason for the trip. The buses were associated with displays of the charms of the UK and associated literature.
The three buses were two AEC built RT-types, RT 2775 (LYR 826) and RT 2776 (LYR 827) along with a Leyland RTL-type RTL 1307 (LYR 395), all three new in 1952. They were shipped aboard SS Parthia and on arrival were given New York registrations (NY53.114 - 116) and the whole affair was such a success the tour was extended to include various Canadian cities.
Back in the UK the buses went into normal passenger service having been where necessary re-fitted and they received, from memory, commemorative plaques on the interior of the vehicles as one plate survives in the LTM Collection. Indeed, one bus survives in preservation, RT 2775, the other two having been sold to Ceylon (RT 1307) and RT 2776 being scrapped in 1976.
jsc2019e012769 (March 6, 2019) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is encapsulated into the nose fairing of the Soyuz booster rocket March 6. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Light creates illusion...often it's not what light makes us believe.
The lamp was standing against the wall, I just rotated my picture not the lamp.
The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen while being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
Lockheed Martin’s sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) protected communications satellite is encapsulated in its protective fairings ahead of its expected March 26 launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. AEHF-6 is part of the AEHF system -- a resilient satellite constellation with global coverage and a sophisticated ground control system -- that provides global, survivable, protected communications capabilities for national leaders and tactical warfighters operating across ground, sea and air platforms. The anti-jam system also serves international allies to include Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Australia. For more information, visit: www.lockheedmartin.com/aehf
(Photo credit: United Launch Alliance)
Encapsulated inside its payload fairing, the Cygnus spacecraft for the upcoming Orbital ATK Commercial Resupply Services-6 has been mated atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Cygnus is scheduled to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on March 22 to deliver hardware and supplies to the International Space Station.
Photo credit: NASA/Dimitrios Gerondidakis
Sentinel-2A being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing.
Liftoff from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is set for 23 June at 01:52 GMT (03:52 CEST; 22:52 local time on 22 June), on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
For more information on the mission, visit www.esa.int/sentinel2
Credit: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2015
This evocative photo features a lensball encapsulating a globe with intricately engraved continents, partially submerged in the Atlantic Ocean's waves. The water's foam gently caresses the lensball, symbolizing the delicate balance of our planet amidst the relentless forces of nature. The image serves as a powerful metaphor for global warming and the alarming disappearance of icebergs, highlighting the urgent need for environmental conservation.
The crystal-clear lensball magnifies the intricate details of the Earth, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all continents and ecosystems. The surrounding ocean waves represent the rising sea levels and the profound impact of climate change on our world's geography. As the water encroaches upon the globe, it serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of our environment and the pressing need to address the global climate crisis.
Through this striking visual, the photo calls for reflection and action, urging viewers to recognize the consequences of environmental neglect and to embrace sustainable practices to protect our planet for future generations.
jsc2019e012768 (March 6, 2019) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is ready for encapsulation into the nose fairing of the Soyuz booster rocket March 6. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as it is rotated from a vertical to a horizontal position in preparation for being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
This encapsulates three of the main elements I associate with Brixham - boats, colourful houses and grey skies! Sadly a fourth couldn't be included - there's never a fisherman when you need one...
Sentinel-2B satellite being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing, at Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Liftoff is set for on 7 March at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET; 22:49 local time on 6 March).
Offering ‘colour vision’ for Europe’s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2 combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities to monitor Earth’s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.
Sentinel-2 is designed as a two-satellite constellation: Sentinel-2A and -2B. Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015 and has been providing routine imagery for the EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, among others. Once Sentinel-2B is launched and operational, the constellation will offer a global revisit every five days.
Information from this mission is helping to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world’s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, and contribute to disaster mapping, to name a few.
The satellite was built by an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2017
jsc2016e181701 (Nov. 9, 2016) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft begins its encapsulation into the upper stage of its Soyuz booster Nov. 9. Expedition 50-51 crew members Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will launch on the Soyuz Nov. 18, Baikonur time, for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Alexander Vysotsky
nhq201610110001 (Oct. 11, 2016) --- The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as the work platforms around it are retracted in preparation for being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
At the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, RSC-Energia technicians look on as the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is encapsulated into the upper stage of its Soyuz booster rocket 8 December. The Soyuz spacecraft will launch 15 December to send Expedition 46-47 crewmembers Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Copernicus Sentinel-1C standing proud on its payload adapter between the two fairing halves that will protect the spacecraft on the launch pad and on its ascent towards space.
Sentinel-1C, the third satellite in the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, is set to launch in December 2024 on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Credits: ESA - M. Pédoussaut
nhq201610110004 (Oct. 11, 2016) --- The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as the work platforms around it are retracted in preparation for being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
Museum Voorlinden - Wassenaar.
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gagosian.com/artists/anselm-kiefer/
Anselm Kiefer's monumental body of work represents a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical allusions—from the Old and New Testaments, Kabbalah mysticism, Norse mythology and Wagner’s Ring Cycle to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.
Born during the closing months of World War II, Kiefer reflects upon Germany’s post-war identity and history, grappling with the national mythology of the Third Reich. Fusing art and literature, painting and sculpture, Kiefer engages the complex events of history and the ancestral epics of life, death, and the cosmos. His boundless repertoire of imagery is paralleled only by the breadth of media palpable in his work.
Kiefer’s oeuvre encompasses paintings, vitrines, installations, artist books, and an array of works on paper such as drawings, watercolors, collages, and altered photographs. The physical elements of his practice—from lead, concrete, and glass to textiles, tree roots, and burned books—are as symbolically resonant as they are vast-ranging. By integrating, expanding, and regenerating imagery and techniques, he brings to light the importance of the sacred and spiritual, myth and memory.
Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany. After studying law and Romance languages, he attended the School of Fine Arts at Freiburg im Breisgau and the Art Academy in Karlsruhe while maintaining a contact with Joseph Beuys.
Kiefer’s work has been shown and collected by major museums worldwide, including the following: “Bilder und Bücher,” Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (1978); “Verbrennen, verholzen, versenken, versanden,” West German Pavilion, 39th Biennale di Venezia, Italy (1980); “Margarete—Sulamith,” Museum Folkwang, Germany (1981); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (1984, traveled to ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; and Israel Museum, Jerusalem); “Peintures 1983–1984,” Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (1984); and Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (1987, traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, through 1989).
Further museum exhibitions include “Bücher 1969–1990,” Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany (1990, traveled to Kunstverein München, Germany; and Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, through 1991); Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany (1991); “Melancholia,” Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (1993, traveled to Kyoto National Museum of Art, Japan; and Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan); “Himmel-Erde,” Museo Correr, Venice (1997); and “El viento, el tiempo, el silencio,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (1998).
In recent years, Anselm Kiefer’s solo exhibitions have included Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2000); “Maleri 1998–2000,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebkæk, Denmark (2001); “Die sieben Himmelspaläste,“ Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2001); “I sette palazzi celesti,” Fondazione Pirelli, Milan (2004); “Heaven and Earth,” Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2005, traveled to Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, through 2007); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2007); “Sternenfall / Chute d’étoiles,” Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris (2007); “Anselm Kiefer au Louvre,” Musée du Louvre, Paris (2007); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebkæk, Denmark (2010); “Shevirat Hakelim,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2011); “Beyond Landscape,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2013); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014); “l’alchimie du livre,” Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (2015); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2015); “Kiefer Rodin,” Musée Rodin, Paris (2017, traveled to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, through 2018); “For Velimir Khlebnikov — Fates of Nations,” State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2017); and “Provocations,” The Met Breuer, New York (2017).
this is the view from my swag at birthday waterhole...it encapsulates what every night was like on the trail...the moon was only half full, but the light it cast was just astounding, i would pull my beanie down over my face to fall asleep...
then, at 2am or so, i would wake and just stare up for an hour or so (maybe just five minutes...i did try to read a book at one point and gary said he looked over and saw it propped up, my headlamp on, and if it wasn't for the snoring, he would have believed i was reading...), counting shooting stars and spotting satellites...
bliss...
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.
On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket.
The encapsulation process for the H-IIA is very different than for most U.S. rockets. For U.S. rockets, the fairing is usually in two pieces that close around the payload like a clamshell. To install the GPM Core Observatory into the fairing of the H-IIA rocket, first the Core Observatory and the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) are set up in scaffolding in the Encapsulation Hall. Then, the fairing is lifted above and lowered onto the fitting. When only a few feet remain above the final position, stanchions support the fairing while technicians go inside to complete the electrical connections. When this is completed, they remove the stanchions and lower the fairing to its final position, where it is bolted in place.
The GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. The GPM Core Observatory anchors this network by providing observations on all types of precipitation. The observatory's data acts as the measuring stick by which partner observations can be combined into a unified data set. The data will be used by scientists to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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Workers monitor the encapsulation of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
The MetOp-SG-A1 satellite being enclosed within the Ariane 6's rocket fairing - a key milestone that marks the end of hands-on work for the team, and always an emotional moment. No one will actually see the satellite anymore – the fairing will not be opened until three minutes 30 seconds after liftoff as MetOp-SG-A1 is taken into orbit around Earth.
MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites that will deliver global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis. The A-type satellites, the first of which is the soon-to-launch MetOp-SG-A1, carry six instruments, including the European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer.
Credits: ESA - M. Pédoussaut
JSC2013-E-088068 (19 Sept. 2013) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft is lowered into position for its encapsulation in the third stage of a Soyuz rocket Sept. 19. The Soyuz spacecraft will move to its launch pad Sept. 23 for final preparations for launch Sept. 26, Kazakh time, to carry Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy, both with Russia's Federal Space Agency, into orbit for the start of a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Sentinel-1B satellite being encapsulated within its Soyuz fairing in preparation for the 22 April 2016 launch. This stage of the launch campaign took place on Friday 15 April in the S3B preparation building of the Guiana Space Centre.
Once in orbit, it will provide radar images of Earth for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
With the Sentinel-1 mission designed as a two-satellite constellation, Sentinel-1B will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which was launched two years ago.
More about Sentinel-1:
Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2016
The scene encapsulates the serene and harmonious beauty of nature, with two seagulls soaring majestically in silhouette against the brilliant canvas of the sky. Serving as symbols of freedom and grace, while the sun and clouds paint a picture of timeless tranquility.
Lockheed Martin’s sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) protected communications satellite is encapsulated in its protective fairings ahead of its expected March 26 launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. AEHF-6 is part of the AEHF system -- a resilient satellite constellation with global coverage and a sophisticated ground control system -- that provides global, survivable, protected communications capabilities for national leaders and tactical warfighters operating across ground, sea and air platforms. The anti-jam system also serves international allies to include Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Australia. For more information, visit: www.lockheedmartin.com/aehf
(Photo credit: United Launch Alliance)
Inside SpaceX's Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite is being encapsulated in the SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing on Nov. 3, 2020. Sentinel-6 is scheduled to launch on Nov. 21, 2020, at 12:17 p.m. EST (9:17 a.m. PST), atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management. Photo credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin
jsc2019e012770 (March 6, 2019) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft is encapsulated into the nose fairing of the Soyuz booster rocket March 6. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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Have not been shooting sunset for a while, hence I decided to capture this scene while waiting to materialise Absolute Euphony.
Spent more than a couple of hours, trying to get the frames to stitch up properly but to no avail, mostly due to the confusing lines in the foreground.
Alas, still had to correct the mismatches manually.
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