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The lights of Paris by night, as seen by ESA astronaut André Kuipers during his time onboard the ISS.
André is onboard the ISS as part of ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe. For further information on the mission, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
Detail van het onlangs gerenoveerde woonblok uit 1923 op de hoek Stadionweg/Amstelveenseweg in Amsterdam. Architecten: Arnold Ingwersen, Tjeerd Kuipers, Ernst Roest
Detail of a recently renovated residential block in the southern part of Amsterdam, built 1923. Architects: Arnold Ingwersen, Tjeerd Kuipers, Ernst Roest
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 on June 23 at 6:54 a.m. EDT carrying the Kuiper 2 mission for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellite constellation. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance
Liftoff, KF-01!
At 2:30am (ET) Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent 24 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites to space, seen here over the Banana River from Merritt Island, Florida.
Bonus: The entry burn of the brand-new first stage booster can be seen far out over the Atlantic, and keen-eyed observers will see at least 3 guest appearances by satellites from a competing constellation (hi, Starlink).
Another spectacular image from Andre Kuipers, onboard the ISS. The Milky-Way and the Southern Lights, or Aurora Australis.
Andre captured this photo on 1 March 2012, during his long duration mission to the ISS, PromISSe.
For further information on Andre's mission, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
Comet Lovejoy is fading away rapidly as it sets curse to the outer region of the solar system near the Kuiper Belt and beyond. On this date, March 12th 2015, comet Lovejoy was 7.59 magnitude, not as spectacular as it was in December and January but it is still putting a show. As the comet moves away from the Sun its tail gets shorter and fainter due to the vaporization of ice water and other components within. A comet can have two tails, one is formed of gases and water vapor and a shorter one composed of dust particles, Lovejoy clearly showed two tails in some images taken in December and January and you can still make out the silhouette of the dust tail in this image.
Taken at Peck Farm, Geneva, IL on 20150312 around 11:45pm
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Another stunning capture of our planet by ESA astronaut André Kuipers onboard the ISS. André is on the orbital outpost as part of ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe.
For more informaton on André's mission, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
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NASA's New Horizons during its Pluto Encounter
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The Himalayas as seen by ESA astronaut, André Kuipers, during his mission to the ISS, PromISSe.
For more information, and to see more stunning images, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
A great shot from the ISS by ESA astronaut André Kuipers. For some time recently, the orbital outpost has been travelling close to the terminator, the line between night and day, and has provided the astronauts with stunning sights like this.
André is onboard the ISS for ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe. He travelled to the ISS in December 2011, for a planned mission of over 6 months. During his mission he has provided many stunning images of Earth.
For more information on André's mission please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
The supermoon on 5 May 2012, as seen by ESA astronaut André Kuipers onboard the ISS.
The moon follows an elliptical orbit around Earth, and a supermoon occurs when a full or new moon (syzygy) appears at its closest orbit to Earth (perigree).
For more informaton on André's mission, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
While the Leonov remained the more popular revolving cell blaster in use on deep space voyages, the Kuiper Belt Mining Mission for which it had originally been designed found the Leonov model lacking.
The mining rigs were spending time beyond communications range and only returning to colonies as rarely as possible (as this wasted valuable time and resources). Because of this, they were unable to afford to repair the damages caused to ships and stations from the firing of the Leonov RCB which frequently occurred due to the rougher nature of the miners employed.
While lower powered variants of the Leonov existed, the Kuiper Belt Mining Mission hesitated to purchase these due to a problem of an opposite nature. When Pirates attacked mining installations they found the standard Leonov to be slightly underpowered against the military grade ablative armor used by most pirates. Downgrading to a low power Leonov variant would be fatal.
This unique situation lead to the Kuiper Belt Mining Mission reaching out to the same Driftwood Guildsman who had designed the Leonov.
The resulting design, dubbed the Kuiper RCB, was an incredibly accurate low powered RCB with a high fire rate. When pirate raids occurred, it had a cable that could be attached to industrial grade fusion cores allowing for the Kuiper RCB to overcharge it's cells resulting in a kinetic force two to three times stronger than the Leonov, and a corrosive burn that was equal to military grade anti-armor blasters.
In time the adaptable nature of the Kuiper RCB would make it popular with private security officers, bounty hunters, and fringe colony sheriffs.
At 7:01pm (ET) Monday, a United Launch Alliance (Mighty) Atlas V thundered off the pad sending the Project Kuiper payload (satellites for Amazon) to space.
Another amazing capture from ESA astronaut André Kuipers, from his vantage point on the ISS.
André travelled to the orbital outpost in December 2011, and will remain in orbit for more than 6 months as part of ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe.
For more information on André's mission, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
A green 1924 Bentley 3/4.5 Litre Le Mans Tourer - DZ-77-03 - Number 1, entered by Hans Kuipers and Robert Doornbusch, is seen here during a halt competing in the HERO's (Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation's) Land’s End to John O’Groats Reliability Trial and Classic Car Tour (LE JOG) December 2019.
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In preparation for the Venus transit event on 5-6 June 2012, André Kuipers captured this image of the Earth's atmosphere and Venus, the bright star just right of centre, above the Earth.
The event, the second of two transits, only happens once every 112 years. For more information on ESA's preparations, and the Venus Express mission that is currently orbiting our neighbour, please visit: www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM33Q4XX2H_index_0.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft doesn’t zoom past its next science target until New Year’s Day 2019, but the Kuiper Belt object, known as 2014 MU69, is already revealing surprises.
Scientists have been sifting through data gathered from observing the object’s quick pass in front of a star – an astronomical event known as an occultation – on June 3. More than 50 mission team members and collaborators set up telescopes across South Africa and Argentina, along a predicted track of the narrow shadow of MU69 that the occultation would create on Earth’s surface, aiming to catch a two-second glimpse of the object’s shadow as it raced across the Earth. Accomplishing the observations of that occultation was made possible with the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia, a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA).
Combined, the pre-positioned mobile telescopes captured more than 100,000 images of the occultation star that can be used to assess the environment around this Kuiper Belt object (KBO). While MU69 itself eluded direct detection, the June 3 data provided valuable and unexpected insights that have already helped New Horizons.
In this image, four members of the New Horizons’ South African observation team scan the sky while waiting for the start of the 2014 MU69 occultation, early on the morning of June 3, 2017.
Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Henry Throop
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San Francisco and the bay, as captured by ESA astronaut André Kuipers onboard the ISS.
André is on the orbital outpost for ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe. For further information about his mission, and for more stunning photographs, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
René KUIPERS [NED] & Erwin BERKHOF [NED] in their No. 66 Ipatec Racing Subaru Impreza S14 WRC '08 on SS6 Viggen 2 at the FIA WRC Rally Sweden on 12th February 2010.
A stunning view of Earth as captured by ESA astronaut André Kuipers onboard the International Space Station.
André is on the orbital outpost for ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe. He departed for the space station in December 2011, and will remain onboard, performing experiments and maintenance for over six months.
For further information on André's mission, and to see more stunning pictures, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
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France, Belgium, Germany, The UK and Denmark can all be seen in this amazing shot from Andre Kuipers. The Aurora Borealis is also visible to the right of the shot.
Kuipers is onboard the ISS for ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe. He started his mission in December 2011, flying to the ISS in a Soyuz spacecraft, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
For more information on Andre's mission, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
At first glance, this aircraft appears to be an original (i.e. non-stretched) Lockheed C-141A...but it's not! It's actually the one and only L-300. The L-300 was a proposed civil freighter version of the C-141 that the company tried to market but was unsuccessful. After the marketing efforts failed the aircraft was passed on to NASA which used it as the platform for the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO).
The KAO was an infrared telescope system that was a replacement for the Gallileo Observatory which was mounted in a Convair 990. The Convair was lost in a tragic mid-air collision with a USN P-3 as the two aircraft were in the landing pattern NAS Moffett Field in 1973.
KAO and the L-300 were retired in 1995 and have been replaced by the Boeing 747-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
This image was taken on 13 September 2019 at Moffett Field and the civil registration is N714NA.
"The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master" (Job 3, 19 in the RSV of the Bible). This is the main title of a significant book presented this afternoon in the so-called Folkingestraat-Synagogue of Groningen, The Netherlands. It is an in-depth treatment of the Jewish cemeteries of the province of Groningen. Many of these cemeteries have fallen into disuse and disrepair since World War II, when around 3000 Jews from here were deported and murdered in Germany and Poland, and only a few hundred returned of a once thriving community. Recently successful efforts are being made to preserve and restore this important heritage of the province for its inhabitants and for anyone wanting to trace their roots or to mourn the injustices of history. The book gives many photographs and discusses each of of the twenty-five identified cemeteries. Everything is illustrated not only by sombre photos of tombstones but also with the stories of the lives of the great and small now made equal in death.
The synagogue was built in 1906 on the foundations of an earlier house of prayer. Its primary architect was Tjeerd Kuipers (1852-1942), who was highly inspired by the so-called 'Moorish Style' then at its apex in Germany (see an earlier photo I posted of the Grand Mosque of Medan on Sumatra, Indonesia).
As I was listening to the presentations, I thought a photo of this great stained-glass window in the synagogue to be particularly relevant. It's the color of hope. More importantly - if you look at it carefully - you will see six trees heavy with fruit. This is a direct reference to the symbolism of the 'Tree of Life'. Highly important in Judaism and in particular in the Kabbalah, it returns in the official name of many synagogues: variations in as many transcriptions as nationalities of the Hebrew 'Etz Chayim' (e.g. in Proverbs 3, 18). It's also a name for the Folkingestraat-Synagogue.
(I've tried before to take a photo of this window but was never successful because the outside light was too bright. On this rainy Monday - a little mournful because of the topic of this afternoon - the light was just right, embellishing the Blue.
The book mentioned is: Han Lettinck and Robert Mulder, "Klein en groot zijn daar gelijk". De Joodse begraafplaatsen in de provincie Groningen, eds. Simone Mooij-Valk and Lies Ast-Boiten, Groningen: Profiel, 2009, ISBN 9789052944722.)