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Several key science payloads will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS). Among these is a biomedical investigation that focuses on the mechanisms behind neuroinflammation, a condition associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis. This study will utilize 3D brain models derived from patient stem cells to explore potential treatments.
Additionally, the mission will carry the Multi-Resolution Scanner (MRS), which will use the Astrobee autonomous robot aboard the ISS to create detailed 3D maps of the space environment. This technology could have significant applications in future space exploration, allowing for automated assessments of spacecraft damage and other remote monitoring tasks
These research initiatives are part of NASA's ongoing efforts to leverage space-based research for both Earth-based health advancements and the development of future spaceflight technologies.
The launch date was Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 2:29 AM (UTC).
STS042-S-002 (November 1991) --- Payload specialists representing Canada and the European Space Agency (CSA - ESA) join five NASA astronauts for the January 1992 scheduled STS-42 mission. Left to right are astronauts Stephen S. Oswald, pilot; Roberta L. Bondar, payload specialist; Norman E. Thagard, payload commander; Ronald J. Grabe, mission commander; David C. Hilmers, mission specialist; Ulf Merbold, payload specialist; and William F. Readdy, mission specialist. The STS-42 mission will utilize the Space Shuttle Discovery to carry out experiments for the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1).
A BARREL team member recovers the second payload after it landed.
The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measures X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South Poles. These X-rays are produced by electrons raining down into the atmosphere from two giant swaths of radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen belts. Learning about the radiation near Earth helps us to better protect our satellites.
Several of the BARREL balloons also carry instruments built by undergraduate students to measure the total electron content of Earth’s ionosphere, as well as the low-frequency electromagnetic waves that help to scatter electrons into Earth’s atmosphere. Though about 90 feet in diameter, the BARREL balloons are much smaller than standard football stadium-sized scientific balloons.
This is the fourth campaign for the BARREL mission. BARREL is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The undergraduate student instrument team is led by the University of Houston and funded by the Undergraduate Student Instrument Project out of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. For more information on NASA’s scientific balloon program, visit: www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.
Image credit: NASA/Montana State University/Arlo Johnson
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Sentinel-2A being installed on its payload launcher adapter, on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
The second satellite in Europe’s Copernicus programme is set for launch from Europe’s Spaceport on 23 June 2015.
Sentinel-2 carries an innovative wide-swath, high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation. The second in the two-satellite mission – Sentinel-2B – is being prepared for launch in 2016.
For more information on the mission, visit www.esa.int/sentinel2
Credit: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2015
ESA's Compact Payload Test Range for antenna testing. Metal walls screen outside radio signals while spiky foam interior cladding absorbs radio signals internally to create conditions simulating the infinite void of space.
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Credits: ESA-A. Le Floc'h
SpaceX's Starlink 6-41 mission lifted off in a cloak of sea fog at 6:56 p.m. EST Monday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, lifting another payload of 23 broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The Daf A-1500 Series trucks were replaced by A-1600 truck. It received a new designed cabin in 1959 and a new range of engines. The four-part windshield with a central split was only used in 1959. For the 1960 model cabin the central split disappeared.
The first series had a three horizontal strip front grille, in 1964 reduced to only two strips. Around 1964 the small ventilation openings under the A-pillar were replaced by two small ventilation grilles alongside the cooling grille.
This Daf A1600 flatbed was used as a mobile podium by Stichting Theaterstraat. The photo was made during a performance or demonstration which I forgot. I think I had more attention for this old truck.
L6 Diesel engine.
5650 kg.
Max. payload: 6950 kg.
Production DAF new A-Series: 1959-1970.
Production A-Series this version: 1964-1970.
Original old Dutch reg. number: Aug. 15, 1967 (still valid, Jan. 2023).
Same owner since Aug. 24, 1982 !!
Scan from an analog photo.
Location: Amsterdam-Westerpark, Van Limburg-Stirumplein.
Date: May 3, 2003.
Halfweg, Jan. 4, 2023.
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NASA successfully launched the SubTec-7 payload on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 5:45 a.m. EDT, May 16, from the NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
The payload flew to an altitude of about 154 miles before descending by parachute and landing in the Atlantic Ocean. SubTec-7 provided a flight test for more than 20 technologies to improve sounding rocket and spacecraft capabilities. Good data was received during the flight. The payload has been recovered.
Credit: NASA/Wallops
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The first BARREL balloon is inflated just before its launch on Aug. 13, 2016, from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden.
The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measures X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South Poles. These X-rays are produced by electrons raining down into the atmosphere from two giant swaths of radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen belts. Learning about the radiation near Earth helps us to better protect our satellites.
Several of the BARREL balloons also carry instruments built by undergraduate students to measure the total electron content of Earth’s ionosphere, as well as the low-frequency electromagnetic waves that help to scatter electrons into Earth’s atmosphere. Though about 90 feet in diameter, the BARREL balloons are much smaller than standard football stadium-sized scientific balloons.
This is the fourth campaign for the BARREL mission. BARREL is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The undergraduate student instrument team is led by the University of Houston and funded by the Undergraduate Student Instrument Project out of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. For more information on NASA’s scientific balloon program, visit: www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.
Image credit: NASA/University of Houston/Edgar Bering
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Sentinel-1B, Microscope and the PPOD with FYS CubeSats on the ASAP-S payload platform moments before the closure of the fairing.
Credit: ESA
A June 2006 visit to the Peak District and a view taken of Freightliner Heavy Haul 66611 climbing away from Great Rocks Junction with the 6E04 Tunstead to West Burton Power Station. The HIA bogie hoppers were loaded with limestone for use in the Flue Gas Desulphurisation [FGD] process applied to remove sulphur dioxide from the flue gas produced by coal fired power stations to reduce the associated atmospheric pollution.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 21, 2020) An MV-22B Osprey, attached to the "Lucky Red Lions" of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 363, delivers a payload to the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN 730) in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. Underway replenishment sustains the fleet anywhere/anytime. This event was designed to test and evaluate the tactics, techniques, and procedures of U.S. Strategic Command's expeditionary logistics and enhance the overall readiness of our strategic forces. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jacob Wilson)
A nine megaton payload of Phillips' favourite, righteous hop varieties. Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Citra, Hallertauer, Millenium, Palisade and Simcoe make up the core of this perilous 9% brew. Pity all forces of destruction can't be this delicious. Hold on tight; this may leave some craters in your flavour bunker.
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is ready for fuelling. This image shows the spacecraft leaving the Payload Preparation Facility and being transferred to the Hazardous Processing Facility, where the fuelling operations will take place. This marks a major milestone in the launch campaign. Launch is planned for mid-April.
Juice is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. It will make detailed observations of gas giant Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. This ambitious mission will characterise these moons with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
Find out more about Juice in ESA’s launch kit
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique video du CSG – P. Baudon
busy as a bee...
she's carrying such a heavy payload that she's climbing to the next blossom....
...I wonder if she made the way back home with all that sweet pollen.
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EXPLORE: Highest position: 93 on Wednesday, November 15, 2006
......reprise: Highest position: 64 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007
...and risen Highest position: 36 on Friday, February 16, 2007
The payload was heavy, 17kg in total and long, 2,000mm in focal length. It was too much for the small and light-weighted equatorial mount. Stars trailed abruptly remarkably and frequently as though the mount had backlash in drive train. I removed hood, but result was the same. Wind did not cause the problem.
equipment: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RC-CF 10" f8 with Aigrette Pattern Mask on The Vanes, TS Extension for The Baffle Tube, TS 2.5" field flattener, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens. `Pentax x2 Extender. ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
site: 1,250m above sea level at lat. 36 14 35 North and long. 138 36 22 East near Uchiyama Farm Saku Nagano 長野県佐久市 内山牧場
Sky looked clear, though there was slowly falling sparse mist. Ambient temperature was around 15 degrees Celsius or 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and SQM-L was up to 21.16 at the night. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was not so bad in the season, and guide error RMS was around 1".
The James Webb Space Telescope was fuelled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on Ariane 5.
Webb’s thrusters will use this propellant to make critical course-corrections after separation from Ariane 5, to maintain its prescribed orbit about one and a half million kilometres from Earth, and to repoint the observatory and manage its momentum during operations.
Fuelling any satellite is a particularly delicate operation requiring setup of the equipment and connections, fuelling, and then pressurisation.
Webb’s propellant tanks were filled separately with 133 kg of dinitrogen tetroxide oxidiser and 168 kg hydrazine. Oxidiser improves the burn efficiency of the hydrazine fuel.
These propellants are extremely toxic so only a few specialists wearing Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble, or ‘scape’ suits, remained in the dedicated fuelling hall for fuelling which took 10 days and ended on 3 December.
The next steps will start soon for ‘combined operations’. This is when specialists working separately to prepare Webb and Ariane 5 will come together as one team. They will place Webb atop its Ariane 5 launch vehicle and encapsulate it inside Ariane 5’s fairing.
Then, no longer visible, Webb, joined with its Ariane 5 launch vehicle will be transferred to the Final Assembly building for the final preparations before launch.
Webb will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. As part of an international collaboration agreement, ESA is providing the telescope’s launch service using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace.
Webb is an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Find out more about Webb in ESA’s launch kit and interactive brochure.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Vidéo du CSG - P Piron
This month, we're celebrating 25 years of human presence aboard the International Space Station! For 24 of those years, we've supported groundbreaking science conducted on the orbiting lab right here at #NASAMarshall.
Various teams in our Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) provide payload, engineering, and mission operations support for the space station and Commercial Crew Program. Our Payload Operations Integration Center inside the HOSC has collaborated with thousands of scientific investigators worldwide to perform research in low-Earth orbit — operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Credit: NASA
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On 24 March, over a dozen engineers gathered at Euclid industrial prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space in Turin, to carefully attach the two main parts of the Euclid spacecraft together. This task required such extreme precision that it took a whole day, followed by two days of connecting electronic equipment and testing that Euclid’s instruments still work.
This image shows the payload module (top) and service module (bottom) successfully connected together.
All that Euclid needs now is its combined sunshield and solar panels, as well as a high gain antenna. These will be added in the next months, before Euclid is tested as a complete system and prepared for launch in spring 2023.
Read more about the coming together of the two modules here.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
This bad had his payload in teh talons and was heading back to the ranch for some serious sushi. The exposure on this guy was tough cos hedecided to fly against that light sky. A little post processing adjustment was necessary but now you can't see the droplets of water coming from the talons carrying the fish.
This was taken off the Ameoba, a sailing boat out of Baddeck
To reduce drag, the B-5 carries its payload in a cylindrical bay between the engines. An aerodynamic shroud covers two drop tanks, as well as a single Mk 28 nuclear bomb. All three segments are jettisoned at once when the aircraft reaches its target. More drop tanks are fixed to the fuselage in a conformal layout next to the engines, beneath the wings. The bomber's sole purpose, to deliver a nuclear bomb, requires no external hardpoints to slow it down.
Ground crews, inspired by the train-like arrangement of the payload, the massive rear landing gear, and the deafening roar of its engines, nicknamed the jet after Zuritania's national rail system.
A heavy space fighter in service with the Rigelian Space Navy. Interchangeable payload compartment allows vehicles to fulfil a variety of roles including planetary bombardment, long range reconnaissance and battlefield logistics.
I wanted to build an asymmetrical ship inspired by the B-Wing from Star Wars. It started out intended to be more of a bounty hunter type ship but kind of drifted to this. I wanted it to be big enough that I could really go to town with a particular style of greebly detailing and I think that came out really well. I also worked a lot on the colour blocking and really like the way the blue sections snake around the ship.
I worked on this for a long time and by the end I’d kind of lost the plot a little. It’s taken me over 6 months to get around to shooting these pics, but looking at them now I feel quite satisfied with the completed model. Maybe I’ll find time to make some different cargo pods and dust down the landing pad I already made for it.
Truck from 1951 with a payload of 6t, 120hp and 70km/h.
Self-made model on a scale of 1:87 with a Roskopf cabin.
The payload fairing is installed on the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket at the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. The Antares rocket is scheduled to roll-out to Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A Wednesday, July 9, ahead of its scheduled launch July 11.
The Antares rocket will carry Orbital's unmanned Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station. This Orbital-2 mission's cargo is more than 3,000 pounds of supplies for the station, including science experiments to expand the research capability of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory, crew provisions, spare parts and experiment hardware.
Credit: NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
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The main payload is 2 satellites (1 L3Harris, 1 Northrop Grumman) for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) mission for the US Missile Defense Agency. Secondary payload is 4 Tranche 0 satellites that were not ready before the last SDA TTL mission.
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden.
The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measures X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South Poles. These X-rays are produced by electrons raining down into the atmosphere from two giant swaths of radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen belts. Learning about the radiation near Earth helps us to better protect our satellites.
Several of the BARREL balloons also carry instruments built by undergraduate students to measure the total electron content of Earth’s ionosphere, as well as the low-frequency electromagnetic waves that help to scatter electrons into Earth’s atmosphere. Though about 90 feet in diameter, the BARREL balloons are much smaller than standard football stadium-sized scientific balloons.
This is the fourth campaign for the BARREL mission. BARREL is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The undergraduate student instrument team is led by the University of Houston and funded by the Undergraduate Student Instrument Project out of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. For more information on NASA’s scientific balloon program, visit: www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.
Image credit: NASA/Dartmouth/Robyn Millan
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Having discharged its payload of fly ash with Ash Resources Ltd of Little Barford, 56070 is taking the empty presflos back to West Burton PS for a refill.
The traffic's long gone, the Little Barford plant dismantled and the adjacent sidings lifted!
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Built for Space Jam 2021
I figured a less heavily edited look at the docked vehicles wouldn't go amiss. I imagine each module's exterior colour stripe denotes its purpose, blue for research modules, orange for cargo, green for habitation etc.
Space rockets are advanced vehicles propelled by engines that expel exhaust to travel through space, carrying payloads like satellites, supplies, and astronauts. They generate immense thrust to overcome Earth's gravity, driving a golden era of exploration with both government and commercial operators utilizing the next generation of launch vehicles.Heavy-Lift & Deep Space RocketsNASA's Space Launch System (SLS): Standing as the world's most powerful government rocket, this super heavy-lift vehicle generates 8.8 million pounds of thrust. It is the foundation for deep-space exploration, specifically designed to carry astronauts and heavy cargo to the Moon.SpaceX Starship: Recognized as the largest and most powerful operational launch system ever developed, this fully reusable mega-rocket is built to carry up to 100 people on interplanetary journeys and enable permanent infrastructure on the Moon and Mars.Commercial & Earth Orbit Launch VehiclesSpaceX Falcon 9 & Falcon Heavy: These workhorse commercial rockets have revolutionized the industry with reusable first-stage boosters that land vertically back on Earth. They routinely ferry cargo and crew to the International Space Station and deploy satellites.Vulcan Centaur: Developed by United Launch Alliance (ULA), this heavy-lift rocket provides robust payload delivery for national security and commercial missions.New Glenn: Built by Blue Origin, this heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket is another key player in the expanding commercial launch market.Major Launch SitesRocket launches are localized events heavily concentrated in specific geographical areas tailored for optimal trajectories:Florida: Home to the historic Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, which handle the majority of crewed and deep-space missions.Texas: SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica is the primary development and testing ground for the Starship vehicle. Blue Origin's Corn Ranch launch site in West Texas handles suborbital flights.California: Vandenberg Space Force Base is the primary U.S. West Coast facility, ideal for launching satellites into polar orbits.For an up-to-date look at the upcoming manifest of missions and locations, you can consult the RocketLaunch.org Schedule. AI GOOGLE
Somehow, watching a rocket lift off and feeling the power of the engines a few minutes later gets your heart pumping. It gives you a little rush of energy.... Plus it is something to see in person that is very special. I’m
This image shows the coming together of two key parts of the Euclid spacecraft – the instrument-carrying payload module and the supporting service module.
To connect the two together, engineers used a crane to lower the 800-kilogram payload module onto the service module via six attachment points. The team took great care to make sure that these points matched up very well, as a poor contact could induce stresses that damage the structure or deform Euclid’s 1.2-metre telescope mirror.
After the modules were joined mechanically, the engineers added connector brackets and plugged in the electrical connectors. Then they checked that everything was working properly before covering the connector brackets and any tiny remaining gaps between the two modules with thermal insulation to really seal up the spacecraft.
Read more about the coming together of the two modules here.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
ENGLISH:
This truck was built in 1978 in Romania. It has 135hp and is fast 80km/h. It is admitted for a total weight of 8 tons. The payload is about 6 tons. Right in the photo a typical Romanian horse-drawn vehicle with only one horse at the double drawbar.
Diorama in 1/ 87. Rebuilt and beautified MAN plastic model from Wiking.
ESPAÑOL:
Este camión fue construido en 1978 en Rumania. Tiene 135CV y es rápido 80km/h. Es admitido por un peso total de 8t. La carga útil es alrededor de 6t. Justo en la foto, un típico vehículo rumano tirado por caballos con un solo caballo en la barra de tiro doble.
Diorama en 1:87. Reconstruido y embellecido modelo MAN plástico de Wiking.
DEUTSCH:
Dieser Lastwagen wurde 1978 in Rumänien gebaut. Er hat 135PS und ist 80km/h schnell. Er ist für ein Gesamtgewicht von 8t zugelassen. Die Nutzlast liegt bei 6t. Rechts im Foto ein typisches rumänisches Pferdefuhrwerk mit nur einem Pferd an der Doppelzugdeichsel.
Diorama in 1:87. Umgebautes und verschönertes MAN Kunststoff Modell von Wiking.
ROMANESC:
Camionul a fost construit în 1978 în România. Are 135CP și este rapid de 80km/h. Este admis pentru o greutate totală de 8 tone. Sarcina utilă este de aproximativ 6 tone. Chiar în fotografie, un vehicul tipic românesc tras de cai, cu un singur cal la bară dublă.
Diorama în 1:87. Model plastic reconstruit și înfrumusețat MAN de la Wiking.
I had my pick of 3 Black Crowned Night Herons taking flight. I think I chose the right ones to photograph.
Southern Alberta, Canada.
Here is an image from a run of the Electrolysis Measurement investigation examining the influence of gravity on electrolytic gas evolution under microgravity on the International Space Station. The process passes an electric current through a substance to separate out gases in the form of bubbles and could be used in microfluidic devices to produce oxygen in spacecraft and future human habitations on the Moon and Mars. The Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center serves as “science central” for the space station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory’s science experiments.
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) payload just prior to launch from Wanaka, New Zealand, on a NASA super pressure balloon in May 2016. The Carolina Infrasound payload hitched a ride on the mission on a pioneering study to measure infrasound from the stratosphere.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Rodman
A BARREL payload sits on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden.
The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measures X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South Poles. These X-rays are produced by electrons raining down into the atmosphere from two giant swaths of radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen belts. Learning about the radiation near Earth helps us to better protect our satellites.
Several of the BARREL balloons also carry instruments built by undergraduate students to measure the total electron content of Earth’s ionosphere, as well as the low-frequency electromagnetic waves that help to scatter electrons into Earth’s atmosphere. Though about 90 feet in diameter, the BARREL balloons are much smaller than standard football stadium-sized scientific balloons.
This is the fourth campaign for the BARREL mission. BARREL is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The undergraduate student instrument team is led by the University of Houston and funded by the Undergraduate Student Instrument Project out of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. For more information on NASA’s scientific balloon program, visit: www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons.
Image credit: NASA/University of Houston/Edgar Bering
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After the fall of the Galactic Empire, with the cessation of large scale hostilities, the Y-Wing evolved from a fighter/attack bomber into a paramilitary patrol interceptor/courier - smaller, more agile, faster, and less heavily armed.
To combat the rising threat of the First Order, Resistance forces acquired scores of the latest generation Y-Wings and modified them for multi-role combat duty. This program was code-named Project HEY THEIR (Highly Evolved Y-Wing To Hinder Expanding Imperialistic Regime).
Heavy blasters were added, while body panels were removed to ease maintenance and create space to carry larger external payloads, e.g. proton torpedo racks, ion cannon turrets, cargo pallets, and auxiliary fuel tanks.
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The Boeing B-47 was the world's first jet-powered swept-wing bomber. This design feature, along with the bicycle arrangement landing gear, was a necessity due to its thin wings. The swept-wing design allowed for higher speeds and better maneuverability, while the bicycle landing gear facilitated takeoff and landing on shorter runways. This aircraft was also the first to be designed exclusively for delivering nuclear weapons.
A total of 1,260 B-47s were built as bombers, while 600 were built as trainers and recon aircraft. B-47s designed as bombers could carry a maximum payload of up to 25,000 lbs of bombs—conventional or nuclear. The B-47's first flight occurred on December 17th, 1947, and the first B-47A was delivered to the USAF in 1951. The RB-47H was an electronic surveillance and countermeasure variant of the B-47E bomber.
The B-47 was a strategic response to the evolving threat of enemy air defense systems. As these systems became more advanced, traditional bombers were at risk of being intercepted before reaching their targets. The B-47, with its high speed and altitude capabilities, was designed to evade these defenses. The first RB-47Hs, designed for electronic surveillance and countermeasures, entered service in August 1955, with the final deliveries completed by January 1957.
This aircraft, BuNo 53-4296, served most of its career with the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Forbes AFB, KS. She was the last operational RB-47H in the USAF when it was flown to Davis Monthan AFB, AZ, on December 29th, 1967, for long-term storage, although not for long. It was returned to duty from MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ on July 16th, 1968, being bailed to North American Aviation in Inglewood, CA, for testing on the new F-111 radar system by the Air Force Avionics Laboratory. Upon completion of the program, the aircraft was flown back to Elgin AFB in 1976 and donated to the Air Force Armaments Museum, where it remains today.
Class 128 single car parcels DMU M55994 awaits its next duty, Chester MPD, 12th April 1977.
Unit History
Introduced in 1959, ten vehicles were built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, each with two 230 hp Leyland Albion engines. This made them very powerful for a 41 ton single car vehicle. The class was built specifically for parcels traffic, and did not feature any passenger accommodation. They had a payload of 10 tons, and could haul a tail load of up to 64 tons. The six vehicles for Western Region duties (W55991 – W55996) were fitted with the standard DMU gangways at each end, while the four London Midland Region vehicles (M55987 – M55990) were non-gangwayed. Initial allocations saw the London Midland Region vehicles allocated to Newton Heath for northwest services and the Western Region vehicles were spread between the London area (W55991/2), Tyseley (W55993/4) for Midlands services and Chester (W55995/6). Boundary changes in the mid1960’s saw Chester and Tyseley become part of the LMR. In the late 1970’s many of the gangways were removed and the gap plated over with M55994 being removed by 1984. It was withdrawn in November 1990 and broken up in April 1991.
Re-edited 13th November 2015
Praktica LTL, High Speed Ektachrome
On 24 March, over a dozen engineers gathered at Euclid industrial prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space in Turin, to carefully attach the two main parts of the Euclid spacecraft together. This task required such extreme precision that it took a whole day, followed by two days of connecting electronic equipment and testing that Euclid’s instruments still work.
This image shows the payload module (top) and the service module (bottom) before all the thermal insulation is added.
Read more about the coming together of the two modules here.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
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Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a "For Sale" sign referring to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire. Astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV, who also participated in the two EVAs, is reflected in Gardner's helmet visor. A portion of each of two recovered satellites is in the lower right corner, with Westar 6 nearer Discovery's aft.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 51A-104-049
Date: November 14, 1984