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Two additional secondary payloads that will travel to deep space on Artemis I, the first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, are ready for launch.
The Team Miles and EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U Spacecraft (EQUULEUS) CubeSats are tucked into dispensers and installed in the Orion stage adapter the ring that connects Orion to the SLS rocket. They are joining five other secondary payloads that were recently installed. These small satellites, known as CubeSats, will conduct a variety of science experiments and technology demonstrations. The CubeSats will deploy after the Orion spacecraft separates from SLS.
In this image, members of the EQUULEUS (EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U Spacecraft) team prepare their CubeSat to be loaded in the Space Launch System’s Orion stage adapter for launch on the Artemis I mission. This CubeSat, developed jointly by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the University of Tokyo, will help scientists understand the radiation environment in the region of space around Earth called the plasmasphere.
Credit: NASA
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NASA image captured July 12, 2011
With his feet secured on a restraint on the space station remote manipulator system's robotic arm or Canadarm2, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum (frame center) holds the Robotics Refueling Mission payload, which was the focus of one of the primary chores accomplished on a six and a half hour spacewalk on July 12. The failed pump module is with DEXTRE on left side of the photo. NASA astronauts Fossum and Ron Garan performed the six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk, which represents the final scheduled extravehicular activity during shuttle missions.
Among Atlantis’s final contributions to the ISS is the Robotic Refueling Mission, developed at Goddard Space Flight Center. Atlantis brought this module to the International Space Station, where it will provide key support in maintaining future spacecrafts for years to come. STS-135 astronauts traveled to Goddard to complete special training for these robotics, a major component of the final shuttle mission. RRM is one of dozens of Goddard payloads to travel aboard orbiters into space throughout the 30-year flight history of the Shuttle Program.
To read more about the Robotic Refueling Mission go here.
Photo credit: NASA
NASA image SI35-E-007547 (12 July 2011)
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The next member of NASA’s telescope family is almost ready to take its place among the stars.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch Aug. 30, 2026, at 7:20 a.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a deep, panoramic view of the cosmos, generating never-before-seen pictures that will revolutionize our understanding of the universe. The observatory will usher in a new era of cosmic surveys, unveiling troves of celestial objects and shedding light on some of the universe’s most profound mysteries, including phenomena we can’t see. Roman also will showcase cutting-edge technology, including a test of the most advanced technology ever flown in space to directly image planets around nearby stars, a key step in NASA’s search for life on other worlds.
On July 25, the team completed operations that carefully loaded 290 gallons of hydrazine fuel into the observatory, bringing it an important step closer to launch.
Image description: Technicians and engineers inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida use a crane to lift the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to a specialized work stand Friday, June 26, 2026.
Credit: NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz)
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Official portrait of STS-42 Payload Specialist Roberta L. Bondar wearing orange Launch and Entry Suit (LES) with the Canadian flag displayed in the background. Bondar represented Canada on the International Microgravity Laboratory 1 (IML-1) mission aboard Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103. Bondar became the first Canadian woman to fly in space when STS-42 launched on January 22, 1992.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S91-51633
Date: October 28, 1991
After about a month in transit to the Moon, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully completed a four-minute lunar orbit insertion burn Thursday – the longest and most challenging burn conducted to date by the lander’s main engine and reaction control system thrusters.
Now that the lander is in lunar trajectory, over the next 16 days, additional maneuvers will take the lander from an elliptical orbit to a circular orbit around the Moon. Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeted to land Sunday, March 2, at 3:45 a.m. EST. During the lunar orbit insertion burn, Blue Ghost captured a picture of the Moon’s South Pole.
Here, Blue Ghost captured a bright image of the Moon’s South Pole on the far left through its cameras on the top deck, as it travels to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis a campaign.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
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Made this ages ago, forgot to post it. Winston's vehicle is the Watchpoint: Gibraltar Payload, Doomfist's is the Doomfist Gauntlet.
Reflection of a "young classic" Porsche in the rear compartment of a 1965 Chevrolet Suburban. Seen at this year's "Tour de Rü" vintage car rally in Essen, Germany.
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) being fuelled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on an Ariane 5 on 13 April.
Juice will use this propellant to make critical course manoeuvres on its journey to and around the Jupiter system, and to go into orbit around Jupiter then its largest moon, Ganymede. Juice has a bi-propellant chemical propulsion system, using mono-methyl hydrazine (MMH) fuel and mixed oxides of nitrogen (MON) oxidiser. This results in a propellant that spontaneously ignites when the two come into contact with each other.
Fuelling any satellite is a particularly delicate operation requiring setup of the equipment and connections, fuelling, and then pressurisation. The propellants are extremely toxic so only a few specialists wearing protective Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble, or ‘scape’ suits, remained in the dedicated hall for fuelling.
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: 2023 ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE / Optique vidéo du CSG - JM GUILLON
The Vega-C Payload Assembly Composite (PAC) with LARES-2 has been rolled out to the Vega Launch Zone (ZLV) and hoisted onto the Vega-C launch Vehicle on 7 July 2022 at Europe's Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana.
On the wave of Vega’s success, Member States at the ESA Ministerial meeting in December 2014 agreed to develop the more powerful Vega-C to respond to an evolving market and to long-term institutional needs.
Vega-C increases performance from Vega’s current 1.5 t to about 2.2 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, covering identified European institutional users’ mission needs, with no increase in launch service and operating costs.
The participating states in this development are: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Credits: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut
After about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has concluded!
#NASAMarshall manages the development for seven of the 10 CLPS payloads aboard the lunar. Here is a breakdown of the science and technology they performed during the mission:
️ LISTER is now the deepest robotic planetary subsurface thermal probe, drilling up to 3 feet and providing a first-of-its kind demonstration of robotic thermal measurements at varying depths.
️ RadPC successfully operated in transit through Earth’s Van Allen belts, as well as on the lunar surface into the lunar night, verifying solutions to mitigate radiation effects on computers that could make future missions safer for equipment and more cost effective.
LMS successfully deployed five sensors to study the Moon’s interior by measuring electric and magnetic fields. The instrument allows scientists to characterize the interior of the Moon to depths up to 700 miles, or more than half the distance to the Moon's center.
⛅ LEXI captured a series of X-ray images to study the interaction of the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field, providing insights into how space weather and other cosmic forces surrounding Earth affect the planet.
📏 NGLR successfully reflected and returned laser light from two Lunar Laser Ranging Observatories, returning measurements allowing scientists to precisely measure the Moon’s shape and distance from Earth, expanding our understanding of the Moon’s inner structure.
💨 Lunar PlanetVac was deployed on the lander’s surface access arm and successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil using pressurized nitrogen gas, demonstrating a low-cost, low-mass solution for future robotic sample collection.
🚀 RAC instrument examined how lunar regolith sticks to a range of materials exposed to the Moon’s environment, which can help test, improve, and protect spacecraft, spacesuits, and habitats from abrasive lunar dust or regolith.
Credit: Video courtesy Firefly Aerospace
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Bon Voyage STS-134 and its bacterial payload.
They will be testing transpermia — can extremophiles survive interplanetary voyages?
For example, D. radiodurans can survive radiation levels 3000x that which is lethal to most organisms. While its DNA is blasted into smithereens, it has mechanisms to stitch it all back together again. (more from NASA)
(more Endeavour photos)
UPDATE: the top photo is by Trey Ratcliff and is not NASA public domain as I had been led to believe. You can see the cool backstory of how he captured it here
A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where they will provide insights into the Moon’s environment and test technologies to support future astronauts landing safely on the lunar surface under the agency’s Artemis campaign.
Carrying science and tech on Firefly Aerospace’s first CLPS or Commercial Lunar Payload Services flight for NASA, Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched at 1:11 a.m. EST aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company is targeting a lunar landing on Sunday, March 2.
Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 15, as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The Blue Ghost lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the lunar surface to further understand the Moon and help prepare for future human missions.
Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
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After a successful launch on Feb. 15, six NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations continue their journey to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ lander named Odysseus. The company confirmed communications contact with its mission operations control in Houston, and its lander continues to perform as expected.
Known as IM-1, Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first images back to Earth on Feb. 16. These were captured shortly after separation from SpaceX’s second stage, on Intuitive Machines’ first journey to the Moon as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Artemis campaign.
All powered NASA science instruments on board the Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander have completed their transit checkouts, received data, and are operating as expected, including LN-1 (Lunar Node 1). LN-1 has made three successful passes with NASA’s Deep Space Network, establishing real-time communications with ground stations on Earth. The anticipated landing time is now 4:24 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 22.
This image is a view of Earth captured by a 186-degree wide field of view camera aboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar. The start of this image sequence occurred 100 seconds after separation and lasts for two hours.
Credit: Intuitive Machines
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In space, "hitting the gym" isn’t something you try to find time to do. It’s a requirement. Frequent exercise helps astronauts minimize the loss of muscle mass, bone density and cardiovascular function. This week, as part of his exercise regimen, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra coordinated with flight controllers at NASA’s Payload Operations Integration Center (science mission control for the station located at NASA Marshall) to ride an exercise bike and take ultrasound images of his muscles. The ultrasounds, taken before and after exercise, will let program doctors on Earth know how effective the exercise can be and will help the research team develop an efficient routine for astronauts to stay fit during long space exploration missions. #ScienceInOrbit
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With an international payload and crew aboard, the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from Launch Pad 39B, at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on June 20, 1996. Onboard for Columbia’s 20th flight were astronauts Terence T. (Tom) Henricks, mission commander; Kevin R. Kregel, pilot; Susan J. Helms, payload commander; and Richard M. Linnehan and Charles E. Brady, Jr., both mission specialists, along with payload specialists Jean-Jacques Favier of the French Space Agency (CNES) and Robert B. Thirsk of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts078-s-009
Date: June 20, 1996
The BARREL team inflates the balloon to launch their fifth scientific payload from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, on Aug. 24, 2016.
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.
Credit: NASA/University of Houston/Michael Greer
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Hey! Long time since my last post!
This is a (close to) minifig scale of the King's Row payload from the videogame Overwatch.
This model was built YEARS ago and I mean years. I didn't mean to hide it for so long but the plans I had for it are still not happening.
I wanted to post it to show some more "recent" level of my work, that my skill is more than just mechs and a few cute animals.
I'm actually traveling shortly, like several hours from posting this, for an exciting experience that I hope to share more about later.
So I'm posting this last minute for myself to show off to some hopefully new friends who might be looking.
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A small satellite called STARSHINE 2 is deployed from a canister in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-108) at 10 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on Sunday, December 16, 2001. More than 30,000 students from 660 schools in 26 countries were scheduled to track STARSHINE 2 as it orbited Earth. The students, who helped polish the satellite's 845 mirrors, used the information they collected to calculate the density of Earth's upper atmosphere. Starshine 2 re-entered Earth's atmosphere on May 5, 2002.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS108-328-007
Date: December 16, 2001
The payload bay doors can open. The only photographs of the payload bay that I'm aware of show that the inside houses solar panels. Artists' impressions show that these are attached to an arm that, once in space, swings out to the side, exposing the actual contents of the bay to space. I have no room for that in my model, but the panels are hinged at the front; this allows me to raise them to gain access to the undercarriage underneath, in order to push the gear out from the top.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:05 a.m. EST on Feb. 15, 2024. As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines’ first lunar mission will carry NASA science and commercial payloads to the Moon to study plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies.
Credit: Intuitive Machines
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payload almost down, chute deploys @ 2.5km to make it easier to visually track on descent in case transponder fails
Village Of Ardsley NY Highway Department's John Deere 624J Payloader awaits the next truck to load with salt this morning
I attended the "Antique Flywheel Engine & Tractor Show" sponsored by the "Florida Flywheeler's Antique Engine Club" located at 7000 Avon Park Cutoff Road, Fort Mead, FL 33841 on Friday February 21, 2020.
This Photograph shows a Yellow Bulldozer at the Antique Flywheel and Tractor Show, Fort Meade, Florida.
Several other shows/exhibitions were as follows: Functioning Sawmill Demonstrations, Running 1914 400 HP Snow Making Machine Demonstration, Antique Construction Equipment Demonstrations, Model-T Put-Together Demonstration, Daily Antique Tractor Pulls, Kids Pedal Tractor Pulls on Friday & Saturday, Daily Antique Car Parade, Daily Antique Tractor Parade, Florida Flywheeler Antique Engine Club Gift Shop Opened, Huge Flea Market & the Antique Village (was opened) to Wander Through.
This Place is HUGE ! - - One of the attendants told me it is approx 480 ACRES !
Toting the Mir Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP), astronaut Linda M. Godwin, STS-76 mission specialist, translates along the longeron of the Space Shuttle Atlantis' cargo bay starboard side during the March 27, 1996, Extravehicular Activity (EVA). During the docked phase of the mission, astronauts Godwin and Michael R. (Rich) Clifford teamed to mount the MEEP experiments on the Russian Mir Space Station Docking Module (DM). The experiments collected micrometeoroid debris for more than a year. The MEEP experiments were removed from the DM during a spacewalk in November 1997, and returned to Earth on STS-89 in January 1998.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS076-730-00G
Date: March 27, 1996
Four reindeer walk past the BARREL payload 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/Samar Mathur
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Payload is 540 grams, there is a locking mechanism to fix the upper container (no studs involved). I was quite afraid the well car would break down under this weight or derail when passing the switches, or the containers would fall over in curves, but surprisingly there was no such problem - au contraire the weight seems to stabilize the whole thing.
Coupling in general is an issue due to the tight track curves, especially when there are no moving pilots on the loco (which I didn't want from the beginning), but I've found a solution which more or less seems to work.
Sorry for the black screen (guess it's an iMovie issue, I somehow can't fix it), thanks for looking.
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
Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station appears very small from the point of view of the Space Shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft carry out their relative separation. Endeavour's vertical stabilizer, orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods and payload bay are seen in this image photographed by an STS-123 crewmember onboard the shuttle. Prior to undocking the STS-123 and Expedition 16 crews had concluded 12 days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 8:25 p.m. (EDT) on March 24, 2008
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S123-E-009210
Date: March 24, 2008
While photographing the cargo bay (not yet visited by the Hubble Space Telescope) the STS-61 crew also captured a sunburst. A 70-mm camera, aimed through Space Shuttle Endeavour's aft flight deck windows, was used to take the image.
NASA’s Artemis campaign will send astronauts, payloads, and science experiments into deep space on NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) super heavy-lift Moon rocket. Starting with Artemis IV, the Orion spacecraft and its astronauts will be joined by other payloads atop an upgraded version of the SLS, called Block 1B. SLS Block 1B will deliver initial elements of a lunar space station designed to enable long term exploration of the lunar surface and pave the way for future journeys to Mars. To fly these advanced payloads, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are building a cone-shaped adapter that is key to SLS Block 1B.
The payload adapter, nestled within the universal stage adapter sitting atop the SLS Block 1B's exploration upper stage, acts as a connecting point to secure a large payload that is co-manifested -- or flying along with -- the Orion spacecraft. The adapter consists of eight composite panels with an aluminum honeycomb core and two aluminum rings.
In this image, the PLA engineering development unit is installed into the 4697-test stand at NASA Marshall for structural testing. It was then attached to the large cylindrical structure which simulates the Exploration Upper Stage interface. Load lines were then connected to the top of the PLA. The testing demonstrated that it can handle up to three times the expected load.
Credit: NASA/Samuel Lott
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Do you ever have a payload that just won't quite get to orbit? It turns out you can just stick a booster onto your rocket and it'll work out.
The Wasüngö launch vehicle is a versatile, if small, launcher developed by the Central Efrikkan NARB. Its hypergolic fuel might be cancer in a bottle, but at least it can sit on the pad for days in the rainy season without issue.
EXPLORE: Highest position: 299 on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Bee approaching clematis flower, Dublin, Ireland.
Explosive consequences await anyone receiving this payload!
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1) filter using Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS-41B mission specialist, tests a Mobile Foot Restraint (MFR) attached to the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. McCandless appears to be walking on cargo, but is realy being flown over it by the combination MFR and RMS. His helmet visor reflects parts of the payload bay that can't be seen in the larger portion of the photo. Behind him can be seen both the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) pods.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S84-27039
Date: February 7, 1984
NASA has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as part of the Artemis program. Each commercial lander will carry NASA-provided payloads that will conduct science investigations and demonstrate advanced technologies on the lunar surface, paving the way for NASA astronauts to land on the lunar surface by 2024.
The selections are:
• Astrobotic of Pittsburgh has been awarded $79.5 million and has proposed to fly as many as 14 payloads to Lacus Mortis, a large crater on the near side of the Moon, by July 2021.
• Intuitive Machines of Houston has been awarded $77 million. The company has proposed to fly as many as five payloads to Oceanus Procellarum, a scientifically intriguing dark spot on the Moon, by July 2021.
• Orbit Beyond of Edison, New Jersey, has been awarded $97 million and has proposed to fly as many as four payloads to Mare Imbrium, a lava plain in one of the Moon’s craters, by September 2020.
All three of the lander models were on display for the announcement of the companies selected to provide the first lunar landers for the Artemis program, on Friday, May 31, 2019, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/2Ki2mJo
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
A BARREL team member watches as one of their payloads launches from Esrange Space Center on Aug. 29, 2016.
Throughout August 2016, the BARREL team was 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 carried 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.
Credit: NASA/Dartmouth/Alexa Halford
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The Vega-C Payload Assembly Composite (PAC) with LARES-2 has beenintegrated onto the Vega-C launch Vehicle on 7 July 2022 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
On the wave of Vega’s success, Member States at the ESA Ministerial meeting in December 2014 agreed to develop the more powerful Vega-C to respond to an evolving market and to long-term institutional needs.
Vega-C increases performance from Vega’s current 1.5 t to about 2.2 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, covering identified European institutional users’ mission needs, with no increase in launch service and operating costs.
The participating states in this development are: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Credits: ESA - M. Pedoussaut
On Jan. 15, Firefly Aerospace successfully launched 10 NASA science and technology instruments on the company’s first CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) delivery. The NASA instrument teams are performing initial health checks and collecting data ahead of the lunar landing in early March. Flight controllers for Blue Ghost Mission 1 said Wednesday that the company’s spacecraft continues to meet mission milestones including acquisition of signal, and maintaining communications through its Mission Operations Center in Cedar Park, Texas.
Here is the first image from space of Firefly’s Blue Ghost mission 1 lunar lander as it begins its 45-day transit period to the Moon. The top deck of the lander is visible here with the X-band antenna and NASA’s Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) payload.
Credit: Firefly Aerospace
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Models “Truck T13” Scania 143M Torpedo 6x4 in Australian style & “Trailer Tr9 MkII” Elphinstone Easysteer PBS Payloader log trailer with self steering suspension are both build with genuine LEGO® and motorized using LEGO® Power Functions. Both are in scale: 1:17,5.
The truck features: solid axle suspension on all axles of which the rear axle uses tandem bogie suspension, PF powered driving with power transmitted independently to both rear axles, Ackerman geometry on steering axle, Servo powered steering, fully functional fifth wheel, fifth wheel slider, detailed engine bay, modeled Scania V8 engine, detailed cabin interior and 3 light units.
Length: 444 mm
Weight: 2,21kg
Parts: 2790
Given the fact it has a hood or bonnet, so it is not a COE (cab over engine) truck, it is referred to as a torpedo. For this the manufacturer gave it a prefix as well, a T. At that time the 3 series T came in a range of different engine sizes and horsepower. Starting with a 9.0 liter engine with 230 horsepower all the way up to a massive 14 liter V8 engine with 500 horsepower. Being available with either a 9, 11, or 14 liter engine truck models were denoted 93, 113, or 143.
The trailer features solid axle suspension on all axles plus a self steering mechanism, a kingpin, remotely controlled landing gear and parking break, remotely operated lock to enable easy reversing, Power Functions lights and many details.
Length: 749 mm
Weight: 1,23kg
Parts: 1560
To connect and disconnect this semi-trailer to or from a semi-truck it has a landing gear. The trailer's front end can be raised or lowered to make it aligned with the tractor's fifth wheel. With the landing gear down the parking brake is engaged. Lifting the landing gear the parking break will be released.
It is impossible to back this trailer up so it has a steering lock mechanism. This mechanism locks the self steering suspension of the trailer so the axles are fixed. With this you are able to back the trailer up without the self steering suspension.
Vakuum sewage suction truck.
ENGLISH:
Chinese Shaanxi Yan’an Sida truck from 1984. The 6 cylinder diesel engine from Weichai Power makes 180hp. With a total weight of the vehicle of 12 tons, the payload is 5 tons. The driver's cab can be tilted.
The sewage truck is equipped with a tiltable vacuum suction container for receiving waste water such as faeces (liquid manure). The vehicle here is in use for a sheep farm.
China is the most important sheep product producer in the world. This is shown by the numbers of the three largest producers:
Sheep meat: 24% China, 8% Australia, 7% New Zealand.
Sheep milk: 12% China, 10% Syria, 9% Turkey.
Sheep wool: 21% Australia, 18% China, 10% New Zealand.
Shaanxi Automobile Group Yan’an Special Vehicle Co. Ltd is part of CNHDTC China National.
I assembled the 1/87 scale model from different parts. I extended the chassis of a children's toy. I modified the Kleinbahn cabin and the Wiking tank and added parts I made myself.
ESPAÑOL:
Camión Shaanxi Yan'an Sida chino de 1984. El motor diesel de 6 cilindros de Weichai Power produce 180CV. Con un peso total del vehículo de 12 toneladas, la carga útil es de 5 toneladas. La cabina del conductor se puede inclinar.
El camión está equipado con un recipiente de succión al vacío inclinable para recibir aguas residuales como heces (estiércol líquido). El vehículo aquí está en uso para una granja de ovejas.
China es el productor de productos ovinos más importante del mundo. Esto se muestra en los números de los tres mayores productores:
Carne de ovino: 24% China, 8% Australia, 7% Nueva Zelanda.
Leche de oveja: 12% China, 10% Siria, 9% Turquía.
Lana de oveja: 21% Australia, 18% China, 10% Nueva Zelanda.
La S.A. de vehículos especiales de Yan'an de Shaanxi Automobile Group es parte de CNHDTC China National.
Monté el modelo a escala 1:87 a partir de diferentes partes. Extendí el chasis de un juguete para niños. Modifiqué la cabina de Kleinbahn y el recipiente de Wiking y agregué partes que hice yo mismo.
DEUTSCH:
Chinesischer Shaanxi Yan’an Sida truck von 1984. Der 6 Zylinder Dieselmotor von Weichai Power leistet 180PS. Bei einem Gesamtgewicht des Fahrzeuges von 12 Tonnen ist die Nutzlast 5 Tonnen. Die Fahrerkabine ist kippbar.
Der Lastwagen ist mit einem kippbaren Vakuum Saug Behälter zur Aufnahme von Abwasser wie Fäkalien (Gülle, Jauche, Flüssigmist) ausgestattet. Das Vehikel hier ist im Einsatz für eine Schaffarm
China ist der wichtigste Schafprodukt Produzent der Welt. Das zeigen die Zahlen der jeweils drei grössten Produzenten:
Schaffleisch: 24% China, 8% Australien, 7% Neuseeland.
Schafmilch: 12% China, 10% Syrien, 9% Türkei.
Schafwolle: 21% Australien , 18% China, 10% Neuseeland.
Shaanxi Automobile Group Yan’an Special Vehicle Co. Ltd gehört zu CNHDTC China National.
Das Modell im Massstab 1:87 habe ich aus verschiedenen Teilen zusammengebaut. Ich habe das Chassis eines Kinderspielzeugs verlängert. Die Kleinbahn Kabine und den Wiking Tank habe ich modifiziert und mit selber gebastelten Teilen ergänzt.
中文
1984年的陝西延安斯達卡車。濰柴動力的6缸柴油發動機可輸出180馬力。 車輛總重量為12噸，有效載荷為5噸。 駕駛室可以傾斜。
卡車配備有可傾斜的真空抽吸容器，用於接收糞便（液體肥料）等廢水。 這裡的車輛用於養羊場。
我從不同的部分組裝了1:87比例模型。 我擴展了兒童玩具的底盤。 我修改了Kleinbahn機艙和Wiking液體儲罐，並添加了自己製造的零件。
STS-49 Mission Specialist (MS) Kathryn C. Thornton (foreground) releases a strut from the Multipurpose Experiment Support Structure (MPESS) strut dispenser during Assembly of Station by Extravehicular Activity Methods (ASEM) procedures in Endeavour's payload bay. MS Thomas D. Akers, positioned on the opposite side of the MPESS, waits for Thornton to hand him the final strut. The two astronauts are building the ASEM structure during the mission's fourth EVA. The ASEM structure, locked in at four corners to payload retention latch assemblies (PRLAs), rises above the payload bay. In the background are the Intelsat cradle, the vertical tail, and the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods. The pale blue and white Earth is visible below.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S49-99-006
Date: May 14, 1992