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(20171120; Paris Observatory - Meudon, France) Lester David (foreground) is working on the integration of the payload. © Lesia / Observatoire de Paris - PSL.
STS085-E-5013 (10 August 1997) --- Bjarni V. Tryggvason, payload specialist representing the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), inputs data on a lap top during flight day four activities, onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Maximum 5kg payload and up to 60 minutes endurance. The vehicle is primarily designed for video imaging, including day and night monitoring of industrial facilities and other property that is not covered by security cameras. The configuration may include various sensors for remote survey.
After eight months of designing, building and testing, the middle school, high school and college and university teams launched their rockets as part of NASA Student Launch on Sunday, April 8. The rockets and their payloads are designed to fly to 1-mile in altitude before deploying recovery systems that brings them safely to the ground.
Edwin J. "Jake" Garn was the first Congressman in space. I met and interviewed him for Spaceflight magazine.
As of May 1985 Garn was chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and served on three subcommittees: Housing and Urban Affairs, Financial Institutions, and International Finance and Monetary Policy.
The senior Utah Senator also was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and served as Chairman of the HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee. He served on four other Appropriations subcommittees: Energy and Water Resources, Defense, Military Construction, and Interior. Senator Garn served as a member of the Republican leadership from 1979 to 1984 as Secretary of the Republican Conference.
Garn flew as a payload specialist on STS-51-D Discovery (April 12-19, 1985). STS-51-D was launched from and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It's primary objective was to deploy two communications satellites, and to perform electrophoresis and echocardiograph operations in space in addition to a number of other experiments. At the conclusion of the mission, Garn had traveled over 2.5 million miles in 108 Earth orbits, logging over 167 hours in space. Sent 2 March 2017, received back 2 April 2017.
Added Walker at the 30th Planetary Congress in October 2017.
Confirmed by NASA in 1983 as the first industrial payload specialist, Walker accompanied the McDonnell Douglas CFES equipment as a crew member on Space Shuttle Missions 41D/Discovery, 51D, and 61B/Atlantis, accumulating 20 days of experience in space and traveling 8.2 million miles.
STS-90 Payload Specialist Jay Buckey, M.D., prepares for launch during suit-up activities in KSC's Operations and Checkout Building. Buckey and the rest of the STS-90 crew will shortly depart for Launch Pad 39B, where the Space Shuttle Columbia awaits a second liftoff attempt at 2:19 p.m. EDT. His first trip into space, Buckey is participating in a life sciences research flight that will focus on the most complex and least understood part of the human body -- the nervous system. Neurolab will examine the effects of spaceflight on the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves and sensory organs in the human body. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:44804845 - Catalog:14_013880 - Title:Atlas Payload Component - Filename:14_013880.TIF - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The L-100 was quickly identified as an ideal cargo solution. So much so, that Lockheed introduced extended versions of the airlifter. The initial L-100 was also known as an L-100-10 carried six pallets. In all, 22 L-100-10 models were produced and delivered. (Photo: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics archives)
The payload was predicted to land close the launch site, so we had time to twiddle our thumbs. More here: reg.cx/2833
From bottom to top:
- A mounting rig for stacking
- The Payload Adapter (to interface to the motors)
- The Service Module, for telemetry and telecommand (developed by SSC and DLR Moraba)
- CDIC-3 experiment module, "Chemo-hydrodynamic patterns and instabilities" (developed by DTM, TSD, Lambda-X and SSC)
- MEDI experiment module, "Multiple Equiaxed Dendrite Interaction" (developed by AIRBUS DS and SSC)
- BIM experiment module "Biology In Space with Arabidopsis Thaliana" (Developed by RUAG and SSC)
- XRMON-SOL experiment module, "In-situ X-ray monitoring of advanced metallurgical processes" (Developed by SSC)
MASER 13 Launch Campaign
Swedish Space Corporation, ESRANGE, Kiruna, Sweden
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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 Thursday, 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. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists the Amazon Leo mission payload atop the Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Atlas V will launch the Leo 6 mission for Amazon's broadband satellite constellation. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Aug. 27, 2019) –The Ohio-class fleet guided-missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN 728) sails in the Mediterranean Sea Aug. 27, 2019. Florida, the third of four SSGN platforms, is capable of conducting clandestine strike operations, joint special operation forces operations, battle space preparation and information operations, SSGN/SSN consort operations, carrier and expeditionary strike group operations, battle management and experimentation of future submarine payloads. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan Nelson/Released)
A DOT worker operates a payloader to help clear debris in Oakwood, Staten Island.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
Though the A-4 Skyhawk was by no means outdated by 1962, the US Navy began work on a replacement with better range and heavier payload. The designs submitted would be necessarily heavier than the A-4, but this was not seen as much of a problem, nor was a lack of speed: the Navy was willing to trade subsonic performance for increased range and more bombs. Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) submitted a design based loosely on its successful F-8 Crusader fighter, which was enough to beat out three other designs, and it was ordered into production as the A-7A Corsair II, named for the successful Chance-Vought fighter of World War II.
Though the A-7 was based on the F-8, the two shared very little other than basic configuration: the A-7 was stubby and wide, and definitely subsonic as intended, though it initially used the same powerplant as the F-111 Aardvark. Turn performance was excellent, if acceleration was indifferent, but the centerpiece of the Corsair II was its integrated bomb delivery system. This included the APQ-116 radar, a heads-up display, traveling map display below the radarscope, and a digital computer. Ease of maintenance was also emphasized. With no problems encountered in flight testing, the A-7A entered fleet service in 1967.
It was immediately committed to fighting in Vietnam. Though A-7s would only see action in the tail end of Operation Rolling Thunder, they were to be used extensively in South Vietnam, due to their accuracy: A-7s were capable of putting ordnance within sixty feet of friendly troops, making it well-liked. The Navy liked the USAF's A-7D variant, and subsequently adopted it, with changes for naval operations, as the A-7E. This was to be the definitive model of the Corsair II, and surviving A-7As and A-7Bs were converted to E standard.
It was a mixed batch of A-7 models that finished the war in Vietnam: A-7Bs were mostly used in the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) Wild Weasel role, and increasingly Corsair IIs were armed with precision weapons such as the AGM-62 Walleye, which proved capable enough to destroy the infamous Thanh Hoa Bridge—albeit temporarily—in 1972. The workhorse A-7 also struck targets in the Hanoi area extensively, making it second only to the B-52 in amount of ordnance dropped on the North Vietnamese capital. Navy A-7s from USS Coral Sea participated in the last combat missions of the Vietnam War, the Mayaguez rescue mission in May 1975. 98 Navy A-7s were shot down during the conflict.
Following the end of the Vietnam War, the A-7 replaced the A-4 in Navy light attack squadrons, standardizing on the A-7E. Aside from minor upgrades, this would remain the type used by Navy units for the duration of the Corsair II’s career. A-7s would go on to participate in every military operation undertaken by the United States in the 1980s—attacks on Lebanon and the invasion of Grenada in 1983, operations against Libya in 1985, during the “Tanker War” in the Persian Gulf in 1987, and finally in the First Gulf War in 1991. In these operations, the A-7 was able to use its pinpoint bombing ability to good use; in Libya and the Persian Gulf, Corsair IIs attacked and sank numerous Libyan and Iranian patrol boats with unguided bombs. It also was the Navy’s Wild Weasel of choice during the 1980s, using the Vietnam-era Shrike before upgrading to the far superior HARM.
In Operation Desert Storm, two A-7 squadrons from John F. Kennedy were used both to attack fixed targets with “iron” bombs and Walleyes in “tank plinking”—knocking out Iraqi tanks with precision weapons. Despite there being less than 30 A-7s in theater, these aircraft were able supplements to the USAF’s A-10s and F-111s.
The First Gulf War was the A-7’s swan song. The last squadrons gave up their Corsair IIs for F/A-18 Hornets by May 1991, ending nearly thirty years of operations. Some ex-Navy A-7s were passed on to Greece, Portugal, and Thailand, and some still remain in service with Thailand and Greece. Of the 1569 A-7s built, about half were Navy types, and today 20 former US Navy A-7s are on display as gate guards and museum pieces.
A-7B BuNo 154449 joined the US Navy in 1972, serving with VA-215 ("Barn Owls") and may have seen combat during Operation Linebacker II aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34). It was transferred to VA-155 ("Silver Foxes") in 1974, and finished up with VA-305 ("Lobos"), a Navy Reserve squadron stationed at NAS Point Mugu, California. 154449 was retired in 1986, and eventually made its way to the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark in Palmdale.
154449 these days carries the colors of VX-5 ("Vampires"), a Navy test squadron based at nearby NAS China Lake. I got this picture in June 2023.
Presentations on the ExoMars payload by Daniil Rodionov (ACS, FREND) IKI Moscow, Manish Patel (NOMAD) Uni Padua, and Gabriele Cremonese, Co-PI for CASSIS, Astronomical Observatory, Padua. Images credit: ESA/R. Palmari
Another old Front Loader that was sitting waiting to be fixed and put back to work.
Taken at Hamilton, Victoria in 2013.
SpaceX image of the payload of the Falcon 9 rocket launched on 21 December 2015. Public domain image released by SpaceX.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists the Amazon Leo mission payload atop the Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Atlas V will launch the Leo 7 mission for Amazon's broadband satellite constellation. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
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Vice President Mike Pence is seen as he talks with Expedition 53 crew members Joe Acaba, Randy Bresnik, and Mark Vande Hei onboard the International Space Station from the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 in Huntsville, Alabama. The Vice President visited the space center to view test hardware for NASA’s Space Launch System, America’s new deep space rocket and to call the crew onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Shows how we attached the ropes leading up from the payload, to the balloon/parachute cord, using knots, gaffa tape, and a curtain ring. More info in our Project Diary.
STRATOS was a successful Near-Space balloon photography project led by myself, with help from a team of friends at school. For more information (and our in-depth Project Diary), visit our website: projectstratos.webs.com/
The MKC RPG4-U is an under-barrel mounted version of the MKC RPG4 (unreleased).
Just like the RPG4, it fires 30mm grenades electrically, from four tubes inside a housing. RPG rounds are available with a variety of payloads, including HE, Choking Gas, Extinguisher, Incendiary, Flash Barrage, Cover Smoke, and armor piercing.
Other gasses, smoke colors, and payloads also available from MKC.
We kindly accept requests for custom payload rounds.
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), a part of payload flight hardware, intended for the third Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission (SM-3A), is revealed after its protective cover has been removed. The hardware will undergo final testing and integration of payload elements in the PHSF. Mission STS-103 is a "call-up" mission which is being planned due to the need to replace portions of the Hubble's pointing system, the gyros, which have begun to fail. Although Hubble is operating normally and conducting its scientific observations, only three of its six gyroscopes are working properly. The gyroscopes allow the telescope to point at stars, galaxies and planets. The STS-103 crew will not only replace gyroscopes, it will also replace a Fine Guidance Sensor and an older computer with a new enhanced model, an older data tape recorder with a solid state digital recorder, a failed spare transmitter with a new one, and degraded insulation on the telescope with new thermal insulation. The crew will also install a Battery Voltage/Temperature Improvement Kit to protect the spacecraft batteries from overcharging and overheating when the telescope goes into a safe mode. Launch of STS-103 is currently targeted for Oct. 14 but the date is under review. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
This spent the day topdressing the hills behind home. The spray booms are clearly visible. Roxburgh, Central Otago, New Zealand. Clickable Large View
United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity broadband satellite atop the Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility-G (VIF-G) adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Artists impression of Valley Christian School NanoLab-6 - image courtesy of Kentucky Space and Valley Christian Schools
(20171120; Paris Observatory - Meudon, France) The electronic payload of PicSat: the photodiode (black cylinder top left) on the electronic board. The photodiode is attached to the optical fibre (black wire) that sends star light into it. © Lesia / Observatoire de Paris - PSL.
The NanoRacks Module-7 mixes samples of two or three liquids in microgravity. The science goals for NanoRacks Modules are proprietary. The client base is international, with researchers from North America and Israel involved in using the hardware and forms the basis for future space station research.
Catalog #: 10_0009163
Date: 1960
Title: Convair/General Dynamics Atlas
Corporation Name: Convair/General Dynamics
Additional Information: Payload Fit Checks for Atlas Able
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Catalog #: 10_0009169
Date: 1960
Title: Convair/General Dynamics Atlas
Corporation Name: Convair/General Dynamics
Additional Information: Install of Fairings on Payload for Atlas 80D on Pad 12
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Minuteman II ERCS Aeroshell
ERCS flight equipment consisted of the communications payload atop the Minuteman II booster. ERCS payloads were stored and maintained at the local base weapon storage area (WSA) to support the appearance of identical actions with the Mark 11 reentry vehicle, which was also stored and maintained at the WSA. The payload was the same diameter as the Mark 11 to allow connection to the Minuteman booster. The overall shape of the payload was very similar to the Mark 11 but could be readily distinguished by a silver-colored metal point at the top of the aeroshell. The payload was approximately 8 feet high, 32.6 inches in diameter, and weighed 875 pounds.
EMERGENCY ROCKET COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (ERCS)
The Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS) provided a backup communication system to U.S. forces in the event of a nuclear attack. In operation, the ERCS system utilized the Minuteman launch facilities and a Minuteman booster to place a Communications Package into sub-orbital flight. It could then transmit a pre-recorded message to all subscribers within line-of-sight of its trajectory.
Classified SECRET and located only at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, ERCS locations were carefully hidden so as not to be targeted by adversaries. When not installed at the Launch Facility, the ERCS payload was stored with Minuteman warheads to fully disguise their locations.
The U.S. Air Force terminated the ERCS mission in September 1991 with the removal of the Minuteman II missile from the nuclear mission.
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Emirates
Scale 1-500 model diecast
Airbus A330-200
Registration: A6-EKX (MSN 326)
Original printed box
Aircraft Type: Airbus A330-243
Config: F12C42Y183
Engines: 2x RR Trent 772B-60
Airframe status: Stored
Original Dimensions: Wingspan 60,3m - Lenght 59m - Height 17,9m
Seating Capacity: 253 (Is manufacturers typical 3 class configuration)
Range: 12350km (With maximum passengers and no cargo)
MTOW: 233 tonnes
MLW: 182 tonnes
MZFW: 170 tonnes
Typical OWE: 120,5 tonnes
Typical Volumetric Payload: 36,4 tonnes
Max. Structural Payload: 49,5 tonnes
Fuel Capacity: 139090 litres
IATA: EK
ICAO: UAE
Callsign: EMIRATES
Airline Full Name: Emirates Airline
Country: United Arab Emirates
Airline Founded: 25 Oct 1985
Headquarters: Dubai International (DXB / OMDB)
Fleet Size: 271 Aircraft (+ 9 On Order/Planned)
Brand: Herpa Wings
Colors: Black - Gold - Green - Grey - Red - White
Material: Metal
Condition: New
Dimensions (cm): Box: 4 x 14,2 x 14,7 / Model: 12,06 x 11,8 x 3,58
Weight (g): 128
NASA’s largest planetary mission spacecraft, Europa Clipper, arrives at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Slated to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket later this year from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy, Europa Clipper will help determine if life-sustaining conditions exist below the surface Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, Europa. Photo credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
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After eight months of designing, building and testing, the middle school, high school and college and university teams launched their rockets as part of NASA Student Launch on Sunday, April 8. The rockets and their payloads are designed to fly to 1-mile in altitude before deploying recovery systems that brings them safely to the ground.
The transport carrier containing the five-panel solar arrays for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft arrives at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. The solar array travelled by air from Leiden, Netherlands, where Airbus workers assembled them over the last year, and then put on a barge to travel to the Port of Miami in Florida and loaded onto a semi-truck to be driven to Kennedy. The solar arrays will attach to the spacecraft to power it for the 1.8-billion-mile journey to study Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. Launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is no earlier than October 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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A side view shot of the Lunar Orbiter Payload - Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, circa 1967. Employing cutting-edge camera, film, and processing technology, the Lunar Orbiter produced a photographic survey of the landing sites on the moon in advance of the manned Apollo flights of the late 1960s and 70s. The camera payload was designed and maufactured in Rochester by the Eastman Kodak Co for NASA. It held unperforated 65mm film that once exposed by the Orbiter's two lenses was processed and analog scanned onboard before images were transmitted by satellite to earth. The images had the highest resolution and produced the most detailed view of the moon. In total, five Lunar Orbiters explored the earth's moon, from horizon to horizon. The example presented here was intended to be the seventh, but was never deployed due to the early success of the Lunar Orbiter program. Located in the Technology Collection in the International Museum of Photography & Film at the George Eastman House & Gardens, 900 East Ave, Rochester, NY.
Theresa Franco of SPECTROLAB Inc. carefully inspects the solar panels of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, undergoing preflight assembly and checkout in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility in KSC's Industrial Area. The four solar array panels will play a crucial role in the Mars Global Surveyor mission by providing the electrical power required to operate the spacecraft and its complement of scientific instruments. The Surveyor is slated for launch November 6 aboard a Delta II expendable launch vehicle. After arriving at the Red Planet in September 1997, the Surveyor will carry out an extensive study of Mars, gathering data about the planet's topography, magnetism, mineral composition and atmosphere.
Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/
Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
After eight months of designing, building and testing, the middle school, high school and college and university teams launched their rockets as part of NASA Student Launch on Sunday, April 8. The rockets and their payloads are designed to fly to 1-mile in altitude before deploying recovery systems that brings them safely to the ground.
An out-the-window view of the Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module resting in Discovery's payload bay was recorded with a digital still camera from the International Space Station (ISS) Earth is in the background.
Presentations on the ExoMars payload by Daniil Rodionov (ACS, FREND) IKI Moscow, Manish Patel (NOMAD) Uni Padua, and Gabriele Cremonese, Co-PI for CASSIS, Astronomical Observatory, Padua. Images credit: ESA/R. Palmari
Rising from fire and smoke, NASA's Juno planetary probe, enclosed in its payload fairing, launches atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Original from NASA . Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists the Amazon Leo mission payload atop the Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Atlas V will launch the Leo 7 mission for Amazon's broadband satellite constellation. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance