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Once again, I don't feel like coming up with a back story. This is a remake of one of my earlier MOCs, which you can see here.
Something simple to get the gears spinning again. Need to break away from this design pattern eventually.
Berlin - The Gemäldegalerie.
The museum's hall boasts this space age high rise tower filling with light the whole room
The Gemäldegalerie hosts one of the world's most important collection of European painting ranging from the 13th to 18th century.
Valentine’s Day 2015 and ESA’s Rosetta swooped in towards Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko for a daring close encounter. At just 6 km from the surface, it was the closest the spacecraft had ever been to the comet at that point in the mission.
The 14 February flyby was not only special because of its proximity, Rosetta also passed through a unique observational geometry: for a short time the Sun, craft and comet were exactly aligned. In this position, surface structures cast almost no shadows, allowing the reflection properties of the surface material to be determined.
As a side effect, Rosetta’s shadow could also be seen, cast on the surface of the comet as a fuzzy rectangular dark smudge somewhat larger than Rosetta itself, in this case measuring some 20 x 50 m. The full image measures about 228 m across.
This particular image is the last in a sequence of 12 that captured the spacecraft’s shadow as it tracked over the surface in the Imhotep region on the larger of the comet’s two lobes.
The image was taken by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera and the image resolution is just 11 cm/pixel.
Rosetta subsequently made closer flybys, notably in the final phase of its incredible mission as it drew ever closer to the comet before finally coming to rest on the surface in September 2016.
The image is one of thousands freely available in ESA’s Archive Image Browser.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Et voici l’amarrage, après un ballet complexe entre l’humain et la machine. Megan s’est occupée de piloter le Canadarm 2 et je l’ai secondée en surveillant les systèmes du Cygnus durant la phase d’approche.
👀 ✈️
And the docking. A complex choreography between human and machine. As Megan grappled Cygnus with Canadarm2, I acted as co-pilot – monitoring Cygnus's systems throughout its approach.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The initial reason to do this was to have a micro retro baseplate like in the old ClassicSpace sets, made with old castle quarter arch pieces laying on the side - four make an almost perfect circle
The occasional Falcon
The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is rolled out by train, on 31 August 2015, from the MIK 112 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 2 September 2015 with commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov.
Follow the whole mission with live updates via the blogs.esa.int/iriss and Twitter via @esaoperations
Connect with Andreas at: andreasmogensen.esa.int/
Credit:
Astronaut Tintin with his colleagues captain Haddock and Snowy has landed their spacecraft on an uncharted green planet. As the Earth is becoming uninhabitable due to pollution, climate change, and exhaustion of natural resources mankind needs a new home. They will be exploring the environment of the new planet to check on its suitability for the terrestrial living beings.
iss069e018147 (June 6, 2023) --- The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking less than a day after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center loaded with over 7,000 pounds of science experiments, station hardware, and crew supplies. The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the cloud tops as both spacecraft were orbiting 259 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan.
Integration of the Orion spacecraft on top of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The European Service Module that will power the first Orion uncrewed flight, ESM-1, was lifted up and mated with the rocket in preparation for launch, together with the crew module. Integration began on 20 October 2021, and the spacecraft was secured atop the powerful rocket six days later.
Artemis I is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions for human deep space exploration. The European Service Module will power Orion's crew module around the Moon and back with over 30 engines. The European Service Module provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping the spacecraft at the right temperature and on course.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Sagittarius is an SF model of a long-distance and reusable crewed spacecraft that could in near future travel to inner planets. Design is heavily inspired by the NASA’s Apollo CSM, Orion MPCV and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. Hence the overall capsule-like shape was the back-bone of the entire thing. Other features include: markings for automated guiding system, single hatch, a series of small windows placed in the top-half of the capsule and a heat-shield at the bottom. Because it is an SF model I allowed myself to diverge a little bit from existing spacecrafts designs by introducing the following features: second angle added to the cone to make it more dome-like rather than cone-like (capsule in the model is 16-sided double-angled polygon), increase in overall size, recesses added in a heat-shield (heat-shield in the model is 32-sided polygon) and added 24 engines in them (16 main and 8 auxiliary ones mounted in pairs of 3), instead of using small maneuvering engines for OMS I added 8 bigger ones in a circular pattern (overall all engines use they same methane and liquid oxygen propellant like SpaceX’s Raptor engines do to allow them to reignite multiple times and thus to use them for maneuvering).
Despite that it might look like a simple shape translating it into bricks was a long-lasting (more than 5 months) struggle with ridiculous amounts of issues that had to be resolved. Happily this project successfully reached its finishing line :)
Anticipation continues to build at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida before the scheduled launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will carry two American NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff from Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39A is targeted for Wednesday, May 27, at 4:33 p.m. EDT — an instantaneous launch window.
Here, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon atop, stands poised for launch at historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 21, 2020, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.
Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
I built this lively yellow and red speeder to accompany an article I wrote for New Elementary regarding a series of LEGO cars released in cereal boxes in 2009. Can you spot the 4 car parts used in this model?
I built the model in early 2020, so it’s slightly dated, but I’m still fairly happy with the design. If you want to read more about this model, check out my New Elementary article! www.newelementary.com/2021/11/paulville-mocs-general-food...
Further insight into my design process for this model, including exclusive work in progress photos, is available to subscribers on New Elementary’s Patreon page!
"Aliens"
If you were red and I were green, pray tell, which of us is the alien queen ?
If you were alien, tell me what you may see, ray-guns, spacecraft, or dome heads like me 👽👽👽
We are intelligent and loving gold bars, extraterrestrial hot-foot from Mars.
Beam us up Scottie, the earthlings gone mad, humans are waring it's awfully sad.
fun poetry by
Sean.
Hi, there, everyone.
This is my image for Macro Monday this week with a topic of red and green.
These small sticky slingshot toy figures come with a catapult to enable shooting them up into space.
I spotted them in my local shop and purchased them because of their colours.
They are rather small, standing at 3 inches tall from head to toe.
I sometimes wonder if aliens 👽 are here in our world!
Well, they certainly are alive and in love here in Bristol, according to my image anyway. Ha ha' ha '
Love & Peace Everyone ✌️
Image of the approaching Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft taken by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from on board the International Space Station.
On board the Soyuz were ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov.
Follow Andreas Mogensen's mission with live updates via the iriss mission blog and Twitter via @esaoperations
Connect with Andreas at: andreasmogensen.esa.int/
Credit: ESA/NASA
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Une nouvelle aurore australe complètement hypnotisante Je ne m'en lasserai jamais, ça va être à vous de me dire d'arrêter 😅
Another mesmerising aurora I will never tire of this sight from space, which means it's your job to say when 😅
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Silhouettes of the Progress and Soyuz spacecraft that are currently docked with the International Space Station as they fly over Europe. Tomorrow Shane, Andrei and Sergei will leave with the latter back to Earth, strange to think that in less than 4 hours after saying goodbye they will be standing up at their landing site Kazakhstan. Godspeed, I will miss them, but looking forward to welcoming Jack and Fyodor next week when they arrive!
Les silhouettes des vaisseaux Progress et Soyouz se détachent sur le tapis de lumières de l’Europe. Shane, Sergeï et Andreï vont retourner sur Terre demain avec un Soyouz. Étrange de se dire qu’à peine 4 heures après leur avoir dit au revoir, ils seront debout les pieds sur la terre ferme des steppes kazakhes… Ils vont nous manquer et nous avons hâte d’accueillir bientôt leur relève à bord !
Credits: ESA/NASA
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The Sunblade Starfighter
This is the result of boredom and a weekend of bad weather.
After my fighter called Aótaka, this is already the second MOC heavily inspired by Rob's Naganata
Though lacking the sheer cargo capacity of inner-system superhaulers, the Nisse Class remains prized among frontier pilots for its high endurance and unusually overstatted engine system, which afford it the longevity and survivability required to effectively operate beyond the edge of populated space.
Et voici l’amarrage, après un ballet complexe entre l’humain et la machine. Megan s’est occupée de piloter le Canadarm 2 et je l’ai secondée en surveillant les systèmes du Cygnus durant la phase d’approche.
👀 ✈️
And the docking. A complex choreography between human and machine. As Megan grappled Cygnus with Canadarm2, I acted as co-pilot – monitoring Cygnus's systems throughout its approach.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Integration of the Orion spacecraft on top of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The European Service Module that will power the first Orion uncrewed flight, ESM-1, was lifted up and mated with the rocket in preparation for launch, together with the crew module. Integration began on 20 October 2021, and the spacecraft was secured atop the powerful rocket six days later.
Artemis I is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions for human deep space exploration. The European Service Module will power Orion's crew module around the Moon and back with over 30 engines. The European Service Module provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping the spacecraft at the right temperature and on course.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The goal of this observation is to monitor the defrosting of these dunes (or dust ridges?) for the next Martian spring. The dunes have pits that change from year to year—due to sublimating seasonal frost? Note the dust devil tracks running across the scene.
Image cutout is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 252 km (156 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_073515_1245
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona
Man, it feels like ages since my last login to flickr. Totally miss this. Been so busy starting my papers and studying for my midterms. Even without stress from school, laptop issues are stressing me out regardless. Recently had to get my MacBook fixed, and bad timing for me saving most of my recent photos here. I though I've lost them all but luckily found a solution to transfer them onto my external HD.
One from the archives for this upload. Taken initially for sunset at Centre Island underneath the pier on the southern end last summer. I've never taken it this late at this spot and didn't realized the lights on the pier. But as soon as it was lit up I assumed that it would just become blinded with flares but it turns out looking kinda abstract. A very different result as expected. I tried to keep still and not knock my camera off the tripod while swiping away the gnats and mosquitoes from my face:D
Thanks so much for the comments and favs on my last posts even though it's was long time ago, appreciate them all :)
Oi Man Estate (Chinese: 愛民邨) is a public housing estate on No. 12 Hill, Kowloon City District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is the largest public housing estate in Kowloon City District. It has a total of 12 residential blocks which were completed between 1974 and 1975. It was officially opened by the Acting Governor Sir Denys Roberts on 20 November 1975.
The estate comprises 6,200 flats designed to house some 46,000 residents based on the Housing Authority's former space allocation standards of 35 square feet per person. The "authorized population" of Oi Man Estate has since been revised to 18,900 residents
A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars.
NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The twin spacecraft, built by Rocket Lab, will investigate how a never-ending, million-mile-per-hour stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind, has gradually stripped away much of the Martian atmosphere, causing the planet to cool and its surface water to evaporate. The mission is led by the University of California, Berkeley.
Credits: Blue Origin
#NASAMarshall #Space #NASA #Mars #Escapade #NASAEscapade
This ship is yet another MOC that started off life as a rather interesting table scrap. The rear thruster is a little Technic doohickey I was experimenting with for some time. Naturally, it was either going to be part of a robot or a spaceship. I went with ship this time. Although, it would look pretty cool on a robot...
Maybe after SHIPtember.
[File Photo: Saturn's orange moon Titan peeks from behind two of Saturn's rings. Small, battered Epimetheus, another of Saturn's 62 moons, appears just above the rings.]
Story details: NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Titan.
This is the first definitive detection of the plastic ingredient on any moon or planet, other than Earth.
A small amount of propylene was identified in Titan's lower atmosphere by Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). This instrument measures the infrared light, or heat radiation, emitted from Saturn and its moons in much the same way our hands feel the warmth of a fire.
Propylene is the first molecule to be discovered on Titan using CIRS. By isolating the same signal at various altitudes within the lower atmosphere, researchers identified the chemical with a high degree of confidence. Details are presented in a paper in the Sept. 30 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
"This chemical is all around us in everyday life, strung together in long chains to form a plastic called polypropylene," said Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and lead author of the paper. "That plastic container at the grocery store with the recycling code 5 on the bottom -- that's polypropylene."
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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Spacecraft are not so different to humans – whilst the Sun can be a great source of vital energy, both people and machines must also be protected from its harmful effects.
In this image, taken on 23 May 2022, engineers at Thales Alenia Space in Turin are attaching a combined sunshield and solar panel module to the main body of ESA’s Euclid spacecraft. The module has two functions: whilst the solar panels will provide the spacecraft with power, the sunshield will shade the instrument-carrying payload module from the Sun’s intense radiation.
Euclid is a space telescope designed to explore the dark Universe. It will make a 3D-map of the cosmos (with time as the third dimension) by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. In doing so, Euclid will tackle some of the most fundamental questions in cosmology – questions like: How did the Universe originate? Why is the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate? What is the nature of dark matter? What is dark energy?
The previous step in Euclid’s journey, taking place on 24 March 2022, involved attaching Euclid’s payload module to its supporting service module. Next up, engineers will add the communications antenna and then Euclid will be complete. Finally, Euclid will be taken to Cannes where the complete spacecraft will be tested to check that it is ready for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja