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The title of this photo perfectly encapsulates how I feel as I embark on a new year.
This aerial panorama, taken at sunset, captures a sweeping curve in the road surrounding a small, serene lake at its edge. From this perspective, the interplay between the flowing road and still water creates a dynamic yet tranquil composition—a perfect metaphor for the balance I aim to achieve in photography and in life.
In many ways, drone photography opens new horizons for me, both literally and figuratively. It's a challenge to step out of my comfort zone and embrace an entirely different way of capturing the world. While motivation can sometimes falter, moments like these remind me of the joy in seeking new perspectives and pushing past limits.
It's about looking forward, holding onto aspirations, and rediscovering the awe and curiosity that fueled me at the beginning of this journey.
Here’s to new perspectives, new learnings, new challenges and the pursuit of creativity in 2025.
Copernicus Sentinel-6B is being prepared for liftoff, scheduled for 17 November 2025. The photograph shows the satellite being encapsulated in the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fairing.
Like its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, Sentinel-6B carries the latest radar altimetry technology to further extend the sea-surface height record that began in the early 1990s. These measurements help scientists understand sea-level rise – crucial information for shaping climate policy and protecting the millions of people living in coastal areas around the world.
Credit: SpaceX
nhq201609150021 (09/15/2016) --- The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as while being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
I think this view right here encapsulates everything that makes the Magic Kingdom in Florida different than Disneyland in California, as well as being my favorite of the "classic" Castle views. You don't get views like this, with moats and epic scale, in Disneyland. Add to the fact that Cinderella Castle is a place you can actually go inside and spend some time to eat, and I'd have to agree that it's an overall a better experience than the modest castle in Anaheim. Throw in the Christmas lights as an added bonus and it's just a beautiful sight.
That said I do have a problem with this particular castle: you can never actually walk through it. Try and walk through during the day and it's closed for some random stage show. Try and walk by later and it's closed because some parade is going by. Try to walk through at night and it's closed for the fireworks. I was in the Magic Kingdom for better part of three days and not once did I manage to walk through the castle to Fantasyland, which is supposed to be one of the quintessential Disney moments. Sad. Mark me down in the camp that's against Disney shutting down large portions of the park for parades/fireworks/shows/pin-trading/whatever.
The MetOp-SG-A1 satellite being enclosed within the Ariane 6's rocket fairing - a key milestone that marks the end of hands-on work for the team, and always an emotional moment. No one will actually see the satellite anymore – the fairing will not be opened until three minutes 30 seconds after liftoff as MetOp-SG-A1 is taken into orbit around Earth.
MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites that will deliver global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis. The A-type satellites, the first of which is the soon-to-launch MetOp-SG-A1, carry six instruments, including the European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-5 spectrometer.
Credits: ESA - M. Pédoussaut
Sentinel-3A satellite encapsulated within its Rockot fairing, on 9 February 2016, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
Once safely in orbit and fully commissioned, this new satellite will begin its mission to map Earth’s oceans and land surfaces with its powerful optical and radar systems. The Sentinel-3 mission is set to play a key role in the world’s largest environmental monitoring programme – Copernicus.
Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2016
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASAâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agencyâs Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is being prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing on June 18, 2020. The Mars Perseverance rover is scheduled to launch in July 2020, atop the Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASAâs Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The roverâs seven instruments will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management. Photo credit: NASA/Christian Mangano
1/14/12 - 14/366
I was chasing a sunrise this morning. But glittering balls of light kept capturing my attention. A little bit of belly crawling onto the (rather dirty) ice and I had my shot. Along with a pair of sopping wet, filthy jeans and coat.
But since life is about the little things and exploring the world around you; I found it completely worth it.
Sentinel-1B satellite being encapsulated within its Soyuz fairing in preparation for the 22 April 2016 launch. This stage of the launch campaign took place on Friday 15 April in the S3B preparation building of the Guiana Space Centre.
Once in orbit, it will provide radar images of Earth for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
With the Sentinel-1 mission designed as a two-satellite constellation, Sentinel-1B will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which was launched two years ago.
More about Sentinel-1:
Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2016
This photograph encapsulates the two things I like taking photographs of the most Trains & Trees. I’m not sure what the tree is, but the locomotive is Hudswell, Clarke 0-4-0ST ‘No. 19’ Works No. 1056 of 1914. Taken at Statfold Barn Railway at their ‘Spectacle of Steam’ event.
The hive is an open air structure standing at 17 metres tall and encapsulates the story of the honey bee and the important role of pollination in feeding the planet, through an immersive sound and visual experience.
The Hive is the design of UK based artist Wolfgang Buttress. It was originally created as the centrepiece of the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo.
It is constructed from around 170,000 parts including thousands of pieces of aluminium which catch the changing sunlight. There are 1,000 LED lights dotted around its core which glow and fade, while a unique soundtrack hums in response to the activity of real bees in a beehive behind the scenes at Kew.
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.
On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket.
The encapsulation process for the H-IIA is very different than for most U.S. rockets. For U.S. rockets, the fairing is usually in two pieces that close around the payload like a clamshell. To install the GPM Core Observatory into the fairing of the H-IIA rocket, first the Core Observatory and the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) are set up in scaffolding in the Encapsulation Hall. Then, the fairing is lifted above and lowered onto the fitting. When only a few feet remain above the final position, stanchions support the fairing while technicians go inside to complete the electrical connections. When this is completed, they remove the stanchions and lower the fairing to its final position, where it is bolted in place.
The GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. The GPM Core Observatory anchors this network by providing observations on all types of precipitation. The observatory's data acts as the measuring stick by which partner observations can be combined into a unified data set. The data will be used by scientists to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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Is it his encapsulating eyes? His enticing smile? His nonchalence which translates into mystery, or his casual charms? What draws you in, what breaks your heart?
- because we all have a friend with that jar of hearts, who captures them from the innocent and then carelessly moves on.
- because if one of these dudes ever hurts my friends, he's in trouble. Big trouble.
- HEY LOOK FLICKR. I put effort in today :D :D
Sorry about my unresponsiveness recently, I was busy having an amazing weekend. Hehee. 1,2,3, get ready for the influx of catching up on streams! I just opened my diary and realised I have practically no homework today. YAY!
Although I should do history.
I'll do some history.
Oh look! The msn icon is flashing! Let's see who's talking to me...
... I am such an epic procrastinator. EPIC.
That is summerfruitsjuice, in the jar. ^_^
How are y'all?
Have you ever encountered a guy with a jar of hearts? :)
- I switched them over, and now I want to switch them back.. FAIL. :)
Engineers at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia prepare to encapsulate the LADEE spacecraft into the fairing of the Minotaur V launch vehicle nose-cone.
Credit: NASA/Wallops/Terry Zaperach
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What is LADEE?
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is designed to study the Moon's thin exosphere and the lunar dust environment. An "exosphere" is an atmosphere that is so thin and tenuous that molecules don't collide with each other. Studying the Moon's exosphere will help scientists understand other planetary bodies with exospheres too, like Mercury and some of Jupiter's bigger moons. The orbiter will determine the density, composition and temporal and spatial variability of the Moon's exosphere to help us understand where the species in the exosphere come from and the role of the solar wind, lunar surface and interior, and meteoric infall as sources. The mission will also examine the density and temporal and spatial variability of dust particles that may get lofted into the atmosphere.
The mission also will test several new technologies, including a modular spacecraft bus that may reduce the cost of future deep space missions and demonstrate two-way high rate laser communication for the first time from the Moon.
LADEE now is ready to launch when the window opens on Sept. 6, 2013. Read more: www.nasa.gov/ladee
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GPS III SV04 is encapsulated in its protective launch fairings. (Photo courtesy of the 45th Space Wing Public Affairs.)
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.
On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket.
The encapsulation process for the H-IIA is very different than for most U.S. rockets. For U.S. rockets, the fairing is usually in two pieces that close around the payload like a clamshell. To install the GPM Core Observatory into the fairing of the H-IIA rocket, first the Core Observatory and the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) are set up in scaffolding in the Encapsulation Hall. Then, the fairing is lifted above and lowered onto the fitting. When only a few feet remain above the final position, stanchions support the fairing while technicians go inside to complete the electrical connections. When this is completed, they remove the stanchions and lower the fairing to its final position, where it is bolted in place.
The GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. The GPM Core Observatory anchors this network by providing observations on all types of precipitation. The observatory's data acts as the measuring stick by which partner observations can be combined into a unified data set. The data will be used by scientists to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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GPS III SV04 is encapsulated in its protective launch fairings. (Photo courtesy of the 45th Space Wing Public Affairs.)
It is difficult in a way to describe or encapsulate Rowland Emett's work! Emett (1906 - 1990) was foremost a cartoonist and illustrator but he also designed whimsical kinetic scultures and models based on his drawings, several of which were for commercial or advertising projects. Transport, such as steam trains and trams were close to Emett's heart and much of his work and this 1952 brochure, by the British Travel Association, plays on his sense of fancy to the greatest extent!
The event featured three typical London red Central Area buses making their way in a 'caravan' across the US and back, along with 'authentic Cockney conductors' and a team of mechanics and engineers to make sure the vehicles did their duty. The brochure shows a vivid description of the buses and crews, a map of the journey with the major stops and an exhortation to "visit Britain", the latetr being the main reason for the trip. The buses were associated with displays of the charms of the UK and associated literature.
The three buses were two AEC built RT-types, RT 2775 (LYR 826) and RT 2776 (LYR 827) along with a Leyland RTL-type RTL 1307 (LYR 395), all three new in 1952. They were shipped aboard SS Parthia and on arrival were given New York registrations (NY53.114 - 116) and the whole affair was such a success the tour was extended to include various Canadian cities.
Back in the UK the buses went into normal passenger service having been where necessary re-fitted and they received, from memory, commemorative plaques on the interior of the vehicles as one plate survives in the LTM Collection. Indeed, one bus survives in preservation, RT 2775, the other two having been sold to Ceylon (RT 1307) and RT 2776 being scrapped in 1976.
Sentinel-2A being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing.
Liftoff from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is set for 23 June at 01:52 GMT (03:52 CEST; 22:52 local time on 22 June), on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
For more information on the mission, visit www.esa.int/sentinel2
Credit: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2015
Antique stained glass window encapsulated within new double glazed unit .
Holme Valley Stained Glass is based in Holmfirth , near Huddersfield , West Yorkshire .
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Mars 2020 logo is installed on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing on June 18, 2020. Secured inside the fairing is the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The rover is scheduled to launch in July 2020, atop the Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover’s seven instruments will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management. Photo credit: NASA/Christian Mangano
On 25 June, with just a few days to go before scheduled launch, the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, that is hosting the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, was ready to be placed inside the launch rocket.
This is the last time the satellite engineers have hands-on manual control of the MTG-S1 satellite – and is the last time the team will see the satellite and instruments that have taken years of planning, design and testing. Mating and encapsulation are the final phases of activity before launch. During these activities, the satellite keeps its solar arrays in a folded position like a moth inside its cocoon.
Once the satellite is attached to its flight adaptor, it is encapsulated inside the tip of the rocket, known as the fairing, where the cone-shaped structure provides a protective case during the initial phase of the launch ascent. This encapsulated assembly, with the MTG-S1 satellite inside, is then mated with the rocket after its transportation to the hangar at the launch pad.
Credits: SpaceX
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.
On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket.
The encapsulation process for the H-IIA is very different than for most U.S. rockets. For U.S. rockets, the fairing is usually in two pieces that close around the payload like a clamshell. To install the GPM Core Observatory into the fairing of the H-IIA rocket, first the Core Observatory and the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) are set up in scaffolding in the Encapsulation Hall. Then, the fairing is lifted above and lowered onto the fitting. When only a few feet remain above the final position, stanchions support the fairing while technicians go inside to complete the electrical connections. When this is completed, they remove the stanchions and lower the fairing to its final position, where it is bolted in place.
The GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. The GPM Core Observatory anchors this network by providing observations on all types of precipitation. The observatory's data acts as the measuring stick by which partner observations can be combined into a unified data set. The data will be used by scientists to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Encapsulated iridescent glitter charm with an original illustration of Mewki kitty on a rhodium plated chain decorated with a bow and Swarovski AB crystal.
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nhq201610110003 (Oct. 11, 2016) --- The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as the work platforms around it are retracted in preparation for being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
This is a respite from the rages of life. The calm water represents the calm in life where one is driven by the need to rest and sleep.
Sentinel-3A satellite encapsulated within its Rockot fairing, on 9 February 2016, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
Once safely in orbit and fully commissioned, this new satellite will begin its mission to map Earth’s oceans and land surfaces with its powerful optical and radar systems. The Sentinel-3 mission is set to play a key role in the world’s largest environmental monitoring programme – Copernicus.
Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2016
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.
On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket.
The encapsulation process for the H-IIA is very different than for most U.S. rockets. For U.S. rockets, the fairing is usually in two pieces that close around the payload like a clamshell. To install the GPM Core Observatory into the fairing of the H-IIA rocket, first the Core Observatory and the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) are set up in scaffolding in the Encapsulation Hall. Then, the fairing is lifted above and lowered onto the fitting. When only a few feet remain above the final position, stanchions support the fairing while technicians go inside to complete the electrical connections. When this is completed, they remove the stanchions and lower the fairing to its final position, where it is bolted in place.
The GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. The GPM Core Observatory anchors this network by providing observations on all types of precipitation. The observatory's data acts as the measuring stick by which partner observations can be combined into a unified data set. The data will be used by scientists to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Burke and Wills Menindee Camp Pamamaroo Creek 26/10/1860 to 26/01/1861.
The story of Burke and Wills has become an integral part of the Australian consciousness. Burke and Wills and their fate seem to encapsulate and justify the fear that many urban Australians have of the vast, lonely, dry wilderness which occupies over two-thirds of the continent. Of course the truth about the ignominious demise of Burke and wills is more pedestrian. What went wrong with their expedition can best be summed up by those well-known human failings - incompetence, arrogance, inflexibility and racial bigotry. The expedition was ill-conceived from the outset. It is now generally agreed that the raison d'etre of the whole undertaking was overwhelming pride. This pride was a result of the newly found wealth of Melbourne (a direct result of the gold rushes) and the newly created colonial independence of Victoria. Public enthusiasm for the expedition was high. Public subscriptions exceeded £3000 and the government contributed £6000. Under ordinary circumstances this would have been adequate funding but over half of the funds were spent on purchasing and importing twenty-four camels from Afghanistan. The committee then advertised for a man to lead the expedition. They had thirteen applicants out of whom they chose Irish-born police inspector Robert O'Hara Burke. Burke had no experience and no apparent knowledge of the Australian bush. Why he was chosen to lead an expedition which was going to travel across thousands of miles of rugged and unknown terrain remains a mystery. It was not so much an expedition as a public display. The camels and packhorses were carrying twenty-one tons of equipment including 120 mirrors as presents for Aborigines, sixty gallons of rum, four gallons of brandy, supplies of rockets, arms and vast qualities of dried food.
On 6 September when the expedition reached Swan Hill Burke sold off a large quantity of stores and hired two new men. In Balranald the foreman, Ferguson, quit; Burke dismissed Creber, Cowen, Fletcher, the cook Drakeford, and Langan; and some stores including the expedition's entire supply of lime juice were sold. At the Darling River camp at Pamamaroo Creek Burke insisted that all items weighing over thirty pounds be abandoned. This decision meant that neither Dr Beckler nor the naturalist Ludwig Becker could carry their instruments. Becker left the expedition at Menindee. Prior to Becker's departure the second-in-command, Landells, realised that he would never be able to work with Burke and resigned. At Menindee news arrived from Melbourne that another continental crossing was about to commence. All pretence about the desire to 'enquire into the report upon the exploration of the Australian interior' was abandoned. Burke could not tolerate the thought that he might be beaten. On 19 October Burke, Wills, Brabe, King, Gray, McDonough, Patton and an Afgan cameleer Dost Mohammed left Menindee. Wright was left behind with instructions to bring stores and provisions and to follow the main party in a week to Cooper’s Creek. The main party reached Cooper Creek on 11 November and on 27 November the famous Camp 65 was established under a coolibah tree on the banks of the river. On 16 December 1860 with six camels, one pony, and Wills, Gray and King, Burke began the final push north to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Disaster now followed disaster on the trip north and back to Cooper Creek. On 17 April on the way back Charley Gray died. Four days later Burke, Wills and King reached the Cooper Creek depot. They were exhausted and in desperate need of fresh supplies. To their horror the depot had been abandoned only hours earlier. On a tree William Brahe, the depot foreman, had carved DIG. Confronted with an empty depot, a small cache of supplies and the prospect of starvation, Burke had to decide whether he was going to go back to Menindee or attempt a 320 kilometre walk across the desert to a cattle station at Mount Hopeless. Once again Burke made the wrong decision. He decided to head for Mount Hopeless. It is perhaps the most telling comment about the character of Burke he ignored his only chance saving himself, Wills and King. It is almost certain that the local Aborigines could have saved the trio. But Burke saw himself as the conqueror, as a member of a superior civilisation. The idea that he could be saved from death by a group of 'savages' was unthinkable. The base camp in Menindee was thus occupied by part of the group from 19 Oct 1860 to 26 Jan 1861 before they headed back to Melbourne. Only John King made it back alive from Cooper Creek because he had accepted the hospitality of the Aboriginal people there. Dost Mahomet returned and lived in Menindee and worked for Ah Chung the Chinese baker. He died in 1880 and was buried just outside the town. The base camp at Pamamaroo Creek near Menindee was occupied from 19 October 1860 to 26 January 1861. Before setting off north Burke stayed in the hotel in Menindee and not with his men at Pamamaroo Creek depot. The main weir on the River Darling diverts water into Lake Pamamaroo which becomes the water supply of Broken Hill and the source of irrigation water for the fruit and vines around Menindee.
The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as it is rotated from a vertical to a horizontal position in preparation for being encapsulated in its fairing on Thursday, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
jsc2019e012763 (March 6, 2019) --- In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft stands at the ready March 6 prior to its encapsulation into the nose fairing of the Soyuz booster rocket. Expedition 59 crew members Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch on March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Viking 1 spacecraft 1975: The mating of the Obiter and Lander elements of the Viking spacecraft is shown at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Two Vikings will be launched on August 11 and August 21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and are scheduled to arrive at Mars in July 1976. The lander elements of each spacecraft will be soft-landed on the planet’s surface and test for signs of life.
The above is from some non-NASA site, associated with a similar photo (linked to below). If indeed Viking 1, this mating occurred March 8, 1975, in Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Building/Facility? No. 2 (SAEB No. 2/SAEB 2 and/or SAEF No. 2/SAEF 2/SAEF II), located in the KSC/CCAFS? Industrial Area.
So…neither here nor there; but either the SAEBs were redesignated as SAEFs between Viking and Voyager, or it’s just another case of undisciplined, interchangeable & “whatever, it’s close enough” naming ‘convention’ by NASA whoevers.
"building":
history.nasa.gov/SP-480/ch12.htm
"Building", "Facility", either, both, mix 'n' match, take your pick. Page 2, third/last paragraph, under "2.0 LDEF MISSION PROFILE"...good grief:
www.researchgate.net/publication/24298829_Composite_mater...
Credit: ResearchGate website
"Facility":
www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/history/50thgallery/19...
Immediately to the right and just above the two camera-facing thermal control louvers (beneath the square red protective covers), the dual cylindrical housings of the two high-resolution television cameras can be seen, responsible for the countless amazing images of Mars & its moons.
The U.S. flag and mostly obscured U.S. Bicentennial emblem are visible on the white insulative/protective cover of the main propulsion unit.
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space.
On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket.
The encapsulation process for the H-IIA is very different than for most U.S. rockets. For U.S. rockets, the fairing is usually in two pieces that close around the payload like a clamshell. To install the GPM Core Observatory into the fairing of the H-IIA rocket, first the Core Observatory and the Payload Attach Fitting (PAF) are set up in scaffolding in the Encapsulation Hall. Then, the fairing is lifted above and lowered onto the fitting. When only a few feet remain above the final position, stanchions support the fairing while technicians go inside to complete the electrical connections. When this is completed, they remove the stanchions and lower the fairing to its final position, where it is bolted in place.
The GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. The GPM Core Observatory anchors this network by providing observations on all types of precipitation. The observatory's data acts as the measuring stick by which partner observations can be combined into a unified data set. The data will be used by scientists to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Before proceeding with encapsulation, the team needs to make sure that the clearance between the satellite and the fairing is ok.
The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite will be carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher.
Once safely in orbit and fully commissioned, this new satellite will begin its mission to map Earth’s oceans and land surfaces with its powerful optical and radar systems. The Sentinel-3 mission is set to play a key role in the world’s largest environmental monitoring programme – Copernicus.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Red, green & blue sand inside small glass bottles. This is my entry in the Pinoy Pentaxian Photo Challenge for week 9 which has a theme of: Simplicity.
My idea was to photograph the primary colors as my take for simplicity. The choice to create bokeh in the background is to put the focus more on the bottles and make the photo as straightforward as possible. =)
Sentinel-2A being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing.
Liftoff from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is set for 23 June at 01:52 GMT (03:52 CEST; 22:52 local time on 22 June), on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
For more information on the mission, visit www.esa.int/sentinel2
Credit: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2015