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More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched nearly 50 high-powered, amateur rockets April 15, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency's annual rocket competition.
For the past nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.
Student Launch is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges - a series of activities providing students access to the Artemis program. Through Artemis, NASA will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, missions that will help pave the way for future missions to Mars.
The 2023 launch event and award ceremony are available to view on NASA's Marshall YouTube and Student Launch Facebook pages.
For more information, visit: NASA Student Launch.
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If you've ever had one of those nights where you save Space Mountain as the last ride, then I'm probably sure you are very familiar with this sight. I've always enjoyed walking through Tomorrowland after a long day in Disneyland...
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Launch: 1996
Generation: First (1996 - 1999)
Engine: 2,2-litre I4 (petrol)
Power: 147 PS
Gearbox: 4-speed automatic
Drivetrain: front-wheel-drive
Location: Torrance, California (USA)
Original cost: $23.960
Lumix S1 Launch Event. Barcelona, Spain. January 31, 2019. Photo: Edmond Terakopian *NB-Image taken with a Lumix S1 preproduction sample (Image quality not final). Images processed from in camera fine setting jpeg*
On deck with my buddy Erik. We had a great morning crawling all over the floating rocket launch platform.
Beneath our feet is a huge three-stage Zenit rocket being prepped and fueled in a room that is officially part of the Ukraine. 240 Ukrainian and Russian engineers live and work on the boat, so the walk through the living quarters reminded me of my earlier trips to the outskirts of Russia.
The first two stages are Ukranian (kerosene and liquid oxygen), and the third stage is made by Energia in Russia. The third stage was loaded with hypergolics, a binary mixture that explodes upon contact, and the source of Neil Armstrong’s pre-launch nightmares (photo). The payload is an Italian military satellite.
It was surreal to be hearing the chatter of Russian and Ukranian voices, who were nervous about the camera around my neck, while in the bowels of Ukranian territory, and close enough to touch a fueled rocket that’s taller than the Space Shuttle (NASA only let me get as close as the astronauts' families). All this in a harbor serving Los Angeles.
It was also breathtaking to walk around and have the rocket pointing straight at me in a horizontal position. Made me think of Slim Pickens.
“The Russians like to do it horizontal. The Americans like to do it vertical. That’s just the way they are,” I was told, referring, of course, to how they handle a rocket.
To roll the rocket to the pad, they had to import railway lines from Russia to get the sizing right for the transport vehicle. The hydraulic rams that erect the rocket are just huge, a massive overbuild that could have been easily been addressed by placing them farther from the pivot point for more leverage. Brute force and improvised patchwork solutions could be seen throughout, especially in the fueling systems.
And then I learned a fascinating piece of history relayed by the Russian rocket scientists:
For Sputnik, they dragged the rocket out to the launch pad... with horses.
Built in 1936 this motor launch was designed for high speed operations including recovery of those aircrew downed in the sea. The three engines could propel the craft at speeds of up to 40 knots. This vessel is the last remaining of the 100 class and is based at Portsmouth Historic Naval Dockyard, UK.
Launch Time/Window PST/PDT: 19:21
Vehicle: Falcon 9
Payload: Argentina's SAOCOM-1A Satellite
Pad/Silo: SLC-4E
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photo by Kevin Dolan
The Space Launch Systems rocket (SLS), with Orion atop it, left the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at around 23:00 CET (22:00 GMT) on 17 March to begin its 6.5 km trip to Launchpad LC39B.
The first Artemis mission will send Orion to the Moon and back, farther than any human-rated spacecraft has travelled before. ESA’s European Service Module is the powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion and provides everything needed to keep astronauts alive, including water, oxygen, power and temperature control.
While the rocket will propel Orion to supersonic speeds, the rocket itself is moved slowly but securely to the launchpad. Traveling at a maximum speed of just 1.3 km/h, the 6.5-km voyage took nearly 12 hours to complete on a specially designed crawler vehicle.
Launching Orion and the European Service Module into Earth orbit and onto the Moon requires a huge amount of energy and the size of the mega-Moon rocket SLS is hard to convey in photos.
At 100 m tall, it is roughly the height of the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) in London, UK, or 16 giraffes stacked on top of each other. If you laid the rocket on the ground, it would take over a minute to walk from the engines to the tip of the launch abort system.
Credits: ESA–A. Conigli
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Derwent Water Launch, heading back to Keswick, passing Rampsholme Island.
Derwentwater (or Derwent Water) is one of the principal bodies of water in the Lake District National Park in north west England. It lies wholly within the Borough of Allerdale, in the county of Cumbria.
The lake occupies part of Borrowdale and lies immediately south of the town of Keswick. It is both fed and drained by the River Derwent. It measures approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) long by 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and is some 72 feet (22 m) deep. There are several islands within the lake, one of which is inhabited. Derwent Island House, an 18th century residence, is a tenanted National Trust property open to the public on five days each year.
Derwentwater is a place of considerable scenic value. It is surrounded by hills (known locally as fells), and many of the slopes facing Derwentwater are extensively wooded. A regular passenger launch operates on the lake, taking passengers between various landing stages. There are seven lakeside marinas, the most popular stops being: Keswick, Portinscale and the Lodore Falls, from which boats may be hired. Recreational walking is a major tourist activity in the area and an extensive network of footpaths exists within the hills and woods surrounding the lake.
The Keswick—Borrowdale road runs along the eastern shore of the lake and carries a regular bus service. There is a lesser, or unclassified, road along the western shore connecting the villages of Grange and Portinscale.
Derwentwater gave its name to the Earldom of Derwentwater.
The lake is believed to be the last remaining native habit of the vendace (Coregonus vandesius) fish from the 4 originally known sites: Bassenthwaite Lake and Derwent Water in the Lake District and the Castle Loch & Mill Loch in Lochmaben.
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One of my favorite days over our summer road trip was our visit to the Kennedy Space Center. We took a tour of the entirety of the Space Center and were able to see the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) and Launch Pad 39A pictured above. Launch Pad 39A is the most famous of NASA's launch pads. 39A is where every moon mission launched from. It was amazing to stand so close to such a monumental structure that has affected humankind so much.
Took this shot as if I were about to launch off in my boat. In a few weeks this will be a very busy boat launch as the salmon start to arrive
So basically I've been working on her 'look' forever. I finally got her eyes and need to work on her outfit. Of course, I've also put her up for sale because I just don't know anymore...
A Great Blue Heron launches of a limb on the Turner River near the Big Cypress Swamp National Preserve, Florida.
Early on a January morning, we left on the first boat out 10,000 Islands of Everglades National Park in Everglades City for a trip up the Turner River.
Best viewed from the water.
Voyager 1 was launched atop Titan/Centaur-6 at Launch Complex 41 at 8:56 a.m. EDT September 5, 1977, joining its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, on a mission to the outer planets.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-77P-232
Date: September 5, 1977
140323-N-CP762-003 WATERS NEAR GUAM (March 23, 2014) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) launches a Vertically Launched Anti-Submarine Rocket during a live-fire exercise. Mustin is participating in Multi-Sail 2014, an annual exercise in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Fidel C. Hart/Released)
Ceremonial ship launching has been a Naval tradition since the very beginning of ship construction. The event of transferring a ship or boat build on land into water has been involved has been associated with many traditions/religion, with events such as this recorded by the Egyptians, Greeks and Babylonians since ancient times.
Over the years, this sort of events has been more elaborated and frequently used as propaganda or as morale booster for the civilian population and the military.
The model here represents the launch ceremony of the latest group of JMSDF (Japanese Maritime Self defense Force) conventional submarines, the Taigei Class submarines.
To know more about this ceremony and the sub, click here for the next picture:
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The American Coot may be small in profile, but tends to be big on drama and action. Rather, melodrama at times. I can't remember if this guy or gal was being chased, or just took off seeing me, but I am just happy, even late as it was, with a lower ISO and a difficult angle, I was able to capture part of this bird's magnificent take off!
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