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Europe’s largest beach-launched fishing fleet is to be seen at Hastings in East Sussex. The boats are designed to be launched from the beach by bulldozers and recovered by a winch and cable system developed over many decades.
Launch of a Delta IV rocket from SLC-37 in Cape Canaveral, carrying the WGS-6 satellite for the Air Force (mission overview). The photos were taking from about 9 miles away.
We weren't able to find a radio station broadcasting the countdown, so we had no idea when exactly it was launching. Turns out it launched right at the start of the launch window. We had just parked, and managed to only miss the very beginning of it.
LUNA goes sailing on English Bay.
I ran into Ed Sturgeon and his No Man's Land Boat "FINN" at the launch ramp, chatted about our boats and the Oarlock and Sail Wooden Boat Club that meets in a floating shop at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. (I'll have to check it out.)
I understand that No Man's Land Boat is a 1882 cod fishing boat designed by James Beetle of New Bedford, MA. Described in Howard Chapelle's "American Small Sailing Craft," plans are available from the Smithsonian.
Ed started his build of FINN (white pine riveted lapstrake planks on black locust ribs and backbone, rigged as a cat gaff ketch) in Nova Scotia, moved to the Vancouver area to finish, and will soon be moving back to Nova Scotia.
Once rigged, and the tide high enough to launch, we set off into a good westerly breeze, 15 kts with gusts well over 20. The wind eased after a while, we shook out our reefs and had a wonderful afternoon!
Navionics track stats:
Start Time:2015-09-26, 3:00 PM
End Time:2015-09-26, 6:38 PM
Distance:8.6 NM
Total Time:3H 38'
Average Speed:2.4 kts
Max Speed:6.3 kts
The crew prepares the fins and rocket motors for the EVEX launches.
Credit: NASA
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A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific this spring. The mission will help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can negatively affect satellite communication and global positioning signals.
The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch into a crucial layer of charged particles surrounding our planet. Called the ionosphere, this layer serves as the medium through which high frequency radio waves – such as those sent down to the ground by global positioning system (GPS) satellites or, indeed, any satellite communicating with Earth – travel. The ionosphere begins about 60 miles above the ground and is filled with electrons and ions, alongside the more familiar extension of our electrically neutral atmosphere. Governed by Earth’s magnetic field, high-altitude winds, and incoming material and energy from the sun, the ionosphere can be calm in certain places or times of day, and quite turbulent at others.
EVEX will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the South Pacific. This area of the ionosphere is known for calm days and tempestuous evenings, times when the ionosphere becomes rippled like a funhouse mirror, disturbing radio signals, and introducing GPS errors of a half mile or more. The two rockets will measure events in two separate regions of the ionosphere to see how they work together to drive the ionosphere from placid and smooth to violently disturbed. Such information could ultimately lead to the ability to accurately forecast this important aspect of space weather.
The launch window for EVEX is from April 27 to May 10. The team will decide when to fly based on conditions in the ionosphere on any given night.
Read more at www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/evex.html
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The Supra Launch 21V cranks the wakes for pro shredder Taylor McCullough and then dials them back to beginner. Customizable rider profiles easily accessed through Supra’s new VISION Touch dash, can be tailored to individual skills with extreme precision. Supra’s wake-shaping SmatePlate, 1950-pound Flex Ballast and Zero Off speed control can be programed to preference and housed in as many as 16 unique profiles. And when you're ready for no wake, speed it up and drain the upgradable ballast for an amazing recreational ski. Recover from the water sports versatility in the new luxurious 21V interior. Deep supportive seating comforts with plush 4” bolsters and tough multi-textured Syntec NANO Block Technology (NBT) vinyl designs. The new swivel racing-style driver’s seat with E-Boost electronic height adjust and Warm-up Seat heat raises the driving experience way beyond better. The Double-up Seating of the Launch 21V adds a flip-up lean-back to the observer’s seat and the playpen, while the Sunsport 21V features a walk-through bow. This Supra is your road to water sports fun.
Overall Length w/o Platform: 21' 4"
Overall Length w/ Platform: 23' 7"
Overall Length w/ Platform & Trailer: 25' 10"
Width (Beam): 99"
Overall Width w/ Trailer: 102"
Draft: 25"
Weight - Boat only: 3,600 lbs
Weight - Boat and Trailer: 4,800 lbs
Capacity - Passenger: 12
Capacity - Weight: 1,700 lbs
Capacity - Fuel: 50 gals
Capacity - Ballast: 1,950 lbs
Engine - Electronic Fuel Injection: 345 HP V-8
Minuteman II Mission Procedures Training Facility at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. This trainer was operational from 1966 through 1991.
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.
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
Deputy Chief Police and Crime Commissioner Jim Battle, Chief Inspector Laura Marler and Jessica White of the LGBT Foundation Angels at the Safe Haven.
A new initiative to provide support to people in need on a night out has been launched in Manchester city centre.
The Safe Haven has been developed by Greater Manchester Police, Manchester City Council, Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner and other partners.
Based at the Nexus Art Café at Dale Street it is designed to reduce the demand on frontline services by assisting those people who become vulnerable and require the support of others to ensure they are safe and can get home after being out and about in the city following a night out.
It is supported by regular officers, special constables, Manchester Street Angels and the LGBT Foundation Village Angels. The centre will act as a place of safety and a hub for police to provide care, advice and assistance for anyone who attends. Water and hot drinks will be provided and visitors to the café will receive support to help them arrange to get home.
Chief Inspector Laura Marler who is coordinating the Safe Haven scheme said: “Weekend nights in the city centre is a busy time for all partners including police. This initiative is to ensure our most vulnerable members of the community are protected, we can reduce the demand on our frontline services and the number of incidents of violent crime and ensure those visiting the city can enjoy their night safely.”
Councillor Pat Karney, Manchester city centre spokesman, said: “Manchester is famous for its nightlife and tens of thousands of people come into the city centre every weekend to experience enjoyable and safe nights out. However, there will always be people who are feeling vulnerable in any large city centre on a Friday and Saturday night and the Safe Haven scheme will provide somewhere they can go without having to approach the emergency services directly.”
Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Jim Battle said: “This safe haven will enhance the valuable work done by our emergency services, door staff and army of volunteers from the LGBT Foundation Village Angels, Manchester Street Angels who are out every weekend to keep people safe in our city centre.
“The safe haven will provide a place for people to chill out, perhaps recharge their phone, get support and ultimately get home safely.
“It will help to make sure that our police are freed up to keep our city’s streets safe, but most importantly it will mean people who could fall victim to crime are able to keep out of harm’s way.
“I hope this scheme is a success as it demonstrates how the emergency services, venues, charities and volunteers are all working together to make our city a fantastic place.”
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201212190011hq (19 Dec. 2012) --- The Soyuz TMA-07M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 19, 2012 carrying Expedition 34 NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz TMA-07M rocket launched at 6:12 p.m. (Kazakhstan time). Photo credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base as seen from Saguaro National Park East in Tucson, Arizona
Images taken on Gaia launch day at ESA/ESOC, 19 December 2013. Team photos taken 18 December during final pre-launch briefing. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
I had the opportunity to see the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-128 on Friday, August, 28. The viewing site I was at is about 14 miles south of the launch pad. It's a great location where you can actually see the shuttle on the pad before the launch quite clearly since it's all lit up leading up to the actual launch. I was at the Monday launch attempt that they cancelled just before the launch for weather. There had been thunderstorms and heavy rain on and off all night and it just never cleared enough for the launch.
I've never tried to photograph a night shuttle launch before and had no idea how to set the camera for a decent shot (I obviously missed). Unfortunately, there was so much humidity when they lit it, everything just turned into a massive ball of diffused light that was completely non-destinct. It was actually kind of breathtaking how bright it was. I took about a dozen shots and this is the best of what I had.
Still, despite not getting much in the way of photos, I'm glad I invested the time to be over there for what is likely to be the last night shuttle launch.
I had seen one from this location before but it was a day launch about 15 years ago before i lived in the area. Everything I'd seen recently had been from various sites in Orlando. One of those was the July 4th launch 3 years ago which I watched from the top of the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World. The shared experience of watching a launch with 100's of others along the roadway really helps to heighten the excitement of the whole experience.
One reference we had of how fast it moves after it leaves the pad is that the shuttle was over 7 miles away before the sound wave reached our location which was really strange to see it that far away before we heard it.
This is 4 of the Vehicles involved in the Launch of an R-12:
(a) The Missile on the Transporter/Erector. Note that the Warhead has not yet been installed!
(b) The MAZ-529 Portal Crane used for erecting the Missile. Note the Missile Hangar in the Background!
(c) The Maz-529 transporting the Launch Table to the Launch Pad.
(d) The Tanker Truck. The R-12 used Kerosene as Fuel. This is a Special Version, called TM-185, commonly used as Rocket Fuel, a Mix of 80 % Kerosene and 20 % Gasoline (I think).
Left-to-right: Paraguayan tour leader Robert Munro, Bradt guide author Margaret Hebblethwaite, tourism minister Liz Cramer, and Carlos Aguirre, who runs the Ruta Jesuitica programme to promote tourism of Paraguay's Jesuit Reductions.
The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.
Prof Stephen Winn with UNE chancellor Richard Torbay, Prof David Lamb, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the official mainland launch of the National Broadband Network.
Taking inspiration from the ways that people in the strobist group have lit their drops I created these last night.
Clear water dropping into blue dyed water (made it a bit too dark but hey!)
Green paper background, Vivitar 283 set to minimum power on both flash and varipower unit (1/16th on both) fired directly at the paper.
2sec exposure @ F16, ISO 200. Canon 100mm Macro lens, approx 1:3 mag.
Not a CLUE what happened here.. Think possibly the drop is actually going up, launched from the spout below.. never seen the teeny-tiny drops between the two tho.
Assorted Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers. From the top:
US 2.36-in. caliber M9
US 3.5-in. caliber M20
US 66 mm Light Antitank Weapon (LAW) (left)
Soviet 40 mm RPG-7 (left)
Soviet 40 mm RPG-2 (right)
Iraqi 40 mm RPG-7 (right)
The Air Force Armament Museum is dedicated to the display of Air Force armament. The Museum is adjacent to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
A United Launch Alliance Delta II rockets lifts off on it's 153rd mission since being introduced in 1989, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The workhorse lifted NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite into orbit to study the Earth's soil moisture every 2-3 days over the next three years.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from SLC-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base with NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission.
January 24, 2025 - SpaceX Rocket Launch at 6:07 AM, as seen and photographed from my Home in Long Beach, CA.
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.
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA