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Photos from Launch event for Diaosu Ltd's space at Dundee Hilltown, Mon 18 July 2011. www.diaosu.org.uk/
Generally one launches model rockets during the day, because finding a rocket at night would be tricky.
Solution: put LEDs on it and light it up like a disco ball.
Most people roll their own night launch rockets but one company does make kits... The kits are horrific though, with missing parts, broken parts, terrible instructions, instructions that are flat out wrong, etc. My dad had one so he "let" me build it.
15 yellow LEDs in three sets of five that light up in a chase pattern down the sides of the rocket.
Three flashy yellow and blue LEDs, one pair at the base of each fin (the white tabs are there so they don't light up.
Three AAAA batteries (thats quadruple A) handle the 15 LEDs in the body while a pair of watch batteries sit in each tube above the fin lights.
The decals were just lying around, but since they were shiny and reflective, I added them too. The next night launch is in March.
Sega's Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown launch event held at iam8bit in Los Angeles, streamed live online by levelup. photo by @bgateb.
Sega's Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown launch event held at iam8bit in Los Angeles, streamed live online by levelup. photo by @bgateb.
Early this morning I went out to Vandenberg Space Force Base with some of my coworkers to attend the launch of an Atlas V rocket carrying JPSS-2/LOFTID and it was all a bit surreal.
Over the past 9 years we’ve been working with a group at NASA Langley Research Center to develop hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (HIAD) technology. The main purpose of these devices is to serve as heat shields to slow down payloads as they enter planets with an atmosphere. These are basically assemblies of stacked inner tubes all strapped together to form conical structures with fancy multi-layer space blankets wrapped around them to keep things cool. These assemblies are then packed down into unbelievably small bags and stowed away in a rocket. When they’re ready to use them they inflate the articles to deploy the HIADs into large umbrella shaped structures. One of the main applications driving this flight test is the ability to bring large payloads (humans) to Mars.
The company I work for, Jackson Bond Enterprises, fabricated the fancy space blanket (flexible thermal protection system) for LOFTID and several demonstration units over the years where I’ve been serving as our engineering lead for the program. This is the first flight test I’ve been a part of and it’s just hitting me now how cool this all really is.
Fun LOFTID Stats:
LOFTID was 6m (~20ft) in diameter
LOFTID was traveling at around 18,000 mph (Mach 24)
9Gs at peak deceleration
Expected peak heating rate was around 40w/cm^2
Expected peak temperatures around 2900 F.
LOFTID was the largest blunt body to ever enter an atmosphere.
The primary payload on the rocket was JPSS2, a weather satellite for NOAA.
The program cost was around $93 million.
Roughly 600 people helped out with this project in some capacity.
Sega's Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown launch event held at iam8bit in Los Angeles, streamed live online by levelup. photo by @bgateb.
Photo taken at the Launch Conference by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
Photo/image credit should read: (cc) Kenneth Yeung - www.snapfoc.us
Photos from Launch event for Diaosu Ltd's space at Dundee Hilltown, Mon 18 July 2011. www.diaosu.org.uk/
Photo taken at the Cycle of Songs Launch event 'Cambridge Sings' hosted by Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday 11th May 2014 2pm - 4pm.
double-breasted cormorant; Blue Springs State Park, St. Johns River, Florida (Jan. 5, 2015) BSSP is one of the locations on the St. Johns River at which manatees overwinter.
1 April 2011: HB Culture Magazine Launch party and Kevin Ashford's 40th Birthday Party at Digg's Restaurant and Bar in Huntington Beach. Red Carpet. Photo: Michael Vega
A Minuteman Missile launch control center setup, on display at the South Dakota Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Tri-X @ EI 1600, D-76 1:1, 2-stop push.
Excitement and community building at the
MemphisConnect Launch Party.
Photos by LunaWeb a Memphis web design company.
SMAP launch activities in Bld 264 MOC. Launch postponed.
Photographer: T. Wynne
Requester: Kathi Younker
Date: 29-JAN-2015
Photolab order: 070915-137379
Corporate Launch Party for a new start-up at Robert Verdi's Luxe Laboratory in Manhattan, New York.
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Photography by: Amanda Marie Photography
These are images of Mission Control for Sentinel-2C, which was launched on 5 September onboard the final Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The spacecraft launched into orbit at 03:50 CEST (4 September 22:50 local time) and separated from the Vega rocket at approximately 04:48 CEST.
Credit: ESA/J. Mai