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Technicians at the Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany weigh the European Service Module ahead of shipment to Kennedy Space Center. The service module will depart Germany on November 5th, 2018 and will arrive in the U.S. on November 6.
For the first time, NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft, extending the international cooperation of the International Space Station into deep space. The European Service Module is a unique collaboration across space agencies and industry including ESA’s prime contractor, Airbus, and 10 European countries. The completion of service module work in Europe and shipment to Kennedy signifies a major milestone toward NASA’s human deep space exploration missions to the Moon and beyond.
Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak
This multitouch magnifier allows for users to magnify elements in a collection.
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6 channel power-led driver module. Each channel drive two high power LEDs 9V. The capacitors provide a high peak current for a certain period of time. After this time, a continued nominal power is used. The peak current is set per channel by a potentiometer. This is 19V- 700 mA per channel. Each channel is driven for a certain time. The light distribution and brightness can be controlled.
Shematic see: www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/15184259029/
Picture highpower leds module: www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/15756218415/
Update 14 nov 2014:
Some R values changes for optimal results. PCB is now tested. The total peak power is 80W for 25 ms.
I spent some hours trying to make two xbee wireless modules
communicate. These will be part of our new flaming doorbell. The
trouble was with my transistor setup for the relay. The modules were
communicating, but the logic was backwards and each time I hit a
button the relay would turn off. I need the opposite behavior
otherwise their would be a 20' flame at all time at our place. I
finally gave up on trying to convince the xbee modules to behave
rationally and just switched to a PNP transistor for the relay.
The configuration for both xbee modules is straight forward (thanks
ladyada for documenting this):
Remote - TX setup (attached to doorbell input button)
- D0 - DIO Configuration - (3 - DI) [data in]
- IC - Dio Change Detect - (FF)
- Set sample rate to 0 (unless you want synchronous updates)
Base - RX setup
- DO - DIO Configuration - (4 DO) [data out low]
- Under I/O Line Passing set "Input Addresses" to 0xFFFF (allow any
radios)
- Set IU - I/O Output enable to Disabled
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notice:
1. Taken with PENTAX K-3 beta model.
2. Image has been resized.
3. It was taken at the bloggers's meeting in Japan.
Module 3 of a modular microscale Space Base on Mars. This is the Rovers Bay (seen here empty).
find more pics in the Mars Base set.
I built this piece based on these instructions. The units are easy enough to make but the construction was a little more challenging for me. I found it easier to view it from the inside and then it built up quickly.
On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission.
They used a special crane to lift Plato’s payload module, housing its 26 ultra-sensitive cameras, into the air and carefully line it up over the service module. The supporting service module contains everything else that the spacecraft needs to function, including subsystems for power, propulsion and communication with Earth.
With millimetre-level precision, the engineers gently lowered the payload module into place. Once perfectly positioned, the team tested the electrical connections.
Finally, they securely closed a panel that connects the payload module to the service module both physically and electronically (seen ‘hanging’ horizontally above the service module in this image). This panel, which opens and closes with hinges, also contains the electronics to process data from the cameras.
Now in one piece, Plato is one step closer to beginning its hunt for Earth-like planets.
In the coming weeks, the spacecraft will undergo tests to ensure its cameras and data processing systems still work perfectly.
Then it will be driven from OHB’s cleanrooms to ESA’s technical heart (ESTEC) in the Netherlands. At ESTEC, engineers will complete the spacecraft by fitting it with a combined sunshield and solar panel module.
Following a series of essential tests to confirm that Plato is fit for launch and ready to work in space, it will be shipped to Europe’s launch site in French Guiana.
The mission is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 6 in December 2026.
ESA’s Plato (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) will use 26 cameras to study terrestrial exoplanets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars.
Plato's scientific instrumentation, consisting of the cameras and electronic units, is provided through a collaboration between ESA and the Plato Mission Consortium. This Consortium is composed of various European research centres, institutes and industries, led by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The spacecraft is being built and assembled by the industrial Plato Core Team led by OHB together with Thales Alenia Space and Beyond Gravity.
[Image description: A cleanroom environment where engineers are working on assembling spacecraft components. A large, gold-foil-wrapped module is being carefully lowered by a crane onto another section of a spacecraft positioned below it. The scene includes people in cleanroom suits, specialised lifting equipment, and various technical apparatus, highlighting the precision and care required in aerospace engineering.]
Credits: ESA – M. Pédoussaut
Development Impact and the PhD scholarship - Road Map training, December 2013
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Six lunar test articles (LTAs) formed the backbone of Grumman's ground test program of the Apollo lunar module. Bethpage shipped LTA-2 to Huntsville for vibration testing to see if it could withstand launch pressures, and LTA-10 to Tulsa, to check its fit in the adapter. LTA-1 was a "house" spacecraft, used to iron out problems during fabrication, assembly, and checkout. Three more LTAs were under construction: LTA-8 for thermal-vacuum testing in Houston and LTAs 3 and 5 for combined structural shakings, vibrations, and engine firings.
LTA-1 resides at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Long Island, NY.
Images of sewing, embroidery and quilting projects made with BERNINA accessories. For more information please visit www.bernina.com
This is another simple Module which I recently discovered. Modules from 5 to n can be assembled but the easiest to assemble is 8 Modules. I have not tried out anything more than 8 Modules but from what I see, 16 or more is definitely possible. CP later.
this module has connecable air locks a landing pad with incomming ship and is under seige by a alien creature.
I took inspirtion from Dune and Star Wars for the ground dwelling creature.
A KAMAG transporter with Orbital ATK's CYGNUS pressurized cargo module secured on top moves from the airlock into the high bay of the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Cygnus will be moved to a work stand for final propellant loading and late cargo stowage. The Orbital ATK CRS-7 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on March 19, 2017. CYGNUS will deliver thousands of pounds of supplies, equipment and scientific research materials to the space station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett