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An artist’s impression of the Orion spacecraft with ESA’s service module.
The module sits directly below Orion’s crew capsule and provides propulsion, power, thermal control, and water and air for four astronauts. The solar array spans 19 m and provides enough to power two households.
A little over 5 m in diameter and 4 m high, it weighs 13.5 tonnes. The 8.6 tonnes of propellant will power one main engine and 32 smaller thrusters.
Credits: NASA
Each module is displayed by itself along with a view of the interior.
The first module is the command center and research station. Most of the technology is contained here for under water *secret* research.
The second module is the turret or weapon module. It is a relatively small module but is designed to be easily replicated. The interior has room for a few soldiers to man the battle stations.
The third module is the drill module. Deep below the surface there are many valuable resources to be harvested for Norkira. The interior shows lights and panels for drilling procedures.
The fourth module is the main housing module. This contains the area for cooking, exercise, but most importantly sleeping. The beds themselves can be viewed from the skylights.
The fifth module is both the generator and the docking station. The small submersible can be seen leaving the port and the generator equipment can be viewed through the window.
The sea creature is a giant squid! Although it has become friendly toward the Nokiran research center, other nations should beware.
This is the 3rd module (of 6 currently built) that is part of my JunkTown MOC. This is a bit of a Junk Yard
Over the past few days at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers have connected the third European Service Module to the Crew Module Adapter, forming the complete Service Module which will propel Orion towards the Moon and provide oxygen and water for astronauts during the Artemis III mission.
This assembly process involved carefully suspending the Crew Module Adapter while lifting the European Service Module very slowly, stopping regularly to check the alignment using precise laser measurements. The European Service Module is placed on a mobile platform that allows engineers to accurately move the precious module with six degrees of freedom – x, y, z and three rotations – to ensure an exact alignment. Once the modules are ready to be fastened, engineers install 192 screws one by one all around the modules. Some of these fastenings are particularly challenging to reach, requiring special precautions like foil to prevents parts from falling into the module underneath.
Now that the modules are connected, the next steps in the journey to Artemis III include welding operations to connect the systems that will provide breathable air, water and temperature inside the spacecraft and testing that these systems are leak-proof and securely connected. Next year, the Crew Module and solar array wings will be attached to the Service Module, forming the complete Orion spacecraft.
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Credits: NASA
Astronaut Vance D. Brand, command module pilot of the American Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) crew, is seen at the controls of the Apollo Command Module during the joint ASTP docking in Earth orbit mission.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AST-08-499
Date: 15-24 July 1975
Modules of the BepiColombo spacecraft, which will be on public view during the Sunday 4 October Open Day of ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.
This is the actual flight hardware, set to begin its seven-year cruise phase to Mercury with the rest of the BepiColombo spacecraft in January 2017.
Europe’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter is seen atop its carrier vehicle, the Mercury Transfer Module, tasked with reaching the vicinity of the innermost planet.
Not seen here is Japan’s Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter, which will sit on top to complete the BepiColombo ‘stack’.
Japan’s craft will enter a highly elliptical orbit to study the planet’s enigmatically strong magnetic field, while ESA’s will go into an approximately 400 x 1500 km mapping orbit around Mercury.
BepiColombo is currently in ESTEC’s test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the largest spacecraft testing facility in Europe.
For your chance to see it for yourself, register to come to the ESTEC Open Day.
Credit: ESA–G. Schoonewille
The spring-loaded pivoting arm on the bottom of the module is the coupling between the aperture ring and the lollipop in the light meter. A moving finger extends upward from the camera body to engage this arm.
The exposure system is very clever, one of the best EVS implementations that I’ve seen: you center the lollipop on the meter needle by turning the aperture ring, but there is no reference index. You’ve aligned the aperture scale against the shutter speed scale. Then, when you select a shutter speed, the aperture automatically adjusts to the one that corresponds to the speed you’ve selected. Unlike most EVS cameras, it’s simple, quick and intuitive.
The rewind knob is clever too: unlike the screw mount Leicas where you have to pull the knob up for clearance, this one has a helix in the shaft so it comes up by itself as you begin to rewind the film.
I think they put one of their better guys on this project. Too bad they didn’t make a version with a rangefinder, but the meter is in the space that it would have required and I don’t imagine they wanted to make it any bigger. Most users were probably better at guessing distances than light levels.
Megan était installée dans la Cupola quand la caméra 360 ISSexperience, fixée au bout du bras robotique, est venue jeter un œil à l’intérieur. Ça m’a rappelé mon dernier entraînement sous-marin avec la NASA : parfois les poissons sont attirés par la lumière des hublots, souvent la seule source lumineuse environnante. Ça doit être une sorte de divertissement pour eux, un peu comme quand on visite un aquarium, sauf que dans ce cas c’est nous qui sommes à l’intérieur ! 🐟
Megan was in the Cupola when the 360 camera ISSexperience, perched at the end of the robotic arm, decided to come peek inside the ISS. It reminded me of a NASA underwater training mission, when all the fish came at night to look inside our deep sea habitat, which was the only light in the area, so it was entertainment for them: we were the aquarium!! 🐟
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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“LUNAR TESTS -- Jack Mays, a test subject from the MSC Crew Systems Division, wears an International Latex Corporation spacesuit under a thermal overgarment during tests at the Lunar Topographical Simulation Area. He is also wearing a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) back pack. A full-scale mock-up of a Lunar Module is in background.”
Jack Mays:
Credit: Manned Space/YouTube
iss057e105773 (Nov. 22, 2018) --- Three spacecraft are pictured attached to the International Space Station as the orbital complex orbited 250 miles above the Bay of Bengal. At center is the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft from the United States attached to the Unity module and still in the grip of the Canadarm2 robotic arm. To the right of Cygnus is the Russian Soyuz MS-09 crew ship from Roscosmos docked to the Rassvet module. At far right is the Russian Progress 70 cargo craft docked to the Poisk module.
iss061e026260 (Nov. 1, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, attached to foot restraints inside the Kibo laboratory module from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), participates in interviews with journalists from Bangor, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts.
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A few more empty modules to show their variety. The first three are examples of "top" modules that have a landscape or roof built in; nothing is expected to stack onto them obviously. The bottom right is the base of the Tower; for this I wanted extra stability so I built the bottom module full width and part of the base (in the other sections the bottom base separates).
so, this is my next project: a modular microscale Space Base on Mars.
Module 1 seen from the front.
find more pics in the Mars Base set.
Sonobe system, 30 papers, base module my design...
You can find the diagrams for this model here: Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3
And a 3D render of a single module here: Sonobe petal module
Assembly instructions: right here.
I have been building small houses to get an Idea of how the town layout will connect to the Islands' geography.
As expected modifications are needed.
There's actually nothing left of the old
Module 19. I basically just built a new one.
The base needed to be a lot higher (around 8 bricks high now). Also the Islands' smooth coastline will evolve into a rough one with more reliëf and capes.
Two manikins are installed in the passenger seats inside the Artemis I Orion crew module atop the Space Launch System rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 8, 2022. As part of the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment (MARE) investigation, the two female manikins – Helga and Zohar – are equipped with radiation detectors, while Zohar also wears a radiation protection vest, to determine the radiation risk on its way to the Moon. Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate NASA’s capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft’s integrated systems before crewed missions. Under Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and establish sustainable lunar exploration. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
In front of the gothic cathedral,
a strange module appeared.
Adding a touch of color fantasy in the dark reality.
Is it the latest invention of Professor Calculus (from Tintin) ?
Or a new vehicle from the Count of Champignac (from Spirou) ?
But it is a retro-futurist vision coming from the colorful comic books of my childhood invading the grey present.
Sur le parvis de la cathédrale gothique, un étrange module est apparu.
Une touche de couleur acidulée dans la sombre réalité.
Une nouvelle invention du Professeur Tournesol ?
Un nouvel engin du Comte de Champignac ?
C'est en tout cas une bien étrange vision rétro-futuriste, sortie des bd colorées de mon enfance.
Liege, Belgique
More infos & photos : gilderic.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/bluub-un-etrange-module...
I found this picture of the cybercity module I threw together for Bricks By the Bay last April, and realized I never posted it. In the vacant area on the right was a trash lot (at the show).
Also I know I haven't posted anything in a long time. These last few months have been pretty packed and stressful, which I'll be sure to explain in about a month. I do have two new MOCs essentially finished and awaiting photography, which should happen in the next week!
The Orion pressure vessel for NASA’s Artemis III mission is lifted by crane for its move onto a work stand in the high bay of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 20, 2021. The pressure vessel will be secured onto the work stand where Lockheed Matin technicians will begin the work to prepare the spacecraft for its launch atop a Space Launch System rocket. Artemis III will send astronauts, including the first woman and first person of color, on a mission to the surface of the Moon by 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Glen Benson