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The upper stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will power the agency’s Artemis III mission and send astronauts on to the Moon for a lunar landing arrived at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Poseidon Wharf in Florida, Aug. 9. It will undergo final checkouts by contractors Boeing and ULA (United Launch Alliance) at ULA’s facilities before it is delivered to NASA’ s nearby Kennedy Space Center.
The SLS rocket’s ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion stage) with its single RL10 engine is responsible for giving NASA’s Orion spacecraft and astronauts inside the big push needed to journey to the Moon in a precise trajectory during Artemis III. The ICPS for the mission is the last of its kind as Artemis missions beginning with Artemis IV will use the SLS Block 1B configuration with its more powerful exploration upper stage for launch and flight.
Manufactured by ULA, the ICPS left Decatur, Alabama, Aug. 1, traveling down the Mississippi River and along the Gulf Coast toward ULA’s Florida facility via ULA’s RocketShip. The RL10 engine is produced by Aerojet Rocketdyne, the SLS engines lead contractor, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Image credit: United Launch Alliance
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For over 300 years, New Orleans has been a cultural hub built on the traditions of its people-which includes a variety of art, music, food, and entertainment. Embedded in its history is NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, where the legacy of human spaceflight continues. Since 1961, Michoud has played a key role in manufacturing rockets and hardware for every major NASA human spaceflight program, from Apollo to the Space Shuttle, and now the Artemis mission. This video highlights their story as America's Rocket Factory and showcases their continued support for space exploration.
Image Credit: NASA
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Asteroid researcher Kristiane Schmidt and ESA data technician Andrea Toni inspect a camera fixed to the five-storey-high rooftop of ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands, keeping a constant watch for fireballs – very bright meteors burning up in the atmosphere.
This small fisheye camera atop the ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk on the North Sea coast is one of a network of cameras stretching across Europe, called the Fireball Recovery and Planetary Inter Observation Network, FRIPON.
FRIPON cameras work together to plot the course of meteorites entering Europe’s skies, supporting efforts to retrieve fresh-fallen meteorites for study.
Find out more about the FRIPON network in this video produced for last year’s Asteroid Day .
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
When NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roars to life on the launch pad, NASA’s Artemis astronauts inside the Orion spacecraft will feel the power of the rocket’s four RS-25 engines for eight minutes.The four RS-25 engines on SLS are some of the most efficient engines ever built. Two giant propellant tanks on the SLS core stage provide the fuel to power the engines that, together, provide more than 2 million pounds of thrust to help launch NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon. The RS-25 engines are produced by Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies Company. Watch this video to learn more about how these engines have been adapted from the Space Shuttle Program for the SLS rocket’s bold missions into deep space.
Credit: NASA
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Actress Blake Lively attends Rocket Science New York City Premiere at Regal Union Square Cinemas in New York City on August 7, 2007.
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Engineers position a 27.5-foot-diameter cylinder for the first full-scale Shell Buckling and Knockdown Factor Project test held at Marshall Space Flight Center in March 2011. From Dec. 9-13, engineers are conducting a second test, crushing a similar cylinder until it buckles and gathering data to develop new design standards for lighter rocket tanks. The test cylinder, built at the Marshall Center from panels used for external tanks in the space shuttle program, is speckled with markers used by a digital image correlation system. Cameras positioned around the tank monitor the movement of the dots during testing.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
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A key piece of hardware for NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and the agency's Artemis III mission is on its way to the Space Coast. The journey for the ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion stage) began in Decatur, Alabama, where crews with United Launch Alliance first boxed it for shipment July 29 then loaded it onto ULA's "RocketShip" barge July 31. The barge will ferry the SLS flight hardware down the Mississippi River, into the Gulf of Mexico, then around the Florida peninsula to Cape Canaveral. Once it arrives at ULA's facility in Florida near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the ICPS will undergo final testing and checkouts ahead of the crewed Artemis III mission. The ICPS is the in-space propulsion stage of the SLS rocket, giving NASA's Orion spacecraft and Artemis astronauts inside it the big push they need to journey all the way to the Moon for a lunar landing. The ICPS for Artemis III is the last of its kind as missions beginning with Artemis IV will use the SLS B1B configuration that includes the more powerful Exploration Upper Stage.
Watch this video to learn more about the preparations for its waterway journey!
Image credit: NASA/Brandon Hancock
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The dish at Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley, just seconds after it moved into position to track a science probe in orbit around the moon. The big dish makes a cool sci-fi sound as it moves. It was a thrill to be standing right under it while it SLID into position! (Even though this particular dish rotation only took about 10 seconds, I still wondered if I would have to duck, lol). HSS!
The probe the folks at SSL were getting ready to monitor is called ARTEMIS P1, formerly THEMIS B. For more on the history of this project, see ARTEMIS/THEMIS Missions
Once again I'm in post-and-rush mode but I'm COUNTING on having a leisurely afternoon sliding through sliders and visiting you eight-days-a-weekers, too - see ya!
Every day the men and women of ESA’s technical heart head to work past this 1:1 model of pioneering Earth observation satellite, European Remote Sensing Spacecraft-2, ERS-2. Launched in 1995, the real-life ERS-2’s mission ended in 2011 and it is now due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere.
ERS-2 followed on from ERS-1 in 1991. The pair were Europe’s first microwave radar satellites, able to acquire images of Earth’s land and sea surfaces through clouds and darkness.
They also each carried a radar altimeter that charted land contours and sea and ice surface height, a radiometer for sampling sea surface temperature and atmospheric water vapour as well as a scatterometer able to map wind speed over the ocean based on radar backscatter patterns. In addition, ERS-2 carried a new ozone-mapping instrument.
ERS-2, like its predecessor, underwent its test campaign for launch at ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Marking the connection, this full-sized model of the satellite was erected near the establishment’s entrance.
In this photo, ERS-2’s radar antennas can be seen at the top of the model – the two diagonally oriented antennas and the small and large straight antennas below them. Its radar altimeter is the circular antenna below the largest radar array. Its ATSR-2 radiometer is located right of the radar altimeter, while its scatterometer projects from the satellite’s right side. ERS-2’s Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment, GOME, is located directly below the scatterometer (not in view). At the base of the model is ERS-2’s 12 m-long solar array.
During their lifetimes, the satellites circled Earth over 120 000 times in total, continuously observing and monitoring our planet’s land, atmosphere, oceans, and ice caps. Later versions of ERS instruments flew aboard ESA’s follow-on Envisat mission and then Europe’s Copernicus Sentinels fleet,which has become the world’s leading source of environmental data.
Placed into an approximate 800 km altitude Sun-synchronous orbit by an Ariane 4 launcher, ERS-2 operated for 16 years. In September 2011 its mission ended. ERS-2’s remaining fuel was used by mission controllers to lower its orbital altitude down to 573 km, to hasten the time it went take to reenter the atmosphere. This was done to reduce the risk of any adverse impact on the space environment. During reentry, the satellite will break up into pieces, the majority of which will burn up. The risks associated with satellite reentries are very low.
ESA introduced its initial space debris mitigation policy in 2008, which has subsequently been updated several times. As a consequence Our missions in Earth orbit are now increasingly designed to conduct controlled reentries at the end of their life that allow operators to accurately target over which region on Earth they reenter. However, ESA continues to make efforts to dispose of its older satellites (such as ERS-2, Aeolus, Cluster and Integral) in more sustainable ways than were originally planned.
Follow the latest updates on ERS-2’s reentry here. Read more about the successes and legacy of the ERS-2 mission here.
Credits: ESA-SJM Photography
Hanging in the Saturn V exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center, this gargantuan rocket is what helped send humans to another celestial body for the first time in recorded history
On the other end of the size spectrum, trying to build the smallest rocket is a great way for children to learn rocket science.
Kids start with the assumption that a bare Estes rocket engine should go a long way, but it skips randomly through space bouncing all around you. Next thought: it needs fins and a nosecone. So, we add a nose cone and some fins to a motor, and it is still totally unstable (but now with a sharp point on it!).
You need a proper balance of weight and thrust vectors. A long rocket tube shifts the center of gravity forward, like a lever arm or see-saw. With a short rocket, you need a lot of nose weight to shift the balance point forward. So the shorter the rocket tube, the heavier the nose needs to be. My young son had the clever idea to tape a stray golf ball onto the nose of his 6” rocket made from the remains of others… and it flies perfectly straight every time. It also launches the golf ball at apogee instead of popping a chute…. So he can take on Big Bertha with his little rocket driver…
It’s Rocket Science redux! CP < CG
To be stable, the rocket’s CP (Center of Pressure) should be one or two body diameters behind the CG (Center of Gravity).
The fins are there to streamline the flow of air and provide a large surface area to help to keep the center of pressure below the center of mass of the rocket.
For more on stability, check out this page.
At high power launches, random dances, pinwheels, and landsharks are just big boy versions of the same experiments gone terribly wrong… =)
I never thought I’d come across this striking image as an original/vintage “A KODAK PAPER” print…so I’m pretty stoked. By Gary Meyer, on behalf of/for North American Aviation.
This is readily familiar & identifiable (by some…a few actually…maybe) as the cover image of “SATURN/APOLLO: LUNAR LANDING PROGRAM”, North American Rockwell, Pub 3540-C, Rev 1-69. Although the publication is ca. 1968/1969, the image…that of a Saturn C-5/”Advanced Saturn” and the space suit…which to me looks like the SPD-143 training suit, puts this as having been created by Mr. Meyer ca. 1962/63.
Whenever it was, it’s awesome.
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Credit: University of Alabama in Huntsville/Archives, Special Collections, & Digital Initiatives website
~7.75” x 10”, hand-trimmed left & right edges. Otherwise in excellent condition, with superior gloss.
This is a commissioned piece for a Lawn Mower and Snowblower Repair Shop.
Brush Pen on Bristol Board.
Painted in Photoshop.
Three Rocketdyne G-38, S-3D(?), early H-1(?) rocket engines undergoing test firing a long long time ago, at either EAFB or (more likely) SSTF/SSFL I believe.
They're one of these:
www.astronautix.com/l/lr79.html
Credit: A HUGE shoutout to the Astronautix website
Great (as always) pertinent (I think) content, at both of these superlative (confirmed) websites:
heroicrelics.org/info/s-3d/s-3d-overview.html
And:
www.drewexmachina.com/2014/06/09/a-history-of-american-ro...
www.drewexmachina.com/2018/10/06/juno-v-the-birth-of-the-...
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
I have some pens and pencils.
A moleskine.
And a head full of quotes, lyrics and the like.
Come and see them at Quoteskine.tumblr.com
Bang, Zoom..Too The Moon...One of these Days Alice :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=98qw86DsdZ0&feature=player_de...
The first launch missed the moon by a few degrees so this is a relaunch :) We got it lined up a little better this time, maybe we will hit it :)
Elton and Rocket Man
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hzZ...
William Shatner The Rocket Man :):):)
Commander Chris Hadfield
International Space Station !
Ground Control to Major Tom. David Bowie
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KaO...
Remembering John Kennedy...To the Moon
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kwF...
Remembering our Fallen Astronauts.
May Your Souls Rest in Peace
We Miss You and Thank You for Your Service
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=de3...
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8Vu...
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TgO...
God Bless The USA :)
Lee Greenwood,,God Bless The USA !
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The Jupiter Rocket..This type of Rocket was used in 1959 to send two Monkeys ( Able and Baker ) into space which begat man's exploration into Space and The Final Frontier.
Rocket Located at Roanoke Va.'s Transportation Musuem
Another Launch
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On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
“The Apollo spacecraft will be manned by three astronauts. Two will land on the Moon in the Lunar Excursion Module (see preliminary model above). To return, they will blast off in the top part, leaving the lower section behind. They will then join the third man in the Command and Space Module for the trip back to Earth. The upper part of the LEM will remain in orbit around the Moon.” (The description accompanies the photo and is what actually happened three years later on Apollo 11.)
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
The astronaut transfer van, also known as the Astrovan, is a NASA vehicle used at the Kennedy Space Center to transport astronauts from the Operations and Checkout Building to the launch pad before a launch mission, to the pad for launch dress rehearsals, and back to Operations and Checkout Building following a shuttle landing.
The core stage for NASA's first Artemis mission to the Moon moved to the agency’s Pegasus barge on Jan. 8, 2020. The 212-foot Space Launch System rocket stage, built by NASA and lead contractor Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, rolled the onto Pegasus, which shipped it to NASA's Stennis Space Center on Jan. 12. Here, it will undergo a comprehensive series of engineering tests called the Green Run. After Green Run is complete, the core stage will be sent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where it will join with SLS's giant boosters and the Orion spacecraft to launch into space on Artemis I.
Image credit: Danny Nowlin