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At London's Science museum I had the opportunity to walk around the Soyuz capsule in which Tim Peak and his comrades travelled to the ISS
A recent "Maker's Challenge" class in the Jocelyn H. Lee Innovation Lab offered participants a chance to use a variety of makerspace tools to create their own fanciful spacecraft designs from recycled materials.
A recent "Maker's Challenge" class in the Jocelyn H. Lee Innovation Lab offered participants a chance to use a variety of makerspace tools to create their own fanciful spacecraft designs from recycled materials.
During my last fly-by of Saturn I snagged this photo. Actually this is a raw file downloaded from the Cassini Spacecraft website that I processed myself.
The wallpaper behind the cowboys I made with a stencil and giant roll of paper I scored from an architect firm, great place to get scrap paper.
If the XMM-Newton spacecraft were made of glas, one could gain the above view of its payload. The X-ray telescopes, two with Reflection Grating Arrays, are visible at the lower left. At the right end of the assembly, the focal instruments are shown: The EPIC-MOS cameras with their radiators (black/green "horns"), the radiator of the EPIC-pn camera (violet) and those of the (light blue) RGS receivers (in orange). The black box at the bottom of the bus is the outgassing device.
Last night Mark and I worked together on capturing something we've never captured before - the Gaia spacecraft! It was all thanks to my friend Rachel who helped us via Messenger. We used our 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope and Altair Hypercam 294C camera. Gaia is the faint, curved streak near the top of the image. We took 100 x 1 minute exposures over a 2 hour period (with a short gap in the data capture, hence the gap in the line). Gaia was around mag +15 so a definite challenge! The star at the centre is HIP 45255 in Cancer. Lots of processing by both of us to produce these images.. The raw images were calibrated and aligned in Deep Sky Stacker and that has produced some strange warping at the right hand edge so the widefield timelapse is a bit trippy. The light levels are flickering a bit because of thin cloud, but we're just so happy to have caught it before it completes its mission and heads off into solar orbit.