Tag: NASA
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Elon Musk reveals SpaceX’s spacesuit: ‘This actually works’ … and also looks really cool
The spacesuit designed to be worn aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule turns up the coolness dial for spaceflight, as befits a company that’s a corporate cousin of the Tesla electric-car venture. “Was incredibly hard to balance esthetics and function,” Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of both companies, said today in a first-look Instagram post. “Easy to…
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NASA science aircraft using Seattle as base during mission to capture first video of eclipse
NASA’s Gulfstream III science aircraft. (NASA Photo / Carla Thomas) The Museum of Flight in Seattle is no stranger to unique aircraft, and Monday’s total solar eclipse is attracting a special plane from NASA which will offer the first glimpse of the rare event off the coast of Oregon as it collects data. NASA’s Gulfstream III…
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Photos: Atlas sends up new NASA satellite
NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, a communications router for the space station and dozens of science spacecraft, blasted off from Cape Canaveral at 8:29 a.m. EDT on Friday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United…
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Videos: Replays from successful Atlas 5 launch of TDRS-M
Isolated camera views from various locations around Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center show the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifting off with NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M. UCS 3 UCS 15 VIF roof Pad camera NASA Causeway VAB roof KSCVC observation gantry Rocketcam staging See earlier TDRS-M launch coverage.
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Atlas 5 rocket delivers NASA data router into space for astronauts and satellites
CAPE CANAVERAL — Bulking up NASA’s constellation of tracking stations in the sky that provides critical links between orbiting spacecraft and ground control, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully deployed a new communications hub in space today. NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite series, a program that revolutionized mission operations for U.S. human…
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Video: TDRS-M takes flight atop Atlas 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 191 feet tall and and weighing 745,000 pounds, generates 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M. Video courtesy: NASA TV See earlier TDRS-M launch coverage.
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Video: Atlas/TDRS-M pre-launch news briefing
Watch the pre-launch news conference held Thursday, Aug. 17 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to preview liftoff of the agency’s TDRS-M data relay satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral. Briefing participants are: * Tim Dunn, NASA launch director * Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for Space Communications and Navigation…
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Multimedia: Atlas 5 rolled out with TDRS-M
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was transferred from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 today for Friday’s launch of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M that directly supports the International Space Station and various science missions. Liftoff is planned for 8:03 a.m. EDT (1203 GMT). The rocket was…
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Preview: NASA science-enabling relay satellite poised for launch
The TDRS-M spacecraft is encapsulated in the Atlas 5’s nose cone for atmospheric ascent. Credit: NASA-KSC TV CAPE CANAVERAL — Resembling a cocooned insect with antennas and appendages tucked snuggly to its body for launch, NASA’s latest communications relay hub will be shot into space Friday to blossom in geosynchronous orbit for routing signals to…
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Timeline: Atlas 5/TDRS-M ascent events
This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M. Launch is scheduled for Friday at 8:03 a.m. EDT (1203 GMT). T+0:00:01.1 Liftoff With the RD-180 main engine running, the Atlas 5 vehicle lifts off and begins a vertical…