Tag: NASA
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled to launch data relay satellite for NASA
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will boost NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, or TDRS-M, into space arrived at Cape Canaveral on June 26 aboard the Delta Mariner cargo vessel from the production factory in Alabama. Flying in its basic two-stage configuration with no strap-on solids, the Atlas 5 was stacked aboard…
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AV-074/TDRS-M launch fact sheet
Payload: TRACKING AND DATA RELAY SATELLITE-M NASA geosynchronous communications satellite Relays data from ISS, Hubble and LEO customers Cost: $408 million satellite + $132m launch service Launch Date: Friday, Aug. 18, 2017 Launch Window: 40 minutes 8:03-8:43 a.m. EDT 1203-1243 GMT Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Space Launch Complex 41 Customer: NASA…
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From 1979 to 2017: How we’ve changed since the Northwest’s last total solar eclipse
When the daytime sky darkens on Aug. 21, it’ll be the first time in more than 38 years that a total solar eclipse can be seen from the mainland U.S. A lot has changed since Feb. 26, 1979, when the track of totality stretched across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. But the interest in the…
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Three spacefliers join International Space Station’s crew after a quick six-hour trip
Three fresh crew members arrived at the International Space Station today aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft today, just six hours after their launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s Randy Bresnik, Russia’s Sergey Ryazanskiy and Italy’s Paolo Nespoli bring the station’s crew back to its full strength of six for Expedition 52/53. NASA’s Peggy…
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Videos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled to launch NASA’s TDRS-M bird
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will boost NASA’s latest communications relay satellite into space is targeting an Aug. 20 liftoff at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 GMT). The Tracking and Data Relay satellite-M, or TDRS-M, will be carried aloft from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, reaching a customized…
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Augmented reality lets you step through Museum of Flight’s portal and onto NASA’s historic 737 jet
Get ready to cross into an interdimensional portal, because one just appeared at Seattle’s Museum of Flight: It’s transporting visitors into an augmented-reality tour of a historic NASA plane. In a style similar to Pokémon GO, the Museum of Flight’s app places a portal onto the screen of a smartphone or tablet, blended in with…
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NASA’s next-generation TDRS-M satellite damaged, potentially pushing back launch
A damaged antenna could mean a delay for the launch of NASA’s TDRS-M satellite, shown here at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla. (NASA Photo / Glenn Benson) Houston, we may have a problem, and it could come from an antenna that was damaged on Friday during spaceflight closeout activities in Titusville, Fla. The Boeing-made…
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Congress toes a cautious line on support for commercial space partnerships
An artist’s conception shows Axiom Space’s commercial space station. (Axiom Space via Vimeo) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of Congress spoke to space industry leaders on Capitol Hill last week to show their support for the private sector, but both sides expressed frustrations as well. At the sixth annual Future Space conference, U.S. Rep. Brian Babin, the…
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Photos: NASA’s TDRS-M satellite being readied for upcoming launch
CAPE CANAVERAL — With the Atlas 5 rocket that will boost it into space now assembled and waiting, a $408 million NASA communications satellite is in final preparations for its science data relay mission. The Tracking and Data Relay satellite-M, or TDRS-M, will be carried aloft by United Launch Alliance on Aug. 3 from Complex…
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By Jove! Juno orbiter snaps the greatest pictures of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is ready for its close-up in this processed image from NASA’s Juno orbiter. (NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran) The long-awaited close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have arrived from NASA’s Juno orbiter, and they’re spectacular. Juno has been orbiting the giant planet for more than…