NASA has awarded the first place prize of $1.3M to Team Pipistrel in its Green Flight Challenge. Both Pipistrel, and second-place eGenius, flew all-electric aircraft at more than 375 miles on the equivalent of one gallon of fuel. Also, ISS Preps, Nobel Prize; Earth and comet water; ozone depletion; SpaceFarm7, and more.
Category: Astronomie
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Mission 1: Newton in Space (Español)
While on board the ISS, Pedro Duque was filmed conducting demonstrations explaining Newton’s Three Laws of Motion – the subject of ISS DVD Lesson 1.
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Mission 1: Newton in Space (Português)
While on board the ISS, Pedro Duque was filmed conducting demonstrations explaining Newton’s Three Laws of Motion – the subject of ISS DVD Lesson 1.
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Mission 1: Newton in Space (Italiano)
While on board the ISS, Pedro Duque was filmed conducting demonstrations explaining Newton’s Three Laws of Motion – the subject of ISS DVD Lesson 1.
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Mission 1: Newton in Space
While on board the ISS, Pedro Duque was filmed conducting demonstrations explaining Newton’s Three Laws of Motion – the subject of ISS DVD Lesson 1.
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Mission 1: Newton in Space (Deutsch)
While on board the ISS, Pedro Duque was filmed conducting demonstrations explaining Newton’s Three Laws of Motion – the subject of ISS DVD Lesson 1.
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Mission 2: Body Space (Italiano)
During the DELTA Mission, André Kuipers performed a number of physiology demonstrations showing the effects of weightlessness on the human body – the theme of DVD Lesson 2.
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Asteroid News from NASA’s WISE Satellite Headlines the Latest Episode of This week at NASA
Also: Deputy Administrator Lori Garver delivers keynote at Space Launch System Industry Day; flight teams compete for the title, most fuel-efficient aircraft in the world, James Webb Space Telescope gets a new coat; President Obama visit Ames’ Moffett Field; Casualty Drills at Wallops; Dryden honors shuttle workers; Profile: Astronomer Rosa Diaz, and three 135 crew members visit Glenn.
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ESA Euronews: La storia di un satellite
Tutto ha una fine. Per gli uomini ma anche per i satelliti. Dopo sedici anni di fedele servizio, il satellite d’osservazione ERS 2 è condannato a trasformarsi in luce e calore. È l’argomento di questa puntata di Space.
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ESA Euronews: La Agencia Espacial Europea se despide de una de sus mejores creaciones
Nada dura eternamente. Eso es igual para las personas como para los satélites. Después de 16 años de un precioso y preciso trabajo, el satélite de observación terrestre ERS 2 está condenado a convertirse en polvo y fuego. En Space.
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ESA Euronews: A satellite’s story
Everything must come to an end — including satellites. After 16 years of loyal service observing Earth, the ERS-2 satellite has retired.
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Visit the ISS in 3D with Paolo Nespoli
Paolo Nespoli spent 6 months on-board the International Space Station from Dec 2010 through to May 2011.
In this video he shot using ESA’s Erasmus Recording Binocular (ERB-2) stereoscopic camera during various phases of his MagISStra mission, he caught some moments that depict the work astronauts carry out on the ISS: from educational activities, to scientific experiments and physical training, also demonstrating the way astronauts move in weightlessness through the various modules. ERB-2 is the first camera to transmit 3D images live from space.ESA would like to thank all the astronauts featured in the film: NASA astronauts Catherine (Cady) Coleman, Ron Garan, Scott Kelly and the united ISS Expedition 26-27 and STS-134 crew including ESA astronaut R. Vittori.
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ESA – Space to Relax / Earth view by Envisat
Images in HD quality taken by the optical and radar instruments on board ESA’s Envisat Satellite orbiting 800 km above the Earth are set to relaxing music.
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NASA’s GRAIL Spacecraft Launches on Lunar Mission
NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft launched to the moon aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on Sept. 10, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
GRAIL’s primary science objectives are to determine the structure of the lunar interior, from crust to core, and to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of the moon.
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Sept. 11, 2001 Video From the International Space Station
On Sept. 11, 2001, NASA astronaut, Frank Culbertson, was the lone American not on the planet. Culbertson and two Russian cosmonauts were orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station as members of the Expedition 3 crew. Included is video captured by Culbertson and crew as they flew over New York City just after the attacks on the World Trade Center. Included is additional footage aboard the ISS, as well as interview excerpts of Culbertson’s recollections ten years later.
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NASA’s Chandra Finds “Nearby” Black Holes
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth, the pair is the nearest known such phenomenon. The black holes are located near the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 3393. Separated by only 490 light years, the black holes are likely the remnant of a merger of two galaxies of unequal mass a billion or more years ago.
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First-ever live 3D video stream from space
An ESA-developed camera transmitted live-streaming 3D images for the first time in the history of space travel. On 6 August, NASA astronaut Ron Garan operated the Erasmus Recording Binocular (ERB-2) camera in Europe’s Columbus laboratory, showing the International Space Station as never before in high-definition quality . While talking about the work on board the Station, he enhances the sense of depth and presence by playing with an inflatable Earth globe.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMWLEOT9RG_index_0.htmlUse red/blue 3D glasses to experience the full 3D experience of this clip.
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Tribute to the Space Shuttle from the European astronauts
Space Shuttle is perhaps the most complex technological system ever built. In 30 years, it has flown 135 times and helped humankind to dispatch and partially even return many satellites and deep-space probes, to build the International Space Station and to conduct out-of-this-world science. The Shuttle has transported also 24 European astronauts to Earth orbit on 25 missions.
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Opportunity Rover Reaches Martian Crater on This Week @NASA
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity has reached its next destination. Three years after climbing out of Victoria crater, Opportunity has completed an eleven-mile trek to the rim of Endeavour crater at a spot informally named “Spirit Point” after the rover’s decommissioned twin.
At 14 miles in diameter, Endeavour has ridges along its western rim that expose rock outcrops older than any Opportunity has seen so far. Also, Future Forum; shuttles nose-to-nose; hydro basin; women of WISH; STEM forum; and engineering interns. Plus, NASA Art! -
Juno to Jupiter on This Week @NASA
The successful liftoff of the Juno spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center begins a five-year cruise to the planet Jupiter to investigate the planet’s structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
It will also provide detailed images of Jupiter’s surface and capture the first high-resolution views of its poles. Also, possible Martian water flows; Vesta’s new look; oxygen in space; and, Columbia debris. Plus, HQ crew visit; Russians spacewalk; SOFIA ambassadors; new Apollo 15 book; and dunk tank for food. -
Juno Mission Launches to Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter after being launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on August 5 at 11:25 a.m. Eastern. The solar-powered spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in July 2016 and orbit its poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant’s interior, atmosphere and aurora. Scientists believe Jupiter holds the key to better understanding the origins of our solar system.
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NASA’s MRO Sees Possible Martian Water Flows
Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. Scientists discuss the findings at a NASA Headquarters news briefing held August 4, 2011.
Dark, finger-like features appear and extend down some Martian slopes during late spring through summer, fade in winter, and return during the next spring. Repeated observations have tracked the seasonal changes in these recurring features on several steep slopes in the middle latitudes of Mars’ southern hemisphere. -
Atlantis’s Final Landing at Kennedy Space Center
After more than 30 years, the space shuttle era has come to a close. Space shuttle Atlantis and the STS-135 crew landed safely on runway 15 at 5:57 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida, ending a 13-day journey of more than five million miles. It was the final and 133rd landing in shuttle history. The STS-135 crew consisted of Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim.
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NASA’s Increase of Awesome to Continue
Wondering what’s up post-shuttle, popular Internet vlogger Hank Green of Vlogbrothers gets the straight skinny from Charlie Bolden and others at NASA about the agency’s plans for future human space exploration.
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STS-135: Final Launch of the Space Shuttle Program
Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and crewmates Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:29 a.m. EDT on Friday, July 8. STS-135 is the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program.
The 12-day mission will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module filled with more than 8,000 pounds of supplies and spare parts to sustain space station operations after the shuttles are retired. STS-135 is the 135th shuttle flight, the 33rd flight for Atlantis and the 37th shuttle mission dedicated to station assembly and maintenance, -
The Journey Continues for NASA’s Human Space Exploration
The crew of STS-135, the final space shuttle mission, talks about the vibrancy of the International Space Station as a stepping stone for NASA’s plans for future human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit.
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ESA Euronews: Transbordador espacial: el último viaje
Un capítulo de la aventura espacial se cierra con el lanzamiento de la nave estadounidense Atlantis, con el que se pone punto y final a las misiones del transbordador. Ha pervivido durante 30 años, una historia de momentos felices y trágicos.
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ESA Euronews: Addio, Space Shuttle
Si chiude un capitolo dell’epopea spaziale, con il lancio della navetta americana Atlantis che segna la fine delle missioni dello Space Shuttle. Una storia lunga trent’anni che ha conosciuto i suoi momenti di gloria e le sue tragedie.
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ESA Euronews: Letzter Flug für das Space Shuttle
Mit dem letzten Start der Weltraumfähre “Atlantis” geht zugleich ein Kapitel in der Geschichte der Weltraumfahrt zuende. Denn der 135. Space-Shuttle-Flug ist der Letzte seiner Art. Zurück liegen drei Jahrzehnte mit ihren Höhepunkten sowie mit ihren Tragödien. Mehr darüber in unserer Rubrik Space.
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NASA Details Future Science Missions & Launches
Chief scientist Waleed Abdalati is among the panelists who talk and answer questions about upcoming NASA science missions.
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Solving Aviation’s Challenges Through NASA Innovation
Ed Waggoner, director of the Integrated Systems Research Program, and John Cavolowsky, director of the Airspace Systems Program, discuss what’s next for NASA in the field of aeronautics research during a briefing to the news media at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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The Space Shuttle (Narrated by William Shatner)
An idea born in unsettled times becomes a feat of engineering excellence. The most complex machine ever built to bring humans to and from space and eventually construct the next stop on the road to space exploration.
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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation
This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. A shorter 4-minute version of this animation, with narration, is also available on our youtube page.
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Black Holes and Mercury on This Week @NASA
New pictures and data about the growth of supermassive black holes in galaxies of the early universe join new findings about the planet Mercury are highlighted, along with a look ahead to the final shuttle flight and other NASA events, programs and projects of interest.
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NASA’s MESSENGER Delivers New Pix, Data from Mercury
NASA reveals new images and science findings from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER spacecraft conducted more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system for six years prior to achieving the historic orbit insertion on March 17.
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Final Shuttle Rollout on This Week @NASA
The final rollout of the Space Shuttle Program has brought Atlantis from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center for the liftoff of STS-135 targeted for July 8. Mated to its external tank and solid rocket boosters, the orbiter traveled the 3.4-miles atop a crawler-transporter at a top speed of less than a mile an hour. Also, farewell to Spirit; cave research; lunabotics, and aviation history revisited.
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STS-134: Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last Mission
The best of the best, it’s a compilation of the featured moments captured by NASA Television during the mission of Endeavour and its six-man crew to the International Space Station.
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Welcome home, Paolo!
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station.
Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27 since December. Paolo’s MagISStra mission, the third long mission by a European astronaut on the Station, came to end at 04:27 CEST (02:27 GMT) on the steppes of Kazakhstan as the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft fired its retrorockets for a soft landing.
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station.
Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27 since December. Paolo’s MagISStra mission, the third long mission by a European astronaut on the Station, came to end at 04:27 CEST (02:27 GMT) on the steppes of Kazakhstan as the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft fired its retrorockets for a soft landing.
Paolo and crewmates Soyuz Commander Dmitri Kondratyev and NASA’s Cady Coleman boarded the Soyuz on Monday night and undocked from the Station’s nadir
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Aquarius Nears on This Week @NASA
Scientists from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France and Italy were at NASA Headquarters in Washington to discuss their upcoming international spacecraft mission, Aquarius/SAC-D. Scheduled to launch June 9th, the spacecraft’s primary instrument will scan the world’s oceans to measure surface salinity, important to ocean circulation and climate. Also, Atlantis’ final rollover; Bolden checks out Juno; lowering the booms; astronauts as aquanauts; Houston’s hero; a new STORRM on station; Goddard open house; and remembering JFK’s challenge to America.
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ESA Euronews: El camión del espacio
El vehículo de carga europeo ATV es el vehículo más complejo jamás construido para abastecer la Estación espacial Internacional. Pudiendo llevar cerca de 8 toneladas de carga, el ATV es capaz de realizar maniobras que requieren cierta inteligencia artificial. El camión del Espacio y su posible evolución, esta semana en « Space. »