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Virtual Reality Meets Space Tourism: World’s First VR Satellite To Be Launched in 2017
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At first glance, it appeared to be an impressive PhotoShop image. The view of the Moon, passing in front of the sunlit face of Earth in July 2015—and revealing the fully illuminated lunar farside—looked contrived; more than a little artificial. Yet it was a true perspective of the cradle of humanity and our nearest […] More
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Last Falcon 9 v1.1 Successfully Boosts Jason-3 to Orbit, Reportedly Suffers Landing Leg Breakage During Oceanic Touchdown
Despite ground fog which rolled across Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., virtually obscuring the star of the show from view in its final minutes on Earth, SpaceX successfully delivered its 15th and final Falcon 9 v1.1 booster aloft earlier today (Sunday, 17 January) and transported the joint NASA/NOAA Jason-3 ocean altimetry mission into a polar […] More
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in News, NASA, Science, NOAA, SpaceX, Falcon 9, USA, Earth observation, satellite, Vandenberg AFB, Technology, Launch, Oceanography, Flight Test, JASON-3SpaceX Jason-3 First Stage Falcon Will Attempt ASDS Landing at Sea
SpaceX has confirmed they will attempt to land their Falcon-9 first stage booster on a floating offshore barge after launching the Jason-3 satellite from Vandenberg AFB (VAFB) in Southern California, currently scheduled to launch No-Earlier-Than (NET) Jan. 17. The mission will be the first of 2016 for SpaceX, and the first launch from American soil for a […] More
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in News, Tech, NASA, Space, Science, JPL, NOAA, Goddard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, International Space Station, press release, Earth observation, Mark Kelly, astronaut, satellite, Earth, Technology, News ReleaseNASA Monitoring Historic Hurricane Patricia As it Hits Southwestern Mexico
As record-breaking Hurricane Patricia bears down on the southwest coast of Mexico, NASA is busy monitoring the monstrous storm. Patricia has become the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record, with sustained winds near 200 mph (325 kph). More
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The Eyes of SMAP: Interview With NASA JPL’s SMAP Project Manager Kent Kellogg (Part 1)
A behind-the-scenes look into the birth of a spacecraft; the research, development, fabrication, and mission objectives of NASA/JPL’s Earth science observatory, SMAP, and the challenges met in creating a new technology. Part One: An interview with NASA/JPL’s SMAP project manager Kent Kellogg In September 2001, a two-year study calling for the measurement of ocean salinity […] More
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Scientists Create Color-Based Catalog of Earthly Life Forms to Help Search for Alien Biology
With exoplanets now being discovered by the thousands, and estimated to be in the billions in our galaxy alone, attention is naturally turning to how astronomers might be able to search for evidence of life on any of those far-away worlds. Now, a team of scientists is taking a novel approach to doing just that, […] More
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‘Off On the Right Foot’: Expedition 43 Underway at Space Station
Only a week after the safe return to Earth of Soyuz TMA-14M and its crew of Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Yelena Serova and U.S. astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore—wrapping up a highly successful Expedition 42—the torch has been passed to a new team of spacefarers from three nations to keep the International Space Station (ISS) […] More
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ULA Delivers Four-Spacecraft Flotilla on Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully flown its highly reliable Atlas V booster out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to deliver the four-spacecraft flotilla of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) into a Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) to explore the microphysics of “magnetic reconnection,” a process which converts magnetic energy into heat and kinetic […] More
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Atlas V Ready for Thursday Night Launch to Deliver NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) to Orbit
United Launch Alliance (ULA) stands ready to conduct its third mission in as many months on the night of Thursday, 12 March, when it flies an Atlas V booster out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to deliver the four-spacecraft flotilla of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) into a Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) to investigate the […] More
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The Coming of SMAP, Part Two: SMAP, Aquarius, and Our Planet’s Water Cycle
Story and Interviews by Chris Howell, with: Dr. Simon Yueh, JPL SMAP Senior Research Scientist Dr. Rajat Bindlish, visiting scientist, USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory SMAP pre-launch conference excerpts from Dr. Dara Entekhabi / SMAP Science Team Lead, M.I.T. In a chill, pre-dawn countdown out of Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex-2 on California’s […] More
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NASA’s MMS Fleet Ready for Mission to Study Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetosphere
In a few weeks four identically-instrumented NASA spacecraft will launch on the space agency’s next mission, one which aims to study a natural process that occurs throughout the Universe, known as magnetic reconnection. NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, or MMS, will for the first time observe the three-dimensional structure of this phenomenon by flying through areas where the […] More
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Mapping Planet Earth: 15 Years Since STS-99 (Part 2)
Fifteen years ago, this week, the six-member crew of STS-99—Commander Kevin Kregel, Pilot Dom Gorie, and Mission Specialists Janet Kavandi, Janice Voss, Germany’s Gerhard Thiele, and Japan’s Mamoru Mohri—embarked on the $220 million Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) to assemble the most comprehensive maps of Earth to date. As described in yesterday’s AmericaSpace history article, […] More
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