NASA troubleshooters determined on Tuesday that the problem that delayed space shuttle Atlantis’ launch by at least a month is not caused by defective fuel sensors as originally suspected, but by a bad connector that links wires from the sensors inside the shuttle's fuel tank to the outside. The findings were the result of a long test that monitored the sensors as the shuttle’s giant orange external tank was filled with 500,000 gallons of super-cold liquid hydrogen and then left to stand for hours before it was drained.... lire la suite
NASA troubleshooters determined on Tuesday that the problem that delayed space shuttle Atlantis’ launch by at least a month is not caused by defective fuel sensors as originally suspected, but by a bad connector that links wires from the sensors inside the shuttle's fuel tank to the outside.
NASA Last shuttle launch for Columbia - Raw video MUST SEEiweberdudei3 mn - 31 oct. This video was shot with my DVCPro camera and gear by a crew from Israel who hired my services to uplink this video (I had leased out a KU band uplink truck at the time) back to their country. This video depicts a rare glimpse of an actual shuttle launch that is unedited.
STS-115 SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS LAUNCHne0heavymetal2 mn - 9 sept. Sept. a. m. EDT Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and charged into the midday Florida sky on a mission to boost power on the International Space Station. The launch was on time, with liftoff at 11:
newVideoPlayer("complex40boom_gizmodo. flv", 494, 390,""); We have seen many spectacular demolitions, but the destruction of the Mobile Service Structure at NASA/USAF's Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is perhaps the most striking of them all: instead of imploding down, the whole ultra-strong metal structure falls to it side and actually seems to bounce on the ground—shattering cameras a mile away—looking almost intact after the dust clears up.
While NASA engineers are still unsure when it will be safe to launch space shuttle Atlantis on its long-awaited mission to the International Space Station, they are optimistic that a fix to the problem delaying lift off is just weeks away. But a new round of tests and procedures that NASA is planning almost certainly means that the January 10 launch date the agency had hoped for just weeks ago is not going to happen.
The mother of an American astronaut aboard the International Space Station died in a car-train crash outside Chicago on Wednesday. NASA officials notified station flight engineer Dan Tani that his mother, Rose Tani, 90, was killed when the car she was driving was struck by a train at a crossing in Lombard, Ill.
A guest post by John Goetz Update: I cross-posted this on CA and in the process added the brief discussion of night lights as well as made some minor text changes. I have reflected all of those changes here] In May I began a quest to better understand how GISS does its homogeneity adjustment, also known as GISS Step 2.
The United States is the only nation on earth that has sent men to the moon. But in two years we will be reduced to paying the Russians to keep us in space, just as the International Space Station becomes fully operational. The US will have no heavy launch capability whatsoever until 2015 at the earliest.
€œUlysses ends its career after revealing that the magnetic field emanating from the sun’s poles is much weaker than previously observed. This could mean the upcoming solar maximum period will be less intense than in recent history. €œ click for a larger image International Mission Studying Sun to Conclude
NASA Night Launch un thème Firefox sur la Nasa.
After three fiery failed test launches of its Falcon 1 rocket (the last one carrying NASA's first solar sail craft and Scotty from Star Trek's ashes), Elon Musk's SpaceX is setting up shop at a new launch site—Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40, which is just south of SLC-39A/B, from which the Space Shuttle and Apollo moon missions have headed skyward for decades.
La Nasa se prépare au lancement de la navette spatiale Atlantis mais les conditions météorologiques pourraient conduire à un nouveau report de la mission.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) was the scheduled speaker at a Washington Space Business Roundtable luncheon on Thursday, but with votes taking place on the Senate floor that morning, it wasn’t clear that he was going to make it—so much so that the luncheon organizers drafted a last-minute replacement, NASA administrator Mike Griffin.
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ESPACE: Deux astronautes d'Atlantis sortent dans l'espace
Technicians at Kennedy Space Center on Friday started removing foam insulation from a portion of shuttle Atlantis' external tank to get ready to start work repairing the faulty wiring connecting the tank's vital fuel sensors. A test earlier this week identified the wiring as being behind the fuel sensor malfunction that has delayed Atlantis' long-awaited mission to the International Space Station for more than a month.
As expected, Tuesday is turning out to be a busy day for NASA: two American astronauts are investigating a cranky rotary joint at the International Space Station while NASA engineers run a test on shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A to pinpoint what's behind faulty fuel sensors.
Sentinel Space Editor Robert Block just phoned this in: NASA still doesn't know when it will be able to launch shuttle Atlantis -- or the date of the other four launches that had been scheduled for 2008. In a press conference Thursday, engineers said that Atlantis -- whose Dec. launch was scrubbed because of problems with fuel sensors -- now won't launch before Jan.
How's this for a truly awesome photo? Shown in the foreground is Space Shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad A. The shuttle in the background is Endeavour, on Launch Pad B. Currently, both shuttles are locked and loaded for launch, should something go wrong up in space with the October 11 Atlantis mission.
STS-122 carrying the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory module has attained orbit. Despite earlier concerns about the weather, Atlantis lifted off at 2: EST. With Atlantis safely attaining orbit, NASA mission managers gave the command to proceed with main engine cutoff, or MECO, and the giant orange tank that provided fuel for the climb into space has been jettisoned.