Posted in ESA, NASA, Spacecraft, tagged ATV, ISS, Jules Verne on Thursday 2008.04.03 | No Comments »
ESA live video here and live blog here, NASASpaceflight.com live thread here. Distance now a few meters.
EDIT: Success! ATV is now docked to ISS. The live streaming video worked great perhaps for the first time ever. Now ESA has the Columbus lab and the ATV on the ISS. This success will probably raise space awareness throughout Europe, I hope the media will note it.
Posted in Depot, ESA, NASA, Spacecraft, tagged ATV, docking, ESA, ISS on Monday 2008.03.31 | No Comments »
The first European Autonomous Transfer Vehicle is nearing the International Space Station as I write this. It’s demo day 2 and it will go to 250 meters distance. Docking will be a few days later.
ESA has a live blog here.
NASASpaceflight.com has a live thread here. Someone just posted a screen capture:
There’s video at NASA TVas well as ESA’s blog.
Hope all goes well. This is a bit of a competence test for ESA and the European space industry (well, those who are in this [...]
Posted in Architecture, ISRU, Models, RLV:s, Spacecraft, Uncategorized, tagged analytics, ESAS, heavy lift, Koelle, Lunar architecture, Moon, VSE on Sunday 2008.01.27 | No Comments »
Okay, the topic of course is a pun of the current moon exploration approach chosen by NASA. It has been the subject of endless debate, and rightly so, but the various ideas for that are a subject for other days. Bush’s Vision For Space Exploration (VSE), NASA’s 90 day Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS), the resulting [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, Science, Spacecraft, Uncategorized, tagged christmas, cutaways, flight international, foton, soyuz, venera, venus, yes2 on Friday 2007.12.21 | No Comments »
I can link you some nice images:
Nicolas Pillet’s photo gallery of Soyuz / Foton-M3 & YES2. An example.
Don P. Mitchell’s restored Venus photos from Soviet Venera probe material. An example.
And finally, for the technology fetishists like me, Flight International’s generous offer of past cutaway drawings, space systems section. Or have a look at this cutie from the engine cutaways [...]
Posted in Depot, RLV:s, Spacecraft, tagged Arctus, COTS, ISS, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Progress, Spacecraft, Spacehab, SpaceX Dragon, ULA on Thursday 2007.12.20 | No Comments »
SpaceHab together with ULA (Lockheed Martin) is proposing a simple cargo capsule to ISS, launched on existing rockets like Atlas V. This seems good.
