At the start of an EVA on the International Space Station today by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Amercian Christopher Cassidy, water soon began to build up inside Parmitano’s helmet from a leak and they had to cancel the EVA and return quickly to the airlock. The cause of the lead is not yet understood : Spacewalk aborted by spacesuit water leak – Spaceflight Now
Here was a NASA briefing on the aborted EVA:
Markus Landgraf, a mission analyst with the European Space Agency, gave a TEDxRheinMain talk earlier this year about space elevators: : A Tedx Talk about the Space Elevator – The Space Elevator Blog
In the video he switches from German to English at 2:09.
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pdf) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Surface Telerobotics, Ed Tunstel , APL/JHU – July 10, 2013.
Via Rocketeers comes a report on using a magnetic field and plasma around a spaceship to create a “mini magnetosphere” for radiation protection: Shields up! Scientists work to produce ‘Star Trek’ deflector device – CNN.com
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Copenhagen Suborbitals posted this video of
a double test of the Launch Escape System rocket motor. It uses a solid propellant known as “Galcit 61 C” and produced 5,6 kN thrust for 0.6 sec. Its a 1/3 version of the “real” LES SRM to be used for a improwed LES system.
ISP was 195 sec, chamber pressure 120 bars, propellant mass 1,56 kg.
