Category Archives: Events

1:15 am ET/Sept.7.13: This fact sheet from Emily Lakdawalla outlines the tasks for LADEE in the coming days and months. It will actually do several burns to get into the lunar orbit to begin its science mission: LADEE prelaunch facts – The Planetary Society.

11:59 pm ET: Success! Congratulations to the Orbital team for sending the LADEE spacecraft on the start of its journey to the Moon. LADEE will later fire its own on-board engine to complete the trip. NASA has been able to contact the spacecraft.

9:57 pm ET: The countdown is going well for the launch of the Orbital Sciences five-stage Minotaur V rocket from Wallops Island Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. (See earlier post.) Liftoff is expected at 11:27 p.m. EDT. The rocket will send NASA’s LADEE science probe to orbit the Moon.

Updates on the launch status can be found here:

[ Update: Here is a video of the launch:

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Activism, Events, Future space

SpaceUp unconference schedule + Finding Starship Congress talks on video

August 30, 2013 TopSpacer

There are several SpaceUp “unconferences ” coming up this fall. See if one is near you:

Atlanta – September 28, 2013
Denver – October 3-6, 2013
Orlando – October 13, 2013
Bhopal – December 6-7, 2013

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I’ve enjoyed watching many of the talks at the recent Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress event in Dallas (see earlier post here. The videos are up to 12 hours long so it took some searching to find a particular talk. Now, however, the program schedule has links directly from each talk to the position on the video where it starts: Schedule | Icarus Interstellar

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