Category Archives: Rockets

Rockets, Space Systems

Videos: Dream Chaser landing, Chinese rocket launch, Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 sat, & SpaceX’s Texas test site

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Videos of some recent happenings in the space world:

** A Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser recently practiced a landing from space by dropping from a helicopter and gliding back to a runway at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California:  Dream Chaser Achieves Successful Free Flight at NASA Armstrong | NASA

** A Chinese Long March 6, one of the country’s newest rockets, launched 3 earth observation satellites into orbit yesterday: Long March 6 lofts 3 satellites into orbit – CCTV News – CCTV.com English

** Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources is launching its Arkyd-6 satellite on an Indian rocket next month. The satellite will test out a water ice sensor that will be used on later spacecraft to prospect for water rich asteroids:

** SpaceX posted this video highlighting its test facility in McGregor, Texas:

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Eyes in the Sky, Rockets

Videos: Delta II rocket launches a new NOAA weather satellite

A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched a new NOAA JPSS-1 weather satellite on Saturday morning from Vandenberg AFB in California. Here are videos of the launch and of the satellite separation from the upper stage:

Here is a nice photo of the launch by Anthony Galván III:

Delta II launch from Vandenberg AFB, 11/18/17 with a NOAA JPSS-1 weather satellite and four nanosatellites. Credits: Anthony Galván III

More about the launch and the satellite:

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Activism, Rockets, SpaceCasts

Videos: TMRO.tv Orbit 10.40 – The future of SpaceX

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The latest episode of TMRO.tv is now available: The future of SpaceX – Orbit 10.40 – TMRO

Chris Prophet, author of “SpaceX From The Ground Up” joins us to talk about the present and future plans of SpaceX. Includes BFR, BFS, Earth to Earth, Earth to Moon and Earth to Mars transit.

News topics:

  • NASA’s Dawn Mission Gets An Extension
  • Virgin gets $1B investment plus an FAA license
  • ESA’s Euclid dark matter mission likely to be delayed
  • Air Force extends rocket enabling contract for SpaceX and Orbital ATK

TMRO is viewer supported:

TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information plus our all new goals and reward levels

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Two recent short video reports from TMRO.tv

 

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History, Mars, Rockets

Videos: An Apollo tribute + Fidget spinners in micro-g + Igniting rockets + Virtually roving Mars

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Some videos of interest:

** Via The Chiles Files comes this beautifully made tribute by Christian Stangl to the Apollo program combining thousands of photos with animations along with a nice soundtrack:

** Fun with fidget spinners in weightlessness on the ISS:

** How Rockets Are Ignited – Things Kerbal Space Program Doesn’t Teach – Another fun rocket tutorial with Scott Manley of the Kerbal Space Program

** Check out NASA JPL’s Access Mars: A WebVR Experiment to travel Mars in Virtual Reality created in collaboration with Google:

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Rockets, Satellite Watching

Video: Ten satellites in row over Japan

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As mentioned here in an earlier posting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 10 Iridium NEXT satellites last week from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This video shows the satellites passing over Japan neatly in a row:

 

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