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Video: Launch of the Antares rocket from Virginia
Orbital ATK plans to launch the company’s Antares rocket tonight at 7:40 pm EDT from Wallops Island, Virginia. It will send a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to orbit and the Cygnus will proceed to a rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station on Sunday. (Has to wait for a Soyuz that will launch from Russia [on Wednesday morning at 4:05 am EDT. 0805 GMT] with a crew of three to dock with the ISS first.)
Update: Here is a video of the NASA TV webcast of the launch:
Update 2: Here is the post-launch briefing:
The Space Show this week – Oct.17.2016
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, Oct. 17, 2016: 2-3:30 pm PDT (5-6:30 pm EDT, 4-5:30 pm CDT): We welcome back Eric Berger of Ars Technica to discuss space news events and many of his latest blog posts.
2. Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016: 7-8:30 pm PDT, 10-11:30 pm EDT, 9-10:30 pm CDT: Dr. Moriba K. Jah of the University of Arizona on space object behavior and more.
3. Friday, Oct. 21, 2016: 9:30-11 am PDT; (12:30-2 pm EDT; 11:30 AM – 1 pm CDT) We welcome Johannes Torpe from Denmark, fresh back from the Personal Spaceflight Symposium in Las Cruces, NM.
4. Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016: 12-1:30 pm PDT (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): We welcome Vera Mulyani and Dr. Madhu Thangalevu regarding the Mars City Design Competition.
See also:
* The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
* The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
* The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
Video: TMRO 9.33 – The beautiful data of rocket launches
The latest TMRO.tv live program is now available on line: The beautiful data of rocket launches – TMRO
We are joined by Declan Murphy of http://www.flightclub.io — Flight club is an innovative and nerdy way to look at rocket launch data to understand where the rocket is and the different characteristics of its flight.
News topics discussed:
* Boeing delays CST-100 by 6 months, consequences loom
* The Universe Contains 10-20 Times The Number of Galaxies We Expected
* Obama support for Mars sparks new incentives for ISS
* Astronomers Are Preparing to Study the Epoch of Reionization
* Boeing says they can beat SpaceX to Mars, here’s How
* The Most Mysterious Star in the Milky Way Gets Even Weirder
TMRO is viewer supported:
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Video: Interplanetary Track at the White House Frontiers Conference
Last Thursday, President Obama and the White House held The Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference was
a national convening co-hosted with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to explore the future of innovation here and around the world …
The conference [focused] on building U.S. capacity in science, technology, and innovation, and the new technologies, challenges, and goals that will continue to shape the 21st century and beyond.
Here is a video of the Interplanetary track, in which participants from industry and academia discussed the future of space development and space science exploration:
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