A new Space To Ground video report from NASA on activities related to the Int. Space Station:
Videos: Star Trek’s 50th anniversary
50 years ago today the first episode of Star Trek was broadcast on network TV. Here is a documentary from the Smithsonian about the Star Trek show and cultural phenomenon:
[ Update: See also this new Smithsonian program (its embedding is disabled) about Star Trek and the technologies that it has inspired.]
Fan made versions of Star Trek have greatly improved in production quality and story making over the years. This is especially true of the Star Trek Continues series, whose episodes often include recognizable professional actors.
Here are some episodes in the Star Trek Continues video collection, including Embracing the Winds, just released this week:
Video: Simulation of Rosetta’s final maneuvers and landing on Comet 67P/C-G
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will end soon with the spacecraft touching down onto the icy rock sometime around September 29-30, 2016.
This video animation of Rosetta’s mission end was created with BINARY SPACE’s SpaceTraveller™, “the ultimate Solar System & Space Missions Simulator”:
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Videos: TMRO 9.27 – Capsule or Space Plane? + Two Spacepods
Here are three videos from TMRO.tv. The first an hour long show from the weekly live program. The other two are Spacepod shorts.
** Would you go to space in a Capsule or Space Plane?
This week we examine the different Space Planes coming on the scene. Orbital planes such as Skylon and sub-orbital planes such as SpaceShipTwo. We ask you, would you want to go in to space in a Capsule or a Space Plane?
News topics discussed on the program:
* SpaceX Pad Anomaly
* Asteroid probe apparently unharmed in nearby SpaceX anomaly, passes Flight Readiness Review
* China may have had a rocket anomaly on Wednesday
* Juno beams back dramatic new pictures of Jupiter
* New Zealand Launch Site Survives 7.1 Earthquake
* Hunt for Planet 9 reveals extremely distant objects
** Pad Anomaly Updates and Upcoming Launches – SpacePod 09/07/16
Less than a week after the loss of the Amos-6 satellite, we still don’t know why the Falcon 9 exploded, but we know what some of the outcome is for the satellite owner, Israel’s Spacecom. Also there are lots of exciting rocket launches coming up very soon.
** Ask Us Anything – SuperPod 08/31/16
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Video: Cassini radar images dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has returned radar imagery of dunes on the moon Titan, the only moon in our solar system to have an atmosphere. Radar allows a view of what is hidden by the atmospheric haze: Titan’s Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images – Cassini/NASA
This synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) image was obtained by
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on July 25, 2016, during its “T-121”
pass over Titan’s southern latitudes.
The video shows some of the radar imagery.
This video focuses on Shangri-la, a large, dark area on Titan filled with dunes. The long, linear dunes are thought to be comprised of grains derived from hydrocarbons that have settled out of Titan’s atmosphere. Cassini has shown that dunes of this sort encircle most of Titan’s equator. Scientists can use the dunes to learn about winds, the sands they’re composed of, and highs and lows in the landscape.
The radar image was obtained by the Cassini Synthetic Aperture radar (SAR) on July 25, 2016, during the mission’s 122nd targeted Titan encounter.