Asteroids & Comets, Events, Space Science

Video: ESA Rosetta webcast for Philae landing on Comet 67P/C-G

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The webcast of the release of the Philae lander from the Rosetta spacecraft has begun: Rosetta | rendezvous with a comet.

The actual separation and landing will not happen till tomorrow (Nov.12):

Separation of the lander is planned for about 09:03 GMT (10:03 CET) [4:03 am EDT], and touch down should follow about seven hours later, at 16:02 GMT (17:02 CET) [11:02 am EDT].

Video: “What’s Up for Nov 2014” – night sky preview

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Here is NASA JPL’s monthly report on upcoming night sky highlights: What’s Up for November 2014

Here is the link to the Meteor Shower Flux Estimator (FLUXTIMATOR) mentioned in the video.

General, Space Science, Spaceflight & Parabolic Flight

Virtual SpaceTV 3D – October/November 2014

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Here is the latest episode of The Virtual SpaceTV 3D show with Amanda Bush. The programs are created by BINARY SPACE (www.binary-space.com) with story content from HobbySpace.com.

In this show, Amanda Bush talks about the following topics:
01:16 – 04:56 Virgin Galactic spaceplane suffers accident
04:57 – 07:02 Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes
07:03 – 08:18 Not all disasters
08:19 – 09:05 Rosetta to deploy comet lander
09:06 – 10:18 China and a private company fly around the Moon

Previous Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows are available on the HobbySpace Youtube Channel.

These videos are intended as educational programs and as demonstrations of an experimental technique for generating animated presentations. The show was generated autonomously by software according to a text script. The project is described in the Virtual Producer whitepaper (Release 1.1, Oct.2013, pdf). For further information contact info@binary-space.com.