Education, General, SpaceCasts

Virtual SpaceTV 3D – September 2013

Here is the September 2013 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.

Amanda reports on four different launches this month of new or almost new commercial rockets:

  • The Orbital Sciences Antares launch of the Cygnus cargo module to the ISS
  • Orbital’s Minotaur V launch of NASA’s LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) probe to the Moon
  • The second powered flight of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
  • The expected launch of the SpaceX Falcon version 1.1 from Vandenberg

And there is also a  segment about the science of the LADEE mission.

 

 

Astronomy, Education, Space Science

So where exactly is Voyager 1 with respect to the Solar System?

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A reader points to this discussion of where the Voyager 1 spacecraft is with respect to our solar system, the heliosphere , the Oort cloud, and interstellar space, a topic on which recent reports may have left some people confused:  What’s the deal with Voyager 1? – The Maddow Blog

Has Voyager 1 left the solar system? from The Rachel Maddow Show on Vimeo.

 This plot is particularly helpful:

This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.
You Are Here, Voyager: This artist’s concept puts huge solar system distances in
perspective. The scale bar is measured in astronomical units (AU), with each set
distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance. Each AU is equal to
the  distance from the sun to the Earth. It took from 1977 to 2013 for Voyager 1 to reach
the edge of interstellar space. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

Rockets, Solar Sci-Fi, Space books

The Rocket Company: Chapters 19-22

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In the continuing serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz.  This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:

Download these within the next week or so. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.

See also the electronic version of the updated book is available at  The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com.

Science and Technology, Space Science, SpaceCasts

Video: SciShow and “The Ingredients for Life in Space”

Hank Green of the SciShow talks about

the latest developments in space research and the search for life, including the discovery that amino acids may be more common than we thought throughout the solar system, and the latest findings from the Mars Curiosity rover.

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