Rockets, Space films and videos

Videos: Recent rocket flights

A selection of videos about rocket flights in the past couple of weeks:

** Virgin Galactic – Elevating Unity – Episode 5: Third Rocket Powered Flight:

On July 26th, 2018 VSS Unity completed its third rocket-powered test flight, a key step forward the path to space. Julia Hunter, Virgin Galactic Vice President and longtime employee, gives us a behind-the-scenes look into her life as a program leader, astrophysics scholar and space mom working to realize a longtime dream of opening commercial spaceflight to citizens and science. Join Julia as she narrates a key test flight that surpassed 170,800 feet, reaching Mach 2.47. VSS Unity was piloted by Dave Mackay and Mike “Sooch” Masucci, with pilots Kelly Latimer and Todd Ericson in carrier aircraft VMS Eve.

** SpaceX – Falcon 9 launches satellite for Indonesia and booster makes bulls-eye landing on sea platform:

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** Blue Origin – New Shepard flies and crew capsule blasts off from booster using abort motor 

** China – Long March 4B rocket launches Guafen-11 reconnaissance satellite – (China has launched about two dozen rockets in 2018)

** Arianespace launched four Galileo navigation satellites from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

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Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

The Space Show this week – Aug.6.2018

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Monday, August 6, 2018; 2-3:30 pm PDT (4-5:30 pm CDT, 5-6:30 pm EDT): We welcome Dr. Mackenzie Day, Assistant professor in Planetary Science at UCLA, will talk about Ghost Dunes on Mars.

2. Tuesday, August 7, 2018: 7-8:30 pm PDT; 9-10:30 pm CDT; 10-11:30 pm EDT: We welcome back Dr. Robert Zubrin on the upcoming Mars Society Conference (August 23-26, Pasadena, California) and more.

3. Wednesday, August August, 2018: Hotel Mars. See Upcoming Show Menu and the website newsletter for details. Hotel Mars is pre-recorded by John Batchelor. It is archived on The Space Show site after John posts it on his website.

4. Friday, August 10, 2018; 9:30 am -11 am PDT, (12:30 -2 pm EDT; 11:30 am -1 pm CDT): We welcome back Dr. Henry Hertzfeld do discuss space as a global commons and more. Our guest is the Director of the Space Policy Institute at GWU.

5. Sunday, August 12, 2018: 12-1:30 pm PDT; 2-3:30 pm CDT; 3-4:30 pm EDT. We welcome Michael Ciancone  regarding his new book, Foreword to Spaceflight

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.

The Space Show - David Livingston
David Livingston

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Activism, Rockets, SpaceCasts

Video: TMRO Orbit 11.30 – “The man behind Rocket Lab, Peter Beck”

The latest episode of TMRO.tv is now available on line: The man behind Rocket Lab, Peter Beck – Orbit 11.30 – TMRO  

Peter Beck joins Jared in studio to talk about how Rocket Lab came to be. We dive in to what it took to start the company, challenges they have had, what Rocket Lab is setting out to do and a whole lot more.

Launches and other space news topics covered:

Launch Minute: 
Long March 3B Launches Beidou Satellites
Long March 4B Launches Gaofen 11
Nexo II Copenhagen Launch

Space News:
Rogue Planet Aurorae
Astronauts Assigned to First Commercial Crew Missions
Impact Rays Explained

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Living in Space, Space Systems, SpaceCasts

Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report – Aug.4.2018

Here is this week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station:

** Interviews with the astronauts who will fly on the first Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Dragon flights to the ISS (see yesterday’s event posting here):

** High school student compete to make the best breakfast for astronauts on the ISS:

Spatulas at the ready, teams of students from more than 30 high schools across the country faced off at Space Center Houston to find the best breakfast entrée to send to the crew on the International Space Station. Take a look at the action from the fourth annual High school students United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) Culinary Challenge, and the winning dish from Decatur High School in Decatur, Alabama. For more on the Culinary Challenge: http://hunchculinary.com/

** Hopefully, such breakfasts will make the Astronauts’ stomach flora happy:

Trillions of microorganisms live on and in the human body, many of them essential to its function and health. These organisms, collectively known as the microbiota, outnumber cells in the body by at least five times. 

Microorganisms in the intestinal tract, the gut microbiota, play an especially important role in human health. An investigation on the International Space Station, Rodent Research-7 (RR-7), examines how the gut microbiota changes in response to spaceflight, and how that change in turn affects the immune system, metabolic system, and circadian or daily rhythms.

Read more about RR-7: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st…

Follow updates on the science conducted aboard the space station on Twitter: https://twitter.com/iss_research

For more information on how you can conduct your research in microgravity, visit https://go.nasa.gov/2q84LJj. 

HD DOWNLOAD: https://archive.org/details/jsc2018m0…

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Rockets, Space participation, Spaceflight & Parabolic Flight

Video: Copenhagen Suborbitals launches Nexø II rocket

The non-profit, all-volunteer group Copenhagen Suborbitals today successfully launched their Nexø II rocket from a floating platform in the Baltic Sea. The liquid fueled propulsion system appeared to work well and the rocket returned via parachute for a soft splashdown. Here is a video of the livestream of the event (the launch happens at around 1:35:33):

[ Update: This video shows the rocket’s flight from three cameras on the vehicle:

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The group is working step-by-step towards launching a person to 100 kilometers in a rocket that they will build.

 

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