Space policy roundup – Nov.14.13

Today’s list of space policy/politics related links

Copenhagen Suborbitals: New facility + New rocket in 3D

Copenhagen Suborbitals is expanding to a bigger facility to handle the growing size of their projects: Copenhagen Suborbitals Facility Expansion – Interior Layout Sketches – Wired Science.

You can open an on line 3D interactive sketch of the HEAT2X rocket and TDS80 capsule that will be launched next summer:

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Video: Curiosity’s Path to Mount Sharp

A NASA JPL aerial view of the path that Curiosity will take in the coming year as it winds its way to Mount Sharp:

John Grotzinger, Curiosity’s principal investigator, narrates an aerial tour of the rover’s past, present and future traverses on the Red Planet.

Video: A view of Cassini’s “Wave At Saturn”

Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society

reveals the hidden features of this spectacular photo mosaic of the planet Saturn, as seen by NASA’s Cassini mission in 2013.

Video: Typhoon Haiyan from space

A NASA video of the gigantic Haiyan storm that hit the Philippines:

On Friday Nov. 8, external cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Super-Typhoon Haiyan which struck the central Philippines municipality of Guiuan at the southern tip of the province of Eastern Samar with a force equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane.

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