The Space Race

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June 9 Full coverage of delayed launch of РКН Протон-М with Intelsat DLA-2 (almost live, just 3 hours late, yeah yeah I was sleeping)

Launch only

 

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new episode of space to ground:

Cygnus Packed for Space Station Mission on This Week @NASA – June 10, 2016

 

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ISS timelapse and UK from space

 

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A top secret eavesdropping satellite constructed to support America's national defense plowed a dazzling path to orbit Saturday riding atop the immense firepower of the mightiest rocket in the world – the triple barreled Delta IV Heavy powerhouse.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) soared to space under mostly sunny sunshine state skies from Space Launch Complex-37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on June 11.

Launch Broadcast

Highlights

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More innocent space news:

Tim Peake's dizziness experiment

 

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Cosmonautics 2047

Earth & Moon Space tourism; Space hotels; Lunar base; manned Venus flyby; manned mission to Mars;

Timelapse: Sentinel-1B prepares for liftoff (April 2016)

 

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A crane lifts the structural test article of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) after final manufacturing on a 30-foot welding tool at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The LVSA will connect two major sections of the upper part of NASA's Space Launch System - the core stage and the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) - for the first flight of the rocket and the Orion spacecraft. SLS will be the world's most powerful rocket and carry astronauts in NASA's Orion spacecraft on deep-space missions, including the journey to Mars.

Orion Dives Deep for the Sake of Safety

NASA Ignites Fire Experiment Aboard Space Cargo Ship

 

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This image shows the LISA Pathfinder launch composite (spacecraft plus propulsion module) at the IABG test center in Ottobrunn, near Munich, Germany, on 31 August 2015, before it was shipped to the launch site. In January 2016, seven weeks after launch, LISA Pathfinder reached its operational orbit around ‘L1’, the first libration point of the Sun-Earth system, a virtual point in space some 1.5 million km from Earth toward the Sun.

 

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SpaceX Rocket Crashes in Latest Landing Attempt

Amazing collage video by ROSCOSMOS

Cygnus Leaves Station and Begins Fire Research

 

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Those videos are brilliant, but my god the music. It's like im back at school...

 

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Tim Peake Blood Draw

Earth from Space: Southern Tibetan Plateau

Space to Ground: How Fires Spread in Space : 06/17/2016

 

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part 2:

Crew Leaves Station After 186 Days in Space

watch it (almost) live: (just finished)

 

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The 5th launch of the year for Arianespace, and the 3rd in 2016 using an Ariane 5, took place on Wednesday, June 18 at 18:38 pm local time from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. This mission was the heavy-lift launcher's 72nd consecutive success. It set a payload lift record to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) for the Ariane 5 ECA by lofting a total mass of 10 730 kg.

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ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan on Saturday, 18 June in their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. The trio spent 186 days on the ISS.

 

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India successfully launched a rocket carrying 20 satellites


The rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota carrying satellites from the US, Germany, Canada and Indonesia, the most in a single Indian mission.

Most of the satellites are intended to observe and measure the Earth's atmosphere, while another aims to provide services for amateur radio operators.

Among the 20 satellites launched on Wednesday were 13 from the US including one from a Google-owned company and two from Indian universities.

Last month India successfully launched its first mini space shuttle as it joined the global race to make reusable rockets.

In 2013 India sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars at a cost of just $73 million compared with NASA's Maven Mars mission which had a $671 million price tag.

 

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A booster for the most powerful rocket in the world has been fired up in the Utah desert.

The key component of Nasa's Space Launch System successfully fired up for its second qualification ground test at Orbital ATK's test facilities in Promontory, Utah.

It is the last full-scale test for the booster before SLS's first uncrewed test flight with NASA's Orion spacecraft in late 2018, a key milestone on the agency's Journey to Mars.

 

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Russia has revealed plans for its own new space station to replace the ISS when it comes to an end.

Called the Russian Orbital Station, or ROS, it will will include three modules, with an option to add two more at a later date. It is believed the station could become integral to Russia's plans to return to the moon and build a lunar base by 2030.

The Russian Nauka module, which is set to be launched to the ISS next year would form the basis of the new station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauka_(ISS_module)


According to Russian space expert Anatoly Zak, writing at Popular Mechanics, the detailed plans for the Russian station have been revealed for the first time.

Previously the Russians had mulled a station called Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex (OPSEK).

The new station would be formed by disconnecting a yet to launch Russian module called Nauka, currently scheduled to launch in December 2017.

'According to RKK Energia, the prime Russian contractor on the ISS, the new outpost would begin with the separation of the Nauka from the rest of the old station in mid-2020s.

 

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Russian Docking System Tested Aboard the ISS

Expedition 48-49 Crew Final Launch Preparations in Kazakhstan

Space to Ground (new episodes)

 

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ISS Timelapse by ISAA - Entering Mediterranean through Gibraltar

A trailer by ROSCOSMOS

The Soyuz MS spacecraft is transported from a hangar to the launchpad ahead of its launch scheduled for July 7 at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

here's rollout video:

 

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SLS Booster

 

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Tim Peake, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra landed on Earth on 18 June after 186 days in space (high quality images by ESA)

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And this is new:

ТПК Союз МС crew press-conference:

 

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Almost live (3 hours late) full coverage:

Expedition 48-49 launches to the ISS

Launch only

plus some photos:

 

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Frequent visitors to this thread will enjoy this BBC oldie " 1965-1966 Man in Space"

 

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Expedition 48-49 - 9 minutes to Space (2 versions)

I translate the captions:

высота - altitude

дальность - distance

скорость - velocity

перегрузка - g-force

невесомость - weightlessness

орбита ИСЗ - satellite orbit

 

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Lol I've just watched and analyzed both versions. It's kinda cool to look at that numbers. 27 011 km/h, so they got to 202 km altitude (artificial satellite orbit) just in 9 minutes with 1836 km distance [at 8:48 they hit weightlessness, g-force suddenly drops from 3 to 0]


edit: captions at the bottom say:


отделение 1-й ступени - first stage separation
отделение 2-й ступени - second stage separation
отделение ТПК - manned spacecraft separation

 

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A Peek Inside SLS

QM-2 infographic explains everything you need to know about the 5-segment solid rocket motor designed for the SLS

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Expedition 48-49 Crew [Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi] Docked & Welcomed to ISS

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ISS timelapses by Riccardo Rossi from ISAA