2018 is set to be an exciting year for space exploration so lets find out about what is to come during the next 12 months around the sun. Falcon Heavy SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is expected to launch from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in January the same launch pad that sent the […]
Read More 2018: Launches, Landings and Exploration2018 going to be full of awesome space events that can be seen from here on Earth, lets take a look at some of the dates for your diary. Jan 1st: Supermoon The term supermoon refers to a full moon that takes place when the moon is at perigee, or its closest point to Earth in […]
Read More Skywatching in 2018Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket launched the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) on its fifth mission. The primary launch window opened on Thursday, September 7th at 13:50 UTC, and closed at 18:55 UTC. A backup launch window was available on Friday, September 8th however the Falcon 9 launched on its first attempt, dodging […]
Read More X-37B launch: Dodging Hurricane IrmaNASA’s Voyager 1 probe lifted off on Sept. 5, 1977, a few weeks after its twin, Voyager 2. Together, the two spacecraft performed an epic Grand Tour of the solar system’s giant planets, flying by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But their work didn’t stop there. Both spacecraft kept flying, pushing further and further into the dark, […]
Read More Voyager: A 12 Billion Mile JourneyNASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who set multiple US space records during her mission aboard the international space station, along with crewmates Jack Fischer of NASA and Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, safely landed on terra firma at 9:21 p.m. EDT on the 3rd of September, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. While living […]
Read More Touchdown: US Space Ninja returnsOn Monday, August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse was visible within a band across the entire United States passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. In other countries, it was visible only as a partial eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly […]
Read More Solar eclipse 2017: casting a shadow on earthOn Friday 18th August there was a Successful Russian Spacewalk but it didn’t totally go totally to plan. A Russian EVA was conducted outside of the International Space Station with two Russian cosmonauts deploying several nanosatellites, collecting research samples and performing structural maintenance. Expedition 52 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy exited the […]
Read More Russian Spacewalk: Tantrum in Space ?One of my hobbies is Amateur radio and I like to combine this with my other passion of space. Recently Jack Fischer of NASA had a contact via amateur radio with students in Houston, this was done via a radio link with a amateur radio ground station located in Belgium using the call sign ON4ISS. […]
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