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Spotting the International Space Station from Mexico City June 3, 2013 with iPad HD camera – Video

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Spotting the International Space Station from Mexico City June 3, 2013 with iPad HD camera
Spot the International Space Station ISS from Mexico City Time: Mon Jun 03 9:14 PM Visible: 6 min Max Height: 74 degrees Appeared: SSW Disappeared: NE.

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The Aurora Borealis and the International Space Station from Nebraska – Video

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The Aurora Borealis and the International Space Station from Nebraska
I #39;m out at the dark site with camera and tripod intending to get the Milky Way. After the initial set up I start the timelapse and step back to marvel. A qui...

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Spacecraft full of supplies on way to International Space Station

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ATV-4 cargo spacecraft in artist's rendering. Credit: ESA

PARIS, June 6 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says a giant robotic freighter launched towards the International Space Station is the heaviest it has ever put into orbit.

The Automated Transfer Vehicle, dubbed Albert Einstein, is carrying 6.6 tons of food, water, equipment and fuel for the orbiting laboratory, a release from ESA's Paris headquarters reported Thursday.

Launched from French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 rocket at 1:52 p.m. EDT Wednesday, the ATV-4 is in a parking orbit at an altitude of 160 miles, where it has deployed power-generating solar wings and an antenna.

For the next 10 days it will perform checks and maneuvers that will eventually place it in the vicinity of the space station at around 250 miles above the earth in preparation for an automated docking on July 15, the ESA said.

The Albert Einstein will spend over 4 months docked to the station's Zvezda module as astronauts gradually unload its tons of supplies.

Filled with trash from the station, it will then be released toward Earth where it will burn up in the atmosphere, the ESA said.

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Look for space station flyover Thursday night

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by KGW Meteorologist Rod Hill

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Posted on June 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM

Updated today at 12:53 PM

The International Space Station was visible over the Northwestern skies Wednesday night and will be flying over again Thursday night.

Look for an object similar to an airplane in the sky, but higher and moving more quickly. Look to the west-southwest at 84 degrees Thursday evening at 9:41 and track the flight to the northeast at 52 degrees.

The station should be visible for seven minutes. The brightness will be a magnitude -3, which equals the brightness of Venus.

The space station orbits earth at 240 miles high and moves at 17,500 mph. It's roughly the size of a football field. The brightness we can see is made possible by sunlight shining on the station's metallic modules and enormous solar panels.

You will know it when you see it. I have seen the station from my backyard several times.

Enjoy the view!

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Massachusetts Students Speak With Space Station Astronauts

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Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano, and Karen Nyberg will speak from the International Space Station to students at Douglas Public Schools in Massachusetts at 11:35 a.m. EDT, Monday, June 10.

Students will be able to ask the astronauts questions about life, work and research aboard the orbiting laboratory. Media representatives are invited to attend and cover the 20-minute space-to-ground event, which will be broadcast on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website.

To attend the event, journalists must contact Beverly Bachelder at 508-476-3332 or bbachelder@douglas.k12.ma.us. The Douglas Public School District is located at 21 Davis Street in Douglas, Mass.

NASA activities have been incorporated into classes at local schools in preparation for the conversation with the space station astronauts. Linking directly to the astronauts aboard the station provides students with an authentic experience of space exploration, space study, the scientific components of space travel, and possibilities of life in space.

This in-flight downlink is one in a series with educational organizations in the United States to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning. It is an integral component of NASA's Teaching From Space program, which promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with the education community using the unique environment of space and NASA's human spaceflight program.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For information about NASA's education programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/education For information about the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station To follow Twitter updates from Expedition 36 astronauts, visit: http://twitter.com/AstroKarenN and http://twitter.com/astro_luca

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Europe launches record cargo for space station

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A record 6.6 tonnes of cargo were hurtling towards the International Space Station after being blasted into orbit by a European rocket from French Guiana.

The space freighter with food, water, oxygen, science experiments and special treats for the ISS astronauts was launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou as planned at 6:52:11 pm (21:52:11 GMT).

The robot craft dubbed Albert Einstein separated from its launcher an hour after liftoff, somewhere over New Zealand, and entered orbit at an altitude of 260 kilometres (160 miles).

Just over half an hour later, it deployed four energy-generating solar panels to start its autonomous navigation, guided by starlight, to the space station.

"This is it. Everything is fine, we have the power, we have the antennas, everything we need to go to the ISS," European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain announced at the control centre in Kourou.

The unmanned vessel is set to dock with the ISS on June 15 at an altitude of about 400 kilometres (250 miles) above the planet -- at a speed of some 28,000 kilometres (18,000 miles) per hour.

At nearly 20.2 tonnes, ESA's fourth and penultimate cargo delivery to the ISS is the heaviest spacecraft ever lifted by an Ariane rocket.

It also marked the 55th consecutive succesful launch by an Ariane 5, according to the Astrium space company which builds the lifeline craft.

The robot space freighter is the size of a double-decker bus -- 10 metres (33 feet) long and 4.5 metres (15 feet) in diameter.

It boasts the largest assortment of goods yet brought to the ISS by an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) -- a total of 1,400 individual items that include clothes, tools and enough food for several months.

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Einstein's Space Station Cargo Ship Launches

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The European Space Agency launched its penultimate mission to the International Space Station on Wednesday (June 5), expending great energy to lift a record amount of mass aboard a spacecraft named for the scientist famous for equating the two quantities with the expression "E=mc^2."

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4), an unmanned cargo freighter, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 5:52 p.m. EDT (2152 GMT). The second to last of ESA's five planned station resupply spacecraft launched since 2008, ATV-4 was named "Albert Einstein" after the iconic physicist known for the theory of relativity.

Einstein's theorieshave been put to the test in space and his work has guided robotic spacecraft to other planets. ATV-4 is the first spaceship to bear Einstein's name, at the suggestion of the Swiss delegation to the European Space Agency. Einstein was born in Germany but studied and spent his early career in Switzerland.

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Lifting off from the jungle spaceport along South America's northeast coast, ATV-4 soared spaceward with Europe's largest-ever load of dry cargo for the station. Packed with science experiments, crew supplies, a 3D printed tool box and even copies of Einstein's manuscript explaining the foundation for the general theory of relativity, the craft is destined to dock with the orbiting laboratory on June 15.

Ten Day Trip and Traffic Delays

The Automated Transfer Vehicle, which is about the size of a London double-decker bus with four solar array wings, has on past missions made the same International Space Station (ISS)-bound trip in half the time.

"The nominal duration from launch to docking is five days to 'phase' or synchronize the orbits of ATV and ISS," said ESA's lead mission director Jean-Michel Bois in a blog on ESA's ATV-4 "Albert Einstein" website. "These five days are a compromise between various constraints, mainly to minimize the propellant consumption."

Doubling the transfer time for this mission is a combination of traffic on the ground and in space.

"At the beginning, we need to free the Kourou preparation rooms and launch pad as soon as possible to allow launch of numerous other satellites in the year," explained Bois. "With three launchers (Ariane, the Soyuz launcher and Vega), the Kourou logistic situation is complex!"

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Europe's 'Albert Einstein' spaceship is bringing the goods to space station

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The "Albert Einstein" Automated Transfer Vehicle launches atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday. ATV-4 soared spaceward with Europe's largest-ever load of dry cargo for the station.

By Robert Z. Pearlman Space.com

The European Space Agency launched its fourth cargo mission to the International Space Station on Wednesday, expending great energy to lift a record amount of mass aboard a spacecraft named for the scientist famous for equating the two quantities with the expression "E=mc^2."

The European Space Agency's(ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4), an unmanned cargo freighter, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 5:52 p.m. ET. The second-to-last of ESA's five planned station resupply spacecraft launched since 2008, ATV-4 was named "Albert Einstein" after the iconic physicist known for the theory of relativity

Einstein's theorieshave been put to the test in space and his work has guided robotic spacecraft to other planets. ATV-4 is the first spaceship to bear Einstein's name, at the suggestion of the Swiss delegation to the European Space Agency. Einstein was born in Germany but studied and spent his early career in Switzerland. [Einstein Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Famous Genius]

Lifting off from the jungle spaceport along South America's northeast coast, ATV-4 soared spaceward with Europe's largest-ever load of dry cargo for the station. Packed with science experiments, crew supplies, a 3-D printed tool box and even copies of Einstein's manuscript explaining the foundation for the general theory of relativity, the craft is destined to dock with the orbiting laboratory on June 15.

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The European Space Agency's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4) mission is named for the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein.

Ten day trip and traffic delaysThe Automated Transfer Vehicle, which is about the size of a London double-decker bus with four solar array wings, has on past missions made the same International Space Station (ISS)-bound trip in half the time.

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