International Space Station Fly By - 6:49pm 19/2/2103
International Space Station fly by at 6:49pm seen from Shropshire. Very slow to start, sorry! Starting filming too early but decent shots as it passes the moon where you can see the shape of the solar panels as they reflect really brightly. Filmed on iPad and with shaky hands, hope you still enjoy it. Best viewed full screen.
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The Moon, Jupiter, and the International Space Station
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ISS (International Space Station) Passing Over Nottingham 19/02/2013
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NASA is back in contact with the International Space Station after a communications outage of almost three hours Tuesday.
Communications were restored at 12:34 p.m. ET, NASA reported on Twitter.
NASA lost contact with the space station at 9:45 a.m. ET, while the software on the stations flight computers was being updated remotely from the ground by flight controllers in Houston, Texas, NASA reported in a release.
The outage is being blamed on a malfunction of the stations data relay systems, which caused the space stations main computer to bar communication with the satellites that allow it to communicate with NASA.
Communication was briefly restored around 11 a.m. ET as the space station flew over Russian ground stations. At that time, NASA told the space stations crew to connect a backup computer to restore communications.
The U.S. space agency said the stations current commander, Kevin Ford, reported that the station was fine and the six astronauts on board were doing well.
Canadian Chris Hadfield is currently among the crew of the space station. Earlier in the morning, Hadfield had sent out a tweet indicating that the space stations main computers were getting a software upgrade.
Nothing could possibly go wrong, he added at the time.
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19 February 2013 Last updated at 15:36 ET
Nasa ground controllers have re-established contact with the International Space Station less than three hours after a computer failure briefly interrupted communication.
Flight controllers in Houston were updating software on the ISS when one of its data relay systems broke down.
The ISS had been able to make contact intermittently via Russian stations.
Nasa normally speaks and sends data to the station from Houston, via three communications satellites.
Interruptions in both communication and control have happened a few times in the past, the space agency said.
The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.
The problem occurred at about 09:45 EST (14:45 GMT).
The ISS marked its 10th anniversary of continuous human occupation on 2 November 2010. Since Expedition 1 in 2000, the space station has been visited by 204 astronauts.
The current crew is made up six men: two Americans, three Russians and a Canadian.
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Feb 19, 2013 12:31pm
Earth at night from International Space Station. Image: NASA
NASA reported this morning that it lost its main communications link with the International Space Station for two hours. It blamed the problem on a computer glitch. The six astronauts on the station, it said, were fine, and still able to talk, at least intermittently, with controllers through Russian ground stations before the problem was solved.
A statement posted this morning by NASA:
This morning, at approximately 9:45 a.m. EST, the International Space Station experienced a loss of communication with the ground. At that time, flight controllers in Houston were updating the software onboard the stations flight computers when one of the stations data relay systems malfunctioned. The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but was not allowing the station to communicate with NASAs Tracking and Data Relay Satellites.
Two hours later NASA put a quick update on Twitter: Communications have been restored with the space station effective 11:34AM Central.
There was a bit of commotion at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where public affairs people pointed out that during the outage, the astronauts are able to talk directly to ground stations as they passed overhead, much the way astronauts did in the early days of the space program. Since the 1980s, NASA has had a fleet of Tracking and Data Relay satellites TDRS for short in much higher orbit, which allow for communication with few interruptions.
The problem came up while new software was being sent to the stations main computer. The computer basically burped, for lack of a better word, said Josh Byerly of NASA. The astronauts were were able to reconfigure their computers and solve the problem, he said.
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There are six crew members on board Americans Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn; Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitiskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Roman Romanenko; and Canadian Chris Hadfield.
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As Mission Control Houston upgraded software on the International Space Station's main computers, primary communications were lost for about 3 hours.
The International Space Station (ISS) lost ground communications capabilities for around three hours this morning during a software upgrade, according to NASA.
As flight controllers on the ground in Houston were updating flight computers, the data relay systems malfunctioned, cutting off all communications with the ground. The Communication and Tracking System provides communications between the crew and Mission Control via Ku-band, S-band, and UHF frequencies.
During the upgrade, an anomaly resulted in the primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulting to a backup computer, but the system was not allowing the station to communicate with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites.
As the space station flew over Russian ground stations around 8 a.m. PT, Mission Control Houston was able to make contact and instructed the crew to connect to a backup computer to begin the process of restoring the main communications.
Though communication is at the core of safe, reliable International Space Station operations, there doesn't appear to be any additional threat to the ISS as a result of the computer glitch. Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford reported that the station's status was fine and that the crew was doing well.
Mission Control Center, Houston, communicates with the ISS via 60-foot diameter, high-gain microwave ground terminals at NASA's White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, N.M. These terminals then relay signals to and from a pair of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System satellites orbiting at an altitude of 22,300 miles. When everything is working smoothly, the satellites pass these signals directly to and from the ISS.
In 2010 the space station lost communications for about an hour when a computer crashed. See an interactive demonstration that further explains the process of space communications here.
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Space Station 13 (SS13) - Part Twenty-Eight - Groin Haemorrhage [HD]
In this episode Link takes the other alien artefact to the science department and blames Luke for messing around. Link goes back to see Luke, but he accidentally throws a plate at Link #39;s groin. Having urgent medically treatment, he continues to complain about his injury. Link goes and gets something to eat and stuffs his face with watermelon, and loads of other things go on. This is the last of this mini-series exploring the mining department. Tell me whether you want more of this or what we usually do. Thank you for watching and all support and feedback is welcome.
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Ratchet and Clank PS3 HD / Walkthrough / Gameplay - Part 7 - Space Station
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KSP 0.18 - Duna space station part 1 (Signal array)
Launching and deploying the signal array for the Duna Orbital Science Station.
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has beamed down responses to users of a popular social media website while circling Earth on the International Space Station.
Hadfield used a laptop to field questions sent up Sunday from users of the website Reddit in the "Ask Me Anything" discussion, which drew more than 2,000 queries and comments.
He says the scariest thing he's seen in space was a large meteorite burning up in front of him, sending a "shiver up my back" as he imagined the "lump of rock" hurtling towards the station instead.
Hadfield told one user a space mutiny was not going to happen, since the shared scientific goals of the station crew "keeps mutinies to a minimum."
He says he often loses track of which way is "up" in the station, and told one terrestrial questioner that if his daughter wanted to be an astronaut she'd have to stay fit and smart by eating her greens and doing her homework.
Hadfield says his favourite thing to do in space is to "simply fly" from one end of the station to the other.
And the 53-year-old astronaut waxed poetic when asked to describe his view of space outside.
"It looks like a carpet of countless tiny perfect unblinking lights in endless velvet, with the Milky Way as a glowing area of paler texture," he replied.
Hadfield said that space privatization is "the right and natural way to go," noting that the privately developed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was due to float up and dock with the station in two weeks.
"And we'll grab it with Canadarm2," he said.
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Performing sensitive biological experiments is always a delicate affair. Few researchers, however, contend with the challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, whose working laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is located hundreds of miles above the Earth, traveling at some 17,000 miles per hour.
Nickerson, a microbiologist at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, is using the ISS platform to pursue new research into the effects of microgravity on disease-causing organisms.
Nickerson presented her research findings and charted the course for future investigations aboard the ISS on February 18 at the 2013 annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Boston, Mass. Her talk, entitled "Microgravity: A Novel Tool for Advances in Biomedical Research," is part of a special session devoted to ISS science.
"One important focus of my research is to use the microgravity environment of spaceflight as an innovative biomedical research platform. We seek to unveil novel cellular and molecular mechanisms related to infectious disease progression that cannot be observed here on Earth, and to translate our findings to novel strategies for treatment and prevention."
During an earlier series of NASA space shuttle and ground-based experiments, Nickerson and her team made a startling discovery. Spaceflight culture increased the disease-causing potential (virulence) of the foodborne pathogen Salmonella, yet many of the genes known to be important for its virulence were not turned on and off as expected when this organism is grown on Earth. Understanding how this switching is regulated may be useful for designing targeted strategies to prevent infection.
For NASA, Nickerson's findings were revelatory, given their implications for the health of astronauts on extended spaceflight missions. Already faced with the potential for compromised immunity induced by the rigors of space travel, astronauts may have to further contend with the threat of disease-causing microbes with amped-up infectious abilities. A more thorough understanding of infectious processes and host responses under these conditions is therefore vital for the design of therapeutics and other methods of limiting vulnerability for those on space missions.
The story however, doesn't end there. Further research by Nickerson's team pointed to important implications for the understanding of health and disease on Earth. Her team, including NASA scientists, showed that one of the central factors affecting the behavior of pathogenic cells is the physical force produced by the movement of fluid over a bacterial cell's sensitive surface. This property, known as fluid shear, helps modulate a broad range of cell behaviors, provoking changes in cell morphology, virulence, and global alterations in gene expression, in pathogens like Salmonella.
"There are conditions that are encountered by pathogens during the infection process in the human body that are relevant to conditions that these same organisms experience when cultured in spaceflight. By studying the effect of spaceflight on the disease-causing potential of major pathogens like Salmonella, we may be able to provide insight into infectious disease mechanisms that cannot be attained using traditional experimental approaches on Earth, where gravity can mask key cellular responses," says Nickerson
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An astronaut on the International Space Station has revealed his scariest moment - watching a large meteorite burn up over Australia.
Colonel Chris Hadfield, 53, a former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, is on board the ISS as the leader of Expedition 35.
Col Hadfield, who has also flown two space shuttle missions, blasted off for the ISS on December 19 on board a Russian Soyuz TMA-07M.
He has been keeping in touch with followers on Earth using social news site Reddit to host a question-and-answer session.
Reddit user unfortunatelyhuman asked him: "Which part of the world looks the coolest from space?"
The astronaut, who has been tweeting pictures from space , replied: "Australia looks coolest - the colours and textures of the Outback are severely artistic.
"The most beautiful to me are the Bahamas, the vast glowing reefs of every shade of blue that exists."
But it was also while the space station was over Australia that he admitted he had had his most scary moment - the meteorite encounter.
He wrote: "I watched a large meteorite burn up between me and Australia.
"To think of that hypersonic dumb lump of rock randomly hurtling into us instead sent a shiver up my back."
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Space Station 13 (SS13) - Part Twenty-Seven - Mole Holes [HD]
In this episode Link and Luke head back to base to give the lawyer his diamonds. The lawyer happily receives and runs off leaving us empty handed. They both ask science if they need resources, and are told they need glass, so they head off to go dig some holes and ruin the landscape of the asteroid. Whilst mining Link decides to take an alien artefact previously found when mining and bring it onto the space station.
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Few people have seen as many volcanoes as the astronauts that inhabit the International Space Station. Not only does their imaging of the Earth's surface capture volcanism action, but it can provide remote sensing information on volcanoes that geologists cannot visit with any regularity. In honor of the thousands of volcano images that have been taken from the ISS, I present a gallery of some of the best shots I found, including some volcanoes that most people don't even know exist!
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To start our tour of volcanoes seen from the International Space Station, we can start with one of the most recent shots. Commander Hatfield captured this image of two Ethiopian volcanoes in the morning light -- Adwaon the left with the large summit caldera and Ayelu, an older stratovolcano, on the right. One of the advantages of space-borne imaging is that we can monitor volcanoes that in remote locations, like the East African Rift valley of Ethiopia. As the eruption of Nabro in 2011 shows, sometimes these distant volcanoes can produce eruptions with far-reaching significance.
Image: Commander Chris Hadfield, CSA / Taken February 8, 2013.
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The private Dragon capsule built by SpaceX is seen at the end of the International Space Station's robotic arm during its undocking on Oct. 28, 2012, in this camera view. The Dragon made the first commercial cargo delivery to the space.
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The next private cargo mission to the International Space Station is slated to blast off March 1, NASA announced Thursday.
The unmanned Dragon capsule, built by California-based firm SpaceX, will launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:10 a.m. EST on March 1 and arrive at the orbiting lab a day later.
Dragon will carry about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms) of supplies and scientific experiments to the station, NASA officials said. It will return to Earth on March 25, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California with about 2,300 pounds (1,043 kg) of experiment samples and equipment onboard.
The flight will be SpaceX's second contracted cargo mission to the station for NASA and third visit overall. Dragon first arrived at the orbiting lab on a historic test flight last May, then made its initial bona fide supply run this past October.
SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion deal with NASA to make 12 such flights with Dragon and its Falcon 9 rocket. The agency also signed a $1.9 billion contract with Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. for eight cargo flights using the company's Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule. Orbital plans to fly a demonstration mission to the station later this year.
The contracts are part of a NASA effort to encourage American private spaceships to fill the cargo- and crew-carrying void left by the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in July 2011.
Dragon is in the running to ferry astronauts as well. In its latest round of commercial crew awards, NASA granted SpaceX funding to continue developing a manned version of Dragon. Boeing also got money for its CST-100 capsule, as did Sierra Nevada Corp. for its Dream Chaser space plane.
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The next private cargo mission to the International Space Station is slated to blast off March 1, NASA announced today (Feb. 14).
The unmanned Dragon capsule, built by California-based firm SpaceX, will launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:10 a.m. EST (1510 GMT) on March 1 and arrive at the orbiting lab a day later.
Dragon will carry about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms) of supplies and scientific experiments to the station, NASA officials said. It will return to Earth on March 25, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California with about 2,300 pounds (1,043 kg) of experiment samples and equipment onboard.
The flight will be SpaceX's second contracted cargo mission to the station for NASA and third visit overall. Dragon first arrived at the orbiting lab on a historic test flight last May, then made its initial bona fide supply run this past October.
SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion deal with NASA to make 12 such flights with Dragon and its Falcon 9 rocket. The agency also signed a $1.9 billion contract with Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. for eight cargo flights using the company's Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule. Orbital plans to fly a demonstration mission to the station later this year.
The contracts are part of a NASA effort to encourage American private spaceships to fill the cargo- and crew-carrying void left by the retieement of the space shuttle fleet in July 2011.
Dragon is in the running to ferry astronauts as well. In its latest round of commercial crew awards, NASA granted SpaceX funding to continue developing a manned version of Dragon. Boeing also got money for its CST-100 capsule, as did Sierra Nevada Corp. for its Dream Chaser space plane.
NASA hopes at least one of these vehicles is ready to fly astronauts to and from the space station by 2017. Until such homegrown private spaceships come online, the United States is dependent on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to provide this orbital taxi service.
NASA is inviting 50 social media users to attend the March 1 launch; you can register here: http://www.nasa.gov/social
The deadline for international applicants is 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) Friday (Feb. 15); for U.S. citizens, it's exactly one week later.
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Space Station Captivates Students
Students at the Clark Creek STEM Academy in Ackworth, Georgia quiz a NASA expert about the International Space Station during a question-and-answer session on NASA #39;s Distance Learning Network, DLN.
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Time Lapse from Space - International Space Station
Time lapse footage taken by Oregon State University alum Don Pettit during his time on the international space station. This one shows the solar panels attached to the ISS.
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