Category Archives: Space Station

TIMELAPSE: Earth- From the International Space Station
Enjoy views of Earth from the International Space Station. Images courtesy of NASA Earth Observations Team and the European Space Agency. *CORRECTION IN MUSIC* The music used in this video ...

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Futura mission: Launch preparation 1
In this video diary from ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, he reports from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, where he is currently joining the Expedition 42/43 crew in quarantine ahead of their launch...

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Samantha Cristoforetti: Final preparations
Samantha Cristoforetti from Italy will shortly fly to the International Space Station. The final stage of her preparations happens in Star City, near Moscow, training alongside three other...

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Hi I #39;m BOB and Here Is My Minecraft Space Station

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Chris Hadfield depicts Earth #39;s beauty from space
Subscribe to BBC News HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has published a book of photographs looking back at Earth from the #39; #39;unique and privileged #39; #39; vantage point...

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Timesplitters 2 - Space Station Metal
Timesplitters 2 - Space Station It #39;s been a while hasn #39;t it? Stay until the end of this video for some tasty dubstep! Original composition by Graeme Norgate Rearranged, performed, recorded...

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November 17, 2014 - 10:27 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia will start deploying its own orbital space station in 2017, using part of the modules constructed for the International Space Station (ISS), Kommersant newspaper reported Monday, Nov 17, citing a space engineering source.

"The new station will be located geometrically more advantageous, allowing an extended field of view of the Earth's surface. As much as 90 percent of Russia's territory and the Arctic offshore area will be visible from the station," the source said, noting that the ISS' field of view covers no more than 5 percent of the region.

Testing of piloted spacecraft for the lunar infrastructure will be one of the projected station's principal tasks, the source said. Spacecraft will first be delivered to the station, and then continue to the Moon, according to Sputnik.

The newspaper's source added that the project's costs have not been estimated yet. At the initial stage, it will use modules and spacecraft developed for the Russian Orbital Segment of the ISS. However, early winding up of works at the ISS is not planned, according to the source.

In May, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced that Moscow was not planning to use the International Space Station after 2020 and would instead re-focus its funding on more promising new space projects.

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Image Caption: NASA's new ICON mission will study what causes variation in airglow such as the red glowing band seen in the atmosphere in this image from the International Space Station. Such emissions point to disturbances that can interfere with radio communications. Credit: NASA

Provided by Karen C. Fox, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA has officially confirmed the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, mission, clearing it to move forward into the development phase. ICON will explore a swath of Earths atmosphere where weather close to the ground impacts the dynamic space environment above in unexpected ways.

By studying this area where terrestrial weather meets space weather, ICON will help resolve long-standing mysteries about the behavior of our planets upper atmosphere, including what causes disruptions in this region, such as those that can significantly affect radio transmissions.

ICON addresses a national need to predict these kinds of disturbed conditions in space, said Thomas Immel, principal investigator for ICON at the University of California at Berkeley. These disturbances can cause radio communication to suddenly and unexpectedly drop out, which is a problem for ships, airplanes, the global positioning system, and the military.

To study the connection between these space weather disturbances and Earths weather, ICON will measure how motions in the lower atmosphere are transmitted into space. The lowest layer of the atmosphere the one we live in and where we experience weather is the troposphere. Above that is the stratosphere, the mesosphere, and the thermosphere. All of these are layers of the atmosphere made of neutral gas, which can move in reaction to the weather down closest to Earth.

The neutral particles in the mesosphere and higher up, however, exist side-by-side with a giant layer of charged particles stretching from 60 to 600 miles high, called the ionosphere. The charged particles are pushed around by the neutral gas, but are also pushed by electric and magnetic fields that course through the region. These forces are at work throughout the ionosphere, day and night.

ICON will fly at a height of some 360 miles and aim its instruments for a view of whats happening at the lowest reaches of space up to 250 miles providing the first ever comprehensive measurements of the region where the thermosphere and ionosphere overlap. Exploring this region will open up entirely new avenues of exploration, because traditionally the ionospheric disturbances at low latitudes were assumed to be primarily driven by the sun.

For years people thought that energy coming in from above, through the solar wind or solar ultraviolet radiation, was the only cause of changes in the upper atmosphere, said Doug Rowland, mission scientist for ICON at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. But we now realize that atmospheric movements down below, closer to Earth, actually have a strong effect on whats happening above.

For example, recent images of the ionosphere in ultraviolet light have shown bright spots in two bands around the middle of Earth the brightness represents areas where the charged gas density is significantly higher. The spots also change over time in sync with daily cycles within the lower atmosphere, suggesting that they are directly linked to Earths weather.

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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Let #39;s Play! (Part 2): The Lost Legion
Join Richard and Trevor again for episode 2 of Let #39;s Play! Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! This time around we take you through the rest of the Helios Space Station which leads us to our first...

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The Working Of Philae, The Comet Lander / Wie Funktioniert... Der Kometenlander Philae?
International Space Station (Satellite) European Space Agency (Space Agency) Comet (Celestial Object Category) 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Comet) 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko Philae ...

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