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Amazing photo of attempted landing of SpaceX rocket
From space.com, a nice post recapping the last attempt to land a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster on an ocean-going drone platform: Over at io9.com there are some other interesting comments, too.
Lots More Space Exploration News This Week
In keeping with this week’s space theme, three other noteworthy events: Today NASA’s Messenger probe orbiting Mercury finally ran out of propellant and, as planned, crashed into the planet surface, ending its historic 11 year mission. From NASA.gov: The spacecraft traveled more than … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Origin, Mercury, Messenger, New Sheppard, Progress 59
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NASA’s New Horizons Probe Detects Surface Features & Possible Polar Cap on Pluto
For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto – the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. The images were captured in early … Continue reading
SpaceX Rocket Booster Landing — Close, But Not Quite
Yesterday’s landing attempt for the SpaceX Falcon-9 booster almost succeeded. The rocket came down on the robotic recovery ship, but had too much lateral velocity and tipped over. Meanwhile, the main mission to resupply the International Space Station is on track for … Continue reading
New Horizons probe images a full orbit of Charon around Pluto
The images are still grainy, but NASA’s New Horizons probe is beginning to film Charon traveling in its orbit around Pluto. Follow this link to see the animated version!
New Horizons space probe reaches Pluto
NASA’s space craft is closing in on Pluto and is beginning to take its first pictures: New Horizons is aiming its Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) telescope at Pluto to help navigate the final 135 million miles (220 kilometers) of its … Continue reading
SpaceX comes close, but doesn’t quite accomplish soft landing of booster rocket
SpaceX successfully navigated its Falcon 9 booster rocket back to a floating platform Saturday, but the landing was too hard to count as a success. However, “it bodes well for the future” says Elon Musk. The rocket “ran out of hydraulic fluid … Continue reading
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Tagged booster rocket, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon capsule
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NASA’s Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Has Awakened For the Final Leg of Its Journey
NASA has confirmed that New Horizons, the space probe headed for a close approach to Pluto has emerged from hibernation and is communicating with mission control. The probe has traveled 3 billion miles from Earth and is scheduled to approach … Continue reading
The World at Night with Clear Skies and No Light Pollution
Courtesy of TwistedSifter.com, a beautiful interview with the talented night sky photographer Ben Coffman. Follow both links; you won’t be dissapointed.
Posted in Photography, Space & Astronomy
Tagged Ben Coffman, Night Sky, Night sky photography
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Rosetta’s comet lander goes quiet
Rosetta’s Philae lander has stopped transmitting from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Philae landed safely, but ended up in a shady location and couldn’t recharge its batteries using solar power. There is some hope that when the comet gets closer to the sun (around August 2015) … Continue reading
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