On March 4, 2010, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-P was launched on top of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV launch vehicle, from launch pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Once in geostationary orbit, GOES-P became GOES-15, the latest satellite in a fleet of satellites that help predict weather in North America.
ESA\’s Mars Express performed the closest flyby of Phobos, the largest moon of Mars, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The spacecraft passed by at an altitude of 67 km. The animation of Phobos was created using the data collected by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera in 2008.
Pioneer 10 is heading in the direction of Aldebaran, the orange giant star which is the Bull\’s Eye in the Taurus Constellation. The last contact with the probe was established in 2003.
Three GLONASS satellites were blasted into space onboard a Proton launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on March 1, 2010. GLONASS, or GLObal\’naya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, is a satellite navigation system operated for the Russian government by the Russian Space Forces.
After a fifteen-day successful mission, Space Shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, on February 21, 2010. During three EVAs, the mission specialists Nicholas Patrick and Robert L. Behnken berthed the Tranquility Module, and relocated and attached the Cupola.
Read more about the International Space Station…
The Shuttle-Derived Heavy Launch Vehicle (HLV) was presented on June 17, 2009, by NASA\’s Shuttle Program manager to the Augustine Commission. HLV is a proposed alternative to the NASA Constellation Program. The new design reuses the external fuel tank (ET) and the four-segment solid rocket boosters (SRBs).
Subscribe to blog posts using RSS