Streams of plasma above the surface of the Sun seen in extreme ultraviolet light for 30 hours on February 7, 2012. The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the high resolution frames at a cadence of one frame every four minutes.
Credit: NASA SDO
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On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn circled the Earth three times during a flight that lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds.
Credit: NASA
On February 14, a Proton-M launch vehicle lifted off from Baikonur with the NSS-14 satellite. NSS-14 carries 52 C-band transponders and 72 Ku-band transponders to provide service to Europe/Middle East, West Africa, North America and South America. The expected lifetime of the satellite is 15+ years.
Credit: Roscosmos
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On February 13, 2012, the first Vega lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana. Vega carried nine small satellites into orbit: ASI\’s LARES laser relativity satellite and the University of Bologna\’s ALMASat-1, e-St@r (Italy), Goliat (Romania), MaSat-1 (Hungary), PW-Sat (Poland), Robusta (France), UniCubeSat GG (Italy) and Xatcobeo (Spain).
Credit: ESA
SpaceX\’s SuperDraco engine will power the launch abort system for the Dragon spacecraft. SuperDraco will also enable Dragon to land on Earth or another planet. This firing test was conducted at SpaceX\’s Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas.
Credit: SpaceX
NASA\’s GRAIL Ebb spacecraft recorded a first video of the far side of the moon. The video was taken by the MoonKAM system aboard the spacecraft.
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