SpaceX dixit:
“Video of SpaceX\’s 5.2m fairing — designed in-house by SpaceX — undergoing testing in the world\’s largest vacuum chamber at NASA Glenn Research Center — Plum Brook Station. SpaceX\’s fairing is used to protect a satellite during launch. Separation occurs when the rocket is traveling over 4x faster than a speeding bullet, nearly 10x the speed of sound.”
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NASA dixit:
“After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency arrived at the International Space Station following an accelerated six-hour rendezvous, docking their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.”
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On May 29, 2013, Soyuz TMA-09M lifted off from Baikonur.
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NASA dixit:
“NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar wind.
In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. IRIS will advance our understanding of the interface region, a region in the lower atmosphere of the sun where most of the sun\’s ultraviolet emissions are generated. Such emissions impact the near-Earth space environment and Earth\’s climate.
The interface region lies between the sun\’s 11,000-degree Fahrenheit, white-hot, visible surface, the photosphere, and the much hotter multi-million-degree upper corona. Interactions between the violently moving plasma and the sun\’s magnetic field in this area may be the source of the energy that heats the corona to some hundreds and occasionally thousands of times hotter than the sun\’s surface.
IRIS will orbit Earth and use its ultraviolet telescope to obtain high-resolution solar images and spectra. IRIS observations along with advanced computer models will deepen our understanding of how heat and energy move through the lower atmosphere of the sun and other sun-like stars.”
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On May 14, 2013, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle lifted off from Baikonur. Proton-M placed into orbit the telecommunications satellite Eutelsat W3D.
Credit: Roscosmos
NASA dixit:
“Following the safe landing of their Soyuz spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan on May 14, local time, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn were extracted from their capsule by Russian personnel and helped into reclining chairs to begin the process of readapting to Earth\’s gravity. The trio completed 146 days in space and 144 days onboard the International Space Station during their mission.”
Credit: NASA / Roscosmos
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