On May 3, 2013, a Vega launch vehicle lifted off from Kourou with Proba V and two companion satellites.
Credit: ESA/Arianespace
Archive for 2013
SpaceX dixit:
“SpaceX\’s Grasshopper flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX\’s rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing.”
Credit: SpaceX
NASA dixit:
“The unpiloted Russian Progress 51 cargo craft linked up to the International Space Station April 26, automatically docking to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module after a flawless two-day rendezvous. Loaded with more than three tons of food, fuel, supplies and experiment hardware, the new Progress freighter launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 24, executing a pre-programmed series of engine firings over the next two days to reach the station for its docking. The Progress will remain at the station until mid-June when it will undock and deorbited to burn up in the Earth\’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.”
Credit: NASA/Roscosmos
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On April 24, Progress M-19M lifted off from Baikonur. Progress M-19M delivered more than 2.5 tonnes of cargo to the International Space Station.
Credit: Roscosmos
NASA dixit:
“Satellites, balloon-borne instruments and ground-based devices make 30 million observations of the atmosphere each day. Yet these measurements still give an incomplete picture of the complex interactions within Earth\’s atmosphere. Enter climate models. Through mathematical experiments, modelers can move Earth forward or backward in time to create a dynamic portrait of the planet. NASA Goddard\’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office recently ran a simulation of the atmosphere that captured how winds whip aerosols around the world. Such simulations allow scientists to better understand how these tiny particulates travel in the atmosphere and influence weather and climate. In this visualization, covering August 2006 to April 2007, watch as dust and sea salt swirl inside cyclones, carbon bursts from fires, sulfate streams from volcanoes – and see how these aerosols paint the modeled world.”
Credit: NASA Goddard
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On April 9, 2013, a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle lifted off from Baikonur with Russian scientific satellite Bion-M. Soyuz also delivered to orbit six cubesats: AIST (the Russian Federation), BeeSat-2, VeeSat W, SOMP (Germany), DOVE-2 (United States), and G.O.D. Sat (South Korea).
Credit: Roscosmos
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