Soyuz TMA-08M docked to the International Space Station six hours after its launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Credit: NASA / Roscosmos
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Archive for March, 2013
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NASA dixit:
“NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy and his Expedition 35/36 crewmates, Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov, and Russian Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin are on their way to the International Space Station on Expedition 35/36 after their Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 28, 2013.”
Credit: NASA / Roscosmos
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On March 26, 2013, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle placed into orbit the telecommunications satellite SatMex-8. The SatMex spacecraft was designed and built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and will provide services for North, Central, and South America.
Credit: Roscosmos
NASA dixit:
“This movie from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) shows comet PanSTARRS as it moved around the sun from March 10-15,2013 (repeated three times). The images were captured by the Heliospheric Imager (HI), an instrument that looks to the side of the sun to watch coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as they travel toward Earth, which is the unmoving bright orb on the right. The bright light on the left comes from the sun and the bursts from the left represent the solar material erupting off the sun in a CME. While it appears from STEREO\’s point of view that the CME passes right by the comet, the two are not lying in the same plane, which scientists know since the comet\’s tail didn\’t move or change in response to the CME\’s passage.”
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
ESA dixit:
“This animation explains how the wealth of information that is contained in the all-sky map of temperature fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be condensed into a curve known as the power spectrum.
The temperature of the CMB exhibits fluctuations on a variety of angular scales on the sky. The animation shows six different maps that depict the relative \’power\’, or strength, of the fluctuations at different angular scales. The maps correspond to different regions of the curve, starting at angles of ninety degrees on the left side of the graph, through to the smallest scales — just a fraction of a degree — on the right hand side.
By studying the peaks in the power spectrum curve, cosmologists can extract information regarding the ingredients of the Universe, such as ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy, and the overall geometry of the Universe.”
Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration
SpaceX dixit:
“The SpaceX Merlin 1D engine has achieved flight qualification, a major milestone for the next generation Merlin engine. Through a 28 test qualification program, the Merlin 1D accumulated 1,970 seconds of total test time, the equivalent run time of over 10 full mission durations, and is now fully qualified to fly on the Falcon 9 rocket.”
Credit: SpaceX
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