The flight from a launchpad on the Virginia coast is a test run for a system that could eventually resupply the International Space Station.
The test flight for a space capsule system intended to help resupply the International Space Station is scheduled to launch from the Virginia coastline on Wednesday. If weather conditions are favorable, the craft may be visible from the Philadelphia region as it ascends into orbit. The Antares rocket, developed by Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation, is expected to launch at 5:00 p.m., though the launch window extends until 8:00 p.m., should weather or other factors require a delay. The Los Angeles Times reports that it will be carrying a roughly four-ton dummy payload intended to simulate the company's Cygnus space capsule, which NASA and the company hope will soon be transporting materials to the space station. Orbital, whose …
City lights show humanity's spread across the planet's surface from hundreds of miles up.
A new video released Wednesday by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) offers an unprecedented look of the entirety of the Earth's nighttime surface as seen from outer space. The 30-second video stitches together 2.5 terabytes of image data taken during 312 orbits of the planet by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite, which was launched in October 2011. The video opens with a view of the Asia-Pacific rim, with the city lights of Japan and the heavily populated areas of China's coastal regions near the center of the frame. The Earth's rotation then brings the lights of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East into view, followed by Europe and the mostly-dark continent of Africa. Finally, the Americas rotate into view…
Space agency works to debunk popular theory about Mayan calendar, 2012
Rumors about the ancient Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world in December 2012 have floated around the Internet and in the media for years, even resulting in a blockbuster disaster film a few years ago. But NASA, the U.S. space agency, is full of really smart people who say that we can relax. It's a bunch of nonsense. Watch the video to learn more.
NASA's internal video feed followed all the action from California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the multibillion-dollar rover touched down on the planet surface.
Curiosity is the third unmanned rover to touch down on Mars—but that didn't make the spectacle any less thrilling to behold, whether you saw it first-hand from the command center at the at the California Jet Propulsion Laboratory or at home on your computer. The images shown here are screenshots captured from the internal NASA HD streaming video feed, broadcasted live online Monday morning, August 6. For a few tense moments at about 1:15 EST, the command crew watched, nervously, as high-resolution computer simulations generated an approximate descent path of the capsule containing Curiosity. There were small cheers at various stages of the mission, including the successful deployment of an antenna array, then of the parachute, and finally …
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