Tag: Space
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Artemis-1 Launch Cinematic
Artemis 1, officially Artemis I and formerly Exploration Mission-1, is an ongoing uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission. As the first major spaceflight of NASA’s Artemis program, Artemis 1 marks the return of the agency to lunar exploration as established by the Apollo program decades earlier. Its main objective is to test the Orion spacecraft, especially its heat shield, in […]
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Earthrise after Orion Executes Outbound Powered Flyby
The Earth is seen rising from behind the shadowed surface of the Moon in this video taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft had just successfully executed the Outbound Powered Flyby maneuver which brought it within 80 miles […]
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The Universe: Pulsars & Quasars Infiltrate the Sky (S4, E10) | Full Episode | History
Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s contribution to the field of astronomy is that she gave us the tools to map out the stars in the universe. She discovered the correlation between Period and Luminosity. This helped turn the sky into a three-dimensional map allowing astronomers to solve the unknown in the equation: Distance. A pulsar is a highly […]
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Space – Magic Fly (Original Video) – 1977
“Magic Fly” is the first studio album by French band “Space”. The title track of the album was also released as a single and went up to #2 in the UK Sales Charts. A huge anthem indeed … buy for example here: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/mag…
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NASA / Rocket Lab Launch of CAPSTONE (Artemis Pathfinder Mission) Jun 28, 2022
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket that will carry the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft for NASA is seen at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand, Tuesday, May 17, 2022.A microwave oven-sized CubeSat, CAPSTONE serves as a pathfinder for the orbit planned for Gateway […]
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The Universe: Comets | History
Most short-period or Jupiter-family comets have low inclination orbits (i.e., their orbits lie nearly in the same plane as Earth’s orbit) and are believed to originate in the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper Belt is a region of space. The inner edge begins at the orbit of Neptune, at about 30 AU from the Sun. (1 AU, or […]
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