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By Natalie Snedden, CNN
updated 9:49 AM EDT, Sun September 21, 2014 |
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(CNN) -- A spacecraft that launched early Sunday is transporting a 3-D printer that could change life on the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Dragon lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 1:52 a.m. ET. It will arrive on Tuesday, bringing other cargo as well, including 20 mice and elements for 255 scientific experiments aboard the ISS.
"There's nothing like a good launch, it's just fantastic," said Hans Koenigsman, vice president of Mission Assurance for SpaceX. "From what I can tell, everything went perfectly."
It marks the first time a 3-D printer will be used in space, testing the ability to produce parts cheaply and on demand instead of waiting for them to arrive on a cargo ship. This technology would save time and money in future deep space missions.
Also coming along is a device called ISS-RapidScat that will measure the winds on the Earth's oceans.
"This launch kicks off a very busy time for the space station," said NASA's Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS.
On September 25, three new crew members for the ISS will arrive aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency will launch from Kazakhstan and are expected to arrive six hours later.
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The private spaceflight company SpaceX lit up the night sky over Florida early Sunday (Sept. 21) with the spectacular launch of Dragon spacecraft packed with supplies including the first 3D printer in space and a troop of 20 mice for the International Space Station.
The unmanned Dragon space capsule launched into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:52 a.m. EDT (0552 GMT). Ten minutes later, Dragon reached orbit and separated from the Falcon 9. It should reach the space station on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
"Nothing like a good launch it's just fantastic," HansKoenigsmann, SpaceX's vice presidentof mission assurance, said during a post-launch briefing. "Everything was really perfect." [See photos from the SpaceX-4 Dragon mission]
Dragon is carrying about 2.5 tons of cargo to the space station for NASA. The mission is SpaceX's fourth of 12 delivery missions for the U.S. space agency under a $1.6 billion deal. Sunday's flawless launch occurred one day after rain and thick cloudsforced SpaceX to delay the launchon early Saturday (Sept. 20).
But skies were clear and the stars were out during the pre-dawn launch on Sunday morning. Sam Scimemi, NASA's International Space Station director, told reporters that the Falcon 9 appeared to be soaring though the constellation Orion after it took off.
"It was a beautiful night," Scimemi said.
Food, care packages and provisions for NASA's astronauts make up more than a third of thecargo onboard Dragon. But the spacecraft also has experiments and equipment that will eventually help scientists complete 255 researchprojects in total, according to NASA. In Dragon's trunk, there's an instrument dubbed RapidScat, which will be installed outside the space station to measure the speed and direction of ocean winds on Earth. Among the commercially funded experiments onboard Dragon is a materials-science test from the sports company Cobra Puma Golf designed to build a stronger golf club.
Dragon is also hauling thefirst space-grade 3D printer,built by Made in Space, which will test whether the on-the-spot manufacturing technology is viable without gravity.
Jeff Sheehy, senior technical officer of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, said it is " a certainty" that NASA will eventually rely on 3D-printed tools and replacement parts that are made in space instead of traditional equipment sent up from Earth.
"If we're really going to set up shop on Mars, we have to get there," Sheehy told reports during a briefing Friday morning. "We really can't afford to bring everything we need."
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SpaceX launched its Dragon spacecraft, loaded with supplies and scientific experiments to the orbiting station.
Days after receiving a contract to build spacecraft that will ferry astronauts to the International Space Station, SpaceX launched its Dragon spacecraft, loaded with supplies and scientific experiments to the orbiting station.
This marks the fourth mission that SpaceX, a company that says it one day wants to build cities on Mars , has flown to the space station. Its first test flight launched in May 2012.
"There's nothing like a good launch. It's just fantastic," said Hans Koenigsman, vice president of Mission Assurance for SpaceX, in a statement. "From what I can tell, everything went perfectly."
The rocket lifted off at 1:52 a.m. ET on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flew on a path roughly paralleling the East Coast of the U.S., according to NASA.
Once the first and then the second-stage engines fell away from the spacecraft, the Dragon's pair of solar-array wings unfurled, recharging the spacecraft's batteries.
Dragon is now in the midst of a two-day trip to the space station. It is expected to rendezvous with the orbiter Tuesday morning.
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman are expected to use one of the space station's robotic arms to grab onto Dragon and maneuver it to latch onto one of the station's ports.
The cargo craft is carrying supplies for the station, as well as the elements needed for about 255 scientific experiments.
Dragon is also carrying the first 3D printer taken into space. NASA scientists want to test whether astronauts traveling in deep space would be able to produce spare parts, tools and possibly even food on the fly. On the space station, the 3D printer could produce needed parts for the station, instead of waiting for them to be shipped into orbit on a cargo craft.
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SpaceX plans to launch its next International Space Station resupply rocket early Saturday morning, carrying hurricane-monitoring equipment and science materials for experiments from Sanford-Burnham Institute, the University of Central Florida and a golf club company.
The Falcon 9 rocket is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2:16 a.m. Saturday with 5,000 pounds of equipment and supplies, in SpaceX's fourth private-sector delivery of goods to the space station. On Thursday NASA was projecting a 50 percent chance of good weather.
The star payload is a weather monitoring instrument called "RapidScat." Once attached to the space station, it will globally measure Earth winds on the oceans. It replaces and improves on several weather satellites that either are old, failing or failed.
"The biggest impact that it will have is this ability to close the gap on seeing things that change quickly like hurricanes. Right now it can happen and it does happen that the [available satellite technology] will completely miss a hurricane as it is intensifying," said Ernesto Rodriguez, NASA RapidScat scientist.
"This is especially important not as it approaches land, where we have airborne facilities, but when it is forming and actually starting to move."
Among medical science materials are those to study bone density and muscle loss in space; research with rodents, fruit flies and yeast; and several specimen plates that Sanford-Burnham is sending to use micro-gravity to study how chemical compounds bind with human blood antibodies.
With that, "You can ask the more complex question of how drugs interact in a micro-gravity," said Dr. Siobhan Malany, Sanford-Burnham's chemical-biology team leader.
In addition, UCF physics professor Joshua Colwell is testing low-energy collisions of dust particles, to better understand planet formation.
The payload also includes more commercial technology, such as a 3-D printer sponsored by Made In Space Inc., a company founded by UCF graduate Jason Dunn. It will give astronauts the ability to create needed spare parts in space, and to study what micro-gravity does to 3-D manufacturing.
There also will be a metal-plating technology experiment sponsored by the sporting goods company COBRA Puma.
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Mars has welcomed a new robotic visitor from Earth.
After a 10-month journey through deep space, NASA'sMAVEN probearrived in Mars orbit late Sunday (Sept. 21), on a mission to help scientists figure out why the Red Planet changed from a relatively warm and wet place in the ancient past to the cold, arid world it is today.
MAVEN, whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, fired its engines in a crucial 30-minute braking burn Sunday night, slowing down enough to be captured by the planet's gravity around 10:24 p.m. EDT (0224 GMT Monday, Sept. 22). [See images from the MAVEN mission]
"Congratulations! MAVEN is now in Mars orbit," MAVEN navigation team member Dave Folta, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, announced to a round of cheers from mission control.
MAVEN joins three other operational probes in Mars orbit NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft andMars Reconnaissance Orbiter(MRO), and the European Space Agency's Mars Express. NASA also has two rovers actively exploring the planet's surface: the golf-cart-size Opportunity and its younger, bigger cousin, Curiosity.
And Mars orbit should get even more crowded just a few days from now. India's first-ever Red Planet effort, the $74 millionMars Orbiter Mission, is due to arrive Tuesday night (Sept. 23).
The $671 million MAVEN mission blasted off as planned on Nov. 18, 2013, though not without a bit of prelaunch drama.
Liftoff preparations were frozen when the government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1, 2013, sending ripples of anxiety through the MAVEN team and the global planetary science community. But NASA granted MAVEN an emergency exception a few days later, getting things back on track. (The shutdown ended on Oct. 17, 2013.)
MAVEN is the first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying the upperatmosphere of Mars, NASA officials said. The mission will use MAVEN's three suites of scientific instruments to measure and characterize gas escape from the Martian atmosphere, which was once relatively thick but is now just 1 percent as dense as that of Earth at sea level.
MAVEN's observations should help scientists get a better handle on what happened to the water that flowed and sloshed across Mars billions of years ago whether it escaped into space or sank into the planet's crust, said mission principal investigator Bruce Jakosky, of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. [7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars]
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Follow three WAGs as they undertake an afternoon of hair and make up, preparing for their big reveal on the Brownlow red carpet.
Oops she did it again.
A decade to the daythat she first stopped theBrownlow crowd in its tracks,first AFL WAG-in-chief RebeccaJudd stole the show once again ina runway-worthy white couture frock by local designer J'Aton.
But not before Geoffrey Edelsten- the 71-year-old is making a habitof this making a habit of this - andpartner Gabi Grecko nearly stole itback, with the New York modelclad in a Lady Gagaesque blacksequin-lace-metal spike combowith a split fair up to her hip.
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UFO Sightings Water Discovered On Mars? Shocking Nasa Photo! Sept 2014
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Mars just acquired a new orbiting robot buddy.
At 7:24 p.m. PDT (10:24 p.m. EDT) on Sunday (Sept. 21), NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at Mars orbit after an epic 10-month journey to the Red Planet. MAVEN joins an armada of Mars satellites, but it is the first mission to the planet that will study the thin Martian upper atmosphere in mind-blowing detail. The mission wont only add detail to our increasingly comprehensive knowledge of our solar system neighbor, it will also aid future manned missions.
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As the first orbiter dedicated to studying Mars upper atmosphere, MAVEN will greatly improve our understanding of the history of the Martian atmosphere, how the climate has changed over time, and how that has influenced the evolution of the surface and the potential habitability of the planet, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a space agency news release. It also will better inform a future mission to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s.
MAVEN joins two existing NASA Mars orbiters the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey and the European Mars Express mission. The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is scheduled to also arrive at Mars on Thursday. The soon-to-be fleet of 5 satellites will continue to support and supplement the science being acquired by NASAs Mars rover Curiosity and Opportunity as they work on the ground.
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NASA has a long history of scientific discovery at Mars and the safe arrival of MAVEN opens another chapter, said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agencys Headquarters in Washington. Maven will complement NASAs other Martian robotic explorers and those of our partners around the globe to answer some fundamental questions about Mars and life beyond Earth.
Now that MAVEN is safely in the clutches of Martian gravity, mission operators are set to begin a 6-week commissioning plan that will prepare the satellites instrumentation for a planned one-year observation campaign. Worked into the spacecrafts primary mission is a series of deep-dip orbits that will see MAVEN lunge from its normal 93 mile-high closest approach (periapsis) to just 77 miles from the Martian surface. This will enable scientists to study the high-altitude layering of Mars tenuous atmosphere.
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So, as we await MAVEN to begin its fruitful campaign high above Mars, we can look forward to the Indian mission that will hopefully also arrive safely on Sept. 25.
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