Let’s Play Space Engineers – Episode 77: Space Station Project Part 7 – Video

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Minecraft – MainBlock Day 171 – Sticky Piston Doors on the Space Station, THE FINISHING TOUCHES – Video

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KSP – KSS Moho SLSS (Single Launch Space Station) Constructed In Orbit Over Moho (SLSS Ep 3) – Video

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Progress spacecraft blasts off on quick trip to space station

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Russia launched a Progress resupply freighter Wednesday on a six-hour journey to the International Space Station, hauling nearly 3 tons of fuel and supplies to the orbiting scientific laboratory.

The Soyuz rocket lifted off at 1623 GMT (11:23 a.m. EST; 10:22 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now The unpiloted Progress M-22M spacecraft lifted off on top of a Soyuz rocket at 1623:33 GMT (11:23:33 a.m. EST) in temperatures below 0 degrees Fahrenheit at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, kicking off an expedited six-hour rendezvous with the space station.

The launch was timed for the precise moment necessary to reach the station in such a short time. The outpost was at an altitude of 260 miles over the western border of Kazakhstan near Volgograd, Russia.

Rick Mastracchio, one of the space station's six occupants, reported seeing the Soyuz rocket's fiery exhaust trail as the complex flew over Baikonur.

A series of rocket burns with the Progress craft's own thrusters will fine-tune the ship's path toward the complex, with the on-board automated rendezvous sequence set to begin about two hours before docking.

The fast track rendezvous is now the standard approach for all Russian vehicles, including the Progress and crewed Soyuz capsules, replacing a longer two-day flight profile to the 450-ton complex.

The Soyuz rocket delivered the Progress to orbit about nine minutes after liftoff after launching into a clear night sky over the historic Baikonur launch base. The kerosene-fueled rocket shed its four strap-on boosters about two minutes into the flight, with its core engine and upper stage continuing to fire to propel the Progress M-22M spaceship into orbit with an altitude between 120 miles and 150 miles.

Moments after separating from the launcher's third stage, the Progress extended its two power-generating solar panels stretching 35 feet tip-to-tip, along with communications antennas and its navigation radar to guide the ship to docking with the Russian segment's Pirs module.

The Progress M-22M logistics ship is loaded with 1,446 pounds of propellant to be pumped into the Russian Zvezda service module, plus 110 pounds of oxygen and 926 pounds of water to bolster the space station's reserves.

According to the Russian Federal Space Agency, the Progress will deliver 789 pounds of food, 286 pounds of medical supplies, 205 pounds of items for the Russian crew, 141 pounds of payload for crew hygiene, and 55 pounds of video and photographic equipment packed inside the spacecraft's pressurized compartment.

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Mikulski Announces Federal Funding to Support Next Steps of James Webb Space Telescope Construction – Video

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Rocco Petrone – Director of the NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center – Video

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Marshall Space Flight Center tests sound suppression system for world's most powerul rocket

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) The world's most powerful rocket undergoes design testing in Huntsville.

NASA'S new Space Launch System, designed for deep space exploration, has engines strong enough to create dangerously powerful noise.

When you are designing the world's most powerful rocket ever there are a million different things to think about, said Jeremy Kenny, Acoustic Engineer in a Marshall Space Flight Center interview.

Marshall Space Flight Center has developed a way to test an acoustic sound suppression system on a 5% scale model of the rocket.

The very loud sound can be very damaging both to the rocket vehicle and the crew. Our scale model rocket system is amazing, Acoustic Engineer, Janice Houston said.

The system could make takeoff safer, but first engineers had to make sure they could safely simulate such a powerful rocket launch.

During my design I had to hold approximately 25,000 pounds of thrust in place to make sure it doesn't fly away and injure somebody, said Mechanical Design Engineer, Micah Embry.

Once that design was made, the scale model could be ignited for five seconds at a time to test the sound suppression system through use of microphones located on the rocket.

Marshall Space Flight Center in coordination with other centers such as Langley and Kennedy space centers have designed this set up in order to answer the questions of; What are the lift off environments produced here in the vehicle? What are the lift off environments seen by the tower and mobile launch pad? What are the water sound suppression systems needed in order to mitigate these sound levels?, Kenny said.

According to Marshall Space Flight Center, water is the main component of the suppression system because it helps protect the rocket from damage caused by energy produced in takeoff. Marshall will be simulating the tests to collect data on how the suppressed levels of noise generated may affect the rocket and crew during liftoff. After testing is completed on the scale rocket, the system will be adjusted as needed and then tested on the actual rocket later this year.

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