Let #39;s fly in Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 1
This is my second Orbiter video. I do take off from the moon and do some orbital maneuvers and then land again. Warning: I #39;m not very good. Recorded on Linux with Orbiter 2010, dx9client, ffmpeg. Guide to Orbiter on Linux: devio.us
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set for the launch of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K, or TDRS-K, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket Jan. 29. The 40-minute launch window extends from 8:52 to 9:32 p.m. EST. Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Launch commentary coverage, as well as prelaunch media briefings, will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
TDRS-K is the first of three next-generation satellites designed to ensure vital operational continuity for NASA. Each of the new satellites has a higher performance solar panel design for more spacecraft power to meet the growing S-band communications requirements. The TDRS system provides critical support from several locations in geostationary orbit for an array of science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.
Prelaunch News Conference
A prelaunch news conference on NASA TV will be held at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Press Site at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28.
Briefing participants are:
-- Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator, Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Washington
-- Tim Dunn, NASA launch director Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
-- Vernon Thorp, program manager, NASA Missions United Launch Alliance, Denver, Colo.
-- Jeffrey Gramling, NASA TDRS-K project manager Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
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NASA is preparing to launch the eighth observation satellite in the Landsat remote sensing program that has chronicled changes in the Earths land cover for four decades.
Landsat 8, set for a Feb. 11 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, will be equipped with instruments capable of more sensitive data collection than its predecessors. This will be the best Landsat satellite ever in terms of quality and quantity, said NASA project scientist Jim Irons.
The satellite will circle the Earth about 14 times a day, 438 miles above the planet, recording observations in different wavelengths along a 115-mile-wide swath and orbiting over the same point every 16 days. Information from the sensors, which will generate about 400 images a day, are used to map vegetation, soil moisture and heat emitted from the Earths surface.
Started in 1972 with the launch of its first satellite, Landsat is jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The program has amassed a vivid record of global land changes such as tropical deforestation, the explosive growth of Las Vegas and the recovery of the landscape surrounding Mt. St. Helens after the Washington volcano erupted in 1980.
Landsat 5, launched in 1984, was retired last month. Landsat 7, launched in 1999, remains in operation although with gaps in its data collection.
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Image Caption: This artist's concept shows a scene from the upcoming refueling demo aboard the International Space Station. The Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM, Multifunction Tool (right) removes a cap from the RRM module (left). Credit: NASA
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In mid-January, NASA will take the next step in advancing robotic satellite-servicing technologies as it tests the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM aboard the International Space Station. The investigation may one day substantially impact the many satellites that deliver products Americans rely upon daily, such as weather reports, cell phones and television news.
During five days of operations, controllers from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will use the space stations remotely operated Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or Dextre, robot to simulate robotic refueling in space. Operating a space-based robotic arm from the ground is a feat on its own, but NASA will do more than just robotics work as controllers remotely snip wires, unscrew caps and transfer simulated fuel. The team also will demonstrate tools, technologies and techniques that could one day make satellites in space greener, more robust and more capable of delivering essential services to people on Earth.
Why Fix or Refuel a Satellite?
Every satellite has a lifespan and eventual retirement date, determined by the reliability of its components and how much fuel it can carry, explains Benjamin Reed, deputy project manager of NASAs Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, or SSCO.
Repairing and refueling satellites already in place, Reed asserts, can be far less expensive than building and launching entirely new spacecraft, potentially saving millions, even billions of dollars and many years of work.
The RRM demonstration specifically tests what it would take to repair and refuel satellites traveling the busy space highway of geosynchronous Earth orbit, or GEO. Located about 22,000 miles above Earth, this orbital path is home to more than 400 satellites, many of which beam communications, television and weather data to customers worldwide.
By developing robotic capabilities to repair and refuel GEO satellites, NASA hopes to add precious years of functional life to satellites and expand options for operators who face unexpected emergencies, tougher economic demands and aging fleets. NASA also hopes that these new technologies will help boost the commercial satellite-servicing industry that is rapidly gaining momentum.
Besides aiding the GEO satellite community, a capability to fix and relocate ailing satellites also could help manage the growing orbital debris problem that threatens continued space operations, ultimately making space greener and more sustainable.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope the notoriously over-budget new space observatory slated to launch in 2018 is on time and still within its new budget, the project's chief said Wednesday (Jan. 9).
Our budget still stands and the schedule remains the same, Eric Smith, the space telescope's program director, told astronomers here at a town hall meeting during the221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Smith also outlined the future of theJames Webb Space Telescopeprogramin 2013 and discussed its turbulent year in 2012.
With an$8.8 billion dollar price tag, JWST is destined to be one of the largest and most expensive projects in NASA history. Set to replace the venerableHubble Space Telescopeonce it is launched, JWST will take infrared images of distant galaxies, probing the cosmos for hints and signals left behind fromthe Big Bang.
Of the four science instruments responsible for investigating those mysteries aboard the spacecraft, two were delivered to NASA in 2012. The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) the instrument responsible for taking Hubble-like images of distant galaxies, comets and other heavenly bodies was sent last year by the European consortium that built it. [Photos: The James Webb Space Telescope]
The Canadian Space Agency has also delivered its instrument: the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) that will also take high-quality images of other bodies in space.
NASA is still awaiting two more contributions: the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) from Lockheed Martin and the University of Arizona, and the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) from the European Space Agency, which is still in its early testing phases. Both instruments measure light on the infrared spectrum. All of the science instruments are set to be integrated by the end of 2013, officials say.
The telescope's tennis court-size sunshield is in the early stages of testing as well. The sunshield itself is too large to launch in an unfurled state, creating a unique problem for JWST scientists to solve. Instead of launching the telescope with the sunshield in place, NASA is planning to unroll the shield once the craft is in orbit. At one-third of the way complete, NASA scientists are now starting to practice rolling and unrolling the shield to see how it might unfurl in space after launch.
Once all four instruments are finished, researchers will combine them to test JWST as one cohesive unit. While final testing on the ground should begin in 2015, simulation testing using Optimal Trajectories by Implicit Simulation a space telescope tester that mimics the temperature and environment of a space telescope in Earths orbit wont start until 2017, a year before launch.
JWST is also going to investigate a few objects a little closer to home.
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NASA's Next Flagship Space Telescope Back on Track ... and on Budget
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Dyer Brainerd Holmes, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, has died.
Holmes' stepson, Pierce Ledbetter, said Holmes died at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis on Friday at age 91. Holmes died from complications from pneumonia, Ledbetter said.
Holmes, who was born in New York in 1921, was an influential figure in the aeronautics and aerospace industries during a career that lasted more than 40 years.
He joined NASA as director of manned space flight in October 1961, according to the NASA History Office. He resigned in June 1963.
During Holmes' time at NASA, John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut in orbit on Feb. 20, 1962 on Mercury-Atlas 6.
Scott Carpenter followed Glenn by riding Mercury-Atlas 7 into space on May 24 of the same year. Walter Schirra became the fifth American in space on Mercury-Atlas 8 on Oct. 3, 1962.
Holmes also helped lay the groundwork for the Apollo program and America's ambitious venture to the moon. He was featured in a Time Magazine cover story on Aug. 10, 1962, which had the tag line "Reaching for the Moon."
NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs said Holmes took over the Office of Manned Space Flight for NASA during a critical time for the agency.
"NASA was still relatively young and senior administrators wanted to beef up leadership and management experience at headquarters in Washington," Jacobs said in an e-mailed statement. "Holmes' expertise in electrical engineering and management was seen as essential to not only study problems but to offer solutions as NASA began to focus its attention on the Apollo program and the race to the moon."
After leaving NASA, Holmes joined Raytheon Company as a director. He was later named president of Raytheon, which produced radar and communications systems as well as the Sparrow, Patriot and Sidewinder missiles. He retired in 1986.
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NASA has officially signed a deal to attach an inflatable private module to the International Space Station, space agency officials confirmed today (Jan. 11).
Under the new deal, NASA will pay $17.8 million to the Nevada-based private spaceflight firm Bigelow Aerospace for the company's Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which will be affixed to the orbiting lab as a technology demonstration.
"This partnership agreement for the use of expandable habitats represents a step forward in cutting-edge technology that can allow humans to thrive in space safely and affordably, and heralds important progress in U.S. commercial space innovation," NASA deputy chief Lori Garver said in a statement.
Today's announcement confirms reports thatsurfaced earlier this week. Garver and Bigelow founder and president Robert Bigelow will discuss the BEAM program at a media event Jan. 16 at Bigelow Aerospace facilities in North Las Vegas, NASA officials said.
BEAM is likely to be similar to Bigelow's Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 prototypes, which the company launched to orbit in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Both Genesis modules are 14.4 feet long by 8.3 feet wide (4.4 by 2.5 meters), with about 406 cubic feet (11.5 cubic m) of pressurized volume.
NASA officials have said that BEAM could be on orbit about two years after getting an official go-ahead. The module will likely be launched by one of the agency's commerical cargo suppliers, California-based SpaceX or Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp.
Bigelow's dreams don't stop at the International Space Station. The company wants to launch and link up several of its larger expandable modules to create private space stations, which could be used by a variety of clients.
Tenants could get to orbiting Bigelow habitats in several different ways. The company has set up a partnership with SpaceX for use of its Dragon spacecraft and another one with Boeing, to use the aerospace giant's CST-100 capsule.
Bigelow is also eyeing a possible outpost on the moon, for which the company envisions using its BA-330 modules (so named because they offer 330 cubic meters of usable internal volume). Several BA-330 habitats, along with propulsion tanks and power units, would be joined together in space and then flown down to the lunar surface.
Lunar dirt would be piled over the modules to protect against radiation, thermal extremes and micrometeorite strikes. Then clients be they explorers, scientists or tourists could move in and set up shop on the moon.
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HAARP - Chemtrails - Nanotechnology - Change - Cells DNA - Bioengineering
How They Are Changing you . . . Cells and DNA . . . Against your will . . . This explains clearly what they are doing Chemtrails and nanotechnology are changing the world in which we live (Bioengineering). They are changing your cells and DNA against your will -- dark change People will al become sterile and plants will not be able to reproduce - science will keep us alive and control us 100% (transhumanism) They will plunge our world into darkness. HAARP - Chemtrails - Nanotechnology - Change - Cells DNA - Bioengineering FAIR USE NOTICE: These Videos may contain copyrighted () material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available to advance understanding of ecological, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this constitutes a #39;fair use #39; of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving similar information for research and educational purposes. Original Video: From Chemtrails to Pseudo-Life: The Dark Agenda of Synthetic Biology (FULL LENGTH VIDEO) http://www.godlikeproductions.com
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Nanotechnology and the Environment - A General Introduction
UC CEIN member Courtney Thomas, Ph.D., gives an overview of the science behind Nanotechnology and discusses potential applications of nanomaterials and how they may affect the environment.
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Pharrell Partners with Liquipel For The Ultimate Nanotechnology - CES 2013
Shannon stopped by the Liquipel booth to chat with Danny McPhail and partner Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes, hear about their nanotechnology that protects your tech from all forms of liquid. Watch CES 2013 coverage in one spot! See it ALL at Revision3.com on YouTube at YouTube.com or on iTunes at bit.ly Connect with Hak5 Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: facebook.com Google+: plus.google.com Darren Kitchen Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: facebook.com Google+: plus.google.com Shannon Morse Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: facebook.com Google+: plus.google.com
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Of Monsters And Men Adrian Lux - Little Teenage Talks (Liberty (Stereosonic) Bootleg)
Avicii inspired me to make this after going to Stereosonic in Melbourne, hope you all enjoy! I do not own either tracks DOWNLOAD LINK WILL BE UP SOON! For my latest Mashups and Bootlegs visit... Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com
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Liberty Ross leaving the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, CA
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[TRAINING] Jumping at liberty on distance
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This week, 43 Liberty University undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff from the Center for Ministry Training rolled up their sleeves and put the love of Jesus into action as they provided relief to victims of Hurricane Sandys devastation.
Lynchburg, VA (PRWEB) January 12, 2013
Libertys CMT team partnered with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia and the North American Mission Board on the trip to Staten Island, N.Y. In September 2011, more than 300 Liberty students provided disaster relief to flood victims in New York the first time SBCV had asked a college group to help.
Its really neat to see people really being the hands and feet of the body of Christ, senior Caleb Serafini said.
Serafini, a business/marketing major from Maryland, joined the team in rebuilding homes destroyed by the storm.
The group split up into five teams who worked together to help gut water-damaged houses, power wash mold and debris, and spray mold-killing chemicals all over the site. Within four to six weeks of this process, homeowners are able to begin reconstruction.
It is great to be able to build relationships with the families who were affected by (Hurricane Sandy), said junior Greg Weaver, a worship major from Texas. Many of them are not believers. In this instance, we get to show the love of Christ in not only our words, but by our actions.
The team also assisted the Red Cross in making meals and distributing food for those affected by the hurricane.
We are extremely thankful to Liberty for creating this opportunity, said Tim Moroz, administrative assistant for CMT, who added there was a large response of students wanting to sign up. Liberty funded the trip, allowing them to participate at no cost.
The Center for Ministry Training is the practical arm of Liberty University and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. It serves as a hub for recruiting, training, and sending pastors, church planters, and missionaries out to impact the world for Jesus Christ.
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LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio --
The Liberty Township Fire Department is hoping voters will approve a levy on the ballot, on February 5, in order to save the department from shutting down.
The department has already had to cut 20 percent of its staff, including four layoffs since the last levy failed last November. Trustee Curt Sybert says the levy last fall lost by 70 votes but hopes the lower cost will help it to pass this time around.
The new levy's passage is a mission for Becca Mount, of Powell, who is with the group Save Our Services.
Mount says six years ago, the Liberty Township Fire Department arrived at her home in less than four minutes when her then 18-month-old daughter suffered a seizure.
"It was the most devastating moment of my parenthood. To see your child seizing on the bathroom floor and not be able to help is just absolutely frightening. Now, with the fire department in jeopardy I can't imagine making that phone call and not knowing who was going to make that call to my house and how long it would take to get there," Mount said.
Mount's daughter Hadley, who is now 8-years-old, is OK.
The current levy would cost the owner of a $300,000 home about $7 a month. That's less than half of the cost of the levy voters rejected last fall.
Sybert says even if the current levy passes, the fire department will still be operating with a 20 percent reduction in staff.
Firefighters say response times will also double or triple if the levy fails and the department shuts down. Liberty Township encompasses both firefighters and paramedics. If it closes paramedic services would fall to Delaware County however response times would greatly increase according to Sybert.
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