Daily Archives: December 11, 2014

Part 1 of MOON tycoon Roblox(PC)
After crash landing on the moon you need to get back to Earth. To do this your mission is to build your space station, kill your foes and buy gear, weapons and perks to help you. Once you have...

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Space Station 13 Ep1 boring AI part 1
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TROLLING GOES TO SPACE? SPACE TROLLING! (Minecraft)
Join me, Felix, LDShadowLady and JoyStyx in today #39;s Minecraft video in which we went to the SPACE Station and did some pretty cool 1.8 Space Parkour! 😀 Subscribe for daily fun! http://bit.ly...

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From Above - Astronaut Photography with Don Pettit
You #39;ve never seen space like this. This short film gives an inside look at how NASA Astronaut Don Pettit captures breathtaking images of Earth #39;s most famous phenomena - aurora, star trails,...

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M.A.R.S. Extraction - Space shooter - #7DFPS - 2014
A Space station/mars type float and do thing? simulator? ok count me in ..i guess. Thanks for watching, martinis. LINK: http://itch.io/jam/7dfps/rate/13812 7DFPS: http://7dfps.com/ SUBSCRIBE!!:...

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International Space Station Build EP.10 Air Lock Repair (KSP)
I finally brought up the air lock. I somehow forgot earlier in the build! like and subscribe for more!

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OPALS project uses laser beams for Earth space communications
You may know opals as fiery gemstones, but something special called OPALS is floating above us in space. On the International Space Station, the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS)...

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Space Station Live: Improving Everyday Products on Earth through the ISS
NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at the Marshall Space Flight Center speaks with Matthew Lynch, the principal scientist at Procter Gamble about colloidal research on the International Space Station...

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Looking at the latest mission patch bound for the International Space Station, you would never know it was designed by actor Seth Green.

The six-sided emblem displays no apparent references to the celebrity's well-known roles and projects. There are no call outs to "Austin Powers," "Family Guy" or even "Robot Chicken." But, in fact, the patch does include a subtle nod to Green's personal character.

"Honestly, my first thought was the yellow and blue from BSG [Battlestar Galactica]," Green explained, describing what inspired him to choose the patch's colors in a video released by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS). The non-profit invited the actor to design the insigniarepresenting its payload of sponsored science experimentsflying to the space station in 2015.

"That's the nerd in me," Green said. "I was like '[the space station is] obviously the modern Battlestar,' so that was it. I took the blue and the yellow from all the uniforms."

CASIS, as the organization responsible for the use of the International Space Station as a U.S. National Laboratory, has manifested an "abundance" of science investigations to be conducted onboard the orbiting outpost next year. Its Advancing Research Knowledge (ARK) 3 series of studies include research into bone density and muscle loss, non-embryonic stem cells, and enhancing materials in space.

"It's been a great experience collaborating with CASIS to better understand their role in making use of this incredible research facility," Green stated, referring to the station. "If my promoting space-based research through this patch in some small way drives additional thoughts and ideas to improve life on Earth, I'm happy to help."

Green's ARK3 patch, which follows previous ARK patches designed by street artist Shepard Faireyand Cobra Puma Golf, borrows its shape from the station's mulit-windowed Cupola.

"My immediate inspiration was the Cupola," Green stated. "That's the point [on the space station] where you can see the farthest by the human eye."

The other elements on the patch were based on CASIS's motto, "Science in Space for Life on Earth."

"I love the idea of collecting data and information and then disseminating it to the planet," said Green, describing the emblem's design. "You see the ISS, you see the planet though it is the CASIS logo and it has got 'Advancing Research Knowledge' emanating down to the planet."

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A new laser link with the International Space Station could do what optical fiber has done for internet access on Earth by turning orbital communications from painfully slow dial-up to blazing-fast broadband.

In recent tests of the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) instrument, which is attached to the space stations exterior, NASA scientists and engineers have demonstrated that laser communications, as opposed to traditional radio transmissions, could revolutionize how we communicate with space-based assets.

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OPALS has shown that space-to-ground laser communications transmissions are practical and repeatable, said Matthew Abrahamson, OPALS mission manager at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. As a bonus, OPALS has collected an enormous amount of data to advance the science of sending lasers through the atmosphere. We look forward to continuing our testing of this technology, which sends information to and from space faster than with radio signals.

OPALS was delivered to the ISS in April by a SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle and it has since completed the first 4 months of its prime mission. In an effort to minimize the impact of atmospheric turbulence on data loss, OPALS uses 4 individual lasers and average out the data received by the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratorys ground station at JPLs Table Mountain Observatory in Wrightwood, Calif. The next big step for system development is the use of adaptive optics to dynamically compensate for this turbulence.

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Four lasers from the ground station travel through the sky toward the space station. Under clear, dark background conditions, its very easy for the payload to acquire the ground beacon. Daylight conditions have proven more challenging, but we are working on increasing capabilities during the day as well, through software enhancements, said Abrahamson.

According to a JPL news release, some of the landmark transmissions included:

All in all, OPALS is proving laser communications between the Earth and orbit could transform how we transmit data into space, but the biggest challenge to this method is, of course, the weather.

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