Table: U.S. Launcher Comparison
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: . Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search About Me Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Is This the Falcon 9 Heavy Logo Table : U.S . Launcher Comparison Posted by Doug Messier on March 31, 2011, at 2:34 pm in News Tags : Atlas V Delta IV Falcon 9 Orbital Sciences Coporation Space X ULA Comments : no responses 0 Comments Above is a comparison table showing American rockets that are in operation , in development , and proposed . Most of this information is taken from FAA documents . I have added information for Taurus II , which is set to debut in September , and the proposed Falcon 9 Heavy based on company . documentation Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Taurus II is a medium-launcher that is set to fill the market void is being left by the pending
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The Planetary Society Blog: April 2011 will see MESSENGER begin the science phase of its orbital mission at Mercury, and should, I think, also see the start of Dawn's approach observations of Vesta. At Mars, Opportunity is back on the road again, rolling inexorably toward Endeavour. At Saturn, Cassini will continue its focus on Saturn and Titan science. Before I go into mission-by-mission detail, here's Olaf Frohn's marvelous map of where all of our explorers are on ....
Home Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Privacy Policy Subscribe Universe Today Tweet ATV In-Flight Refueling for ISS Set for Mid-May by Nancy Atkinson on March 31, 2011 The ATV Johannes Kepler docked at the International Space Station . Credit : NASA ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle Johannes Kepler is more than just a cargo carrier for the International Space Station , it is also an on-orbit refueling station and orbit booster . On May 17-19, 2011 the Kepler ATV is scheduled to conduct its first refueling of the ISS , as it will transfer about 850.6 liters 225 gallons of propellant for the station’s own thrusters for future boosts in . orbit Preparations for the ISS refueling began on March 22 with a leak test of the propellant transfer lines , to ensure the connections
Mars Rovers Author : nbsp Tom Comments(1 A HiRISE image of Santa Maria crater and the rover Opportunity . Click for larger 247 k Image Credit : NASA JPL-Caltech Univ . of Arizona The crater you see in the image is Santa Maria on Mars . The image was taken by the High Resolution Science Experiment HiRISE camera on March 9, 2011. If you look at about 4:00 you will see the arrow pointing to the Mars Rover Opportunity , click the image if you are having trouble seeing . it This image has been cropped , to see the full versions and caption click here The caption title is Opportunity is Still Smiling , the same cannot be said for the Rover Spirit . It doesn’t look good folks , Spirit has been quiet for over a year and not only that , most heaters were turned off over the Martian winter
Home Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Privacy Policy Subscribe Universe Today Tweet Spectacular Galaxies Dancing Towards Destruction by Nancy Atkinson on March 31, 2011 Image of NGC 6872 left and companion galaxy IC 4970 right locked in a tango as the two galaxies gravitationally interact . The galaxies lie about 200 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Pavo the Peacock Image credit : Sydney Girls High School Astronomy Club , Travis Rector University of Alaska , Anchorage Ángel López-Sánchez Australian Astronomical Observatory Macquarie University and the Australian Gemini . Office More than just another pretty picture I’ll say This beautiful image of the galaxy pair NGC 6872 and IC 4970 was part of a competition for high school students in
Method Astronomers a look inside red giant stars Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Study Of Ruiz Garcia' Rock Completed post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 March 2011 01:16:12 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Mar 31, 2011 Opportunity completed the in-situ contact investigation on the surface target Ruiz Garcia at Santa Maria crater . On Sol 2520 Feb . 25, 2011 the rover used the robotic arm Instrument Deployment Device , or IDD to collect a microscopic imager MI image mosaic of Ruiz Garcia . Then , it placed the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer
Method Launch Training In Full Swing At Kennedy Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . White Dwarfs Could Be Fertile Ground For Other Earths post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 March 2011 01:16:12 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Washington DC SPX Mar 31, 2011 Planet hunters have found hundreds of planets outside the solar system in the last decade , though it is unclear whether even one might be habitable . But it could be that the best place to look for planets that can support life is around dim , dying stars called white dwarfs . In a new paper published Tuesday
Method IAEA says Fukushima fallout warrants more evacuation Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . MSUA Honors KVH For Innovation In Satellite Communication post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 March 2011 01:16:12 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Middletown RI SPX Mar 31, 2011 In 2007, KVH Industries unveiled a revolutionary approach to satellite communications with the introduction of its mini-VSAT Broadband SM network and compact TracPhone V7 hardware . This breakthrough and the network's global expansion were honored recently as the Mobile Satellite Users Association
Method Plants that act like people Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . First Color Image Of Mercury From Orbit post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 March 2011 01:16:12 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Laurel MD SPX Mar 31, 2011 The first image acquired by MESSENGER from orbit around Mercury was actually part of an eight-image sequence , for which images were acquired through eight of the WAC's eleven filters . Here we see a color version of that first imaged terrain in this view the images obtained through the filters with central wavelengths of 1000 nm , 750 nm , and
Method Whale , Dolphin Deaths in Gulf Spill Underestimated Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Final Countdown Is Underway For Second Ariane 5 Flight Of 2011 post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 March 2011 01:16:12 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Kourou , French Guiana SPX Mar 31, 2011 Arianespace has begun the final countdown for today's heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana . Activities began with this morning's electrical systems checkout at the Spaceport , and are being followed by fueling of Ariane 5's cryogenic main stage . This
Method More-efficient computation Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Launch Training In Full Swing At Kennedy post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 March 2011 01:16:12 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Cape Canaveral FL SPX Mar 31, 2011 At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida , space shuttle Endeavour's six astronauts and ground crews will begin training related to the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test TCDT today . The STS-134 crew will practice driving the M113, an armored personnel carrier . Technicians at Launch Pad 39A will continue closing out the
Method Blastroid Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . MESSENGER offers close-up of mysterious Mercury post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 March 2011 01:16:12 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Washington AFP March 30, 2011 NASA celebrated Wednesday hundreds of stunning photographs from the Mercury MESSENGER probe as it began a year-long mission to orbit and map the solar system's mysterious innermost planet . After more than six and a half years and a 4.9-billion-mile 7.9-billion-kilometer journey , the spacecraft which stands for MErcury Surface , Space ENvironment ,
Two years after its launch, NASA's Kepler space telescope has detected more than 1,200 potential planets circling distant stars by tracking the slight dimming of tarlight.
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