SpaceX launch aborted; next attempt Tuesday
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Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Followup : Supereclipse SpaceX launch aborted next attempt Tuesday The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 this morning was aborted at literally the last second the sensors detected too high a pressure in a combustion chamber in one of the engines . Apparently this didn’t put the rocket in any danger , but it was outside the limits for an allowable launch so the computer shut things . down Here’s video of the last few seconds of the . countdown Ouch . My thoughts on this are pretty clear : it’s a bummer , but then again that’s all it is . Not a disaster , not a failure , just a

: Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Don’t forget the Space X launch SpaceX launch aborted next attempt Tuesday Followup : Supereclipse I wrote earlier about the annular eclipse happening this coming Sunday . It’s a solar eclipse , with the Moon blocking the Sun , but because the Moon is at apogee the point in its orbit farthest from Earth the Moon appears smaller in the sky , so it doesn’t completely block the Sun . We’re left with a ring of solar surface surrounding the Moon , the so-called Ring of . Fire I got a couple of people asking me why this eclipse is happening at lunar apogee when we just had a
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is now poised at the launch pad and set to open a completely new era in spaceflight. Hopes are sky high that Saturday mornings Falcon 9 launch represents the dawn of the commercial era in spaceflight akin to the startup of the commercial airline industry early in the 20th Century [...]
Today NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco announced that Dr. Rick Knabb has been named the new director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. He replaces the retiring Bill Read. As director Knabb is the face of NOAA’s forecast, and has the job of prompting emergency managers to take action in the face of hurricane threats. [...]
With less than a day left before SpaceX’s historic launch of the first commercial vehicle to the ISS, slated for 4:55 am EDT on Saturday, May 19, here’s a video of what will happen once the Falcon lifts off. (Part of me really wishes that they’ll be pumping out some dramatic music when it launches!) [...]
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The flare triggered a radiation storm intense enough to also cause radio blackouts.
There’s a truly fascinating research paper in the journal Science just out today. Scientists have drilled into the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, generally along the equator and into the North Pacific Gyre, to bring back samples of the clay there. They brought brought cores of sediment up to 90-feet deep into the seafloor. And [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS I was into astronomy when it was still astrology As promised : Jupiter and moons seen by SOHO Ring of fire eclipse on May 20 On Sunday , May 20, the Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun , creating a solar . eclipse However , this isn’t your usual event : because the Moon will be at apogee the farthest point in its orbit it won’t completely cover the face of the Sun . Instead of the Sun being totally blocked and the ethereal glow of its corona visible we’ll see an annular eclipse also called a Ring of Fire eclipse . The picture here from the October 2005 annular eclipse
Solar power gathered in space could be set to provide the renewable energy of the future thanks to innovative research being carried out by engineers at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft reached the International Space Station early Thursday, safely delivering a pair of cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut to the orbiting science laboratory. New arrivals Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin and Joseph Acaba were greeted by Expedition 31 commander Oleg Kononeko, NASA’s Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers, of the European Space [...]
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Want to go to space? We can take you. Say hello to the Challenger Learning Center and Family Space Day. The Challenger Learning Center opened at HMNS in 1988 after the tragic last flight of the space shuttle Challenger. A living, teaching memorial to the crew, the Challenger Center continues to teach children about space [...]
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover is on a roll. The robot had spent some 19 weeks parked in one spot to survive the Martian winter. Due to the setting sun, Opportunity’s solar power was too low for driving. The winter worksite was on the north slope of an outcrop called Greeley Haven. Opportunity has used [...]
Space Chronicles – Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Edited by Avis Lang); W.W. Norton & Co., New York; $26.95 (hardcover); 2012. This delightful read comes courtesy of a thoughtful, charismatic astrophysicist and renowned popular speaker – an alien blend that’s refreshing, entertaining and stimulating. Tyson has written a spirited why, how, and [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS If the Mayans were right , it was probably about Internet comments Big Picture Science : Antivaxxers and updates Help find Hubble’s Hidden Treasures I worked with Hubble Space Telescope data for about ten years , and one of the most amazing things about that was seeing the images fresh off the mirror . Knowing that no human on Earth had ever seen that particular object that sharply was a thrill . Not every Hubble observation gets turned into a gorgeous image , though . A lot of them don’t need to be for scientific publications , for one thing , and for another not every
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A three-man U. S.and Russian crew successfully lifted off for the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late Monday. The Soyuz capsule with Joseph Acaba, of NASA, and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin departed the Central Asian launch complex at 11:01 p.m., EDT, safely reaching orbit nine minutes later. Following a [...]
: Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Psychedelic space station stars and cities If the Mayans were right , it was probably about Internet comments WANT Part XIII : Moon throw When I’m getting the mid-afternoon drowsies , and looking for a comfortable , warm , cozy place to take a nap , what could possibly be better than the impact crater-scarred surface of the Moon This may be the greatest blanket throw in the history of blankets . Who wouldn’t want to cuddle up in a little regolith And ZOMFSM and it comes with matching pillows And there’s a floor cushion Supermoon , . indeed Tip o’ the spacesuit visor to Design
Any attempt to survey and catalog hazardous asteroids faces a number of difficulties. Coming to aid the effort are amateur astronomers, ready to boost the European Space Agency’s (ESA) asteroid hunt as part of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness program. A new partnership has been formed between the United Kingdom’s Faulkes Telescope Project and ESA. ESA [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Space X set to launch on Saturday May 19 WANT Part XIII : Moon throw Psychedelic space station stars and cities The view from the International Space Station is always pretty cool , but when an astronaut points the camera at the Earth’s horizon and takes a series of short exposures , adding them together gives a view right out of Haight-Ashbury in the : 1960s Click to psilocybinate . Whoa , man Astronaut Don Petit took the pictures to make this composite . Basically , it’s a series of eighteen 30-second exposures added together so the motion of the ISS around the Earth makes
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS China’s space lab has a spot in the Sun Psychedelic space station stars and cities Space X set to launch on Saturday May 19 The private company Space X is set to launch its Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon space capsule to the International Space Station on Saturday , May 19, with a backup launch date of May 22. The launch is set for 04:55 a.m . Eastern time , which is 09:55 08:55 UTC there’ll be a live webcast at Space X’s site and no doubt NASA TV will carry it as well . They have what’s called an instantaneous launch window which means if they don’t launch right on time they
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Time lapse of the midnight Sun Space X set to launch on Saturday May 19 China’s space lab has a spot in the Sun On May 11, the phenomenal astrophotographer Thierry Legault took another amazing picture of the Sun See Related Posts below for more of Thierry’s work that’s been featured here at the BA blog Setting up his equipment in the south of France , he captured this truly magnificent shot of our nearest star and when you finish picking your jaw off the floor , stick around , because your amazement isn’t done : yet Click to hugely ensolarnate . I know , right That HUGE sunspot
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Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The start of a long , long dance Re-cycled Mayan calendar nonsense Phyt O’Plankton I’ve written about pictures from space of ocean-borne phytoplankton blooms see Related Posts below but I recently saw a new : one This one was new to me for two reasons . For one , I hadn’t seen one such a bloom off the coast of Ireland before the three I’ve posted previously were south of the Equator . You can see the coast of Mayo County in Ireland there on the . right Second , it was from a satellite I’d never heard of : SPOT-5. This is a European Space Agency satellite that observes the Earth
, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS A banner day for me on reddit Phyt O’Plankton The start of a long , long dance A hundred million light years away , two gorgeous spiral galaxies are locked in an embrace that may end with them merging , a dance spread across a hundred thousand light years in space and a hundred million years of . time Click to galactinate , and yeah , just do it . The hi-res version is big and lush and lovely indeed . This image taken by frequent BABlog contributor Adam Block , shows this cosmic waltz in lovely detail another wonderful image is available via the ESO as well UPDATE : and from
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