2013-05-22
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Voyager space probe diagram, posted by x-ray delta one (via balnibarbi)
2013-05-20
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2013-05-17
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Space Situational Awareness (SSA) (by AstriumTV, via stml)
A list of the text captions from the video:
- Debris must be monitored
- Complex systems needed
- Surveillance, Tracking & Analysis
- Conjunction Prediction
- Trajectories Prediction
- Imaging requires data policy
- Space Weather Surveillance
- Solar Eruption Impact
- Ariane Launch
- Adaptation: safe de-orbitation
- Active Debris Removal
- For a safer space.
2013-04-23
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“Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov on aboard the Voskhod-2 spacecraft. Leonov became the first person to ever to conduct a spacewalk on the 18th of March, 1965.” from an io9 post of photos from the Soviet and Intercosmos programmes (via).
The Soviet space effort certainly cut some corners. Unlike NASA, whose Gemini two-man capsule was completely different to the Mercury design, “The Voskhod spacecraft was basically a Vostok spacecraft that had a backup, solid fuel retrorocket added to the top of the descent module”. Still, it worked.
2013-04-22
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dabcanboulet: Islands of London on Everything2.com (via)
It’s been over a decade ago since I had that experience regularly, but I know exactly what this feels like. He’s right: this is a great way to learn the city.
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Berlin at night from space, with the old west and east still visible:
“Berlin was divided into two parts for over 40 years,” explains Christa Mientus-Schirmer of Berlin’s city government. “And although we’ve made a lot of progress in the 20 years since the wall fell, we haven’t had the money we would have liked to equalise the two parts of the city.”
Daniela Augenstine, of the city’s street furniture department, says: “In the eastern part there are sodium-vapour lamps with a yellower colour. And in the western parts there are fluorescent lamps – mercury arc lamps and gas lamps – which all produce a whiter colour.” The western Federal Republic of Germany long favoured non-sodium lamps on the grounds of cost, maintenance and carbon emissions, she says.
Guardian quote via chriswoebken.
2013-04-16
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Blueprints for a rocket in the Soyuz family.
This post is an inverted version of this image, via
2013-03-27
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Remember the ISS photography maps from Nathan Bergey? The ones where he asked “Draw a dot for the location of every photo of Earth taken from space what do we see?” Well, everyone loves an animated gif, so here’s the final “mission mapped separately” image rejigged as an animation.
It’s a little janky, because despite being a developer not a designer I ended up wrangling this in Photoshop, but hopefully you like it anyway.
2013-03-25
The Colour Of Space
- Fletcher: And this color, red, it doesn’t make much sense to me.
- Low: What would be better?
- Fletcher: Blue makes more sense… Space is blue.
- Low: No Dr. Fletcher, Space is black!
2013-03-12
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Comet Pan-STARRS as seen by one of the two NASA Stereo solar observation probes, about six hours ago (via)
