Das Weblog von Stefan Grund, der im Netz als @eay unterwegs ist und hier seit 2003 über Medien, Popkultur und Technologie schreibt. Mehr »
Honda? Gerade nachgeguckt: Sie haben 2021 mit R&D im Bereich Weltraumtechnologien begonnen und 2024 die ersten erfolgreichen Triebwerktests durchgeführt. Beeindruckend, wie schnell sie wie weit gekommen sind. Hier ein Video des Tests.
Und gut zu wissen: Es gibt eine Welt nach SpaceX.
Honda Global | Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket*1 (6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter, 900 kg dry weight/1,312 kg wet weight) developed independently by Honda. The test...
I found out about the data stream from https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/, which has considerably more and more interesting stats than just how full the piss tank is.
I will not be adding any of them.
The Satellite Transit Finder is a web application designed to aid planning the observations of lunar and solar transits of the few largest artificial satellites of our planet: the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope and Tiangong (Chinese Space Station). It is designed to be intuitive and easy to understand even for non-astronomically inclined observers.
This can then be used to time sightings like these.
(Nov. 28, 2022) On flight day 13, Orion reached its maximum distance from Earth during the Artemis I mission when it was 268,563 miles away from our home planet. Orion has now traveled farther than any other spacecraft built for humans.
Es gibt ein „NASA e-Book Archive“ mit ein paar Dutzend Veröffentlichungen jeweils kostenlos als EPUB, Mobi und PDFs. (via Eli)
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019. A version without the rover contains nearly 1.8 billion pixels; a version with the rover contains nearly 650 million pixels. Both versions are composed of more than 1,000 images that were carefully assembled over the following months.
Astronauts on the International Space Station need to relax, just like the rest of us. So it’s no surprise that there are movies and TV shows on board for them to watch. I’ve obtained the complete list through a Freedom of Information request.
From the Millennium Falcon to the USS Enterprise, science fiction has shown us a vast array of out-of-this-world spaceships that defy our rules of physics. We´ve rounded up some of your favorite intergalactic crafts from television, film and video games, along with real NASA spacecraft, to compare and speculate who has the fastest ship in the universe.
(via Kottke)
Oskar Pernefeldt hat sich eine Flagge für unseren Planeten ausgedacht:
Current expeditions in outer space use different national flags depending on which country is funding the voyage. The space travelers, however, are more than just representatives of their own countries. They are representatives of planet Earth.
Find ich gut.
Spaceprob.es catalogs the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system and dot our galaxy. For each space probe, we’ve affectionately crafted a short-and-sweet summary as well as handpicked geeky hyperlinks we think are worth exploring.
(via Kottke)