I’m a little late on this one, but here we have the launch highlights video for the AEHF-4 launch from earlier this week. It was all in all another wonderful Atlas V launch. Yep. This video has the usual clips of the assembly and rollout of the Atlas V followed by some nice shots of …
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BepiColombo Begins Its Mission To Mercury – Ariane 5 Flight VA245
Mercury isn’t a very well understood planet, and up until relatively recently, it was considered a boring, dead world not worth focusing on. All this changed with NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft and its amazing mission to Mercury discovered evidence of water ice on the incredibly hot planet. BepiColombo is a joint ESA and JAXA mission to …
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AEHF4 Successfully Launches On An Atlas V Rocket
The United States Air Force AEHF4 payload was successfully launched on time this morning at 12:15AM Eastern from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on an Atlas V rocket. This launch marks the 131st mission for United Launch Alliance and their 50th launch for the Air Force. It’s the 79th Atlas V rocket launch and the …
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4K Launch Video Of Soyuz MS-10
Here we have an interesting clip of the initial launch and ascent of the failed Soyuz MS-10 launch on Thursday, October 11th. This footage looks to have been taken from a drone flying a few hundred feet away, and is indeed good quality, albeit still a “from the ground” view. The video seems to end …
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Atlas V AEHF-4 Mission Profile
We’ve got another awesome Atlas V launch tonight; this time an Atlas 551 configuration, one of the most powerful variations available of the Atlas V with 5 solid rocket boosters, will be launching the fourth satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency series for the U.S. Air Force. This is a slightly different launch, in that …
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I’m Back From My Trip To Huntsville
Yep. The little vacation is done. I’ve actually been back since Friday but I wanted to take some time and hang out more with my friend who I went on the trip with and who was only in town as a part of his own vacation and also took Sunday to just try to rest …
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Beginning My Trip To The U.S. Space And Rocket Center And More!
This is a fun one. At the time this is publishing and I’d hope many are reading this article, I’m on my way with a friend to Huntsville, Alabama, to pay a visit to the U.S. Space And Rocket Center! I’ve not been there since 5th grade, which was early 1996 and while I know …
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50 Years Ago: The Launch Of Apollo 7
This is it. 50 years ago today on October 11th, 1968 the manned portion of the Apollo Program began with the launch of Apollo 7, a mission designed to test the newly redesigned Apollo Command / Service Module in Earth orbit with an actual crew for up to 2 weeks – the estimated length of …
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The Soyuz MS-10 Mission Ends In A Launch Abort!
I certainly wasn’t expecting to wake up to this bit of news, but it’s a statistical probability – this morning Soyuz MS-10 launch ended about 2 minutes into flight with an abort after some kind of anomaly with the Soyuz booster. As of right now, the news is spotty, but the good news is the …
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The Soyuz MS-10 Rollout
In what I think is going to become a trend here, it’s time to share a video of the rollout of Soyuz MS-10 to its launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a vehicle set to launch just a few hours from now as I write this entry. I’ve mentioned before that I love the …
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An Exomoon? Around My Exoplanet? It’s More Likely Than You Think!
It’s not often I get to bring up an old, terrible meme in the title of an article, but I felt this one was right for this topic, which is a pretty awesome one – back on October 5th it was annoucned that a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system – an …
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The Return Of Soyuz MS-08
October 4th marked not only the 61st anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, but also marked the return to Earth of the Soyuz MS-08 mission and its crew from their 6 month stay at the International Space Station. I normaly don’t cover landings but sometimes I feel it worth sharing thanks to the relatively good …
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Arianespace Flight VA243 – “Behind the Scenes of the Dream” – Ariane 5 Flight 100
Here we have an awesome little video that Arianespace produced for the 100th launch of the Ariane 5 – Flight VA243 – showing some awesome views of engine ignition and lift off. I never get tired of seeing this kind of detailed footage of these launches, of the raw power of these machines as they …
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61 Years Ago: The Launch Of Sputnik 1
October 4th is one of my favorite days of the year for one awesome reason – it’s the day in 1958 where the Soviet Union successfully orbited the worlds first satellite – Sputnik 1. The first in a string of amazing achievements for humanity (not just on a national level) and our first steps out …
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Parker Solar Probe Makes Its First Venus Flyby
This morning the Parker Solar Probe made a flyby of the planet Venus as a part of its path to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is using the gravity of Venus to slow it down in such a way as to take it closer to the Sun on each successive orbit, eventually bringing it …
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