Rocket Lab will be launching its Electron rocket on a mission for Alba Orbital and ALE Co., Ltd (ALE), from Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. The 14-day launch window for this mission is open beginning from November 25th at 01:00 NZDT. (November 24th 10:00 UTC)
SpaceX will be launching their Starlink satellites on their flight-proven 1 st stage B1048.4. This particular 1 st stage has already flown thrice and will become the first booster to fly for the fourth time. It has flown the previous missions Nusantara Satu in February of 2019, Saocom 1A in October of 2018 and Iridium-7 in July of 2018. The rocket will lift off at Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida at 14:51:00 UTC and at 09:51:00 local time.
Today we’re going to look at the history of aerospike engines, go over how nozzles work including things like overexpansion, underexpansion and even expansion ratios, we’ll look at the pros and cons of the aerospike, the physical limitations and problems, then we’ll compare the aerospike to some other traditional rocket engines.
But that’s not all, I obtained never seen before photos and videos of some aerospikes, we’ll get opinions from some people who have actually worked with aerospike engines, look at some promising prospects and compelling concepts and by the end of the video we’ll hopefully know whether or not the holy grail of rocket engines is just waiting to be utilized or if aerospikes just simply aren’t worth it.
In a far far away exo-planetary system astronomers found evidence of VOLCANIC activity on one of the Moons orbiting a Super Earth! Astronomers at the Physics Insitute of the University of Bern and the NCCR PlanetS, found evidence of volcanic […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) August 19, 2019 12:12 UTC (August 20, 2019 12:12 AM NZST) 1 hour and 40 minute launch window open daily from August 16 – 30, 2019 Mission Name and what it is Look […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) August 22, 2019 13:00 – 13:27 UTC (9:00 – 9:27 AM EDT) Mission Name and what it is GPS III SV02. The second launch of a third generation GPS satellite Launch Provider (What rocket […]
Rocket Lab just announced they plan to try and recover their Electron rockets using a parachute and a helicopter… Yeah, seriously.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) August 6, 2019 23:23 – August 7, 2019 00:20 UTC (August 6, 2019 7:23 – 8:20 PM EDT) Mission Name and what it is AMOS-17. Communications Satellite Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching […]
One topic I get asked about often regarding long duration trips in space is food. If astronauts are away from home for 6 months, like when they are on the International Space Station (ISS), or for around 2 years, like […]
One of the most interesting subjects to me lately is astrobiology. This is ironic because I was so bad at bio in school, but lately scientists have been finding so many forms of evidence showing that life can exist beyond […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) July 25, 2019 22:01 UTC (6:01 PM EDT) Mission Name and what it is CRS-18. A cargo Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) Two hour launch window daily from 04:30 – 06:30 UTC (4:30 – 6:30 PM NZDT) from June 27th through July 10th, 2019 Mission Name and what it is Make It Rain. A rideshare […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) August 8, 2019 09:44 – 11:44 UTC (5:44 – 7:44 AM EDT) Mission Name and what it is AEHF-5. The fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite for the US Air Force Launch […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) June 25, 2019 03:30 – 07:30 UTC (June 24, 2019 11:30 PM – June 25, 2019 3:00 AM EDT) This is a 4 hour launch window Mission Name and what it is Space […]
Here’s a fun question that not only have I myself asked, but I get asked fairly often, why do we hear a call out like “roger roll” or “roll program complete” at which point we can see the rocket rotate or roll on its X axis…
The best example of this was the Space Shuttle which had a very obvious and dramatic roll program. As soon as it cleared the tower, you can see it making a very impressive and sometimes scary looking roll.
YES-you heard that right. The International Space Station has announced that they will start allowing tourists to come onboard starting in 2020!! Hear that flat-earthers? This is your chance to answer your undying questions about the shape of our planet. […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) NET June 12, 2019 14:17 UTC (7:17 AM PDT) Mission Name and what it is RADARSAT. A trio of Earth observation satellites Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) SpaceX Customer (who’s […]
SpaceX’s new raptor engine is a methane fueled full flow staged combustion cycle engine and its so hard to develop, no engine like this has ever flown before!Now this topic can be really intimidating so in order to bring the Raptor engine into context, we’re going to do an overview of a few common types of rocket engine cycles then compare the Raptor to a few other common rocket engines, like SpaceX’s current work horse, the Merlin, The Space Shuttle’s RS-25, the RD-180, Blue Origin’s BE-4 and the F-1 engine.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) May 24, 2019 02:30 – 03:30 UTC (May 23, 2019 10:30 PM – 12:00 AM EDT) This is a 90 minute launch window Mission Name and what it is Starlink. A launch of 60 […]
Behold one my of FAVORITE topics to talk about! DUST. And lots of it! Because this is what seeds the potential for new life. And very recently astronomers found a microbe-sized extraterrestrial particle that came from a supernova from over […]
Next time you feel like you’re getting old, try thinking about this supernova remnant which is over 2000 years old. This thing is as old is 48 BC but it actually is the oldest astrophysics event to ever be determined […]
Stars normally contain magnesium and at high levels, however astronomers just discovered the first star that contains a small amount of magnesium in it. And this matters A LOT because this shows us where the star originated from. You see, […]
Lift Off Time May 5, 2019 06:00 – 10:00 UTC (18:00 – 22:00 NZDT) The launch window is open until May 17th. Mission Name and what it is STP-27RD. 3 experimental satellites for the U.S. Air Force’s Space Test […]
There’s a new trend going around in the commercial space industry when it comes to launch abort systems. All three commercial companies who are putting abort systems on their crewed vehicles have ditched the classic launch abort tower we’ve seen dominate abort systems in the past.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) May 4, 2019 06:48 UTC (2:48 AM EDT) Mission Name and what it is CRS-17. A cargo Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) April 17, 2019 20:46 – 20:51 UTC (4:46 – 4:51 PM EDT) This is a 5 minute launch window Mission Name and what it is Cygnus NG-11. A cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) April 10, 2019 22:35 – April 11, 2019 00:32 UTC (April 10, 2019 6:35 – 8:32 PM EDT) This is a 1 hour and 57 minute launch window Mission Name and what it […]
Surrounded by members of the National Space Council (NSC) at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Vice President Mike Pence announced a new goal for NASA: Put American astronauts back on the surface of the Moon by […]
A pulsar, which is a rapidly spinning neutron star that emits a beam of radiation from its poles was just found flying through interstellar space!! It’s moving at around 1100 km/s from its point of origin (a supernova remnant) and […]
With frequent changes to the sleep-wake cycle of an astronaut to experiencing social separation and being confined to a small space, astronauts experience physical side-effects including a weakened immune system during spaceflight. It has been measured through multiple experimentations by […]
Astronomers just determined the exact weight of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time! And it’s weight 1.5 trillion solar masses! For years there have been an estimates of it’s weight being somewhere between 500 million to 3 trillion […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) March 22, 2019 01:50 UTC Mission Name and what it is PRISMA spacecraft, Earth observation Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Arianespace Customer (who’s paying for this?) Italian Space Agency Rocket […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) March 21st, 2019 22:30 UTC – TBD Mission Name and what it is Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) RocketLab Customer (who’s paying for […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) 15 March 2019 22:56 – 16 March 2019 01:05 UTC (March 15, 2019 6:56 – 9:05 PM EDT) Mission Name and what it is WGS-10. 10th Wideband Global SATCOM satellite Launch Provider (What […]
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft completed an Atlantic Ocean splashdown this morning, Friday March 8, at 8:45am EST, about 200 miles (~320 kilometers) east of Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft’s hatch was closed yesterday at 12:25pm EST, March 7, and undocked from the station at 2:32am EST this morning. Following a 15 minute deorbit burn at 7:54am EST, and a successful parachute deployment, Crew Dragon was recovered by SpaceX’s Go Searcher recovery ship and is making its way back to Port Canaveral.
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) March 2, 2019 07:49 UTC (2:49 AM EST) Mission Name and what it is SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1 (DM-1) Uncrewed first flight of the crew version of Dragon 2 Launch Provider (What rocket company […]
Have you ever heard of the cow in the northern sky? Well, last year on august 17th the W. M. Keck telescope in Hawaii detected a bright object burst in the northern sky and astronomers named it AT2018cow or just […]
Today we’re going to take a deep dive on the two new spaceships that will be responsible for taking humans to and from the International Space Station from the United States. We’ll compare the Boeing Starliner riding an Atlas V rocket to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon on their Falcon 9 Rocket. And to see how we’ve progressed in the world of human spaceflight, we’ll also compare all these systems along side Russia’s Soyuz capsule and the United State’s retired Space Shuttle in a side by side comparison. We’ll look at the designs, the rockets they’ll ride, dimensions, cost, safety considerations, and any other unique features that each vehicle offers. Considering I’ve been up close and personal with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Capsule, and Boeing’s Starliner, I’ve got some good insight on some of these vehicles, so let’s get started!
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) February 22, 2019 01:45 UTC (February 21, 2019 8:45 PM EST) Mission Name and what it is Nusantara Satu (PSN VI) – Telecommunications satellite Spaceflight GTO-1 (Beresheet – Lunar lander + S5 – […]
Launch Window & Actual Lift Off Time February 6th, 2018 18:30 – 21:00 UTC (1:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST) 20:45 UTC (3:45 PM EST) Mission Name and What Was It Falcon Heavy Demo. Test flight of SpaceX’s heavy lift […]
Light has been traveling for 13 billion years across the universe to reach telescopes today, and some of that light has come from black holes!! Yes – light – from a black hole, that is the event horizon, technically. Which […]
SpaceX’s upcoming rocket called Starship Super Heavy formerly known as BFR, will no longer be made out of lightweight Carbon Composites, it’ll sweat a lot, and just MIGHT need a TON of WD-40.
All of my Star Trek fans listen up!! Do you all remember when Gene Roddenberry wrote a letter to sky & telescope magazine in 1991 about a prediction he made that there’s an intelligent civilization residing on a planet orbiting […]
Lift Off Time (Subject to change) January 11, 2019 15:31 UTC (7:31 AM PST) Mission Name and what it is Iridium 8. Launch of 10 Iridium Next satellites Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) SpaceX Customer (who’s […]
Found 20.5 lightyears from Earth in the constellation of Libra, is a planetary system, Gliese 581. And in this system contains an Earth-like planet Gliese 581 d, or unofficially known as Zarmina. Gliese 581 contains a red dwarf star at the […]
It is New Year’s Eve, and what better way to celebrate than a monumental moment of the New Horizons spacecraft flying past the most distant object in our solar system to ever be explored, aka Ultima Thule. This is the […]
Astronomers discovered a protostar that formed in the accretion disk of another protostar!!! Now let me explain all those indigestible terms – a protostar is simply a the stage just before a newborn star fully develops into a star, just […]
Lift Off Time January 23, 2019 14:50 UTC (8:50 AM CST) Mission Name and what it is NS10 – The tenth launch of the New Shepherd rocket Launch Provider (What rocket company is launching it?) Blue Origin Customer (who’s […]
A new finding shows 20 sharp images of proto-planetary disks that has never been seen like this before. Proto-planetary disks are the early stages of planetary systems forming, there are endless possibilities for life planets to form and if they are located in at a good distance from their star, then the chance for habitable life to form is likely. And now we have 20 high-resolution images that reveal gaps and rings in the disks around a very young newborn star.
Blue Origin, perhaps the sleeping giant of the aerospace industry, will be going from a tiny suborbital rocket, to one of the biggest rockets ever made…
Today, we’re finally going to do a quick rundown on Blue Origin, talk about their upcoming New Glenn rocket and then compare it to some of the other Heavy Lift Launchers it will be competing against.
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