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  1. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News IGS Optical-6 - H-IIA F38 Feb. 27, 2018 (04:34-04:48 UTC)

    A Japanese H-IIA rocket will launch the six optical reconnaissance in Japan’s Information Gathering Satellite System. This is the second in the third generation of optical imaging satellites orbited by the Japanese in a program initiated in 2003 to end reliance on foreign allies provided...
  2. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News SpaceX F9 Paz & Microsat-2a, -2b (6:17 a.m. PST, 14:17 UTC, Thursday, February 22)

    A successful launch! Launch video: Footages from the Californian coast. SpaceX Falcon 9 PAZ Satellite Launch [Los Angeles,CA] - YouTube Good separation of Paz. Microsat separation is outside of ground coverage. But they should be confirmed on social media platforms. By the way, the...
  3. Nicholas Kang

    Updates MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) Updates

    MRO is in trouble! NASA: Diagnostic Work is Focus for Resuming Service and Exiting Safe Standby Status About MRO:
  4. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News SpaceX F9 Paz & Microsat-2a, -2b (6:17 a.m. PST, 14:17 UTC, Thursday, February 22)

    SpaceX F9 Paz & Microsat-2a, -2b (6:17 a.m. PST, 14:17 UTC, Thursday, February 22) SpaceX is now targeting a Falcon 9 launch of the PAZ satellite to low-Earth orbit on Thursday, February 22 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The Feb. 21st...
  5. Nicholas Kang

    Happy Chinese New Year!

    It's the Year of Dog! May all space launches go well this year! 新年快乐! 狗年好运汪汪来! (See if you can understand what I am saying above... :lol:)
  6. Nicholas Kang

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    History made! New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt With its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has observed several Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and dwarf planets at unique phase angles, as well as Centaurs at extremely high phase angles to search...
  7. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (1330-1630 EST 6th Feb. 2018)

    The last image before her voyage to Mars orbit and the asteroid belt. Farewell Spaceman! https://www.instagram.com/p/Be6VZEzgAEk/ This is impressive! Ryan Chylinski on Twitter: "Game changer. Falcon Heavy is the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two...
  8. Nicholas Kang

    Planets Discovered in Another Galaxy!

    Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing Thanks to a new study by a team of astrophysicists from the University of Oklahoma, the first planets beyond our galaxy have been discovered! Using a technique predicting by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, this...
  9. Nicholas Kang

    Updates James Webb Space Telescope updates

    Arrived at California! Further testing and integration at Northtop Grumman facility. NASA: Combined Optics, Science Instruments of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Arrive in California The two halves of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now reside at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in...
  10. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (1330-1630 EST 6th Feb. 2018)

    Latest update: Actually, The Roadster has a driver... The driver is a spacesuit-clad dummy passenger dubbed “Starman".
  11. Nicholas Kang

    Updates World's 1st L5 mission: ESA Sun-monitoring Space Weather Mission

    Where No Mission Has Gone Before Living near a star is risky business, and positioning a spacecraft near the Sun is a very good way to observe rapidly changing solar activity and deliver early warning of possibly harmful space weather. ESA is now looking at doing just that. “One of the best...
  12. Nicholas Kang

    News PLD Space Arion 2 Microlauncher

    A new European (micro)launcher! PLD Space on Twitter: "IT IS OFFICIAL: @ESA awards Spain´s @PLD_Space´s #ARION2 proposal for a small satellite orbital #Microlauncher. #Smallsats #Spain #Technology #Science… https://t.co/FRw6zusfTa" PLD Space on Twitter: "#ARION2 is a three stages...
  13. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News SUCCESS: Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat (Vostochny) Kanopus-V #3 & 4 - Feb. 1, 2018 (02:07 UTC)

    Live in about an hour: (Russian Commentary) In other news, SpaceX GovSat-1 Mission was a success.
  14. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News SUCCESS: Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat (Vostochny) Kanopus-V #3 & 4 - Feb. 1, 2018 (02:07 UTC)

    SUCCESS: Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat (Vostochny) Kanopus-V #3 & 4 - Feb. 1, 2018 (02:07 UTC) A Russian government-operated Soyuz will launch the Kanopus-V No. 3 and 4 Earth Observation Satellites into a Sun Synchronous Orbit from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far east. This will be the third...
  15. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News SUCCESS: SpaceX F9 SES 16/GovSat-1 (Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 4:25 p.m. EST/21:25 UTC)

    SpaceX is now targeting launch of the GovSat-1 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Wednesday, January 31, at 4:25 p.m. EST, or 21:25 UTC. The satellite will deploy approximately 32 minutes after...
  16. Nicholas Kang

    News Ikea Founder Died - RIP Ingvar Kamprad

    :( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42851668 I love his furniture design. Too bad he passed away. RIP.
  17. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News Ariane 5 (VA241) : SES-14 (with NASA GOLD payload) & Al Yah-3 : Jan. 25, 2018

    A trove of videos for all of you space geeks. :lol: Live broadcast: SES-14 Presentation: Al Yah 3 Presentation: NASA GSFC GOLD Payload Presentation:
  18. Nicholas Kang

    Updates Google Lunar X-Prize Updates

    It ended... without a winner. An Important Update From Google Lunar XPRIZE Other news source: Spacenews.com, New York Times They are so near to the Moon, yet so far...
  19. Nicholas Kang

    Orbiter Screenshot Thread

    From the Moon to Earth DG in LLO. The Sagittarius constellation and the Milky Way backdrop the scene while the lunar crater Plato can be seen to the right.
  20. Nicholas Kang

    Launch News Ariane 5 (VA241) : SES-14 (with NASA GOLD payload) & Al Yah-3 : Jan. 25, 2018

    Embarking on its first mission of the year, Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket will be tasked with carrying a pair of commercial communications satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit. SES-14 is an all-electric satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space, hosting a hybrid C- and Ku-Band payload and a...
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