Thursday, 31 October 2013

About half-way: another short update on GOCE, 10 days after its engine cut off

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Ten days ago the ion engine of GOCE , the European Space Agency 's 1-tonne Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer s...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Tracking Prowler

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Last week I imaged Prowler again, the classified spacecraft we amateur trackers indicate with the informal Cospar code 2009-097E. The objec...
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

A Space Buff Watches 'Gravity'

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* WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS! * Last Wednesday the GF and I went to the cinema to see Gravity , the latest Space-themed blockbuster mo...
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Saturday, 26 October 2013

A short update on GOCE, five days after engine cut-off

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It is now five days ago that the ion engine of GOCE , the European Space Agency 's 1-tonne Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circula...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

[Updated diagrams] GOCE is falling!

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[diagrams updated 23 Oct 2013, 9:15 UT]  GOCE , The European Space Agency's 1-tonne slick Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circul...
Saturday, 12 October 2013

Past and future of the KH-11 Keyhole/Evolved Enhanced CRYSTAL constellation (part 4)

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In a number of previous posts from the last month ( this one being the most pertinent one ), I probed the changes to the KH-11 Keyhole/CRYST...
Monday, 30 September 2013

A farewell to GOCE

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In the past, I have observed ESA's gravity probe GOCE (2009-013A), the Gravity field and steady state Ocean Circulation Explorer, a nu...
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Sunday, 29 September 2013

ISS and Cygnus

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On September 18, Orbital Science Corporation launched an Antares rocket from Wallops , with the Cygnus COTS demo as payload. Just like Spac...
Saturday, 28 September 2013

Hanging out with Astronauts: ESA/DLR's SocialSpace Cologne, 22 September 2013

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(note: click the images with this post to get larger versions) It can be safely said that unless you work in the space industry, you won...
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