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NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed has begun its experiments after completing its checkout on the International Space Station. The SCaN test bed is an advanced, integrated communications laboratory facility that uses a new generation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology to allow researchers to develop, test and demonstrate advanced communications, networking and navigation technologies in space. This radio communication technology is based on a new standard...
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed has begun its experiments after completing its checkout on the International Space Station. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The SCaN test bed is an advanced, integrated communications laboratory facility that uses a new generation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology to allow researchers to develop, test and demonstrate advanced...
HOUSTON, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students in the state of Texas will speak with Expedition 35 astronaut Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station at 10:35 a.m. CDT Thursday, May 2, at Fredericksburg High School. Media representatives are invited to attend. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Students will ask the astronauts questions about life, work and research aboard the orbiting space station. To attend the event,...
BRISTOL, Pa., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DUNMORE Corporation multi-layer insulation (MLI) materials protected the launch vehicle and its cargo delivery system Wednesday as a successful launch of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program (COTS) test mission was conducted from Orbital Sciences' Wallops Island launch facility. DUNMORE MLI material is incorporated into the cargo compartment and control module of the Cygnus spacecraft that the Antares rocket launched into...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA’s commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully test-launched its Antares rocket Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m. EST after several days of scrubbed attempts. The rocket lifted-off from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. This afternoon’s test flight was the first for Launch Pad 0A and the first flight for Orbital’s Antares rocket, which...
First Time that Two Women Astronauts are Enshrined CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle astronauts Curt Brown, Eileen Collins and Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., today joined an elite group of American space heroes with their induction into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame(®) during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130420/NY98460 ) (Logo:...
WATCH VIDEO: [Wringing Out Water On The ISS -- For Science] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed a science experiment to look into the effects of weightlessness on washcloths being wrung out. Commander Chris Hadfield performed the experiment live on the orbiting laboratory. The experiment was designed by two 10th grade students from Lockview High School in Fall River, Nova Scotia. The Canadian Space...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Hundreds of experts from all over the world will be meeting at Europe's largest-ever space debris forum next week to discuss the latest findings on the growing problem of space junk. Space debris not only poses problems to other satellites and spacecraft in orbit but it is also hazardous to astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Scientists believe there could be around 29,000 objects larger than 4 inches, 670,000...
NASA Test conductors at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., are making progress on the agency's new rocket by listening closely to the roar of four thrusters. The agency is developing the new rocket, called the Space Launch System, or SLS, at Marshall. This vehicle will enable space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and take astronauts farther into space than ever before. Marshall engineers recently assembled and ignited a sub-scale collection of thrusters to...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Update 4 (April 20, 4:00 p.m.) Excessive wind levels have forced NASA and Orbital to once again delay the launch of the Antares Rocket. Today’s 5:00 p.m. EDT launch has been scrubbed and the team will try again for a Sunday afternoon launch at 5:00 p.m. Mission managers decided to pull the plug on today’s launch after high-altitude wind speeds were found to exceed range safety restrictions. NASA TV coverage will begin at 4:30...
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Roberto Vittori is an ESA astronaut as well as an Italian Air Force Officer and a test pilot for the United States. Vittorri was born on October 15, 1964 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy and attended the Italian Air Force Academy, graduating in 1989. While working towards his graduation from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland in 1995, Vittori operated the Tornado GR1 along with the 50th Wing of the 155th Squadron in Piacenza, Italy from 1991 to 1994. During this time, he...
Stephen Nathaniel Frick is an American astronaut having flown two Space Shuttle missions. Frick was also appointed as a United States Naval officer and qualified as an F/A-18 fighter pilot. Frick was born on September 30, 1964 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Pine-Richland High School in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania in 1982. After receiving his high school diploma, Frick went on to the United States Naval Academy in 1986 to earn his Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace...
Janice Elaine Voss was a NASA astronaut as well as an American Engineer whom flew in space five times placing her at first for holding the record for American women. Voss was born on October 8, 1956 in South Bend, Indiana. She attended Minnechaug Regional High School in Wilbraham, Massachusetts and graduated in 1972. She then attended Purdue University to receive her bachelor’s degree in engineering while concurrently working at the Johnson Space Center. After Purdue University, Voss...
Lodewijk van den Berg is a naturalized American chemical engineer born in the Netherlands whom was rather dedicated to crystal growth and also rode aboard as a payload specialist on the 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission. He was born in Sluiskil, Netherlands on March 24, 1932. He worked to get his Engineer’s degree in chemical engineering at the Delft University of Technology in Netherlands from 1949 to 1961. After moving to the United States, Van den Berg continued his education to...
Rex Walheim is a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. He was born Rex Joseph Walheim on October 10, 1962 in Redwood City, California. He graduated from San Carlos High School in 1980 and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Upon his graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. The following April, he was assigned to work as a missile warning operations crew...
