Orbital Blue » News http://orbitalblue.com Getting The Journey Paid For Is The Reward Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:40:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Space Race 2.0 Takes Off http://orbitalblue.com/2011/12/16/space-race-2-0-takes-off/ http://orbitalblue.com/2011/12/16/space-race-2-0-takes-off/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:39:46 +0000 admin http://orbitalblue.com/?p=295

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]]> http://orbitalblue.com/2011/08/09/bloomberg-interview-with-elon-musk/feed/ 0 The Last External Tank http://orbitalblue.com/2011/07/14/the-last-external-tank/ http://orbitalblue.com/2011/07/14/the-last-external-tank/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:40:29 +0000 admin http://orbitalblue.com/?p=277

External tank, ET-138, in an image captured with a hand-held camera July 8 by astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis after their launch from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The external tank, “gas tank” for the orbiter, contains the propellants used by the space shuttle main engines. Approximately 8.5 minutes into shuttle Atlantis’ flight, with its propellant [...]]]>

Last External Tank (NASA, Space Shuttle, 7/8/11)

External tank, ET-138, in an image captured with a hand-held camera July 8 by astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis after their launch from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The external tank, “gas tank” for the orbiter, contains the propellants used by the space shuttle main engines. Approximately 8.5 minutes into shuttle Atlantis’ flight, with its propellant used, ET-138 was jettisoned. When it encountered the upper atmosphere, the tank heats up and disintegrates. As it enters the lower atmosphere it plunges before breaking apart. After a fiery descent through the atmosphere, ET-138 will break up into hundreds of small pieces of metal and plunge toward the 11,000 foot depths of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, east of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania.

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]]> http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/27/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-animation/feed/ 0 A REALLY Inconvenient Truth: A Dan Miller Lecture http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/21/263/ http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/21/263/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:52:11 +0000 admin http://orbitalblue.com/?p=263

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]]> http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/21/263/feed/ 0 Tumbleweed Rovers Could Explore Mars http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/20/tumbleweed-rovers-could-explore-mars/ http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/20/tumbleweed-rovers-could-explore-mars/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:06:16 +0000 admin http://orbitalblue.com/?p=261

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]]> http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/20/tumbleweed-rovers-could-explore-mars/feed/ 0 VIDEO: Departing the International Space Station http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/10/video-departing-the-international-space-station/ http://orbitalblue.com/2011/06/10/video-departing-the-international-space-station/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:46:58 +0000 admin http://orbitalblue.com/?p=253 Just breathtaking.

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Gallery

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Gallery

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]]> http://orbitalblue.com/2011/05/24/photos-nasas-multi-purpose-crew-vehicle-for-deep-space-flights/feed/ 0 All 1,200 newly discovered exoplanets in one star system http://orbitalblue.com/2011/02/10/all-1200-newly-discovered-exoplanets-in-one-star-system/ http://orbitalblue.com/2011/02/10/all-1200-newly-discovered-exoplanets-in-one-star-system/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:05:21 +0000 admin http://orbitalblue.com/?p=237 From Jer Thorp, an artist from Vancouver, animating what it would look like if the 1,200 new exoplanets discovered by the Kepler orbiting telescope were in one single gigantic star system.

Amazing.

Kepler Exoplanet Candidates from blprnt on Vimeo.

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Amazing.

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