Bigelow Aerospace, A new Genesis in space |
Bigelow Aerospace, A new Genesis in space |
 Jun 1 2006, 07:18 PM
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To quote:
On June 16, he'll use a Russian Dnepr rocket to launch a 1/3-scale Genesis model of his planned commercial orbital space station. That much has been public for a while. What I didn't learn until just now is what will be on that module. Freefloating inside will be 1,000 photocards and small personal objects contributed by Bigelow employees. If all goes well, those items will be continuously blown throughout the pressurized module in a kind of space collage. Six onboard cameras will stream video to Bigelow's new website, which will launch tomorrow or Friday. Seven external cameras will provide views of the Earth from space and the outside of the module. If that doesn't get even the most disinterested member of the public at least intrigued about the possibilities of space travel, I don't know what will. But it gets better. Subject to a successful launch of the first module, Bigelow will launch a second Genesis module in September, and that one will contain photos and other small items contributed by anyone who cares to pony up $295. Full article here: http://michaelbelfiore.com/blog/2006/05/bi...s-to-orbit.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Aug 31 2007, 01:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1598 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Looks like a fisheye lens was used.
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Oct 16 2007, 11:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 201 |
looks like they are ready to play space bingo
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Apr 19 2008, 12:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 201 |
update at Bigelow site
QUOTE Engineers at Bigelow Aerospace have tweaked the exterior cameras of Genesis II to provide a higher-definition picture. The results, seen here, show a colorful and vivid view of our Earth home. The crisp images give a sense that you're flying at more than four miles per second right along with Genesis II. Question..how do you "tweak" the camera to Hi-def...??? cheers jb |
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Apr 19 2008, 02:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 29-June 05 Member No.: 421 |
From one of the image captions: "The image shows recent improvements by Bigelow Aerospace controllers on the resolution of images beamed down from the unmanned pathfinder module." Sounds to me like they used to be decimating or severely compressing the images and they changed their software to send full (or at least higher) resolution. I wonder if they have an extremely limited downlink bandwidth? Reminds me of Galileo with its stuck high gain antenna...
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ljk4-1 Bigelow Aerospace Jun 1 2006, 07:18 PM
chris Given that its an unmanned flight, the idea of sen... Jun 2 2006, 09:10 AM
AndyWard QUOTE (chris @ Jun 2 2006, 10:10 AM) Give... Jun 2 2006, 11:52 AM ustrax QUOTE (AndyWard @ Jun 2 2006, 12:52 PM) A... Jun 2 2006, 02:01 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (AndyWard @ Jun 2 2006, 12:52 PM) A... Jun 2 2006, 02:40 PM ljk4-1 Test flight for space hotel delayed
Russian launc... Jun 7 2006, 04:04 PM RNeuhaus A new updated news about an inflatable spacecraft.... Jun 7 2006, 07:50 PM hal_9000 From http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/0... Jul 12 2006, 02:43 PM argv space.com reports the thing has been launched into... Jul 12 2006, 05:16 PM nprev Pretty cool, and definitely ambitious. Here's ... Jul 12 2006, 06:12 PM DonPMitchell There is a famous architecture book entitled Learn... Jul 12 2006, 07:11 PM argv the bbc science/technology website has a little mo... Jul 12 2006, 08:03 PM mars loon There is also a mention on NASAWATCH today July 12... Jul 13 2006, 01:20 AM tfisher This is exciting for the reason that it is somethi... Jul 13 2006, 01:42 AM hal_9000 From http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/leona... Jul 13 2006, 02:31 AM nprev ...completely nominal, then? I'm surprised tha... Jul 13 2006, 05:50 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 13 2006, 01:50 PM) ..... Jul 13 2006, 05:56 PM Toma B As I understand it, there are few cammeras onboard... Jul 13 2006, 06:10 PM Adam http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/leonarddav... Jul 13 2006, 06:46 PM Toma B QUOTE (Adam @ Jul 13 2006, 08:46 PM) ...g... Jul 13 2006, 06:59 PM Bob Shaw One thing about the Bigelow website is the, well, ... Jul 13 2006, 08:11 PM Comga B)-->QUOTE(Toma B @ Jul 13 2006, 12:59 PM... Jul 14 2006, 03:09 AM djellison B)-->QUOTE(Toma B @ Jul 13 2006, 07:59 PM... Jul 14 2006, 06:58 AM ljk4-1 So many pro-space folks want the space industry to... Jul 14 2006, 01:48 PM Bill Harris From Wikipedia:
QUOTE Robert T. Bigelow is a hotel... Jul 14 2006, 08:13 PM DonPMitchell I disagree. Real advancement in space exploration... Jul 14 2006, 09:13 PM The Messenger QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jul 14 2006, 03:13 ... Jul 15 2006, 05:39 PM tfisher Bigelow has posted a first picture from the orbite... Jul 15 2006, 01:27 AM DonPMitchell I don't think I've seen a link here yet, b... Jul 15 2006, 02:51 AM Bill Harris >Real advancement in space exploration requries... Jul 15 2006, 08:56 AM dvandorn Let's face up to it -- the days in which a lon... Jul 15 2006, 06:01 PM DonPMitchell I think for plant irrigation and dairy farming, I ... Jul 15 2006, 09:03 PM The Messenger Fair assessment, Don.
I am anticipating new, fun... Jul 16 2006, 12:48 PM edstrick There are fundamentally different types of breakth... Jul 17 2006, 08:07 AM Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (edstrick @ Jul 17 2006, 04:07 AM) ... Jul 17 2006, 11:42 PM Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (edstrick @ Jul 17 2006, 04:07 AM) ... Jul 17 2006, 11:48 PM crabbsaline New images up for 7/17/06:
Genesis 1 Images from B... Jul 17 2006, 09:46 PM djellison Reminds me of the emails I get from Uni of Tokyo... Jul 17 2006, 10:32 PM lyford short videos up at
http://www.bigelowaerospace.co... Jul 18 2006, 04:49 AM AndyG QUOTE (lyford @ Jul 18 2006, 05:49 AM) sh... Jul 18 2006, 12:05 PM lyford QUOTE (AndyG @ Jul 18 2006, 05:05 AM) ...... Jul 24 2006, 10:27 PM DonPMitchell "Where American entrepreneurs go, European bu... Jul 24 2006, 09:56 PM hal_9000 more pics
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_the... Jul 24 2006, 10:57 PM dvandorn Hmm -- in all three of the interior shots they hav... Jul 24 2006, 11:09 PM um3k Other Doug, http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_th... Jul 24 2006, 11:32 PM remcook new pictures:
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_... Aug 2 2006, 04:30 PM PhilHorzempa My take on the flight of Genesis 1 is this - we ar... Aug 4 2006, 04:59 AM PhilHorzempa A few more thoughts on Genesis 1/Transhab.
Fir... Aug 6 2006, 04:04 AM jabe I wonder if Bigelows "hotel" or some oth... Sep 13 2006, 02:51 PM Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (jabe @ Sep 13 2006, 10:51 AM) I wo... Sep 14 2006, 03:44 AM jabe QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Sep 14 2006, 03... Sep 14 2006, 05:36 PM dvandorn How the heck do they think they're going to ex... Sep 15 2006, 01:52 AM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 15 2006, 03:52 AM) ... Sep 15 2006, 06:50 AM AndyG QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Sep 15 2006, 07:50 AM... Sep 22 2006, 08:29 AM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 10:29 AM) The... Sep 22 2006, 12:11 PM ugordan What's the full mass of ISS compared to an emp... Sep 22 2006, 12:49 PM paxdan QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 09:29 AM) Why... Sep 22 2006, 12:52 PM jabe interesting..
LM and bigelow..
16 launches a year?... Sep 21 2006, 05:57 PM Jim from NSF.com How are you going to power it? Also, how do get ... Sep 22 2006, 12:45 PM AndyG QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Sep 22 2006, 01... Sep 22 2006, 01:15 PM paxdan QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 02:15 PM) ... Sep 22 2006, 01:18 PM djellison QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 02:15 PM) Las... Sep 22 2006, 01:21 PM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 03:15 PM) Las... Sep 22 2006, 01:39 PM AndyG Bah-humbug!
Ok, I can see that they're... Sep 22 2006, 02:41 PM Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 10:41 AM) The... Sep 22 2006, 03:24 PM djellison QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 03:41 PM) Thi... Sep 22 2006, 03:27 PM Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Sep 22 2006, 09:39 AM... Sep 22 2006, 03:19 PM Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (AndyG @ Sep 22 2006, 09:15 AM) Las... Sep 22 2006, 03:32 PM Jim from NSF.com the orbiter at 230K lb would be a significant port... Sep 22 2006, 12:54 PM ugordan QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Sep 22 2006, 01... Sep 22 2006, 01:12 PM Jim from NSF.com All these proposals, ignore the fact that disposin... Sep 22 2006, 03:22 PM DonPMitchell Lockheed/Bigelow
"Lockheed Martin and Bigelo... Sep 26 2006, 02:53 PM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Sep 26 2006, 04:53 ... Sep 27 2006, 02:45 PM Jim from NSF.com They say the CLV is safer. It definately won... Sep 27 2006, 03:56 PM Rakhir Bigelow suffers Genesis II delay
The launch of Bi... Jan 16 2007, 10:02 AM Rakhir Genesis II launched at 15:02 UTC
The status of th... Jun 28 2007, 03:53 PM jabe There have been lots of updates at bigelow site.
... Jul 12 2007, 12:18 PM jabe Bigelow has update of a picture..
pretty neat one ... Aug 30 2007, 10:34 PM |
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