UMSF space history photo of the month Options

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

For April 2009, I have chosen an old ESA photo showing the ESRO-4 satellite during vibration tests in ESTEC Noordwijk - The Netherlands
In 1975 ESRO (1964 - European Space Research Organization ) was merged with ELDO ( 1964 - European Launcher Development Organization ) to form the European Space Agency ESA
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ESRO 4 was launched in on a Scout rocket from the Western Test Range, Lompoc, California, USA, in November 1972.

[Stu]

Nice pic Phil! Did ESA just release that image today?

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Although ESA just brought out ESA Bulletin in digital online version, the agency doesn't distribute any photos ( except ESAnauts ) to the general public. So we have to take care of old "unmanned mission" photos
Here's another view of the ESRO-4 satellite during final check-out at the Western Test Range in November 1972...

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

And here's what a Google search pointed out: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/heritage/John_Ra...irs/esro_4.html

[cbcnasa]

Thank you for the images and the link. The safety pin warning sign will be useful in my classroom.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Another amazing clean room photo of the NOAA-N satellite which tipped over during assembly in California - September 2003

http://mlans.dynip.com/blogpics/2003-09/20...-noaan-01.shtml

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

A view we're dreaming of in JUNE ... six years ago:
http://www.utahskies.org/image_library/sha...SandQuarry.jpeg

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

With the sol 2000 logo neatly at the top of the forum, I wanted to remind forum-members what a way NASA-JPL came in 35 years of developing robotic vehicles to explore planetary surfaces. Note the manipulator arm, designed to move obstacles and the large computer closet

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

As my birthday is approaching I'll post a panorama made when I was born
Surveyor V mosaic of wide angle pictures taken the day before lunar sunset. The horizon is curved because the camera was tilted and on the leftside the crater's rim shadow fills the image dark... Mare Tranquilitatis 1967.

[climber]

This is a link to "Life" website where you'll find old spacecrafts models including, yes, manned models but well here we talk about history, don't we? http://www.life.com/image/last/in-gallery/...acecraft-models

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Can't believe this occured already 5 years ago (Huygens probe was released in December 2004):

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Although nowadays launch vehicles have large shrouds, engineers still have to come up with convenient ways to fold larger spacecraft (e.g. JWST) into the available space
About half a century ago, everything fitted nicely, example showing the TelStar 1 (first commercial) communication satellite in the Thor-Delta fairing:

[scalbers]

I've always loved the appearance of Telstar - hard to explain but it really has that "satellite" look.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

About 25 years ago, the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope was well underway...

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

What a contrast between the mid-1980s clean room and the early-1960s JPL "clean room" with its checkered floor tiles
Great photo of the 204 kilogram Mariner II spacecraft, which performed the first successful Venus flyby in December 1962...