UMSF space history photo of the month |
UMSF space history photo of the month |
Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Mar 30 2009, 12:33 PM
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#106
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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 ... ESRO 4 was launched in on a Scout rocket from the Western Test Range, Lompoc, California, USA, in November 1972. |
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Mar 30 2009, 12:50 PM
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#107
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Nice pic Phil! Did ESA just release that image today?
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Mar 30 2009, 03:01 PM
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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... |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Mar 30 2009, 03:08 PM
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And here's what a Google search pointed out: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/heritage/John_Ra...irs/esro_4.html
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Mar 30 2009, 03:30 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 22-March 09 From: West Hartford, Connecicut Member No.: 4691 |
Thank you for the images and the link. The safety pin warning sign will be useful in my classroom.
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
May 13 2009, 06:25 AM
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#111
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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 |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Jun 19 2009, 11:52 AM
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#112
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A view we're dreaming of in JUNE ... six years ago:
http://www.utahskies.org/image_library/sha...SandQuarry.jpeg |
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Aug 24 2009, 04:43 PM
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#113
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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
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Sep 14 2009, 04:07 PM
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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. |
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Oct 14 2009, 06:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
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
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Nov 18 2009, 06:14 PM
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Can't believe this occured already 5 years ago (Huygens probe was released in December 2004):
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Dec 25 2009, 04:20 PM
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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: |
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Dec 25 2009, 04:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1630 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
I've always loved the appearance of Telstar - hard to explain but it really has that "satellite" look.
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Jan 14 2010, 05:13 PM
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About 25 years ago, the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope was well underway...
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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Feb 1 2010, 04:14 PM
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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... |
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