Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Time lapse video of our engineering project at UMass Amherst. Our weather balloon, named the Shuttlecraft, reached an altitude of approximately 104000 ft. Pictures were taken every 5 seconds during the fight with a Canon a560 digital camera. The balloon traveled west as it gained altitude and then turned east where it climbed to its burst altitude. Upon reaching the maximum altitude, the balloon popped and the capsule descended back to earth. It landed off the coast of Plum Island, MA. The total trip time from launch to splashdown is 2.8 hours. Its ascent took 142 minutes and 20 seconds and it took 25 minutes and 55 seconds for it to descend back to earth. The capsule turned up four days later on the beach where it was found by a self proclaimed “Professional Beach bum” who kindly called us to arrange a pickup. After four days in the Atlantic we managed to retrieve the 8gb SDHC and get the pictures. Pictures include the Connecticut River and surrounding area, Granby MA, Holyoke MA, the former Mount Tom Ski Area, and the Atlantic Ocean. Special Thanks go to the “professional beach bum” who was kind enough to call us and meet us so we could retrieve our project. Without his help, our project would have been lost. We wish him well in his retirement. We would also like to thank Invensys for kindly sponsoring a second launch. We are currently testing the replacement parts and plan on launching it within the next 2 weeks. If you have any questions about our project, feel free …
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE DEBATE Larry King Live April 30, 2010 pt.2 More here.. theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE DEBATE pt.1 Larry King Live April 30, 2010 More here.. theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE DEBATE Larry King Live April 30, 2010 pt.3 More here.. theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca
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A WISE Mission to study Asteroids, Comets and other Objects. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will scan the entire sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. — • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — The WISE mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe’s most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. Its vast catalogs will help answer fundamental questions about the origins of planets, stars and galaxies, and provide a feast of data for astronomers to munch on for decades to come. Thanks to next-generation technology, wise’s sensitivity is hundreds of times greater than its predecessor, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, which operated in 1983. WISE will join two other infrared missions in space – nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. WISE is different from these missions in that it will survey the entire sky. It is designed to cast a wide net to catch all sorts of unseen cosmic treasures, including rare oddities. The closest of wise’s finds will be near-Earth objects, both asteroids and comets, with orbits that come close to crossing Earth’s path. The mission is expected to find hundreds of these bodies, and hundreds of thousands of additional asteroids in our solar system’s main asteroid belt. By measuring the …
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JPL scientists use advanced technologies to track asteroids and comets that have the potential to one day come close to Earth. This story details what seemed to be a close call with an asteroid named Apophis in 2004.
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,making extensive changes in velocity and performing manoeuvres that no aircraft, that we know of on this planet,are capable of doing even with today’s technology … strange object near area 51 Real Alien Videos Movies Pictures and Sightings UFO Research ovni crop circle space craft shuttle planets mercury venus earth mars saturn jupiter uranus neptune pluto plutons comets meteors sun moon rays astroids astronaut science dead roswell crash military army setalite dish nebula black hole stars leo …
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This video includes a wondersome animation of Comet Lulin and a few false colour images I was playing with in photoshop. I am currently looking for the photographer/animator name(s) for credits. If aware please let me know. Swift Satellite? February 4, 2009 – Astronomers discover IMF-ION-Plasma discharge from Comet Lulin’s tail. “Retrograde orbit, unbound.” The cometary nucleus makes it’s Closest earth approach @ 0.41 AU, on Feb 24, 2009. Near sun Jan 8-12, 2009. Debris impact on earth, upon …
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home by our far-ranging robotic probes. From space, we see remarkable visual evidence of the natural processes that have shaped the varied planetary landscapes in our solar system: searing lava plains, windswept deserts, active volcanoes, up-thrust mountains, creeping glaciers and stark impact craters. From the international fleet of spacecraft on and around Mars, to the Cassini Saturn mission, to the once-hidden surface of Mercury, these striking images help us understand the powerful forces …
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JPL scientists use advanced technologies to track asteroids and comets that have the potential to one day come close to Earth. This story details what seemed to be a
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