Today is the final day of SPACE 2010 as well as the webcast! You are invited to take part in the first-ever live webcast of the AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference & Exposition co-located with the 28th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2010). Listen to and participate in the remaining plenary sessions without leaving your office! Plus, gain access to all of the 2010 plenary sessions after the conference, direct from your computer. Those who join the live webcast will have the ability to: watch the plenary sessions and participate in the question and answer session through an online commenting system; review synchronized slides and transcripts, screen captures or video files.
Unable to participate in the live webcast? Videos of the plenary sessions will also be available online for post-conference viewing for up to six (6) months after the conference*. The post-conference video archive will be available to purchase upon the conclusion of SPACE 2010. Registered attendees to SPACE 2010 and ICSSC-2010 in Anaheim will receive access to all videos for FREE with full conference registration. For the webcast: choose individual sessions for $49 each. To sign up for the webcast visit www.livewebcast.net/AIAA/SPACE.
NASA’s GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the busy Atlantic Ocean at 7:45 a.m. EDT on 31 August. In the image, was the large and powerful Hurricane Earl (lower left) passing Puerto Rico, Tropical Storm Fiona located to Earl's east, and Tropical Storm Danielle in the Northern Atlantic. Hurricane Earl is a storm that's about 400 miles in diameter, and is still a Category Four hurricane, one category stronger than Hurricane Katrina was when she made landfall in 2005. GOES satellites are operated by NOAA, and the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center provides images of satellite data. (Image Credit: NASA)
A DC-8 aircraft, used for NASA’s Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) project, completed an 8.5-hr flight over Hurricane Earl Sunday. It traced the movement of atmospheric aerosols and dropped weather sensors, giving NASA researchers data on how such storms form and strengthen. The aircraft flew at altitudes of 33,000 feet and 37,000 feet and descended to 7,000 feet northwest of the storm to collect measurements. Researchers in the plane ejected parachuting weather sensors called dropsondes, which can measure such things as wind speed, temperature, and pressure into the heart of the storm. (Image Credit: NASA)
A private Danish rocket built by volunteers to launch one person into suborbital space could see its first test flight on Thursday. The designers of the Hybrid Exo Atmospheric Transporter 1X (HEAT-1X) rocket expect it to go 19 miles up, carrying the Tycho Brahe space capsule. The rocket will carry a dummy for the first several flights to see how much G-force a human would endure. The project could pave the way for Denmark to become the fourth space-faring nation to send humans into space after Russia, the U.S., and China. While there is a 40 percent chance of launch by Thursday, the designated launch window remains open until 17 Sept. (Image Credit: SPACE.com)
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has requested 23 October on the 45th Space Wing's calendar for launch of its second Falcon 9 rocket, which will attempt to place a Dragon cargo capsule into orbit. The flight is the first of up to three launches planned under SpaceX's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract with NASA. In addition to a second flight test for the Falcon 9, which had a successful debut on 4 June, the COTS-1 mission will test Dragon’s avionics, flight computers, guidance, navigation and control systems, back-shell heat shield, reentry and recovery systems. (Image Credit: SpaceX)
An instrument that may produce the International Space Station's most important science discoveries arrived Thursday at Kennedy Space Center, six months before its planned flight on the last scheduled shuttle mission. The Alpha
Magnetic Spectrometer, the most sensitive particle physics detector to be flown in space, could uncover clues about the origins of the universe. The 7.5-ton, drum-shaped instrument creates a magnetic field to bend cosmic particles into sensors. It hopes to find evidence of antimatter or dark matter. The spectrometer is targeted for a 26 February launch aboard Endeavour.
(Image Credit: ESA)
