Astronautics 2014 on Geektimes
What was 2014 for astronautics? There were ups and downs, discoveries, dramas. In this post - the brightest events that you read about and watched on Geektimes.
One of the most intense dramas this year was the Rosetta Mission and Philae landing on the Gerasimov-Churyumenko comet . On November 12, a landing took place, and it was not possible to immediately sit down - I had to jump. The sound of the landing was recorded. After that, the probe began to look for organics (and successfully ) and perform other tasks, made 80-90 percent of this list and "fell asleep" due to lack of energy - because the solar panels were in the shade. We are waiting for the probe to come alive by March next year . Perhaps with a different power source, the probe would not have had to go into hibernation.
Not without other excesses: feminists hounded and were able to bring one of the leaders of the Rosetta mission to tears. For his shirt. After he put the probe on the comet. And this, by the way, was the first contact with a comet in history .
')
And the interplanetary station New Horizons has already been awakened in order to begin a rapprochement with Pluto and its satellite Charon. The device was launched into space in 2006, the cost of the project has already exceeded $ 600 million. Already in May we will be waiting for photos of Pluto with a resolution higher than the Hubble telescope can make.
"Hubble", in turn, continues to delight us with beautiful photos. This year, Jupiter turned into a giant Cyclops .
What if you need a wrench? And if you are in space at this moment? Of course, wait for NASA to send you a model for printing on a 3D printer ! Usually, the request for the Earth about the necessary tools takes months, but this time the time has been reduced to several tens of minutes. Such is the practical use of a 3D printer on the International Space Station.
To launch into space boosters with satellites and spacecraft, we need powerful and reliable rocket engines. Have you ever wondered where the best rocket engines are made in the world? At NPO Energomash. It is here that Russian, Ukrainian, South Korean and, in part, even American space programs are being pulled out. It is no accident that the American company Orbital Sciences plans to buy 60 rocket engines for $ 1 billion from NPO Energomash. Read also about how these engines are produced .
Opportunity will soon celebrate the 12th year of uninterrupted work on Mars. In the meantime, he is experiencing problems with flash memory. Nothing terrible, on Earth they are already preparing a patch for the rover. Once he was lucky - with his solar panels in April, dust was blown off , which practically gave him a second life.
And Curiosity feels great and conquers Sharpe's mountain, discovers methane , traces of lakes on Mars, and takes a “live” panorama for us.
Space timelapse : 12 thousand photos of cosmonaut Alexander Gersta in one video. Here we can see the space, and it will be heard on a special NASA channel on SoundCloud . And do not forget that many interesting things about space can be found in space twitter .
Another timelapse video is the NASA's largest sunspot video .
Did you know why the interior of the ISS is teeming with laptops in stands? NASA engineer Robert Frost answered this question . And the only certified laptop for use on the ISS is the Lenovo ThinkPad. ThinkPad notebooks have been used on the ISS since 1998, and since 1995, they have flown into space on the space shuttle more than 50 times.
How does a person feel in space? Long-term flights leave biological and psychological effects , not always temporary. Cosmos gives an ultimatum to man: either an astronaut can exist according to the laws of a vacuum, or perish. There is even a psychological transformation that only astronauts are subject to.
This year, Russia distinguished itself by completing 38 space launches from the country's space centers and sending a total of 80 spacecraft (not only from Russia). Russian experts have tested the Angara 1.2 light class launch vehicles and the new, beautiful heavy Angara-A5 . And on the ISS in August , all the docking stations were occupied . Another positive news - the accuracy of GLONASS will reach 60 cm thanks to the satellites of the new generation.
In the meantime, NASA proposes to master the atmosphere of Venus before the surface of Mars, Roscosmos plans to build a lunar base, to set up industry and the extraction of minerals .
We owe the whole of our rocket movement the Tsiolkovsky formula of 1903 .
In this photo we see the launch of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle .
.
In November, the successful return of the Chinese Chanye 5-T1 lunar apparatus (Chang'e 5-T1) took place. In the photo - the moment of entry of the capsule into the atmosphere of the Earth at a speed of 40 thousand kilometers per hour.
India this year did not stand aside and tested the GSLV Mk.III rocket and the descent vehicle of the future manned spacecraft.
For takeoff should be landing. But before it - the entrance to the atmosphere . See NASA video for how it looks. The reusable spacecraft Orion, "from which" we see the process of entering the atmosphere in this video, successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. And the company Ilona Mask continues to work on the creation of rockets using the Grasshopper technology - reusable vertical landing rockets.
In addition, Ilon Musk plans to launch 700 communications satellites into orbit. These will be small satellites weighing 113 kg, while ordinary communications satellites weigh several tons. All to ensure that the Internet was at each and everyone.
There were also falls this year, there was a whole black week of “private space” two accidents happened: the Antares missiles and the SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle. The accident SpaceShipTwo claimed the life of one of two crew members, the second managed to eject and was taken to hospital with severe injuries. Richard Branson said that the accident will not affect the implementation of the plans, and that he will be the first space tourist on his own ship.
The Kepler space telescope, even with two of the four gyroscopes inoperative, will continue to help scientists discover exoplanets. He had already completed more than his due date and, due to a breakdown, for some time was unable to maintain the “view” direction. But an original solution was found: two gyroscopes are now used for positioning and the “solar wind” as an additional reference point.
Are we alone in the universe? It is important to study the stars , because they are a source of knowledge about other galaxies and a possible carrier of life .
How may the conquest of space - see the movie "Wanderers" .
Christopher Nolan ’s Interstellar film has raised a lot of noise in the scientific community. Yes, and on Geektimes it was discussed more than once with spoilers . Scientists took this film seriously, and the scientists took part in writing the script and filming in order to create the most accurate visualization from the point of view of black hole physics in the entire history of cinema.
And we discussed whether astronauts can survive a journey through a space-time tunnel.
In science fiction describes the technology of interstellar travel . Read an overview of the delivery methods for celestial human bodies from one star system to another.
Do not forget about New Year's space gifts . Be healthy and stay with us! Happy New Year!
One of the most intense dramas this year was the Rosetta Mission and Philae landing on the Gerasimov-Churyumenko comet . On November 12, a landing took place, and it was not possible to immediately sit down - I had to jump. The sound of the landing was recorded. After that, the probe began to look for organics (and successfully ) and perform other tasks, made 80-90 percent of this list and "fell asleep" due to lack of energy - because the solar panels were in the shade. We are waiting for the probe to come alive by March next year . Perhaps with a different power source, the probe would not have had to go into hibernation.
Not without other excesses: feminists hounded and were able to bring one of the leaders of the Rosetta mission to tears. For his shirt. After he put the probe on the comet. And this, by the way, was the first contact with a comet in history .
')
And the interplanetary station New Horizons has already been awakened in order to begin a rapprochement with Pluto and its satellite Charon. The device was launched into space in 2006, the cost of the project has already exceeded $ 600 million. Already in May we will be waiting for photos of Pluto with a resolution higher than the Hubble telescope can make.
"Hubble", in turn, continues to delight us with beautiful photos. This year, Jupiter turned into a giant Cyclops .
What if you need a wrench? And if you are in space at this moment? Of course, wait for NASA to send you a model for printing on a 3D printer ! Usually, the request for the Earth about the necessary tools takes months, but this time the time has been reduced to several tens of minutes. Such is the practical use of a 3D printer on the International Space Station.
To launch into space boosters with satellites and spacecraft, we need powerful and reliable rocket engines. Have you ever wondered where the best rocket engines are made in the world? At NPO Energomash. It is here that Russian, Ukrainian, South Korean and, in part, even American space programs are being pulled out. It is no accident that the American company Orbital Sciences plans to buy 60 rocket engines for $ 1 billion from NPO Energomash. Read also about how these engines are produced .
Opportunity will soon celebrate the 12th year of uninterrupted work on Mars. In the meantime, he is experiencing problems with flash memory. Nothing terrible, on Earth they are already preparing a patch for the rover. Once he was lucky - with his solar panels in April, dust was blown off , which practically gave him a second life.
And Curiosity feels great and conquers Sharpe's mountain, discovers methane , traces of lakes on Mars, and takes a “live” panorama for us.
Space timelapse : 12 thousand photos of cosmonaut Alexander Gersta in one video. Here we can see the space, and it will be heard on a special NASA channel on SoundCloud . And do not forget that many interesting things about space can be found in space twitter .
Another timelapse video is the NASA's largest sunspot video .
Did you know why the interior of the ISS is teeming with laptops in stands? NASA engineer Robert Frost answered this question . And the only certified laptop for use on the ISS is the Lenovo ThinkPad. ThinkPad notebooks have been used on the ISS since 1998, and since 1995, they have flown into space on the space shuttle more than 50 times.
How does a person feel in space? Long-term flights leave biological and psychological effects , not always temporary. Cosmos gives an ultimatum to man: either an astronaut can exist according to the laws of a vacuum, or perish. There is even a psychological transformation that only astronauts are subject to.
This year, Russia distinguished itself by completing 38 space launches from the country's space centers and sending a total of 80 spacecraft (not only from Russia). Russian experts have tested the Angara 1.2 light class launch vehicles and the new, beautiful heavy Angara-A5 . And on the ISS in August , all the docking stations were occupied . Another positive news - the accuracy of GLONASS will reach 60 cm thanks to the satellites of the new generation.
In the meantime, NASA proposes to master the atmosphere of Venus before the surface of Mars, Roscosmos plans to build a lunar base, to set up industry and the extraction of minerals .
We owe the whole of our rocket movement the Tsiolkovsky formula of 1903 .
In this photo we see the launch of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle .
.In November, the successful return of the Chinese Chanye 5-T1 lunar apparatus (Chang'e 5-T1) took place. In the photo - the moment of entry of the capsule into the atmosphere of the Earth at a speed of 40 thousand kilometers per hour.
India this year did not stand aside and tested the GSLV Mk.III rocket and the descent vehicle of the future manned spacecraft.
For takeoff should be landing. But before it - the entrance to the atmosphere . See NASA video for how it looks. The reusable spacecraft Orion, "from which" we see the process of entering the atmosphere in this video, successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. And the company Ilona Mask continues to work on the creation of rockets using the Grasshopper technology - reusable vertical landing rockets.
In addition, Ilon Musk plans to launch 700 communications satellites into orbit. These will be small satellites weighing 113 kg, while ordinary communications satellites weigh several tons. All to ensure that the Internet was at each and everyone.
There were also falls this year, there was a whole black week of “private space” two accidents happened: the Antares missiles and the SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle. The accident SpaceShipTwo claimed the life of one of two crew members, the second managed to eject and was taken to hospital with severe injuries. Richard Branson said that the accident will not affect the implementation of the plans, and that he will be the first space tourist on his own ship.
The Kepler space telescope, even with two of the four gyroscopes inoperative, will continue to help scientists discover exoplanets. He had already completed more than his due date and, due to a breakdown, for some time was unable to maintain the “view” direction. But an original solution was found: two gyroscopes are now used for positioning and the “solar wind” as an additional reference point.
Are we alone in the universe? It is important to study the stars , because they are a source of knowledge about other galaxies and a possible carrier of life .
How may the conquest of space - see the movie "Wanderers" .
Christopher Nolan ’s Interstellar film has raised a lot of noise in the scientific community. Yes, and on Geektimes it was discussed more than once with spoilers . Scientists took this film seriously, and the scientists took part in writing the script and filming in order to create the most accurate visualization from the point of view of black hole physics in the entire history of cinema.
And we discussed whether astronauts can survive a journey through a space-time tunnel.
In science fiction describes the technology of interstellar travel . Read an overview of the delivery methods for celestial human bodies from one star system to another.
Do not forget about New Year's space gifts . Be healthy and stay with us! Happy New Year!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/364915/
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