Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Earth from outer space
Here are my favorite Images of Earth because there from outer space.
Earth From space
Nice image of earth from just into the wide space that surrounds us.
Earth From The Moon
How earth looks from our moon.
Farthest Picture Of Earth
The small dote in the center is how Earth would look if you were way out there. Taken by voyager.
Space Ship 1
Amazing footage from the first trip into space for "Space Ship 1" the first commercial ship that takes people into space! Who else wants to go?
Cool Hubble Image
Not sure what galaxy this is but I think its one of the more beautiful space images out there.
Debris From Jupiter Collision From Hubble
In this 38 sec. video it shows a rare collision of a meteor about three football fields hitting Jupiter.
Hubble Images
This is a good video with a lot of cool images and colliding galaxies.
5:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwXtJyXwE0k
5:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwXtJyXwE0k
2009 year of astronomy
A nice video of different images of space promoting 2009 the year of astronomy.THe writing is in a different launguge but it does have some good images.
$150 million AMC-14 satellite written off as 'space junk'
After a rocket failure during launch, the craft pulled up 5,000 miles short of its planned target and will be retired.
A $150 million satellite which was to deliver television services to the US has been written off as a piece of 'space junk' after the 'complete failure' of its launch a month ago.
The satellite, manufactured by Lockheed-Martin and launched aboard an unmanned Russian rocket last month, was intended to deliver TV services to viewers in the US, Mexico and Central America as part of the Echo Star network.
But the failure of one of the booster rockets during the launch meant that the machine, called AMC-14, pulled up approximately 5,000 miles short of its planned altitude of 22,400 miles.
SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite group which commissioned the project, was initially hopeful that it may be able to reposition the satellite into its "intended geostationary orbit". In a statement today, however, the company said that changing the satellite's location was too risky, and that it had "no choice but to claim a total loss of the satellite with our insurers."
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SES said it did not expect its revenues to be affected by the write-off, however, and that the investment was "fully insured". The AMC-14 was supposed to have a service life of up to 15 years.
It was launched on March 15 aboard an unmanned rocket from the Baikonur space facility, in Kazakhstan. The Russian-owned Khrunichev State Research and Production Centre, which made the Proton-M rocket carrying the satellite, said that it was conducting a review the incident.
Mark Rigolle, the chief financial officer of SES, said: "The loss of any satellite is a disappointment, and the failure of AMC-14 means there will be no revenues from this program. We expect (however) to receive the insurance proceeds of approximately $150 million in the next few months."
SES said that AMC-14 was in a "stable orbit", but that it would soon be retired.
A $150 million satellite which was to deliver television services to the US has been written off as a piece of 'space junk' after the 'complete failure' of its launch a month ago.
The satellite, manufactured by Lockheed-Martin and launched aboard an unmanned Russian rocket last month, was intended to deliver TV services to viewers in the US, Mexico and Central America as part of the Echo Star network.
But the failure of one of the booster rockets during the launch meant that the machine, called AMC-14, pulled up approximately 5,000 miles short of its planned altitude of 22,400 miles.
SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite group which commissioned the project, was initially hopeful that it may be able to reposition the satellite into its "intended geostationary orbit". In a statement today, however, the company said that changing the satellite's location was too risky, and that it had "no choice but to claim a total loss of the satellite with our insurers."
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SES said it did not expect its revenues to be affected by the write-off, however, and that the investment was "fully insured". The AMC-14 was supposed to have a service life of up to 15 years.
It was launched on March 15 aboard an unmanned rocket from the Baikonur space facility, in Kazakhstan. The Russian-owned Khrunichev State Research and Production Centre, which made the Proton-M rocket carrying the satellite, said that it was conducting a review the incident.
Mark Rigolle, the chief financial officer of SES, said: "The loss of any satellite is a disappointment, and the failure of AMC-14 means there will be no revenues from this program. We expect (however) to receive the insurance proceeds of approximately $150 million in the next few months."
SES said that AMC-14 was in a "stable orbit", but that it would soon be retired.
Space junk
This is a picture of all the junk we've left in space in the last 51 years from European Space Agency.
From the first shuttle launch in 1957 till know 2008 there is 6000 satellites out there only 800 are optional. Its turning into a junk yard out there from exploding shuttles to just nonoperational its getting bad.
From the first shuttle launch in 1957 till know 2008 there is 6000 satellites out there only 800 are optional. Its turning into a junk yard out there from exploding shuttles to just nonoperational its getting bad.
Some space images set to music of Absolute Elsewhere
Various images of space set to the music of Absolute Elsewhere's "Miracles of the Gods" from their album "In Search of Ancient Gods" from 1976
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