Tag: Cosmic Rays
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Astronauts finish repairs to space station cosmic ray detector
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 1:40 p.m. EST (1840 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION This view was captured by a helmet camera on one of the astronauts on Saturday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now During a fourth spacewalk Saturday to wrap up repairs of the coolant system in a $2…
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Astronauts complete bonus objectives in first in series of AMS repair spacewalks
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan is perched on the end of the space station’s robotic arm during Friday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday for the first of four spacewalks to repair a $2 billion cosmic ray detector, breezing through work to prep…
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Complex spacewalk repair work begins Friday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano are gearing up for a spacewalk Friday to begin repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer instrument outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA After four years of brainstorming, custom tool development and training, two astronauts plan to venture…
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Repair equipment for particle physics experiment aboard next station cargo launch
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer instrument has been collecting data on the International Space Station since 2011. Credit: NASA Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship set for liftoff Saturday will deliver to the International Space Station the final hardware for a series of ambitious spacewalks later this month to install a new coolant system on the Alpha…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket soars into space, lands back at Cape Canaveral
Look back on Monday’s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in this gallery of photos captured by remote cameras at the launch pad, plus views of the first stage returning to Cape Canaveral for a propulsive landing. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket took off on 1.7 million pounds of thrust…
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Station crew captures Dragon supply ship, gets early start on unpacking
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft on final approach to the space station Monday. Credit: Sergey Ryazanskiy/Roscosmos Two days after departing from a launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday with more than 6,400 pounds of experiments and supplies after concluding an automated laser-guided approach.…
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SpaceX launches cargo capsule full of science experiments
Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed into space Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center atop a column of gleaming exhaust, shooting a commercial resupply vessel toward the International Space Station with research projects looking into cosmic rays, the origin of Parkinson’s disease, the utility of small satellites and an experimental radiation-tolerant supercomputer. Crammed…
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Video: Falcon 9 launch viewed from KSC press site
Watch a replay of Monday’s Falcon 9 launch as seen from the Kennedy Space Center press site, a viewpoint around three miles from pad 39A. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket delivered a SpaceX cargo capsule on course to haul more than 6,400 pounds (2,900 kilograms) of experiments and equipment to the International Space Station. It was…
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4K video replay liftoff Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff on station cargo flight
Check out a 4K video clip of Monday’s Falcon 9 launch viewed from Spaceflight Now’s office at the Kennedy Space Center. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket took off from pad 39A and delivered a SpaceX cargo capsule on course to haul more than 6,400 pounds (2,900 kilograms) of experiments and equipment to the International Space Station.…
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Video: NASA and SpaceX brief media on space station cargo flight
Officials from NASA and SpaceX briefed the media on Monday’s scheduled launch of a commercial Dragon spacecraft on an automated resupply mission to the International Space Station. It will be the 12th SpaceX cargo flight to the research outpost.