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The GeekDad Space Report for February 15, 2010
Welcome to another edition of the GeekDad Space Report! We have a quiet week coming up with no launches scheduled. The three launches scheduled last week all made it off the pad with a 1 day delay for the SDO launch due to high winds. Lets take a look at what else is going on […] Continue reading
The GeekDad Space Report for February 1, 2010
Hello all and welcome to the latest edition of the GeekDad Space Report! The launch scheduled for last week of a Russian Military communications satellite was a success, lifting off on time. We have two launches scheduled for this week, both to the ISS so the launch schedule for the year is starting to pick […] Continue reading
The GeekDad Space Report for January 25, 2010
Greetings all and welcome to another edition of the GeekDad Space Report. We expected to be coming off another quiet week for launches, however we were surprised with a launch by the Chinese government. Here are some stats on the launch:
Saturday January 16, 2010
Launch Site: Xichang Launch Facility, People’s Republic of China
Launch Vehicle: Long March […] Continue reading
The GeekDad Space Report for January 18, 2010
Greetings all and welcome to another edition of the GeekDad Space Report. Coming off a quiet week for launches and going into another quiet week so lets dive into some other space news.
Astronomy
New images were released this week of the star Betelgeuse. As reported by Space.com, these images show a resolved disk of the Red […] Continue reading
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Tagged Astroid, Betelgeuse, Eclipse, Hubble, India, ISS, NASTAR, Science and Education, Space
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The GeekDad Space Report for December 28th, 2009
Welcome to 2009’s final edition of the Space Report! As reported last week there were no scheduled launches this past week. There was, however, an important event at the International Space Station, more on that below.
Let’s take a look at the activities for this week.
Launches (Sources: Spaceflight Now World Launch Schedule, Wallops Flight Facility Daily […] Continue reading
This Week In Space, December 21st, 2009
This week, as there are no scheduled launches, I would like to highlight an image release from Hubble from this past week. Before I get to that, let me hit a couple highlights for the week.
The three launches scheduled for last week made it off the pad successfully, albeit with a 24 hour delay on […] Continue reading
This Week In Space, December 14th, 2009
Welcome to another addition of This Week In Space! Last week, we reported on the upcoming launch of the WISE observatory. The launch, scheduled for this past Friday, was delayed till this morning and is expected to launch ~14:09 GMT (09:09 EST). For more information about the WISE mission, check out the GeekDad article by […] Continue reading
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Tagged Expedition22, Glonass, Hubble, ISS, Science and Education, Soyuz, Space, VirginGalactic, WIRE
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This Week In Space
Welcome to another addition of This Week In Space! As reported last week, a Soyuz spacecraft returned three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth bringing the crew of the ISS down to two. This reduced crew, down from a total of twelve on board when Atlantis was docked, hasn’t slowed activity […] Continue reading
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Tagged Hubble, ISS, Science and Education, Space
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