Author Archives: Brian-McLaughlin
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
Watching The Sun: SDO Launches For Solar Science
Today marks the start of a new era in solar observations with the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO for short. As mentioned in this week’s GeekDad Space Report, SDO launched today aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral. SDO is the first observatory in NASA’s Living With a Star program. The […] Continue reading
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The GeekDad Space Report for February 8, 2010
Hello all from the Hoth-like D.C. Metro area! We are all digging out here but space exploration marches on!
The launch of a Progress supply ship went off on time this past week and rendezvoused with the ISS on Thursday. Meanwhile, at the Kennedy Space Center, the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour was delayed from Sunday […] Continue reading
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Tagged Endeavour, Everything Else, Hubble, Intelsat, MODIS, Science and Education, SDO, Snowmageddon, Space, Space Shuttle, STS-130, TERRA
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Not Just An Ice Block: The Changing Face Of Pluto
Pluto has been revealed to be more dynamic than previously thought. New images, taken with Hubble’s revived Advanced Camera for Survey’s High Resolution Camera, reveal changing surface features where the changes are likely caused by ice sublimiating at the poles of the dwarf planet and then redistributing to other parts of the surface. The color […] Continue reading
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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
Ad Astra Per Aspera: Remembering Our Lost Astronauts
On this day in 1967 three brave astronauts lost their lives when a fire started inside their Apollo command module during a test on the launchpad. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the 1986 Challenger disaster where seven more astronauts lost their lives. Finally, next Monday is the seventh anniversary of the Columbia tragedy where seven […] Continue reading
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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
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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 January 11, 2010
Greetings all and welcome to another edition of the GeekDad Space Report. No launches this week and none from last week to report on, so lets dive right into news in the world of space.
AAS Meeting
This past week, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) held a meeting in Washington, DC and the mission results reported have been […] Continue reading
The GeekDad Space Report for January 4, 2010
Happy 2010 everyone! This week’s report is the first for a year in which Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote about a return mission to a Jovian orbit. No human missions to Jupiter on the books for the year but we will try and keep you up to date on space related activities.
The one launch scheduled […] Continue reading
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