G-FOLD Diversion Test – NASA JPL
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested its G-FOLD (Fuel Optimal Large Divert Guidance Algorithm) divert algorithm experimental landing system on September 20, 2013 at the Mohave Air & Space Port in Mojave, Calif.
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New Horizons Spacecraft is Fast Approaching Pluto – NASA
After an eight-year long journey, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is quickly approaching Pluto. As of 21 January 2014, its distance from Pluto is about 4.29 AU (An AU is roughly the distance of the Earth...
Why We Can’t See God – Carl Sagan
The great Carl Sagan discusses the first, second, third, and fourth dimension.
Rosetta Satellite Visit a Comet
A. After more than two years in a deep sleep, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has woken up. A signal confirming its alert status was received by controllers in Darmstadt, Germany, at 18:17 GMT. The Rosetta...
Space Navigation (2) – 1967 NASA
Here is part 2 of a basic introduction to lunar and interplanetary navigation for manned spaceflight. The film was made in 1968 and the footage shows, through animation and live photography, the use of computers and...
Space Navigation (1) – 1967 NASA
Part 1 of an old NASA film on space navigation. Spacecraft navigation comprises two aspects: (1) knowledge and prediction of spacecraft position and velocity, which is orbit determination, and (2) firing the rocket motor...
Orbital Mechanics
This video details planetary motion or orbital mechanics. It explains Kepler’s and Newton’s Laws plus terminology including perigee, apogee, eccentricity, orbital inclination, launch window, etc.
Solving the Puzzle of Dark Matter? – Prof Lars Bergström
Cosmologists are becoming ever more certain that a large fraction of the mass in the universe is invisible and does not emit or absorb light. This talk will give a basic introduction to the...
Chinese Space Program – The Past and Future
A history of the Chinese space programme made a few weeks before Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon.
Gaia’s 1 Billion Pixel Camera
ESA’s Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars.
Gaia’s Mission To Solve The Celestial Puzzle
Following on from yesterday’s video on the Gaia launch, here we offer some background information on what Gaia hopes to achieve.
Gaia Launch Highlights
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off on 19 December 2013 on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion suns.
Spacesuit Testing for a Future Asteroid Mission
Modified versions of the spacesuits of the type worn by shuttle astronauts during launch and reentry are currently being tested for use by future crews in the Orion spacecraft.
Starting Fire in Water
Astronauts aboard the ISS are experimenting with supercritical water. A type of water that has a strange property in that it can start fire.
The Mars Underground – 2
Here is part 2 of this amazing documentary. The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars...
The Mars Underground – 1
The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars off the ground. Here is part 1...
