Congratulations to the Antares team! We hope the payloads perform as nominally as the launch vehicle did :)
April 30, 2013 - by Successful Launch for Antares
April 30, 2013 - by "We are the Lunar Lion Team – and we value inspiration through education."
"We are the Lunar Lion Team – and we value inspiration through education."
April 30, 2013 - by Awesome Luna 9 Animation
Luna 9 was the Soviet Union's unmanned mission to land on the moon and send pictures back to Earth. Sound familiar to the Google Lunar X PRIZE?
April 30, 2013 - by Lunar Impacts Created Seas of Molten Rock
NASA's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) has added new knowledge to the study of lunar rock formation. "This work adds the concept of impact melt magma seas to the lexicon of lunar rock-forming processes," said planetary geologist James W. Head III
April 30, 2013 - by Rocket Testing
On March 30th, 2013 we conducted our third skylight rigging field test. The goals of this test were:
A) To determine how much payload our rocket could carry 100 meters and if this agreed with our simulation predictions and
B) Determine the effectiveness of our anchor in the Robot City environment.
April 30, 2013 - by ARCA has established a new office building
ARCA has recently established a new office building. It was constructed in 1890 and was renovated by ARCA. Soon a new museum will be established in and around the building. Here also activities for the ExoMars program will take place, especially radio and flight command and control equipment integration.
April 30, 2013 - by Terrain Modeling
Following several field tests (Hummer, Zipline, and static hazard detection), the next stage of this project was to do field testing via flying. After several considerations, we had finally decided to drive out to Virginia Tech to use their RC helicopter for flying our sensor package. However, due to new mounting frame and new cameras, we needed to do several system integration tests to make sure we have accurate data collection.
April 30, 2013 - by Kindergarten questions and dandelion test
Team Stellar made a visit to the kindergarten "Tockica" ("dot") in Croatia.
Kindergartens in Croatia have a "space theme" for this year, so they are going to cover space related subjects throughout the year.
Here are a few cool questions/anwesr from the kids, and at the end you can see the Lunar rover passing the dandelion test without any difficulties:
(Kids are 3-5 years old)
Kid: "Yes, but how will you reach the Moon with the robot?"
April 30, 2013 - by Italian Astronaut performs EVA
NASA confirmed that the Italian Astronuat, Luca Parmitano, will perform EVA (Extra Vehicle Activity) excursions during the long duration mission Expedition 36 (renamed “Volare”) at the ISS (Internation Space Station).
This is the first time that an Italian astronaut performs extra-vehicular activities and this gives great importance to our nation as the ASI (Italian Space Agency) president Enrico Saggese said.
April 30, 2013 - by Satellite basic operating principle
Two new videos have been loaded on the official youtube channel of the Team Italia.
The videos show some simulation performed by the students of the Politecnico di Torino during the course of aerospace system engineering. The videos show the basic operating principle concerning how Earth observation satellites acquire and transmit information.
The satellite sends a signal toward the ground to receive and process the echo signal. Then, the information is send to the Ground station.
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