Showing posts with label space program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space program. Show all posts
Saturday, December 25, 2021

A Nice Christmas Gift Out of French Guiana -- The Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

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  A nice Christmas present from NASA and ESA on the screen early on Christmas morning.   Track Webb Telescope's progress here:  https://...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

JPL, Mars Helicopter, Cube Sats, Ham Radio and more: N5BF talks to Eric Guth 4Z1UG

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This morning Eric Guth has a really interesting interview on his QSO Today podcast.   Courtney Duncan N5BF had a full career at JPL and is t...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Buy a Real Sputnik Satellite! Let's Put Sputnik Back in Orbit!

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Only 85,000 Euros (that's the opening bid).  But hey, it comes with the receiver pictured on the right.  I guess that's so you can l...
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Friday, October 8, 2021

Bill's 52 year-old Apollo 11 Time Capsule -- What Should I Do?

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  When I was a kid, I was an Apollo 11 fanatic.  I was ten years old when they landed on the moon.  I was convinced that the newspapers and ...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

Opening up an Apollo Command Module Microwave Radio System

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So much radio goodness in this video.  The enthusiasm of the narrator is unmistakable, and entirely justified.  A number of things struck me...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Ganymede and Jupiter as seen by Juno

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But remember the warning: "All these worlds are yours, except Europa.  Attempt no landing there." 
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Friday, June 4, 2021

To Mars in 1964 -- Building the Camera and Radio Systems

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This is a really excellent video showing how JPL engineers and technicians designed, built and tested the first video camera system sent to ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Looking for the Apollo 10 Lunar Module

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https://www.universetoday.com/142505/apollo-10s-snoopy-lunar-lander-may-have-been-found-in-space/?fbclid=IwAR3xwZowaqKwpK46DXW6u_LbfVu_Co86k...
Friday, May 7, 2021

NASA Rocket Launch from Virginia to Create Artificial Aurora Saturday Night

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  https://www.news4jax.com/weather/2021/05/06/friday-nights-nasa-rocket-launch-may-produce-high-energy-auroras/?fbclid=IwAR1b3PX3VrT0IzljFiO...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Part of Wright Brothers' Airplane Now On Mars with Ingenuity Helicopter

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  Very cool.  Great idea.  https://phys.org/news/2021-03-wright-brothers-1st-airplane-nasa.html
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Saturday, March 13, 2021

Making Transistors in 1957

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Thanks to Thomas K4SWL for alerting us to this video -- he had it on his excellent  SWLing Post blog .  Many things crossed my mind as I wat...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Awesome Video of Perseverance's Landing on Mars

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When we watched the landing on February 18, Elisa kind of complained that they were using simulations -- like the rest of us, she has come t...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

A Step Closer to the Elser-Mathes Cup? Ham Receives Signals from Mars

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  That is the antenna that Scott Tilley VE7TIL  used to receive signals from the Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 in orbit of Mars.  In a recent...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Receiving Signals from China's Chang'e-5 Lunar Sample-Return Mission

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Background info:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-change-5-mission-launches-to-collect-lunar-samples/  A great report f...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Rocket Knack

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Truly amazing and impressive work.  Thanks to Hack-A-Day for the heads-up https://hackaday.com/2020/11/27/so-close-to-landing-a-model-rocket...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Kludges in SPAAAAACE!

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Listening in on the Deep Space Network

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  Not long ago we took the DISH satellite antenna off our roof.   For a while I resisted pleas to put the big thing on the curb for pickup. ...
Saturday, September 5, 2020

Taming Glitches in a Soyuz Space Clock (Plus -- Inside a Logic Chip and How Crystals Work)

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Thanks to Bob KD4EBM for sending this.   There is so much good info in this video:  They crack open a logic chip and look at the interna...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

King Hussein JY1 Speaks to Owen Garriott on Shuttle Columbia

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I thought this was a very nice contact -- the recording provides a nice bit of radio history.   I wonder how the German station got the J...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

LightSail 2 Rides to a Higher Orbit, Propelled by Photons from the Sun

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Success!  Congratulations to the Planetary Society.  Amazing achievement.   http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-succe...