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2013-10-21
Space : Scott Carpenter
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2013-10-13
Space : Scott Carpenter
Dankje Dirk
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Yves Duwelz
Please use my new email adress yduwelz@gmail.com
e-baha : the BAHA Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/e-baha/messages
A B-25 back in Belgium
http://www.bamfbamrs.be/B25/B25-en.htm
Brussels Air Museum Restoration Society
http://users.skynet.be/BAMRS/BAMRS.htm
http://www.bamfbamrs.be
Brussels Air Museum Fund
http://www.bamf.be/
Belgian Aviation History Library
http://users.skynet.be/bahl/index.htm
Forwarded message - From: Dirk De Quick
Scott Carpenter, astronaut-aquanaut, dies, was second American in orbit
Godspeed, Scott Carpenter.
The United States' fourth astronaut to fly in space and the second to orbit the Earth, Carpenter, 88, died Thursday (Oct. 10) after suffering a recent stroke.
The original Mercury 7 astronaut was being cared for at a hospice center in Denver when he passed. Carpenter was initially expected to make a full recovery from the stroke, but his condition worsened this week, sources close to his family shared.
Chosen in 1959 among NASA's first astronauts, Carpenter made his first and only spaceflight on May 24, 1962, when he became the sixth man worldwide to leave the planet.
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Yves Duwelz
Please use my new email adress yduwelz@gmail.com
e-baha : the BAHA Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/e-baha/messages
A B-25 back in Belgium
http://www.bamfbamrs.be/B25/B25-en.htm
Brussels Air Museum Restoration Society
http://users.skynet.be/BAMRS/BAMRS.htm
http://www.bamfbamrs.be
Brussels Air Museum Fund
http://www.bamf.be/
Belgian Aviation History Library
http://users.skynet.be/bahl/index.htm
2013-10-08
Event : spaceweek 2013 4 and 10 October
http://www.worldspaceweek.org/wsw/index.php
| Belgium | Year 6 BISB Space Week | Event Details | |||
| Belgium | Brussels | Let\'s go to Mars | Event Details | ||
| Belgium | Grimbergen | World Space Week | Y | Event Details | |
| Belgium | Oost-Vlaanderen | Ghent | Lecture \'Mars, our litle brother\', and stargazing night | Y | Event Details |
| Belgium | West Vlaanderen | Oostende | Het MDRS avontuur | Y | Event Details |
http://www.stubru.be/programmas/siskastaatop/frankdewinneoverdeworldspaceweek
http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20131004_00370280
http://www.belgiuminspace.be/nieuws/evenementen/overzicht-activiteiten-world-space-week-2013
http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20131004_00370280
http://www.belgiuminspace.be/nieuws/evenementen/overzicht-activiteiten-world-space-week-2013
2013-10-04
Space : SPACEBEL viert zilveren jubileum
Dankje Dirk
Forwarded message -From: Dirk De Quick
http://www.spacebel.be/SPACEBEL viert zilveren jubileum
Het is op 29 September 1988 dat SPACEBEL werd opgericht ter bevordering en ontwikkeling van de vaardigheden van België, en van het Waalse Gewest in het bijzonder, op het gebied van informatietechnologie voor de ruimtevaartindustrie. Uiteindelijke doelstelling van het nieuwe bedrijf: bijdragen tot een beter begrip van het heelal en de verbetering van het leven op aarde.
In een kwart eeuw, is de Belgische KMO uitgegroeid tot één van de belangrijkste spelers van de Europese ruimtevaartsector dankzij haar talrijke realisaties in verband met ruimte-infrastructuur (satellieten, draagraketten, orbitaal station) voor programma's van het Europese Ruimtevaartagentschap (ESA) en het Franse Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). SPACEBEL is eveneens actief op de markt van aardobservatie-toepassingen. Van meet af aan heeft de firma zich gestaag ontwikkeld qua vaardigheden en uitbreiding van haar oplossingen- en dienstenpakket om de verwachtingen van haar klanten in te lossen. Op basis van de verworven ervaring, heeft het bedrijf onlangs zijn internationale uitstraling versterkt met een nieuwe pijl op zijn boog: de ontwikkeling en marketing van kleine aardobservatiesatellieten.
Met fierheid en enthousiasme en meer dan 70 medewerkers verdeeld over 3 vestigingen (Luik, Hoeilaart, Toulouse), viert SPACEBEL zijn zilveren jubileum aan de vooravond van een veelbelovende toekomst...
Met fierheid en enthousiasme en meer dan 70 medewerkers verdeeld over 3 vestigingen (Luik, Hoeilaart, Toulouse), viert SPACEBEL zijn zilveren jubileum aan de vooravond van een veelbelovende toekomst...
2013-09-13
aerobuzz : Un siècle d’expositions sur l’espace
Un siècle d'expositions sur l'espace
vendredi 13 septembre
Dans le cadre des Journées européennes du patrimoine, les 14 et 15 septembre 2013, l'Observatoire de l'Espace du CNES, son pôle culturel, propose « Les promesses de l'espace », la première rétrospective consacrée aux expositions sur l'Espace. Le public revivra
2013-08-15
Space : gesimuleerde Mars missie afgelopen
2013-07-17
Space : Brusselaar wordt eerste Belgische astronaut die commerciële ruimtevlucht maakt
Forwarded message - From: Dirk De Quick
Brusselaar Julien Rateau (30) wordt astronaut. Eind volgend jaar vliegt hij mee met een van de eerste commerciële ruimtevluchten. Een vriend van Rateau heeft de vlucht gewonnen bij een grote winkelketen. En hij doet hem de trip cadeau. De vlucht is gepland in 2014.
See also : http://videos.lesoir.be/video/807162973f2s.html
2013-07-14
Space : België wil jongeren warm maken voor ruimtevaart met stages bij de ESA
Thx Dirk
Forwarded message From: Dirk De Quick
België wil jongeren warm maken voor ruimtevaart met stages bij de ESA
De Programmatorische Federale Overheidsdienst Wetenschapsbeleid (BELSPO) en het Europese ruimtevaartagentschap ESA organiseren in 2013-2014 voor de eerste keer het Belgian National Trainee Program, dat jonge Belgische ingenieurs en wetenschappers de mogelijkheid biedt om stage te lopen in een operationele afdeling van de ESA. Dat meldt BELSPO maandag in een persbericht.
"De ruimtevaart zorgt in België voor meer dan 2.000 banen met een totale omzet van 350 miljoen euro", zegt staatssecretaris voor Wetenschapsbeleid Philippe Courard. Bovendien groeit de vraag naar ingenieurs en wetenschappers in de Belgische ruimtevaartindustrie en -onderzoekscentra. BELSPO wil daarom jongeren met stages van 12 tot 24 maanden bij de ESA warm maken voor een carrière in de ruimtevaartsector.
Belgische ingenieurs en wetenschappers die minder dan twee jaar geleden een masterdiploma of doctoraat behaalden en Engels spreken, kunnen tot 31 augustus hun kandidatuur indienen. Drie beurzen zullen toegekend worden voor stageplaatsen in het Nederlandse Noordwijk in 2013-2014. De stagiairs zullen vergoed worden door de Belgische staat en werken onder de supervisie van een ESA-agent.
Belgische ingenieurs en wetenschappers die minder dan twee jaar geleden een masterdiploma of doctoraat behaalden en Engels spreken, kunnen tot 31 augustus hun kandidatuur indienen. Drie beurzen zullen toegekend worden voor stageplaatsen in het Nederlandse Noordwijk in 2013-2014. De stagiairs zullen vergoed worden door de Belgische staat en werken onder de supervisie van een ESA-agent.
2013-07-02
Zonnekijkdag
thx Dirk Forwarded message From: Dirk De Quick
Ontdek de zon tijdens de Zonnekijkdag
09-06-2013 23:34u
Zo kan je op een veilige manier het oppervlak van de zon waarnemen.
2013-06-23
Space : Herinnering 50 jaar eerste vrouw in de ruimte
Forwarded message From: Dirk De Quick
sinds kort is ook geweten dat zij als eerste een "mission patch" had.
hiervan waren er slechts 3 gemaakt die op haar trainingsuniformen zaten en 1 op haar training die ze onder haar ruimtepak droeg.
deze is nog te zien op haar trainingspak dat hangt in het muzeum van het Gagarin Trainingcentrum.
ter gelegenheid van de 50ste verjaardag van haar vlucht kreeg een Nederlandse kunstenaar de patch van naderbij te bekijken en op te meten.
deze werden nu gereproduceerd door spacepatches.nl
25 op ware grootte (die zijn intussen uitverkocht) en daarna ook op 1/2 grootte.
Fifty years ago, first woman to fly in space wore world's first mission patch
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago this Sunday (June 16) launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, set a world record by becoming the first woman in space. But her gender wasn't the only contribution that Tereshkova made to the cultural history of space exploration — she was also the first to wear a mission emblem on her spacesuit, although it was hidden from view.
Now half a century later, a Dutch artist is set to bring that patch into the light — and to the public — by producing replicas.
Dirk
2013-06-17
Space : Death of Yuri Gagarin demystified 40 years on
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For over 20 years Aleksey Leonov, the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, has been struggling to gain permission to disclose details of what happened to the legendary Yuri Gagarin in March 1968.
Back then a State Commission established to investigate the accident (which Leonov was a part of), concluded that a crew of MiG-15UTI, Yuri Gagarin and experienced instructor Vladimir Seryogin, tried to avoid a foreign object – like geese or a hot air balloon – by carrying out a maneuver that had led to a tailspin and, finally, collision with the ground. Both pilots died in that test flight.
"That conclusion is believable to a civilian – not to a professional," Leonov told RT. He has always had a firm stance against the secrecy surrounding Gagarin's death, and wanted at least his family to know the truth.
"In fact, everything went down differently," he says.
Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin (L) and Alexey Leonov (RIA Novosti)
According to a declassified report, there is a human factor behind the tragic incident - an unauthorized SU-15 fighter jet was flying dangerously close to Gagarin's aircraft.
Leonov had been in charge of parachute jump training on that day. The weather was extremely bad, with rain, wind and snow making it impossible to carry out exercises. He waited for an official confirmation that the exercises would be cancelled, but then heard a super-sonic noise followed by an explosion only a second apart from each other. That is when he knew something was up.
"We knew that a Su-15 was scheduled to be tested that day, but it was supposed to be flying at the altitude of 10,000 meters or higher, not 450-500 meters. It was a violation of the flight procedure."
Leonov that day talked to witnesses that pointed at the model of a Su-15 saying that it appeared out of the clouds with its tail smoking and burning.
"While afterburning the aircraft reduced its echelon at a distance of 10-15 meters in the clouds, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and thus sending it into a tailspin – a deep spiral, to be precise – at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour," Leonov tells.
According to the report that Seryogin wrote in his own hand, no aerobatic maneuvers or spins were to be performed by the crew of the MiG-15 with RD-45 engine and external fuel tanks, 260 liters each. Simple turns, pitching and nosedives were conducted after which Yuri reported: "Codename 645, task completed, descending" Leonov explains.
"That was the last we heard from him. The control point recorded that he was at the altitude of 4,200 at the time. 55 seconds later the plane crashed."
Leonov then was ordered to return to the Chkalovsky airfield, where he received the news that Gagarin's plane was supposed to have run out of fuel 45 minutes ago. Leonov's worst suspicions were confirmed when someone had called back reporting a crash site near the village of Novoselovo.
"We sent a team there which found the remains of the plane and the remains of Seryogin. No remains of Gagarin, except for his map case and a purse. So we first thought that he managed to eject. We sent a battalion of soldiers who combed the forest for the whole night. They shouted so that he could hear them, but all they found were remains of a balloon. It was only the next day that we found the remains of Yuri Gagarin. I identified him by a dark mole on the neck which I had spotted just three days before. A commission was set up to investigative the cause of the crash. Gherman Titov and I were invited to take part in the probe as experts."
The truth that was concealed reads more like a thriller story. When Leonov was given clearance to view the actual incident report all these years later, he found a great many inconsistencies. But the issue was with Leonov's own report: it had his name on it, but was written in a different hand, with the facts jumbled up.
"It had been something like this. Marked here was a sonic spike, a blast, followed by one-and-a-half or two seconds of supersonic noise... So, when I looked at the copy, I suddenly noticed that it stated this noise interval to be 15 to 20 seconds long instead of the two seconds that I had reported. That suggested that the two jets must have been no less than fifty kilometers apart."
Alexey Leonov
With the aid of computers, the fresh investigation was able to glean insight into exactly what caused Gagarin to go into a fatal spiral at breakneck speed. They did this by inputting Gagarin's 55 second plunge together with the 750km speed at which he crashed.
"So we used a computer to figure out a trajectory that would relate to this interval of 55 seconds. And it turned out to be a deep spiral. Now, a jet can sink into a deep spiral if a larger, heavier aircraft passes by too close and flips it over with its backwash. And that is exactly what happened to Gagarin. That trajectory was the only one that corresponded with all our input parameters."
Leonov then started going public with the story. This was followed by press conferences - some of them televised. Renowned test pilots were invited to scrutinize and challenge Leonov's testimony.
"My guess would be that one of the reasons for covering up the truth was to hide the fact that there was such a lapse so close to Moscow".
There is a record of General Zapolskiy talking to the Su-15 pilot that leaves no doubt of the pilot's fault for creating such circumstances that led to the incident.
However, the name of the man responsible for Gagarin's death is still not being disclosed. Keeping him anonymous was a condition under which Leonov was allowed to talk.
It is only known that the pilot is now 80 years old and is in poor health.
"I was asked not to disclose the pilot's name. He is a good test pilot…It will fix nothing," Leonov said.
Nikolay Stroev, Deputy Head of the Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR said that the incident happened with no intention on his part as the pilot didn't see the other plane in the clouds as he passed "on supersonic speed in fractions of a second, maybe 10 or 20 meters away".
Conspiracy theories have surrounded the events of that day for years. They included suicide – even a collision with a UFO.
But for all intents and purposes, the case is closed, and the newfound truth should provide those affected with closure. Such is the conclusion of the first woman in space, Russian Valentina Tereshkova. She spoke at a press conference at the UN headquarters in Vienna, where she participated in a conference of the Committee for the Peaceful Use of Outer Space.
"The only regret here is that it took so long for the truth to be revealed," she said. "But we can finally rest easy."
Gagarin's passing was not only a tragedy, but a career-ending moment for Tereshkova. The state simply wouldn't let her fly anymore, as the possibility of losing a second cosmonaut of such stature would have been simply catastrophic.
"They forbade me from flying ever again, even piloting planes. The repercussions of the death of one cosmonaut were so great that they wanted to keep me safe."
But the source of Tereshkova's deepest sadness still lies with Gagarin's passing. She tried to hold back tears, as she spoke: "I still miss him. It is a loss not only for us cosmonaut colleagues, but for the entire community."
First female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (RIA Novosti)
http://rt.com/news/gagarin-death-truth-revealed-674/
Back then a State Commission established to investigate the accident (which Leonov was a part of), concluded that a crew of MiG-15UTI, Yuri Gagarin and experienced instructor Vladimir Seryogin, tried to avoid a foreign object – like geese or a hot air balloon – by carrying out a maneuver that had led to a tailspin and, finally, collision with the ground. Both pilots died in that test flight.
"That conclusion is believable to a civilian – not to a professional," Leonov told RT. He has always had a firm stance against the secrecy surrounding Gagarin's death, and wanted at least his family to know the truth.
"In fact, everything went down differently," he says.
Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin (L) and Alexey Leonov (RIA Novosti)
According to a declassified report, there is a human factor behind the tragic incident - an unauthorized SU-15 fighter jet was flying dangerously close to Gagarin's aircraft.
Leonov had been in charge of parachute jump training on that day. The weather was extremely bad, with rain, wind and snow making it impossible to carry out exercises. He waited for an official confirmation that the exercises would be cancelled, but then heard a super-sonic noise followed by an explosion only a second apart from each other. That is when he knew something was up.
"We knew that a Su-15 was scheduled to be tested that day, but it was supposed to be flying at the altitude of 10,000 meters or higher, not 450-500 meters. It was a violation of the flight procedure."
Leonov that day talked to witnesses that pointed at the model of a Su-15 saying that it appeared out of the clouds with its tail smoking and burning.
"While afterburning the aircraft reduced its echelon at a distance of 10-15 meters in the clouds, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and thus sending it into a tailspin – a deep spiral, to be precise – at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour," Leonov tells.
According to the report that Seryogin wrote in his own hand, no aerobatic maneuvers or spins were to be performed by the crew of the MiG-15 with RD-45 engine and external fuel tanks, 260 liters each. Simple turns, pitching and nosedives were conducted after which Yuri reported: "Codename 645, task completed, descending" Leonov explains.
"That was the last we heard from him. The control point recorded that he was at the altitude of 4,200 at the time. 55 seconds later the plane crashed."
Leonov then was ordered to return to the Chkalovsky airfield, where he received the news that Gagarin's plane was supposed to have run out of fuel 45 minutes ago. Leonov's worst suspicions were confirmed when someone had called back reporting a crash site near the village of Novoselovo.
"We sent a team there which found the remains of the plane and the remains of Seryogin. No remains of Gagarin, except for his map case and a purse. So we first thought that he managed to eject. We sent a battalion of soldiers who combed the forest for the whole night. They shouted so that he could hear them, but all they found were remains of a balloon. It was only the next day that we found the remains of Yuri Gagarin. I identified him by a dark mole on the neck which I had spotted just three days before. A commission was set up to investigative the cause of the crash. Gherman Titov and I were invited to take part in the probe as experts."
The truth that was concealed reads more like a thriller story. When Leonov was given clearance to view the actual incident report all these years later, he found a great many inconsistencies. But the issue was with Leonov's own report: it had his name on it, but was written in a different hand, with the facts jumbled up.
"It had been something like this. Marked here was a sonic spike, a blast, followed by one-and-a-half or two seconds of supersonic noise... So, when I looked at the copy, I suddenly noticed that it stated this noise interval to be 15 to 20 seconds long instead of the two seconds that I had reported. That suggested that the two jets must have been no less than fifty kilometers apart."
Alexey Leonov
"So we used a computer to figure out a trajectory that would relate to this interval of 55 seconds. And it turned out to be a deep spiral. Now, a jet can sink into a deep spiral if a larger, heavier aircraft passes by too close and flips it over with its backwash. And that is exactly what happened to Gagarin. That trajectory was the only one that corresponded with all our input parameters."
Leonov then started going public with the story. This was followed by press conferences - some of them televised. Renowned test pilots were invited to scrutinize and challenge Leonov's testimony.
"My guess would be that one of the reasons for covering up the truth was to hide the fact that there was such a lapse so close to Moscow".
There is a record of General Zapolskiy talking to the Su-15 pilot that leaves no doubt of the pilot's fault for creating such circumstances that led to the incident.
However, the name of the man responsible for Gagarin's death is still not being disclosed. Keeping him anonymous was a condition under which Leonov was allowed to talk.
It is only known that the pilot is now 80 years old and is in poor health.
"I was asked not to disclose the pilot's name. He is a good test pilot…It will fix nothing," Leonov said.
Nikolay Stroev, Deputy Head of the Military-Industrial Commission of the USSR said that the incident happened with no intention on his part as the pilot didn't see the other plane in the clouds as he passed "on supersonic speed in fractions of a second, maybe 10 or 20 meters away".
Conspiracy theories have surrounded the events of that day for years. They included suicide – even a collision with a UFO.
But for all intents and purposes, the case is closed, and the newfound truth should provide those affected with closure. Such is the conclusion of the first woman in space, Russian Valentina Tereshkova. She spoke at a press conference at the UN headquarters in Vienna, where she participated in a conference of the Committee for the Peaceful Use of Outer Space.
"The only regret here is that it took so long for the truth to be revealed," she said. "But we can finally rest easy."
Gagarin's passing was not only a tragedy, but a career-ending moment for Tereshkova. The state simply wouldn't let her fly anymore, as the possibility of losing a second cosmonaut of such stature would have been simply catastrophic.
"They forbade me from flying ever again, even piloting planes. The repercussions of the death of one cosmonaut were so great that they wanted to keep me safe."
But the source of Tereshkova's deepest sadness still lies with Gagarin's passing. She tried to hold back tears, as she spoke: "I still miss him. It is a loss not only for us cosmonaut colleagues, but for the entire community."
First female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (RIA Novosti)
http://rt.com/news/gagarin-death-truth-revealed-674/
2013-06-09
Space : Commercialising Space and its Impact on Earth... - Bruxelles - 25/06/2013
Thx Frank,
Forwarded message From: Frank Janssens
Forwarded message From: Frank Janssens
De: Thibaut GRIMAL |
2013-05-09
Space : Proba-V gaat de ruimte in
Forwarded message From: Dirk De Quick
De derde in België gebouwde PROBA satelliet is in de nacht van maandag 6 op dinsdag 7 mei 2013 succesvol in de ruimte gebracht. Vanop de Europese lanceerbasis in Frans-Guyana bracht de tweede Vega draagraket de Proba-V aardobservatiesatelliet samen met de Vietnamese VNREDSat-1 en de Estse ESTCube-1 satellieten probleemloos tot in een lage baan om de Aarde.
2013-05-07
Space : Le Soir : Le satellite belge Proba-V a été lancé
Proba-V a été lancé ce matin depuis la base spatiale de Kourou en Guyane française. Le satellite belge analysera la végétation terrestre.
http://www.lesoir.be/238130/article/actualite/sciences-et-sante/2013-05-07/satellite-belge-proba-v-ete-lance
Voir aussi http://proba-v.vgt.vito.be/
Video : http://www.rtbf.be/video/detail_lancement-du-satellite-belge-probav?id=1821402&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed
2013-04-19
Video : La DH : "Earth from Orbit in 2012": une année vue de l'espace
La vidéo s'ouvre sur une image de notre planète bleue, "Blue Marble"
BRUXELLES Les satellites d'observation de l'Agence spatiale américaine (Nasa) scrutent continuellement la Terre bouclant leurs orbites en 90 minutes. Ils fournissent ainsi de précieuses informations sur l'état de notre habitat ainsi que de splendides images.
Début avril, la Nasa a d'ailleurs révélé un medley des meilleures vidéos, photographies ou encore, modélisations de 2012. Nommée "Earth from Orbit in 2012", elle met en lumière certains des derniers satellites de la flotte américaine tel que le polyvalent Suomi en orbite polaire (NPP).
La vidéo s'ouvre sur une image de notre planète bleue, "Blue Marble". Très connue, cette photographie est régulièrement mise à jour. S'en suit des timelapses, des zooms et dé-zooms sur certaines régions terrestres, des images de la Terre vue de nuit, des visualisations de données en "fausses couleurs", etc.
En plus de nous faire découvrir la splendeur de notre planète, "Earth fron Orbit in 2012" montre également l'évolution des paysages et des climats durant l'année écoulée.
L.Be.
© La Dernière Heure 2013
2013-04-12
Space : Brussel verwelkomt het Europees Space Weather Coordination Centre
Thx Dirk,
Forwarded message From: Dirk De Quick
Op woensdag 3 april 2013 werd in Brussel het Europees coördinatiecentrum voor ruimteweerdiensten officieel ingehuldigd. Het Space Weather Coordination Centre (SSCC) werd opgericht in het kader van ESA's Space Situational Awareness programma en bevindt zich op de 'Space Pole' in Ukkel waar zich ook het Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut van België (KMI) en de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België (KSB) bevinden.
http://www.belgiuminspace.be/nieuws/belgie-en-ruimtevaart/brussel-verwelkomt-het-europees-space-weather-coordination-centre
http://www.belgiuminspace.be/nieuws/belgie-en-ruimtevaart/brussel-verwelkomt-het-europees-space-weather-coordination-centre
2013-04-06
Space : Zonne-instrument vijf jaar in de ruimte
Thx Dirk
Forwarded message From: Dirk De Quick
Het ruimte-instrument SOLAR/SOLSPEC viert dit jaar zijn 5-jarig bestaan sinds zijn lancering. Dit Frans-Belgisch toestel meet de hoeveelheid zonnestraling (de zonneflux) vanuit de ruimte. Het gaat om een vernieuwde versie van een ouder instrument dat eerder al 5 maal deelnam aan ruimtemissies in de voorbije 30 jaar. Deze nieuwe versie is speciaal ontwikkeld voor langdurige ruimtemissies.
http://belgiuminspace.be/nieuws/ruimtevaartprojecten/zonne-instrument-vijf-jaar-in-de-ruimte
http://belgiuminspace.be/nieuws/ruimtevaartprojecten/zonne-instrument-vijf-jaar-in-de-ruimte
2013-03-25
Space : Frank De Winne à l'honneur à l'ERM
Forwarded message From: Luc Dujardin - Photographies
people dimanche 24 mar 2013 il y a 20 h 325 vues powered by BELGA
Un auditorium Frank De Winne à l'Ecole royale militaire pour honorer l'un de ses élèves
(Belga) L'Ecole royale militaire (ERM) a baptisé dimanche son grand auditorium du nom de l'un de ses plus célèbres anciens élèves, le spationaute, général de brigade et vicomte Frank De Winne.
Le commandant de l'ERM, le général-major Harry Vindevogel, et Frank De Winne, ont dévoilé une plaque donnant le nom de l'ancien commandant de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), en marge de l'"Open Campus Day" organisée par l'"université de la Défense" à Bruxelles, a constaté l'agence BELGA.
Space : Belg begint op 15 april aan gesimuleerde ruimtemissie
Forwarded message From: Dirk De Quick
De Belg Angelo Vermeulen begint op 15 april 2013 aan een vier maanden durende simulatie van een ruimtemissie. Het project werd opgezet door de universiteiten van Cornell en Hawaii en wordt gefinancierd door de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Hoofddoel van deze simulatie is onderzoeken hoe voedselmoeheid bij ruimtevaarders kan vermeden worden.
Samen met vijf andere bemanningsleden, waaronder vier Amerikanen en één Canadees, zal Angelo Vermeulen vier maanden lang leven in een levensechte ruimtebasis op Hawaii. Op het vulkanische eiland in de Stille Oceaan zullen de bemanningsleden van het Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue & Simulation project (HI SEAS) leven en werken als ruimtevaarders en hierbij de mogelijkheden aftasten van koken tijdens een langdurige ruimtemissie. Zo zal men er eetpatronen ontwikkelen voor ruimtevaarders dat door wetenschappers strikt zal worden opgevolgd. Eén van de grootste problemen die opduiken tijdens langdurige ruimtemissies is voedselmoeheid. Bereide maaltijden is iedereen na een tijd beu en daar wil men nu met het HI SEAS project iets aan doen. De 41-jarige bioloog en kunstenaar uit Sint-Niklaas stelde zich in februari 2012 kandidaat voor deze gesimuleerde ruimtemissie op Hawaii en werd vervolgens geselecteerd uit meer dan 700 inschrijvingen. Enkele maanden later werd Vermeulen ook aangeduid als gezagvoerder van de missie. Aan de TU Delft in Nederland werkt Angelo Vermeulen ook aan een kunst- en technologiedoctoraat, waarin hij nieuwe concepten voor ruimteschepen onderzoekt.
Website HI SEAS project: http://hi-seas.org/
Website HI SEAS project: http://hi-seas.org/
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