#Launch

[nasa]

Tiny BurstCube's Tremendous Travelogue

Meet BurstCube! This shoebox-sized satellite is designed to study the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, called gamma-ray bursts. It detects gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light.

BurstCube may be small, but it had a huge journey to get to space.

First, BurstCube was designed and built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Here you can see Julie Cox, an early career engineer, working on BurstCube’s gamma-ray detecting instrument in the Small Satellite Lab at Goddard.

BurstCube is a type of spacecraft called a CubeSat. These tiny missions give early career engineers and scientists the chance to learn about mission development — as well as do cool science!

Then, after assembling the spacecraft, the BurstCube team took it on the road to conduct a bunch of tests to determine how it will operate in space. Here you can see another early career engineer, Kate Gasaway, working on BurstCube at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

She and other members of the team used a special facility there to map BurstCube’s magnetic field. This will help them know where the instrument is pointing when it’s in space.

The next stop was back at Goddard, where the team put BurstCube in a vacuum chamber. You can see engineers Franklin Robinson, Elliot Schwartz, and Colton Cohill lowering the lid here. They changed the temperature inside so it was very hot and then very cold. This mimics the conditions BurstCube will experience in space as it orbits in and out of sunlight.

Then, up on a Goddard rooftop, the team — including early career engineer Justin Clavette — tested BurstCube’s GPS. This so-called open-sky test helps ensure the team can locate the satellite once it’s in orbit.

The next big step in BurstCube’s journey was a flight to Houston! The team packed it up in a special case and took it to the airport. Of course, BurstCube got the window seat!

Once in Texas, the BurstCube team joined their partners at Nanoracks (part of Voyager Space) to get their tiny spacecraft ready for launch. They loaded the satellite into a rectangular frame called a deployer, along with another small satellite called SNoOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation). The deployer is used to push spacecraft into orbit from the International Space Station.

From Houston, BurstCube traveled to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where it launched on SpaceX’s 30th commercial resupply servicing mission on March 21, 2024. BurstCube traveled to the station along with some other small satellites, science experiments, as well as a supply of fresh fruit and coffee for the astronauts.

A few days later, the mission docked at the space station, and the astronauts aboard began unloading all the supplies, including BurstCube!

And finally, on April 18, 2024, BurstCube was released into orbit. The team will spend a month getting the satellite ready to search the skies for gamma-ray bursts. Then finally, after a long journey, this tiny satellite can embark on its big mission!

BurstCube wouldn’t be the spacecraft it is today without the input of many early career engineers and scientists. Are you interested in learning more about how you can participate in a mission like this one? There are opportunities for students in middle and high school as well as college!

Keep up on BurstCube’s journey with NASA Universe on X and Facebook. And make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

#tech #technology #dream job #jobseekers #NASA #space #spaceblr #universe #astronomy #science #gamma ray bursts #cubesat #smallsat #launch

[arcadebroke]

ランチ

#@art_room113 #ドラゴンボール #Dragon Ball #ランチ #lunchi #launch #character design #character art #anime #manga

[humanoidhistory]

Space Shuttle Atlantis launch, 3 October 1985.

#space shuttle #space #history #rocket #nasa #launch #1985 #1980s

[emmarrgus]

IT’S DONEEEEEEEE

#dragon ball #artist #art #artists on tumblr #illustration #artwork #dbz fanart #dbz #dragon ball z #six fanarts #fanart #frieza #cooler #perfect cell #piccolo #launch #majin vegeta #vegeta

[jorongbak]

If I can take just two characters from OG Dragonball and make them relevant again in DB Super-

Even after all those years with crazy villains with crazy power levels, that 'who needs flying when you can throw a goddamn pillar, leap on it, and let it carry you' scene is still badass as ever

#tao pai pai #launch #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dbz #dbs #vegeta #goku

[miss-plum]

When they say “cowgirl Launch” do they mean 🐮 or 🤠??

#launch #db fanart #plumart

[bornfreakdraws]

Every day is Goku/Piccolo day when you have ✨ Nostalgia ✨

#goku day #dbz #dragon ball z #dragon ball #goku #piccolo #piccolo day #akira toriyama #bulma #vegeta #gohan #krillin #launch #raditz #android 18 #yamcha #sketchbook #mixed media art

[msdbzbabe]

Rescanned all my Dragon Ball Puzzle art #DragonBall #DragonBallZ #DragonBallSuper Full HD scans

#dragon ball #dragon ball super #msdbzbabe #dragon ball z #db #dbz #dbs #dragon ball puzzle art #vegeta #goku #bulma #chichi #gohan #goten #trunks #piccolo #krillin #majin buu #android 18 #launch #yamcha #tien

[theabyssal]

It's here!! The public update is now live and you can find the link down below! 🖤🖤

But first you can read some of the changes I made for this update:

Sol is now gender selectable! Now only Wulfric is gender-locked, while the rest of the ROs are all gender-selectable;

Friend!crush Sol (friends to lovers) and Enemy!crush Sol (enemies to lovers). Romancing choices are marked with a 🖤;

Rescue—adopt?—a little kid;

Two interludes were added.

Choose to wear a mask or a veil, and pick between many designs of masks for your Death to wear;

Second part of Chapter 2 is focused on world-building, lore, and Éoin's life as a mortician.

Secondly, a list of small things that I added:

Around 15k words were added to chapter one and 12k to chapter two. The demo now has a total of 100k words;

Now the choices that will unlock the madness and fury domain are labeled.

Added time and location to each memory jump to better situate the reader.

Make sure to check the show stats option! I'll be adding details about the characters and the world of Hylaria there with every update.

Much more.

💀 PUBLIC DEMO 💀

#the abyssal #theabyssal #update #launch

[ruuibos]

Sorry I'm late to the party! Happy belated birthday, my boy!! 🥳🎉

#yamcha #db #dbz #dbs #launch #puar #piccolo #tien #chiaotzu #bulma briefs #goku #vegeta #oolong #my art #my fanart

[nasa]

Setting Sail to Travel Through Space: 5 Things to Know about our New Mission

Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System will launch aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand no earlier than April 23, at 6 p.m. EDT. This mission will demonstrate the use of innovative materials and structures to deploy a next-generation solar sail from a CubeSat in low Earth orbit.

Here are five things to know about this upcoming mission:

1. Sailing on Sunshine

Solar sails use the pressure of sunlight for propulsion much like sailboats harness the wind, eliminating the need for rocket fuel after the spacecraft has launched. If all goes according to plan, this technology demonstration will help us test how the solar sail shape and design work in different orbits.

2. Small Package, Big Impact

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft is a CubeSat the size of a microwave, but when the package inside is fully unfurled, it will measure about 860 square feet (80 square meters) which is about the size of six parking spots. Once fully deployed, it will be the biggest, functional solar sail system – capable of controlled propulsion maneuvers – to be tested in space.

3. Second NASA Solar Sail in Space

If successful, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System will be  the second NASA solar sail to deploy in space, and not only will it be much larger, but this system will also test navigation capabilities to change the spacecraft’s orbit. This will help us gather data for future missions with even larger sails.

4. BOOM: Stronger, Lighter Booms

Just like a sailboat mast supports its cloth sails, a solar sail has support beams called booms that provide structure. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System mission’s primary objective is to deploy a new type of boom. These booms are made from flexible polymer and carbon fiber materials that are stiffer and 75% lighter than previous boom designs. They can also be flattened and rolled like a tape measure. Two booms spanning the diagonal of the square (23 feet or about 7 meters in length) could be rolled up and fit into the palm of your hand!

5. It’s a bird...it’s a plane...it’s our solar sail!

About one to two months after launch, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft will deploy its booms and unfurl its solar sail. Because of its large size and reflective material, the spacecraft may be visible from Earth with the naked eye if the lighting conditions and orientation are just right!

To learn more about this mission that will inform future space travel and expand our understanding of our Sun and solar system, visit https://www.nasa.gov/mission/acs3/.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

#NASA #space #technology #explore #space exploration #Sun #solar sail #launch #tech #Youtube

[quantumleper]

RIP Akira Toriyama, creator of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball (1955-2024)

#dragon ball #dragon ball z #dragon ball super #goku #akira toriyama #piccolo #gohan #vegeta #yamcha #bulma #tien #chiaotzu #puar #master roshi #kami #king kai #oolong #turtle #launch #chi chi #dr briefs #manga #anime #film

[madcat-world]

Launch - Roman Avseyenko

#Launch #Roman Avseyenko #spaceships #rockets #scenery #sci fi #digital art

[pi-la]

#Launch #roshi #krillin #goku #dragon ball #anime

[lonestarflight]

STS-45 Atlantis Launch

"With its twin solid rocket boosters and three main engines churning at seven million pounds of thrust, the Space Shuttle Atlantis thunders skyward from Launch Pad 39A. Liftoff of Mission STS-45 occurred at 8:13:40 a.m. EST, March 24, 1992. On board for the 46th Shuttle flight are a crew of seven and the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-1 (ATLAS-1). The launch is the second in 1992 for the Shuttle program and Atlantis' 11th flight."

Date: March 24, 1992

NASA ID: 92PC-0644

#STS-45 #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Atlantis #Atlantis #OV-104 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #launch #LC-39A #Kennedy Space Center #Florida #March #1992 #my post

[eddiezhere]

LAUNCH! I doodled her cus my friend/mootie requested her (thank you 😈 @smellpelt))

And guys.. embarrassing thing to admit but I haven't even seen og dragon ball yet.. I'm getting there I swear.. so I know just the basics of this character.. forgive me.. 😭

Lightly shaded ver;

if any of my mutuals or friends hve something they want me to draw (dragon ball characters or ships (no proships)) then I'd probably do them! :P

#dbz #dragon ball #digital art #dragon ball z #art #dragon ball fanart #Launch #launch dragon ball #launch db #Shes pretty #My art #Doodle