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#ULA- United Launch Alliance #AtlasV |#LockheedMartin #NASA #Insight launching towards to study the rusty planet Mars- Highlights…

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On 5th May 2018 on a west coast Californian early mid-morning, is the launch from Space Launch Complex three at Vandenberg Air Force Base… Launching at 0405 Hours Pacific Day Time… This launch is the first for the west coast to launch the Interplanetary Missions, due to the majority is launched from the East Coast at Cape Canaveral launch complexes facilities……

Launching InSight is ULA- United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 Configuration, in which this launch carrier rocket  with a four meter diameter payload flaring in which housing  NASA’s InSight  -Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport….. During the process of the launch after separation in which there are three payloads, InSight also it’s Cube Satellites support services that’s attached to the secondary stage of the Atlas V configuration…

Launching from Launch Complex three, in a very Californian misty morning… in which the counting down towards the launch without any issues… powering up the launch is the Mightily RD AMROSS RD-180 engine also providing the secondary Stage is  the . Aerojet Rocketdyne provided the RL10C-1 engine … in which it’s been tradition that the Atlas V series carrier rockets have carried into towards Mars with its successive Martian rovers and satellites including Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers as well as the MAVEN satellite…  among the payload in the centaur after section is the pair of launchers of the JPL- Jet Propulsion Laboratory Cube Satellites MarCO- The Mars Cube One Alpha and Beta in which to be the first to be flown in interplanetary , utilizing of the shelf technologies in which providing Data Telecommunications support in between the MRO- Martian Reconnaissance Orbiter … having be launched from the lower ATLAS v Centaur carrier staging bulk head. Both make their independent travelling paths towards Mars in which providing communications support..

 Insight is a stationary probe that’s Phoenix heritage design to study on Martian Quakes on The planet Mars the Fourth Rocky planet in the Sol-Solar System in which to study the Martian’s Interior also its structure with its various sensors… in which when it lands on the design landing position it begins to transport from is instruments array, it begins studying the Martian sub surface in which helps to understand the early planetary formation.. In which CNES-  SEIS- Seismic Experiment for interior Structure, DLR- HP cube – Heat Flow and Physical Properties Pack   in which measures the thermal conductivity of Mars..

#BlueOrigin #NewShepard | #Mission8 Test Flight- with working visa Mannequin passenger #Skywalker – Highlights……

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On 29th April 2018 on a very fine Sunday in West Texas in which it only just briefly Thunderstorm rained early that morning at 0945 Hours Eastern Day time… On that Sunday it was the Launch of the Blue Origin’s Test Flight Mission Number Eight..  Excitingly commentary the launch is in which is Ariane Cornell- Business Development and Strategy for Blue Origin is… exciting as the crew of the Blue Origin as they waited for the launch collaboratively from different parts of the country….

During the process counting down towards the Mission Number eighth launch there was numerous understanding belays, or holds has the Team Blue Origin tweaks, modifies, repairs out any issues that arises during the counting down towards the launch ….. As New Shepard launched with a Apogee of 107 Kilometers reaching before the Command module separated… In which it landed secondary after the first stage New Shepard landed without any issues, landing textbook.. with powered up  by  the singular BE-3 Engine in which is different than from the SpaceX nine Merlin Engines.. New Shepard features more like the SpaceX Falcon Nine reusable, in which is like a Jeep version rather than like a Tesla roadster in which is SpaceX…

launched from Blue Origin West Texas launch complex is the New Shepard..

Apart from the Launch is the second time the Mannequin Passenger named Skywalker has flown on a test flight- Skywalker previous rode the December 2017 Mission seven test flight… Among with Skywalker in which workingly conducting astronaut telemetry and science studies, several sets payloads was onboard the New Shepard Command Module in which are payload contracted to NASA-National Aeronautics And Space Admistraton also aswell to the DLR- German Aerospace Center Commercial customers..

NASA’s payload was from the Johnson Space Center- SFEM-2 Suborbital flight Experiment Monitor -2 in which was design to data collect the various payloads in an environment in flight cabin collecting (CO2, pressure, acceleration, acoustics) for the Orion command module

New Shepard does another text book landing as its design like a SUV in mind.. reaching 107 Kilometer apogee then separating descending back..

The Second NASA’s Payload was the SC-1X- Schmitt Space Communications – naming after the Apollo 17 Astronaut Schmitt was design to test the frame work of using easy access of commercial WI-FI in Space for users in which this payloads experiment is commercially funded in collaboration with NASA’S Flight Opportunities Program…  Among with the other payload that was sent up during the eighth mission that’s delicate Daphnia-  in using microgravity effects on gene expressions on water fleas.. in building life support systems for human explorations..  Equipage was to study the motions in microgravity in state far from equilibrium of Granular gases in which not possible to examine on Earth…

Apart from Today’s eight mission launch was a success in which despite that the launch was on hold several times it also provide refinement data for the ninth launch that the next wouldn’t face any holds… or reduce holds

#SpaceX #NASA | #TESS joyed excitingly as the #FalconNine says “Of Course I still love you” …………..

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On a Spring Florida Wednesday 18th April 2018, SLC 40- Space Launch Complex 40 launching of Space X Falcon Nine Reusable, with those nine mightily Merlin Engines from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in which is about least than fifteen Kilometers away from that NASA-KSC’s Iconic Launch Complex 39A that launched the Mighty Saturn five rockets also the STS-Space Transportation Systems – The Space Shuttle..

#SpaceX #NASA | #TESS joyed excitingly as the #FalconNine says “Of Course I still love you” ……………. into eight minutes and twenty seconds.. landed..

On that Wednesday, it launch the Daughter of Kepler TESS- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in which its parent was design as the Exoplanetary hunting telescope that scanned the universe in the Milky way Galaxy for Exoplanetary systems.. with new systems onboard it’s expected to find scan utilizing the transiting dipping diming method of finding Exo-Planets in outside Exo- system  orbiting around the its parent star.. In which with higher greater degree of magnification of finding smaller rocky Exo-planets than of the Sol-System of Earth or smaller.. Than Kepler did…

As Falcon nine launched towards MECO- Main Entry Cut Off… Towards separations between first stage and the second in which two minutes and thirty two seconds…. Then six minutes and twenty nine seconds into the launch the falcon nine reusable stage one begins is re-entry burn then carefully automated guided towards the Atlantic Ocean Drone Ship “Of Course I still love you”.. in which with the live footage shows two streams from the Falcon Nine as it carefully lands relearning those steps also the awaiting for where landing on the SpaceX livery marks the spot..into eight minutes and twenty seconds.. landed..

#OrbitalATK #OmegA #EELV | OrbitalATK’s newest sister for a larger class rocket carrier inspired by Omega Centauri- That starry Globular Cluster next to the #NewZealandFlag – #SouthernCross …..

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Coming very soon in the OrbitalATK in its fleet of carrier rockets is the newest sister The OmegA… in which is designed home-grown manufactured for the EELV- US-Air force Evolved Expendable Vehicle program exclusively… In which is design to have a payload capacity for 10.100 Tonnes for a GTO – Transfer Geostationary Orbit … for a lighter payload load for GEO- Geostationary Equatorial Orbit ..

The newest sister- OmegA… Features the naming from the First letter from two companies in collaboration with ATK.. With O then the A…. in which she is named after a starry object in the night sky only can been seen in the Southern Hemisphere in which One of many Observatories New Zealand’s Auckland Observatory-Stardome is one great viewing spot to view the globular cluster as you look into the Constellation Centauri area where the Southern Cross is right next to Epsilon Centauri…   looking least sixteen thousand light years ago back in time with a clustering of ten million stars with a diameter of least 160 Light years across…

OrbitalATK’s newest sister for a larger class rocket carrier inspired by Omega Centauri- That starry Globular Cluster next to the New Zealand Flag – Southern Cross …..

 Featuring as a three stage rocket with a six clustered Strap on GEM63XL/T boosters strapping onto stage one (CASTOR 600 or 1200) powered up by a Aero Rocketdyne RL10C engines with the secondary (CASTOR 300) stage among with the tertiary stage in which has the thrust vector control system….   In which depending on the mission specs OmegA can be modified as a two stage launching various payload, or various numerous…..

Carbon Fibre composites as its main shell construction in which cost effective also in which reduces the time to  manufacturing operationally as it is printed onsite.. Providing low costing for customers in affordability.. the initial OmegA configuration flight is expected to launch within the early year of 2021 calendar in which certification of the EELV program later quarterly year in which latter for the heavy configuration flight certification is expected for the 2024 launch Calendar.. in which it be interesting to see how it completes fairly with American internally National Commercial launch Provides as likes of SpaceX, ULA- United Launch Alliance also RocketLab.. on the payload specifications requirements..

#SpaceX #NASA | #TESS #OfCourseIStillLoveYou – with featuring Transiting ExoPlanets Survey Satellite- traditionally …..

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On a Spring Florida Wednesday 18th April 2018, it’s the second attempt of  launching of Space X Falcon Nine Reusable, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launching from SLC 40- Space Launch Complex 40 in which is about least than fifteen Kilometers away from that NASA-KSC’s Iconic Launch Complex 39A that launched the Mighty Saturn five rockets also the STS-Space Transportation Systems – The Space Shuttle..

TESS’s launch window opening on previously on Monday 16th April 2018 from at 1832 hours EDT afternoon eastern daylight time on which that date of the launch was scrubbed due to many sources points to fault in the falcon nine rocket’s GNC- Guidance and Navigation and Control systems in which that the data regarding to the fault issue would be repaired by East Coast Florida Wednesday launch..

Launching from Space Launch Complex 40, with SpaceX traditions of landing off shore with Drone Ship “Of Course I Still love you” that stationed in the Atlantic Ocean…… in which previous two launching s were non-traditional which resulted a Non Drone ship landing but an Oceanic landing to see how it will performed also experimentally what other lessons needed learning with modifications later on..  after  two minutes and thirty seconds into the flight both stages separate in which eight minutes and twenty seconds the Falcon Nine first Stage Carrier rocket lands on the Atlantic Ocean Drone ship …..

 Manufactured by Orbital ATK..  launching into highly elliptical orbit approximately, This time the payload is a singular, featuring the two year operational used  TESS- Transiting ExoPlanets Survey Satellite in which subjectively replace the role in which Kepler Exo Planet finder probe…. As it’s is NASA’s next generation Exo Planetary finder… TESS is in collaboration with NASA led proposal of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research… the provisionment of TESS is to observational data gathering of potential planets of orbiting its host, parent star of using finding light tail dips in the light as the Exo planet transits and dipping of the light intensity.. in which orbiting around..  TESS is expected to data catalogued thousands of candidates with different various of stars, planets with a refined methods of looking for smaller earth size planets in which are rocky types…..