Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (June 26, 1925 - January 10, 1970), was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft. He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission which saw the first man walk...
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 is often considered the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown in 1936. It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new company - Focke Achgelis - after development had begun. Read more Focke Wulf Fw 61 - luftwaffe test pilot Hanna Reitsch[video=http://www.you...
Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt (June 26, 1898 - September 15, 1978) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. He was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a wine merchant. His stepfather was the American painter and Munich Academy Professor Carl von Marr. Read more
Enhancing satellite capability for the backbone of all military communications, reconnaissance and navigation Building on a decade's worth of experience, Defence IQ's 10th Annual Military Satellites Conference features our most senior speaker panel to date with representatives from prem...
NASA's Helios Prototype was an evolutionary series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. On June 26, 2003, the Helios Prototype broke up and fell into the Pacific Ocean about ten miles (16 km) west of the Hawaiian Island Kauai during a remotely piloted systems checkou...
Open day attracts a record 15,000 visitors A record number of visitors will be attending the University of Bristol's latest undergraduate open day on Thursday [June 28]. Around 15,000 visitors have booked to attend, making it the most popular open day to date. The event will provide applicants wi...
Title: GRB100814A as a member of the growing set of bursts with sudden optical rebrightening Authors: Massimiliano De Pasquale, N. P. Kuin, S. Oates, M. Page, S. Zane, C. Saxton, S. Schulze, Z. Cano, C. Guidorzi, P. Chandra, D. Frail, P. Evans, A. Beardmore, A. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, T. Fatkh...
What Britain used to look like from the air From sprawling factory complexes to newly built suburban streets - by way of some of the UK's top sporting venues and seaside resorts. More than 10,000 images from one of the earliest collections of aerial photography are being made freely available on the...
3 US states under tropical storm warning Parts of three Gulf states in the U.S. are under a tropical storm warning Sunday as Debby churned off the Gulf Coast, leaving wary residents to closely watch a storm whose path has so far been difficult to forecast. Low-lying coastal areas in Louisiana were und...
Orbital elements:
2012 MF7 Earth MOID = 0.0004 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 328.50460 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.3934139 Incl. 1.82312 -0.23743726 -0.31977073
P 1.85 H 26.8 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 MB7 Earth MOID = 0.0873 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 240.67601 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.69528599 Peri. 82.28173 +0.90560094 +0.25297325
a 1.2619062 Node 262.58488 -0.36771292 +0.86829101
e 0.2725511 Incl. 20.07802 +0.21136260 +0.42670278
P 1.42 H 22.2 G...
Title: VLT observations of the two Fermi pulsars PSR J1357-6429 and PSR J1048-5832 Authors: R. P. Mignani, A. Shearer, A. De Luca, P. Moran, S. Collins, M. Marelli Optical observations of pulsars are crucial to study the neutron star properties, from the structure and composition of the interior,...
Title: MOST Observations of the Flare Star AD Leo Authors: Nicholas M. Hunt-Walker, Eric J Hilton, Adam F. Kowalski, Suzanne L. Hawley, Jayme M. Matthews We present continuous, high-precision photometric monitoring data with 1 minute cadence of the dM3e flare star AD Leo with the MOST satellite....
Progress M-34 collides with Mir, 1997 Progress M-34 was a Russian unmanned cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1997 to resupply the Mir space station, and which subsequently collided with Mir during a docking attempt, resulting in...
