April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... in-orbit insurance losses by value during the period 2004-23 (Table 2), four were related to antennas or their beams. Is the insurance loss percentage a fair reflection of capability loss? Direct comparisons are difficult to make, because spacecraft...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... 3175 kilograms of supplies and scientific hardware for the ISS, including the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). BEAM will be attached to the ISS to test out the on-orbit performance of inflatable habitat modules, which offer much...
09 April 2016
Flawless launch for SpaceX Dragon
...7,000 pounds of cargo, including the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), to the orbital laboratory following its launch on a Falcon 9 ...arm, with help from NASA astronaut Jeff Williams. BEAM will arrive in Dragon's unpressurised trunk and, after...
12 April 2016
ULA teams up with Bigelow
... 2006 and 2007, and the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which has just arrived at the ISS aboard SpaceX's Dragon cargo ...capsule. The goal of BEAM - which offers just five per cent the volume of a B330 ...
18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
...was found to spin 716 times per second! Pulsars are identified by beams of radiation that are swept out like the light from a lighthouse ... edge of the pulsar wind nebula torus, but the radio beams near the jets point off to the sides and remain unseen...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
...Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the technique involves sending a powerful beam of microwaves directed toward the Moon from DSS-14, a 70 ...and when the signature of a small spacecraft crossed the beam, the team knew they had found what they were ...
