NASA selected the Fantastic Four!
By Bart Volgers on 10 July 2015 in ISS International Space Station, Nasa, Space exploration, SpaceX 0
Nasa announced that they have selected four veteran astronauts for the first commercial crew flights with Boeing's Orion and SpaceX's Dragon V2. As Spacex is developing Dragon V in an aggressive pace and Boeing seam to take a lot of more time for there next flight, the first commercial crew flights will most likely default […]
Dragon V2 flight animation analysis
By Bart Volgers on 8 January 2015 in Dragon, ISS International Space Station, Space exploration, SpaceX 0
Lets take a look at the Dragon V2 flight animation. Despite that it is just a first animation, it's fun to have a look at it and make some analysis, by comparing it with what we already know from Dragon V1. The first thing that springs to attention is the trunk. It is much longer […]
Earth timelaps with Dragon and and Cygnus
By Bart Volgers on 31 December 2014 in Dragon, ESA, ISS International Space Station, Space exploration, SpaceX 0
This video is a timelapse produced from 12.500 images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, during the Blue dot ISS mission. Watch the amazing timelapses of aurora, night skies and the stars clearly showing through Earth's atmosphere. There aso some really cool shots from the berthing of Dragon and the departure of Cygnus the Orbital science […]
CRS-4 Dragon landed safely on earth (updated 25-10 22:20 UT)
Dragon has successfully been undocked from ISS and is underway to Earth with approximate 1500 Kg of cargo. consisting of scientific experiments and samples, personal crew items and other equipment. At this moment Dragon is the only spacecraft that is able to get back significant amounts of cargo from the ISS to Earth. Dragon safely […]
Dragon CRS-4 mission to ISS
By Bart Volgers on 29 September 2014 in Dragon, Falcon, ISS International Space Station, Space exploration, SpaceX 0
First thing what smite me when I watched the Falcon CRS-4 launch video that the four legs on the first where missing… For geo stationary missions Falcon needs a lot of fuel and it's easy to see that there is ample room fuel wish to save enough to get he first stage back to to […]