Astro Aviator - Part 2

Team Finalize Curiosity For Launch

by Assad

Team at Cape Canaveral said on Wednesday that they have finished finalizing Curiosity for it’s launch in November. The team for five years planned how to launch the first nuclear powered robot to Mars and how to handle the radioactive material in case of failure during launch.

Planets Found in 13 years Old Hubble Image

by Assad

After re analyzing the old archives of Hubble, astronomers find something fishy which later on turned out that they have discovered extrasolar planets which they could not locate before. These planets orbit a young star called HR 8799 which is 130 light years away from us.

South Korea receives further F-15Ks

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South Korea has received further F-15K Slam Eagle Fighters from Boeing at Daegu Air Base last month. This delivery was a part of 2nd phase (21 aircraft) of its F-X fighter requirement. RoKAF has now 52 Slam Eagles in service, with eight remaining aircrafts scheduled to arrive around April 2012.

F-22 Stealth Maintenance issues hit Mission rates

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It has been learnt that due to problems with maintaining the low-observable (LO) properties of the F-22 Raptor aircraft, in 2010 the aircraft had the lowest mission capable rate of any tactical fighter in the USAF inventory. Since 2006, the F-22’s mission capable rate-the percentage of aircraft on squadron flight lines ready to fly entire [...]

Su-30MK2 for Uganda

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Uganda has received the first of six Su-30MK fighters bought from Russia, after more than a year of speculation and rumours about the deal. Deliveries began earlier this month using an Antonov An-124 transport aircraft, according to Airliners.net. Engine runs began on July 8 while the first Su-30 flew on July 11, followed by a second [...]

NASA Derived Aeroponic Farming

by Assad

Here is a video about the aeroponic farming. In this the plants can grow in minimum environment conditions thus making the plant to grow in nearly every location.

Pimp My Ride

by Assad

Here is a image taken from airliners.net showing an aircraft fuselage converted into a truck. The fuselage of An-2 aircraft was taken and fitted to the chassis of a truck. The aircraft belonging to Aeroflot airlines was taken by a local Hungarian and was configured to easily fix on the chassis of a heavy cargo truck. The photo was taken by Gabor Kovacs Dodi.

Juno Captures Earth and The Moon

by Assad

After lift off on 5th August 2011, spacecraft Juno travelled almost 6 million miles when it took the image of Earth and the Moon while on its way to Jupiter. The image was captured by on board camera called JunoCam on 26th August 2011 and it was part of one of various tests conducted by Juno after it’s launch to see the spacecrafts progress.

Irene Captured by WC-130 Aircraft

by Assad

These were the images taken while WC-130 a weather analysis equipped aircraft took a flight in hurricane for the surveillance and analysis. These images were taken by Capt. Nicole Mitchell.

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