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22 December 18:54 8 hours 15 minutes 23 December 03:09 STS-103 Discovery: Steven Smith John M. Grunsfeld: Replaced three Rate Sensor Units, installed Voltage/Temperature Improvement Kits on all six batteries. [11] Hubble Space Telescope servicing 23 December 19:06 8 hours 10 minutes 24 December 03:16 STS-103 Discovery / Michael Foale Claude ...
The December 2009 North American blizzard was a powerful nor'easter that formed over the Gulf of Mexico in December 2009, and became a major snowstorm that affected the East Coast of the United States and Canadian Atlantic provinces. The snowstorm brought record-breaking December snowfall totals to Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
In December 2018, NASA announced that Voyager 2 had crossed the heliopause on 5 November 2018, making it the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space. [ 3 ] As of 2017 [update] Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to monitor conditions in the outer expanses of the Solar System. [ 32 ]
On December 2, 2013, the CIOC (NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign) officially announced that Comet ISON had fully disintegrated. [114] [115] The Hubble Space Telescope failed to detect fragments of ISON on December 18, 2013. [116]
On December 8, 2008, a United States Marine Corps (USMC) F/A-18 Hornet crash in a residential area of San Diego, California.The pilot, First Lieutenant Dan Neubauer (28) from VMFAT-101, was the only crewmember on board the two-seat aircraft; he successfully ejected from the aircraft, landing in a tree.
The Kamchatka meteor was a meteor that exploded in an air burst off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on 18 December 2018. [3] At around midday, local time, [4] an asteroid roughly 10 meters in diameter entered the atmosphere at a speed of 32.0 km/s (72,000 mph), with a TNT equivalent energy of 173 kilotons, more than 10 times the energy of the Little Boy bomb dropped ...
Crew return was delayed due to the launch failure of Soyuz MS-10; it was rescheduled for 20 December, after the MS-11 crew arrives on 3 December. 12 June 04:20 [125] H-IIA 202 F39 [71] Tanegashima: MHI: IGS Radar-6 CSICE: Low Earth Reconnaissance: In orbit: Operational 16 June 21:30 Soyuz-2.1b / Fregat-M: Plesetsk Site 43/4: RVSN RF: GLONASS-M ...
Fabrication and launch of the MLAS test vehicle Components of the MLAS test vehicle MLAS test vehicle flight profile. The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) was a proposed alternative to the Maxime Faget-invented "tractor" launch escape system (LES) that was planned for use by NASA for its Orion spacecraft in the event an Ares I malfunction during launch required an immediate abort.