Gosh, it's been a week since I last posted. Seems like yesterday. I've been busy ( Read more... )

Hey folks, sorry to disappear like that. It's been a difficult week for me. Nothing dire, but I've been having a spate of detector shutdowns which have kept me busy reloading the detector code and ramping the high voltage back up. Since the detector processors are about as intelligent as sponges, I have to do all the heavy lifting for them, and ( Read more... )

Wow, what a day ( Read more... )

Woah! Busy right now folks. I haven't forgotten you, but the post about the ISM is going to have to wait for a while. Too much science data in the virtual channels for me to spare any space for a long post.

Hope you all had a great weekend. I'll catch up with you once I get all of this data downlinked.

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day caught me by surprise. That's how I remember Mir best, flying along below.

He was the closest thing to an uncle I'll ever have. I miss him.

Happy Friday space fans! Once again I'm getting my buffers loaded up with service observations to take me through the weekend. The engineers on the ground are wrapping up another week's work, preparing once again to let me wing it on my own until they return on Monday.

Continuing my series of posts about my mission, let's look today at this ( Read more... )

Hey space fans, how about a big welcome to LJ for eo1_sat the Earth Observer 1 mission!

Hello friends! It's another beautiful day here in Low Earth Orbit, as I sail along 765 kilometers above the beautiful blue Pacific. All of that vast expanse of water is made of, wait for it... WATER! Water is Hydrogen and Oxygen. Way back when the universe got started, the Hydrogen was there. It's primordial, and we talked about it yesterday ( Read more... )

So, my SCA friends, what do you think? Would I look more like the Jelling Orm, or the Sigrid Storråda?

Not that I can really look like either one, but I'm going to work on developing the virtual persona, and those two seem closest to what I've been imagining.

Inspired by soho_sat's explanation of his mission, I'm going to tell you all a little about mine. Today's topic is Deuterium: Why it's important to understanding the universe.

As it says on my website, the simplest element, hydrogen, consists of a positively charged nucleus containing a single positively charged proton orbited by a negatively charged ( Read more... )