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On September 28th the Falcon 1 rocketship reached orbit:

On September 28th the Falcon 1 rocketship reached orbit:

Steffi and I made our own version of earth some years ago using 3D Studio and NASA

Images - we even made an animation. But this guy does a way better job - creating

a photorealistic earth:

"For some time now, I've been studying how to build Earth in Blender. I've read

to share.

Steffi and I made our own version of earth some years ago using 3D Studio and NASA
Images - we even made an animation. But this guy does a way better job - creating
a photorealistic earth:

"For some time now, I've been studying how to build Earth in Blender. I've read
quite a few tutorials, studied NASA's Blue Marble images, and received critique from
other Blender enthusiasts. I now have some satisfactory results, which I'd be happy
to share.

"Last week, the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of
the Durban University of Technology, successfully detected its first radio source.

The Indlebe Radio Telescope is a transit instrument that operates at the Hydrogen
Line frequency of 1420 MHZ and uses a very sensitive radio receiver to detect extraterrestrial
radio signals.


Stuart MacPherson, project leader in Electronic Engineering at the university, said
he and his students were amazed when they realised the telescope had picked up a signal.


“We had made significant changes to the receiver to increase its sensitivity. 
When we went in that morning to check the data, we found that it had detected a source,”
he said."

"Last week, the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of

he said."

It's just great to see more and more big archives are getting available online. This

time the National Space Agency of America opened it's picture library:

It's just great to see more and more big archives are getting available online. This
time the National Space Agency of America opened it's picture library:

"NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ),
a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections.
NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as
well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.


The goal of NASA Images is to increase our understanding of the earth, our solar system
and the universe beyond in order to benefit humanity. "

That's the best news for months!! After TVR being out of business for some time they
seem to be back in business now - they even presented the new Sagaris 2008 modell
yesterday.

They landed on the mars again...and they will launch a space shuttle within the next 22 hours if everything works out as planned. So maybe you, just like me, are interested in getting some live-information about that.

There's NASA TV but on the NASA website you only get low (150kbit) bitrate streams.
If you want better quality, just try these links:

300kbit
Stream

500kbit
Stream