K-State National Space Society

05/30/2024

Interesting video on satellite design

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05/28/2024

Most people have no idea how difficult and complex the production and machining of titanium is. This video goes into detail about the development of this material for the SR-71 project. One of the interesting problems they faced was seasonal failure of spot welds, after data showed it was only occurring in summer. They eventually traced it to chemical additions at their local water treatment plant.

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04/06/2016

The K-State ASME will be skype chatting with Aerospace Engineer Samantha Walters at their meeting in the Senior Design room at 6pm this evening. She is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland and works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Pizza will be provided.

05/02/2013

The beauty of Earth from space is amazing! The Moon floats above new dawn over the Southeastern United States. Thank you ISS Commander Chris Hadfield for sharing your photography talents.

04/28/2013

On July 17, 1975, after years competing in spaceflight, the United States and the Soviet Union successfully docked spacecraft in Earth's orbit, marking a first in spaceflight. Learn more about the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/4eoy

04/14/2013

Perhaps the new 'space race' will be between Russia & China

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans for a new space initiative today. That includes shelling out more than $50 billion over the next seven

04/05/2013

One of our team members captured this inspiring photo of SpaceShipTwo gliding past the Moon as she came in to land at the Mojave Spaceport after another successful test flight. This was her 24th glide flight and the 6th in-flight test of her patented feathered re-entry system. The flight also successfully verified SS2's nitrous loading and venting system, another key milestone on the way to our first powered flight. All of the test objectives were successfully met.. Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic — at Mojave Air & Space Port.

One of our team members captured this inspiring photo of SpaceShipTwo gliding past the Moon as she came in to land at the Mojave Spaceport after another successful test flight. This was her 24th glide flight and the 6th in-flight test of her patented feathered re-entry system. The flight also successfully verified SS2's nitrous loading and venting system, another key milestone on the way to our first powered flight. All of the test objectives were successfully met.. Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic

04/05/2013

Pioneer 11 robotic space probe to study the asteroid belt, environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind, cosmic rays, and eventually the far reaches of the solar system was launched by NASA today in 1973.

03/12/2013

03/11/2013

I am currently finalizing the paperwork for making this an official university group. Any students who would like to be on the roster, or perhaps serve as officers, please reply or message me. Thanks!

11/29/2012

LONDON (Reuters) - A small British company with a dream of building a re-usable space plane has won an important endorsement from the European Space Agency (ESA) after completing key tests on its novel

11/25/2012

Interesting description of the different systems Curiosity has to analyze soil, relevant to an upcoming announcement rumored to be "one for the history books".

Mission scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory, Dr. John Grotzinger, talks to SPACE.com about how the instrumentation on the rover made the find that he calls "one for the history books". Results to be announced early December.