Fly Around International Space Station - YouTube

This fly around of the International Space Station (ISS) is displayed in the "Moving Beyond Earth" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Displayed as a 30ft x 18ft projection, the HD animation highlights the major components of the ISS.

Video courtesy of NASA's VR Lab.

The New Gamers Immersive Dome Display Unit - The TOOB! - Video

WHAT IS THE PLAN?
TOOB plans to manufacture and sell the world’s first affordable dome displays. TOOB has spent the last 2 years developing its 2nd generation product TOOB Earth.

WHAT IS TOOB Earth?
TOOB Earth is a 1.2 Metre (4ft) diameter half dome which when used with a standard projector fitted with a standard lens can project an image onto the inside curved surface giving the viewer the sense of being fully immersed in the content.Think IMAX/ OMNI MAX but in the home.


One of the key differentiator's is that the projector and screen are all contained within the same footprint meaning you no longer need to compromise on space.

TOOB Earth is the first in a range of dome products planned and will be the foundation for the world’s first consumer focused Gaming/ Simulation/ Film curved screen company.

Its uniquely patented design allows you to place your dome on any hard surface or on our GRAVITY-E adjustable stand.

Using the GRAVITY-E stand adds a further layer of flexibility as it then allows you to either use TOOBs brand new TSR/ TFX & M-spec simulation rigs

or use many existing racing or flight rigs which can be comfortably slide underneath. Or simply use the GRAVITY-E as a furniture piece in your room for watching stereo 3D movies.

CORPORATE
TOOB is well suited for the corporate environment and this is a great opportunity to get a TOOB and be one of the first to showcase TOOB Dome technology with your business.

TOOB's 007 reward shows how you can take a TOOB product and customise it with a unique brand or design.

In April 2011 TOOB attended the Gadget Show Live in Birmingham (UK) visted by over 40,000 tech hungry guests.

TOOB was so popular it increased footfall on our partners stand by thousands. The increased footfall generated more sales.

TOOB gave 1400 demos during the event. That guarenteed 1400 more potential customers + the 1000s of people that stoped to look at the technology.

(T.O.O.B. LTD acknowledges all rights, copyrights and trademarks of 3rd parties, the above image is an artists illustration only)

ESA Ariane5 Kourou Launch - Video

ESA Ariane 5 Launch carries 2 communications satellites: Astrium & Thales Alenia Space Arabsat 5C and SES 2 (Americom).   

Arianespace - VideoCorner

NASA Grail Launch - Video Gallery

Follow the Curiosity rover as it hunts Martians

If all goes well, Curiosity - NASA's latest roving robotic laboratory - will start exploring Mars in just over a year's time. Top of its to-do list: to seek out life.

Curiosity is due to launch towards the end of this year, and will take eight and a half months to reach the red planet before entering the Martian atmosphere at an incredible speed of over 32,000 kilometres per hour. The craft will have to employ an impressive array of thrusters, parachutes and radar to brake and steer towards its chosen landing site (see video, above).

NASA is seriously considering two possible locations. The first would present Curiosity with the challenge of scaling a ridge of rocks as high as Mount Kilimanjaro before it can go on its way. But it could offer an opportunity to study the way rocks and sediments have been deposited over time. The other is a crater through which a river once flowed, offering the possibility of discovering organic material which could have been buried in the sediment deposited by the river.

The car-sized vehicle will explore the planet's surface for an entire Martian year - 687 Earth days - collecting and analysing samples as it goes. It's crammed with high-tech kit that will help it spot carbon and other possible traces of life - notably a new device called ChemCam, which uses a laser to blast rocks from a distance of up to seven metres, then works out which chemical elements are present by studying the way light scatters off the resulting plume.

If it finds something interesting, Curiosity will either deploy its on-board camera to take a closer look, or use its robotic arm to collect a sample for further analysis. You can check out these tools (and the rest of Curiosity's kit) in the animation above.

NASA Spacecraft Captures Video of Vesta Asteroid Approach

Scientists working with NASA's Dawn spacecraft have created a new video showing the giant asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in the main asteroid belt.

The video loops 20 images obtained for navigation purposes on June 1. The images show a dark feature near Vesta's equator moving from left to right across the field of view as Vesta rotates. Images also show Vesta's jagged, irregular shape, hinting at the enormous crater known to exist at Vesta's south pole.

The images were obtained by a framing camera during a 30-minute period and show about 30 degrees of a rotation. The pixel size in these images is approaching the resolution of the best Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta.
"Like strangers in a strange land, we're looking for familiar landmarks," said Jian-Yang Li, a Dawn participating scientist from the University of Maryland, College Park. "The shadowy spot is one of those -- it appears to match a feature, known as 'Feature B,' from images of Vesta taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope."
Before orbiting Vesta on July 16, Dawn will gently slow down to about 75 mph (120 kilometers per hour). NASA is expecting to release more images on a weekly basis, with more frequent images available once the spacecraft begins collecting science at Vesta.
"Vesta is coming more and more into focus," said Andreas Nathues, framing camera lead investigator, based at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany. "Dawn's framing camera is working exactly as anticipated."

The Dawn mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., designed and built the Dawn spacecraft. The framing cameras were developed and built under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germay.

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin made significant contributions in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering in Braunschweig. The framing camera project is funded by the Max Planck Society, DLR and NASA. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

For more information about Dawn, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn . You can follow the mission on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/NASA_Dawn .

ESA SMOS Mission Video

SMOS will provide global information on surface soil moisture every three days within an accuracy of 4% at a spatial resolution of 50 km. This is comparable to being able to detect one teaspoonful of water mixed into a handful of soil.

Credits: ESA /AOES Medialab