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Sputnik: Beep

SLS Test Fire

Atlas V: Launch

Kepler: Star KIC12268220C Light Curve Waves to Sound

Kepler: Star KIC7671081B Light Curve Waves to Sound

UPDATE (20 Aug 2015): What made the comet sing? Scientists working on Rosetta's RPC instrument have found out why 67P/C-G was singing. Via http://wp.me/p46DHN-1nN
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ORIGINAL Citation (Oct 2014): Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de).  Read full details in ESA's Rosetta blog: http://wp.me/p46DHN-Li 

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Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG
Sonification: TU Braunschweig/IGEP/Manuel Senfft, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

A Singing Comet

Sensors in the feet of Rosetta’s lander Philae have recorded the sound of touchdown as it first came into contact with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The instrument, SESAME-CASSE, was turned on during the descent and clearly registered the first touchdown as Philae came into contact with the comet, in the form of vibrations detected in the soles of the lander’s feet. 

Technical note: This is the actual sound file; i.e. it is a recording of mechanical vibrations at acoustic frequencies. No modification was necessary except for some technical adjustments (e.g. the .wav format requires amplitude normalization). Actual frequency content and duration are unchanged.

Read full details in ESA's Rosetta blog: http://wp.me/p46DHN-Sr

CREDIT: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/SESAME/DLR (CC BY-SA IGO 3.0) 

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Thumbnail image credit: ESA/ATG medialab 
Audio file credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/SESAME/DLR





Philae touchdown makes a thud

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three "tsunami waves" in interstellar space. Listen to how these waves cause surrounding ionized matter to ring. More details on this sound can be found here: http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nasa-voyager-tsunami-wave-still-flies-through-interstellar-space/

Voyager 1: Three "Tsunami Waves" in Interstellar Space

everyday (03-08-15) pacific ocean beachfront (stereo recording)

everyday (03-21-15) vocal slurps / creature voice

everyday (03-25-15) baster with water in shallow glass bowl / magic bubbles

Soyuz launch VS-11 recorded at 5km (3 miles) from the viewing site "Colibri", French Guiana

Soyuz VS11

everyday (04-08-15) beached water creature

Ever wonder how the International Space Station alarms sounds? This emergency alert is the last thing astronauts on the ISS ever want to hear as they work 400 km above Earth in the vacuum of space.   
 
This sound was sent to us by the Columbus Control Centre, near München, Germany, the operations centre for ESA astronauts and the Columbus laboratory, part of the orbiting weightless research centre.

The alarm is sounded on the International Space Station to alert astronauts to life-threatening emergencies such as loss of pressure or fire. The astronauts would immediately convene near their Soyuz spacecraft that serve as lifeboats, but these kind of emergencies are extremely rare and the alarm has sounded only a handful of times despite the Space Station having been inhabited since 2000. 

Most astronauts on a six-month space flight will only ever hear the sound during a practice session.

Regular 'fire-drills' are performed to make sure that even in a worst-case scenario everybody knows what to do. Mission controllers from the international partners that run the Space Station in Russia, USA, Europe and Japan re-enact scenarios with the astronauts in space. In critical situations the teams on ground need to communicate efficiently, act quickly and coordinate a solution between each other and the astronauts flying 400 km above them.

Image credit: ESA/NASA

Audio credit: ESA, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 
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International Space Station siren

everyday (05-16-15) neural monitor

This track is a tryptic that shows space is vast, but is full of interesting things, such as mankind, stars, comets, planets...
It describes great achievements, in the past, and in the future.  

Full Summary:
	This track begins by exposing the vastness of space, lulls the listener to the sound of a comet and an ethnic song: in this space was born mankind. Whispers and bright show a sound human beings admiring and worshiping stars and planets. Then mankind has Entered space era. Communications, exploration ...
Vocal sample feature the three official languages in ESA.

	Through space and time, the listener reaches a small point in the sky : Earth. A roll-call prepares a new space mission, and the thirst for knowledge causes a growing tension in the ambient technological triumph. The tempo is synchronized with a countdown (120 BPM). These are the exploits and the feats achieved by the ESA.

	This anniversary leads to the future. The last part of the tryptic mixes two ideas : current missions evocation, and an exciting trailer for all the coming projects.The listener goes back to space, in a spiritual atmosphere, where two violins, an organ, and hang drums break the human agitation. But these missions lead to human greatness through progress, and the main theme is completely unveiled, adding a paroxysm to the ceremony. Finally, the music returns to space, because everything is about space. 
Some drums samples have been recorded with piezzo-electrical devices, to be recorded as it would be in space : without air.

11,2 km/s

Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system's beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.

Juno: Entering Jupiter's Magnetosphere

Juno: Crossing Jupiter's Bow Shock

On 28 May 2014, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev rocketed into space in a Soyuz spacecraft. This was their voyage - in audio.

Strapped atop 274 tonnes of rocket propellants delivering 26 million horsepower, it took only six hours to reach their destination, the International Space Station ISS.

Soyuz ride into space

History changed on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm across), weighed only 83.6 kg and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race.

This audio file is a recording of the telemetry signals transmitted by Sputnik from orbit - the first artificial signals ever delivered from space. Text credit: NASA (https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/)

Image, audio credit: NASA CC BY-NC-SA

Sputnik 1957 - history's first artificial signals from space

Did you know the Moon is slowly moving away from Earth and that the Moon has water? Jim Green is joined by lunar expert Sarah Noble to discuss how the Moon was formed, lava tubes and moonquakes, the “dark side of the Moon,” and mysteries we have yet to solve about Earth’s nearest neighbor.

Gravity Assist Podcast, The Moon with Sarah Noble

Electromagnetic waves travelling upward from a lightning strike undergo dispersion in the ionosphere. High frequencies travel faster and arrive before the longer waves, giving rise to a whistling tone from high to low recorded by our magnetometer.

Credits ESA/CNES/Leti/IPGP/Swarm DISC

Hear the lightning

Originally aired 9th November 2008 on Fluid Radio.
Only Solar Fields music in this mix.

Solar Fields - Jupiter Sessions Part 1 (Originally aired 9th November 2008)

This is a recording of the background noise of the US lab on the International Space Station, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield.

This is what normal life sounds like in space.

Find out more:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AstronautChrisHadfield?fref=ts

Ambient noise of the International Space Station

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