Science: Space - the final frontier (Misc.)

[Bazza]

They're sending another one up!

T minus 46 minutes!

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 second-generation Starlink internet satellites at 10:06 p.m. EDT (0206 UTC) today from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on the drone ship 'Just Read The Instructions' in the Atlantic Ocean.

 

[Zorak]

They're sending another one up!

T minus 46 minutes!

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 second-generation Starlink internet satellites at 10:06 p.m. EDT (0206 UTC) today from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on the drone ship 'Just Read The Instructions' in the Atlantic Ocean.

I was at KSC yesterday without realizing there was a scheduled launch. I was wondering why the parking lot seemed fuller and there was a longer than usual line to enter before it occurred to me there was a scheduled launch. Fortunately it seemed most of the extra folks were already at the launch viewing area, a several mile bus ride from the main part of the visitor center complex.

Got a couple of cool (and somber) pictures there.

Picture of part of a side panel of the Challenger, the windshield of the Columbia, and Gus Grissom’s suit he wore on his Mercury mission. A lot of other really cool stuff over there from the space program. Worth the price of admission if you’re at all interested in space, science and/or engineering. It’s amazing what they were able to accomplish 50-60 years ago.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Oof!

Boeing has now lost $1.1 billion on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight

“We’re not really ready to talk about a launch opportunity yet.”…

arstechnica.com

 

[TexasBama]

Oof!

Boeing has now lost $1.1 billion on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight

“We’re not really ready to talk about a launch opportunity yet.”…

arstechnica.com

We can't build good commercial aircraft anymore. Let's try a space craft!

 

[Bazza]

There's a Falcon 9 launch scheduled for tonight.....and a Falcon Heavy for tomorrow night.

Overcast weather so we'll see if it goes up. It's already been pushed back from last night.....

Launch List - Space Coast Launches

spacecoastlaunches.com

 

[Bazza]

They finally got the Falcon 9 up last night - too cloudy to see here.

The Falcon Heavy scheduled for later tonight at 11:04pm.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Check out this 9-gigapixel map of the Milky Way galaxy! This zoomable image by ESO contains ~84 million stars...

VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way

www.eso.org

 

[crimsonaudio]

This is zoomed in almost all the way (though not quite):


This star is the bright spot in the red circle:

 

[TexasBama]

Here is a video of Columbia's reentry from Mission Control, a little different than one I've seen before. The Flight Director and CapCom's body language are telling.

 

[Bazza]

Friend of mine took this photo of the Falcon Heavy Friday night.......



And here's mine taken with my cheapie point and shoot from the street in front of my house......the little bright light is a street light.....the rocket was behind that cloud. Sucker lit up the sky pretty good!

 

[NationalTitles18]

First images from the Euclid Space Telescope! #euclid #astrophysics #shorts

The European Space Agency has released the first test science images from the Euclid Space Telescope 🥳 revealing thousands of galaxies both near and far in ...

youtube.com

 

[crimsonaudio]

This is a translation from a foreign site, but it's incredible!

"The remains of the Apollo Man mission on the Moon recovered from India
Chandrayaan 2, the Indian probe in lunar orbit sent us these two images, the lunar sites of Apollo 11 and 12. These are higher-resolution images than NASA's LRO, and they show incredible detail.
The difference in length of the shadows projected to the ground is due to different shooting times and also from the positions of the modules. It should be noted that the Indian space agency ISRO is fully independent.
Picture processing: Giuseppe Donatiello
Credit: ISRO - bfcspace / text Livio Bordignon"

 

[T Bone]

Not that it matters LOL, but I have started astrophotography as a hobby. It is almost impossible now to take a long exposure of a deep space object without being photo bombed by a satellite.

 

[Bazza]

Not that it matters LOL, but I have started astrophotography as a hobby. It is almost impossible now to take a long exposure of a deep space object without being photo bombed by a satellite.

Spaceflight Now has a "photography guide page on their website:

https://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av043/LaunchPhotographyGuide.pdf

 

[T Bone]

Spaceflight Now has a "photography guide page on their website:

https://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av043/LaunchPhotographyGuide.pdf

thanks for the heads up on that brutha

 

[Bazza]

thanks for the heads up on that brutha

I used to take a lot of pics before digital cameras came out using a conventional 35mm SLR. Now all I use is a point and shoot Canon - but I long for those days when I would take really cool shots with my telephoto lenses and adjustable camera settings, etc. So I am on the hunt to upgrade my photo equip.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q4n3K-Z3cDs

Mars Rover finally dying. Nice little short, especially if accurate.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Astronomers observe a brown dwarf star hotter than the Sun

Brown dwarf stars blur the line between gas giant planets and stars and they are typically cooler than the Sun.

interestingengineering.com

 

[Bazza]

 

[crimsonaudio]

For perspective:
Apollo capsule: design began in 1963
Shuttle: design began in 1971
Dragon capsule: design began in ~2010

Roughly eight years separate the Apollo capsule design from the Shuttle design.
Roughly 39 years separate the Shuttle design from the Dragon Crew capsule design.