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Wednesday, December 29, 2021 10:26 AM

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Sunday, January 9, 2022 2:10 PM

THG


It is Sunday and what she was worried about has occured without incident.

T



I thought Christmas break was supposed to be relaxing?! Stress levels are still high here but there was three pieces of very good news these past few days we should chat about!

Three BIG updates for the James Webb Space Telescope






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Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:48 AM

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Webb space telescope nearing destination a million miles away

Thirty days outbound from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope will slip into its parking orbit nearly a million miles away on Monday, an ideal spot to scan the heavens in search of faint infrared light from the first generation of stars and galaxies.

But getting there — and successfully deploying a giant sunshade, mirrors and other appendages along the way — was just half the fun.

Scientists and engineers now have to turn the $10 billion Webb into a functioning telescope, precisely aligning its 18 primary mirror segments so they work together as a single 21.3-foot-wide mirror, by far the largest ever launched

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/webb-space-telescope-nearing
-destination-a-million-miles-away/ar-AAT29Sv?ocid=msedgntp




This shit is too cool.

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Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:53 AM

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Saturday, January 22, 2022 10:42 AM

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Mars Ingenuity becomes first aircraft ever grounded on another planet due to weather

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mars-ingenuity-becomes-first
-aircraft-ever-grounded-on-another-planet-due-to-weather/ar-AAT1mSD?ocid=msedgntp




How surreal is this?

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Saturday, January 22, 2022 11:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Oh NOez!!!

Muh Global Warming is spreading like Muh Omicron!

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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Monday, January 24, 2022 9:37 AM

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:54 AM

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s biggest, most powerful space telescope arrived at its observation post 1 million miles from Earth on Monday, a month after it lifted off on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe.

On command, the James Webb Space Telescope fired its rocket thrusters for nearly five minutes to go into orbit around the sun at its designated location, and NASA confirmed the operation went as planned.

The mirrors on the $10 billion observatory still must be meticulously aligned, the infrared detectors sufficiently chilled and the scientific instruments calibrated before observations can begin in June.

But flight controllers in Baltimore were euphoric after chalking up another success.

"We’re one step closer to uncovering the mysteries of the universe. And I can’t wait to see Webb’s first new views of the universe this summer!” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.

The telescope will enable astronomers to peer back further in time than ever before, all the way back to when the first stars and galaxies were forming 13.7 billion years ago. That's a mere 100 million years from the Big Bang, when the universe was created.

Besides making stellar observations, Webb will scan the atmospheres of alien worlds for possible signs of life.

“Webb is officially on station," said Keith Parrish, a manager on the project. “This is just capping off just a remarkable 30 days."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-space-telescope-reaches-
final-stop-million-miles-out/ar-AAT68Gv?ocid=msedgntp




Fascinating...

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 1:25 PM

BRENDA


I look forward to seeing what pictures it sends back.

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Saturday, February 5, 2022 8:23 AM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:

I look forward to seeing what pictures it sends back.





Me too

T



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Saturday, February 5, 2022 8:26 AM

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NASA Is Going to Plunge the International Space Station Into the Pacific Ocean

The International Space Station is being retired in 2030, after spending more than 30 years orbiting Earth. At the end of its service, NASA will crash the ISS into the Pacific Ocean in January 2031. Don’t worry, though; they are sending the station, which is roughly the size of a football field, to a very remote part of the ocean.

According to plans released by NASA, the ISS will be sunk into Point Nemo, a region in the South Pacific Ocean, also known as the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area. Point Nemo is a part of the ocean farthest from any land and has been used to crash other spacecraft. According to CNN, a total of 263 pieces of space debris have been sunk into Point Nemo since 1971.

Since its launch in 1998, more than 200 astronauts from 19 countries have been aboard the ISS. In the next eight years, before the hub is brought down, NASA plans on continuing to conduct big missions on the station.

“The International Space Station is entering its third and most productive decade as a groundbreaking scientific platform in microgravity,” said Robyn Gatens, director of the International Space Station at NASA Headquarters, in a press release. “This third decade is one of results, building on our successful global partnership to verify exploration and human research technologies to support deep space exploration, continue to return medical and environmental benefits to humanity, and lay the groundwork for a commercial future in low-Earth orbit.”

After the ISS is retired, NASA plans on partnering with private companies to create space stations, which will serve both private-sector space missions and government-run missions.

For us down on Earth, we should definitely try avoiding Point Nemo in early 2031, I suppose.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-is-going-to-plunge-the-
international-space-station-into-the-pacific-ocean/ar-AATu7dK?ocid=msedgntp




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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 9:52 AM

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Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is currently inbound from the Oort Cloud, a distant region of the solar system known for packing billions and possibly trillions of icy objects. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031, when it will come to within 11 au of the Sun (1 billion miles), in which 1 au is the average distance from Earth to the Sun. The comet, coming no closer than Saturn, won’t likely be visible to the unaided eye, but astronomers will be keeping a close watch, as it’s turning out to be a rather extraordinary object.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mega-comet-arriving-from-the
-oort-cloud-is-85-miles-wide/ar-AATCI7y?ocid=msedgntp




It occurs to me if it was going to hit Earth there is no way they would tell the public. Society would collapse.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 9:57 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


They'd tell you to mask up, the comet is coming.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 12:27 PM

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SpaceX satellites destroyed by solar storm

SpaceX has lost dozens of satellites after they were hit by a geomagnetic storm a day after launch, causing them to fall from orbit and burn up.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/spacex-satellites-destroyed-by-so
lar-storm/ar-AATDVNY?ocid=msedgntp




Wow, that sucks.

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Friday, February 11, 2022 2:07 PM

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Elon Musk explains latest SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy facts






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Sunday, February 13, 2022 7:59 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
They'd tell you to mask up, the comet is coming.

All the astronomers wear masks while aligning the 18 mirrors to form a single image of a star for the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope.



By the way, dumb-asses who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated aren't hired as high paid astronomers. Instead, they end up as truckers blocking bridges between Canada and USA.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/americas/canada-truckers-protests-covid
-saturday/index.html


Astronomers: 2020 Median Pay $128,950 per year $62.00 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/physicists-an
d-astronomers.htm


Heavy and Tractor-trailer Truck Drivers: 2020 Median Pay $47,130 per year $22.66 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/heavy-and-t
ractor-trailer-truck-drivers.htm


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:53 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Since his appointment in 2009, Martin has tracked NASA's development of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

Martin said that the operational costs alone for a single Artemis launch—for just the rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ground systems—will total $4.1 billion. This is, he said, "a price tag that strikes us as unsustainable." With this comment, Martin essentially threw down his gauntlet and said NASA cannot have a meaningful exploration program based around SLS and Orion at this cost.

What is striking about these costs is that they do not include the tens of billions of dollars that NASA has already spent developing the Orion spacecraft since 2005 and the Space Launch System rocket since 2011. If one were to amortize development costs over 10 flights of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, the $4.1 billion figure cited by Martin would easily double.

That figure is far higher than NASA might have hoped. Five years ago, a senior NASA official told Ars that the space agency would like to get its operational costs for a single mission a year down to $2 billion or less. Another source at the time said the internal goal was $1.5 billion.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sl
s-costs-are-unsustainable
/

What you get for $4.1 billion (or $8.2 billion if development cost included):



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 8:03 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
They'd tell you to mask up, the comet is coming.

All the astronomers wear masks while aligning the 18 mirrors to form a single image of a star for the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope.


By the way, dumb-asses who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated aren't hired as high paid astronomers. Instead, they end up as truckers blocking bridges between Canada and USA.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/americas/canada-truckers-protests-covid
-saturday/index.html


Astronomers: 2020 Median Pay $128,950 per year $62.00 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/physicists-an
d-astronomers.htm


Heavy and Tractor-trailer Truck Drivers: 2020 Median Pay $47,130 per year $22.66 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/heavy-and-t
ractor-trailer-truck-drivers.htm


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Meanwhile, I don't make any money and yet somehow I'm better off than most of them are.

Good luck with that brew swimming around in your veins, mudblood. Hope it all works out for you. There's no undo button on that.



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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 8:50 PM

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NASA's Scott Kelly calls head of the Russian space agency a 'child' in Twitter spat
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10590443/NASAs-Scott-K
elly-calls-head-Russian-space-agency-child-Twitter-spat.html


Veteran astronaut Scott Kelly criticizes Russian space chief as war of words erupts
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-scott-kelly-dmitry-rogozin/
Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly hit a nerve with Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin in wake of Ukraine invasion.


North Korea's Kim says spy satellites to monitor actions by US and its allies
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/north-korea-kim-spy-satellites-mo
nitor-actions-us-allies-2553226


Iran says puts new military satellite in orbit
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220308-iran-says-puts-new-mili
tary-satellite-in-orbit-1

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Wednesday, March 16, 2022 11:50 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully

“More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “Today we can say that design is going to deliver.”

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-reaches-alignment-miles
tone-optics-working-successfully


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, March 19, 2022 5:07 PM

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Why 3 Russian cosmonauts arrived at space station in yellow and blue suits
https://abc7news.com/russian-cosmonauts-international-space-station-uk
rainian-colors-oleg-artemyev/11664813
/

Ruskie ministry of pravda information ridicules idea that cosmonauts wore yellow to support Ukraine?


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Monday, June 6, 2022 10:20 AM

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Monday, June 6, 2022 10:33 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Eventually, we all become crabs.

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

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Friday, June 10, 2022 8:00 AM

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'Lots of luck on his trip to the moon': Biden dismisses Elon Musk's dire economy prediction

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10882433/Lots-luck-trip-moon-
Biden-dismisses-Elon-Musks-dire-economy-prediction.html

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 7:00 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully

“More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “Today we can say that design is going to deliver.”

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-reaches-alignment-miles
tone-optics-working-successfully


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-james-webb-space-telesco
pe-is-finally-ready-to-do-science-and-it-s-seeing-the-universe-more-clearly-than-even-its-own-engineers-hoped-for/ar-AAYuQdE?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=7e2abb754de3466587f42f17b3040393




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Monday, June 27, 2022 5:41 AM

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China Details Plans to Return Mars Samples Two Years Before NASA-ESA

https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/china-first-mars-samples-earth-bef
ore-nasa
/


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Monday, June 27, 2022 8:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Well then... I hope for China's sake they stole some good software.

They can't code for shit.

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

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Tuesday, July 5, 2022 8:01 AM

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022 7:41 PM

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NASA's Jaw-Dropping First JWST Images Of Invisible Galaxies Will Blow You Away

https://hothardware.com/news/nasas-first-jwst-images-of-invisible-gala
xies

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 12:09 PM

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 8:36 PM

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Europe names world's first disabled astronaut | European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europe-names-worlds-first-disable
d-astronaut-2022-11-23


John McFall, who has become the first astronaut recruit with a disability, is a British doctor and former Paralympian who lost a leg in a motorbike accident. McFall has been selected by the European Space Agency for a special "parastronaut" program

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221123-british-medic-set-to-tr
ain-to-become-first-parastronaut


Disabled surgeon among 17 European trainee astronauts

https://www.ft.com/content/90fd696e-efb3-454a-99a5-55e452e8828b

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Saturday, November 26, 2022 6:30 PM

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Subaru Telescope can now Analyze 2,400 Galaxies Simultaneously

https://www.universetoday.com/158797/subaru-telescope-can-now-analyze-
2400-galaxies-simultaneously
/

Hungary to spend $100 million on private astronaut mission to ISS

https://spacenews.com/hungary-to-spend-100-million-on-private-astronau
t-mission-to-iss
/

Milestone for JWST exoplanet observations: atmosphere properties in more detail than ever before

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Milestone_for_JWST_exoplanet_observ
ations_atmosphere_properties_in_more_detail_than_ever_before_999.html


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Monday, November 28, 2022 12:06 PM

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Moon landing in 2032, Mars by 2045: Yoon sets space goals
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20221128000695

N. Korea shows no signs of imminent nuclear test ahead of major anniversary: ministry
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/11/103_340681.html

Yoon says S. Korea aims to land spacecraft on moon in 2032
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20221128006400315?section=national/politi
cs

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Sunday, December 11, 2022 3:33 PM

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Thursday, December 15, 2022 11:01 AM

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China's new space station opens for business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity

https://www.chron.com/news/article/China-s-new-space-station-opens-for
-business-in-17642463.php


Space debris expert: Orbits will be lost—and people will die—later this decade | "Flexing geopolitical muscles in space to harm others has already happened."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/space-debris-expert-orbits-wil
l-be-lost-and-people-will-die-later-this-decade
/

JWST gets first glimpse of 7-planet system with potentially habitable worlds

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04452-3

A Russian spacecraft started leaking uncontrollably on Wednesday night

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/a-russian-spacecraft-started-l
eaking-uncontrollably-on-monday-night
/

US, allies mull paths for engaging China to ward off conflict over space exploration

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/12/us-allies-mull-paths-for-engaging-
china-to-ward-off-conflict-over-space-exploration
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Monday, January 2, 2023 10:27 PM

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NASA chief says China could claim the moon as its own territory if it beats the US to the lunar surface

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nasa-chief-says-china-could-105234
428.html

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Thursday, January 26, 2023 8:16 PM

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Friday, February 17, 2023 6:56 PM

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'Lock Your Doors': US Lawmakers React to UFO Sightings
https://gizmodo.com/ufo-sightings-us-senate-balloon-china-security-185
0121948


USAF Might Be Shooting Down Hobbyist Balloons
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/17/0045206/usaf-might-be-shootin
g-down-hobbyist-balloons


getting away from UFO Aliens and back to reality

Some of the higher Balloon will fly 37 km 23 miles or 120,000 + ft

They say Space is 60 miles (100 km) above the Earth

Where does space really begin? Chinese spy balloon highlights legal fuzziness of ‘near space’
https://www.grid.news/story/global/2023/02/17/where-does-space-begin-c
hinese-spy-balloon-highlights-legal-fuzziness-of-near-space
/

Elon Musk SpaceX Successfully Test Fires Booster

Chemists have discovered a new form of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other known ices, and they think it might be present on solar system moons likes Europa and Ganymede.
https://astronomy.com/news/2023/02/scientists-create-new-form-of-ice

China moon base: "Clover" and "China Star" design proposals and construction processes for China's future lunar base from scientists from HIT and CASC.
https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1626126838329212928

Complex subsurface of #Mars imaged by Chinese rover Zhurong
https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1625599722965573636

CNSA’s deep space timeline:
2024 lunar sample return: Chang’e-6
2025 asteroid sample return: Tianwen-2
2026 lunar south pole: Chang’e-7
2028 Mars sample return: Tianwen-3
2030 lunar station: Chang'e-8
2030 Jupiter/Uranus: Tianwen-4
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1625765865600737281

JWST DEEP FIELD
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/107/01GQQF4KP3GNV
B12G6R0V8KSGM


NASA’s Webb Reveals Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-reveals-intricate
-networks-of-gas-and-dust-in-nearby-galaxies


The research team is studying a diverse sample of 19 spiral galaxies, and in Webb’s first few months of science operations the results are already astounding astronomers.
https://twitter.com/ESA_Webb/status/1626252514730311680

Webb’s images of NGC 1365 (left), NGC 7496 (top) & NGC 1433 (bottom) reveal the galaxies' networks of gas and dust in incredible detail. The data is part of an ongoing Webb survey of 19 spiral galaxies
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1626255726686380032

Juice unpacking at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for April launch
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/02/Juice_unpacking_at_E
urope_s_Spaceport_in_French_Guiana3#.Y-6LxBTbhZp.link


Second Soyuz Springs a Leak, Astronauts Stuck On ISS For An Extra Month
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/02/14/0244217/second-soyuz-sprin
gs-a-leak-astronauts-stuck-on-iss-for-an-extra-month



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Monday, February 27, 2023 5:18 AM

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Cosmic journeys: Moon is just the beginning

https://www.nbr.co.nz/book-review/cosmic-journeys-the-moon-is-just-the
-beginning
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Why are Most Meteorites Found in Antarctica?
https://www.geographyrealm.com/why-are-there-more-meteorites-in-antarc
tica
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What is a Meteorite?

Meteorites fall all over the Earth every year. A meteorite is a “space rock” or meteoroid that has traveled through our atmosphere and landed on the surface of the Earth.

The speed and force at which a meteoroid travels through the Earth’s atmosphere resulting in most of the rock burning off. Most meteoroids completely burn up upon entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

Of those that do survive, less than 5% of the original rock remains after impact with the ground. Meteorites on average, can range in size from dust grains to a small rock the size of a human fist.
How Many Meteorites Have Been Found?

To date, more than 69,000 meteorites have been found so far.
Where Have Meteorites Been Found?

Of the 69,268 recorded meteorites in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, 62.6% of meteorites have been retrieved from Antarctica.



Why are More Meteorites Recovered in Antarctica?

Antarctica leads the continents in the number of recovered meteorites for several reasons. One reason is not because more meteorites land in Antarctica. Statistically, meteorites can land anywhere on Earth. Most fall into the ocean due to the fact that the world’s oceans cover 70% of the world’s surface.

Meteorites also fall in other locations on Earth. Some have fallen in suburban and urban areas and damaged buildings. Others have left large indentations in the Earth’s surface known as impact craters. Others fall in remote areas of the world and leave no sign of their presence.

Meteorites in Antarctica are more visible because the environmental conditions are favorable for the preservation and retrieval of these space rocks. The arid and cold Antarctic environment helps to preserve these rocks.

The lack of rocks and the contract with ice makes spotting meteorites much easier.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023 10:44 AM

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At one time it was the Neon glare of a City and Street Lights Blocking views of Stars but now its 'Satellites'

SpaceX satellites and others are marring Hubble’s vision: A rising number of images by the famed telescope include satellite trails — a trend that will ultimately affect its science.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00620-1

Astronomers Warn About Starlink's Impact on Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.pcmag.com/news/astronomers-warn-about-starlinks-impact-on-
hubble-space-telescope


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Monday, March 13, 2023 9:51 AM

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A new space telescope JWST continues to take great data and pictures from the universe, Hubble still works but Musk Starlink satellites are blocking its photos
I think Europe and Japan might still do something, India said it would do some manned flight and Space is one of the few places where Russia and the USA still communicate and they plan to put an ISS type station around the Moon?


NASA launched a new big rocket but the public seems mostly uninspired. Space Launch System or SLS launched, Bush junior, the George W. Bush goal of Moon and Mars maybe the vision for the Moon and Mars was conceived as a response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Obama and Trump added their own modification, some say it was originally like the Initiative was a 1989 a public policy by Bush senior, the George H. W. Bush administration.
It was not without critics.
Buzz Aldrin voiced criticism for NASA's vision and objectives, stating that the goal of sending astronauts back to the Moon was "more like reaching for past glory than striving for new triumphs".
https://web.archive.org/web/20090723144904/http://www.nytimes.com/2003
/12/05/opinion/05ALDR.html

We had an ongoing PirateNews gossip thread New NASA Rocket can't fly but that was a slightly different era, Shuttle derived Ares V formerly known as the Cargo Launch Vehicle or CaLV

in the mean time, all these visions for NASA a new guy Musk came along and his rockets started to work

NASA has a big rocket that finally works and I'm not sure why it does not inspire, maybe its the Moon, been there done that or maybe they lack talkers and leaders, JFK, von Braun showing off his Moon base and Mars base models.

China has passed Russia's tech by a lot, it is probably the only other nation / group that could one day do everything NASA can but Elon Musk has show another commercial way to grow the private industry.

They say Rockets might one day be 3-d printed and maybe Robotic people and AI will conquer before man

'Relativity Space' Aborts Second Launch Attempt of Its 3D-Printed Rocket
https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-first-3d-printed-rocket-is-abou
t-to-launch-relativity-space
/ , https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/03/11/1724209/relativity-space-
aborts-second-launch-attempt-of-its-3d-printed-rocket



'Look out, Starship! China is Building a Massive Reusable Rocket!'

https://www.universetoday.com/160448/look-out-starship-china-is-buildi
ng-a-massive-reusable-rocket
/

For years, China has been dropping hints about its Long March 9 (CZ-9) rocket, a three-stage super-heavy variant of the Long March family. This launch vehicle will reportedly be capable of transporting up to 150,000 kg (165 tons) to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and 54,000 kg (59.5 tons) to a trans-lunar injection. On March 2nd, the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) announced (via the Chinese social media platform Weixin) that it had finished building the first propellant tank for the CZ-9.
The news was accompanied by pictures that showed the finished tank and the many components that went into making it – and they are massive!

Why space exploration is always worthwhile
https://www.planetary.org/articles/space-exploration-is-always-worthwh
ile


Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a '1 In 560 Chance' of Hitting Earth In 2046
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/03/10/002239/newly-discovered-as
teroid-has-a-1-in-560-chance-of-hitting-earth-in-2046


Cosmonaut Stranded on Mir in 1991 Now Heads Rescue Mission to ISS
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/03/06/0030204/cosmonaut-stranded
-on-mir-in-1991-now-heads-rescue-mission-to-iss


NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Splash Down Near Florida Coast, Safe on Earth
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-spacex-crew-5-splash-down-ne
ar-florida-coast-safe-on-earth


Japanese Astronomer Captures Telltale Flash After Meteorite Crashes Into Moon: Watch
https://www.republicworld.com/science/space/japanese-astronomer-captur
es-telltale-flash-after-meteorite-crashes-into-moon-watch-articleshow.html


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Sunday, March 19, 2023 9:13 AM

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The Biden / Trump military wing called 'Space Force' now has a budget bigger than NASA's entire budget

Space Force Requests $30 Billion for FY2024, Embracing Resilient Architectures
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/space-force-requests-30-billion-for
-fy2024-embracing-resilient-architectures
/
DOD’s FY2024 budget request includes $30 billion for the U.S. Space Force, about $4 billion more than FY2023. The request supports the Space Force’s embrace of profilerated constellations of many small satellites in various low and medium orbits instead of a few large satellites in geostationary orbit that are easier for adversaries to target — what DOD officials call a “resilient architecture.”

NASA's budget was $24.04 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2022

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Sunday, March 19, 2023 11:54 AM

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SpaceX is ready to launch Starship in a few weeks!? Will all the new upgrades hold?






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Tuesday, March 21, 2023 8:58 PM

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Not all will be taken by Anti-Musk propaganda, he puts all kind of payload and peoples in space

Musk an engineer and South African, is grounded in some kind of creative insanity and common sense, the Starship should hold better than Reginald Denny's skull during the LA Riots


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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 8:13 PM

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Russia’s loss of billions of dollars on rocket business to SpaceX & Elon Musk...






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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:34 AM

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Virgin Orbit: Richard Branson's rocket firm files for bankruptcy

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65172594

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Saturday, April 8, 2023 4:52 AM

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China has carried out the first test of a Stirling Engine in space. NASA too is investigating Stirling Engines, which may be used to power deep space exploration or Lunar/Martian bases

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-china-stirling-orbit.html

Stirling engines aren't new tech. They were invented in Scotland in 1816.

A Stirling engine is a heat engine operating by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas, the "working fluid", at different temperature levels such that there is a net conversion of heat to mechanical work

Their big advantage is that they are among the most efficient engines, in some design approaching the maximum efficiency possible. The downside is that they are complex with many moving parts. NASA has been investigating them as part of a Radioisotope Power System. These use the heat generated by the radioactive decay of elements like plutonium.

It would be interesting to know what China is developing them for. The two likeliest possibilities are engines for deep space exploration or China's proposed Lunar Base.


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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3:53 PM

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Kessler syndrome the collisional cascading Kessler effect?

Satellite trash


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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 5:53 AM

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New Zealander without college degree couldn’t talk his way into NASA and Boeing—so he built a $1.8 billion rocket company

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/how-rocket-lab-ceo-peter-beck-built-mu
ltibillion-dollar-company.html


South Korea plans to conduct its first launch of a commercial-grade satellite aboard a domestically built rocket next month as part of its space development program

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/korea-conduct-1st-launch-c
ommercial-grade-satellite-98493737

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Friday, April 14, 2023 4:52 AM

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Musk says SpaceX Starship rocket launch slipping to later in April
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-spacex-starship-rocket-la
unch-slipping-later-april-2023-04-10
/

Astronomers have directly detected a massive exoplanet. The method could transform the search for life beyond Earth
https://theconversation.com/astronomers-have-directly-detected-a-massi
ve-exoplanet-the-method-could-transform-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth-203752


'In Five Years, China Will Start Building a Lunar Base With Bricks Made From Moon Soil'
https://time.com/6270882/china-moon-base-timeline/

Wobbling Star Found In Gaia-Hipparcos Data Confirmed To Host An Exoplanet
https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/wobbling-star-found-in-ga
ia-hipparcos-data-confirmed-to-host-an-exoplanet
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