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SpaceX and other space stuff
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Liftoff is scheduled for 7:04 p.m. EST.
A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid bigger than any building in the world to soon fly past Earth
It will be 1.2 million miles away from Earth on Jan. 18 at 4:51 p.m. ET
People can watch it fly by here. Goes live 4 hours from the time of this post.
It will be 1.2 million miles away from Earth on Jan. 18 at 4:51 p.m. ET
People can watch it fly by here. Goes live 4 hours from the time of this post.
Another excellent SF novel that features a Bussard ramjet is "A World out of Time" by Larry Niven.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Out_of_Time
Moar...
Be Bop Deluxe gets weird....
best with headphones. like some of scifi poetry beatdown... but the imagery.... hehe
...the Earth forever renders the promised mockery...
...Observatory Gardens, sing "Yes", no more....
Ugh. As much as I may like SpaceX in some ways, I can't really click "like" on that.
Yeah, the side effects on Earth-based astronomy is pretty sad, though there is a solution - Spacex should launch a flock of outward-looking telescopes and provide the images free to everyone...Ugh. As much as I may like SpaceX in some ways, I can't really click "like" on that.
Or maybe we can convince Elon that if Starlink is successful, they should come up with a higher rez replacement for Hubble... They kinda owe it to us...
The Mars helo, Ingenuity, was scheduled to fly on, or no earlier than, 07 January. A dust storm made them cancel. Looks like Martian weather can delay flights, just like on Earth LOL.
Rescheduled for no earlier than 23 January (flight 19).
Rescheduled for no earlier than 23 January (flight 19).
ULA launched 2 Space force satellites today. There's video in the article.
Updates: Watch ULA launch two Space Force satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida
Updates: Watch ULA launch two Space Force satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida
In other space news:
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https://www.cnet.com/news/saturn-death-star-moon-mimas-might-be-hiding-an-internal-ocean/
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https://www.cnet.com/news/saturn-death-star-moon-mimas-might-be-hiding-an-internal-ocean/
Down to about 477 mph right now.
This morning, I accidentally found out the reason for it's slow speed. NASA article "Webb's Journey to L2 is Nearly Complete".
Article isn't too long and uses plain language text for monkeys like me. Interesting info on the 5 Lagrange points, too. Monday, 24 Jan, engineers plan to do a correction burn to put it in the desired orbit.
James Webb Space Telescope
I still think we need to be building a "survival outpost and DNA repository" at L5...
Anyone else remember "Silent Running"? A little corny, but applicable today, and so sad...
