Ya gotta love orbital mechanics:
Chodas speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the Centaur upper rocket stage that successfully propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. The lander ended up crashing into the moon after one of its thrusters failed to ignite on the way there. The rocket, meanwhile, swept past the moon and into orbit around the sun as intended junk, never to be seen again — until perhaps now.
Enidigm
4035
If i recall reading it was multiple 3rd party engineering firms. But all of them also missed the further collapse that happened a few weeks ago, so it escalated much faster than they had expected.
The Arecibo Observatory was so powerful it could detect Klingons around Uranus.
That’s pretty incredible they happened to have a drone right where the cables started snapping.
Although I guess they had a drone up there almost all the time?
— Alan
Hayabusa-2’s asteroid sample has been recoverd intact.
actual footage coming in now
schurem
4043
That probe is from the 70s, a more enlightened time in your history ;)
So, any bets on the starship actually flying today?
watching live now, on hold at T-2min
edit: new T-0 is about 1hr 15 mins at 4:40 Central time
jpinard
4045
That thing looks so janky.
RichVR
4046
That’s a lot of duct tape.
Don’t want to jinx it, but looking pretty good so far.
I think I did jinx it, but somehow it has not blown up
When I saw that, I thought, is Scott Tracy going to fly that thing (in supermarionation)?
Yikes. That thing waited too long to fire the landing burn.
Now it blows up. Not bad for a first attempt though.
