What's happening in space (that's interesting)

sillhouette · 2021-11-22T22:59:33.569Z

cursed ship

Menzo · 2021-11-22T23:34:30.659Z

Buckle up!

RichVR · 2021-11-23T00:34:26.818Z

Fuck.

Penny_Dreadful · 2021-11-23T00:34:29.881Z

I wonder what the new launch date will look like if they do happen to find that something in the bowels of the telescope was damaged. I suppose that’s better than launching a $10 billion instrument into space only to find out it’s damaged beyond use, though.

It would be nice to see the results of the project before I die of old age though.

JMR · 2021-11-23T04:27:27.719Z

They should have built 2 of them.

Calelari · 2021-11-23T14:40:12.333Z

300 single points of failure

That seems ominous.

Penny_Dreadful · 2021-11-23T22:12:26.905Z

Calelari:

300 single points of failure

That seems ominous.

That sounds like my autobiography.

lordkosc · 2021-11-24T16:21:42.681Z

CNN

NASA mission launches to deliberately crash into an asteroid's moon

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT on November 23. NASA will test its asteroid deflection technology in September 2022 to see how...

abidingdude · 2021-11-25T02:04:20.271Z

Phew

twitter.com

NASA Webb Telescope

@NASAWebb

The James Webb Space Telescope is on track for a launch date of Dec. 22. Additional testing, which was conducted due to an incident in launch preparations, concluded no observatory components were damaged. Observatory fueling operations begin on Nov. 25: go.nasa.gov/3nNhKAK https://t.co/aPZJPIBtCQ

12:21 AM - 25 Nov 2021 1.4K 280

Strollen · 2021-11-25T02:08:25.963Z

I sure hope they don’t mix up the launching of the Web telescope with crashing into the asteroid. Although, I bet we could get really great picture of the asteroid.

Calelari · 2021-11-25T03:16:33.046Z

KallDrexx · 2021-11-29T20:23:07.136Z

Ars Technica

James Webb Space Telescope cleared for late December launch

Webb will launch on a European-built Ariane 5 rocket no earlier than Dec. 22.

Alistair · 2021-11-29T21:28:52.240Z

Looks like SpaceX are getting closer to launching the 29 engine beastie.

Eric_Majkut · 2021-11-30T04:15:29.276Z

Please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up please don’t blow up !

MikeJ · 2021-11-30T15:29:52.227Z

Space Explored – 30 Nov 21

Elon Musk says SpaceX could face 'genuine risk of bankruptcy' from Starship...

A leaked email from Elon Musk shows that SpaceX is currently in crisis. The company could face the risk of bankruptcy if it cannot...

Est. reading time: 8 minutes

Unfortunately, the Raptor production crisis is much worse than it had seemed a few weeks ago. As we have dug into the issues following the exiting of prior senior management, they have unfortunately turned out to be far more severe than was reported. There is no way to sugarcoat this.

Seems like selling some Tesla shares could help SpaceX get past these issues.

CraigM · 2021-11-30T20:10:46.126Z

Take said quote with a grain of salt, of course. If starship isn’t successful yet testing could scale back to reduce capital expenses while Falcon rockets keep them solvent. But they’re pushing that thing hard, and creating a ton of R&D cost for it. This seems like a direction from the top directive rather than literal go bankrupt position.

jpinard · 2021-11-30T21:08:18.562Z

Russian space program is so pathetic.

Ars Technica

Russia threatens criminal charges against a NASA astronaut

Russia continues to deflect from embarrassing situation that occurred 3 years ago.

TurinTur · 2021-12-04T21:14:22.133Z

In preparation of JWT launch, here it’s a nice article to read

Quanta Magazine – 3 Dec 21

The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works.

The James Webb Space Telescope has the potential to rewrite the history of the cosmos and reshape humanity’s position within it. But first, a lot of things have to work just right.

sillhouette · 2021-12-12T01:04:52.951Z

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Paul Byrne

@ThePlanetaryGuy

For your Saturday, here's an image of two planets orbiting a star. This system is called TYC 8998-760-1. And it's three hundred light years from Earth. https://t.co/yQkvuhxSr6

4:22 PM - 11 Dec 2021 600 89

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Paul Byrne

@ThePlanetaryGuy

These two worlds are monsters—the inner one is 14 times more massive than Jupiter, the outer one six times. And they orbit at extreme distances: about 160 and 320 times the Sun–Earth distance. Both are assuredly gas giants.

4:27 PM - 11 Dec 2021 76 2

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Paul Byrne

@ThePlanetaryGuy

The planets were imaged with the SPHERE instrument of the @ESO; a coronagraph blocked light from the star itself (upper left), so the bright and dark features around it are artefacts. Credit: ESO/Bohn et al.

4:29 PM - 11 Dec 2021 35

Matt_W · 2021-12-12T04:22:29.787Z

sillhouette:

These two worlds are monsters—the inner one is 14 times more massive than Jupiter, the outer one six times. And they orbit at extreme distances: about 160 and 320 times the Sun–Earth distance. Both are assuredly gas giants.

That is an amazing photo. I can’t believe it’s even possible. FWIW Pluto orbits at about 39AU, so less than 1/3 the distance from our sun as that first planet is from its sun. Voyager 1 is about 150 AU out right now, so not quite the distance of the inner planet after 55 years of travel at ~17 km/s.