I’ve seen the artist’s rendition, but does anyone know if the real event will make it to video?
Well, you could animate this, I suppose:
The paper the result was published (to Arxiv) in only has charts. Any video is not going to be that inspiring, I’m afraid.Kepler data doesn’t lend itself very well to that sort of visualisation, and there was no ground telescope observation.
Further, the way Kepler data was taken made it difficult to study transient events in “real time”, so little is known about these supernovae other than their exquisite light curves which are analyzed in their entirety by Tucker et al. (2016).
Ah, well. I’ll have to wait a bit longer for my dream of seeing a star explode. sigh
be careful what you wish for! (crosses fingers)
Apparently something hit Jupiter last week:
— Alan
ShivaX
1607
I’d like to thank Jupiter for continuing to play goalie and allowing us to survive.
It’s almost as if it is there on purpose…or something…
Interesting article about weapons in space. Not mentioned are the 20mm (or 23mm or something similar) cannons on board some semi-permanent Soviet orbital platforms.
— Alan
Great opportunity for 18-24 year olds:
Are you, or do you know someone who is:
Between 18 and 24 years old (on or before June 10, 2016)?
In good physical health?
A legal resident within the 50 United States?
Enrolled at a learning institution?
And most importantly, loves space exploration and wants a chance for a free ride on a Zero-G airplane?
Then my pal Emily Calandrelli has a deal for you. She’s the host of “Xploration Outer Space,” and they’re partnering with Zero Gravity Corp. to hold the Student Astronaut 2016 contest.
Editer
1611
Emily is super-cool. Met her at the Orion EFT-1 launch NASASocial event. If you qualify, do this!
Tman
1612
JFrazer
1613
Most of the press seems more focused on Space X than it is on Blue Origin. Is there a reason for this, other than Musk is a fun guy to interview? Is it more related to Blue Origin vs Space X’s payload capacities? Been curious out that since the 2nd Blue Origin successful launch and landing.
I think it’s partly that the Musk factor and partly the fact that these are suborbital flights. It’s still hugely impressive, but it’s a materially different achievement in terms of reducing the cost of satellite launches and resupply missions.
Editer
1615
Blue Origin is a tourist rocket that’s straight up and down to the legal edge of space. The SpaceX crewed Dragon actually goes into orbit, can dock with the space station, and is good for more than rich peoples’ joyrides and 30-second microgravity experiments.
Don’t get me wrong. New Shepard is hugely impressive as the first effort of a private company. But they’re flying the mission profile Al Shepard’s first Mercury flew in 1961. SpaceX is flying the mission profile Soyuz flies in 2016.
Tman
1616
From a re-usable proving ground standpoint, Blue Origin seems to be making a lot more progress. If you truly want to save $$ on launches, you have to prove you can re-use the booster. Re-using the actual booster, and doing these launches allows for a lot of inspections / analysis to find failure points to help with redesigns.
From a Dec 23rd article late last year:
Musk said the recovered stage will be inspected and used for ground tests but if all goes well, another recovered stage may be re-launched sometime next year.
The key, Logsdon said, is how much work is required to return a used rocket to launch readiness.
“SpaceX has to find out how close to launch ready it is upon return, how much processing are they going to have to do before it’s ready to operate in the launch environment again,” he said. “And that’s an unknown.
So, spaceX actually hasn’t proven they can re-use the booster.
Yes, they are far larger, go far further, and everything, but we shouldn’t be marginalizing the success of actually re-using the booster.
Editer
1617
Well, if we eliminate the “boosted something into orbit” requirement and count ballistic flights, SpaceX flew the Grasshopper test booster eight times. And the F9R “Falcon 9 Reusable” test booster 4.5 times. (It blew up during the fifth flight.)
These were fairly low flights compared to Blue Origin, but still, a Falcon 9 test booster successfully flew and landed four times.
Tman
1618
Thanks I didn’t realize those previous tests. You just educated me. And I still say that Blue Origin should be news & we should be celebrating every launch!
Editer
1619
Totally agree there! I actually find rich-people-tourist flights an offensive waste of resources, but knowing they eventually want to get into orbit, I’m okay with the 1% funding that. :)
SpaceX did it. They finally landed Falcon 9 on the drone ship.
i watched it live, so I don’t know if this link will work but you’ll see it.
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
