Forest_Fifer Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Also worth following @apollo_50th on twitter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) I'm celebrating my first Plutonian birthday on January 11th, 2229, so don't forget to get me some cake. Hopefully we will be allowed outside by then. https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/ Edited April 15, 2020 by Bully Wee Villa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopburn boy Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 25 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: I'm celebrating my first Plutonian birthday on January 11th, 2229, so don't forget to get me some cake. Hopefully we will be allowed outside by then. https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/ Thank you for the diversion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 https://www.space.com/brightest-supernova-ever-discovered-sn2016aps.html Brightest supernova ever detected. About 10 times brighter than a usual supernova, it apparently formed when two giant stars merged. It was observed 4 billion light years away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52333932 SpaceX to launch astronauts on 27 May, weather permitting. I notice OneWeb went bankrupt so Roscosmos has lost a lot of its launch manifest and is having yet more troubles with Proton. ISS is kind of keeping them alive and has little future beyond 2028. The US intend to add a couple of modules in the next few years that will become their own independent space station round then when ISS has its end of life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Cool video though left me on a bit of a downer if I'm being honest. The time scales are beyond comprehension really. No need to feel down, mate. Nothing more reassuring than the fact that the future, and beyond, will have no real recollection of us or our actions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Anyone who hers off on spacy stuff should search out a recent Horizon on Hubble's 30th birthday. Good bit if background on it's creation and upgrading, mixed in with some stunning photography. Should be on iPlayer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Apollo 17 on Amazon is worth a watch. Last trip to the moon, some of the photography is spectacular, more like a travelogue than the fuzzy greyscale images from the earlier missions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 @MixuFixit was chatting on another thread about how aliens might detect what we're all up to on Earth. Been watching an old Star at Night show about the Galileo mission to Jupiter and had a look at the Wiki page and found this which could be of interest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: that's neat. I wonder if they could in time do this remotely via telescopes? At least for the first two. That's what he was doing, pointing Galileo's instruments back at Earth from Jupiter. Edited May 10, 2020 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Fancy having a go at docking Crew Dragon at the ISS? Nae bother. https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 (edited) First American human crewed mission since the last Shuttle flight scheduled for next Wednesday at 21:33 British Summer Time. SpaceX have now pushed a delayed commercial launch till after this to clear the decks. Brand new first stage as NASA do not want humans flying on reused hardware.... yet. Press conference Wednesday. US Airforce used to fly missions to keep the skies clear during Shuttle launches so its an excuse to post this picture. ... SLS first launch seems delayed again so that likely puts a big red flag over their 2024 date for a Moon landing but the flight hardware for that mission is already starting to be assembled and the landing hardware now has contracts written for it. So it does seem very likely that humans will be on the Moon in the next few years anyway. Edited May 18, 2020 by dorlomin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopburn boy Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Apologies , if a repost from the depths , but the astronomy picture of day https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 SpaceX's broadband satellite launch due for tomorrow morning has been postponed. I'll switch my alarm off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 4 hours ago, dorlomin said: First American human crewed mission since the last Shuttle flight scheduled for next Wednesday at 21:33 British Summer Time. SpaceX have now pushed a delayed commercial launch till after this to clear the decks. Brand new first stage as NASA do not want humans flying on reused hardware.... yet. Press conference Wednesday. US Airforce used to fly missions to keep the skies clear during Shuttle launches so its an excuse to post this picture. ... SLS first launch seems delayed again so that likely puts a big red flag over their 2024 date for a Moon landing but the flight hardware for that mission is already starting to be assembled and the landing hardware now has contracts written for it. So it does seem very likely that humans will be on the Moon in the next few years anyway. Great photo! Reminds me of... The good old days when we could fly, nevermind fly into space! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Lurkst said: The good old days when we could fly, nevermind fly into space! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuggz Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Think "flat earthers" are thickos? Want to see them getting shot down in flames? Then go to ..SciManDan on YouTube....and enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuggz Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/05/18/morning-brief-secret-us-air-force-space-plane-experiment-to-beam-solar-power-back-to-earth/ "Secret spaceplane to beam energy to Earth". Cool but the 5G loon buckets are going to have a metldown. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 (edited) Virgin Galactic's first orbital effort has failed. They are trying to become a small sat launcher. I think they are looking at up too about 400kg. They launch from an old 747, using a strong point on the wing Boeing put there for airlines to carry spare engines around the world. There "unique selling point" as that as an airlaunched system they can put rockets into any orbital inclination. Most launchers are constricted by either not being close enough to the equator or not being able to lanch on more polar orbits due to land mass in the way. This is why its very unusual to get a polar orbit from Kennedy, you have either America to your north or Cuba to the south. The US military is really interested in this and is looking at what it can do with a sort of satellite on demand type service. (edited for clarity, the US military has a dedicated launch facility at Vandenberg, California to launch polar satellites, its more the on demand nature that this kind of thing offers). Edited May 26, 2020 by dorlomin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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