Author Topic: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch! (Read 102552 times)

ANS Kamas P81 · « **Reply #60 on:** 03 October 2019, 18:47:48 »

Quote from: Daryk on 03 October 2019, 18:45:32

I find the Flash Gordon similarities HILARIOUS! ;D

Needs some lightning bolts on the wings!

Daryk · « **Reply #61 on:** 03 October 2019, 18:50:25 »

Heh... there just might BE some on that SS2... ^-^

Wrangler · « **Reply #62 on:** 04 October 2019, 08:19:35 »

I'll be amused when it does fly, i think it looks so bizarre! ;D

Then again, they made a "Water tower" fly, why not a scifi vehicle. Musk didn't get his "Rin Tin Tin" rocket he wanted, but i not get too silly with scifi-retro thing.

Wrangler · « **Reply #63 on:** 16 October 2019, 21:39:00 »

Looks like Dream Chaser's Cargo variant coming along in development of it's first ship.

This is picture of it in final assembly, waiting for it's wings to come back from Lockheed Martin. Reported on NASA Spaceflight.

Ship looks like giant sneaker in the making. ;D

Its shame the manned version won't be put into production. Seem like it properly more successful than the Spaceliner Boeing making.

ANS Kamas P81 · « **Reply #64 on:** 17 October 2019, 10:59:00 »

Where does the Planet Express stickers go?

worktroll · « **Reply #65 on:** 17 October 2019, 13:21:22 »

Makes me think of this

Wrangler · « **Reply #66 on:** 17 October 2019, 15:03:35 »

Quote from: worktroll on 17 October 2019, 13:21:22

Makes me think of this

OMG! I knew it looked vaguely familiar.

Wrangler · « **Reply #67 on:** 18 October 2019, 13:46:33 »

Anyone see my Lunar Lander?

Business Insider did a article regarding the fate of the last of the original Lunar Landers ordered...LM-14 & LM-15. Which were cancelled in mid production in 1970.
While LM-15 was never assembled and scrapped. It wasn't clear what happened to 14.

So its amusing to me what they think it became.

Wrangler · « **Reply #68 on:** 18 October 2019, 13:53:24 »

Looks like the first All-Female space walk is doing good! Their replacing the batteries for the space station. I read this on NASA Spaceflight.

kato · « **Reply #69 on:** 13 November 2019, 04:10:57 »

Hayabusa 2 started its return cruise to Earth last night.

It'll slowly thrust out of the gravitational zone of Ryugu until sunday, then start checking its ion engine for the return flight (with a two-week trial run until early December).

Flyby at Earth and bombing Australia is expected for December 2020.

Wrangler · « **Reply #70 on:** 13 November 2019, 06:28:00 »

That will be nice Christmas gift for all the good scientist waiting patiently for this little rocket to come home.

ANS Kamas P81 · « **Reply #71 on:** 13 November 2019, 09:45:11 »

Ganbare, Hayabusa!

kato · « **Reply #72 on:** 13 November 2019, 10:21:45 »

The last of the four sub-landers on Hayabusa failed btw. Minerva II-2. Her software system crashed and couldn't be brought back up. They basically tossed her at Ryugu like a brick instead to measure its gravitational field further.

For the departure JAXA is publishing live images (every 30 minutes) from the navigation camera as they come in, planning to do that until sunday - at http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/galleries/onc/nav20191113/

Wrangler · « **Reply #73 on:** 13 November 2019, 12:38:53 »

Is the software of the camera providing the light or is that natural sun light as the ship see's it.

Wrangler · « **Reply #74 on:** 13 November 2019, 13:06:38 »

A report i read on Gizmodo posted about Mars. After a 3 year report from the rovers, scientist can't explain fluxs of oxygen along with Methane in the atmosphere.

kato · « **Reply #75 on:** 13 November 2019, 13:09:18 »

Quote from: Wrangler on 13 November 2019, 12:38:53

Is the software of the camera providing the light or is that natural sun light as the ship see's it.

There's plenty postprocessing involved, but the light is mostly natural. Ryugu isn't much farther out than Earth, and about half as reflective as the moon in effective visual albedo (i.e. compared to looking at the moon from Earth).

Some of the postprocessing filters were actually calibrated by pointing the camera at the moon during a flyby.

rebs · « **Reply #76 on:** 20 November 2019, 13:34:07 »

This week NASA confirmed that plumes spotted over Europa are in fact water ice. For further reading, here's the link...

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-finds-water-plumes-above-the-surface-of-jupiter-s-icy-moon-europa/amp

qc mech3 · « **Reply #77 on:** 20 November 2019, 15:53:09 »

Now we have to detect chlorophyll and then a monolith. ^-^

marauder648 · « **Reply #78 on:** 21 November 2019, 12:24:05 »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUelbSa-OkA

Something for folks to watch.

Wrangler · « **Reply #79 on:** 21 November 2019, 15:20:07 »

Looks like SpaceX had a issue with Starship Mk1, apparently her Nox Upper tank pop itself when they did maximum pressure test.
This is a link to Casual Spaceman Channel. If you go to :45 on the video, you can see thank pop it's top. Ship is a loss apparently, but company took in stride and apparently Eon Musk decided Mk1 was going to be flying article, so i guess that's why ship was partially disassembled.

I hope they fix the thing.

Sabelkatten · « **Reply #80 on:** 21 November 2019, 16:29:38 »

Saw Scott Manley's video of it. According to him the later prototypes looked to be so much better that the first one would probably only have been used for test anyway.

Still, can't have been a cheap "oops!". :D

Daryk · « **Reply #81 on:** 21 November 2019, 18:08:22 »

Quote from: marauder648 on 21 November 2019, 12:24:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUelbSa-OkA

Something for folks to watch.

A warning it was 30 minutes long would have been helpful...

Sharpnel · « **Reply #82 on:** 22 November 2019, 09:26:42 »

Quote from: Wrangler on 13 November 2019, 13:06:38

A report i read on Gizmodo posted about Mars. After a 3 year report from the rovers, scientist can't explain fluxs of oxygen along with Methane in the atmosphere.

RE: Methane, Invisible Martian Cattle?

Sabelkatten · « **Reply #83 on:** 22 November 2019, 11:18:33 »

Quote from: Sharpnel on 22 November 2019, 09:26:42

RE: Methane, Invisible Martian Cattle?

Anyone play "Terraforming Mars"? Prelude expansion has a card that lets you play a project "ignoring global requirements". Say hello to the Space Cows: -30 Celsius, no air, no water, no problem! :D

Daryk · « **Reply #84 on:** 22 November 2019, 19:53:22 »

It'll likely be microbes we engineer for that job... ^-^

rebs · « **Reply #85 on:** 22 November 2019, 20:47:17 »

Right on, who says it isn't our job to spread life whenever we see fit.

I hope our microbes are invasive as hell once we place them in the Martian biosphere.

Daryk · « **Reply #86 on:** 22 November 2019, 20:55:33 »

Agreed! In all seriousness though, I think the first step we take with regard to that will be shielding Mars from the solar wind...

ANS Kamas P81 · « **Reply #87 on:** 22 November 2019, 21:04:27 »

Or just build underground. In the Hall of the Mountain King indeed!

Daryk · « **Reply #88 on:** 22 November 2019, 21:07:14 »

I honestly think we'll get that solar powered electromagnet deployed to the L1 point before we send people to Mars...

ANS Kamas P81 · « **Reply #89 on:** 23 November 2019, 01:02:50 »

They're claiming repeated matching results, and supposedly their procedures and data has survived repeat attempts at disproving, so...posted for thought, anyone heard anything further about this?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/world/fifth-force-of-nature-scn-trnd/index.html