spaceflight

spaceflight, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Should I switch the server as my admin is blocking @spacex (the whole server) ?

spaceflight, 4 months ago to random

The latest update from a #JAXA official is that the space agency is still trying to confirm the status of #SLIM. The official added that they had planned for it to take up to two hours ⏳. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/12/science/japan-moon-landing-slim

spaceflight, 4 months ago to languagelearning

#AxiomSpace’s #AX3 mission with #Swedish 🇸🇪, #Italian 🇮🇹, #Turkish 🇹🇷 and #Spanish 🇪🇸/American crewmembers is set to launch to the #ISS 📆 Jan. 17 at 22:11 UTC for a 14-day stay https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/axiom-spaces-third-private-astronaut-mission-awaits-launch

spaceflight, 4 months ago to MandelaEffect

The story of #ULA during its first decade was its #monopoly on #US 🇺🇸 launch contracts. The story of the second decade was the unraveling of that monopoly. In the third decade, we will find out whether the empire strikes back https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/with-vulcans-liftoff-imminent-united-launch-alliance-flies-into-uncertain-future/

#Vulcan

spaceflight, 4 months ago to Japan

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📆 Jan. 8: The new #Vulcan rocket may launch #Astrobotic’s uncrewed lander to the #moon 🌙
📆 Jan. 20: #Japan’s #SLIM moon lander may attempt to set down on the moon 🌙
📆 Feb. 15: #IntuitiveMachines’ robotic lunar 🌙 lander may launch on a #SpaceX rocket
📆 Feb. 15: #Japan’s 🇯🇵 #H3 rocket could attempt a successful flight to orbit
📆 April 14: #NASA astronauts could fly to the #ISS aboard #Boeing’s #Starliner spacecraft for the first time
📆 May: #China 🇨🇳 could launch the #ChangE6 mission to the far side of the moon 🌙
📆 June 15: The #ESA 🇪🇺 could attempt the first launch of the #Ariane6 rocket
https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2024/astronomy-space-calendar

Not to forget some #Starship launches, depending on the #FAA 😴⏳ https://payloadspace.com/the-gao-calls-for-the-faa-to-improve-its-mishap-investigation-process/

spaceflight, 4 months ago to Europe

Orbital launches in 📆 2023

🇺🇸 United States 116
🇨🇳 China 66
🇷🇺 Russia 19
🇮🇳 India 7
🇯🇵 Japan 3
🇪🇺 Europe 3
🇰🇵 North Korea 3
🇰🇷 South Korea 2
🇮🇱 Israel 1
🇮🇷 Iran 1
Total 221

https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/year/2023

#Europe #Ariane #ESA @EUSPA

spaceflight, 4 months ago to Astronomy

• Our #scientific understanding of #gravity was established by #IsaacNewton in 📆 1687.

• In 📆 1915, #Einstein published "The General Theory of #Relativity."

• #DarkMatter was first theorized in the 📆 1930s to explain movements of #stars 🎇 and #galaxies 🌌 that couldn't be explained by Newton's laws of gravity.

• Modified Newtonian dynamics (#MOND) was first proposed by Mordehai Milgrom in 📆 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkl2ASn9yyA

• Recently, a new study has found direct evidence for a modified theory of gravity based on #Gaia telescope 🔭 observations.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/new-study-challenges-einstein-and-newtons-theories-of-gravity

#AQUAL #RelativityTheory #Astronomy #Astrophysics

spaceflight, 4 months ago to space

#NASA’s #3Dprinted Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine "Making lightweight #propulsion systems that will allow us to send more mass and payload further into #DeepSpace" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UShD03eG9IU

📆 Dec 20, 2023 https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasas-3d-printed-rotating-detonation-rocket-engine-test-a-success/

spaceflight, 4 months ago to space

#NASA #Orion reentry 🎞️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lsViB64M7Rk

spaceflight, 5 months ago to Ukraine

📆 01/25/2011 #US 🇺🇸 officials reportedly pressured #Ukraine 🇺🇦 not to transfer industry technology to #Brazilian 🇧🇷 scientists.
The U.S. restriction is clearly recorded in a telegram that the State Department sent to the U.S. embassy in Brasilia in January 2009 — now revealed by #WikiLeaks to GLOBO. https://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/eua-tentaram-impedir-programa-brasileiro-de-foguetes-revela-wikileaks-2832869

#SpacePolitics #RocketScience

spaceflight, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to space

120th anniversary 🎉 of the first powered, controlled #flight 🛫 . On 📆 Dec. 17, 1903, #OrvilleWright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds ⏱️ during the first flight https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia24434orig/

#LibraryOfCongress #NASA

spaceflight, 5 months ago to random

According to a new study, #living cells 🦠 outnumber stars 🎇 in the #universe 🌌 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/science/space/earth-biology-life.html

spaceflight, 6 months ago to random

🇮🇲 Establishing the #moon 🌙 as a viable location for advanced data centre 💽 missions https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/business/company-data-could-be-stored-on-the-moon-648939

#SpaceCompany #IntuitiveMachines #NovaC

spaceflight, 6 months ago to Florida

One of the biggest impediments 🕵️ to reform was #BillNelson, the former #US senator from #Florida who represented #KennedySpaceCenter and now runs #NASA.

It was #Nelson who “led the opposition” to the #Commercial Crew Program https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/21/get-your-boy-elon-in-line-nasa-tell-all-recounts-turmoil-over-private-space-race-00041085

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Symposium_Administrator_Nelson_Keynote_(NHQ202108240009).jpg

#LaunchCost #SpacePolitics #SpaceMarket

spaceflight, 6 months ago to random

For those who missed the #Starship launch 🚀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgcqWV1k5Jw&t=658s

spaceflight, 6 months ago to random

🚀 #Starship made it through #MaxQ and #HotStaging, to > 24000 km/h at a height of 148 km https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-starship-launched-test-flight-texas-after-last-one-blew-up-2023-11-18/

spaceflight, 6 months ago to space

📆 12 Nov 2023 #Mars 🔴 Sample Return - the mission’s original $4.4bn 💰 price tag is likely to soar to $8-11bn 💰💰. There is “near zero 0️⃣ probability” of #Nasa’s plan succeeding on its current budget https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/12/experts-split-over-nasa-mission-to-mars-costs-rocket

spaceflight, 6 months ago to random

📆 Nov 15, 2023 #ULA is seeking to scale up production of the #Vulcan rocket to reach a cadence of two launches 🚀🚀 a month by the end of 📆 2025. That seems rather ambitious and might be asking a lot of suppliers, including engine manufacturer #BlueOrigin. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/ula-chief-on-the-vulcan-rocket-the-path-to-flight-one-is-clear/

#BE4

spaceflight, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to space

#SpacePolitics
“It got funded as a #rocket to #nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it,” #Garver says. Legacy contractors like #Boeing continued to receive large bonus payments 💰 for working on the #SLS, despite delays and mushrooming #costs.
Critics of the #SLS argue that the rocket is #unsustainable by #design, relying on an old and potentially quite #expensive way to get to #space. Much of SLS is a holdover from the #spaceshuttle. But while the shuttle #orbiter, #engines, and external #tanks were designed to be #reusable, SLS and its engines were not.

“They’ve designed a rocket that is basically #unsustainable, because it’s completely #throwaway. The only bit that comes back is #Orion”

“Depending on how you look at it, the #SLS is either a product of a #broken #system that curries #favor to #wealthy 💰 industries or an example of representative #democracy working as it should,” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065143/nasa-artemis-return-to-moon

Is #Artemis based on

spaceflight, 6 months ago to SpaceX

#SpaceX : "The second flight 🚀 test of a fully integrated #Starship could launch as early as 📆 Friday, November 17, pending final regulatory approval" https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2

spaceflight, 6 months ago to random

A global system of #SpaceTraffic management was defined by the International Academy of #Astronautics in its 📆 2006 study as a "set of technical and regulatory provisions for promoting safe access into outer space, operations in #OuterSpace, and return from outer space to #Earth free from physical or radiofrequency interference."

There remains a spectrum of views internationally regarding the feasibility and advisability of an actual international #SpaceTraffic management organization (#ISTMO) https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA1949-1.html

#SpaceDebris

spaceflight, 6 months ago to random

#Astroscale's Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (#RPO) includes #SpaceDebris 🗑️ observation, as well as approach, capture, and #deorbit. The Active Debris Removal was due to launch in 📆 November aboard a #RocketLab #Electron launch vehicle 🚀. The mission is currently on hold after Rocket Lab suffered an anomaly on September 19. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/japanese-spacecraft-large-space-debris

spaceflight, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to Astronomy

🌌 The @royalastrosoc announced that all journals will be #OpenAccess from 📆 January 2024. All articles from the very first volumes published in 📆 1827 to the latest articles, will be free to read in their entirety. https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/royal-astronomical-society-announces-all-journals-publish-open-access-2024

#Astronomy #RAS #MNRAS

spaceflight, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

If you know interesting #spaceflight companies 🏭, please add* them to #OpenStreetMap https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/aerospace:product. Map 🗺️ with details via #OverpassTurbo https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22aerospace%3Aproduct%22%3D*+global&R

• editing ✏️ also possible by app📱 https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/osm-editing/#plugin-settings

Usage example : 🗺️ https://industry.openmaps.space

#SpaceCompany #OpenData

spaceflight, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to space

#JWST albums https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums

HiRes collaboration picture :ccby: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/50218437448/in/album-72157674917153551/

#NASA #ESA #CSA #JamesWebb