AstroHawk

AstroHawk, 27 days ago to space

20 years ago, May 17, 2004: Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT) Space Shot 2004 rocket launch to 116km/72mi altitude at Black Rock Desert, Nevada. 1st amateur rocket to #space. My photo of the launch available on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Space_eXploration_Team #NewSpace #rocketry #history

AstroHawk, 1 month ago to Astronomy

#AuroraBorealis "Northern Lights" expected tonight across northern states. #NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center @NWSSWPC forecasts G4-level geomagnetic storm. https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/severe-geomagnetic-storm-still-likely #astronomy #SpaceWeather

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AstroHawk, 1 month ago to Astronomy

"Google Solar Cycle" by @XKCD comic - A trend spotted by the cartoonist: Google Trends has been around long enough to correlate 11-year solar activity cycles with similar cycles in people searching for info about it https://xkcd.com/2930/ #astronomy #Internet

AstroHawk, 1 month ago to SpaceX

"SpaceX has now landed more boosters than most other rockets ever launch" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #SpaceX successfully landed an orbital booster🚀, including from #Falcon9 & #FalconHeavy launches, for the 300th time. 👀 https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/spacex-has-now-landed-more-boosters-than-most-other-rockets-ever-launch/ #NewSpace #space #business

AstroHawk, 2 months ago to space

"Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida" by @arstechnica / @StephenClark1 - Very rare circumstance. Timing agrees a battery from ISS was what smashed into a house in Naples FL. Lab tests in progress. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/trash-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/ #ISS #NASA #SpaceJunk

AstroHawk, 2 months ago to Weather

Long-range #weather outlook by @theeyewallwx / @mattlanza for April 8 #SolarEclipse: early Spring has high probability of clouds across much of the path of totality in central Mexico, eastern USA (Texas to Maine) & eastern Canada https://theeyewall.com/digging-into-the-model-data-to-tell-you-what-we-know-about-the-weather-for-april-8ths-solar-eclipse/ #SolarEclipse2024 #astronomy

AstroHawk, 2 months ago to Astronomy

"Moon Landing Mission Profiles" by @XKCD comic - How sure can he be that no one thought of that? It's just a bit more difficult to implement! 🌔 https://xkcd.com/2909/ #astronomy #space #WTF

AstroHawk, 2 months ago to Astronomy

"Moon Armor Index" - Typical fun/useless question from @XKCD comic: How deep would it be if you scattered moons on the surface of their planet? In the biggest cases, they'd return where they originated from a huge impact. https://xkcd.com/2908/ #Moon #astronomy #geology #WTF

AstroHawk, 2 months ago to SpaceX

"SpaceX’s Starship notches major flight test milestones, breaks up over Indian Ocean in final moments" by @cnbc_rss (bot) / @michaelsheetz - Third space launch attempt of #SpaceX #Starship successfully reached orbit, did not complete re-entry https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/spacex-starship-rocket-third-test-flight-launch.html #IFT3 #NewSpace

AstroHawk, 3 months ago to business

"For Virgin Galactic, becoming profitable means a pause in flying to space" by @arstechnica / @StephenClark1 - VG's #SpaceShipTwo Unity is too heavy to be profitable. Launches will resume with new lighter Delta Class. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/for-virgin-galactic-becoming-profitable-means-a-pause-in-flying-to-space/ #NewSpace #business #aviation #avgeek

AstroHawk, 3 months ago to space

"Air is leaking from a Russian ISS module, but 'no impact to crew,' NASA says" by @SpaceDotCom - Increasing air leak in 23 year old Russian Zvezda module on ISS has crew examining how to plug it. So far, they manage by closing a hatch. https://www.space.com/international-space-station-russian-module-leak-february-2024 #NASA #ISS #space

AstroHawk, 3 months ago to random

Jack @JackBeyer posted a picture from Mojave Air & Space Port #KMHV in front of the airport admin building and Voyager Restaurant. Rotary Rocket's Roton ATV (atmospheric test vehicle) stands in view. The enclosure on the right has a full-scale replica of SpaceShipOne (1 of 5). [birb link provided because Jack doesn't seem to be simulcasting his tweets to his Mastodon account yet. Hint hint Jack...] https://twitter.com/AstroHawk/status/1761625414982828384 #NewSpace

AstroHawk, 3 months ago to space

"A big European satellite will make an uncontrolled return to Earth Wednesday" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #ESA European Remote Sensing 2 satellite's orbit will decay Wednesday, probably unnoticed except by #space enthusiasts https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/a-large-european-satellite-will-come-crashing-back-to-earth-this-week/ #reentry #SpaceJunk

AstroHawk, 4 months ago to space

#DayOfRemembrance is always in late January to mark #NASA's 3 fatal spaceflight accidents, a few days apart.
Apollo 1 pad fire: Jan 27, 1968 - 57 years
Challenger launch: Jan 28, 1986 - 38 years
Columbia re-entry: Feb 1, 2003 - 21 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hho8VboDRbE #space #history

AstroHawk, 4 months ago to space

"The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity crashed on Flight 72 and cannot fly any more. End of Mission.😢 Exceeded its plan to attempt 5 flights.👍 https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/nasas-mars-helicopter-has-made-its-last-flight-above-the-red-planet/ #NASA #Mars #aviation #avgeek #drone

AstroHawk, 4 months ago to space

"Hubble telescope spots water around tiny hot and steamy #exoplanet in 'exciting discovery'" by @SpaceDotCom / @RobertLea - Not the first detection of water vapor, but the smallest one. Too hot for life as we know it. Still progress. https://space.com/hubble-telescope-water-tiny-hot-steamy-exoplanet #NASA #astronomy

AstroHawk, 4 months ago to space

"No, the James Webb Space Telescope hasn’t found life out there—at least not yet" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - ongoing study of #WebbSpaceTelescope🔭 observation of dimethyl sulfide at #exoplanet K2-18b 120 light years away https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/no-the-james-webb-space-telescope-hasnt-found-life-out-there-at-least-not-yet/ #JWST #NASA #astronomy #space

AstroHawk, 5 months ago to space

"Citing 'crew safety,' NASA delays upcoming Artemis missions by about a year" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - 3 #NASA🇺🇸 #Artemis🚀 #Moon🌘 missions delayed:
#Artemis2 fly-by: Sept 2025
#Artemis3 landing: Sept 2026
#Artemis4 landing: Sept 2028
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/citing-crew-safety-nasa-delays-upcoming-artemis-missions-by-about-a-year/ #spacegeek

AstroHawk, 5 months ago to SpaceX

"Historic #SpaceX booster destroyed due to rough seas" by @space_explored / @SethKurk - #Falcon9 1st stage booster B1058 which made its 19th orbital launch & landing (record for F9), fell over on drone ship in wind & waves. https://spaceexplored.com/2023/12/26/historic-spacex-booster-destroyed-due-to-rough-seas/ #NewSpace #weather

AstroHawk, 6 months ago to SpaceX

"The secretive X-37B space plane is headed back into orbit with a boost from SpaceX" by @NBCNews / @DeniseChow - #SpaceX #FalconHeavy will launch #USSF #X37B #military drone spaceplane🛰️ to higher orbit than previous missions on Atlas V or Falcon 9 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/secretive-x-37b-space-plane-headed-back-orbit-boost-spacex-rcna126147 #NewSpace

AstroHawk, 6 months ago to space

"Space Typography" by @XKCD comic - Cheap & dirty method to find your way around the inner solar system. Only for those willing to risk using a comic strip for #space #navigation. Note: the #asteroid belt is around the word "measure". https://xkcd.com/2863/ #WTF

AstroHawk, 6 months ago to space

"Near-Earth Asteroids as of November 2023" by #NASA #Planetary Defense Coordination Office @AsteroidWatch - Discovery rates allow statistical estimation of numbers remaining to be discovered: 50 >1km, 14000 >140m. https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/planetary-defense/near-earth-asteroids/ #astronomy #asteroid #LowFlyingRocks

AstroHawk, 7 months ago to Astronomy

"Redshift" by @XKCD comic - In the history of the universe, anything within our lifetimes is so recent that relatively, it just happened. https://xkcd.com/2853/ #astronomy

AstroHawk, 7 months ago to Astronomy

"Solar storm causes 'impossible,' pumpkin-colored auroras to fill the sky" by @SPACEdotcom / @harryjpbaker - Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) caused strong solar storm with red & green aurora combining into rare orange🎃. https://www.space.com/solar-storm-causes-pumpkin-orange-aurora #aurora #SpaceWeather #astronomy #space

AstroHawk, 7 months ago to Astronomy

"Extinction Mechanisms" by @XKCD comic speculates about a less likely scenario on how the #asteroid might have killed the dinosaurs🦖🦕🌠. (Certainly some got hit. It didn't have to directly target them all to get them all.) https://xkcd.com/2845/ #astronomy #LowFlyingRocks #WTF