spaceflight

@spaceflight@techhub.social

Space news
People writing about #space #exploration are mostly #cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than #independent #observers keeping a watchful eye https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2022/06/23/new-book-paints-bleak-picture-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program

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spaceflight, to languagelearning

’s mission with 🇸🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇹🇷 and 🇪🇸/American crewmembers is set to launch to the 📆 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

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#CrewDragon passengers so far

• Douglas Hurley
• Robert Behnken
• Michael Hopkins
• Victor Glover
• Soichi Noguchi
• Shannon Walker
• R. Shane Kimbrough
• K. Megan McArthur
• Akihiko Hoshide
• Thomas Pesquet
• Jared Isaacman
• Sian Proctor
• Hayley Arceneaux
• Christopher Sembroski
• Raja Chari
• Thomas Marshburn
• Matthias Maurer
• Kayla Barron
• Michael López-Alegría
• Larry Connor
• Eytan Stibbe
• Mark Pathy
• Kjell Lindgren
• Bob Hines
• Samantha Cristoforetti
• Jessica Watkins
• Nicole Aunapu Mann
• Josh Cassada
• Koichi Wakata
• Anna Kikina
• Stephen Bowen
• Warren Hoburg
• Sultan Al Neyadi
• Andrey Fedyaev
• Peggy Whitson
• John Shoffner
• Ali AlQarni
• Rayyanah Barnawi
• Jasmin Moghbeli
• Andreas Mogensen
• Satoshi Furukawa
• Konstantin Borisov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2#Crew_Dragon_flights

spaceflight, 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

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#Reuters 📆 January 6, 2024 #Boeing's and #Lockheed's rationale and timing ⏳ for selling #ULA are unclear. "They're always competing and they couldn't agree on anything. We were not allowed to #innovate." But there have been significant changes to the #US #SpaceIndustry since ULA's formation in 📆 2006 https://www.reuters.com/science/vulcan-rockets-space-debut-will-be-crucial-boeing-lockheed-venture-sale-talks-2024-01-06/

raumfahrttutnot, to China German
@raumfahrttutnot@chaos.social avatar

:
"China's first commercial space launch site reaches construction milestone"

"Construction work was completed Friday on the No. 1 launch pad of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site, in the city of Wenchang, on south China's island province of Hainan."

http://english.spacechina.com/n17212/c4025807/content.html

5.1.2024

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@raumfahrttutnot https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/316967069/history

spaceflight, to Japan

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣
📆 Jan. 8: The new rocket may launch ’s uncrewed lander to the 🌙
📆 Jan. 20: ’s moon lander may attempt to set down on the moon 🌙
📆 Feb. 15: ’ robotic lunar 🌙 lander may launch on a rocket
📆 Feb. 15: ’s 🇯🇵 rocket could attempt a successful flight to orbit
📆 April 14: astronauts could fly to the aboard ’s spacecraft for the first time
📆 May: 🇨🇳 could launch the mission to the far side of the moon 🌙
📆 June 15: The 🇪🇺 could attempt the first launch of the rocket
https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2024/astronomy-space-calendar

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

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The Probe lifted off 🚀 atop a rocket from southwestern ’s 🇨🇳 Xichang* Satellite Launch Centre at 📆 3.05pm on Tuesday. The Einstein Probe is led by researchers of the Academy of Sciences and has major instrument contributions from the and the Institute for Physics in Germany 🇩🇪. It can observe an area of sky more than 10,000 full moons’ size at any given time. In contrast, existing large X-ray telescopes, such as ’s Chandra Observatory, can only image a section of sky smaller than one full moon at a time. It means the Einstein Probe could observe almost the entire night sky 🌌 in just three around , or under five hours ⏱️. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3247782/einstein-probe-china-launches-powerful-space-x-ray-observatory-understand-flashes-night-sky

spaceflight, to random

📆 Nov 15, 2023 is seeking to scale up production of the 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 . https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/ula-chief-on-the-vulcan-rocket-the-path-to-flight-one-is-clear/

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📆 Jan. 8, 2024 07:18 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ6KTFMHenA

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's has experienced an "anomaly" that has stopped it from pointing its stably at the Sun ☀️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67915696

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update 4 "Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion system is causing a critical loss of ⛽. The team is working to try and stabilize this loss, but given the situation, we have prioritized maximizing the and data we can capture. We are currently assessing what alternative mission profiles may be feasible at this time." https://www.astrobotic.com/update-4-for-peregrine-mission-one/

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@DenOfEarth but refueling in orbit could be easier ?

spaceflight,

@DenOfEarth you just asked the wrong question. Instead of "how could we save as much as possible", you proposed one of the options (which isn't feasible). Which doesn't mean the intention shouldn't be discussed. Such as "refueling in Earth or in Moon orbit possible" ?

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update 16 Our latest assessment now shows the is on a path towards , where it will likely burn up 🔥 in the Earth’s . https://www.astrobotic.com/update-16-for-peregrine-mission-one/

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@anson it wouldn't pollute the atmosphere and probably create a nice new crater, but what else would it achieve to make it "much" better ? To reach the intended destination (just not in one piece) ?

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@anson and how "could it greatly benefit future missions" ? Measurements (of what) ?

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“I want to tell you that I did sell this program consistently with a 50 percent 📊 likelihood of mission success”. : “In the time it takes to get an undergraduate degree, we built a whole 🌙 program.” https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/historic-moon-lander-malfunctions-after-launch-nasa-astrobotic

spaceflight, to random

Why was the Search for #Extraterrestrial Intelligence (#SETI) 👽 unsuccessful so far ?

#Life 🦠 appeared pretty much as soon as it could, right when the #oceans formed and our #planet stopped being a molten 🌋 hellscape. That might have been as early as 3.7 billion years ago. But #intelligent life appeared basically yesterday—what we identify as anatomically modern humans arose about 120,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/05/were-essentially-alone-in-the-universe-and-thats-ok

Pictures : :ccby: :cc_sa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nature_timespiral_horizontal_layout_white_background.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space-ship-763493.svg

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In 📆 May 1921, the 54-foot-long, 1,200-pound refracting #telescope 🔭 at the #University of #Chicago’s Lake Geneva #Yerkes Observatory was the largest of its type in the world. Of the 19 people documented alongside #Einstein that day eight were women. https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/capturing-the-stars-the-untold-history-of-women-at-yerkes-observatory/

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yerkes_Observatory_Astro4p7.jpg

spaceflight, to random

The troposphere contains 75–80 per cent of the mass of the #atmosphere. The height varies between 17km at the equator and 7.0km at the poles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere#Earth

Picture : :ccby: :cc_sa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth%27s_atmosphere.svg

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Advance notice ⚠️ of events is critical to rerouting of high latitude flights ✈️, and to alert in flight of possible loss of communications 📶 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/space-weather/impacts

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As set records for 🚀 and deployed, 👩‍🔬 are starting to quantify the potential effects. The exact amounts of soot emitted by different engines used around the globe are poorly 🤔 understood. ’s future rocket , for example, uses a mix of liquid and liquid oxygen propellants. Once 🛰️ in reach the end of their operational lifetimes, they plunge through the and disintegrate, leaving a stream of in their wake. 👨‍🔬 do not yet know how this will influence ’s 🌍 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/science/rocket-pollution-spacex-satellites.html

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@Tergenev I know https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution. The problem is to shorten an article's main topic to a couple of sentences (here it's "we haven't a clue what launches do to the upper atmosphere"). One of the examples was soot (and that doesn't produce any)

spaceflight, to space German

📆 6 Sep, 2022 🇨🇳 successfully tests 🚀 engine with twice the thrust of the US 🇺🇸 competitor to be used in -led missions https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3191579/complete-success-china-tests-powerful-rocket-engine-moon-landing

📆 Dec. 2022 The predicted in August that 🇨🇳 would surpass 🇺🇸 capabilities in as soon as 📆 2045 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/science/china-space-moon-mars.html

Pictures :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lego_21309_NASA_Apollo_Saturn_V_(34431980112).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Scream_by_Edvard_Munch,_1893_-_Nasjonalgalleriet.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated-Flag-China-2.gif

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🇨🇳 is getting a number of * successful 🌙 landings under its belt in recent years. This year, China is going to launch the mission https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3247917/feared-failure-peregrine-mission-could-put-us-behind-china-moon-race-says-space-policy-expert

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@Powerfromspace1 didn't get your point ?

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@Powerfromspace1 I would say the acceptance of possible failure is part of the concept https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

spaceflight, to space

#Reuters 📆 March 23 #Boeing's first mission carrying #astronauts to #space aboard its Starliner capsule has been delayed until at least the summer 🥱.

#NASA has overseen #Starliner's development under a $4.5 billion 💰 contract awarded in 📆 2014. Some 80 #software #failures cut short an initial, uncrewed Starliner test flight in 📆 2019. The capsule made a successful repeat of that mission in 📆 2022 https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/nasa-delays-boeing-starliners-debut-crewed-voyage-2023-03-23

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flight_Delayed_(76996953).jpg

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Let's hope they also check the door bolts 🤔
"...slipped from February to April 2023 as the company works with to fix lingering technical issues from the 's last uncrewed test flight" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeings-first-crewed-starliner-spaceflight-slips-april-2023-2022-11-03/

spaceflight, (edited ) to random

: "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million 💰 all in, fast forward two or three years from now," said about flight during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2

Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ 💵 per kg

🇪🇺 doesn't look good

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construction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhKOuxhGlmI

spaceflight, to space

☄️ NEOWISE 📆 July 2020, Joshua Tree National Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_NEOWISE

"The bad news is estimates that it tracks only about 40 percent of the ☄️ enough that they could cause calamity if they were to hit " https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/24/nasa-asteroid-telescope

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"Who knows whether, when a ☄️ shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and will be destroyed 💥, men will not tear rocks from their foundations by means of steam, and hurl mountains 🏔️, as the giants are said to have done, against the flaming mass ?"

Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin 📆 1832 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

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