The Space Thread

dragons found on mars

from curiousity rover 2 weeks ago

Starship about to be launched with Super Heavy Rocket.

Edit: Launch delayed due to a stage 1 issue.

  On 4/17/2023 at 2:27 PM, t yst r said:

Edit: Launch delayed due to a stage 1 issue.

i heard someone looked at it and said ‘wait are you guys sure this big motherfucker ain’t gonna just blow up?’ and no one could give a straight answer so they called it.

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

Second attempt...

Edit: succesfull liftoff, but sadly failure of stage separation and disassembly of the vehicle...

t minus 40 seconds at 44:25

was watching w/ some coffee earlier and couldn't help but get hyped up with all the cheering.  The lift-off was so impressive to witness!

imagine being one of the astronauts scheduled to go to the moon on that thing in 2025 and watching the explosion. “yeah, they’ll get all these issues fixed in the next 2 years…i’m sure they will……”

:claps:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/

https://spectrum.ieee.org/moon-water

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

Something wrong with that link. This one works:

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882

JWST images show the warping of spacetime 

OK but maybe we should also try to remember the (tens, hundreds? of) other guys that the USSR shot into space but didn't make it back alive.

One of the last photos from Japan’s Hakuto-R probe, during a solar eclipse 

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/days-before-dying-japans-lunar-lander-snaps-glorious-photo-of-earth-during-a-total-solar-eclipse

Yikes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hackers-control-government-owned-satellite-180000261.html

T- 2 min:

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The space agency's Juno spacecraft has been swooping ever-closer to Jupiter's moon Io, a place teeming with volcanoes and lava. It's a truly volcanic orb. In early March, Juno passed some 32,044 miles from Io. On May 16 Juno returned, traversing just 22,060 miles from Io and capturing rich imagery.

Over the coming year, it's only going to get closer, ultimately traveling within 930 miles, or 1,500 kilometers, from Io. 

 

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Io as viewed from 22,135 miles (35,623 kilometers)

wow i hope the lenses and focus work out and we get some real terrain shots. that's really close.

30 minutes til possible launch:

https://lawreka.itch.io/space-jam