Space is the Place (6 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

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[pete]

What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?

"If you guys don't give me a chance to repair my instrument, I'm not going back."

arstechnica.com

 

[Deadmanposting]

What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?

"If you guys don't give me a chance to repair my instrument, I'm not going back."

arstechnica.com

Reminds me of that thing about plane crashes with Korean airlines and how much of it was a cultural problem; people didn't want to give superiors bad news.

Shows the danger of putting non-professional astronauts up in those things.
And why it was a bad idea to send those oil drillers up in that spacecraft. Bruckheimer and Bay got lucky that time tho.

 

[pete]

After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends - NASA

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than

www.nasa.gov

 

[pete]

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@latifnasser: Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵....…

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[pete]

Relativistic Spaceship

dmytry.github.io

 

[Cormcolash]

After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends - NASA

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than

www.nasa.gov

 

[pete]

Humanity’s most distant space probe jeopardized by computer glitch

"It would be the biggest miracle if we get it back. We certainly haven't given up."

arstechnica.com

 

[Cormcolash]

Humanity’s most distant space probe jeopardized by computer glitch

"It would be the biggest miracle if we get it back. We certainly haven't given up."

arstechnica.com

 

[ann post]

Humanity’s most distant space probe jeopardized by computer glitch

"It would be the biggest miracle if we get it back. We certainly haven't given up."

arstechnica.com

The hope among Voyager engineers is that the transition to different data modes might reveal what part of the FDS memory needs a correction.

So they are going to mash the buttons.

 

[pete]

Thread by @latifnasser on Thread Reader App

@latifnasser: Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵....…

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Well it’s official now.

How Venus Ended Up with a Mini-Moon Named Zoozve

Thanks to some misread handwriting, a temporary mini-moon of Venus has just been bestowed with an unusual name.

skyandtelescope.org

 

[Deadmanposting]

Humanity’s most distant space probe jeopardized by computer glitch

"It would be the biggest miracle if we get it back. We certainly haven't given up."

arstechnica.com

This really really sucks

 

[pete]

big numbers

Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected

Astronomers report an object that shines with a brightness equivalent to 500 trillion suns.

www.bbc.com

 

[seanc]

Read that earlier. My first thought oddly was:

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@Unicron

 

[Cormcolash]

big numbers

Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected

Astronomers report an object that shines with a brightness equivalent to 500 trillion suns.

www.bbc.com

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

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[pete]

Moon landing in <20 minutes

maybe

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[Deadmanposting]

big numbers

Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected

Astronomers report an object that shines with a brightness equivalent to 500 trillion suns.

www.bbc.com

14 billion light years away, but bright enough that they thought it was a Milky Way star

Good fucking God

 

[pete]

After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends - NASA

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than

www.nasa.gov

Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter

This new data should help us understand Ingenuity's final moments on Mars.

arstechnica.com

 

[Deadmanposting]

Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter

This new data should help us understand Ingenuity's final moments on Mars.

arstechnica.com

The Muad'Dib!