The Space Exploration Achievements Thread

[LoooSeR 5,012]

30 years ago.

 

 

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[LostCosmonaut 2,311]

SpaceX does the usual thing; https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18095633/spacex-launch-landing-falcon-9-watch-live-stream-used-rocket-how-to

Also, a few days ago, the first commercial Electron successfully launched; https://www.space.com/42415-rocket-lab-first-commercial-launch-in-photos.html (3rd one overall)

 

Electron can't compete with SpaceX on price per pound;

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Rocket Lab's Electron looks sleek with its black paint job for It's Business Time. Rocket Lab's Electron rockets are designed to launch small satellites into orbit at an unprecedented pace. The rocket can carry payloads of up to 330 pounds (150 kilgrams) into orbit for $5 million per flight.

 

I believe their goal is to have the total cost of the rocket be lower, and target people who don't want to launch small satellites as secondary payloads on an F9 or similar.

 

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[LoooSeR 5,012]

Not sure where it landed - on Mars or Yemen

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NASA has selected the first batch of U.S. companies to join the agency on its journey to its next destination, the moon, which NASA wants to explore in order to prepare to go on to Mars.

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Soyuz is back for manned flight

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[Lord_James 53]

On 12/6/2018 at 3:01 PM, Ramlaen said:

 

 

Personally, my only concern with calling this thing a planet is if it has cleared its orbit of comparably sized objects (Sedna and Eris come to mind). 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood

 

If it has, then: CHOO CHOO! All aboard the hype train!  

[Ramlaen 903]

2 hours ago, Lord_James said:

 

Personally, my only concern with calling this thing a planet is if it has cleared its orbit of comparably sized objects (Sedna and Eris come to mind). 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood

 

If it has, then: CHOO CHOO! All aboard the hype train!  

 

Sedna and Eris are not even remotely similar in size to what Planet Nine is estimated to be, Eris is no where near its predicted orbit and Sedna is believed to have been pushed into its orbit by Planet Nine.

[LostCosmonaut 2,311]

Planet Nine is supposed to be roughly Neptune sized, even with the most bullish projections for Oort Cloud mass/density it will have cleared its orbit.

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[LoooSeR 5,012]

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Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev spacewalk. One of the tasks that they performed outside the ISS was the study of the mysterious hole that formed in the aggregate compartment of the Soyuz spacecraft.

 

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A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System.  It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun. The new object was announced on Monday, December 17, 2018, by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center and has been given the provisional designation 2018 VG18. The discovery was made by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard, the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen, and Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo. 2018 VG18, nicknamed “Farout” by the discovery team for its extremely distant location, is at about 120 astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU is defined as the distance between the Earth and the Sun.  The second-most-distant observed Solar System object is Eris, at about 96 AU.  Pluto is currently at about 34 AU, making 2018 VG18 more than three-and-a-half times more distant than the Solar System’s most-famous dwarf planet.

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[LoooSeR 5,012]

 

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Soon.

 

 

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[LoooSeR 5,012]

Chinise Space program launches - 39 in total in 2018 (1 failed).

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[LoooSeR 5,012]

360 photo 

 

[LoooSeR 5,012]

Didn't found a better place. N-1.