Ramlaen Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 RIP Opportunity https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/rover-status/opportunity/recent/all/?y=2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 XKCD is on point as always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 And another one. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted March 1, 2019 Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 Quote March 1, 1966. The first spacecraft reached the surface of Venus. On March 1, 1966, the station reached Venus and crashed into its surface in the region from −20 ° to + 20 ° in latitude and from 60 ° to 80 ° east longitude. The Venus-3 station was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. /.../ The descent vehicle was a ball with a diameter of 92 centimeters. In it was placed a metal globe of the Earth, inside of which was a pennant depicting the emblem of the Soviet Union. Scientific instruments were also installed in the descent vehicle (in particular, capable of measuring the parameters of sea waves on the surface of Venus - it was assumed that with high probability it would land on the water surface). /.../ During the flight with the Venus-3, 63 communication sessions were conducted. However, its control system broke before it reached Venus. Therefore, he did not transmit any data on Venus and telemetry from the descent vehicle, but scientific data were obtained on cosmic and near-planetary space in the year of the quiet Sun. A large volume of trajectory measurements presented a great value for studying problems of ultra-long-distance communications and interplanetary flights. Magnetic fields, cosmic rays, low-energy charged particle fluxes, solar plasma streams and their energy spectra, cosmic radio emissions and micrometeors were studied. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted March 8, 2019 Report Share Posted March 8, 2019 A new commercial space flights for tourists is registered in Russia and plans to build launch facility, Quote Russia's first private spaceport to be built in the Nizhny Novgorod region The Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the Region Development Corporation have signed an agreement with a private company to build the country's first private suborbital space complex, from which it is planned to send tourists to a low orbit. Seems familiar... only thing is that it works on liquid oxygen and alcohol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted March 8, 2019 Report Share Posted March 8, 2019 12 hours ago, LoooSeR said: A new commercial space flights for tourists is registered in Russia and plans to build launch facility, Seems familiar... only thing is that it works on liquid oxygen and alcohol. There's a blurb about it in this article; https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/rocket-report-sls-slip-likely-pegasus-problems-and-eelv-has-expired/ (I think it's the same one you mentioned) Suborbital tourism company to use ethanol fuel. A Russian company that wants to offer suborbital space trips for tourists, CosmoCourse, says that it will use ethyl alcohol as a fuel, TASS reports. The company says it plans to begin space tourism flights in 2025 and is now designing its own launch complex in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, some 400km east of Moscow. Perhaps, perhaps not ... We first heard of CosmoCourse back in 2016, when the company announced a plan that looked a lot like Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle and said it would be flying by 2020 from another location. So while we're always intrigued by new space tourism entrants, we don't have much faith in a company that has already moved its launch target by five years. Also, from that article, Ukraine is trying to develop a domestic launch site, and the next FH mission is prepping the pad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted April 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 Bridenstine straight up blowing some minds here: Just the goods: Zyklon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted April 10, 2019 Report Share Posted April 10, 2019 Quote Scientists on Wednesday presented the first ever black hole image - we are talking about the Sagittarius A * (SgrA *) object, located in the center of our galaxy at a distance of 26 thousand light years from Earth. Quote The data were released at a press conference broadcast by the National Science Foundation channel. The image was taken as part of the Event Horizon Telescope project, bringing together eight radio telescopes around the world, including in the United States, Mexico, Chile, Spain and France. The project was launched to monitor two supermassive black holes - SgrA * and an object in the center of the galaxy M87 (also known as Virgo A), approximately 53.5 million light-years away from Earth. It is assumed that SgrA * is approximately 4 million times more massive than the Sun, while the object in the galaxy M87, according to various estimates, is 3.5–7.22 billion times larger than its mass. Observations were made in April 2017, but it took two years to process the data. Lord_James, Ramlaen and LostCosmonaut 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sturgeon Posted April 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 Falcon Heavy Bl 5 Arabsat 6A mission complete success. Launch utterly unbelievable in person. Will post video later. LostCosmonaut, Belesarius and Ramlaen 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted April 13, 2019 Report Share Posted April 13, 2019 Yesterday, April 12. Quote 58 years ago, the Mujahid Jajir al-Gagari ascended to the 7th sky on a winged horse "Vostok". Happy Cosmonautics Day! Allah Akbar! Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted May 11, 2019 Report Share Posted May 11, 2019 http://astronomy.com/news/2019/05/venus-reimagined-a-new-image-of-an-active-world Quote A new analysis of venusian lava flows shows they may have formed less than 250,000 years ago, suggesting a significant fraction of Venus' roughly 1,600 volcanoes are still active. Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 15, 2019 Report Share Posted May 15, 2019 Quote On May 15, 1987, the first launch of the RN Energia took place. Ramlaen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2019 And Polyus was kill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted May 24, 2019 Report Share Posted May 24, 2019 With congressional funding and industry support, nuclear thermal propulsion technology is making progress for potential use on future NASA deep space missions, although how it fits into the agency’s exploration architectures remains uncertain. The House Appropriations Committee approved May 22 a commerce, justice and science (CJS) appropriations bill that offers $22.3 billion for NASA. That funding includes $125 million for nuclear thermal propulsion development within the agency’s space technology program, compared to an administration request for no funding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramlaen Posted June 10, 2019 Report Share Posted June 10, 2019 Stratolaunch is reportedly kill. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28319/stratolaunch-reportedly-shuts-down-leaving-worlds-largest-plane-with-an-uncertain-future Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-picks-mission-to-fly-over-the-dunes-and-seas-of-titan/ NASA chose the Dragonfly mission as its next mission to the outer solar system today. The cutting-edge spacecraft will fly over the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan to study its sand dunes and methane seas, stopping to studying its composition and looking for clues to how chemistry leads to biology and life. While Titan is quite different from Earth, it also has some similarities and scientists hope to learn more about what happened on early Earth by studying Titan. Sturgeon and Lord_James 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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