Space - the final frontier (Misc.) II

[Bazza]

Wow...almost 4 years have gone by since I started the original SPACE thread.

There's a lot of cool space stuff going on right now.

Here's a friend's pic of that night launch Tuesday of the Falcon 9 that went through some clouds.

Designated Starlink 8-5, it was the 41st launch of Starlink satellites this year and the 58th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket in 2024.

 

[kayakerjess]

Great photo!

 

[crimsonaudio]

44 Starship Super-Heavy launches per year? Wow!

FAA to hold public meetings for possible Starship launches from Florida

There will be three public talks; three in-person and one virtual.

mynews13.com

 

[crimsonaudio]

60,000-mile-tall 'plasma waterfall' snapped showering the sun with impossibly fast fire

A massive wall of falling plasma, known as a polar crown prominence, was recently captured in a stunningly-detailed new photo of the sun.

www.livescience.com

 

[crimsonaudio]

This is awesome!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1800775036749664601

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[Bamaro]

NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is doing science again after problem

DALLAS (AP) — NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again.

Voyager 1's four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received meaningful information again from Voyager 1 in April, and recently commanded it to start studying its environment again.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is drifting through interstellar space, or the space between star systems. Before reaching this region, the spacecraft discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons. Its instruments are designed to collect information about plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles.

Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (24.14 kilometers) from Earth. Its twin Voyager 2 — also in interstellar space — is more than 12 billion miles (19.31 kilometers) miles away.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake

Two test pilots helming the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are in a tentative position — and so is Boeing’s reputation in spaceflight.

www.yahoo.com

 

[crimsonaudio]

Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake

Two test pilots helming the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are in a tentative position — and so is Boeing’s reputation in spaceflight.

www.yahoo.com

If SpaceX has to launch to retrieve the astronauts that will be the biggest embarrassment yet for Boeing.

 

[Bamaro]

If SpaceX has to launch to retrieve the astronauts that will be the biggest embarrassment yet for Boeing.

It sure doesn't look good for them to be able to return in the Starliner.

 

[crimsonaudio]

VIDEO: The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage completed its 250th successful droneship landing on June 20, 2024

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1803949259072450600

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[crimsonaudio]

Oof, another delay.

NASA has again delayed Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth

 

[CrimsonNagus]

NASA are idiots if they keep using Boeing. Astronauts, for their own safety, should refuse to step foot on a Boeing product.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Nice, thorough video with updates:

 

[crimsonaudio]

SpaceX is probably a decade (or more) ahead of Boeing and not slowing down - today's Falcon Heavy launch was incredible:

(if the link doesn't take you to the countdown it starts at 02:09:04)

 

[crimsonaudio]

NASA Selects International Space Station US Deorbit Vehicle - NASA

NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space

www.nasa.gov

 

[crimsonaudio]

Milky Way's black hole 'exhaust vent' discovered in eerie X-ray observations

A gargantuan "exhaust vent" may be channeling hot gas away from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole at millions of miles per hour — and filling up two enormous bubbles that tower over the galaxy.

www.livescience.com

 

[mdb-tpet]

Oof, another delay.

NASA has again delayed Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth

It's almost starting to seem like Boeing has a leadership problem or something.

 

[Bamaro]

Oof, another delay.

NASA has again delayed Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth

Per NASA, Starliner is cleared safety wise to return but the delay is for fact finding on the cause of this. The part of the craft that experienced these failures gets jettisoned on re-entry so wont be available for studying.