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Post by razz on Sept 28, 2023 6:20:52 GMT
Osiris Rex outer lid has been opened. Asteroid dust inside. The main chamber with the actual rocks to follow in early October. <div>  <br></div> |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 28, 2023 10:56:02 GMT
I heard multiple times that altough asteroids look pretty bright in pictures, they are actually pretty dark.
Looking at the dust on that metal plate they weren't lying.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 28, 2023 16:13:55 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 1, 2023 18:55:00 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 2, 2023 16:10:15 GMT
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 3, 2023 5:25:09 GMT
I think it's pretty clear what the JuMBOs are:  |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Oct 3, 2023 6:02:39 GMT
“ To give a sense of scale, it would take a spaceship travelling at light speed a little over four years to traverse the entire scene.”
I love it when pop sci tries to ‘put things into perspective’ and fails. Just like all those articles that say ‘stacked up that would cover the distance to the moon, and back!’ as if I have any idea of how far that is.
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Post by Ulythium on Jan 1, 2024 23:23:29 GMT
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Post by askew on Jan 18, 2024 20:56:34 GMT
This Axiom Space launch is pretty glossy. The Turks are going crazy in the chat.
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Post by Ulythium on Jan 25, 2024 23:51:06 GMT
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jan 26, 2024 6:27:40 GMT
Amazing that it kept going for so long. No heaters on board, and iirc it had a normal arm cpu on board, yet the battery and electronics kept going. Certainly one of those wow, we can do this now moments.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jan 26, 2024 23:54:43 GMT
Great thread
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 26, 2024 23:59:30 GMT
Ha, when I said space stuff I didn't even realise! Nice. |
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Feb 2, 2024 14:50:23 GMT
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Post by minimatt on Feb 18, 2024 6:14:22 GMT
secondly, a question - the story repeatedly notes that aluminium satellites burning up on re-entry is environmentally problematic and likely to cause ozone depletion probs. i'd assumed that burning rocket fuels in the upper atmos could be problematic but vapourising metallic elements on the scale of satellite re-entries would surely be dwarfed by meteor burn-ups, of which the first nasa google suggests 44 metric tonnes per day - some of which is going to be iron/nickel/cobalt/aluminium etc
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Post by Fake_Blood on Feb 18, 2024 9:47:05 GMT
Cubesats are cool, for a couple £100.000 you can send a tiny but functional satellite in space, making it accessible to universities. They still need a sponsor for it though, which in this case seems to be the Sumitomo Forestry company. I don’t think it anything more than that. Could be a cheaper alternative to carbon fibre though.
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 20, 2024 15:18:30 GMT
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Feb 22, 2024 22:39:19 GMT
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Post by Dougs on Feb 23, 2024 6:37:58 GMT
All very exciting stuff eh.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 13, 2024 8:38:45 GMT
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Post by myk on Mar 14, 2024 0:50:48 GMT
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Post by X201 on Mar 14, 2024 13:20:36 GMT
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Mar 14, 2024 13:39:49 GMT
What happened to the launch vehicle, it's gone boom hasn't it? Spaceship seems to be doing well though.
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Post by X201 on Mar 14, 2024 13:52:05 GMT
I thought it looked a bit wobbly and out of control just before the feed cut.
Those paddles were twisting back and forth rapidly
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Post by X201 on Mar 14, 2024 15:11:53 GMT
The ship has burnt up on re-entry
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 15, 2024 2:14:12 GMT
Musk is such a twat that I can't help but secretly want all these to fail. But TBF it's pretty cool.
I'm still a bit unsure on how the reusability/landing is gonna work, given that even something 1mm off can lead to the whole thing exploding, and reentry and splashing in the sea, no matter how controlled, sounds like it'd knock a few things out of whack.
But overall we seem on track for our Weyland Yutani corporate controlled future. At least the companies that control space travel aren't going to treat their employees like crap like Weyland Yut... oh, nevermind.
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Post by X201 on Mar 15, 2024 13:31:15 GMT
The landing in the sea is only during the early testing.
The eventual plan is for the booster and ship to do the vertical landing thing back at base
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 15, 2024 18:28:55 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Mar 15, 2024 18:40:28 GMT
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