The Astronomy Thread
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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meStevo
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Hopefully we get a Falcon Heavy static fire test today.
This guy has a bunch of tweets, is there live. Currently streaming also but not sure if/when it's going to happen.
Chris G - NSF (@ChrisG_NSF) | Twitter
This guy has a bunch of tweets, is there live. Currently streaming also but not sure if/when it's going to happen.
Chris G - NSF (@ChrisG_NSF) | Twitter
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Dandain
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It didn't blow up, so excited! This is pretty cool too, not quite as cool as a big fucking rocket.
The Humanity Star
The Humanity Star
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meStevo
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A lot of people not happy about this, basically calling it sky graffiti. Always wondered why some countries didn't make their satellites super visible, just to be dicks.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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JWST is to be launched on an Ariane 5...
Edit:
The SES 14 and Al Yah 3 satellites are in orbit after tonight's launch, sources tell Spaceflight Now.
The SES 14 spacecraft carries an all-electric propulsion system that could give that satellite an advantage in overcoming any orbital shortfall. The xenon-fueled thrusters are more efficient the conventional liquid-fueled engines.
Al Yah 3's main orbital adjust engine is a hydrazine-fueled thruster more commonly used on commercial communications satellites.
Edit: Looks like it didn't fail. Just a telemetry failure.
Good news!
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MrHolland420
KRA! KRA!
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Same here something like 80+ days, I love tracking shit like this, just watched the ISS with magnitude of -3.5 go over my night sky last night. Does it say what kinda magnitude this satellite might be able to achieve? I didn't read too much into it, just looked at the tracking.
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Oldbased
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I hadn't been paying much attention to Rocket Labs. I guess that is why they did the Humanity Star. Carbon rockets with mostly 3d printed engines that they can print in 24 hours is pretty neat. Sure it isn't a self landing rocket but oxygen/kerosene printed engines isn't too shabby. All these companies advancing tech.
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Interesting article about potentially pushing back the start date for life and also questioning some assumptions we had about our solar system formation and the impacts it had on early Earth.
3.5 Billion-Year-Old Fossils Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
3.5 Billion-Year-Old Fossils Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
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Hopefully no one else bothered getting up super early for the "Super Blue Blood Moon." Even though I'm in California which was supposed to be one of the best places to see it, it was a gigantic disappointment.
It's no wonder people roll their eyes at shit like the solar eclipse (something I found absolutely worth travelling across the country for, and plan to do again) when astronomers hype up things like this.
Yeah, it's super rare, but it's also almost identical to the super common "normal full moon."
It's no wonder people roll their eyes at shit like the solar eclipse (something I found absolutely worth travelling across the country for, and plan to do again) when astronomers hype up things like this.
Yeah, it's super rare, but it's also almost identical to the super common "normal full moon."
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