They could have named it Tatooine. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-tess-mission-uncovers-its-1st-world-with-two-stars
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1592772202289430528?t=iG8VTkNnMaSUV-uV9RAm4A&s=19 Look out, Moon! We're coming back.
Absolutely insane picture(s) of the recent lunar eclipse. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/yzqtas/i_took_photos_of_the_entire_recent_lunar_eclipse/ There are some incredibly talented astophotogs on Reddit.
Actually saw Starlink satellites for the first time tonight. Not really that space related, but it is quite a weird sight.
In case you were wondering if the scientist that designed these put a high school photo class star lense filter on the telescopes to give each star that picturesque set of spikes to wow the public. It's not, it's a whole lot more complicated. Example of a star lense filter for reference.
A Canadian has been announced as one of the members of the Artemis 2 crew. It appears we are granting limited-use moon-cred to Canada to use to dunk on the rest of the world.
The point of the test seemed to be around the launch stages and they accepted the possibility of it just exploding at some point.
Yeah, I think they were going to be satisfied if they successfully cleared the tower. Good lord, that's a massive rocket. I think they said twice the thrust of the Saturn V?
Practice makes perfect. Another great thing about SpaceX is how remarkably less expensive it is than previous programs like the Space Shuttle.
Yep, twice the thrust. There's a YT channel called Everyday Astronaut who has a great system for reporting on various rocket launches, etc. He took his team/gear to the launch. If you go to the 2:02:30 mark you can see where it engine starts and takes off. The fucking loops that it was doing before it destructed was insane. Regardless of the outcome, it was a huge success. The Everyday Astronaut bought an old broadcast truck and turned it into a killer rocket launch tracker. It's a pretty interesting video, in and of itself: But more importantly, a new Rush visualizer track dropped today... one of my favourite Rush tunes of all time, and somewhat appropriate:
Turns out that the rocket may have been damaged by the failing of the launch pad. https://www.reddit.com/r/Catastroph...to_showing_the_destroyed_reinforced_concrete/ https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2693 That link is the official drone footage, and if you go to T-10 and watch... once the engines fire up, you can see HUGE slabs of concrete go almost up the side of the booster. There's a lot of speculation that the same concrete failure caused a bunch of other engine damage which is why there were so many nozzles not firing. Crazy.