The Universe

[dorlomin]

Mars, a planet populated entirely by robots. 

[Barry Ferguson's Hat]

You nerds might want to wrap your lugs around this:

Quality album.

[Silvio Tattiescone]

[Silvio Tattiescone]

Have you ever heard another planet?

 

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

2 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said:

Have you ever heard another planet?

 

 

Fucking neighbours playing Pink Floyd at this time of night.

[The_Kincardine]

5 minutes ago, Zen Archer Esq. said:

Fucking neighbours playing Pink Floyd at this time of night.

Thin walls must be a problem.

Edited February 19, 2021 by The_Kincardine

[Raidernation]

Thin walls must be a problem.

Just The Wall

[jimbaxters]

5 hours ago, NewBornBairn said:

[Silvio Tattiescone]

8 hours ago, NewBornBairn said:

Have you ever heard another planet?

 

 

fake, unfortunately 

[Silvio Tattiescone]

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

 

 

[Hauzen]

 

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

 

 

[Funky Nosejob]

22 minutes ago, Zen Archer Esq. said:

 

 

Nope

[dorlomin]

RocketLab the NZ\US rocket launcher with the Electron rocket for small sats has announced they are aiming for a reusable rocket to launch 8 tonnes to LEO rocket called Neutron to have first flight in 2024. 

[Silvio Tattiescone]

 

Launch in 50 minutes or so.

 

Maybe 

[dorlomin]

 

Edited not strictly space but sciencey so no where else to put it. 

Edited March 12, 2021 by dorlomin

[dorlomin]

On 03/03/2021 at 21:38, NewBornBairn said:

 

Launch in 50 minutes or so.

 

Maybe 

Failure of SN10 is thought to have been helium that was being used to maintain tank pressure getting into the rocket engine and causing its power to drop, thus an over hard landing damaged the landing legs and helped start the fire that blew it up. That said the next flight is Serial Number 11 then it skips to perhaps 15 as the current testing was flight testing the landings have been a bonus so they have cut some of their planned flight testing. 

Falcon 9 booster used earlier in the week has had its 8th flight now. 

 

Edited March 12, 2021 by dorlomin

[dorlomin]

NASA prepping SLS for a "green run" today.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2021/03/18/green-run-update-test-teams-gives-go-to-proceed-with-tanking/

I think its about the last significant hurdle before it gets the A-OK for its first mission, that will be an unmanned flight round the Moon. I strongly suspect most people are oblivious to how close we are to another Moon landing. The big hurdle at the minute may be the lander as the SLS (the freaking huge, freaking expensive rocket) is nearing flight worthyness and parts for the next few of them are being assembled. 

In other news ex astronaut and ex Democrat Senator for Florida, Bill Nelson is likely to be Biden's pick for new NASA administrator. Confirmation might be dragged into the current trench warfare in the Capitol. But its a hugely popular, high profile agency and lots of people who sign big cheques to both parties will want it to run smoothly. 

[DiegoDiego]

I've just been reading about how the XPrize came to be. The guy spent ages scraping together $5k and $10k from here and there, eventually raising half a million for the idea. He then spent all of that money on a huge launch for the prize, with the head of NASA, descendents of Charles Lindberg, and twenty astronauts under the St. Louis arch.
It was huge news all over the world but he had zero funding for it. The X in XPrize was supposed to be a placeholder for whoever ended up sponsoring it. Four years later he had been turned down by 150 CEOs and was nowhere near the $10 million he'd promised the world. Then he met the Ansari family.