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Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
Yuri Milner's $100 Million Shot In The Dark The proposed StarChip, with the weight of a dime, will be small enough to slip inside a shirt pocket - yet large enough to easily house the innards of a lilliputian spaceship; computers, sensors, radio, and camera. #BreakthroughStarshot https://www.forbes.com/sites/billretherford/2018/01/31/yuri-milners-100-million-shot-in-the-dark/#5e9fe2dd34e4 Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I think nanotechnology for future space probes is a brilliant idea. Makes sense. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 |
FEB. 6, 2018 - SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ly1vzVHMsc Falcon Heavy, in a Roar of Thunder, Carries SpaceX’s Ambition Into Orbit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/science/falcon-heavy-spacex-launch.html Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020 |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
There's already a thread dedicated to SpaceX and the Falcon Heavy launcher. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36248 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
NASA spies fierce cyclone dance on Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft has spotted another oddity on the planet best known for its Great Red Spot: hurricanes circling each of the gas giant's poles.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36248 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Falling Chinese Space Station to Crash In a Month. Chinese's first prototype space station, Tiangong-1, is falling back to Earth and could reenter the planet's atmosphere before the end of March. A new analysis from the European Space Agency (ESA) predicts that the station will reenter Earth's atmosphere between March 29 and April 9. ESA says the estimate is "highly variable," with a margin of error of about a week on either side. It's hard to know exactly when, but the station will imminently fall from the sky.Cheers. |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
More important than when, can they control where it will re-enter and crash? Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
Last I heard was that they have no control of it they don't know exactly where it is, but most of it should burn up.. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
China's failing space station is most likely to crash in one of these countries. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/08/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-crash-site-narrowed-down.html The report added that the chance of being struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about 1 million times smaller than the odds of winning the U.S. Powerball jackpot. |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
Elon Musk should get his ship out to catch it lol |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36248 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
More important than when, can they control where it will re-enter and crash? Yep it's out of control, run for them hills. ;-) That's why they don't know where or when it'll reenter the atmosphere. ;-) Cheers. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22419 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Those between 43 North and 43 South are at the greatest risk, so you've got a bit less than a month to get your hard hats on. Of course much of this area is actually over oceans, so there is a somewhat reduced risk of any of it landing in your back yard, but...... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sir Rodney Ffing Send message Joined: 17 Oct 15 Posts: 92 Credit: 209,637 RAC: 0 |
Those between 43 North and 43 South are at the greatest risk, so you've got a bit less than a month to get your hard hats on. Of course much of this area is actually over oceans, so there is a somewhat reduced risk of any of it landing in your back yard, but......Am in the zone, as is my present backyard... Hard hat advice appreciated. ;-) |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
That is, most satellites launched by the USA, France and Russia. China has never really seemed to care much about what their space junk does, in space or on the ground. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
Another thing is NASA, Space X and others have tracking sensors whether it be in orbit or space debris (rocket stages) don't think China has.. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30903 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
That is, most satellites launched by the USA, France and Russia. China has never really seemed to care much about what their space junk does, in space or on the ground. Hum, seem to remember something about Yellowknife and Kosmos 954. France launching from French Guiana has lower orbital inclinations as does the USA from the Cape. Russia has high inclinations as they don't have a near equatorial launch site. When the USA shut China out of the ISS, they raised a middle finger at the rest of the world and don't care about space junk. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36248 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Astronaut’s DNA no longer matches his identical twin's. Astronaut Scott Kelly had an identical twin brother when he ventured into space and set the record for most consecutive days spent in orbit, but not anymore.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36248 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler is near the end of its life. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been in orbit of the Earth for nine years. In that time, it's well exceeded its original 3.5-year mission and has pinpointed over 4,500 exoplanets and candidates. It's a little bit heartbreaking (though not unexpected), then, that NASA revealed that the spacecraft is on its last legs. Kepler will run out of fuel in the next few months and will soon be dead in space.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36248 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
China's space lab will crash to Earth in a week — and some pieces will be big. Scientists have known for more than a year that Tiangong-1 would eventually turn into a man-made meteorite after the station stopped responding to Chinese commands in 2016, according to Space.com. The lab was returning from whence it came, they were certain, but when and where it would crash was out of anyone's control.Keep your hard hats handy. Cheers. |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1386 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
The error bars for the re-entry are: April 1st, plus or minus 3 days. With such loose limits, predicting where the fragments of Tiangong-1 will land are not possible. Given the size of the space station, it seems a safe bet that some of the shards will be sizable. |
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