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Discussions about space exploration and tech. Ad astra!
we're so blessed in this beautiful universe.
someone, somewhere, somehow is looking up at the universe WITH us too.
beauty will save us.
https://youtu.be/mAdO7Zvq3mM?si=H8rcI0o7PJJITzNF
someone, somewhere, somehow is looking up at the universe WITH us too.
beauty will save us.
https://youtu.be/mAdO7Zvq3mM?si=H8rcI0o7PJJITzNF
spacex x nasa crew 10 launch now planned for 03/14/2025
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crew-10
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crew-10
ISS crew launching in an hour, here's the NSF livestream (independent media channel, live chat):
https://www.youtube.com/live/PxkzmtW-JOc?feature=shared
https://www.youtube.com/live/PxkzmtW-JOc?feature=shared
This is wild. Good tips in the article on protecting yourself during the hiring process. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-fakers
“Using a technique called spectroscopy, scientists can split the infrared light from stars and galaxies into different colors, similar to how sunlight hitting a prism separates into a rainbow of visible hues. An object’s spectra can reveal many useful characteristics, including its composition, density, temperature and motion.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877
falcon 9 prop loading is done. the computer has taken over for launch https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxRDjaXwyGl
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David T Phung 🚀⚡️🛰️
@davidtphung·3 days ago
spacex falcon 9 SPHEREx and punch ridehsare mission launching in less than 5 minutes.
prop loaded and final checks going
prop loaded and final checks going
x.com
Whoah, there’s way more evidence than I thought that biological precursors came from space.
https://youtu.be/nKb4zcyqjXQ?si=4LisZpGklINVygEg
https://youtu.be/nKb4zcyqjXQ?si=4LisZpGklINVygEg
I wrote about Substack recently, but I don’t think I’ve shared my full opinion on the platform. I fell for it the same way I fell for medium, but now when I open an article and I see a Substack URL, I feel bad because I know that writing will eventually be gone from the internet.
Writing someone hosts themself on their own site seems so much more likely to last.
This isn’t an attack on anyone who uses Substack. I totally get it. I’ve used it before too. It just bums me out when I think about it.
Boomer rant done.
Writing someone hosts themself on their own site seems so much more likely to last.
This isn’t an attack on anyone who uses Substack. I totally get it. I’ve used it before too. It just bums me out when I think about it.
Boomer rant done.
Someday, there’s going to be a company that launches a missions to the moon to harvest the parts from failed landers. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/athena-spacecraft-mission-dead
Great day today if your local airport is EWR, LAX, SFO, DEN, IAH, IAD or ORD.
https://x.com/united/status/1898041014817902867?s=46
https://x.com/united/status/1898041014817902867?s=46
This is the coolest thing ever. Saturn has a tiny moon that creates ripples in the rings with its gravity.
https://lightsinthedark.com/2011/04/16/ring-racer-take-two/
https://lightsinthedark.com/2011/04/16/ring-racer-take-two/
Watching SpaceX land the Super Heavy booster will never get old. That is wild af. 3/3 on attempted catches of the largest flying object ever built. Now if we can just fix the old political BS on Earth, we can focus on expanding humanity into space. SpaceX should be a cooperative or publicly owned so I always feel conflicted, though I appreciate the engineering wins. Hopefully we see a truly global, not for profit space agency in our lifetimes.
NSF livestream ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/live/7kzdUmBIUus?feature=shared
NSF livestream ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/live/7kzdUmBIUus?feature=shared
Feels like Voyager has entered hospice 😢 https://gizmodo.com/nasa-shuts-off-voyager-science-instrument-more-power-cuts-ahead-to-keep-both-probes-going-2000572202
GPS on the moon. Google Maps is already scrambling to update their app. https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-successfully-acquires-gps-signals-on-moon/
spacex starship test flight 8 is live! 🚀
excited to see the pez dispenser deploy 4 @Starlink satellite simulators for the first time in orbit with a camera on one of them.
a huge step for the future of space-based internet & rapid reusability. watch history unfold! 🛰️✨
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1896292787600908747
excited to see the pez dispenser deploy 4 @Starlink satellite simulators for the first time in orbit with a camera on one of them.
a huge step for the future of space-based internet & rapid reusability. watch history unfold! 🛰️✨
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1896292787600908747
Do you know how planets are made?
This photo shows HL Tauri, a young T Tauri star in the constellation Taurus, approximately 450 light-years from Earth.
The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk marked by dark bands visible in submillimeter radiation that may indicate a number of planets in the formation process.
This photo shows how a solar system might be created around the star. The proto-planetary disk is where matter collides and becomes planets around the star. How cool is that?
This photo shows HL Tauri, a young T Tauri star in the constellation Taurus, approximately 450 light-years from Earth.
The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk marked by dark bands visible in submillimeter radiation that may indicate a number of planets in the formation process.
This photo shows how a solar system might be created around the star. The proto-planetary disk is where matter collides and becomes planets around the star. How cool is that?
Huge congrats to Firefly, NASA, Intuitive Machines and everyone else involved in the successful touchdown of Blue Ghost on the moon early this morning!
After a couple flopped landings last year, it was really time to nail one of these 😂 and they did!
My favorite part is the mini-lander that will un-attach and hop around to scout for water and end up hopping into a permanently shadowed crater to see what's inside.
NSF livestream with good commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/live/29GfQbq1lPE?feature=shared
After a couple flopped landings last year, it was really time to nail one of these 😂 and they did!
My favorite part is the mini-lander that will un-attach and hop around to scout for water and end up hopping into a permanently shadowed crater to see what's inside.
NSF livestream with good commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/live/29GfQbq1lPE?feature=shared
Blue Ghost has landed! https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/moon-landing-blue-ghost-03-02-25/index.html
SpaceX launches IM2 lunar lander in about 20 minutes, tune in to the NASASpaceFlight broadcast for live chat:
https://www.youtube.com/live/gi0cLW7J6Ic?feature=shared
https://www.youtube.com/live/gi0cLW7J6Ic?feature=shared
So it looks like we are not gonna die on 2032
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/26/032251/earth-safe-from-city-killer-asteroid-2024-yr4?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/26/032251/earth-safe-from-city-killer-asteroid-2024-yr4?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed
The Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) acquired and tracked Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals for the first time in lunar orbit – a new record! This achievement, peaking at 246,000 miles, suggests that Earth-based Global Navigation Satellite System constellations can be used for navigation in transit to, around, and potentially on the Moon. It also demonstrates the power of using multiple GNSS constellations together, such as GPS and Galileo, to perform navigation.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasa-and-italian-space-agency-test-future-lunar-navigation-technology/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasa-and-italian-space-agency-test-future-lunar-navigation-technology/
with every stage 1 landing, it brings me a big joyous :))
one step closer each time.
keep going and stay heartFULL!
https://x.com/spacex/status/1891993870428406058?s=46&t=sWSMVe_pNMoxMDjYFIBKUQ
one step closer each time.
keep going and stay heartFULL!
https://x.com/spacex/status/1891993870428406058?s=46&t=sWSMVe_pNMoxMDjYFIBKUQ
“That's here. That's home. That's us.” —Carl Sagan
Taken on this day in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1, “The Pale Blue Dot,” is part of the first ever ‘portrait’ of the solar system.
Taken on this day in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1, “The Pale Blue Dot,” is part of the first ever ‘portrait’ of the solar system.
scaling satellite bus manufacturing is a game-changer for the space economy. really excited about what apex is building. 🛰️⚡️i feel like we’re at the henry ford moment for space manufacturing
would love to connect with the team—any intros?
https://youtu.be/Mlpq123MleY?si=a2ce0lwdWQ2PoFhU
would love to connect with the team—any intros?
https://youtu.be/Mlpq123MleY?si=a2ce0lwdWQ2PoFhU
hopeful that we can do more in space for human progress and earth.
keep going and stay heartFULL!
keep going and stay heartFULL!
"Europe's Euclid space telescope has captured a rare "Einstein ring," showing light from a distant galaxy bent into a perfect circle by the gravity of another galaxy sitting between Earth and the source, the European Space Agency said.
The phenomenon, spotted around galaxy NGC 6505 some 590 million light-years from Earth, reveals the warping of space predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity."
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/10/0834236/euclid-telescope-captures-einstein-ring-revealing-warping-of-space?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
The phenomenon, spotted around galaxy NGC 6505 some 590 million light-years from Earth, reveals the warping of space predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity."
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/10/0834236/euclid-telescope-captures-einstein-ring-revealing-warping-of-space?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Go off, then...
This new Webb image shows an edge-on protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star, surrounded by jets and a disc wind, in unprecedented detail.
This new Webb image shows an edge-on protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star, surrounded by jets and a disc wind, in unprecedented detail.
Why we need a Venus Exploration Program, interview with Dr Paul Byrne by Fraser Cain (Universe Today):
https://youtu.be/qshaDSStFPY?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/qshaDSStFPY?feature=shared
This is cool and I hope it goes according to plan, because the sustained data collection would be super interesting. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Argonaut_a_first_European_lunar_lander
"Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032" (also...lol at that image)
https://www.space.com/180-foot-asteroid-1-in-83-chance-hitting-Earth-2032
https://www.space.com/180-foot-asteroid-1-in-83-chance-hitting-Earth-2032
We have a super earth confirmation https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-confirms-existence-super-earth-habitable-zone-sun-star
