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SLIM woke up again https://phys.org/news/2024-03-japan-moon-probe-survives-lunar.html | Https canonical: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-japan-moon-probe-survives-lunar.html

Dispatch audio was released, they said that they were blocking traffic with two cars, working on getting a car to get the crew off the bridge when the ship hits https://www.foxnews.com/video/6349808520112

There are stone barriers blocking the towers for the Veranzo narrows bridge in New York https://earth.google.com/web/@40.60439396,-74.05263203,-0.01732777a,228.49768441d,20.58168206y,154.92139924h,64.83115515t,-0r

There's this which claims to be a fusion augmented electric plasma thruster https://interestingengineering.com/space/nuclear-fusion-powered-electric-propulsion-drive

No, most of the forces from a bullet are shear or compressive, not tensile.

Here's a link, they got a signal but since it's lunar noon it's too hot to consistently operate so they told it to wait until it cools down https://www.iflscience.com/its-alive-japans-moon-lander-has-survived-its-first-lunar-night-73121

sounds like they got a return signal, maybe it isnt as bad as it looked

Sounds like they dont know where or if it landed, doesnt sound good

Mimas has a geologicaly young ocean beneath its surface https://phys.org/news/2024-02-mimas-tiny-moon-young-ocean.html

ITS ALIVE

The telemetry from the stream made it seem like all the thrusters were in a ring on the bottom facing down so it would be hard to tip it with those

seems like water on mars is more widespread than previously thought, with large amounts of water ice on the equator https://www.space.com/mars-water-ice-equator-frozen-ocean

Latest update shows a picture from the spacecraft, distortion to the MLI is visible

Huh, wonder if this will be the irl version of the mun lander that gets stuck as an orbiter due to using too much delta V

Looks like we missed this one, there was an all solid stage launch from jeju. Not many details available that I can find. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/South-Korea-test-fires-solid-fuel-rocket-and-puts-satellite-into-orbit

Looks like there was an explosion during a test fire at Jiuquan https://spacenews.com/satellite-imagery-reveals-explosion-at-chinas-jiuquan-spaceport/

SpaceX got another X-37b launch, this time on falcon heavy, wonder why they are using it instead of regular falcon https://spacenews.com/u-s-air-force-x-37b-spaceplane-to-launch-on-a-spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket/

Lucy has flown by Dinkinesh, NASA has received communications from the spacecraft, but I cant find any pictures yet, probably gonna take a while for them to download with the light lag https://blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2023/11/01/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-completes-asteroid-flyby/

Yeah the only way I actually see this being a practical idea is if the new reentry vehicle they cobble together on top of a platform wholly unsuitable for ICBM work is somehow more reliable than whatever ballistic missiles they have lying around, maybe if the private in charge of maintenance decides to get into the scrap copper business, though I don't think a Soyuz would fare much better against that

Sounds like the Soyuz may be returning to it's ICBM roots soon, not sure that this is going to work too well without a new reentry vehicle, and even then this won't be that accurate https://www.newsweek.com/putin-roscosmos-bild-rogozin-rocket-soyuz-1837809

yeah maybe, but I don't think there are many missions worth using an RTG on where you would use a cheap ESPA ring bus instead of a custom design, not to mention the thermal control, micrometeoroids, radiation hardening, and the rather scarce nature of ground stations that can reach that far

They said that this thing can go interplanetary, and even interstellar in the aviation week article. Think that might be overpromising a bit much?

the visibility is so bad that they had to put an an overlay on the pad, wonder how much we are going to get to see

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abort immediately after engine start