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    How livable is Titan?

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    Mainly curious about the atmospheric pressure, could a human survive in the denser atmosphere assuming they had a suit that would keep them warm? Or would they be crushed? Also curious about the the temperature, water collection, and different options for habitats.

    Best Quotes Ever

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    My brother told about a man with the last name 'French' was being executed via electric chair (not sure what he did). When asked if he had any last words he said something along the lines of "OH what will the papers say tomorrow? French fries?". He probably had that one stewing ever since he got the sentence :rolleyes:

    Voyager 1 in critical condition

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    On 2/11/2024 at 7:06 AM, kerbiloid said:

    3. The Harry Potter fanfic by Yudkowski says, that one of these probes (idk, which one) is carrying another Voldemort's horcrux, so it's wise to keep keeping eye on it.

    Link please? :blush:

    5 hours ago, Nuke said:

    how long will it be till new horizons is far enough out to take up interstellar space survey duty? in any case the solution is more outer solar system flybys are needed. MOAR! flyby all the things. 

    New Horizons isn't arriving at the Heliopause for many years, probably the 2040's? The main issue with those kinds of missions are power and duration. There is a painful shortage of RTG's right now (I believe New Horizons used a spare Cassini generator) and it's hard to get funding for a mission that's going to last longer then a politicians time in office, let alone something that they may not actually get to see begin in their lifetimes. That's assuming that New Horizons will still be operating when it gets there, not sure if the generator it has is going to be good that long.

    Voyager 1 in critical condition

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    Over the past few months the situation on the probe has gotten progressively worse. A glitch in one of the main processors of the craft prevent it from sending coherent telemetry back to earth. It can still recieve commands and execute them, it just can't communicate with us properly. Unfortunately since no good telemetry is coming through its nearly impossible to even diagnose what the problem even is, let alone if theres a work around. Many members of the current team running it don't seem to have much optimism in solving the issue. The current plan is to try and switch the computer to a mode that was used while it was preforming a flyby to try and at least isolate the problem. What do you reckon the odds of success are and could the probe have any use if it's science mission is ended by the issue?

    Mars Rover Perseverance Discussion Thread

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    13 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

    RIP Ingenuity. It's not actually dead, just crippled by a broken wing

    f_webp

    From NASA Ingenuity helicopter mission on Mars ends after three years | CNN

    Hmm, was that divot carved out by a hard landing (or the blade itself?), or was it pre-existing? And what is that blue speck in the middle of the divot?

    E: It's so easy to imagine the comm dropping out as the equivalent of "Can't talk, trying to land in one piece!"

    Steam Community :: :: Salute for The Boss

    So is it actually dead or just incapable of flight? It was talked about previously that it was communicating with ground control, did they shut it off?

    JAXA (& other Japanese) Launch and Discussion Thread

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    3 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

    Hakuto-R, SLIM, and Peregrine. I don’t know of such a long string of failures* in lunar exploration since the Ranger program.

    The closest thing to it in recent times seems to be the back-to-back failures of Nozomi, Mars Climate Orbiter, and Mars Polar Lander.

    Interestingly it’s reversed. 1 Japanese spacecraft and 2 American at Mars, and 2 Japanese spacecraft and 1 American at the Moon.

    Fingers crossed for VIPER. It’s integral to South Pole exploration, and it would be a major blow if it failed, especially considering China is launching a sample return mission to there this year.

    *Some a partial failures though, I suppose.

    Most of the crashes are coming from inexperienced private companies making their moonshots, the only government space agency's loss that comes to mind is Chandrayaan-2 which was a first attempt that nearly worked. SLIM is also a first attempt from JAXA and it even made it to the surface, impressive given it's ambitious design. Expect more crashes in the future before things start to work, think back to landing Falcon 9 but a half-million miles away and more expensive.

    That all being said I'm very worried about VIPER given the track record of private companies, I believe the same company that did Peregrine is working on that lander. Hopefully they learn some things from it, losing VIPER would be very sad.

    Blue Origin thread.

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    5 hours ago, Spaceception said:

     

    Woah. New Glenn exists. This looks good!

     

    A lot of people are thinking that this is flight hardware, and the "not for flight" pieces are just that, and will be replaced soon-ish.

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    The One Piece Is Real by HerrKeinervomNirgend Sound Effect - Tuna

     

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