darthgently Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 Great telescope shot taken of Saturn peeking past our full moon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 21 Author Share Posted September 21 (edited) Ambipolar Electric Field Proven/Discovered Sounding rocket used by NASA. "Third Global Energy Field" Principle Investigator: "We've discovered a Fundamental Force... what does it do? We can't say, yet!" (paraphrasing) NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth - NASA Science Exciting stuff! Edited September 21 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Sen, the outfit focused on streaming 4k video from space, will be streaming the Crew-9 docking tomorrow in 4k and the camera will then be mounted on the ISS https://www.sen.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 Cool and amusing way to calibrate the spacecraft before it goes off to image Jupiter's moons: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_confirms_that_Earth_is_habitable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 30 Author Share Posted September 30 On 9/28/2024 at 8:51 PM, AckSed said: Cool and amusing way to calibrate the spacecraft before it goes off to image Jupiter's moons: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_confirms_that_Earth_is_habitable Whew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 Worthless without replication! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 11 Share Posted October 11 Just wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 I’m just going to put this here https://www.thefp.com/p/tim-urban-daughter-spacex-elon-musk-nasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted October 15 Author Share Posted October 15 1 hour ago, darthgently said: I’m just going to put this here https://www.thefp.com/p/tim-urban-daughter-spacex-elon-musk-nasa All the "+"s. Good read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 (edited) 1 hour ago, darthgently said: https://www.thefp.com/p/tim-urban-daughter-spacex-elon-musk-nasa Fourty years later... "My... My first... Well, the first thing I can remember, is FIRE. The fire is falling from the sky, screaming, howling, and a huge smoked pipe is falling inside it from above... I don't know, why did they do it... Why did they take me to that awful, frightening place... I see this again and again, almost nightly. The falling smoked pipe, surrounded with fire, roaring like an apocalyptic trumpet from above... Other kids told me that they were seeing the green grass, the yellow sun, the butterflies... But nobody had seen a huge, black, smoked burning pipe from the skies..." Edited October 15 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 Fire ze mudballs to build a wall: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/impact-printing-is-a-cement-free-alternative-to-3d-printed-structures/ It looks coarse and poorly textured, but the partially-dried clay can be shaved off with ease, and indeed there is another machine that does this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted October 30 Author Share Posted October 30 7 minutes ago, AckSed said: coarse and poorly textured It's a robotic pooper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 ACS3 solar sail may have a slight bend in one of its booms. It shouldn't affect its performance: https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/2024/10/22/update-on-nasas-advanced-composite-solar-sail-system/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 (edited) 21 hours ago, AckSed said: Fire ze mudballs to build a wall: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/impact-printing-is-a-cement-free-alternative-to-3d-printed-structures/ It looks coarse and poorly textured, but the partially-dried clay can be shaved off with ease, and indeed there is another machine that does this. If that is clay and to be fired at those thicknesses it would have to be heated extremely slowly, like on the order of weeks, or months, to keep it from cracking. Actually, at those thicknesses, it is about guaranteed to crack no matter how slow you heat it. It will crack quite a bit from simply air drying. One can however keep filling the cracks, letting it dry, lather, rinse, repeat. Unless you have a lot of green energy high, or even bisque, firing stuff that massive is going to be very not-green. Glass working temperatures going on there Edited October 31 by darthgently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 It is not fired with heat. It is literally fired out of a launcher. (English, everybody!) This is essentially adobe walls with carefully-controlled particle size and a touch of mineral binder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Skyrora planning to exclusively use satellites for telemetry, completes test using Viasat's L-band ELERA network: https://www.adsadvance.co.uk/skyrora-viasat-and-cgi-achieve-uk-first-with-test-of-inrange.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 15 hours ago, AckSed said: It is not fired with heat. It is literally fired out of a launcher. (English, everybody!) This is essentially adobe walls with carefully-controlled particle size and a touch of mineral binder. Maybe it was a comment at the video but someone said something about firing it as in ceramics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted Tuesday at 04:47 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:47 AM Launch one ground-breaking solar probe, get (more) Venus science free: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/final-venus-flyby-for-nasas-parker-solar-probe-queues-closest-sun-pass/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted Wednesday at 08:48 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:48 PM "So how do we beat SpaceX to this direct-to-cell satellite business?" "Um, cheap launch? No..." "Got it. Make the satellites all antennae." "What?" "Make the satellites all antennae." https://spacenews.com/ast-spacemobile-unfolds-debut-production-direct-to-smartphone-satellites/ These 10-metre-wide suckers are essentially made of tiles of phased arrays with solar panels on the other side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted Wednesday at 09:19 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:19 PM 25 minutes ago, AckSed said: "So how do we beat SpaceX to this direct-to-cell satellite business?" "Um, cheap launch? No..." "Got it. Make the satellites all antennae." "What?" "Make the satellites all antennae." https://spacenews.com/ast-spacemobile-unfolds-debut-production-direct-to-smartphone-satellites/ These 10-metre-wide suckers are essentially made of tiles of phased arrays with solar panels on the other side. Those are probably going to be bright in the sky. Astronomers will be yelling for them to be at least as dim as Starlink sats in 3, 2, 1 .., Cool idea though. Before I read the article I wondered if they were going to be big passive RF reflectors or what, lol. Would have to reorient for every connection, so nope. Stupid thought on my part Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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