I’m way late with this comment but the Challenger launch was broadcast live and my dad watched it explode.
I follow a YT channel called BPS.space with a young rocket scientist building all things rockets from scratch. He recently got his L2 rocket license, meaning he's allowed to use big fucking rocket engines to launch shit way high in the air, legally. In the name of XMas, he decided to use his newly found certification to launch a Christmas Tree by shoving a huge fucking rocket up its ass.
Its almost less like a telescope and more like a visual time machine. And it’s going to show us shit like anybody ever knew. It’s insane how smart these people are, and how easily it is for them to talk about such crazy engineering. I remember the first images from Hubble from were so insane, showing just insane amounts of quasars and supergalaxies. This telescope is going to probably double the size of the universe as we knew it.
I the way I have been describing the James Webb Telescope to people is by comparting it to Hubble. I tell people that Hubble was designed using existing technology, it was a very safe design with a ton of safe choices made in that process. And everything that the Hubble does can be done from earth but without our atmosphere getting in the way. The James Webb on the other hand was designed by inventing technology to do something that is impossible to do on Earth, or even in Earth's Orbit. And what it will be able to do will give us access to information that we can't get in any other way. The Hubble was to prove that we could put a telescope into space for scientific purposes. The James Webb is to prove science that we can't otherwise test.
Merry Christmas NASA. If the James Webb functions as planned it’s space porn for everyone for decades. https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-nasa-reaction
The Webb Telescope's sun shield is now fully expanded and tensioned. Very cool! https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1478412564983959553
There's a livestream this afternoon for the asteroid that's supposed to pass close by Earth. Hopefully there aren't any space tourists out there that accidentally nudge it on a different trajectory. https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/ Asteroid tracker: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/asteroids The tracker is cool. You can click on the object, or change the layers to just spacecraft, and then click on the name to get more info, see where it is or was during a certain date, etc.
Very cool links... thanks. Clicking on "asteroid watch" on that tracker link was pretty cool... until I see that it's 1 minute, 23 seconds until we die.
Just found this site that supposedly tracks the Starlink sats. It's REALLY interesting, once you get the hang of it. https://starlink.sx Can't speak to how accurate it is, but it's still impressive.
So still dream shopping for property. Decided to check star link. Not till 2023 in and a 130 a month. I love the low latency but not at that price.
https://www.aviationpros.com/aircra...n-and-leaves-baffling-double-crater-nasa-says So, there's somebody shooting rockets that can reach the Moon and leave craters and we don't know who? That's kind of amazing. Or, do you think the military / NSA / CIA knows who it was, but can't say and reveal surveillance secrets? Or, China is lying? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/world/rocket-moon-impact-crater-scn/index.html
I've seen a bunch of reports that it is considered to be a Chinese rocket fired over a year ago. From what I understand, it's not about launching the rocket at the moon, it's about the space debris from rocket launches eventually finding their way into a collision course with the moon. Initially they thought it was one of the SpaceX rockets, but then the impact didn't make sense... it left a double crater. A spaceX rocket is only heavy on one end, with the other being an empty fuel tank, so it would supposedly only create a single crater. The Chinese rocket has stuff at both ends, which they say accounts for the double crater. Crazy stuff that people that track space/orbital debris can go back and calculate shit with ANY degree of accuracy. Blows my mind.