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3 more years & the last probe from earth makes contact with Pluto.
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just in, delivery pic from the ISS
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57411203-76/space-station-snaps-photo-of-robotic-cargo-craft/Posted 1 year ago # -
UncommonOtaku said:
3 more years & the last probe from earth makes contact with Pluto.It was not the last probe there has been about dozen more probes launched after New Horizons.
Seven of them were from NASA.Posted 1 year ago # -
yes but those were for the near local part of the neighborhood. Most went to the moon or near earth orbit and Messenger is closer to Sol than we are. and the North Koreans are alleged to be sending a satellite of their own soonish, any day now.
Final destinations for a Space shuttle near you?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=space-shuttles-head-for-final-desti-12-04-09& this
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-joins-europe-on-mars-mission/456315.htmlAlso the Solar System with the most Planets to date: HD 10180
http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/space/the-solar-system-with-the-most-planets-is-now-hd-10180Posted 1 year ago # -
In other space news, auroras on your anus.
Also living in space - artecle has 21 minute audio if you prefer listening while lurking.
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/13/150574997/living-it-up-in-space
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This is just a test to see if it fixes the thread for me.
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Some talk on the up coming Dragon flight to ISS by Spacex founder Elon Musk.
http://www.space.com/15267-elon-musk-private-space-challenges.htmlPosted 1 year ago # -
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UncommonOtaku said:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2112501,00.htmlIndia does have a larger and more capable Navy and the air force pilots are generally much better trained.
If they wanted to they could stop all shipping to to and from China.An interesting note the Agni-V is a modern all solid fuel ICBM vs an obsolete liquid design.
Still it's like watching a replay of the cold war with India and China being where the US and USSR were in the 1950s.
Maybe we should be working on colonizing the moon and Mars as these guys may be foolish enough to fight a nuclear war.
Of the two it's China that I'm most worried will instigate a nuclear war.
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Astronaut Don Pettit talking about the first commercial cargo flight due to launch at the end of the month and how ISS has parallels with the forts of the old west.
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For precious metals and pushing China out of the rare earths monopoly,... The time is now:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/space-asteroid-mining-idUSB27208920120424
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Future of non-radioactive weapons exists today,... While mainstream news and the gullible public are assuming that this was a failed experiment.
There are those out there that realize its full potential as a non-nuclear alternative for tactical strike weapons. That leave no trace evidence. Just the kinetic energy plus the mass of the vehicle alone will make a huge explosion and leave a huge crater.
No radioactive fallout, just bits of metal that haven't vaporized on impact.Posted 1 year ago # -
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Char said:
India
Indeed, India is one of the few countries that have a serious-legitimate blue water navy. As a matter of fact they're supposed to be taking delivery of a brand new aircraft carrier soon.
Unlike China who bought the last super carrier build by the old USSR and refurbished it "claiming that they built it themselves" after refurbishing the rusted out half finished hulk.
Once they figure out how to operate it, it will be a serious threat for the Asian Region as sea power will get extremely hot & bothered when China starts rattling their sabres.You younguns in the old usa, need a job? Join the US Navy, there will be need of good personnel to crew the US's Carrier Battle Groups, from the Middle East to the Pacific. Do a tour of duty and the government will pay for your college tuition, no need to be enslaved with student loans for the rest of your life.
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Some interesting news from Spacex's twitter they have just mated the Dragon capsule to the Falcon 9 rocket and are planning on a May 7 launch.
News like this makes the retirement of the shuttle a little less painful.
https://twitter.com/#!/SpaceX/status/196276398674022400/photo/1Posted 1 year ago # -
Space came to earth, April 22, 2012.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/neo20120424.html
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2012/04/daylight-fireball-over-california-nevada-april-22-2012/
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/APNewsBreak-Fireball-remnants-likely-in-Calif-3509651.php
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Char said:
News like this makes the retirement of the shuttle a little less painful.Except nothing has changed, no progress. They're still sending up payloads with 40 year old tech, leaving more space junk in orbit.
And still not able to send up bulky items. Something the shuttle was well equpied to do.
Also, the current administration intends to retire the ISS by the end of the decade.
What is the point of spending all the money to put the thing up if it isn't a permanent investment. It should be kept up there and expanded, eventually pushed up into a higher more stable orbit.
overfiend
mentioned a certail wayward piece of rock...It may have been a rock, or a chunk of space debris.
However, if it had been a tad bigger - it would of come down on someone's house or struck a building. Then Homeland securty would be going apeshit looking for the terrorists responsible.Posted 1 year ago # -
UncommonOtaku said:
Except nothing has changed, no progress. They're still sending up payloads with 40 year old tech, leaving more space junk in orbit.
And still not able to send up bulky items. Something the shuttle was well equpied to do.
Also, the current administration intends to retire the ISS by the end of the decade.
What is the point of spending all the money to put the thing up if it isn't a permanent investment. It should be kept up there and expanded, eventually pushed up into a higher more stable orbit.
Falcon 9 is not 40 year old tech neither is Dragon.
The heat shield material did not even exist until the 1990s.
It's presently the only vehicle that could preform a Mars return reentry try that in any other vehicle and it'll become another meteor shower.F9 it's self is an incremental approach to a RLV which may turn out the way to go as it solves the question of how to you pay for the R&D and the creation of the market to support reusable LVs.
Then there's Dream Chaser and the CST-100 which are innovative in their own ways.
DC has a fully non toxic RCS and is the first composite crew vehicle.On space junk there are already rules that it needs to be minimized which is one reason fairings are ditched around first stage burn out.
They used to carry them into orbit.
Yes the retirement of the Shuttle was sad but it really was 40 year old technology and it tied up a huge chunk of the budget.I don't think it should have been retired the Shuttle until a replacement was flying but congress did not want to give NASA the extra 8 billion a year they need to do a proper change over.
Just the TSA budget alone would cover that.
I think we can disband the TSA and replace them with private security yes airline tickets will go up slightly.
But it'll be both more friendly and more secure as private scanners performed 1.5 to three times better at finding simulated bombs.Posted 1 year ago # -
Spacex's first visit to ISS has been delayed until May 19 due to ISS traffic concerns and crew availability concerns.
Space would have preferred to launched on May 10 but if there was a scrub would not have been able to launch again until May 13 which would over lap with the flight of Soyuz TMA-04M.
NASA prefers to not have two visiting vehicle flights at once.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/05/iss-schedule-dragon-launch-19-may-future-manifest-outlook/Posted 1 year ago # -
Do you wanna do the Jupiter Probe, that the ESA is going ahead on (which NASA happened to bail out of)?
Projected launch date is 2022,... maybe.
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