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[Bear Ribs]

I did some digging, that wasn't an ignition event and had nothing to do with the rocket, one of the maintenance workers had Taco Bell for lunch.

 

[Husky_Khan]

First Images from the Webb Telescope!

First Images

webbtelescope.org

 

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[Sailor.X]

Where Pioneer 10 is now Interstellar Space.

What the Sun looks like from Pluto

 

[ATP]

Where Pioneer 10 is now Interstellar Space.

What the Sun looks like from Pluto

Thanks for great pictures.And - Piooner 10 could now go for conqest of Universe!

 

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[Captain X]

 

[JagerIV]

Is the NASA rocket still a failure? I don't recall seeing anything about it launching. Is it just scrubbed now?

 

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Is the NASA rocket still a failure? I don't recall seeing anything about it launching. Is it just scrubbed now?

Yeah, lots of leaks and hiccups with the engines.

The moon won't be in the right place for launch again till next month, so SLS has a month to work on issues before it makes another attempt.

 

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[Husky_Khan]

The FCC has implemented a regulation that satellites must deorbit within five years of completing their mission. This is to reduce the amount of space junk that's been floating around in orbit for decades now and only growing.

“If thousands of new satellites launch every year and are replenished every 5, 10, or 15 years, yet take 25 years to demise once the mission is done, the rate of debris accumulation will grow rapidly, and perhaps unsustainably,” wrote Commissioner Geoffrey Starks in a statement accompanying the news. “With this order, we take the practical step of reducing demise times in LEO to no more than 5 years, a timeframe we know is readily achievable.”

FCC rules satellites must deorbit within 5 years of ending mission | TechCrunch

The FCC has approved a new orbital debris rule requiring satellites to be deorbited within five years of finishing their mission.

techcrunch.com

 

[Morphic Tide]

Yeah, it should be trivially met with just a small bit of software to end with a suicide burn if there's any concern for "traffic" in the original design, and passing a mandate for such keeps us from getting Kessler'd

 

[Husky_Khan]

NASA and SpaceX are Working on Ways to Elevate the Hubble Space Telescopes Mission.

NASA and SpaceX last week agreed to an unfunded study to investigate the feasibility of boosting the Hubble Space Telescope, which is at risk of falling out of orbit in the next decade, into a higher orbit.

SpaceX approached NASA earlier this year about potentially using one of its Dragon spacecrafts to move the telescope to a higher altitude, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, said in a press conference Thursday.

Hubble was placed into orbit in 1990 and was last serviced and repaired by astronauts in 2009 at an altitude of 350 miles. In the last 13 years it has fallen by about 20 miles, according to The New York Times.

Its orbit has fallen by over a mile annually these past several years.

NASA, SpaceX to study feasibility of boosting beleaguered Hubble Space Telescope into higher orbit

NASA has agreed to a six-month study to see if SpaceX could use one of its Dragon capsules to boost the slowly falling Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit.

www.foxnews.com

 

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[Captain X]

 

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[Bear Ribs]

The First-Ever Evidence of the Multiverse - Interesting Engineering

The 'Cold Spot' might be proof that our universe is just one of a multitude of other soap bubble universes.

interestingengineering.com

I'll note I actually find this pretty flimsy. "One spot in space is 0.00015 degrees colder than its surroundings, this means another universe is impinging on ours there" isn't what I'd call the most solid reasoning ever.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Did someone say Space Thread?

 

[49ersfootball]

We'll be seeing astronauts going back to the moon again.