And that is why this picture blew my mind, because they needed to point the camera on a spaceship, at a spot on another planet, where they knew another spaceship was supposed to be, at the precise instant it was supposed to be there.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia15978-curiosity-spotted-on-parachute-by-orbiter
And do it remotely, with a fifteen-minute lag between issuing the command and having it carried out.
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Before my dad, who was born in 1931, died, he talked about how, in his lifetime, they had gone from 78-rpm records with about 3 minutes per side to an iPod/iPhone (the former were just barely a thing still when he died) with more hours of music than he could listen to in a year.
This was a guy with a massive LP and CD collection who could tell you anything about any piece of classical music ever written (he won quizzes on it), so it was a huge deal for him. It’s pretty astounding to think about. There are still others alive today who were born when he was.
MOD HAT: Okay the Starliner saga has really taken over this thread. I’ve peeled all of that discussion (I think I found all of it) off to it’s own thread here:
Meanwhile, VIPER is still on life support. But there is definitely third-party interest!
This is pretty freaking cool.
So, y’all think the JWST is hot stuff, right? Check out what’s being built down here on Earth…
Pay particularly close attention during the first few seconds so you can see the workman on the mirror mount for scale.
Only if you use the wrong filter
A new image from the JWST shows six new rogue planets in a nebula (image has three of them circled)
Nebula that possibly formed the rogue planets:
You want to see your name spelled out with LandSat images?
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html
BepiColumbo will not be entering Mercury orbit next year as planned.
Sounds like there’s some sort of inadvertent high impedance connection (not quite a short) between a power supply line and ground. The generated power simply isn’t reaching the thrusters.
But Hayabusa pulled something similar to this off, so there’s still hope for BepiColumbo.
It’s nice that Mercury comes pre-labeled.
BepiColombo is my favorite role of BepiPeter Falk’s.
NASA announced Friday it will not fuel the two ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft at this time, foregoing the mission’s upcoming October launch window. While future launch opportunities are under review, the next possible earliest launch date is spring 2025.
TL;DR — Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is still too far behind schedule to make the October 13-21 Mars launch window, so NASA is taking the pressure off.
Edit: the only reason a spring 2025 launch of ESCAPADE is even feasible is due to the ridiculously low mass of the ESCAPADE spacecraft compared to the New Glenn’s ISP and some fancier than usual navigation en route. Otherwise NASA would have to wait another 26 months for the next Earth-Mars Hohmann transfer window.
That assumes that the galactic core isn’t exploding, which causes the Puppeteer exodus with their Fleet of Worlds a few hundred years from now.
Cool I found me!
How many people get their name on a map of the galaxy? I never met a Camelopardalis
