Some nice colors in the sky If you’re north enough. Sadly I doubt this will be as strong as the aurora back in May, but maybe one day well get them down in Atlanta again
Some nice colors in the sky If you’re north enough. Sadly I doubt this will be as strong as the aurora back in May, but maybe one day well get them down in Atlanta again
Iirc the original goal was ‘at least 10’ but maybe up to 100 flights for a booster. No way to really know without flying them a lot
NASA is still doing a seat exchange and launching Johnny Kim on the next Soyuz in March, but it looks like it’ll be just Russians on at least the next 2 Soyuz’s after that
Oh no! Where will I go to see OF spam bots now???
Bye, Bob :-(
Good ol magnesium shit-rate
They’re still going to launch the 6 operational starliner flights on Atlas V’s, and Amazon has bought several of them for their Kuiper satellite constellation.
Personally I doubt starliner is going to keep flying once the 6 ISS missions are over, regardless of launch vehicle.
They shut it down last September. It’s nsfw spinoff redgifs is still up.
So the main band going across the sky in the pic is our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It’s made up of a bunch of stars, gas, and dust.
To the naked eye under dark skies you can see some of the large structures in it, but it will just look grey (hence the ‘milky’ name). Our retinas suck at detecting color in low light situations (the color sensing cone cells need a lot of light), so even when looking through large telescopes pretty much every nebula and galaxy just looks gray.
The one exception to this is the Orion Nebula, which is one of the brightest deep sky objects. IMO It’s very slightly green looking (compared to pink in cameras] since of the cone cells in our eyes, green is most sensitive
Mercury would be a denser propellant than xenon/other Nobel gasses used for ion thrusters in orbit. There’s been a ton of other insane fuel types proposed over the years which thankfully haven’t been used (although a lot of rockets have and still use toxic hypergolic fuels like hydrazine)
Good vid going over some of these fuels: https://youtu.be/_wLk2j7_KB0
At least for us amateurs satellite trails get completely rejected out during image stacking. They’ll definitely be more of a problem for professional observatories, especially large survey scopes like Vera Rubin
The system itself. It seems like the hydraulics failed because the computers on IFT-2 got destroyed in fires/engine failures
During ascent, the vehicle sustained fires from leaking propellant in the aft end of the Super Heavy booster, which eventually severed connection with the vehicle’s primary flight computer. This led to a loss of communications to the majority of booster engines and, ultimately, control of the vehicle.
They actually just got rid of the stars, now you just tip people
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/
A lot of the images taken by JWST can have a 1 year exclusivity period where only the researchers who made the imaging proposal can have access. Most of the ones released already were for public outreach, and there’s definitely been more than 7
What focal length do you normally shoot at? My rig is at 610mm and I get satellite trails mostly around dusk/dawn, but they all get rejected out during stacking