Archive for the 'Space' Category
Starship Flight Test
April 20th, 2023Wow. It launched. 2X the thrust of Saturn 5. It cleared the tower, made it through max Q, but the first stage didn’t separate. “This does not appear to be a nominal situation.” And then, “Rapid unscheduled disassembly.” Via: SpaceX:
Live Feed: Starship Flight Test [Scrubbed]
April 17th, 2023Update: Scrubbed — Via: SpaceX:
SpaceX Receives a Launch License from the FAA for Starship
April 14th, 2023Via: Ars Technica: On Friday afternoon—after much angst and anxious waiting by the spaceflight community—the Federal Aviation Administration issued a launch license to SpaceX for the launch of its Starship rocket from South Texas. “After a comprehensive license evaluation process, the FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental, policy, payload, airspace integration and financial responsibility […]
“A 200,000-Light-Year-Long Chain of Young Blue Stars Located Over Halfway Across the Universe”
April 6th, 2023Via: Hubble Site: The universe is so capricious that even the slightest things that might go unnoticed could have profound implications. That’s what happened to Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum when he was looking through Hubble Space Telescope images and noticed a suspected blemish that looked like a scratch on photographic film. For Hubble’s electronic […]
China Planning for War, Needs Capability to Take Out Starlink and Defenses Against Javelin Anti-Tank Systems
March 8th, 2023Via: Reuters: China needs the capability to shoot down low-earth-orbit Starlink satellites and defend tanks and helicopters against shoulder-fired Javelin missiles, according to Chinese military researchers who are studying Russia’s struggles in Ukraine in planning for possible conflict with U.S.-led forces in Asia.
Blue Origin Manufactured Working Solar Cells and Transmission Wire from Lunar Regolith Simulants
February 14th, 2023Can someone from Blue Origin (Cryptogon has many readers from there) please let me know how you propose to power this process on the moon? The part about the molten regolith, “At temperatures above 1600 degrees Celsius,” left me wondering how you’re planning to pull that off. Via: Blue Origin: Since 2021, Blue Origin has […]
The James Webb Space Telescope Is Finding Too Many Early Galaxies
January 14th, 2023Via: Sky & Telescope: Images and spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the first galaxies in the universe are too many or too bright compared to what astronomers expected. Evidence is building that the first galaxies formed earlier than expected, astronomers announced at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in […]
James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way–Like Galaxies in Young Universe
January 9th, 2023Via: Phys.org: New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our […]
NASA Photo STS61C-31-3
December 18th, 2022Swamp gas? Via: NASA: NASA Photo ID STS61C-31-3 Focal Length 100mm Date taken 1986.01.12 Time taken 13:59:42 GMT
Communications System Achieves Fastest Laser Link from Space Yet
December 7th, 2022Via: MIT News: In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth’s surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data at record-breaking rates of up to 100 gigabits per second — 100 times faster than the fastest internet speeds in most cities […]
