All things Space
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NASA Is Going to Plunge the International Space Station Into the Pacific Ocean
The International Space Station is being retired in 2030, after spending more than 30 years orbiting Earth. At the end of its service, NASA will crash the ISS into the Pacific Ocean in January 2031. Don’t worry, though; they are sending the station, which is roughly the size of a football field, to a very remote part of the ocean.
According to plans released by NASA, the ISS will be sunk into Point Nemo, a region in the South Pacific Ocean, also known as the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area. Point Nemo is a part of the ocean farthest from any land and has been used to crash other spacecraft. According to CNN, a total of 263 pieces of space debris have been sunk into Point Nemo since 1971.
Since its launch in 1998, more than 200 astronauts from 19 countries have been aboard the ISS. In the next eight years, before the hub is brought down, NASA plans on continuing to conduct big missions on the station.
“The International Space Station is entering its third and most productive decade as a groundbreaking scientific platform in microgravity,” said Robyn Gatens, director of the International Space Station at NASA Headquarters, in a press release. “This third decade is one of results, building on our successful global partnership to verify exploration and human research technologies to support deep space exploration, continue to return medical and environmental benefits to humanity, and lay the groundwork for a commercial future in low-Earth orbit.”
After the ISS is retired, NASA plans on partnering with private companies to create space stations, which will serve both private-sector space missions and government-run missions.
For us down on Earth, we should definitely try avoiding Point Nemo in early 2031, I suppose.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-is-going-to-plunge-the-
international-space-station-into-the-pacific-ocean/ar-AATu7dK?ocid=msedgntp
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Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is currently inbound from the Oort Cloud, a distant region of the solar system known for packing billions and possibly trillions of icy objects. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031, when it will come to within 11 au of the Sun (1 billion miles), in which 1 au is the average distance from Earth to the Sun. The comet, coming no closer than Saturn, won’t likely be visible to the unaided eye, but astronomers will be keeping a close watch, as it’s turning out to be a rather extraordinary object.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mega-comet-arriving-from-the
-oort-cloud-is-85-miles-wide/ar-AATCI7y?ocid=msedgntp
It occurs to me if it was going to hit Earth there is no way they would tell the public. Society would collapse.
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They'd tell you to mask up, the comet is coming.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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SpaceX satellites destroyed by solar storm
SpaceX has lost dozens of satellites after they were hit by a geomagnetic storm a day after launch, causing them to fall from orbit and burn up.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/spacex-satellites-destroyed-by-so
lar-storm/ar-AATDVNY?ocid=msedgntp
Wow, that sucks.
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Elon Musk explains latest SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy facts
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Quote:All the astronomers wear masks while aligning the 18 mirrors to form a single image of a star for the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
They'd tell you to mask up, the comet is coming.
By the way, dumb-asses who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated aren't hired as high paid astronomers. Instead, they end up as truckers blocking bridges between Canada and USA.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/americas/canada-truckers-protests-covid
-saturday/index.html
Astronomers: 2020 Median Pay $128,950 per year $62.00 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/physicists-an
d-astronomers.htm
Heavy and Tractor-trailer Truck Drivers: 2020 Median Pay $47,130 per year $22.66 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/heavy-and-t
ractor-trailer-truck-drivers.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Since his appointment in 2009, Martin has tracked NASA's development of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.
Martin said that the operational costs alone for a single Artemis launch—for just the rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ground systems—will total $4.1 billion. This is, he said, "a price tag that strikes us as unsustainable." With this comment, Martin essentially threw down his gauntlet and said NASA cannot have a meaningful exploration program based around SLS and Orion at this cost.
What is striking about these costs is that they do not include the tens of billions of dollars that NASA has already spent developing the Orion spacecraft since 2005 and the Space Launch System rocket since 2011. If one were to amortize development costs over 10 flights of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, the $4.1 billion figure cited by Martin would easily double.
That figure is far higher than NASA might have hoped. Five years ago, a senior NASA official told Ars that the space agency would like to get its operational costs for a single mission a year down to $2 billion or less. Another source at the time said the internal goal was $1.5 billion.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sl
s-costs-are-unsustainable/
What you get for $4.1 billion (or $8.2 billion if development cost included):
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:All the astronomers wear masks while aligning the 18 mirrors to form a single image of a star for the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
They'd tell you to mask up, the comet is coming.
By the way, dumb-asses who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated aren't hired as high paid astronomers. Instead, they end up as truckers blocking bridges between Canada and USA.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/americas/canada-truckers-protests-covid
-saturday/index.html
Astronomers: 2020 Median Pay $128,950 per year $62.00 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/physicists-an
d-astronomers.htm
Heavy and Tractor-trailer Truck Drivers: 2020 Median Pay $47,130 per year $22.66 per hour
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/heavy-and-t
ractor-trailer-truck-drivers.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Meanwhile, I don't make any money and yet somehow I'm better off than most of them are.
Good luck with that brew swimming around in your veins, mudblood. Hope it all works out for you. There's no undo button on that.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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NASA's Scott Kelly calls head of the Russian space agency a 'child' in Twitter spat
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10590443/NASAs-Scott-K
elly-calls-head-Russian-space-agency-child-Twitter-spat.html
Veteran astronaut Scott Kelly criticizes Russian space chief as war of words erupts
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-scott-kelly-dmitry-rogozin/
Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly hit a nerve with Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin in wake of Ukraine invasion.
North Korea's Kim says spy satellites to monitor actions by US and its allies
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/north-korea-kim-spy-satellites-mo
nitor-actions-us-allies-2553226
Iran says puts new military satellite in orbit
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220308-iran-says-puts-new-mili
tary-satellite-in-orbit-1
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NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully
“More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “Today we can say that design is going to deliver.”
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-reaches-alignment-miles
tone-optics-working-successfully
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