Space stuff (NASA, UKSA, CSA, ESA, etc)

[PatrThom]

The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more

Ingenuity has spent more than two hours flying above Mars since April 2021.

arstechnica.com

the plucky flying vehicle had an accident on its last flight and broke one of its blades. It will not fly anymore.

After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

NASA has proven powered, controlled flight is possible on other worlds, just as the Wright brothers proved it was possible on Earth.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

--Patrick

 

[evilmike]

 

[evilmike]

 

[Frank]

@evilmike Appreciate the really great pictures you post in here. They're always spectacular.

 

[evilmike]

@evilmike Appreciate the really great pictures you post in here. They're always spectacular.

Thank you!

Also, tonight's Starlink launch:

 

[Sparhawk]

My nephew works for Intuitive Machines and they have a payload launching this week (3 day launch window) with NASA’s commercial Lunar Payload services to place a lander on the South Pole of the Moon. He’s super excited about this project.

 

[evilmike]

My nephew works for Intuitive Machines and they have a payload launching this week (3 day launch window) with NASA’s commercial Lunar Payload services to place a lander on the South Pole of the Moon. He’s super excited about this project.

 

[evilmike]

My nephew works for Intuitive Machines and they have a payload launching this week (3 day launch window) with NASA’s commercial Lunar Payload services to place a lander on the South Pole of the Moon. He’s super excited about this project.

 

[Sparhawk]

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Wow man, thanks!

 

[evilmike]

Wow man, thanks!

If you want the full resolution version, I can make it available.

 

[Sparhawk]

If you want the full resolution version, I can make it available.

Sure, that would be really nice. My email is jeffbrown.lufkin at that gmail place.

 

[evilmike]

NASA science is set to land on the Moon aboard Odysseus, Intuitive Machines’ uncrewed autonomous lander. Touchdown is targeted for 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 UTC) Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. The NASA payloads aboard the lander aim to help us learn more about terrain and communications near the lunar South Pole.

Live coverage starts at 3pm EST.

 

[figmentPez]

NASA fixed Voyager!

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Voyager? I hardly know 'er!

 

[Dave]

This is an interesting article on propellantless propulsion. They were able to generate enough force to reach escape velocity.

NASA Veteran’s Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn’t Work Just Produced Enough Thrust to Overcome Earth’s Gravity - The Debrief

A veteran NASA scientist says his company has tested a propellantless propulsion drive technology that produced one Earth gravity of thrust.

thedebrief.org

 

[MindDetective]

This is an interesting article on propellantless propulsion. They were able to generate enough force to reach escape velocity.

NASA Veteran’s Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn’t Work Just Produced Enough Thrust to Overcome Earth’s Gravity - The Debrief

A veteran NASA scientist says his company has tested a propellantless propulsion drive technology that produced one Earth gravity of thrust.

thedebrief.org

I'm interested too but there is not a lot of peer review or replication of what they are claiming. I genuinely hope they are onto something.

 

[figmentPez]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here:

The photography behind 'Earthrise'

 

[evilmike]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here:

The photography behind 'Earthrise'

Good find!

 

[evilmike]

It was a bit cloudy last night, but I still was able to catch a bit of the Galileo FOC FM25 & FM27 launch

 

[evilmike]

Sailboats at Night

Oh, and there's a rocket launch too...

 

[evilmike]

I normally don't pay much attention to the sub-orbital tourist launches, but this story is pretty cool:

Hours after his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for forging a path for them to go into orbit and called his voyage aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft "justice."

More than six decades after President John F. Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's first Black astronaut candidate to the elite Aerospace Research Pilot School -- the Air Force program from which NASA astronauts were chosen -- Dwight finally accomplished on Sunday what he was denied all those years ago.

When he returned to Earth as the oldest person ever to travel to space, he was greeted and applauded by retired NASA astronauts and Space Shuttle veterans Leland Melvin, Charles Bolden and Bernard Harris who told him their achievements were only made possible by standing on his shoulders. (ABCNews)