Space and stuff

[Dylan]

Insight due to land on Mars soon, how those boffins work it out I don't know

So, here is a video of the scale model of the exomars descent capsule being tested (you can see the leading shockwave!!!!!)

 

[Dylan]

So, new booster for SpaceX today. Attempted to land the first stage back at the launch site, but the grid fin hydraulic pump stalled after they deployed, and as the booster started getting into the atmosphere, the stuck grid fins sent the booster into a spin. On-board flight computers went into their recovery mode and lit the engines and started firing the RCS to stabilize the roll for a perfect recovery landing in the ocean, just off the coast, perfectly intact.

 

[Vegas Toffee Girl]

So, new booster for SpaceX today. Attempted to land the first stage back at the launch site, but the grid fin hydraulic pump stalled after they deployed, and as the booster started getting into the atmosphere, the stuck grid fins sent the booster into a spin. On-board flight computers went into their recovery mode and lit the engines and started firing the RCS to stabilize the roll for a perfect recovery landing in the ocean, just off the coast, perfectly intact.

Impressive! I heard about the water landing, but didn't know it landed completely intact!

 

[Li Tie]

 

[roydo]

Get ready to have your brain frazzled.

Both Voyager space probes have now left the Solar System, 41 years after launch. Voyager 1 has travelled 22 Billion kilometers at apx 44000 KPH.

IF it keeps going, it will reach the nearest star to it in 40000 (yes Forty Thousand) YEARS.

 

[trueblue84]

Get ready to have your brain frazzled.

Both Voyager space probes have now left the Solar System, 41 years after launch. Voyager 1 has travelled 22 Billion kilometers at apx 44000 KPH.

IF it keeps going, it will reach the nearest star to it in 40000 (yes Forty Thousand) YEARS.

As much as we go on about aliens contacting us, I really hope that in a million years, one of the voyagers is found by another Intelligent species and it not only answers their question about whether there is life elsewhere, but they get their answer through hearing Johnny b good. It'll blow their minds (in a good way, not like mars attacks).

 

[Groucho]

As much as we go on about aliens contacting us, I really hope that in a million years, one of the voyagers is found by another Intelligent species and it not only answers their question about whether there is life elsewhere, but they get their answer through hearing Johnny b good. It'll blow their minds (in a good way, not like mars attacks).

This implies there’s intelligent life on Earth.

 

[-Rob-]

What I'd like to know is how NASA manage to receive signals sent back from the Voyager 1 probe over 22Bn KM away but I struggle to get wifi in my garden just 10m away from my router.

 

[Dylan]

What I'd like to know is how NASA manage to receive signals sent back from the Voyager 1 probe over 22Bn KM away but I struggle to get wifi in my garden just 10m away from my router.

I dunno..maybe NASA knows what they are doing, while you don't....

 

[canuckblue]

Get ready to have your brain frazzled.

Both Voyager space probes have now left the Solar System, 41 years after launch. Voyager 1 has travelled 22 Billion kilometers at apx 44000 KPH.

IF it keeps going, it will reach the nearest star to it in 40000 (yes Forty Thousand) YEARS.

Or about the same time British Rail takes to get to Oxford from Liverpool.

 

[canuckblue]

Get ready to have your brain frazzled.

Both Voyager space probes have now left the Solar System, 41 years after launch. Voyager 1 has travelled 22 Billion kilometers at apx 44000 KPH.

IF it keeps going, it will reach the nearest star to it in 40000 (yes Forty Thousand) YEARS.

Hell, they could have reached the vast emptiness of interstellar space simply by landing at Anfield.

 

[-Rob-]

I dunno..maybe NASA knows what they are doing, while you don't....

In my defence, I didn't make my own router. Virgin sent me a box, I opened it, plugged it in, switched it on and boom, I had wifi.

I suspect NASA may have put a little more effort in and it may have cost them more than £40 a month.

 

[summerisle]

 

[chrismpw]

I read somewhere that last nights full moon was the last one to occur on the winter equinox until the 2090s.

Should've said earlier, really.

 

[dholliday]

As much as we go on about aliens contacting us, I really hope that in a million years, one of the voyagers is found by another Intelligent species .

This carbon-based unit needs to watch the first Star Trek movie.