Hey, if a sunken WWII battleship can fly into space, so can a sub.
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Havenโt seen it, but obviously if an aircraft carrier can be made spaceworthy while already in spaceโฆ
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What if the sub was yellow?
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โThe new signal was still not in the format used by Voyager 1 when the FDS is working properly, so the team wasnโt initially sure what to make of it,โ NASA said in an update Wednesday. โBut an engineer with the agencyโs Deep Space Network, which operates the radio antennas that communicate with both Voyagers and other spacecraft traveling to the Moon and beyond, was able to decode the new signal and found that it contains a readout of the entire FDS memory.โ
Now, engineers are meticulously comparing each bit of code from the FDS memory readout to the memory readout Voyager 1 sent back to Earth before the issue arose in November. This, they hope, will allow them to find the root of the problem. But it will probably take weeks or months for the Voyager team to take the next step. They donโt want to cause more harm.
Good job, unnamed DSN engineerโฆ
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But they left out Lunar surface rendezvous!
Itโs only somewhat less practical than option 4.
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Boeing? Even if I were an astronaut I wouldnโt get 100 miles from that thing.
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The second concern involved hundreds of feet of protective tape used to cover the wiring harnesses inside the Starliner vehicle, which was discovered to be flammable. [โฆ] โWeโve removed nearly a mile of tape from the vehicle, and mitigated about 85 to 90 percent of the areas that the tape is installed on the vehicle.โ
Ok, so they removed a mile of flammable tape from it, whatโs holding it together now? Just the bubble gum?
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Theyโd better check the bubble gum around the external panel.
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The Voyagersโ memory has lasted longer than my computer memory ever hasโฆ
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the chip could have been hit by an energetic particle from space
Whenever one of our cats suddenly does something truly inexplicable, we blame it on one of those.
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Whatโs a computer?
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Some discussion of NASAโs alternatives as SpaceX Starship falls behind schedule.
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Not April 5. V1 started speaking again on Saturday, April 20, as stated within the article.
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โฆ maybe we need a โSpace Exploitationโ topic
Scottish spaceport moves closer to satellite launches
LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Britainโs SaxaVord Spaceport moved a step closer to being able to send satellites into orbit after regulators granted it a licence to provide safety services, paving the way for its first launch later this year.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said in a statement on Thursday it had approved a range control licence for the SaxaVord site, which is located in the Shetland Islands off the northern coast of Scotland.
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Interesting article that popped up in my feed today. Itโs a little specific to a certain set of hardware, which is slightly concerning for something using ebayโd old equipment and hacked together gear, but possibly useful? Looks like they cobbled together a decent starter setup for astronomy photos with about $300.
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Starliner has launched!
โฆ letโs hope it will land, too.
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