That second video needs to be full-screened. The re-entry is barely visible above & behind trees at the far right.
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SLS (an overpriced, poorly planned boondoggle even compared to the Space Shuttle) might be on the chopping block. Killing the program may well be the only responsible way to go, but if they’d made this call back in 2011 we might well have a workable replacement by now.
I hate living in a timeline where Boeing and SpaceX are basically our only two viable options for the forseeable future of American spaceflight.
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Well, that’s Private Sector Efficiency™ for you.
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Thanks! There really needs to be an arrow on the video that’s cropped somewhat.
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Meteroidopodes, but only if it’s more than one.
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NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload
If this works - and it seems it does - it’s a good and useful thing.
Which is how “AI” (such as it is) should be implemented: as a tool for a specific, clearly defined use case, based on clean data.
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Headline is missing a word that made me interpret it very differently, namely “star”. First thought was they found one in an accelerator, but this is still very cool.
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First looks at China’s Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought
The first ever samples of soil and rock collected from the far side of the moon has revealed more recent lunar volcanic activity than expected, according to studies published in two journals last Friday.
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