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The Astronomy Thread
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Big Phoenix
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
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BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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Yeah I remember when that happened. It was advertised as a 1-way trip too. Those people are basically signing up to die in a Winnebago with a bunch of strangers and never eat another good meal in however many years it takes for that to happen. I'm sure it would feel pretty amazing to be the first person on an alien planet, but I bet the view out the window would get old pretty fast and the regret wouldn't take long to set in.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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After stealing rocks from Ryugu Japan's Hayabusa-2 returns 6 years after it's launch to attack Australia.
www.newscientist.com
Sample return container will land in Australia this weekend.
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will drop off samples of dust and rocks from the asteroid Ryugu on 6 December before heading off to visit another asteroid
Sample return container will land in Australia this weekend.
Aaron
Goonsquad Officer
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1990s me would agree with you. 2020 me wishes the giant meteor would hurry up and put an end to our missery. Maybe the sentient cockroaches will do better in 300 million years.
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Oldbased
> Than U
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You can actually see the fail to ignite on 1( maybe 2? )engines that caused the t-1 abort.
Good system to abort within a second at least.
Another attempt possible today or tomorrow.
Didn't realize they were trying so much stuff. Something is likely to go wrong as they admit.
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Due to a Raptor engine auto-abort at T-1 second, the SpaceX team is standing down from Tuesday's attempt of a high-altitude suborbital flight test of Starship serial number 8 (SN8) from our site in Cameron County, Texas. We have additional test opportunities available on Wednesday, December 9 and Thursday, December 10. The schedule is dynamic and likely to change, as is the case with all development testing. Stay tuned for more information on the next target test date and time.
This suborbital flight is designed to test a number of objectives, from how the vehicle’s three Raptor engines perform to the overall aerodynamic entry capabilities of the vehicle (including its body flaps) to how the vehicle manages propellant transition. SN8 will also attempt to perform a landing flip maneuver, which would be a first for a vehicle of this size.
With a test such as this, success is not measured by completion of specific objectives but rather how much we can learn, which will inform and improve the probability of success in the future as SpaceX rapidly advances development of Starship.
Ukerric
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and that's after some dumbass brough his cessna in the middle of the exclusion zone, causing everything to freeze.
(source: LabPadre cam)
CaughtCross
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I think they are suppose to shutdown one at a time like that since the 2nd one shut off.
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