Spacemonkey's Space thread about Space stuff.

[BerG]

You do that BH.

I expect a full summary on my desk next Monday.

[Bounty Hunter]

You do that BH.

I expect a full summary on my desk next Monday.

In crayon, gotcha.

Will you be requiring illustrations?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

You do that BH.

I expect a full summary on my desk next Monday.

Is your desk made from the bones of your enemies?

[Bounty Hunter]

Is your desk made from the bones of your enemies?

an F&P clothes dryer box....so more like the packaging his enemies came in...

[Bounty Hunter]

So cool.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Yes, cool indeed. Vertical landing rocket, it's like Thunderbirds!

[Zarkov]

It's a low pressure tube thing on pylons.

Monorail!

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Monorail!

A better comparison would be a Maglev, except it uses air to levitate instead of fucking magnets.

[Bounty Hunter]

A better comparison would be a Maglev, except it uses air to levitate instead of fucking magnets.

Typical fucking engineers....coming along and ruining ideas with their rational, and their logic, and their....maths!

http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/?utm_content=buffer4df12&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/?utm_content=buffer4df12&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

I wonder how many rockets has this 'pure' mathematician launched into space to dock with the ISS.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Kepler is Dead










I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure.
Skybound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.

He died in 1630, at the age of 58.



The Kepler spacecraft which has his name, has also come to the end of it's life. Launched in 2009, Kepler has detected 3,548 candidate planets to date, 135 of which have been confirmed by follow-up observations. Outlasting it's initially 3.5 year mission.

However, the spacecraft requires 3 of the 4 reaction wheels it launched with in order to orientate the spacecraft to search the heavens. One wheel failed in 2012, but the spare allowed it to continue operating. A second one stopped working this year, restricting the spacecraft's ability to orientate itself. While NASA has managed to get the wheels spinning again, they are causing to much friction to be any use, and have declare the original mission as over.

Kepler orbits the sun rather than Earth and is currently millions of miles from our planet, so sending a repair mission is not possible. NASA is conducting studies to see what else the crippled space craft could possibly be used for.



http://www.space.com/22387-nasa-planet-hunting-kepler-spacecraft-problems.html

[Bounty Hunter]

Cromwell, and the centre of lake Taupo are closer to space than they are to the ocean.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

This weeks space news. Other countries are going to space.

China's space program is going strong, with it's crewed Shenzhou 10 rocket launched in June this year and many more to come.



Their rocket is also thunderbirds cool.

http://www.space.com/22474-china-space-program-empire.html



Japan are also planning to launch their Epsilon Launch Vehicle at 4:27am GMT today.


http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html

[BerG]

Reading that China article.

It just blows my mind that 40ish+ years on, going to the moon is still almost impossible for these rich nations.

If space travel progressed like everything else we would have the moon completely populated with daily trips to Europa.

[frankytanky]

Don't you love how the Chinese rocket and platform looks stereo-typically what you would expect it to look like, meanwhile the Japanese one is typically clean, sleak and efficient looking as you would expect.

[BerG]

Don't you love how the Chinese rocket and platform looks stereo-typically what you would expect it to look like, meanwhile the Japanese one is typically clean, sleak and efficient looking as you would expect.

I thought exactly the same thing, but thought people might call me a rocket-racist if I called it out.

The Chinese just had to slap a few extra rockets on the sides, and a pointy thing on top

[Bounty Hunter]

Also the japanese one looks like anime.

[BerG]

Voyager 1, with its 64kb of memory, leaves the solar system and enters intersteller space.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/

[Bounty Hunter]

Voyager 1, with its 64kb of memory, leaves the solar system and enters intersteller space.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/

....again

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

....again

But this time for real.

[BerG]

Its now official.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Voyager 1, with its 64kb of memory, leaves the solar system and enters intersteller space.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/

The 36-year-old spacecraft's communications technology is lacking by today's standards. A smartphone has thousands of times more memory than Voyager 1 and the space probe's main transmitter radiates just 22 watts, about the same amount of power as a typical ham radio or a refrigerator light bulb

Below is a photo (in the radio spectrum) of the signal that gets transmitted from Voyager 1 back to Earth. It takes 17 hours to get here.

[Scunner]

Below is a photo (in the radio spectrum) of the single that gets transmitted from Voyager 1 back to Earth.

Is this the single that gets transmitted from Voyager 1?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Yes it is.

[BerG]

Never Gonna Give You Up was topping charts when Voyager was launched.

Imagine when aliens first discover voyager and watch the video. They will think they have found a race of highly stylized, ginger haired beings with extraordinarily deep voices and strange maneuvering technique.