Space

If you want to see the ISS, follow the below instructions. It’s the brightest object in the sky apart from the moon and of course the sun.

Date: Fri May 17, 6:32 AM
Visible: 7 min
Max Height: 84°
Appears: 10° above NW
Disappears: 10° above SE

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The Soviet Obsession With Venus Revealed

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A HUD usually is for head up only. This looks more like a HMD.

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The scientific world seem excited by what Euclid is discovering.

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It’s brilliant and will lead to so many discoveries. Next telescope will be Nancy Grace Roman to launch 26/27 which will image the whole sky and will be placed at L2.

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Starship IFT-4 planned for 5th of June.

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Eternal Universe: The New Theory that Might Change the Way we Think About the Universe

ULA Starliner launch in 10 minutes if anyone is up and interested. Link below.

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And… Another scrub. They are trained for this but these astronauts have balls of steel.

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Big 24 hours for space launches.

Starliner crewed test fight (take too many) tonight. NASA coverage from 8:45pm tonight. Launch window opens from 1:52am.

Then the big one. Starship has its 4th integrated test flight tomorrow night with the launch window opening at 10pm.

I haven’t found the nasa feed as yet but NSF feed is OK. Lots of nerds taking crap. Their coverage starts from 2pm but loading of propellant starts around 9:10pm and not much point joining before that.

SpaceX only covers on twitter so you can find it there and their coverage starts from around 9:30pm

NASA will probably put up the link to their feed sometime tomorrow morning after Starliner hopefully launches.

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Launch at 10:20pm now. Crows ripping the tigers a new one should be over now by launch time.

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A lot of people like watching nerds talk crap about propellent tanks and vapour lol

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I do lol. Learn a bit. On the 85”.

It’s 3am in US so they’ll still be sleeping.

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Niiice. Yeah, same here, NSF has some knowledgeable nerds

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Amazing

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Booster land successful :rocket:

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https://x.com/spacex/status/1798701489097183286?s=46

Booster landing

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