I still think 2027 is optimistic.
We still might see a starship land on the moon in 2026 without astronauts. 50/50 at best. SpaceX needs to show they can land it on the moon before Artemis 3.
See Nasa’s spectacular new images of Jupiter | BBC Global
The Closest Images Ever Taken of Jupiter in 4K
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JWST launched 3 years ago almost to the minute today at 11:20pm on Xmas day.
Go to 1:20 if you don’t want the preamble.
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That was clickbait that had the worst ad-ridden junk I have ever experienced. Reminded me that I should never click on these links.
What I did read looked like crap that did not live up to the headline.
Sorry, Soulnet. Not a criticism of you but junk sites like that.
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Starship | Sixth Flight Test
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Good recap of flight 6z
Flight 7 hopefully on next Saturday at 9am weather permitting. Expected high altitude shearing winds might push it back a few days.
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Blue origin New Glenn expected to launch for the first time this Wednesday at 5pm. Very likely to be pushed a few more times as has already happened but here is hoping it won’t be.
New Glenn capability is in between Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy. 2nd stage is not recoverable like starship, but hey plan to do that in a few years.
Good NSF preview video.
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Check this out, space aficionados:
One of the most obscure objects in the Universe:
It is called “Hoag’s Object” and is a donut-shaped galaxy due to the stellar ring that surrounds it and its bright centre.
It is not known exactly how it formed, although some hypotheses indicate that it was crossed by another much larger galaxy.
If you look, “inside” the ring and at the one o’clock position (approximately) you may see another galaxy.
This type of ring galaxy represents <0.1% of all galaxies.
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It is a beauty. Thanks for sharing haven’t seen it before.
Hopefully they have or will capture the spectra of both objects. Will let them determine if the 1 o’clock object is within Hoag’s or a background / foreground galaxy via redshift of hydrogen and other elements.
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As expected it’s been pushed. 5pm Friday.
Starship flight 7 @ 9am Saturday.
Big 16 hours.
That’s not an Essendon Premiership.
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“Obscure” =/= “Impossible”
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Both have been pushed due to weather.
New Glenn now 5pm Sunday.
Starship now Tuesday 9am.
Starship being stacked and New Glenn being raised at the same time.
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Starship rescheduled to 9am tomorrow morning and New Glenn to 5pm.
Yesterday Transporter 12 launched sending 131 satellites into space on a single falcon 9.
This afternoon a couple of moon landers were launched on a falcon 9.
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What a view!! So blue and those diamonds are so clean.
Looks like stage 1 exploded as it should have landed by now. Confirmed.
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Both were spectacular!!
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With this billionaire space race, feels as though we are closer to Elysium each day
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