Could turn your phone 90 degrees and it would be even more awesome!
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Also could just zoom in
Soulnet, collector of the most exotic and rare photons.
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Are you saying we could all lose our wifi?
Satellite based could happen but very unlikely from moon debris impacts.
More likely to lose all satellites from a coronal mass ejection that would fry all electrical systems in space.
Not a good week for testing rockets.
Northrop Grumman says hold my beer to SpaceX.
Testing of Artemis 9’s new SLS solid rocket boosters went bang.
Probably doesn’t matter as Artemis 9 will more than likely never be SLS.
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US Space Force to get a $40 billion budget. Increase of $11+ billion.
More than double NASA’s budget 
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They don’t make rocket science like they used to
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This doesn’t seem good
First story is good for SpaceX. Getting all the launch and production of Starshield satellites is worth a lot of money. Around $3 billion for launch alone.
Not so good for ULA and Blue Origin that will have contracts taken for them. They are way more expensive so makes sense from that point of view to save money.
Second story is good to increase Space Force spending but crap as it looks like most of the money has been moved from the NASA budget.
Link to my post above which lists what the likely impact to NASA will be with 20% wiped from their budget.
It just seemed that what were competitively awarded contracts were pulled to funnel money to SpaceX.
That’s probably a US politics thread concern though.
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SpaceX was awarded a third of the money to launch more than half of the satellites and the others shared two thirds. It was totally political, but for the opposite reason that would normally come to mind.
They gave contracts to ULA and Blue Origin to not be seen as being favorable to SpaceX even though they are way cheaper.
They have reversed that now to save money. Possibly as a payback to Musk as well, but at the end of the day SpaceX is cheaper.
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So much to gain, so little additional cost
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Also what the plan for Apophis is / was…
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LISA, the space gravitational wave detector contracts have been signed and construction has begun.
Made up of 3 detectors flying in a triangle ~2.4million kms apart and trailing earth at the L4 Lagrange point.
Potentially will be able to detect gravitation waves of supermassive black holes colliding and even gravitation events before first light in the universe when the universe was 380,000 years old. Something that nothing else can detect.
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Fraser talking about Vera Rubin images and what it will do for astronomy, LISA and what it will detect, JWST directly imaging an exoplanet for the first time and other stuff.
He is the best space and astronomy communicator out there so subscribe to his channel if you like space stuff.
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anyone else heading along to see Chris Hadfield while he’s here?
He used to visit us every ninety minutes 
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This topic is a bit out there. If you are someone who isn’t up to date on Cosmology or associated concepts give watching this a miss.
There has been a discrepancy on the expansion rate of the universe known as the Hubble tension and if dark energy is changing over time.
Interviewee proposes that what is being measured is not being interpreted correctly.
Reason is that we don’t take time dilation into account for light measured as it passes large gravitational masses (like galaxies) or through voids with very little gravitational mass. Nearby galaxy observations show a larger expansion compared to the most distant source being the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Makes sense and hopefully new data from Euclid and Vera Rubin observatory will provide the answer if he is correct or if lambda CDM is mostly correct needing only slight modification.
3 people won Nobel Prizes for lambda CDM. Will be interesting to see if they are proven wrong and what the fallout is that follows.
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that bowl cuts looking rough