Yeah, but those are radio telescopes, not optical telescopes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_hundred_meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope
Arecibo (top) vs FAST (bottom):
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Being honest, I didn't know the man. I had to google it. Rest in peace.
Um, excuuuuse meeeeee...
I know it's not new. I mentioned it because we were talking about this these days, and they just posted that article, but yeah, I know it doesn't tell anything new and that most of you are quite updated.
Um, excuuuuse meeeeee...
I know it's not new. I mentioned it because we were talking about this these days, and they just posted that article, but yeah, I know it doesn't tell anything new and that most of you are quite updated.
Sorry man, didn't mean to sound pissy.
Oh, no problem. I also thought the info in the article wasn't something to be surprised of. That's why I said that my intention was just to point out a coincidence regarding the subject we were talking about here.
I see they're going for reusability, too. Maybe this will become a global trend, after all?
Oh, and cool booster retrieval system, even though we didn't see it yet. Spacex's is cooler, IMO. Nothing beats a booster landing on its own... until we get full, self-contained spaceships (oops, I wrote spaceshits at first), which I hope I will live to see.
Oh, and cool booster retrieval system, even though we didn't see it yet. Spacex's is cooler, IMO.
Nothing beats a booster landing on its own... until we get full, self-contained spaceships (oops, I wrote spaceshits at first), which I hope I will live to see.Maybe they tried to do something different from Spacex, so they don't look they copycat... or maybe they don't have the means to reproduce the same system. At any rate, if Spacex's formula is the most efficient, other companies will follow (those that aren't already).
Also, recently:
https://www.space.com/linkspace-reusable-suborbital-rocket-launch-success.html
cheapchips
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Electron is tiny for an orbital rocket. It has up to 250kg of payload. They simply don't have the margins to do hypersonic retro propulsion + propulsive landing.
Any of the smallsat launchers wanting to do reuse SpaceX style will need to go quite a bit bigger with their vehicles.
Lockheed Martin demoed it a couple of years ago. They own part of Rocketlab, so they've probably just nabbed that data/tech.
SpaceX Starhopper last untethered test yesterday! 150 meters high. Impressive!
The next tests will be with Starship prototypes, I think.
Oh, and...
https://www.space.com/next-footsteps-moon-for-all-america-artemis.html
The next tests will be with Starship prototypes, I think.
Oh, and...
https://www.space.com/next-footsteps-moon-for-all-america-artemis.html
Call me crazy, but something tells me that he's not referring to all America, though... ¬_¬ (you know, the continent)Next Footsteps on Moon Will Be 'For All of America,' NASA Chief Says
By Mike Wall 19 hours ago Spaceflight
The 2024 moon mission will feature at least one woman.
Artist's illustration of a moon lander capable of ferrying humans to the lunar surface.
(Image: © NASA)
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — The next time NASA flies astronauts to the moon, more of us will go along for the ride.
The space agency plans to land two people near the lunar south pole by 2024, and at least one of those pioneers will be a woman. So the coming giant leap will be quite different than the Apollo moon missions, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine stressed.
The Apollo crewmembers were all white men, and most of them rose through the ranks of the U.S. military as fighter pilots or test pilots. (Apollo 17 moonwalker Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a geologist, was a notable exception in this latter regard.)
Related: Lunar Legacy: 45 Apollo Moon Mission Photos
"This time when we go to the moon, we go with, in fact, all of America, under the Artemis program," Bridenstine said yesterday (Aug. 26) during a Women's Equality Day event here at NASA's Ames Research Center.
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A bit of progress on JWST https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...lescope-has-been-assembled-for-the-first-time
