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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
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Major Tom to Ground Control...and there's nothing I can do...

♲ David August - 2024-12-19 00:57:51 GMT

"...a power outage at #SpaceX’s California facility caused a loss of #GroundControl, meaning that the mission control team was briefly unable to command the #spacecraft."Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failover₂, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.

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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
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Quote ESA’s #Jupiter #Icy #Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to #Earth on 19–20 August 2024, to complete the world's first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers will guide the #spacecraft past the #Moon and then Earth itself, ‘braking’ the spacecraft. This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via #Venus on it's way to #Jupiter.

Juice has already travelled more than 1000 million km to the giant planet but it still has a long way to go even though Jupiter is on average ‘just’ 800 million km away from Earth. Join us as we explain why Juice's journey to Jupiter is taking sooo long.
Published 19th August 2024 (9:23)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I8jkXMompss

ramnath@nerdpol.ch
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#CME PEPPERS #EARTH WITH HARD PROTONS: Something just exploded on the farside of the #sun --and it managed to touch Earth. Debris from the blast emerged in the form of a full halo CME, shown here in a movie from the Solar and Helospheric Observatory (SOHO):

Shock waves at the leading edge of the CME are accelerating protons and spraying them throughout the #solarsystem. Some of those protons are raining down on Earth right #now. NOAA's GOES-18 satellite is monitoring an intensifying S1-class solar radiation storm rich in "hard protons" with energies > 100 MeV.

Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. Indeed, you can see a hint of the "fog" in the SOHO movie above. Each speckle is a hard proton striking the spacecraft's digital camera.

Europe's Solar Orbiter (SolO) #spacecraft is going to get good data on this event. A NASA model of the CME predicts that it will directly hit SolO on July 24th.

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anonymiss@despora.de
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First U.S. moon slanding since 1972 as private #spacecraft touches down on #lunar surface

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/moon-landing-spacecraft-lunar-surface-today/

"What we can confirm, without a doubt, is our equipment is on the surface of the #moon, and we are transmitting," Mission Director Tim Crain told the flight control team. "So congratulations, IM team! We'll see how much more we can get from that."

#NASA #space #economy #usa #research #news #success

First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface

Intuitive Machines's Odysseus lunar lander became the first privately-built spacecraft to safely complete a moon landing.

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nowisthetime@pod.automat.click
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GOES-16 #SATELLITE SEES #ARTEMIS #LAUNCH: NOAA's GOES-16 #weather satellite is stationed almost directly above #Florida, so naturally it saw the launch of NASA's Artemis moon rocket on Nov. 16th. Infra-red sensors recorded the rocket's hot plume cutting through the atmosphere as it left Earth:

Thanks to Spaceweather.com reader Jim Ruebush for alerting us to these GOES-16 data!

This is a "Band 8" movie. Band 8 is an infrared channel at 6.19 microns tuned to the thermal glow of water vapor in clouds. It works well for rockets, too.

The Artemis rocket successfully propelled NASA's #Orion #spacecraft toward the #Moon. It'll be back in about 25 days after orbiting the Moon and safety-testing onboard systems for future astronauts

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