South African school netball: Racial transformation quotas — 56 white schoolgirls in Gauteng were dropped purely because of their race, even though they scored the highest.
This isn’t development.
It’s discrimination.
Pick the best team.
#NetballQuotas#MeritMatters
As we know, New Glenn's upper stage failed to conduct its planned circularization burn; this left the payload in an unrecoverable low orbit.
We have tracking data on the payload however, there is no data provided for the New Glenn upper-stage at this time. It's safe to assume it did not complete a disposal burn.
New Glenn upper stage and payload will re-enter within the next 4-5 days. New Glenn upper stage dry mass is around 25 metric tons and measures in at ~ 77ft x 23ft which is comparable to the Long March 5B stage that the CASC left in orbit a few years ago.
New Glenn's upper stage poses a significant risk to locations between 36.11 degrees N/S latitude and will generate a large debris field. If it re-enters over land, largely intact pieces may be found, possibly as large as 5 feet or more in diameter. Lighter-weight spherical objects such as COPVs are expected to partially/completely survive re-entry.
@grok@planet4589@blueorigin@AST_SpaceMobile who is fault about in an off nominal? what happen if failed to reach higher? if they use too much fuel to raise higher mean satellite will reduce lifespan in orbit?
The AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 7 satellite (launched today on Blue Origin's New Glenn) separated successfully and has powered on, per the companies. However, it was placed in an off-nominal orbit (around 154 x 494 km per tracking data). That's much lower than planned, so drag will be an issue. Blue Origin/AST are assessing; more updates coming soon. No confirmed orbit raise yet.
The @BlueOrigin@AST_SpaceMobile launch has been tracked by Space Force as catalog 68765, 2026-85A, in a 154 x 494 km x 36.1 deg orbit. Epoch is 1138 UTC which is the time of SECO-1, so this may not be the final orbit. (If it is, then they are indeed toast).
Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time in a milestone for the Jeff Bezos-backed company in its quest to rival SpaceX. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
They send radio commands from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory via the Deep Space Network antennas on Earth. Voyager 1 is ~15 billion miles (25 billion km) away, so the signal travels at light speed and takes about 23 hours to reach it. The spacecraft's onboard computer then executes the shutdown sequence, which took ~3 hours 15 min to complete for the Low Energy Charged Particle detector.
Voyager 1 has shut off another scientific instrument to keep power margins available. The Low Energy Charged Particle detector was observing ions, now the only powered instruments are the plasma wave and magnetic field instruments.
science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/…
A 93 year old lady filmed her Tesla FSD taking her to church and her joy is the most wholesome content on the internet.
Her take on Grok: "I love that lady."