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@sadaharu_25 @OASES_miyako If its an impact, then no, its a new spot. The impacts on Jupiter usually get dispersed in a couple months and dont reappear

@OASES_miyako is it the 2009 dark spot?

【速報】今からおよそ15時間前(4/18 17:38 UT)、木星に細長い暗い構造が見えたとの報告がありました。木星に100m級以上の天体が衝突した可能性もあります。 日本時間の本日22:30以降、この領域が再び地球側に向いてきます。観測可能な方はぜひ確認をお願いします。 Image credit: Alexander Frantzis, Marc Delcroix

@PuckFuddleCGY @blueorigin I believe a cold fire for engines would be running water instead of propellant to test injectors without risk of combustion

@blueorigin It’s a static fire ffs, to call it a hotfire implies there’s such thing as a cold fire

✅ NG-3 integrated hotfire complete.

@anthonyayers @Jexthis @DJSnM It failed like 3 separate times I believe, the first incident was an issue with a tank not being filled properly on the ground and was fixed by Koch

@Jexthis @DJSnM Didn't Koch fix the toilet the next day?

So the capsule is recovered, the crew are flying to home. Artemis III is the next flight, ideally in spring 2027 to hit the planned 10 month cadence, and there's a lot to do: * The core booster is about to leave the factory * SRB segments are rolling into KSC * The Mobile Launch Tower Needs repairs (again) * NASA needs to either use its last ICPS, or identify substitutes (like structural test articles) * Lockheed need to deliver an Orion spacecraft ahead of schedule. * KSC needs to stack all this. * SpaceX & Blue Origin need to get HLS hardware in orbit for the test. * Axiom should deliver suits for testing. * And of course, NASA needs to select some astronauts for this test flight. In the meantime the moon will be visited by multiple landers from US providers under the CLPS program, hopefully most of them make soft landings on their legs.

@WalshD4sees @realrolson @NASA Not only that, the cameras on the outside, are literally go pros from 2014

@WalshD4sees @realrolson @NASA This mission has gone nearly 300x the distance that SpaceX has ever done. VAST majority of its limited radio bandwidth has been taken up much more important systems then video. Especially because the videos are saved on board and we are going to get a massive data dump soon

Make new friends, but keep the old. A new photo captures the Moon's near side on the right (the side we see from Earth, identifiable by its dark splotches) and its far side on the left. The Artemis II crew are the first to see the far side with human eyes.

@Baptisia7 @Bobo74771050944 @NASA @NASAArtemis Source of those images was this Visualization, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5535/ Also, the Apollo astronauts were around its equator, and the somewhat polar flyby means that the crew can see the south pole as well, which wasnt captured well

@Baptisia7 @Bobo74771050944 @NASA @NASAArtemis And you can look it up too right? This is the area of interest, the highlighted area is what the Apollo missions saw, and the red circle is what the Artemis crew JUST saw. The darkened areas was in shadow or beyond the horizon of the spacecraft

@Pinboard They will most likely still take a photo of earthrise, it just won't be exactly the same

Unfortunately the Artemis II closest lunar approach (5,000 miles) is much further than Apollo 8 (60 miles), so there isn't going to be a new Earthrise photo.

@realrolson @NASA Because they had 4.4% of the entire budget then, and now NASA has 0.4% and the bandwidth is for science data, not boasting about going to the moon

@NASA So we went to the moon 9 times in 4 years in the Apollo program, we have 8k video tech now... and all we got was this fuzzy black and white 'image' of the dark side all lit-up... interesting...

@Bobo74771050944 @NASA @NASAArtemis This part was always in shadow for the apollo missions due to mission planning for daylight on the nearside, so this chunk of the moon was always in shadow.

@NASA @NASAArtemis Did you guys forget Apollo 8, 10,11,12,13,14, 15, 16, and 17 Can’t believe an actual NASA account posted this nonsense.

@Mutuabrian_M @NASA The Galaxy hallucinate details, it automatically hallucinates the moon over images. And even if you phone could take that photo in raw, then it's still the nearside, they are seeing the farside

@NASA So what's special about this? Cos I've captured this same exact photo on my Samsung Galaxy without climbing a rocket ?

@G0DsBu11et @NASA The apollo missions had the crew landing on the near side, we wanted the near side to have light, so the far side has been in shadow for the apollo missions

@NASA If they're the first humans to see the far side with their own eyes, doesn't that basically confirm what the Moon landing conspiracy theories have been saying all along?

@Rand_Simberg @JEF_300 Well, Apollo 12 visited a probe we left there and just landed far enough away to not damage it. Although they did take some parts off for later study on Earth, I can imagine them taking some samples to analyze back home

@JEF_300 It would damage a heritage site. Best to stay away from them until we have a way to safely do so, like a sky crane.

I legitimately think one of the early Artemis landings should land at one of the Apollo sites. Going somewhere with a bunch of old equipment that has been left on the Moon for 50 years, and seeing how it's degraded, could be really informative for building a Moon base.

@TaberAdams @esaspaceflight @esa @AirbusSpace @NASAArtemis Im alil late to this, but they did have the people on board operating it, as this mission is based on the human interfaces for Orion, the first mission was the remote control stuff

@esaspaceflight @esa @AirbusSpace @NASAArtemis I doubt "they" are "driving" the thing out there. It is more likely to be remote controlled.

Right now, the crew of #Artemis II are taking Orion on a test drive 🚗 They are comparing the more precise 6-degree of freedom mode 🎯 to the more fuel-efficient 3-degree of freedom mode ⛽, using our European Service Module's engines to gather data for future Artemis flights 🚀 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

@EduardVonFeek @mcrs987 Likely not, its too small to be tracked, nor too dangerous to be worried about. The heat from the sun will turn it to vapor and all that gas will disperse into even less of a threat

@mcrs987 will each droplet get a space debris designator and be cataloged and tracked? where are they now?

Now this is the view my tax dollars pay for. Live piss cam in deep space (the small particles passing the camera)

@blind_via @Robotbeat Not quite! I didnt explain it super well, but they are on the very end of the solar panels, so they are effectively on a stick. Those panels are real thin for mass savings reasons, and so flexible as hell haha

@Xalrel @Robotbeat oh really? the camera is on a boon or something? hm

Huh. Small angle wiggles have very little effect on performance, but it still is kind of surprising it was wiggly.

@blind_via @Robotbeat Cameras on a very long stick haha, They are quite thin so id imagine any minute vibration gets picked up pretty well

@Robotbeat I had a similar thought; more wiggle than I would have expected.

@Robotbeat @hardyhjames The people on board did say that it was a "flawless and smooth maneuver" My guess its vibrations in the solar panels because they are quite thin and the cameras are at the ends of those panels. Any minute vibration will cause those panels to move and flex with no wind to slow it

@hardyhjames It is sped up. Could be totally nominal.

@Seotenin @cybrtrkguy They were literally directed by congress to use salvaged parts, it was intended to "save money" But the cost to modify the legacy components made it cost billions

@cybrtrkguy I’m sorry But that’s such crap Billions of dollars in cost And they use 45 year old parts and pieces to send 4 people around the moon Deepest respect for the bravery of those 4 astronauts

Artemis literally has components on board originally flown in 1982 on STS-5. 45 year old shuttle parts.

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