E. Weilow

POV: You’re coming home after a journey around the Moon. 🌕 Before reentering Earth’s atmosphere at the end of Artemis II, the Orion spacecraft’s crew module — carrying the astronauts — separated from the service module that provided propulsion and power throughout the mission.

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Orion’s crew and service module have separated. The crew module continues on its path towards Earth while the service module will harmlessly burn up in Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The Artemis II return trajectory is designed to ensure any remaining debris does not pose a hazard to land, people, or shipping lanes.

NASA has published some of the best footage yet showing yesterday’s launch of Artemis ll, the first manned mission to the Moon since the 1970s, lifting off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, Florida.

Orion capsule Artemis 2 mission during TLI burn. Over Florida

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

Streaking into orbit Artemis II begins its 10 day voyage around the moon!

Just stumbled upon something absolutely incredible An extensive archive of hi-res photographs of NASA’s Apollo Space Missions from 1968-1972

Oh nice! To be fair it would be nice if React let you specify context that requires values to be provided with a Provider, with no default in createContext 😅

👀 React / JS / TS trick Use symbols instead of null/undefined to represent missing values This React provider example: - makes it possible to provide "null" - still checks that the user didn't forget the <Provider> There are cases where "null" is a perfectly valid ctx value

@KevinSVanHorn @Truthful_ast the low cost electronics is probably one part

@Truthful_ast "Based off of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter" can't be literally true; there's no atmosphere on the Moon. Maybe just the sensors and guidance?

BREAKING: NASA has announced a new program named “MoonFall” -Various Lunar drones -Derived from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter -50km range -Fully autonomous -High quality cameras -Possible repurpose capability for communications after running out of fuel

@isaraerospace @AndoyaSpace You guys totally waited for the snow did you ☃️

@isaraerospace @AndoyaSpace Fresh snow 🙌☃️

We are back on the pad at @AndoyaSpace with our launch vehicle ‘Spectrum’ getting ready for Mission ‘Onward and Upward’. The launch window opens not earlier than 25 March, 9pm CET, subject to weather, safety and range infrastructure. Follow along for updates and watch the livestream starting at T-1h (8:00pm CET, 7:00pm UTC, 2:00pm ET): youtube.com/live/MsbZj8Pxm…

@CSI_Starbase It would always be interesting to hear more about non-SpaceX things through your perspective!

Meant to add a short historical comparison between LC 39B and Stage Zero 2.0 in this episode... Turned into a 10 minute rant about how the SLS Deluge System is embarrassingly under-designed. Not sure if I should keep this in the script or not.

I'm not one for thermonuclear editing, but it's amazing to be able to see the pressure waves emenating from the Raptors as they throttle up to full power.

Falcon 9 first stage can be seen maneuvering in MVac's wake during a stunning California Starlink launch tonight.

🚀 Europe’s reusable rocket prototype #Themis is now on its launch pad at Esrange Space Center! #RocketMakers #SpaceIndustry

I’m proud of this one. I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun. While these have been captured before, never with the details of the sun’s chromosphere, which makes this one the first! See the video or get the print below 👇