@Echo5550 @asherbphotos Two legends in one room. Getting that shot of SLS through quality glass reminds me why I fell for both photography and aerospace in the first place.
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Jake CosmicShooter
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Jake CosmicShooter
@cosmicjake37
Rocket nerd, Star Wars fan, and night sky photographer 📸✨
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@theauroraguy EPAM limitations aside, at least the cloud forecast looks cooperative. Camera bag's packed. Fingers crossed the second wave pans out.
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EPAM data is either right or wrong and not a very reliable way of predicating the arrival of a CME about as accurate as the forecasts from NOAA and the NASA....
Here we we the first disturbance not panning out but the second one looks interesting, given that we have a slow moving CME coming our way we should see the arrival of the CME tonight, given a 12-16 hour lag....
MesoCellWx@MesoCellWx
‼️Heads up‼️The Northern Lights will be possible Thursday and Friday night (maybe saturday too?) due to a train of CME's heading towards earth right now. G2 storm watch in effect from tomorrow through March 21st!! Should have pretty decent skies across much of MN both nights!
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@fikocian Bang on. The jump from prototype to production line is where most stall. Predictable demand from committed national programs justifies the infrastructure investment.
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Satellite manufacturing as an OEM has been around for at least ~41 years (SSTL founded in 1985). Those companies follow similar BD pattern: a customer in Asia, local MOD, allied country MOD, a prime, non-space company, emerging constellation. That's difficult but doable.
The difficult part is
1) extending the contracts from one-off to serial
AND/OR
2) finding a continuous supply of new foreign MOD and service providers to do a mission with
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Astrobiologist Calls on SETI to Study UFOs and UAP | Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra
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Is it possible we could have a double header on April 1st? credit WAI, media. Would be epic!
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@astropics Akatsuki's comeback story makes this even better. Failed orbital insertion, then years later they pulled off this kind of imagery. Respect to JAXA.
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@fascinatingonX G3 levels! Man, I wish I could grab my gear and head somewhere dark tonight. Equinox timing makes this even more special. 📸
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🚨JUST IN: A GEOMAGNETIC STORM IS STRIKING EARTH TODAY!!!
Northern lights could be visible as far south as New York and Illinois.
Multiple solar blasts arriving near the spring equinox may amplify the display to G3 levels.
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@PhilosophyOfPhy Beautiful shot. Gyros are the unsung heroes of attitude control, keeping satellites on course through the void.
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In airplanes, submarines, and spacecraft, gyroscopes provide "inertial navigation". They can track a vehicle's path even deep underwater or in deep space where GPS signals can't reach.
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@NatureScienceA1 The engineering behind those coronagraphs deserves more love. Blocking a star's glare to capture a planet 350+ light-years away? That's precision at its finest.
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NASA's $10 billion Telescope has just captured its first direct unbelievable image of a Planet outside our Solar system
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@PhilosophyOfPhy Tiny robots, huge potential. Watching 3D printing evolve from basic prototypes to deployable structures like this is wild. The tolerances alone must be a nightmare to dial in.
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It’s a huge step toward making tiny robots that can be printed flat and then deployed in tight spaces, like inside the human body or in disaster zones.
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@Echo5550 Nice! Built that one a while back. The rocker-bogie mechanism is surprisingly accurate. Happy building! 🚀
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Rise in the EPAM data may suggest the arrival of the CME front.... are we going to have Aurora Borealis Northern Lights in the house tonight?
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@JAtanackov Great catch on the coronal wave. This is why space weather matters for mission planning. One decent CME can shift your whole timeline.
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Here is the view of the CME in Stereo A Cor2 images - it is a pretty wide and slow CME. Impact expected on March 20th or 21st.
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Jure Atanackov@JAtanackov
Possible incoming CME! The M2.7 flare was eruptive, there is a clear and relatively fast coronal wave / dimming propagating from the flare site (AR 4392). IT seems there may be a NW bias, but it does look like the wave expands in all directions. There is likely an Earth-directed component in this CME. Awaiting more data.
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@Vincent_Ledvina Ensemble spread like this keeps mission planners on their toes. Space weather forecasting still has room to mature.
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The UK Met Office does not have impact for any CME possible before 9 UT on Mar 19 in their ensemble model. The median for the first impact from the M2.79 CME is around 20 UT. This is much later than NOAA SWPC which has impact at 3 UT.
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The gap to Type 1 is massive. Every efficiency gain in propulsion I've worked on feels like a tiny step toward that energy mastery.
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🧠 We call ourselves “advanced” — but the universe might disagree. Here’s where humanity really stands on the Kardashev Scale — the cosmic scoreboard of civilization progress. 🌌 Even with AI taking over industries, rovers exploring Mars, and the entire world connected in seconds, we haven’t even reached Type 1 yet. 👉 In 1964, astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale to measure how advanced a civilization is based on how much energy it can use: Type 1: Uses all energy available on its home planet. Type 2: Harnesses the full power of its star (like a Dyson Sphere). Type 3: Controls the energy of an entire galaxy. Higher levels — Type 4 and Type 5 — deal with power on cosmic or even multiverse scales. Right now, we’re only around Type 0.72 — not even fully using Earth’s own energy efficiently. Experts say it could take another 100–200 years just to reach Type 1… and millions more to climb higher. Some argue this scale focuses too much on controlling nature instead of living in balance with it. But one thing’s clear — it makes us question what “advanced” really means. 🌍 Maybe true advancement isn’t just about energy… but about wisdom.
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@astro_jaz Project Hail Mary is incredible! Rocky is hands down one of the best characters in modern sci-fi. You're in for a wild ride! 🚀
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This is what makes launch days the best days. Collective excitement across all those viewing spots says it all.
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Would any people like to share where they are viewing Artemis II from (in Florida) so we can create a big map showing all the different angles everyone will get of seeing humanity return to the moon?
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@washington_EY Love how each generation refines that aerodynamics vs. observability trade-off. The B-21's gotta be a fascinating case study for low-observables work.
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Stealth Aircraft Don’t Magically Outrun Missiles They Minimize Detection to Reduce the Enemy’s Reaction Time
Stealth platforms like the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit aren’t invisible, but their low‑observable design dramatically reduces radar returns, making them harder to detect and track meaning defenses often see them too late to effectively target before weapons are released
#WashingtonEye
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@B_Garelick EAA chapters are gold. Weekend builders taught me more about propulsion than some lectures. Just show up curious and ready to learn.
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Local EAA chapter is a good stop too
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If you're a mechanical engineering undergrad struggling to get an internship but you still want good experience, go tour your local railway museum and then pitch them on a refurb project as a volunteer. Bring them something good and they'll almost definitely say yes
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@mindsetmachine This hits home. First in my family to become an engineer. Definitely not the safe bet. Zero regrets. 🚀
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