Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  last year
โ€ข ๐Ÿ“† 2018, #ISS became the first facility to produce #BECs โš›๏ธ in #space ๐ŸŒŒ
โ€ข In #space, so-called cool flames ๐Ÿ”ฅ can burn for minutes
โ€ข #ISS water ๐Ÿ’ฆ purification system deployed across #India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ, #Mexico ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ, #Pakistan๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ
โ€ข #StemCells regenerative medicine โš•๏ธ could repair/replace failing organs and cells
โ€ข Higher quality protein crystals
โ€ข #Microbes ๐Ÿฆ  can extract metals from #regolith
โ€ข Tissue/organ-on-a-chip effects faster in #microgravity
โ€ข #3Dprinting
โ€ข Organ growth
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/13-science-breakthroughs-experiments-iss

#NASA

Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  last year

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โ€œThe case for sending humans into #space gets weaker and weaker every year as #robots ๐Ÿค– get cleverer and more sophisticated,. They can do the #science โš—๏ธ ๐Ÿ”ฌ and assemble large structures in space and are much, much cheaper ๐Ÿ’ต ๐Ÿ“‰ to operate in space. We donโ€™t need humans ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ to do #research in space.โ€ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/29/international-space-station-25-years

#SpaceRobot#HumanSpaceflight

Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  last year

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โ€ข ๐Ÿ“† 2018, #ISS became the first facility to produce #BECs โš›๏ธ in #space ๐ŸŒŒ
โ€ข In #space, so-called cool flames ๐Ÿ”ฅ can burn for minutes
โ€ข #ISS water ๐Ÿ’ฆ purification system deployed across #India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ, #Mexico ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ, #Pakistan๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ
โ€ข #StemCells regenerative medicine โš•๏ธ could repair/replace failing organs and cells
โ€ข Higher quality protein crystals
โ€ข #Microbes ๐Ÿฆ  can extract metals from #regolith
โ€ข Tissue/organ-on-a-chip effects faster in #microgravity
โ€ข #3Dprinting
โ€ข Organ growth
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/13-science-breakthroughs-experiments-iss

#NASA

Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  last year
๐Ÿ“† October 18, 2023 Steve Jurvetson, an early investor in #SpaceX and #Planet, claimed that many #investors* in #startups working on small #LaunchVehicles were unaware of the scope of competition, many thinking there were no more than 10 other companies in the field. https://spacenews.com/small-launch-companies-struggle-to-complete-with-spacex-rideshare-missions/

#LaunchVehicle ๐Ÿš€ manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies#Launch_vehicle_manufacturers

4๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ #aerospace companies producing #rockets ๐Ÿš€ in #OpenStreetMap ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/aerospace%3Aproduct=rocket

Cargo ๐Ÿ“ฆ Transportation & Landers https://www.factoriesinspace.com/cargo-transportation

* ๐Ÿ“Š 422 investors invested $8 billion ๐Ÿ’ฐ in 123 start-up #SpaceCompanies in ๐Ÿ“† 2022 https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/Bryce_Start_Up_Space_2023.pdf

#SpaceCompany#SpaceMarket

Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  last year

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#Space ๐ŸŒŒ is undergoing a revolution* comparable with the growth of the #internet ๐ŸŒ 20 years ago, and like the internet, this will affect all domains of life.

Our society is now utterly dependent on the #satellites ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ that orbit #Earth. The #communications ๐Ÿ“ถ and #navigation ๐Ÿงญ services that they make possible are so interwoven in our everyday lives that in the #UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, #space is classed as one of 13 critical national #infrastructure sectors. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/26/europe-moon-space-race-esa-india-russia-china-japan

* Report of the High-Level Advisory Group on Human and #Robotic#SpaceExploration for #Europe ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corporate/h-lag_brochure.pdf

#ESA#SpaceRace

Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  2 years ago
๐Ÿค” Why isn't the #ISS (partially) recycled (by #SpaceRobot) and parts โš™๏ธ or raw material used for the #LunarGateway (maybe for #RadiationProtection instead of #luggage ๐Ÿ›๏ธ)? The #BBC article doesn't cover this https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/why-is-the-iss-being-retired-and-what-will-happen-to-it

The #LaunchCost ๐Ÿ’ฐ were very high to bring this material to #orbit ๐Ÿš€ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  2 years ago

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#DW ๐Ÿ“† 07/27/2022 "whoever it is and no matter what they do in the future, everyone in the industry knows how hard it is to transport heavy #materials into #space. It's likely that at least some of these companies are hoping to #salvage parts of the #ISS" https://www.dw.com/en/therell-be-many-more-space-stations-in-future/a-62615228

#SpaceDebris #recycling โ™ป๏ธ

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist  ยท  3 months ago

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Primordial black holes and dark matter, oh my! Hard SF writers will want to read this article.

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-gravitational-black-holes-quantum-effect.html

@orionkidder : if recollection serves me, this article will be of interest re one of your SF universes.

#BoostingIsSharing

#Writer#Author#ScienceFiction#SF #scifi#WritingCommunity#WritersOfMastodon#BlackHole #pbh #ligo#Science#Physics#Astrophysics#QuantumPhysics#QuantumMechanics#Space#BlackHoles #gravitywaves

Corey S Powell
Corey S Powell  ยท  3 months ago

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A sweet astronomy story, for a little break:

Earth & its Moon were forged from a violent collision. But Pluto and its giant moon, Charon, came together with a gentle kiss. A similarly soft process may have occurred all across the outer solar system.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pluto-charon-moon-kiss #space #science #astronomy #love

Corey S Powell
Corey S Powell  ยท  3 months ago

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Newly discovered: A pair of supermassive black holes (40 million times as massive as the Sun) cuddling in a distant galaxy.

"Cuddling" in this case means they're about as far apart as Voyager 1 is from Earth...which is really close for such monster objects.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-studies-gas-churning-monster-black-holes/ #science #space #astronomy

Watch as a gas cloud encounters two supermassive black holes in this simulation. The complex interplay of gravitational and frictional forces causes the cloud to condense and heat. Some of the gas is ejected from the system with each orbit of the black holes.
SETI Institute
SETI Institute  ยท  3 months ago

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#PPOD: This image from ESAโ€™s #Mars Express shows a beautiful slice of the #RedPlanet from the northern #polarcap downwards, and highlights cratered, pockmarked swathes of the Terra Sabaea and Arabia Terra regions. It comprises data gathered on 17 June 2019 during orbit 19550. This image was created using data from the nadir and color channels of the High-Resolution Stereo Camera. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

#science #space #scicomm

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ  ยท  3 months ago

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The pace of #space launches has reached the point that lots of stuff is always happening. But some things don't go as planned. @LiveScience was able to make a Top 10 list of mishaps in space in 2024. #Starliner figures prominently on the list. But also 3 #Falcon9 groundings, #Starship explosions, and misc probes and rovers. https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/10-times-space-missions-went-very-wrong-in-2024#NewSpace#NASA#SpaceX#Boeing
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  7 months ago
#AstroForge is tracking several candidate asteroids, each of which is about 400 meters ๐Ÿ“ across. There is no shortage of potential targets. Scientists estimate that there are about 10 million near-Earth #asteroids โ˜„๏ธ, perhaps 3 to 5 percent of these are rich in #metals, so there are potentially hundreds of thousands of candidates for #mining. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/against-all-odds-an-asteroid-mining-company-appears-to-be-making-headway/

#AsteroidMining#NEA#SpaceMining

Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€
Spaceflight ๐Ÿš€  ยท  7 months ago

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๐Ÿ“† 2016 thesis : It was found that a future space mission to harvest #asteroids โ˜„๏ธ seems prosperous and even plausible in the near future if using a cost-effective mission architecture, perhaps even within a decade. The necessary knowledge increases quickly due to interests of profit and exploration and #space is among the fastest growing ๐Ÿ“ˆ businesses today https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publication/8882371

โ€ข Remote Sensing Techniques
โ€ข Space Shuttles & Technology
โ€ข Targeting Asteroids
โ€ข Financial Feasibility
โ€ข Conclusions

Daniel Pomarรจde
Daniel Pomarรจde  ยท  3 months ago

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Wowzer! Map of cosmic flows, by yours truly, makes it to the cover of the Nature Astronomy journal.

"Galaxies from
wherever flock
together"

I'm no poet, but could this be a Haiku?

https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/8/issues/12

Credits:
Image: Daniel Pomarรจde, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de lโ€™Univers, CEA, Universitรฉ Paris-Saclay.
Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic.

#Cosmology#Galaxies#Astronomy #Astrodon#Astrophysics#Cosmography#Cartography#Map#Cosmicflows #science#STEM #news #space

A cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated December 2024, Volume 8, issue number 12, featuring a three-dimensional visualization of the cosmic velocity field inferred from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog of galaxies' distances and velocities. This map spans two billion lightyears from top to bottom. The velocity field is mapped by means of tens of thousands of very thin streamlines, seeded at the positions of the catalog's galaxies. Streamlines are shown white and semi-transparent, against a black background. They exhibit a very complex pattern with multiple attractors, seen as points of convergence of the lines. A text reads Galaxies from wherever flock together.
A cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated December 2024, Volume 8, issue number 12, featuring a three-dimensional visualization of the cosmic velocity field inferred from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog of galaxies' distances and velocities. This map spans two billion lightyears from top to bottom. The velocity field is mapped by means of tens of thousands of very thin streamlines, seeded at the positions of the catalog's galaxies. Streamlines are shown white and semi-transparent, against a black background. They exhibit a very complex pattern with multiple attractors, seen as points of convergence of the lines. A text reads Galaxies from wherever flock together.
A cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated December 2024, Volume 8, issue number 12, featuring a three-dimensional visualization of the cosmic velocity field inferred from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog of galaxies' distances and velocities. This map spans two billion lightyears from top to bottom. The velocity field is mapped by means of tens of thousands of very thin streamlines, seeded at the positions of the catalog's galaxies. Streamlines are shown white and semi-transparent, against a black background. They exhibit a very complex pattern with multiple attractors, seen as points of convergence of the lines. A text reads Galaxies from wherever flock together.
David August
David August  ยท  3 months ago
They're gonna get people killed and in so doing also poison the public's view of #SpaceExploration, all because they cannot be bothered to buy an mf-ing generator or something that a f-ing 8th grader could sort out. This recklessness is bad and so typical of the apartheid space douche and his cascading bad ideas. All he does is accumulate money for himself and hurt others.

#Musk is a hazard to all living things, and some non-living things.

https://gizmodo.com/spacex-reportedly-lost-communication-with-private-astronaut-mission-before-historic-spacewalk-2000540517

๐Ÿงต 2/3

David August
David August  ยท  3 months ago

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Footnotes:

โ‚ three points-safe - at least three independent components or safety features must fail simultaneously for major disaster happen.

โ‚‚ failover - NIST defines as the process of automatically switching to a backup system when the primary system fails. The goal of failover is to minimize or eliminate the impact on users and keep critical systems running.

๐Ÿงต 3/3 end

#spaceX #space #safety#3PointsSafe#ThreePointsSafe #failover#GroundControl #musk #elon#ElonMusk #disaster #aerospace

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