Space and Science BS Thread

My stuff went up in the repair mission on the Hubble.

alas, no repairs on the Rovers ;-)

Never met Musgrave.

 

Thanks for getting the corrective optics correct on Hubble. It was amazing to see the before and after

If you don’t mind, which SM and instrument? Did you help out with subsequent iterations?







I haven’t met Musgrave either..

 

https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/1491318330594304000?s=21

 

When science intersects with art:

https://twitter.com/cosmicatri/status/1491347905151905799?s=21

 

You didn't remember the broohaha around thanksgiving and working through the weekend?

 

So long ago I forgot about it

Thought the reports were positive since though…

 

Starlink lost something like 40 satellites from the last launch due to a solar storm:

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1491522506162909195?s=21

 

WifPic
WFPC-3
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1518/1

Optical Filters so pretty pictures can do science ;-)

 

It’s a new world out there:
https://twitter.com/trevormahlmann/status/1491645036773232643?s=21

https://twitter.com/alexsvanart/status/1491645159150342148?s=21

https://twitter.com/labpadre/status/1491647694120443907?s=21

https://twitter.com/bubbinski/status/1491648869775527936?s=21

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1491656488976371714?s=21

https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/1491662106042593284?s=21

https://twitter.com/nicansuini/status/1491677675085250564?s=21

https://twitter.com/astrodeven/status/1491673420534276098?s=21

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1491636510642167809?s=21

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1491634769934753799?s=21

https://twitter.com/trevormahlmann/status/1491755442950787072?s=21

https://twitter.com/nicansuini/status/1491759985147224066?s=21

https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1491762250872467458?s=21

https://twitter.com/trevormahlmann/status/1491762779468050436?s=21

Click this pic (stunning):
https://twitter.com/nicansuini/status/1491763969484275713?s=21


https://twitter.com/trevormahlmann/status/1491774941691269123?s=21

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1491817170258563080?s=21

 

All good things….
https://twitter.com/novapbs/status/1491791818387767296?s=21

Made me feel like the first time I read that the Third Age was coming to an end

 

The timelapse you have in there was 17 seconds. I wonder what total elapsed time was?

 

This is the only story I could find (limited time today)
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/space/os-bz-spacex-starshup-super-heavy-stack-elon-musk-speech-20220210-bvee7b5uszhrrijrjuimacsyjm-story.html?outputType=amp

No mention on how long it took. Might have to go to YT Nasaspaceflight and replay their feed from last night.

 

I imagine they will have a highlight video later today.

 

Just went to the live stream video from NSF. This was in the comments.

Lift start - 9:46
Lift finish - 27:00
Rotation - 45:00
QD connection - 1:15:00
Starship lowering - 1:26:00
Starship/Superheavy connection - 2:04:00

Which I imagine that this is on the extreme end of length. Once this becomes commonplace, it won't take almost 2 hours.

 

Speaking of:

https://twitter.com/spacex360/status/1491835252263866383?s=21

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jlQmW7mnYM

Astra is giving it another go. T-30ish as of this post.

 

https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1491866520284192772?s=21
https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1491865669947871234?s=21

 

Last night, Elon said the Raptor2 had a tendency to melt its combustion chamber.

He also said production is ramping up which didn’t seem to add up to me if there’s a known flaw

 

First interplanetary destination?

https://twitter.com/hirise/status/1491909915425837056?s=21

 

Noticeable drop in post presentation buzz, IMHO. This is one of the few tweets:

https://twitter.com/spacex360/status/1492067394902188033?s=21

Seems to me people want it flying now, tired of waiting around.

One thing that stuck out to me was the launch tower design- from design to now in 13 months..