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Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System
The comet-like body — called 3I/ATLAS or C/2025 N1 — is zipping past Jupiter.
News from SPAAAAACE!
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One day it'll be an alien starship and then we can all get naked with the aliens, solving the existential crisis of the universe.
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@TheJiggler Cheers, mate. VBs on me.
"We Fucking Did It.
Australia is no longer a space industry virgin.
Sure, she only lasted 14 seconds but by god, she lifted off.
The Eris rocket is officially the first Aussie-made, Aussie-launched orbital rocket to leave home soil.
Congrats to our good friends at Gilmour Space Technologies.
Did it reach orbit? Nah.
Did it fly straight? Not quite.
But did it take off in true Aussie fashion, tip sideways, and go down swinging?
Bloody oath it did
It’s not a failure. It’s a rite of passage.
Like your first time reversing a trailer, you’re not supposed to nail it first go.
Eris-1 had one job:
Get off the pad
Show the world we’re havin’ a crack
Prove we can burn a few million dollars in under 20 seconds
Australia’s in the space race, mate.
No turning back now.
To everyone who said Australia couldn't do it...
Suck my ass forever."
"We Fucking Did It.
Australia is no longer a space industry virgin.
Sure, she only lasted 14 seconds but by god, she lifted off.
The Eris rocket is officially the first Aussie-made, Aussie-launched orbital rocket to leave home soil.
Congrats to our good friends at Gilmour Space Technologies.
Did it reach orbit? Nah.
Did it fly straight? Not quite.
But did it take off in true Aussie fashion, tip sideways, and go down swinging?
Bloody oath it did
It’s not a failure. It’s a rite of passage.
Like your first time reversing a trailer, you’re not supposed to nail it first go.
Eris-1 had one job:
Get off the pad
Show the world we’re havin’ a crack
Prove we can burn a few million dollars in under 20 seconds
Australia’s in the space race, mate.
No turning back now.
To everyone who said Australia couldn't do it...
Suck my ass forever."
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If they used VB to power the fucka it'd be a rippa but nooo gotta use fuckin rocket fuel.
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Three evacuated after medical emergency at US Antarctic research base
The high-risk 20-hour operation took place in the complete darkness of the Antarctic winter
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3 Antarctic base scientists emergency evacuated after undisclosed medical situation.
Now I'm not saying I know that this is news from space but ONE OF THEM DOES
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Three evacuated after medical emergency at US Antarctic research base
The high-risk 20-hour operation took place in the complete darkness of the Antarctic winter
3 Antarctic base scientists emergency evacuated after undisclosed medical situation.
Now I'm not saying I know that this is news from space but ONE OF THEM DOES
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Probably America's greatest astronaut has died.
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Of everyone that didn't, he definitely deserved to step on the moon at least once.
Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
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Of everyone that didn't, he definitely deserved to step on the moon at least once.
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Legendary man. I just so happen to be rewatching For All Mankind again right now (with the commentary on this time).Probably America's greatest astronaut has died.
Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
Of everyone that didn't, he definitely deserved to step on the moon at least once.
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To think if nixon hadn't fucked it all up we'd be spending a weekend at the Lunar Hilton sipping a space whiskey in an earth view suite.
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Yep. Nixon DOGE'd Apollo 18-20 and the momentum just came to a halt. They're now saying 2040s for Mars.
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Successful Starship test today with a controlled 'landing' into the ocean.
Since they're all still live links I can't embed the video.
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Since they're all still live links I can't embed the video.
LIVE: SpaceX Starship Flight 10 launch (Full replay)
Watch live as SpaceX launches the tenth test flight of its mega rocket Starship from the Starbase launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.Credit: SpaceX#spacex #spa...
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Life on Mars*
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NASA rover uncovers clue that could settle 'life on Mars'
In July 2024, Perseverance cored Sapphire Canyon mudstone, detecting vivianite, greigite and sulfur - signals consistent with a potential biosignature.
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Artemis II with some America 250 bisesquicentennial livery rolled out to Launchpad 39B on Saturday and didn't tip over. Assuming the wet dress rehearsal, which is supposed to be right around the end of the month, goes well, the first launch window opens February 6th for 5 days.
I am at least taking the youngest kid and heading down and hoping to see the launch, trying to get the whole family going but that has some more moving pieces.
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Artemis II launch postponed until the March 6-11 window due to excessive liquid hydrogen leaks while fueling the core stage during the wet dress rehearsal last night.
They had the same problems but worse during Artemis I (and as I understand it, leaking hydrogen has been an issue on at least the Shuttle and Apollo as well). They developed some ways to mitigate it and got the rocket fueled reasonably quickly compared to several long delays trying to fill Artemis I but I guess it's still outside their desired range for leaking.
So our trip is scrubbed as well and we will reorganize for a possible March attempt. We hadn't booked anything yet, so no big deal.
I don't know yet if they will roll it back to the VAB or if it will stay on the pad until then. There are batteries associated with the LAS (launchpad abort system that can eject the capsule away from the rocket in the event of an issue too low to the ground) that are good for I think somewhere around a month but I don't remember how long.
They had the same problems but worse during Artemis I (and as I understand it, leaking hydrogen has been an issue on at least the Shuttle and Apollo as well). They developed some ways to mitigate it and got the rocket fueled reasonably quickly compared to several long delays trying to fill Artemis I but I guess it's still outside their desired range for leaking.
So our trip is scrubbed as well and we will reorganize for a possible March attempt. We hadn't booked anything yet, so no big deal.
I don't know yet if they will roll it back to the VAB or if it will stay on the pad until then. There are batteries associated with the LAS (launchpad abort system that can eject the capsule away from the rocket in the event of an issue too low to the ground) that are good for I think somewhere around a month but I don't remember how long.
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Seals replaced on Artemis II last week, they did a brief tanking test and found some slow flow rates. So then they also replaced a filter for the liquid hydrogen.
Full tanking and dress rehearsal starts again Wednesday, concludes on Thursday. March 3rd was briefly added as a possible launch date but has been dropped again so back to no earlier than March 6.
Full tanking and dress rehearsal starts again Wednesday, concludes on Thursday. March 3rd was briefly added as a possible launch date but has been dropped again so back to no earlier than March 6.
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If we're lucky it won't explode on liftoff.