NASA is still doing a seat exchange and launching Johnny Kim on the next Soyuz in March, but it looks like it’ll be just Russians on at least the next 2 Soyuz’s after that
Oh no! Where will I go to see OF spam bots now???
Bye, Bob :-(
They transmit T cruzi (Chagas’ disease), which can cause heart failure
They’re still going to launch the 6 operational starliner flights on Atlas V’s, and Amazon has bought several of them for their Kuiper satellite constellation.
Personally I doubt starliner is going to keep flying once the 6 ISS missions are over, regardless of launch vehicle.
They shut it down last September. It’s nsfw spinoff redgifs is still up.
So the main band going across the sky in the pic is our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It’s made up of a bunch of stars, gas, and dust.
To the naked eye under dark skies you can see some of the large structures in it, but it will just look grey (hence the ‘milky’ name). Our retinas suck at detecting color in low light situations (the color sensing cone cells need a lot of light), so even when looking through large telescopes pretty much every nebula and galaxy just looks gray.
The one exception to this is the Orion Nebula, which is one of the brightest deep sky objects. IMO It’s very slightly green looking (compared to pink in cameras] since of the cone cells in our eyes, green is most sensitive
Mercury would be a denser propellant than xenon/other Nobel gasses used for ion thrusters in orbit. There’s been a ton of other insane fuel types proposed over the years which thankfully haven’t been used (although a lot of rockets have and still use toxic hypergolic fuels like hydrazine)
Good vid going over some of these fuels: https://youtu.be/_wLk2j7_KB0
At least for us amateurs satellite trails get completely rejected out during image stacking. They’ll definitely be more of a problem for professional observatories, especially large survey scopes like Vera Rubin
Refreshing the ublock caches work most of the time however if it doesn’t, clicking the share button and then ‘embed’ just brings up a regular non-blocked video player
They actually just got rid of the stars, now you just tip people
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/
Iirc the original goal was ‘at least 10’ but maybe up to 100 flights for a booster. No way to really know without flying them a lot