Source says center core lost. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980954/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-middle-core-failed-landing
Somewhere around 9 o'clock central time there is supposed to be another burn to put Starman into a Mars trajectory.
In those first two I think it was a satellite or something. It’s really cool to see the day/night shadow on earth.
Not only is it mind blowing too me that a crash test dummie is casually driving a sports car to mars right now, but it is also pretty mind blowing that I’m able to lay in bed and watch it all happen live on my phone streaming YouTube Spoiler
I know a lot of these booster landing videos have been posted, I think this is the best one I've seen.
This isn't an entirely new thought for me or anything like that, but my God some people have just done so much more with their lives than I have.
The ingenuity to put stuff into orbit is incredible but it still blows my mind that we are able to navigate probes and objects over such a long distance with the target moving thousands of miles per hour. Pretty much hitting a bullet with a bullet. Then you have factor gravitation fields and the interaction that takes place to attain the proper orbit. Crazy.
Being able to sit on earth and chart out a path like that, relying on the gravitational assistance from other planets is just amazing. Even more impressive that they did this in the 70s before we had the kinds of simulations available today. Voyager is the fastest moving and furthest away human made object.
So do we not get any more pics of starman on his mission? Seems like they could’ve loaded the car with equipment to ensure that we could get occasional updates.
The only purpose the car served was as simulated ballast, I don't think anyone had any designs to turn it into Voyager 3.
The black box set to revolutionize the search for life beyond Earth February 9, 2018 by Miguel Sanchez Part of the VLT (Very Large Telescope) in Paranal, about 1,150 kms north of Santiago, Chile, which will search for planets outside our solar system with help from the Espresso spectrograph In the world's driest desert, an unassuming black box called "Espresso" is about to begin a very big mission: scouring the universe for planets like ours to find signs of life beyond Earth. Espresso, an instrument known as a spectrograph, has a humble appearance that belies its cutting-edge technology: it is the most precise instrument of its kind ever built, 10 times stronger than its most powerful predecessor. In the Atacama desert, in northern Chile, Espresso will be hooked up to four telescopes so big that scientists simply named them the Very Large Telescope, or VLT. Together, they will search the skies for exoplanets—those outside our own solar system—looking for ones that are similar to Earth. The Atacama is a particularly good place for this kind of exploration. Its skies are completely cloudless most of the year, which is why the highly respected European Southern Observatory, which runs the VLT program, set up shop there in the first place. In fact, many of the world's major telescopes are located in the area. By 2020, the Atacama is expected to be home to about 70 percent of the world's astronomy infrastructure. Espresso stands for Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations. Partial view of a telescope at the Paranal Observatory, in northern Chile's Atacama desert, whose clear skies have attracted many of the world's major telescopes It will analyze the light of the stars observed by the VLT, enabling it to determine whether planets orbit around them, and important information about those planets themselves: what their atmosphere is like, whether they have oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, and whether there is water—all essential for supporting life. "Espresso will be available on all four telescopes at once, which is something that had never been done before. That means the likelihood of finding planets similar to Earth in mass and size, or the conditions for life, are greater," said Italian astronomer Gaspare Lo Curto. Ten years of solitude The most precise spectrograph until now, HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher), could only measure planets far larger than Earth—and less likely to harbor life. HARPS is also located in the Atacama, at the La Silla observatory, but is hooked up to telescopes less powerful than the VLT. "Espresso will be 10 times more precise than the most precise instrument in the world, HARPS, and will also have the flexibility of serving each of the telescopes at the Paranal observatory," where the VLT program is housed, said Lo Curto. View of the observatory in Paranal, northern Chile, where the most precise spectrograph, known as Espresso, will work with large telescopes to help analyze plants outside our solar system Chilean astronomer Rodrigo Herrera Camus called it a "great opportunity." Espresso "will help us answer one of the greatest questions we have in astronomy, which is analyzing and understanding planets outside our solar system," he told AFP. The new spectrograph is housed inside a giant metal cylinder chilled to an average temperature of -150 C (-238 F)—essential for its delicate optical instruments to do their work. It was installed early last year beneath the base of the VLT, which is perched atop the 2,600-meter (2,844 yards) altitude Paranal mountain. Espresso is currently in testing phase. But in 10 months' time it will officially begin its big mission—which is also a solitary one. To keep it cold enough and protect its instruments, astronomers will have it under lock and key in a giant underground room where no one will be allowed to enter for at least 10 years. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-black-revolutionize-life-earth.html#jCp
A Tesla Roadster and its spacesuit-wearing mannequin "driver" — named "‘Starman"’ — seen hurtling through space. The images were captured by Tenagra Observatories in Arizona. Credit: Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project)/Michael Schwartz (Tenegra Observatory)
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I love how he didn’t expect it to make it off the pad. Keep your hopes high and your expectations low.
4910 days past expected life span. Solar-powered rover approaching 5,000th Martian dawn February 16, 2018, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The channel descending a Martian slope in this perspective view is "Perseverance Valley," the study area of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity as the rover passes its 5,000th Martian day. The view overlays a HiRISE image onto a topographic model …more The sun will rise on NASA's solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf-cart-size robotic field geologist that continues to provide revelations about the Red Planet. "Five thousand sols after the start of our 90-sol mission, this amazing roveris still showing us surprises on Mars," said Opportunity Project Manager John Callas, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. A Martian "sol" lasts about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, and a Martian year lasts nearly two Earth years. Opportunity's Sol 1 was landing day, Jan. 25, 2004 (that's in Universal Time; it was Jan. 24 in California). The prime mission was planned to last 90 sols. NASA did not expect the rover to survive through a Martian winter. Sol 5,000 will begin early Friday, Universal Time, with the 4,999th dawn a few hours later. Opportunity has worked actively right through the lowest-energy months of its eighth Martian winter. From the rover's perspective on the inside slope of the western rim of Endeavour Crater, the milestone sunrise will appear over the basin's eastern rim, about 14 miles (22 kilometers) away. Opportunity has driven over 28 miles (45 kilometers) from its landing site to its current location about one-third of the way down "Perseverance Valley," a shallow channel incised from the rim's crest of the crater's floor. The rover has returned about 225,000 images, all promptly made public online. "We've reached lots of milestones, and this is one more," Callas said, "but more important than the numbers are the exploration and the scientific discoveries." The mission made headlines during its first months with the evidence about groundwater and surface water environments on ancient Mars. Opportunity trekked to increasingly larger craters to look deeper into Mars and father back into Martian history, reaching Endeavour Crater in 2011. Researchers are now using the rover to investigate the processes that shaped Perseverance Valley. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-solar-powered-rover-approaching-5000th-martian.html#jCp
Has anyone met a flat earth theorist in real life? flat earth twitter might be my favorite thing on the internet - it's Poe's Law in action (with a heavy dose of un-diagnosed mental illness). In response to a NASA video showing some ISS crew members in zero gravity: This whole profile had me cracking up
I had a Gunnery Sergeant (joint unit) who was a flat earther. We worked with satellites. Every day. With charts showing where in the orbit the sats were.
I don't understand what they think the government is gaining by staging a giant hoax to convince people the Earth isn't flat. Why would a flat Earth need to be a secret? I'd like to understand the lunacy.
They got in too deep faking the moon landing and can't get out? I know that's ludicrous, just throwing something out there.