Moon Base 13, The Moon: NASA Is In Kinga Forrester's Pocket

[Waraji]

I'll have to catch the replay. Good for them.

Holy Shit! Live feed of Entry Burn? Fucking HAWT. Nice!!! This is the first time.

5/7 Landing

This shit right here. Man, beautiful.

[archibaldcrane]

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 41m41 minutes ago
Rocket landing speed was close to design max & used up contingency crush core, hence back & forth motion. Prob ok, but some risk of tipping.

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 7m7 minutes ago
Crush core is aluminum honeycomb for energy absorption in the telescoping actuator. Easy to replace (if Falcon makes it back to port).

[archibaldcrane]

The sickest.

https://youtu.be/4jEz03Z8azc

[Jaybar]

The sickest.

https://youtu.be/4jEz03Z8azc

Holy shit that was way cooler than launch. I also thought those cams wouldn't survive reentry but dang.

[Skyylya]

That was amazing to see

[arus2001]

Now show it to anyone who hates going on roller coasters.

[Fiye]

[Jaybar]

Holy shit they're serious I thought it was satire after the "No audio" part.

[Blubbartron]

Did he seriously say it was a conspiracy to prove "the ball Earth"? He's a fucking flat Earther? Jesus...

[arus2001]

I like how he's confused about how the heavier end of the rocket basically straightens it out while coming in, too. I'm no scientist, but lern2gravity, bitch.

[Moss]

lost a few IQ points listening to that

[TsingTao]

Translation: I'm too stupid to understand how this sort of things work so it's clearly fake.

[Jaybar]

He needs to play Kerbal.

[archibaldcrane]

A bunch more super-detailed photos of Pluto were just released, so Fox News's Greta Van Susteren complained on twitter that it took so long, since "we pay their salaries".

Of course, it takes months for data of that size to physically be transmitted from a low-power probe that far away.

http://jezebel.com/greta-van-sustere...asa-1779884300

[TsingTao]

Oh Greta, you crack me up.

I thought they said over a year to send back all the data? Been a while though, I may be forgetting the timeline.

[TummieGaruda]

The probe took a ton of pictures and has it stored on onboard and the maximum data rate that it can send pictures/data is 1 kbps. Even though most of the pictures are roughly 2.5mb in size it still takes a long time to receive the data because it is received through the Deep Space Network which one of its three huge satellite dishes that are shared by many scientists/organizations. The New Horizons team gets only X amount of time per day to receive data from the probe so that contributes to the long wait in data. Also, there are other readings that they can choose to get sent from the probe besides pictures. So while one session may provide new pictures, other sessions provide useful scientific data.

One of the cool things about the Deep Space Network is that each group of Dishes are placed 120 degrees from each other so that there aren't any limitations to obtaining a signal from an object due to the Earth's rotation. Currently as of this post, the dish in Australia is aimed at New Horizons getting data.

You can view the Deep Space Network here
http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

[archibaldcrane]

Another launch in progress, landing attempt shortly. http://www.spacex.com/webcast

[Jaybar]

I'm on the edge of my seat. Video cut out as it landed, no conclusive result.

[Waraji]

Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max.

It looked like it was standing, but it must have slammed down hard on its ass, enough to set it on fire.

[TsingTao]

Per tweet from Elon it was unsuccessful. One of the boosters wasn't putting out quite as much thrust as it should have, it came in too hard, RUD ensues. RUD is apparently short for Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. I think this acronym is awesome and plan on working it in to regular conversation at my earliest convenience.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/1...er-on-landing/