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

[Anoat]

India landed an unmanned craft on the moon this morning, just the 4th nation to do so. They are the first country to land one in the southern pole region as well. Japan is launching an unmanned craft to the moon next month as well.

[Byrthnoth]

I'm a little baffled by people sending shit at the moon still. Russia just crashed another craft into it. China has been sending shit up there. Can someone explain why they are doing this?

The US landed humans on the moon in the 1960s with less onboard compute than exists in a cellphone. If this is for national pride, accomplishing a less impressive version of that more than 50 years later has vague "well the important part is that I finished the race " energy.

[Melena]

Well, they and Japan just both landed on a side of the moon that no one else has. Basically moon travel for any nation is the first step in trying to go further out. While we put people out there in the 60's, it was more so Russia wouldn't be first then anything else, and it pretty much stopped after that, instead focusing on the international space station.

[Tyrath]

^ what he said.

It's more for the sake of space travel than "we did it first" kinda thing.

[TsingTao]

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/1...hip-on-friday/

SpaceX cleared for another Starship launch. Could happen as soon as Friday morning...

[TsingTao]

Wow, pretty impressive launch. They didn't make it all the way thru and coast Starship back after a brief orbit...self destruct triggered at the end of second stage burn. Much farther than the first attempt though. Looking forward to the breakdown of what happened. and the next attempt.

[Outlaw]

It didn't self destruct. It was shot down by the Jewish space lasers as revenge for the antisemitic comments Musk made on X/Twitter.

/s

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[TsingTao]

What can't you do with those space lazors? Amazing!

[6souls]

https://fireflyspace.com/missions/fly-the-lightning/
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1739775755767431404

The small rocket launched on Friday, December 22, at 12:32 p.m. ET from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, called “Fly the Lightning,” was carrying a satellite developed by Lockheed Martin to test an electronically steerable antenna. Alpha reached orbit, and the rocket’s second stage separated and its engine shut off as planned. Around 40 minutes after launch, however, the rocket’s second stage burn failed, and Alpha did not deliver the payload to its precise target orbit.

The company added that communications with the spacecraft had been established and that the mission operations were underway. The payload was designed to test Lockheed Martin’s new wideband Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA), which was integrated on a Terran Orbital Nebula satellite bus, for use on future broadband satellites. It’s unclear whether Lockheed Martin will still be able to test its antenna, as the satellite’s orbit could mean that it will reenter Earth’s atmosphere sooner than anticipated.

This is the second time that Firefly has placed a payload in the wrong orbit.

[6souls]

https://www.space.com/mars-water-ice...r-frozen-ocean

The European Space Agency has found Mars' largest deposit of water ice.

A European Space Agency (ESA) probe has found enough water to cover Mars in an ocean between 4.9 and 8.9 feet (1.5 and 2.7 meters) deep, buried in the form of dusty ice beneath the planet's equator.

The deposits are thick, extended 3.7km (2.3) miles underground, and topped by a crust of hardened ash and dry dust hundreds of meters thick. The ice is not a pure block but is heavily contaminated by dust. While its presence near the equator is a location more easily accessible to future crewed missions, being buried so deep means that accessing the water-ice would be difficult.

[Zealot]

Great, with water all we need to make Mars habitable for people is ... let me see here.... an atmosphere.

[Mertron]

total recall that shit

[Athas]

Venus cloud cities lookin better every day.

[Rhyis.]

total recall that shit

get your ass to mars

[Penthesilea]

https://www.space.com/mars-water-ice...r-frozen-ocean

The European Space Agency has found Mars' largest deposit of water ice.

Mango or Watermelon flavored wooder ice?

[Cantih]

Great, with water all we need to make Mars habitable for people is ... let me see here.... an atmosphere.

And artificial gravity

[Xno Kappa]

Anybody else watching the IM lunar landing? Not looking good right now. Sounds like they’re hoping it’s a comms issue and not the other outcome.

[Mertron]

“we are waiting to hear if it landed”

oh one way or another im sure it did

[Mertron]

sounds like it landed successfully

[kuronosan]

What did that sound like?