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Ars Technica: A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled (archive)
A problem with the main engine on Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft will keep it from delivering 11,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station as scheduled on Wednesday.

In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, NASA said ground teams are evaluating backup plans that might still allow the Cygnus spacecraft to reach the space station, just not on schedule. The problem arose early Tuesday when the spacecraft's main engine shut down earlier than expected during two burns to boost the ship's orbit for its rendezvous with the ISS, according to NASA.
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Ars Technica: Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare (archive)
Sierra said it is now targeting a "late 2026" debut for Dream Chaser, but that date is far enough in the future that it is likely subject to Berger's Law, and probably means no earlier than 2027. This all but precludes a cargo mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to be deorbited in 2030, and presently has two more-than-capable supply vehicles with SpaceX's Dragon and Northrop's new, larger Cygnus.
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I wanted to see a crewed version or a new Hubble servicing mission, but we'll be lucky to see Dream Chaser do anything useful at all.
 
Fapcop said:
This originally started in 2004, and over two decades later, it’s still not in use?

Christ. And people wonder why folks aren’t exactly excited about giving NASA tens of billions of dollars.
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NASA is basically the Works Project Administration for midwits with engineering degrees. Anyone halfway competent is going to work for the defense contractors or SpaceX

Honestly NASA should just stop doing in house shit all together and instead become the clearing house for federal contracts on various missions and experiments. Want too go too the moon? Have Boeing, SpaceX, or the Euros bid on the contract and funding too do it.
 
mindlessobserver said:
NASA is basically the Works Project Administration for midwits with engineering degrees. Anyone halfway competent is going to work for the defense contractors or SpaceX

Honestly NASA should just stop doing in house shit all together and instead become the clearing house for federal contracts on various missions and experiments. Want too go too the moon? Have Boeing, SpaceX, or the Euros bid on the contract and funding too do it.
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Euros aren’t much better. If anything even more incompetent and wasteful.

The latest Ariana rocket was a nightmare both in terms of cost and delays.
 
Fapcop said:
Euros aren’t much better. If anything even more incompetent and wasteful.

The latest Ariana rocket was a nightmare both in terms of cost and delays.
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Was thinking more Euro defense contractors like BAE or Dassault. The European Space Agency has the same issues as NASA.
 
CNN: Planet Y? Astronomers find fresh clues of hidden world in our solar system (archive) (lite)
Planet Nine and Planet Y aren’t mutually exclusive, and they could both exist, he said.
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Siraj and his coauthors ran computer simulations, which included all the known planets plus a hypothetical one. They kept changing the parameters for the latter and found that previous hypotheses such as Planet Nine didn’t work for their model, and they needed a new one. “Planet Y is most likely a Mercury to Earth-mass body, approximately 100 to 200 times the Earth-sun distance, tilted at least 10 degrees relative to the other planets,” he said.
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Other than Planet Nein, there's been a proposal of a Mars-sized planet around 60 AU. That would fit in the middle of this size range, but they are looking much further out. Hopefully, the Vera Rubin Observatory directly locates objects like this, or finds enough smaller objects to make simulations more accurate.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
CNN: Planet Y? Astronomers find fresh clues of hidden world in our solar system (archive) (lite)



Other than Planet Nein, there's been a proposal of a Mars-sized planet around 60 AU. That would fit in the middle of this size range, but they are looking much further out. Hopefully, the Vera Rubin Observatory directly locates objects like this, or finds enough smaller objects to make simulations more accurate.
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I dont want to sound like a weird conspiracy nut because obviously progressing science means revising old theories and such. But I remember for decades if anyone mentioned anything about a possible missing planet you were basically labeled an Alex Jones tier tin-foil hat nut.

Here is hoping though we get more research done and find the truth!
 
Where’s 3i/ATLAS at? Wasn’t it supposed to be close to us soon? Will it be close enough to directly image at any point ?
Rock or a bumper sticker with ‘I brake for Martians?’ Place your bets !
 
Otterly said:
Where’s 3i/ATLAS at? Wasn’t it supposed to be close to us soon? Will it be close enough to directly image at any point ?
Rock or a bumper sticker with ‘I brake for Martians?’ Place your bets !
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It won't be coming close too earth. But the Mars approach is very close relatively speaking. Closest approach was on October 3, but the observation mission for the ESA'S orbiters and NASAs landers will be running through October 7.

I imagine they will start releasing data after that.
 
Photograph of the Trojan comet from Mars Probes!

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Also big news, the ExoMars probe sent by the ESA has instruments set up too try and detect water vapor emissions. They are indicating that 3i/ATLAS has water. Which has some very interesting implications. Not the least that it opens up the Pandoras box on the potential ability for bacterial life too spread interstellar given appropriate conditions.

 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Ars Technica: Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare (archive)


I wanted to see a crewed version or a new Hubble servicing mission, but we'll be lucky to see Dream Chaser do anything useful at all.
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SNC and Dream Chaser keep getting fucked again and again.

First their original launch platform gets retired so they have to recertify, then the USA gets a hard retirement date less than 48 months after their optimistic first launch....

Poor guys, I love space planes
 
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