The Space Thread - Launches, Events, Live Streams, Governments, Corporations, drama in Spaaaaaaaaaaaace

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mlanguishi said:
I sure hope they get an Apollo 8 style Earth rise video. I suppose they'll have to relay them down over time out there.
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They are using an infrared laser for high-speed data connections, basically fiber optic without the fiber. It's called the O2O which can support speeds of around 250 megabits per second. It beams back to the ISS to the Illuma-T, which connects to a ground link satellite called the TBIRD which can do an impressive 200 gigabit per second ground uplink.

This means unlike Apollo and whatever RF broadcast it was able to do, they can transfer 4k videos and pictures with very little issue and enable ground crews to start tearing into the fresh data in almost realtime. It's mind boggling to me that they have enough accuracy to track the ISS as it orbits, aim a low-spread laser at it while also travelling at lunar insertion velocities, and still transfer data faster than some people's primary home internet speed.
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
They are using an infrared laser for high-speed data connections, basically fiber optic without the fiber. It's called the O2O which can support speeds of around 250 megabits per second. It beams back to the ISS to the Illuma-T, which connects to a ground link satellite called the TBIRD which can do an impressive 200 gigabit per second ground uplink.

This means unlike Apollo and whatever RF broadcast it was able to do, they can transfer 4k videos and pictures with very little issue and enable ground crews to start tearing into the fresh data in almost realtime. It's mind boggling to me that they have enough accuracy to track the ISS as it orbits, aim a low-spread laser at it while also travelling at lunar insertion velocities, and still transfer data faster than some people's primary home internet speed.
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I am pretty sure almost all Apollo vids we see except for very few were film recordings that were developed later on Earth. It's still weird that the original Apollo 11 landing live feed is 'lost footage' and all we have now is a recoding off a TV camera that was live feeding from the surface.

I'm hopeful we'll get near instant views, so far the images are fairly grainy. Just FYI on these...


 
Deep Nozzle Throat said:
Berger could probably cite exactly what the issue was if he had true insider knowledge or insight
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I look forward to this coming out someday just so I can know exactly how it's possible to fuck up 'bolt four RL10s to a big tank and an RCS or something' in the 2010s-2020s.
Deep Nozzle Throat said:
NASASpaceFlight just plain old sucks and any industry insiders left ages ago.
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I read the forum like circa-2010. That was kinda fun, old Shuttle project guys talking about retarded interagency politics and how cool projects got killed. Saw they had a youtube, went 'wow, wonder what this is like' and then I was left wondering what the fuck happened.
 
I just wonder how the astronauts' perspectives about life will change as they get to the moon. Being an astronaut already makes you "different" due to the extensive training both physically and mentally, but seeing the terrestrial landscape (near) up-close and personal in a way that hasn't been seen in over 50 years has to be humbling.

That's why all of those articles and shit about racism and sexism or giving the finger to the patriarchy or whatever the fuck pisses me off so much because in space, none of that matters. You're all just a fragile bag of bones floating around in zero gravity where one wrong move will be the death of you, and no one will be able to recover your body. You were one of the lucky few to get off this rock and your puny perspective will fly out of orbit once you see what's out there. Literally nobody else cares what you're thinking because it's just you and a small ragtag team who have the same goal as you.

I hope none of the astronauts are being told about these articles nor get to see them once they come home, because that shit will crush their souls.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I just wonder how the astronauts' perspectives about life will change as they get to the moon. Being an astronaut already makes you "different" due to the extensive training both physically and mentally, but seeing the terrestrial landscape (near) up-close and personal in a way that hasn't been seen in over 50 years has to be humbling.
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That's called the 'Overview effect'

The Overview Effect is a profound cognitive shift experienced by astronauts viewing Earth from space, characterized by a sudden, intense appreciation for the planet’s fragility and a deep sense of human unity. Coined by Frank White in 1987, it often replaces nationalistic views with a global perspective, highlighting the lack of visible borders.

BTW, the black guy up there said to someone asking about this 'first black' crap and said hopefully someday we'll get past even asking that crap. Major props to that.

ETA: Stars and auroa

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mlanguishi said:
BTW, the black guy up there said to someone asking about this 'first black' crap and said hopefully someday we'll get past even asking that crap. Major props to that.
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Legit. That line of thinking is what separates the black people from the niggers, and one is an endangered species.
 
Someone woke them up, astro reid was not too happy by the sounds of it. Now is morning wake up music.
 
Kwisatz00 said:
I cannot support this, it is such a flagrant abuse of free speech. He should have said "fuck off niggers"
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I actually really wish he ended it with 'you retard' to CNN. Trump probably would've invited him on AF1 for that

And this is a truly amazing picture. The first I've seen that really looks 'next gen'

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Not to degrade the scope and importance of this mission, but any pictures you see are more filtered than an OF whore.
That's why the live feed is so important, even if it is 144p potato quality.
 
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Kwisatz00 said:
Not to degrade the scope and importance of this mission, but any pictures you see are more filtered than an OF whore.
That's why the live feed is so important, even if it is 144p potato quality.
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I'm not sure if it's even possible to take direct iphone pics and send them for now. I mean we've seen them in cabin with the phones and it would be nice to get the raw images.
 
Kwisatz00 said:
Not to degrade the scope and importance of this mission, but any pictures you see are more filtered than an OF whore.
That's why the live feed is so important, even if it is 144p potato quality.
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Eh, that's true but it's also true for basically any space photography. All the cool photos we see of stuff like nebulae are composite images where they assign certain colors to certain wavelengths of light, including ones not visible to humans, so we can see the full scope of the dust cloud. Hubble was the "see what the human eye can see" telescope but even Hubble had some infrared and ultraviolet sensors that are outside of human vision.

That's one thing that makes JWST so cool though, it's intentionally looking for red-shifted IR so we can see farther out than ever before, but those photos still have to be "re-colored" for humans to see all the information the cameras pick up.
 
The live feed is exactly what i expected. a very bright white dot.

And yes, if we want to see pretty pictures of nebula 1000s of light years away, we obviously would need a simulation. This is our neighbour, a minute or two away, we can and should get HD.
 
Kwisatz00 said:
The live feed is exactly what i expected. a very bright white dot.

And yes, if we want to see pretty pictures of nebula 1000s of light years away, we obviously would need a simulation. This is our neighbour, a minute or two away, we can and should get HD.
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I wish one of the astros snuck a Samsung phone onboard so they can take a photo of the dark side of the moon only for Samsung to superimpose their fake "HD" moon on it :story:
 
I also like to think of this as a type of revenge.
Fish came from the oceans and eventually moved to land.
Countless time later, there we are trying to catch a fish, fail.
Fuck it lets go to space!

Haven't researched it, but wouldn't be surprised if all the best rocket scientist were fishermen.

edit: They are awake and WHY THE FUCK DO THEY NEED A SHAVER FOR A 9 DAY MISSION?!?!?!?
 
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Christina Koch: "Houston where's the electric shaver...asking for a friend"

This brings up interesting thoughts, does the electric shaver have some kind of vacuum to capture shaved hair, or do they just do it next to some other kind of suction tube to make sure nobody breathes a cloud of powdered hair in space?
 
just them getting chritina's "friend" that fucking razor probably cost a few million dollars.

To add: this is just over 24hrs after launch. SHAVE YOURSELVES YOU DIRTY FUCKS before you take off.
 
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