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Cryo Tests Starting for SpaceX SN20 Starship
September 28, 2021 by Brian Wang

SpaceX is starting cryo fuel tests of the SpaceX SN20 starship. SN20 Starship has a completed heat shield.

The orbital test of SN20 and the BN3 booster will not happen until after tests and FAA approval. FAA is going through a public comment phase.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/c ... rship.html
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European-Japanese space mission gets 1st glimpse of Mercury
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BERLIN (AP) — A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system’s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.

The BepiColombo mission made the first of six flybys of Mercury at 11:34 p.m. GMT (7:34 p.m. EST) Friday, using the planet’s gravity to slow the spacecraft down.

After swooping past Mercury at altitudes of under 200 kilometers (125 miles), the spacecraft took a low resolution black-and-white photo with one of its monitoring cameras before zipping off again.

The European Space Agency said the captured image shows the Northern Hemisphere and Mercury’s characteristic pock-marked features, among them the 166-kilometer-wide (103-mile-wide) Lermontov crater.




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Yuli Ban wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:18 am
So beautiful to see this happening! Probably one of the most epic moments in the newest history of space exploration 8-)
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Russians Blast Off to Film in Space

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Russian actor, director blast off to make first movie in space

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A Russian actor and a film director have rocketed into space on a landmark mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit.

Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station (ISS) together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions.

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BaobabScion wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:19 am Russian actor, director blast off to make first movie in space

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A Russian actor and a film director have rocketed into space on a landmark mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit.

Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station (ISS) together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions.

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The return of the expedition to Earth is scheduled for October 17, 2021. So they will record the film pretty fast. I wonder is it will be any good tho. Because to be honest, it's not enough time to record a good product. But who knows? I hope to be wrong :D
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NASA's Lucy mission: A journey to the young solar system
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-nasa-lucy ... young.html
by Lonnie Shekhtman, NASA

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission will include three Earth gravity assists and visits to eight asteroids.

Called "Trojans" after characters from Greek mythology, most of Lucy's target asteroids are left over from the formation of the solar system. These Trojans circle the sun in two swarms: one that precedes and one that follows Jupiter in its orbit of the sun. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to visit the Trojans, and the first to examine so many independent solar system targets, each in its own orbit of the sun.

Studying Jupiter's Trojan asteroids up close would help scientists hone their theories on how our solar system's planets formed 4.5 billion years ago and why they ended up in their current configuration. "It's almost like we're traveling back in time," said aerospace engineer Jacob Englander, who helped design Lucy's trajectory while working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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wjfox wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:12 am
Let's hope it goes well!
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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Forty-Two of The Biggest Asteroids in The Solar System Revealed in Glorious New Images
by Michelle Starr
October 12, 2021

https://www.sciencealert.com/42-of-the- ... new-images

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(Science Alert) If there's one thing our Solar System doesn't have in short supply, it's rocks.

Small rocks, chunky rocks, dry rocks, icy rocks. Rocks that are like other rocks. It's the rocks' system, really – we just happen to live here too. For all their prevalence, though, these rocks aren't easy to see; they're small, and dim, and outshone by bigger, brighter objects.

But we're getting better at it, and now we've gotten the most detailed look yet at some of the biggest rocks in the Solar System that aren't planets. An international team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to image 42 of the largest objects that hang out in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

"Only three large main belt asteroids, Ceres, Vesta and Lutetia, have been imaged with a high level of detail so far, as they were visited by the space missions Dawn and Rosetta of NASA and the European Space Agency, respectively," said astronomer Pierre Vernazza of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille in France.

"Our ESO observations have provided sharp images for many more targets, 42 in total."
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Interesting!


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