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Howdy folks, my name is Nik and I am the managing editor of
@WeAreSpaceScout
. I also published the Turtledove Award Winning timeline Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars, and am currently pursuing a career in space policy.
Read more below on my Medium, and on Space Scout!
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And the award for “most bonkers shit I’ve ever seen” goes to…
Project Lyra explores the possibility of sending a spacecraft to chase 'Oumuamua using an Earth gravity assist to reach Jupiter, which robs the craft of almost all its speed, causing it to drop to the Sun for an Oberth maneuver.
Thanks
@hibberdadam994
for the trajectory data!
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this is your semi yearly reminder that it’s crewed spaceflight not manned spaceflight
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BLOW UP I DARE YOU
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@supersonicmia
Training mockup! They use it for firefighting practice. I think it’s made out of spare parts.
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solar power cassini isn't real he can't hurt you:
solar power cassini:
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space twitter sees an object rotating and declares it can be reused ten times
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contrary to popular belief, crew dragon is a shit vehicle for servicing Hubble
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on this momentous day - it is once again time for Cygnus H
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hot take: there's enough small launch vehicles, we need more innovative payloads/orbital vehicles
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feeling a deep kinship with the latching end effector... lookit him....
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Meet Blue Ring - Blue Origin’s hybrid chemical/solar electric space tug. Really exciting stuff!
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Also can we talk about how metal this patch is? Sick as hell.
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kinda fucking with my head that my generation's apollo program is happening and we get updates in near real time and in incredibly high definition
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sometimes several hours of delays and high humidity are worth it for this
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@rbalephoto
It just… severely restricts who can actually enjoy these things, plus cuts out a huge part of their audience.
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the only thing about this is that crew dragon can't carry cargo in the trunk during crew launches due to abort constraints. as cool as this would be for crew EVA work, F9 is limited in this capacity
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hmm. don’t love this.
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Starliner recovery seems so much better than Crew Dragon, with Dragon, you're bobbing and moving and already very nauseous from adjustment to gravity, which I'm sure isn't helped by being in the ocean. With Starliner, you're still and stable and ready to be helped out of the ship
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i think crewed spaceflight is best when it represents all of humanity, tbh
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love how our early observations of venus were like oh it could be so amazing on the surface perhaps a lush rainforest then we looked and it was actually hell
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real fucking tired of every corporation wanting to invest in satellite internet. it sucks for the space environment, it destroys our global commons, and only furthers the risk of debris collisions that endangers our important assets in space
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Intelsat 901 seen from the approaching Mission Extension Vehicle 1. Scenes like this will become more common as satellite servicing kits also built by Northrop Grumman come online
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One of the most egregious acts of disregard for preservation, it does not shock me that Virgin Galactic would do something like this.
I hope for our future endeavors in archeology and preservation, we do better.
[2/3]The recent launch of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi bones, including part of a type specimen, into sub-orbit on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft poses significant risks to their preservation and historical value.
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Thinking about the Transfer Orbit Stage, what a weird little dude
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first launch of artemis: shoebox, little guy, friend
next launch: super heavy launch vehicle
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As LEO becomes more crowded, unplanned corrections will become more common. This is why we need comprehensive regulation on end of life procedures for spacecraft.
An unplanned orbit correction of the ISS was performed today o avoid a piece of space debris. At 15:07 UTC, the engines of
#ProgressMS24
fired for 316,5 sec, increasing the station’s orbit for 900 m.
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here’s my take cause no one asked - we have a long road ahead if this vehicle is going to be our cornerstone to Lunar return and sustainability. NASA’s tests for SLS were slow, careful and produced a successful flight. Starship IFT did not feel like that.
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Hi! I'm Nick! My pronouns are they/them and I'm the author of Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars! I'm an environmental scientist, railfan and enjoyer of obscure topics! You can check out the links to my work in this thread!
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This photo from
@ulalaunch
showing
@astrobotic
's Peregrine lunar lander being integrated truly gives a sense of scale for this mammoth vehicle - Truly a beast!
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the planet you are standing on did not yet exist when the light from these galaxies was emitted.
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Fun fact - Delta Ks are some of the worst offenders for space debris. They realllly like to just explode without warning.
Nice diagram of a Delta K upper stage, as used on Delta II.
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One of Ingenuity’s greatest accomplishments, in my mind, is the new looks it provided on things like discarded hardware. This image of Perseverance’s backshell and parachute would never ever be possible without a scout like Ingenuity. Credit:
@NASAJPL
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I'm just now realizing how fucking big Orbital Reef is, even in its baseline configuration... that main module is like a better laid out Skylab OWS
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today is May 17, 2022. Humans are gearing up to go back to the moon, we are setting records all the time in spaceflight endurance and operations, and amazing machines are unlocking the mysteries of the cosmos
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thinking about Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby on this fine Thursday
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Huh, it’s almost like flying private astronauts to a national laboratory gets in the way of the science there… who knew?
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The piece about Blue Origin serves to highlight key failures about modern ideas of space exploration: it lacks equity and relies on the suffering of others to turn a profit.
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somewhere out there, a telescope is preparing to unfold the universe. and while this year has been a turbulent one, that little diamond floating in the cosmos gives me hope for the future.
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at this point starship is just an external tank. starship to shuttle pipeline is real
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Now hit the griddy
Collins Aerospace has released a video of testing the dexterity of their EVA spacesuit prototype.
Under NASA’s xEVAS program, these spacesuits will replace the current aging EVA spacesuits used on the International Space Station.
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I am thinking about how ESA has opened up its astronaut candidacy for people with disabilities, and how Japan has opened their astronaut corps to those who don't hold science degrees- i think that's a huge step for learning more about living and working in space
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“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
“Selling airplanes”
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engaging with harmful conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric is not a good look for one of the most prominent faces in human spaceflight
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as we wait for an actual launch day, I wanna give a huge shoutout to my
@WeAreSpaceScout
team - y’all rock ‼️
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I wanna give a huge fucking shoutout to
@Jaytheamazing_
for doing such an amazing job with Proxima's images: here's a recent highlight reel -
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say it with me now: an unsafe internal culture is an unsafe culture for flying hardware
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don’t you dare get stuck at Dulles for 2 hours
our whimsical ass:
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This is not a sustainable policy framework - if we are to lose payloads on the way to or on the lunar surface, it puts human architecture in jeopardy. We must enact policy that ensures success driven mission planning for every mission.
Without this, we fail.
Sometimes, failure is an option.
Our new commercial lunar delivery service will enable American companies to provide affordable, rapid, and frequent access to the Moon. This innovative approach comes with high risks and high rewards.
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Photos from SLIM and one of the LEVs, showcasing the SLIM lander nose down in the regolith! Credit: JAXA
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The End. Our final chapter of Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars is here. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart.
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It’s my birthday today - immensely grateful for all of the people this year who’ve made being on this planet so wonderful. Thank you all :)
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Every day I am blown away by the fact that a helicopter on Mars, intended to be a tech demonstration flying 5 or so sorties, has now flown 70 times - truly an immense testament to engineering! Godspeed Ingenuity!
Credit:
@NASAJPL
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In some personal and professional news, I’m taking over
@WeAreSpaceScout
from my good friend
@lavie154
. It is an absolute honor to be heading up such a diverse and talented group of people - and I can’t wait to share what we have in store:
Read more here:
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ONE WHOLE YEAR????
Time flies when you’re exploring another planet! This week marks my one-year landiversary on Mars (Feb. 18) and I have several drives planned and more rocks to see. Meanwhile, my team back on Earth has various ways you can celebrate my first year at Mars:
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cant carry any additional cargo in the trunk bc abort constraints, isn’t designed for EVAs, consumable margins would be tight at altitudes approaching Hubble, and would be even tighter maneuvering the whole telescope
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Low orbit setup for Strange New Worlds; a collaborative mission to 4 of Jool’s mysterious moons…
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From 1996 to 2023, from the first to the last,
@Arianespace
's Ariane 5 has powered over 900 tons into orbit, delivered cargo to the ISS, and opened the doors to our universe.
You will be missed - Godspeed Ariane 5.
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NGL Orion’s movable solar panels are some of the sickest things I’ve seen in recent spaceflight
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