Space Voyages into space

[morris]

NASA intends to fly helicopter on Mars

WASHINGTON: More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove it’s possible to replicate the feat on another world.Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft...

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Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet on Thursday, the small Ingenuity helicopter will have several challenges to overcome — the biggest being the rarefied Martian atmosphere, which is just one percent the density of Earth’s.

 

[morris]

In February 2021, the workshops of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (Samara, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) completed welding of the first stage oxidizer forecastle assembly for the experimental installation of the promising Soyuz-5 launch vehicle.

Structurally, the forecastle consists of a lower bottom, four cylindrical shells with a diameter of 4 100 mm and a technological shell. This assembly is necessary to confirm the strength characteristics of the lower part of the "O" tank. The tests will confirm the characteristics laid down in the design documentation.

At present, the specialists of the testing area of the aggregate-welding-assembly shop are preparing the forecastle for the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle for strength and tightness tests.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/30037/

 

[morris]

RSC Energia conducted acoustic tests of the # Luna25 lander.
In a special acoustic chamber, it was exposed to sound waves in a wide frequency range. A similar wave effect will act on it during the flight of the rocket.

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NASA Selects Firefly Aerospace for Artemis Commercial Moon Delivery in 2023 - NASA

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology

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The delivery, planned for Mare Crisium, a low-lying basin on the Moon’s near side, will investigate a variety of lunar surface conditions and resources. Such investigations will help prepare for human missions to the lunar surface.

Illustration of of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the lunar surface. The lander will carry a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023 as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.

Credits: Firefly Aerospace

 

[ENGINEER]

The picture below is a 100% scale image, part of the Perseverance Rover surroundings in Jezero Crater and the picture width is around 1.5 metres across. A North Easterly view. The mid-ground in the complete photo shows the river delta entering with the crater rim beyond. The landing rockets gave it a good blasting. I can visualise a current direction of toward me if I was in the lake bed. The rocks seem to be bedding planes and appear to be layered. You would expect these to be bottom bed dunes exposed by a couple of billion years of erosion, whereas the local beddings appear to have undergone no tectonic upheavals. Bottom current beds are almost the same as sand dunes in form and so erosion has cut across the stoss/lee slope so the gentler upstream slope is towards the top. A small geo interpretation that is a first overview of some aspects.

 

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A little birdie tell me that near-Earth asteroid Apophis has missed us. 2068 is the danger point apparently but I may not, by then, be around to post that here

 

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Gloucestershire meteorite is first UK find in 30 years

Fragments are recovered from the blazing fireball that lit up the sky above England last month.

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[Penny]

Wow! This incredible image of the Milky Way took 12 years to create​

Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio spent 1,250 hours over the course of about 12 years creating a single image that reveals the magnificent beauty of the entire Milky Way galaxy.


Back in 2009, Metsavainio began this project, which is a 100,000-pixel mosaic of the Milky Way composed of 234 individual images all stitched together. The resulting image (which you can see below) captures the entire galaxy, speckled with about 20 million of the Milky Way's roughly 200 billion stars.

Article Link: https://www.space.com/astrophotographer-12-years-mosaic-image-milky-way-galaxy

 

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Space stations modules comparison

 

[IDF_TANKER]

So what are we going for here, gents? Is it the girth, the length..?

 

[morris]

endurance?

 

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