Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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Better clip:
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@antipodean hope they didn’t damage the mount.
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NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
Ridiculous imagery in a fraction of the time that Hubble managed.
And this was the ridiculous bit
Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground -
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
Ridiculous imagery in a fraction of the time that Hubble managed.
And this was the ridiculous bit
Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the groundwhat the actual fuck!
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NASA has also released new images:
NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí.
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@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
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@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
A billion a launch for that rocket right? Criminal.
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@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
A billion a launch for that rocket right? Criminal.
political, not criminal, right?
Fund the right states.
Avoid failure at all costs (even though that throws time and ironically risk into the programme) -
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@nzzp said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA it's really cool. But SpaceX are showing how expensive this low risk appraoch is. If Starship was allowed to be launched, there would probably be literal tons of gear in orbit by now, and heading off to the moon.
Reusable rockets have reset space expectations, in a great way.
A billion a launch for that rocket right? Criminal.
political, not criminal, right?
There's a difference?
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@NTA I hope it wasn't one of those cases where a faulty 50c part halted a multi-million dollar liftoff!! But I'd rather a faulty part than a big engine issue.
lol what are the chances that sensor actually costs a shit-ton
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@Paekakboyz said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA I hope it wasn't one of those cases where a faulty 50c part halted a multi-million dollar liftoff!! But I'd rather a faulty part than a big engine issue.
lol what are the chances that sensor actually costs a shit-ton
Probably cost a couple of bucks but NASA pay thousands
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Given the Artemis uses an enhanced version of a design first flight certified over four decades ago, and that temperature was the issue behind he integrity of the Challenger's O-rings, I can understand NASA's reticence. It's expensive because of the engineering required to operate in such extremes.
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@antipodean oh shit, yeah no wonder they were erring on the side of caution. What a cool but kinda nightmare fuel job to be working on a gnarly project like this.
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@Paekakboyz I can tell you from personal experience; if the sensor was made by Audi, it'll cost at least two shit-tons
