Posted on 01/27/2022 9:50:45 AM PST by BenLurkin
Do any of the Chinese rovers have seismometers? It would be a good way to get additional data on the Lunar interior. Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter shut down the ones left by the Apollo missions.
can’t see it from my house, so dump away
Wrong “Hollow Moon”:
This is the classic...
https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Our-Spaceship-Moon-Coverup/dp/1545394946
Excellent!
“Chaotic orbit”?
Well, I guess there an moment of chaos at the end...
So if you had audio with the gif, you would know that only the last astronaut had beans. And thats what gives his hiding position away in the end....
The good news is that the James Watt Space Telescope is now in its special orbit and the only thing left to do is slowly adjust the focus of all its mirrors.
The real problem facing the Earth.
Looks more like Hillary.
Elon Musk and SpaceX are about to shock the world again as their rocket will slam the surface of the moon in just five weeks from now.
Yup! You didn't hear wrong!
So, what can we expect from this historic event?
Just a few days ago, Elon Musk promised that "Back to the moon soon”.
We all must be thinking about Starship. Elon Musk's company is providing the landing system for the first crewed touchdown of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, a milestone that the agency hopes to achieve in 2025.
But it turns out, SpaceX will reach the surface of the moon much ahead of schedule.
Wow, this will definitely be worth the wait! How exactly can they do this?
The moon's spacecraft graveyard will soon welcome another body and this actually was by accident.
Let's back nearly seven years ago when SpaceX launched its first interplanetary mission. After the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage completed a long burn to reach a transfer orbit, NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory began its journey to a Sun-Earth LaGrange point more than 1 million km from the Earth. To compare, NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope just arrived at L2, which is 1.5 million kilometers from Earth in the other direction, toward the orbit of Mars.
The spacecraft can detect solar winds leaving the Sun around one hour before they hit Earth, which means it can act as an advanced warning system for Earth.
As we know, SpaceX usually disposes of Falcon 9 upper stages after launch by sending them back into Earth's atmosphere for a fiery death. But the company had yet to pull off a first-stage touchdown at the time of the DSCOVR launch; the first such success came in December 2015.
The upper stage was so high after sending DSCOVR on its way, however, that it didn't have enough fuel to return to its home planet. So, it's been cruising through the Earth-moon system on a long and looping orbit for nearly seven years.
Its time is now nearly up. According to sky observers, the spent second stage's orbit is on course to intersect with the Moon. According to Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects, asteroids, minor planets, and comets, such an impact could come in March.
Earlier this month, Gray put out a call for amateur and professional astronomers to make additional observations of the stage, which appears to be tumbling through space. With this new data, the impact is expected to occur at 7:25 a.m. Eastern time on March 4. It’s expected to hit the Moon at latitude 4.93 and east longitude 233.20.
However, some uncertainties remain. Gray noted that his prediction might be wrong by “a degree or two minutes” from the projection. As the object is tumbling, it is difficult to precisely predict the effects of sunlight "pushing" on the rocket stage and thus making slight alterations to its orbit. "These unpredictable effects are very small," Gray writes. But they will accumulate between now and March 4, and further observations are needed to refine the precise time and location of the impact.
The dry mass of Falcon 9's second stage is about 4 metric tons, and it’s also expected to hit the Moon at a speed of around 2.58 kilometers per second.
Well, has anything else hit the Moon before?
This upcoming impact will be the "first example of a Regolith Unplanned Disassembly if orbital dynamics holds true," SpaceX principal integration engineer, who hosts many of SpaceX's launch webcasts, John Insprucker tweeted on Monday, invoking the RUD acronym that Musk often uses to describe the destruction — or "rapid unplanned disassembly" — of a rocket during testing here on Earth.SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is approaching the moon after 7 years of floating in space
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