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Space Exploration megathread

Since a number of cool things are happening in space exploration these days, we'll widen the scope of this thread a smidge. Conversation about all things space exploration are welcome, whether it be from NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin, or anyone else. Chances are most of the discussion will still be about SpaceX since they love to make things public and fun, but nothing's off limits. I'll eventually get around to modifying the OP to include resources for other companies too, but in the meantime, feel free to post any cool stuff you run across.

Lists of Upcoming Missions



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Old 04-19-2021, 12:26 PM   #4216
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It's almost flown under the radar that we have another manned launch coming up. Unfortunately it's super early in the morning, but still.

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Old 04-19-2021, 12:28 PM   #4217
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That's pretty ****ing awesome. Anyone know the resolution on Ingenuity's camera offhand? Would love to see some 4k footage of the ground below as it soars over the rocks.
13 megapixel on the color camera.
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It's almost flown under the radar that we have another manned launch coming up. Unfortunately it's super early in the morning, but still.

Side note, it looks like Boeing's Starliner not likely to fly crew until 2022. Not just because of their program setbacks, but due in part to a bit of a traffic jam at ISS. Kinda cool.


https://arstechnica.com/science/2021...il-early-2022/
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The Ingenuity Mars helicopter completed the first controlled, powered flight on Mars today.

It's fitting that the mission, an experimental companion to the Perseverance rover, carried a piece of history.

A postage stamp-size piece of muslin fabric that covered one of the wings from the Wright brothers' Flyer 1 is attached to a cable beneath the helicopter's solar panel.

A different piece of the wing's material, known as "Pride of the West" – along with a splinter of wood from the Flyer — was flown on Apollo 11 in 1969, traveling to the moon and back.

The first powered, controlled flight on Earth took place aboard the Flyer near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when Orville and Wilbur Wright flew 120 feet for 12 seconds in December 1903. History was made when the Wright brothers conducted four separate flights on Dec. 17, 1903, and each one was a little longer than the previous one.
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I'm excited about that thing, but man...it looks fragile. Hopefully it's more durable than it looks!
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Perseverance rover just made oxygen on Mars

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/world...scn/index.html

(CNN)The Perseverance rover may be parked at an overlook to capture any flights by the Ingenuity helicopter over the next two weeks, but it's not wasting any of its time on Mars.

The rover on Tuesday successfully converted some of the plentiful carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen as a first test of its MOXIE instrument. The name MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.

After warming up for about two hours, MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of oxygen. This is enough to sustain an astronaut for about 10 minutes.
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