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Saw the Hunters Moon this morning on the way into the office. It was glorious in the dawn
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boffins at Sandia National Laboratories that tested heat shield prototypes by blasting them with rays of focused sunlight so strong Archimedes would blush.
An uncle works at the Sandia National Labs and managed to get us a tour of the public-appropriate places about a decade ago. Given what we saw and the people we met I can easily imagine them having so much fun running those experiments!
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From 2028 to 2035, the plan calls for ongoing space station ops, further crewed Moon exploration, and developing an International Lunar Research Station
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I prefer the comics but I fucking loved the opening scene of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
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It was the only good part of that otherwise-dreadful movie
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It was jaw dropping last night.
And the weather was so unseasonably warm with the cloudless sky that I stood barefoot on the stone patio for ages enjoying it.
Storms on the way now of course!
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It turns out that Princess Vespa’s Mercedes from Spaceballs is on display at a free private museum just a few miles away from my house! Definitely going back there after finishing the Halloween costumes this year.
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dont get me started, this film is truly unbearable for me. (I was obsessed with the comics as a kid)
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isnt axiom broke?
NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, which is set to launch in September 2026.
No one at NASA actually believes this.
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It’s the other September 2026.
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I hate to be a downer but that article doesn’t really reflect the reality of what SpinLaunch has done or is trying to do. For one, it says
If the system eventually works as planned it will certainly reduce the need for rocket fuel, but it’s still going to be flinging a (smaller) chemical-powered rocket, and the rocket is needed to get the payload to orbit.
But the most deceptive part is that the article says that they’ve had 10 successful launches (as of 2022) and didn’t clarify that the dummy projectiles that they launched didn’t get anywhere near orbit. Their highest projectile reached 30,000 feet, which is a long way from space and nowhere near the energy needed to get to orbit.
Why was this article published now, I wonder? The most current information in it is a quote from a 2022 report. Per Wikipedia the company hasn’t even done any more test launches since 2022 and replaced their CEO a few months ago so it really looks like they may not be around much longer.
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