Exciting. The recent test image hints that we’ll be in for a treat and the thought we might see something nobody has ever seen before.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/05/09/miris-sharper-view-hints-at-new-possibilities-for-science/
It’s like a person with myopia putting on glasses!
Starlink’s success in Ukraine amplifies interest in anti-satellite weapons
Quite a lot of interesting links.
Headline generator:
Elon Musk’s Plan to ${plan} by ${date} Is Pure Delusion
Food wouldn’t be much of a problem, though. I know from watching The Martian how to make farmable soil on Mars, and Elon alone is so full of the crucial component that they’d be able to feed everybody.
Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope
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In a statement, NASA said the impact happened some time at the end of May. Despite the impact being larger than any that NASA modeled and “beyond what the team could have tested on the ground,” the space agency said the telescope continues to perform at higher-than-expected levels. The telescope has been hit on four previous occasions since launch.
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Astra fails, sends NASA’s Tropics weather satellites back to Earth
The first of NASA’s TROPICS constellation launches came to an unscheduled end over the weekend as the Astra launch vehicle it was riding failed to deliver the cubesats to orbit.
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If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here’s some homework, FAA tells SpaceX
SpaceX is one step closer to securing a permit to launch not just its first rocket from Boca Chica, Texas but its reusable super-heavy lifter at that.
And by one step closer, we mean: the US Federal Aviation Administration has issued more than 75 requirements for SpaceX to fulfill, which are aimed at minimizing the environmental impact of its launches on residents and wildlife.
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talk about tinfoil hots…
My team… they think may
yeah, yeah. we know the truth.
A letter has been filed with America’s communications watchdog confirming that SpaceX and OneWeb, which are building mega-constellations of broadband satellites, are content to play nicely.
The letter sweeps all the unpleasantness between the two neatly under the rug “after extensive good-faith coordination discussions.” Despite what could charitably be described as snarky remarks about each other to the FCC over the years, the duo have agreed that their first-generation broadband satellite services can, after all, co-exist.
“Their respective second-round systems can also efficiently coexist with each other while protecting their respective first-round systems,” the memo, dated June 13 and shared by Reuters’ journo Joey Roulette today, reads.
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