New Rockets Launch, Old Rockets Retire &India's Mars Mission Ends – Deep Space Updates October 7th.
Another news roundup from the last couple of weeks, one rocket makes its successful debut and a couple of older rockets make final flights in specific configurations or locations. India’s Mars mission is lost after 8 years after running out of fuel. Jack Beyer Tweets by thejackbeyer NASASpaceflight Starship Gazer Tweets by StarshipGazer Kip Daugirdas […]
California’s Largest Rocket Launches for Last Time – Listen To The Sound! #shorts
A largely unedited piece of video shot on a iPhone, no massive telescopic lenses, no tracking shots, just the rocket 3 miles away and the sound. For me one of the most interesting things was the way the ‘crackle’ of the rocket changed as it climbed above the landscape and the acoustic environment changed. Follow […]
Can SpaceX's Dragon Give Hubble New Life?
SpaceX & Jared Isaacman have been awarded an unfunded space act agreement to study boosting the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit, and potentially more. While they haven’t gone into great detail about what the plan could be it would be logical to use SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft which has cargo space for payloads which […]
Firefly Joins The Orbital Rocket Club
Firefly Aerospace achieved orbit with their second rocket, launching a trio of brave volunteer satellites into a slightly retrograde low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Features footage from Everyday Astronaut’s official coverage The Launch Abort footage is from Michael Baylor at NASASpaceFlight https://www.youtube.com/c/NASASpaceflightVideos Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets […]
Asteroid Smashing Looks Like Nothing You Ever Imagined
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission finished yesterday in a spectacular crash into the Asteroid Dimorphos Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley And if […]
Deep Space Update – September 22nd
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This Isn't A Sonic Boom #shorts
For a whole lot more science on these phenomena NASA has a publication “Patterns in the Sky” https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950024579 Credit to Dr Chris Combs for this idea: THIS IS NOT A SONIC BOOM Okay folks, it’s been long enough. Time to finally address the biggest point of confusion on #AvGeek twitter: what exactly is going on […]
Why NASA's Deep Space Network Is The Most Important Part Of Any Space Probe
The Deep Space Network is operated by JPL at 3 different sites around the world offering continuous support for spacecraft in deep space. The network goes back to the late 1950’s and has expanded and adapted over that time to offer capabilities 10 trillion times superior to what the earliest spacecraft used. But more than […]
MaxQ ABORT! – Blue Origin's New Shepard Has Fiery Engine Failure In Flight
A quick update on Blue Origin’s NS23 Failure this morning. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley source
SLS Has No Fire – Starship Has Too Much – Deep Space Updates – September 9th
Another roundup of the space news and space launches in the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately I forgot to turn on the lights and hook up the microphone so the sound and video are not great. Again, thanks to NASASpaceFlight.com for their work documenting Starship development and testing https://www.youtube.com/c/NASASpaceflightVideos Follow me on Twitter for more […]