HAPPY JUICE LAUNCH (homestuck) DAY!!!

I’ve been holding this one out on all y’all Tumblr people, but I wanted to post it THE DAY OF. So here I am, April 8th, writing this now so I don’t forget about it later.

Best of wishes to JUICE, I hope the launch goes well and the cruise to Jupiter is a relaxing one. May the lunchables be plentiful!

Love these silly space probes

chandra (like the space probe). diplomat sent to the duchy of nasa and overall very done with galileo's, kepler's and willemina's shenanigans (they keep trying to be nosy about the negotiations)

clothes r based off of some 1550s illustrations of courtiers n all around rich guys (and in the case of hair and jewellry, 1590s women) from the mughal period

space probes are so cool like the level of precision that scientists can hurl them into space with to get so close to their target planets and even asteroids, the fact that people can do that sorta thing is amazing to me

Huygens landing on Titan

Engineers Solve Data Glitch on NASA’s Voyager 1 | NASA

Engineers have repaired an issue affecting data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Earlier this year, the probe’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS), which keeps Voyager 1’s antenna pointed at Earth, began sending garbled information about its health and activities to mission controllers, despite operating normally. The rest of the probe also appeared healthy as it continued to gather and return science data.

The team has since located the source of the garbled information: The AACS had started sending the telemetry data through an onboard computer known to have stopped working years ago, and the computer corrupted the information.

Suzanne Dodd, Voyager’s project manager, said that when they suspected this was the issue, they opted to try a low-risk solution: commanding the AACS to resume sending the data to the right computer.

Engineers don’t yet know why the AACS started routing telemetry data to the incorrect computer, but it likely received a faulty command generated by another onboard computer. If that’s the case, it would indicate there is an issue somewhere else on the spacecraft. The team will continue to search for that underlying issue, but they don’t think it is a threat to the long-term health of Voyager 1.  

“We’re happy to have the telemetry back,” said Dodd. “We’ll do a full memory readout of the AACS and look at everything it’s been doing. That will help us try to diagnose the problem that caused the telemetry issue in the first place. So we’re cautiously optimistic, but we still have more investigating to do.”  ...

It should surprise none that we've been writing songs about space probes since ever.

There's a post out there that says, one day we'll find those Mars probes, and take them home for the Smithsonian? This has that fondness.

Aditya L1 Mission - क्यों है एक वरदान

भारत नें Chandrayaan-3 के बाद कल Aditya L1 Mission से सूर्य को नमन की तैयारी है। भारत की स्पेस एजेंसी ISRO के प्रमुख S. Somanath ने कहा कि भारत का यह पहला सौर Mission सूर्य और पृथ्वी के बीच मौजूद L1 Point पर पहुंचने के लिए 125 दिन लेगा। यह Point अपनी धरती से 15 Lakh Kilometer की दूरी पर है। यह धरती से सूरज की दूरी का मात्र 1% है। Aditya L1 Mission के लिए क्यों खास है L1 Point? किसी भी ग्रह की…

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Snakes … Innnnn … Spayyyyyyce. “Another proposed mission involves sending an autonomous "snake robot" into the watery depths below Enceladus' surface. The robot, dubbed the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, features cameras and lidar on its head to help it navigate the unknown environment of Enceladus' ocean floor.”

Images of Pioneer Ten I have collected over time <3

Mark your calendars for JU.IC.E launch day, 4/13/2023

another one for the space probes collection

compton (like the space probe). she's a retired bronzesmith that lives somewhere in italy (and she knows what it's like to have a career-ending tragedy. she's fine now though)

The Idea Becomes Reality

The Idea Becomes Reality

Since I started doing my Planetary Defense Progress Reports that miserable summer after graduation, I’ve been writing with anticipation about the DART mission. I first learned about the Double Asteroid Redirection Test that spring during my senior design course, where we were more interested in the propulsion system demonstration than the mission itself. Nevertheless, I was excited by the…

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the voyagers powering down on their 45th launch anniversary is making me feel some kind of way (sad) so here’s my voyager 1 pov playlist :( i’m missing you already kings

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5auu9QiM0h06iovDaecEYs?si=mwFV7l1ZStW0DesU-kPSCA