TIL The fastest man made object ever made (at 157,078 mph) is Helios 2, a spacecraft launched in 1976, currently orbiting the Sun. themysteriousworld.com/toβ¦
Helios Spacecraft with JNSQ mod
NickFlyerβs first successful docking with the Helios spacecraft
KSP History Part 93 - Helios (Closest approach to the sun, spacecraft speed record) imgur.com/a/p3pzk
TIL that the Helios 2 spacecraft was the fastest moving manmade object ever. It reached a velocity of 356,000 km/hr. That's 290 times the speed of sound. guinnessworldrecords.com/β¦
TIL Helios 1&2 are the fastest spacecraft humans build at 252000km/h (43mi/s) and although they are no longer functional, they are still orbiting around the sun. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hβ¦
TIL the Russian Soyuz series of spacecraft has been in continual use with the same basic design for 55 years and 140 flights. It is widely considered the world's safest, most cost-effective human spaceflight vehicle. At least one is always docked at the ISS at all times for use as an escape craft. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyβ¦
The fastest man-made spacecraft (Helios 2) achieved a speed of 157,000 mph and that was in 1976. If we built a probe that was 2x faster, could we send the probe from Earth to Pluto in just 1 year?
Any limitations with technology or the corresponding orbits of Pluto and the Earth?
The mountains discovered on Pluto during the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of the dwarf planet in 2015 are covered by a blanket of methane ice, creating bright deposits strikingly like the snow-capped mountain chains found on Earth.
How does NASA and other space agencies protect their spacecraft from being hacked and taken over by signals broadcast from hostile third parties?
Helios Spacecrafts β The fastest man made vehicles sciencegaveuslot.com/heliβ¦
I wanna see aquatic tyranids. And orks in comical diving suits with flamethrowers that work underwater. And Imperial naval ships that look like spacecrafts to funnily contrast the fact that they have spaceships that look like naval.
Plutoβs ice mountains: Frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRi v.redd.it/bgbaw9rkwkb81
TIL about DART Mission, a test to see if crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid can change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered. In September 2022, a space probe is set to crash into a moonlet of asteroid Didymos to assess the future potential of such technologies. nasa.gov/planetarydefenseβ¦
The Helios probes: holders of the speed record for spacecraft at 70 km/s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasβ¦
Saturn's moon Enceladus caught by NASA's Cassini spacecraft (from: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Terrifying beauty. Closeup of Jupiterβs towering ammonia clouds from the Juno Spacecraft
Spacecraft enters the Sun's corona for the first time in history eurekalert.org/news-releaβ¦
Jeff Foust on Twitter : NASA commercial crew manager Steve Stich says the Crew-4 flight will be the first commercial crew mission using a booster on its fourth flight (B1067, which also launched Crew-3). New Dragon spacecraft. Launch scheduled for no earlier than April 15. twitter.com/jeff_foust/stβ¦
Wernher von Braun, designer of the Saturn V , poses in front of the spacecraftβs engines (1969). Braun was the head of the German rocket industry in World War II. At the end of the war, he was brought to the USA.What do you think about the U.S. using the old nazis?[211x281]
If launched by 2028, a spacecraft could catch up with 'Oumuamua in 26 years phys.org/news/2022-01-spaβ¦
Saturnβs moon Enceladus. Cassini spacecraft
Nasa Dart asteroid spacecraft: Mission to smash into Dimorphos space rock launches bbc.com/news/science-enviβ¦
Europa casting a shadow onto Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This is a multiple composite made from real image data acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on May 22, 2000 and Sept. 19, 1997, and Cassini on Dec. 29, 2000
GASPACS satellite launched from the ISS plays a tune Launched on January 26, 2022 from the International Space Station, the GASPACS spacecraft plays the tune. Congratulations π Kourosh Delpak DOWNLINK: 437.365 MHz 9600 baud GFSK kourosh Delpak Regards v.redd.it/3muqk136a8e81
NASA spacecraft βtouchesβ the Sun for the first time ever. The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sunβs atmosphere, gathering data that will help scientists better understand stars. nature.com/articles/d4158β¦
When you realise that the Teletubbies is a tragic tale of a crashed alien spacecraft, dead parents, and totally uneducated children
Their "home" is clearly a crashed alien spacecraft from many years ago, grass has grown over it over that time.
The parents are nowhere to be seen so were likely killed on impact and the robot cleaning system (NooNoo) must have cleaned up and recycled the bodies.
The children (now fully grown) must have been babies at the time as the food replicator is still set for baby food, and their rudimentary communication is heavily visually orientated as they have little concept of their actual language.
It's just lucky that nobody has discovered them yet, especially with that sun baby holographic distress beacon up in the sky!
The Spacecraft Sent to Crash Into an Asteroid Just Returned Its Very First Images interestingengineering.coβ¦
Time-lapse of the Soyuz spacecraft docking with the International Space Station. v.redd.it/d4t7jhgqgod81
15 December 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus, the first successful soft landing on another planet.
Terrifying beauty. Closeup of Jupiterβs towering ammonia clouds from the Juno Spacecraft
The mysterious Tower on the far side of the Moon found by Soviet Spacecraft Zond 3, July 1965
This enhanced-color image of Jupiterβs bands of light and dark clouds was created by citizen scientists Gerald EichstΓ€dt and Sean Doran. Juno spacecraft, NASA...
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASAβs Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sunβs upper atmosphere β the corona β and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. nasa.gov/feature/goddard/β¦
French researchers published a paper in Nature demonstrating a new kind of ion thruster that uses solid iodine instead of gaseous xenon as propellant, opening the way to cheaper, better spacecraft. inverse.com/science/iodinβ¦
Clearest Photos of Jupiter - Juno Spacecraft - NASA reddit.com/gallery/s3rjal
Spacecraft discovers 'hidden water' in Mars Grand Canyon cnet.com/news/spacecraft-β¦
To fly a spacecraft v.redd.it/n404wb7apq581
ΡΠΎΡΠ· (soyuz) spacecraft docking at the International Space Station. v.redd.it/fskfjpn3hd981
GASPACS satellite launched from the ISS plays a tune Launched on January 26, 2022 from the International Space Station, the GASPACS spacecraft plays the tune. Congratulations π Kourosh Delpak DOWNLINK: 437.365 MHz 9600 baud GFSK v.redd.it/29ch2g1mc8e81
Spacecraft enters the Sun's corona for the first time in history eurekalert.org/news-releaβ¦
Jupiter's swirling clouds. Juno Spacecraft
Been 6 months using this thing - Helios 300 (10870H+3060) - Ask me Anything
The Far Side of the Moon 1959, Captured by the Luna 3 spacecraft.
Jupiter by Juno spacecraft, Kevin M Gill reddit.com/gallery/s4yhp1
NASA thinks US needs nuclear-powered spacecraft to stay ahead of China space.com/us-needs-nucleaβ¦
Soviets actually had their own reusable spacecraft's shape design, but in the end they decided that Space Shuttle's aerodynamic shape proved itself to be safe and efficient, and there is no need to "reinvent the wheel" and lose time.
HELIOS One coming back online.
Jason Bright and his followers launching into the vast unknown.
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