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(14-10-2024, 09:45 AM)Earth Nasa engineers taken steps to turn off science instrument for as long as possible b'cos science data collected by twin Voyager probes is unique. No other earth human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space region outside the heliosphere. Plasma instrument: A measures of plasma (electrically charged atoms) Wrote: [ -> ]Both craft are powered by decaying plutonium will lose 4 watts of power each year. Twin Voyagers completed their exploration in 1980s, then turned off some science instruments not used in study interstellar space gave craft plenty of extra power, few more years. On Sept. 26, engineers command to turn off plasma science instrument sent by NASA’s Deep Space Network, a 19 hrs to reach Voyager 2, & return signal took another 19 hrs.

Mission engineers is carefully monitor changes being made to old 47-year-old craft’s..
https://www.youtube.com/live/fhZg74LqFlw...MYZ3N9pygS

(14-10-2024, 10:07 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]

Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'...


SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars.

During this flight, the SpaceX team attempted something that had never been done before...

(14-10-2024, 05:29 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'...

SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars.

During this flight, the SpaceX team attempted something that had never been done before...

Catching the booster rather than getting it to land on the launch pad reduces the need for complex hardware on the ground and will enable rapid redeployment of the vehicle in the future. Elon Musk and SpaceX have grand designs that the rocket system will one day take humans to the Moon, and then on to Mars, making our species "multi-planetary".

The US space agency, Nasa, will also be delighted the flight has gone to plan. It has paid the company $2.8bn (£2.14bn) to develop Starship into a lander capable of returning astronauts to the Moon's surface by 2026. In space terms that is not that far away so Elon Musk's team were eager to get the rocket re-launched as soon as possible.

But Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), US govt body that approves all flights, had previously said there would be no launch before November as it reviewed the company's permits. Since last month the agency and Elon Musk have been in a public spat after the FAA said it was seeking to fine his company, SpaceX, $633,000 for allegedly failing to follow its license conditions and not getting permits for previous flights.

Before issuing a license, the FAA reviews the impact of the flight, in particular the effect on the environment. In response to the fine, Musk threatened to sue the agency and SpaceX put out a public blog post hitting back against "false reporting" that part of the rocket was polluting the environment. Currently FAA only considers the impact on the immediate environment from rocket launches rather than the wider impacts of the emissions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe7exjy1go

(14-10-2024, 05:29 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'...

SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars.

During this flight, SpaceX team attempted something that had never been done before...

Can carry 100+ tonnes or100 people.

(14-10-2024, 08:47 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Can carry 100+ tonnes or100 people.

https://youtu.be/98wvhTGreMM?si=EJUOq5QNVs-lbW84

(14-10-2024, 08:47 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Can carry 100+ tonnes or100 people.

https://youtu.be/b28zbsnk-48?si=mEnD7pH6-g_63JWp

(14-10-2024, 05:29 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'...
SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars. During this flight, the SpaceX team attempted something that had never been done before...

SpaceX's Starship 'chopstick landing' technique just made every Kerbal Space Program enthusiast go green with envy
Watching the latest SpaceX Starship booster return footage though, I felt that familiar itch return again (via BBC News). Elon Musk's pet space project has achieved many remarkable feats in the past few years, but manoeuvring a Super Heavy rocket booster down to a launch pad under its own power, turning upright on its end, and then catching it with a pair of chopsticks in mid-air in a perfect display of tech ballet really strikes as a breakthrough moment for spaceflight.

(14-10-2024, 08:47 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Can carry 100+ tonnes or100 people.

Elon Musk's pet space project has achieved many remarkable feats in the past few years, but manoeuvring a Super Heavy rocket booster down to a launch pad under its own power, turning upright on its end, and then catching it with a pair of chopsticks in mid-air in a perfect display of tech ballet really strikes as a breakthrough moment for spaceflight.

What makes this even more impressive? It was the first proper attempt at this rocket booster capture method and one that SpaceX's engineers thought was something of a long shot. After all, the company has taken the tech industry approach of "move fast, break stuff" to something of an extreme in previous attempts to both launch and land its rocket boosters, and this new 'mid-air catch' method looked like its most ambitious version to date.

(15-10-2024, 10:06 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Elon Musk's pet space project has achieved many remarkable feats in the past few years, but manoeuvring a Super Heavy rocket booster down to a launch pad under its own power, turning upright on its end, and then catching it with a pair of chopsticks in mid-air in a perfect display of tech ballet really strikes as a breakthrough moment for spaceflight.

What makes this even more impressive? It was the first proper attempt at this rocket booster capture method and one that SpaceX's engineers thought was something of a long shot. After all, the company has taken the tech industry approach of "move fast, break stuff" to something of an extreme in previous attempts to both launch and land its rocket boosters, and this new 'mid-air catch' method looked like its most ambitious version to date.

Elon Musk's pet space project has achieved many to blow your mind   
https://youtu.be/5C4YIv45DqI?si=Q7C5EomaaYll9EXg

Google CEO congratulates SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: ‘... I have to admit....Google CEO Sundar Pichai has congratulated Elon Musk as SpaceX successfully ‘caught’ the 233-foot rocket booster on Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight. Elon Musk shared a video of the Starship rocket booster being caught on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Sharing the news, Musk wrote "The tower has caught the rocket!!" referring to the groundbreaking achievement at the launch site.

Milestone being termed as an ‘engineering feat’ gained widespread attention and praise from the aerospace community and beyond, including NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Google CEO Sundar Pichai replied to Musk’s post, saying “Huge congrats, have to admit, rewatched the video many times over, incredible to see!”
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech...207883.cms

SpaceX plans to catch Starship upper stage with 'chopsticks' in early 2025, Elon Musk says. SpaceX doesn't plan to rest on its rocket-catching laurels.

The company made spaceflight history on Sunday (Oct. 13) during the fifth test flight of its Starship megarocket: About seven minutes after liftoff, the vehicle's first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, came back to its launch mount, where it was caught by the "chopstick" arms of the launch tower.

And SpaceX aims to do the same with Starship's 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper-stage spacecraft — known as Starship, or simply Ship — in the coming months as well, according to company founder and CEO Elon Musk. "Hopefully early next year, we will catch the ship too," Musk said Tuesday (Oct. 15) in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

SpaceX plans to catch Starship upper stage with 'chopsticks' in early 2025, Elon Musk says
News. By Mike Wall published 21 hours ago
'Hopefully early next year, we will catch the ship a large silver rocket comes back to earth to land beside its launch tower, with the rising sun and the ocean in the background

Photo showing Super Heavy booster of SpaceX's Starship megarocket coming in for a landing on the launch mount on Oct. 13, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX via X) SpaceX doesn't plan to rest on its rocket-catching laurels.

Company made spaceflight history on Sunday (Oct. 13) during fifth test flight of its Starship megarocket: About 7-minutes after liftoff, vehicle's first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, came back to its launch mount, where it was caught by "chopstick" arms of the launch tower & SpaceX aims to do same with Starship's 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper-stage spacecraft — known as Starship, or simply Ship — in coming months as well, according to company founder and CEO Elon Musk. "Hopefully early next year, we will catch the ship too," Musk said Tuesday (Oct. 15) in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

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SpaceX is developing the 400-foot-tall (122 meters), fully reusable Starship to get people and cargo to moon & Mars, & perform a variety of other spaceflight feats as well. Things are going well; the vehicle's most recent two test flights — on June 6 & this past Sunday — were complete successes, according to the company.

So it shouldn't be big surprise SpaceX plans to push the envelope, bringing Ship back safely on one or more upcoming test flights. (On recent missions, the upper stage has splashed down in the Indian Ocean.)
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-up...-elon-musk

Elon Musk set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs in 19 days - Jensen says process normally takes 4 years. When you buy through links on our articles, Future & its syndication partners may earn a commission. Elon Musk & his team behind xAI have achieved an engineering marvel, setting up a supercluster of 100,000 H200 Blackwell GPUs in a whopping 19 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told story of Elon Musk's incredible installation prowess with members of the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley on X. Huang describes Musk's 19-day escapade with awe & respect, calling effort "superhuman". Team at xAI purportedly went from "concept" phase to full-ready compatibility with Nvidia's "gear" in less than 3-weeks, include running xAI's 1st AI training run on newly built supercluster as well.

(14-10-2024, 05:29 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'... SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars.
During this flight, the SpaceX team attempted something that had never been done before...

Under Mars takes major step by NASA. Makes discovery beneath surface new research has focused on a series of gullies around Martian surface which could provide right conditions for life. life on Mars is one step closer after scientists pinpointed most likely to exist. New research has concluded radiation from the sun would kill it off on the surface, but there are protected areas that could sustain microbial life.

Researchers discovered most likely place for it to exist would be a few centimetres below surface, around ice contains a small amount of dust similar to what’s found in Alaska, environment way allow organisms to harness energy from light for photosynthesis, being protected from damaging ultraviolet radiation. 

An alternative “habitable zone” could also lie several metres below the surface, but that would require the ice to be much cleaner, allowing sunlight to penetrate deeper. In both cases computer modelling suggests tiny amounts of melted water could provide habitat for simple lifeforms including algae, fungi, and cyanobacteria.

Presidential Approval Ratings -- Donald Trump
For latest insights & updates, visit our 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Center. View the latest presidential approval ratings for Joe Biden. The approval ratings reported here are based on Gallup Daily tracking averages for President Donald Trump in 2017 and 2018, and periodic multiday polls for Trump starting in 2019

(20-10-2024, 10:41 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Presidential Election Center. View the latest presidential approval ratings for Joe Biden. The approval ratings reported here are based on Gallup Daily tracking averages for President Donald Trump in 2017 and 2018, and periodic multiday polls for Trump starting in 2019

Presidential Approval Ratings -- Donald Trump
For latest insights & updates, visit our 2024 U.S.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/pres...trump.aspx

(11-09-2024, 06:55 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]https://youtube.com/shorts/Hb5fkkCLZj4?s...YFjXvD0Dc2

More review here, fron earth to outer space.
https://youtu.be/5yKq8jFmMdg?si=AHH5w33jkpmXcAo1

(20-10-2024, 10:42 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Presidential Approval Ratings -- Donald Trump
For latest insights & updates, visit our 2024 U.S.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/pres...trump.aspx

7 key forces shaping the final days of the election: From the Politics Desk

Plus, how Obama's message is resonating on the trail as he hits the road for Harris.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/7-force...rcna176470

(14-10-2024, 08:41 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Catching the booster rather than getting it to land on the launch pad reduces the need for complex hardware on the ground and will enable rapid redeployment of the vehicle in the future. Elon Musk and SpaceX have grand designs that the rocket system will one day take humans to the Moon, and then on to Mars, making our species "multi-planetary".

The US space agency, Nasa, will also be delighted the flight has gone to plan. It has paid the company $2.8bn (£2.14bn) to develop Starship into a lander capable of returning astronauts to the Moon's surface by 2026. In space terms that is not that far away so Elon Musk's team were eager to get the rocket re-launched as soon as possible.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe7exjy1go

Federal Aviation Admin (FAA), US govt body that approves all flights, had previously said there would be no launch b4 Nov reviewed company's permits, last mth agency Elon Musk have been in a public spat with FAA said it was seeking to fine his company, SpaceX, $633,000 for allegedly failing to follow its license conditions. B4 issuing license, FAA reviews impact flight, in particular the effect on environment. Musk threatened to sue agency & SpaceX put out a public blog post hitting back against "false reporting" that part of the rocket was polluting the environment. Currently FAA only considers the impact on the immedia..

(14-10-2024, 05:29 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'. CcSpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars. During flight, SpaceX team attempted something that had never been done before.

SpaceX's in-space shows a stacked group of Starlink satellites being revealed after 2-pieces of protective hardware, known as payload fairings, fall away from the Falcon 9 rocket that launched group. "View from active & passive halves of a payload fairing during a recent Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink," SpaceX officials wrote on X, formerly Twitter on Monday (Oct. 21).
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-fa...ring-video

(23-10-2024, 02:21 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]SpaceX's in-space shows a stacked group of Starlink satellites being revealed after 2-pieces of protective hardware, known as payload fairings, fall away from the Falcon 9 rocket that launched group. "View from active & passive halves of a payload fairing during a recent Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink," SpaceX officials wrote on X, formerly Twitter on Monday (Oct. 21).
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-fa...ring-video

Related: SpaceX launches 100th rocket of 2024 during Starlink doubleheader (video, photos)
Starlink is a massive constellation of broadband Internet satellites, and SpaceX hopes to have quite a number in low Earth orbit to serve customers in rural or underserved areas: their plans call for as many as 42,000 satellites. The company has also provided humanitarian assistance with the satellites worldwide during conflicts or following natural disasters, including in the American southeast after the catastrophic Hurricane Helene last month

Why haven't we found intelligent alien civilizations? There may be a 'universal limit to technological development’
https://www.space.com/lack-of-intelligen...ment-limit

(14-10-2024, 10:07 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]

https://www.youtube.com/live/KyDtBQrQm_U...PBxokqd0hG

https://www.sciencealert.com/cern-confir...ew-physics
World’s largest fusion reactor set to revolutionize global energy production
The JT-60SA reactor, marks a significant stride in the pursuit of harnessing the power of nuclear fusion, a technology still in its infancy.

(26-10-2024, 10:43 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.sciencealert.com/cern-confir...ew-physics
World’s largest fusion reactor set to revolutionize global energy production
The JT-60SA reactor, marks a significant stride in the pursuit of harnessing the power of nuclear fusion, a technology still in its infancy.

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/wo...roduction/

(23-10-2024, 11:57 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Why haven't we found intelligent alien civilizations? There may be a 'universal limit to technological development’
https://www.space.com/lack-of-intelligen...ment-limit

The NATO Space COE attended from 8th to 10th of October the Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC) Conference in Essen, Germany.
https://www.space-coe.org/

New Species of Tardigrade Displays Superhero-Like Healing Ability. The microscopic, eight-legged water bear can survive the most harsh environments. Gregory Paulson/Getty Images
The microscopic creatures can withstand the harsh environment of outer space, making them ideal candidates to study new ways to protect astronauts.

Tardigrades, tiny, eight-legged creatures that look like alien bears, are tougher than any beast on Earth. These little guys can withstand massive amounts of radiation, nearly 1,000 times higher than the lethal level for humans, and survive in harsh environments that no other organism can withstand. A recently discovered species of tardigrades reveals new insights into how the microscopic animal pulls it off by repairing damage to its DNA when exposed to high doses of gamma rays.
https://gizmodo.com/new-species-of-tardi...2000516253

(08-09-2024, 09:58 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Election 2024 Live Updates: Harris and Trump Brace for First In ...10 minutes ago — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump will leave the campaigning to surrogates on Sunday, as their high-stakes ...

US election updates: Trump at Madison Square Garden, Harris in Pennsylvania. Polls continue to show an extremely tight race between the two candidates, less than two weeks before election day on November 5.

1) Comments: Made by a comedian at Trump’s New York rally have sparked outrage among Latino artists & civil rights groups, with Puerto Ricans representing a potential key voting bloc in some swing states.

2) More than 41 million Americans have already cast their ballots in this year’s election, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/...ump-in-nyc

(21-06-2024, 02:31 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]A mysterious Planet Nine, J1249+36 is one of just a handful of hypervelocity stars identified in the Milky Way

"hypervelocity" stars are extremely rare, but we've just spotted a particularly special example. 

A star named CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) not only exceeds the galactic escape with a velocity at around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second, it's a very rare type of tiny, ancient, main sequence star called an L subdwarf, which happens to also be one of the oldest in the Milky Way.

First spotted by citizen scientists combing through telescope data for signs of the – and although far from the fastest we've seen, it represents something of a challenge to astronomers; namely, how did it get so breathtakingly fast?

Astronomers has Discover Mysterious New Objects?. Beyond Edge of Solar System.
Distance distribution: Kuiper Belt Objects discovered by HSC on Subaru Telescope. 

The horizontal axis represents distance from Sun to the objects, measured in astronomical units (au: 1 au is distance between Earth to Sun). It vertical axis represents number objects. Notice drop in  objects between approximately 55 au & 70 au. Such gap had not reported in other observations. Credit: Wesley Fraser.

Dr. Wes Fraser: National Research Council of Canada, a co-investigator on the New Horizons mission science team, study’s lead author, explains, “Our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt long appeared to be very small in comparison with many other planetary systems, but our results suggest idea might have arisen due to an observational bias.” He adds, “Maybe, if result confirmed, our Kuiper Belt isn’t all small & unusual after compared to around other stars.”
https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-dis...ar-system/

(22-10-2024, 09:22 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]7 key forces shaping the final days of the election: From Politics Desk

Plus, how Obama's message is resonating on trail as he hits the road for Harris.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/7-force...rcna176470

The prediction US folks come up with their prediction on who will get winning majority in the  who will be the US President. A she or he-watch!
https://youtube.com/shorts/UaGzca5F0N8?s...GOt9tQ6WqA