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Ccontrarian replied to the thread What does sombrero galaxy look like from top?.It seems there is disagreement with various sources. Here is another that claims M-104 is a spiral galaxy ...
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Ccontrarian reacted to George²'s post in the thread What does sombrero galaxy look like from top? with
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread What does sombrero galaxy look like from top?.NASA appears to classify M-104 as a spiral galaxy, so there must be some gas, dust and stars making up spiral arms within the disc. They...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Watch a private German rocket explode during 1st orbital launch attempt from European soil (video).The Spectrum rocket's Aquila engines use a gimbaled thrust design*, so yes, they are nozzle controlled. And any rocket like this...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Curiosity Mars rover discovers largest organic molecules ever seen on Red Planet.Very curious that these hydrocarbons are found only as linear chains, without any branching, and only three different lengths at that...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last..Thanks for the correction. These were all done with keypunch programming I assume. That must have been very tedious. Tried that myself...
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Ccontrarian reacted to erts12's post in the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last. with Like.
A slight correction ... The command, attitude control, and flight data computers onboard each Voyager spacecraft were/are programmed in...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice.It is reasonable to believe that these ancient small satellite galaxies have small black holes at their cores. That they are so old...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Scientists discover Earth's oldest impact crater in Australia.This should come as no surprise that it was found in western Australia. The oldest rocks at 4.4 billion years and the oldest verifiable...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last..Failures have certainly piled up, but from what I read some critical instruments to study interstellar space are still providing...
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Ccontrarian reacted to modelrocketman's post in the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last. with Like.
Agreed but I think the design parameters were to explore our Solar System and that was it. They weren't expected to last!! It was...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last..Yes, the Voyagers used a version of Fortran (V) that is not used anymore. They were lucky to find the people who made these programs...
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Ccontrarian reacted to Classical Motion's post in the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last. with Like.
It’s a shame we can’t develop a potential between the craft and a trailing wire for power, for dark space travel.
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last..They should have made those RTGs much bigger. Seems likely they did not expect these spacecraft to last so long.
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread The US will 'plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond,' Trump tells Congress.All space flights with humans on board are "near the top for wastefulness", except for the Apollo missions. They had to be done just to...
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