NASA will make an announcement about the agency’s first mission to fly directly into our sun’s atmosphere during an event at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 31, from the University of Chicago’s William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

The mission, Solar Probe Plus, is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2018. Placed in orbit within four million miles of the sun’s surface, and facing heat and radiation unlike any spacecraft in history, the spacecraft will explore the sun’s outer atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old questions about the physics of how stars work. The resulting data will improve forecasts of major space weather events that impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-make-announcement-about-first-mission-to-touch-sun

XCHAOS: Oběžná dráha jim ještě utekla, ale i tak to bylo mnohem lepší než třeba 1.let Falconu 1 ;) Na první test dobrý.

Maiden flight of Rocket Lab’s small satellite launcher reaches space – Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/...5/maiden-flight-of-rocket-labs-small-satellite-launcher-reaches-space/

Ve ctvrtek ve 20:00 zdejsiho casu:

NASA to Discuss First Science Results from Juno Mission to Jupiter | Mission Juno
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasa-to-discuss-results-from-juno-mission

Scientists from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter will discuss their first in-depth science results in a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, May 25, when multiple papers with early findings will be published online by the journal Science and Geophysical Research Letters.

The teleconference participants are:

Diane Brown, program executive at NASA Headquarters in Washington
Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio
Jack Connerney, deputy principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
Heidi Becker, Juno radiation monitoring investigation lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
Candy Hansen, Juno co-investigator at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona

me se zrovna nedavno ptal v resortu (v Kanade) chlapek u stanice lanovky, jak jsme vysoko, tak mu ukazuju ten napis pulmetrovejma ciframa: "tamhle to mas napsany, 1850 metru" a chlapek na to "no ja to vidim, ale ja jsem z Floridy" :D

BIDAK: amici zvladnou pojmout vyraz "metric ton", tak by mohli pouzivat tohle. ani kratka ani dlouha tuna neni 1000 kg. ja se zase nevyznam v tom, kdyz leti do vesmiru - jsou to namorni nebo normalni mile? a zmeni se to kdyz raketa preleti pobrezi? :)

KAERO: Když oni maj eště krátký a dlouhý tuny... v tom se nikdo nevyzná.

SN0WCRASH: Libra na čtvereční palec!

TOXICMAN: ocividne este z doby, nez v NASA presli na SI. Tie ich americke lakte za otcenas a kredence za sekundu ma vzdy slusne popletu. WTF is a state mile.

RLSO: je to tohle?
Riding the Booster with enhanced sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c

RLSO: na ten link se mi nechce ani klikat, není nějaký youtube, pokud je to tak mind blowing? :)

SpaceX proves Falcon Heavy is indeed a real rocket with a test firing | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/spacex-releases-video-of-falcon-heavy-core-test-firing/

Fotograf pořídil unikátní záběry opuštěného sovětského kosmodromu – Novinky.cz
https://www.novinky.cz/...017-fotograf-poridil-unikatni-zabery-opusteneho-sovetskeho-kosmodromu.html