@Virgin: Za me cokoli nad 25km je "super". Vesmir beru proste tech kulatych 100km.
A kecy typu "Virgin predstihl SpaceX" nechavam pro ctenare Blesku.

InSight selfie #1

What to Expect When New Horizons Visits 2014 MU69, Ultima Thule | The Planetary Society
http://planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/what-to-expect-new-horizons-mu69-ultima-thule.html

New Horizons is rapidly approaching its New Year’s encounter with the most distant world ever visited, 2014 MU69. Closest approach will be at a distance of 3,500 kilometers at about 05:33 on 1 January UTC, and it’ll happen at a zippy 14.16 kilometers per second.

As happened at Pluto, New Horizons will not be communicating with Earth during closest approach, because it will be focused on gathering all the science it can during the high-speed flyby. Whenever it does turn back to point at Earth to transmit data it will take more than 6 hours for its data to traverse the distance between us. So when are we going to get to find out what MU69 looks like?

..a to jestli je to 80 nebo 100km vysokej skok povazuju za nepodstatnej detail.

Ja nemam nic proti "skokum ven z atmosfery", co me ale stve je, ze novinari o tomhle legracnim letadylku porad mluvej jako o konkurenci SpaceX, coz mi prijde podle nalady srandovni, urazlivy nebo jenom nesmyslny - zvlast hlasky jako "Virgin Galactic predehnali SpaceX a dostali lidi do vesmiru!" me tezce deptaj..

CRUZ05: US Air Force and NASA defines the limit to be 50 miles (80 kilometres) above sea level for purposes of awarding personel with outer space badges

mluví se i o oficiálním posunutí té "hranice"... jedna ze studií říká např:
"the effective Karman line is close to (within 10 km of) 80 km independent of solar and atmospheric conditions, rather than the currently popular 100 km value; and that historical orbital data for actual artificial satellites confirms that orbiting objects can survive multiple perigees at altitudes around 80–90 km."

100 je hezké číslo, ale jsem pro tu 80

SEJDA: i popularizace je nutná a čím víc lidí se na svět podívá z vesmíru, tím líp pro naši budoucnost

SEJDA: no neni, X-15 lietala uz v 60. rokoch este vyssie

TOXICMAN: ok, nejakou vedu tam prece jenom delaji, ale spise jde o poutovou atrakci.

TOXICMAN: je to prvni letadlo, ktere vystoupalo do vysky, kde se pohybuji nektere z druzic na silne eliptickych drahah (Keyhole?), co z toho ale dela kosmonautiku? :D

Pluto Time | Pluto – Solar System Exploration: NASA Science
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/plutotime/