real life armageddon simulation
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How hard would it have been to have a mini space vehicle with a camera eject near the end so we could witness the actual impact?
or a really long selfie stick
real life armageddon simulation
How to watch NASA slam a spacecraft into an asteroid You must see this unprecedented event. NASA is about to intentionally slam a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a great Egyptian pyramid. Incredibly, you can watch this unprecedented Sept. 26 event live...
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real life armageddon simulation
How to watch NASA slam a spacecraft into an asteroid You must see this unprecedented event. NASA is about to intentionally slam a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a great Egyptian pyramid. Incredibly, you can watch this unprecedented Sept. 26 event live...
So where are the pics?
Per Wikipedia, evidently a companion vehicle was indeed launched with and separated from the main vehicle 16 days ago. The hope is it got pictures of the impact and will be able to transmit them back to earth.
Wikipedia's page also states the hope is they know if the orbit was changed roughly a week or so later. There is lots of data and observations that'll need to be made and analyzed before they know for certain.
Wikipedia's page also states the hope is they know if the orbit was changed roughly a week or so later. There is lots of data and observations that'll need to be made and analyzed before they know for certain.
NASA Press conference in two weeks:
“Ok we have some good and some bad news. The good news is we have successfully altered its orbit and it has actual crashed into its sibling Didymos. The Bad news is the half-mile-wide Didymos that it was orbiting is now heading to Earth after it collided. Our bad”
“Ok we have some good and some bad news. The good news is we have successfully altered its orbit and it has actual crashed into its sibling Didymos. The Bad news is the half-mile-wide Didymos that it was orbiting is now heading to Earth after it collided. Our bad”
How to watch NASA slam a spacecraft into an asteroid
You must see this unprecedented event.
NASA is about to intentionally slam a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a great Egyptian pyramid.
Incredibly, you can watch this unprecedented Sept. 26 event live.
The mission is called DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, and it's humanity's first-ever attempt to purposefully move an asteroid. The rocky target, Dimorphos, is not a threat to Earth, but the mission is an experiment to see how civilization could alter the path of a menacing asteroid, should one be on a collision course with our planet. (Fortunately, no known asteroid over 460 feet across will threaten Earth in the next century or so.)
It's a $330 million critical mission. And it may one day pay off, big time.
"We are right now defenseless against any asteroid aiming for Earth."
"We are right now defenseless against any asteroid aiming for Earth," Markus Wilde, an associate professor of aerospace, physics, and space sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, told Mashable.
As of the morning of Sept. 26, the mission was on track for impact.
How to watch the DART impact
The impact between the 1,300-pound DART spacecraft and Dimorphos — a 525-foot-wide asteroid that actually orbits a much larger sibling, the half-mile-wide Didymos — will occur some 6.8 million miles from Earth. But the spacecraft has a camera (dubbed "DRACO") that will stream one image per second back to Earth in real time. Until the impact, of course.
Where to watch: NASA will livestream the impact on NASA TV. You can watch on NASA's website. You can watch on NASA TV's YouTube channel. Or you can tune into the embedded NASA livestream just below.
When to watch: Live coverage begins Sept. 26, 2022, at 6 p.m. ET. The spacecraft will impact Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. ET.
Alternatively: If you'd like to just watch the "quiet" real-time feed from the DART camera, without the NASA presentation or explanation, you can tune into the NASA Live YouTube channel beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET.
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CSB...I was watching Neil deGrasse Tyson last night speaking in town and an alarm on his phone went off at the moment of the scheduled impact. He stopped and turned off the alarm and said he didn't really need to watch it live because if NASA was supposed to hit something they were damn well going to hit it. He had to rush out at the end of his talk to appear on AC360 to discuss the mission. Got an autographed copy of his latest book. Great, great night.
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there is a OPs mom joke in there somewhereSomething the size of a refrigerator into something the size of a great pyramid at 14,000 mph.
Goddammit, NASA....you had the CHANCE to name that thing "T-Rex" or "Archaeopteryx" or something...
Except that you should know, it is NEVER a decision of should this money go here or go someplace else.
If you know far enough ahead of time that an object is going to present a danger, a change of a cm/sec in velocity yields big results down the line. We just need to catalogue all the NEOs...and that's a big job. It also doesn't account for that anomaly - the rogue that comes out of nowhere.Something the size of a refrigerator into something the size of a great pyramid at 14,000 mph.
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They seemed to hit the docking port of the ISS regularly. I think October 3rd is the next crew replacement mission.
The rocket’s reusable first stage — tail number B1062 in SpaceX’s fleet — also returned to Earth for landing on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” parked in the Atlantic Ocean east of Charleston, South Carolina. The vertical, propulsive landing on the drone ship completed the booster’s eighth trip to space since entering service in November 2020.
Continuing a record-breaking launch cadence, SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket aloft Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 53 more satellites for the company’s Starlink internet network, the sixth Falcon 9 launch in 17 days and 33rd overall this year.
NASA never even dreamed of a launch pace like this.
The dude is going to colonize Mars.
There are no rogues that come out of nowhere,.. Just objects that we aren't sophisticated enough to track...
Without Steve buscemi, it ain’t real lifeHow to watch NASA slam a spacecraft into an asteroid
You must see this unprecedented event.
NASA is about to intentionally slam a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a great Egyptian pyramid.
Incredibly, you can watch this unprecedented Sept. 26 event live.
The mission is called DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, and it's humanity's first-ever attempt to purposefully move an asteroid. The rocky target, Dimorphos, is not a threat to Earth, but the mission is an experiment to see how civilization could alter the path of a menacing asteroid, should one be on a collision course with our planet. (Fortunately, no known asteroid over 460 feet across will threaten Earth in the next century or so.)
It's a $330 million critical mission. And it may one day pay off, big time.
"We are right now defenseless against any asteroid aiming for Earth."
"We are right now defenseless against any asteroid aiming for Earth," Markus Wilde, an associate professor of aerospace, physics, and space sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, told Mashable.
As of the morning of Sept. 26, the mission was on track for impact.
How to watch the DART impact
The impact between the 1,300-pound DART spacecraft and Dimorphos — a 525-foot-wide asteroid that actually orbits a much larger sibling, the half-mile-wide Didymos — will occur some 6.8 million miles from Earth. But the spacecraft has a camera (dubbed "DRACO") that will stream one image per second back to Earth in real time. Until the impact, of course.
Where to watch: NASA will livestream the impact on NASA TV. You can watch on NASA's website. You can watch on NASA TV's YouTube channel. Or you can tune into the embedded NASA livestream just below.
When to watch: Live coverage begins Sept. 26, 2022, at 6 p.m. ET. The spacecraft will impact Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. ET.
Alternatively: If you'd like to just watch the "quiet" real-time feed from the DART camera, without the NASA presentation or explanation, you can tune into the NASA Live YouTube channel beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET.
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Rogues as opposed to NEO's that we can discover and extrapolate years ahead of time their probable chances of an impact in another 1,000 or so orbits and act now with years to spare versus something that is a first time visitor to the inner solar sytem headng our way that may give us only months or weeks to deflect. The idea that we can monitor the Oort Cloud is, to put it mildly, likely never going to happen.
Not seein' it.
I even put on my blue/red 3D glasses, and.....nuthin'... 😉
NASA is on a roll. First with the new space telescope and now with the asteroid.
Apparently changed course.
Apparently changed course.
Do we live to see these things weaponized?
"Nice little Mars colony you got there, el Presidente Musk, be a real shame if a rock fell on it."
Deflecting an asteroid to target something would be a zillion times harder than deflecting it to not hit something.
In time, likely our lifetimes, you’ll see companies hook thrusters to asteroids and steer them.
You wouldn’t try to aim a weapon with a ricochet collision. They’ll be steered with continuous course corrections, but instead of fins operated by a JDAM seeker, it’ll be thrusters.
I think you’ll see mining and forging done in space, as well as asteroids deliberately crashed into the Moon and Mars to provide more accessible raw materials.
Even a relatively small asteroid such as Dimorphos is estimated to have a mass of 5 billion kilos or about 11 billion pounds. Do you know how much delta-v it would require to do something like that?
I doubt it will be done with chemical rockets.
Fusion breakthrough that makes collecting fuel from the Moon profitable is what I expect to kick space travel into high gear.
You need to be able to accelerate the whole way to make travel around this solar system a thing.
