/sci/ - Science & Math

Black and white view of Pluto, captured on the 12th.

>>7390906
Sedna flyby when

>>7390944
Probably not in this century.

If you are hyped for tomorrow then you are retarded, first photos are going arrive on 20th anyways

>>7390947
is this a meme?

Eris BTFO.

>>7390985
Can still be excited by the fact that in under 12.5 hours, we'll be collecting brand new data, even if we're not gonna see it for another week. In 12 hours 13 minutes, a man made machine will pass by pluto, the closest anything man-made has ever been, and will be for the next few decades.

>>7390985
The "failsafe" data will be downloaded tonight, including a view of Pluto 600 pixels across, and there will also be some "first look" data downloaded on the 16th. Of course, we should expect it to take between 24 and 48 hours for any of these images to be processed and released to the public.

I expect that the "best" single image will be the frame from the mosaic, which I have marked here with an "X," that includes portions of both the lightest terrain, the darkest terrain, and the boundary between.
Note that in this image, the overlapping squares show the boundaries of the high resolution pictures that will be taken. The yellow frames will be downloaded on July 16, and the purple frames will be downloaded July 20. The other frames won't be downloaded until at least September.

Thus, what is likely to be the most interesting single image of the flyby won't be downloaded until the 20th. So if you want to hold your excitement for that date (or, really, 24 to 48 hours after that date), I won't blame you.

>>7391034
Surely they're gonna release something tonight....

>>7391177
No, nothing's being sent back tonight.They're keeping comms offline the whole time they're taking date.

>>7391186
I see, that makes sense. Thanks anon.

>>7390985
>if you do this you are retarded
Can you please stop breathing and die already? I'll do whatever the fuck I want, you insufferable faggot.
>first photos are going arrive on 20th anyways
Wrong; first photos of the flyby will be publicly released on Wednesday.

>>7391254
Sauce?

>>7391255
Kerbal space program.

I thought there was some sort of "live" stream starting at 7:49am est? Is that not the case?? :(

>>7391268
For now, here's the next best thing:

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/eyes-on-pluto.html

>>7391268
>"live" stream
Nope, NH won't be able to communicate with Earth while collecting data during the flyby.
It there's any "live stream", I suppose it will consist of an approximate simulation of NH's flyby.

>>7391296
I would imagine them streaming the mission finale, with count down and couple of simulations and speeches, it's a big event for them at least.

>>7391255
KSP

>>7390906
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>>7390988
>>7390993
This is everyone's reminder that you can watch the mission "live"-ish from "Nasa's Eyes." It's a program by NASA allowing you to run around the solar system and look at each of their active missions.

Grab it here:
eyes.nasa.gov/

>>7391186
>>7391240
Not true, the "failsafe" data is coming down tonight as I said in my original post:
>The "failsafe" data will be downloaded tonight

And, as I said, expect to see LORRI images from this dataset within 24 to 48 hours. Possibly sooner because they might want something good to show during all the inevitable press coverage tomorrow. I don't know the exact schedule down to the minute, but I know that the failsafe was supposed to be downloaded "late" tonight. So that might've actually happened already (although it has still not been released).

>>7391388
Man, I love NASA for giving us this kind of stuff. Thanks for Charon anon.

>>7391388
My Internet refuses to open anything on Nasa's domains, what do I do?!

>>7391399
>Thanks for Charon
>"thanks for sharing"
>using the correct pronunciation of "Charon," which differs from the Greek "Kharon"
This was on purpose, right?

>>7391414
Have you tried incognito mode? You may have a bad DNS record or cached script.

>>7391292
lol it looks like a huge benis xDDD

I'm not sure why I'm so excited to look at a large rock that won't ever actually matter.

>>7391388
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>>7391399
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>>7391415
>>7391422


Who else is getting drunk tonight? :D

>>7391415
It was on purpose, kudos for catching it.

Does anyone know if NH has to point its high gain antenna at earth to get instructions?
If it does, how does it know when to collect more instructions? With a 9 delay both ways, they can't simply wait for an "OK" signal from the satellite, can they?

>>7391264
luv u

>>7391454
It points at earth only at scheduled times, or if something goes wrong like when it fell into "safe mode" last week. Most of the time, it is following a precisely defined plan of "swivel that way, snap a pic, now swivel this way and sniff some particles..."

>>7391388
I'm looking at the live simulation right now and I gotta ask, why is the view cone of the ALICE instrument shaped like it is? I know absolutely nothing about ultraviolet imaging tech.

This Nasa eye thing rules. It's amazing what Nasa does with its negligable budget. Their cool website with TV, these cool simulations and they are sending stuff to other worlds.

I was looking at the Cassini Mission and its orbit around Saturn. Really cool to watch cause you can rewind back time to see it enter Saturn's orbit.

Lots of neat stuff out there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Solar_System_probes


Also, why can't we just build like 12 Cassini probes for all the different cool rocks and gas blobs out there? Just make a different lander for each one... It'd be neato

>>7391576
Neptune moons exploration when?

>>7391603

Europa is next and I bet it'd then be Enceladus so not for the forseeable future I'd guess

>>7391430
I'm gonna get so drunk tonight. and then, when they do the live thing at 7:49 am i will still be awake and I will masturbate while I watch it.

Its mind boggling to me that there is something tens of millions of miles away that humans built that will completely autonomously begin taking pictures of another planet. I wish i studied math harder when i was young, would be incredible to be a part of something like this. my mind cant even grasp how they calculated all these flybys of jupiter etc. to get to the exact speed they needed to meet another planet at a certain tiny point in space at an exact time. that little sattellite has had a hell of a ride and his job is almost complete :3

>>7391423

Because of all the billions of people who have lived on earth for millions of years, we're able to witness something for the first time.

I'm really psyched for this.

The closest I get to being "involved" with this program is my submitting my name to be placed on the probe back in 2005.

>>7391576
>why can't we

Fund it .

>>7391783
You know, orbital mechanics isn't actually that hard to understand. If you have calculus through diff eq you can get it right down. What's mind boggling is the precision of the damn thing. It's one thing to say, abstractly, "this point mass and that one will move like such and such," but it's insane how they actually get a real object to behave exactly according to their models within such a tiny, tiny margine of error.

>>7391788
Well said anon

>>7391863
Someone today called it a "hole in one at two miles." Pretty good description. It also helps that they have onboard navigation and have been correcting the flight path in tiny increments along the way.

how long do the images take to reach earth?

why are they basically the same resolution and color enhancement of the voyager probe from the 1970s?

>>7391901
About 4 hours at 1kb/s. It's going to take nearly a year for all the data to be uploaded after the encounter

>>7391901
>how long do the images take to reach earth?
Four and a half hours light travel time, plus quite a bit of time (on the order of 2 or 3 hours) for the data itself to download at 1kbps. That's why only a handful of images will be downloaded between now and September. They want the spacecraft to focus on doing science instead of turning around and pointing its dish at earth to download data all day.

>why are they basically the same resolution and color enhancement of the voyager probe from the 1970s?
The limiting factor in imaging resolution isn't technology, it's the diameter of the objective optics of the telescope you use. When you are really far away from something, or looking at something really small, or both, it's just going to look small and blurry no matter how you cut it. The best pictures you have seen so far were still taken from several million kilometers away from Pluto. Right now, New Horizons is a little closer to Pluto than the Moon is to Earth, and in about 5 hours, it's only going to be a few thousand kilometers away. That's when the pictures will start to be really good.

The cameras are pointing back at earth, and around.
Space debris?

>>7391908
I think it's downloading the "failsafe" data! This is it! The folks at mission control are going to have something spectacular to look at tomorrow morning when they celebrate the closest approach! And maybe by tomorrow evening, when they get the "all clear" beacon, they'll have some of those failsafe images processed and ready to show the media and the public!

where can i find good non color enhanced photos of planets? are there any probes headed for neptune?

Seriously when is free space optical communication going to be a thing for space probes? I imagine any solution would require affecting some piezoelectric lens with potentials whose required precision would be on the order of nanovolts. Even so, wouldn't quantum noise in the material impose a theoretical upper limit to the precision with which the beam could be aligned?

>>7391388
I wish KSP map interface was that good.

>>7391958

Yeah, but not enough to not work with intrasolar distances

>>7391966
Nice. In that case I hope lasers replace radios on future missions within the solar system. I imagine the present constraints on bandwidth put an artificial restriction on the types of instrumentation that can be designed into a probe.

>implying you don't want an HD stream for the landing on Europa

Guys what do we do if there's a fault and new horizons stops responding?

>>7391971
I will literally kill myself.

>>7391971

NASA, the ESA, China, or Russia will build another probe and humanity will continue its long march forward.

>>7391974
Why can't Poland into space on its own?

>>7391576
>Also, why can't we just build like 12 Cassini probes for all the different cool rocks and gas blobs out there? Just make a different lander for each one... It'd be neato
>The total cost of the Cassini-Huygens mission is about $3.26 billion, including $1.4 billion for pre-launch development, $704 million for mission operations, $54 million for tracking and $422 million for the launch vehicle.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/FAQMission/
Sucks but shit costs serious dosh man

>>7391976
Space travel and exploration is a long term expensive investment it might seem like a lot of money being spent now but we could have access to massive amounts of resources

>>7391975
Polish Space Agency started a year ago. This year's budget: 2 mln euro.

>>7391916
Neptune? Nope.

NASA doesn't have enough money for that.

>>7391916
Keep in mind that Neptune is nearly as distant from us as Pluto

A probe would take decades to reach it on a hohmann transfer orbit

>>7391916
What do you even want to see in Neptune?

>>7390917
What a fascinating object. When you compare that picture wth the ones of Ceres with similar resolutions, it becomes obvious it has little to no impact craters, and that its surface is geologically young. I'm hoping we'll get to see cryovolcanoes during the flyby, like on Triton

Eris flyby WHEN

>>7392048
When would be the next opportunity for a Jupiter-Saturn gravity assist?

>>7392058
>>7390947

>>7391981
This is literally one of the arguments space advocates have been making for a couple decades now. This year's NASA budget represents over a half billion dollar increase of last FY but it's still a paltry amount of the overall federal budget - about .06 percent or so. Hard work convincing Congress that space exploration is worth the money.

How long are the exposure times on the photos New Horizons is taking? Sunlight is much dimmer there, right? The probe's travelling so fast, and Pluto is really small, is there a possibility of motion blur in the photos at the closest approach?

>>7392088

I imagine the cameras would have to be stabilized on target.

>>7391958
>what are link budgets?

>>7392093

Budgets didn't stop the F35 project, and you could have built an Orion starship with the money it cost.

>>7391388
It's just fucking amazing to see LORRI making her slow sweeps in simulated real time. And Pluto is actually "growing" in the field of view. This is sooooo cool.

>>7392103
>target switchings
>the probe slowly aiming
>purple lines suddenly turned on
i wonder how good will nix/hydra/styx/kerberos shots be too

>>7391415
Shit! Nothing works!

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

So around 9PM EDT you can expect New Horizons to call home. Shortened NHPC
Of course there will probably be a live event with NASA TV

>>7392107
Really looking forward to the results, but just watching the machinery of it is stunning. Someone was saying the "orbital mechanics is easy," but programming in this kind of targeting over 10 years ago? Wow.

>>7391973
>I will liturgically kill myself
just make sure you do it "rite", Anon

>>7392110
Probably just a "wellness" ping, but man, what a relief that will be!

>>7391976
Meanwhile the US government continues to pour billions of dollars into the F-35 programme.

Open Nasa Eye.
Click Start.
Nothing happens.
Help!

Good luck New Horizons

>>7392123
>eyes.nasa.gov/
go to the site, click "looking for pluto" click download app, install, close, then click "launch"

>>7392128
I wish he was here to see it

just like we now are watching when voyager first took photos of neptune and uranus, all those moons......

this one's for you, carl

>>7392131
Nothing on "nasa.gov" opens here.
I should just give up.

>>7392132
Billionz of bong hitz for Carl!

So, what's the ETA on New Horizons turning into a gender politics shitshow?

>>7392136
That entire story is embarassing

>>7392133
omgf the thing just found an update and it's working. Google bless.

>>7392017
>implying they won't send plumbing mission to unclog nearest blackhole in our lifetime

Nice, time for Nix

is he natty?

>>7392137
>>7392136
yeah, of all the shirts to wear when kids all over the world are watching, he chose the space bimbos one

just wear one with planets and shit next time. Thankfully he apologized so it's all cool

>>7392149
shit where are you watching, is this a live stream?

>>7392147
Now more Charon photos.

>>7392153
Rose of Charon.

I wonder when is the closest approach to Charon. From the Eye diagram it looks like NH is closer to Charon than to Pluto ?

friendly reminder that after all this, all youre gonna get is a shitty grainy picture

>>7392162
>friendly reminder
You have no friends.

>>7392149
link

>>7392159
Yes, it will pass much more closer to Charon than Pluto, that's the plan.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
>>7392152
>>7392167


the stream is at NASA ya dinguses

>>7392176
ya but its playing old footage until 5:30 ET

>>7392162
sadly true

Going to Pluto, powered by plutonium and carrying ash from a man who discover Pluto.

>>7392178

YEAH IN 2 HOURS

>>7392185

I wonder if his ghost will get off at Pluto?

so far so good

Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9I1KyNa8M

Enterprise as fuck

Ok guys this is the New Horizons newsroom

(240) 228-8532

Got this number from Dwayne Brown from the New Horizon mission management

>>7391423
Plebs everyone.

>>7392206
I wish they would just have a room full of scientists watching the app and talking about the mission in real time. You know they are doing that anyway.

>>7391863
>>7391783
>>7391898
ikr? I do small scale engineering, drones, solar power crap like that and it's a miracle if the actual product is anywhere near the theory predictions.

>>7392218
It takes me half an hour to find the moon with a camera on a tripod. By the time I shoot, it moved!

GOOD LUCK NEW HORIZONS

>>7392223
>moon
>moved

almost had me

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0DaVp5c5k77

>>7392122
Why do F-35s cost more than spacecraft? It's just a plane.

>>7392210
Are these official names? So far all I've seen NASA mention is "whale" and "heart"

>>7392223
>i cant find the moon
u wot m8? its right there

>>7392228
holy fucking shit dude

>>7392229
Freedom tax

>>7392229
Plus it's a shitty plane that tries to do more things than it could.

>>7392228
That's pretty funny.

Ya dickhead.

>new frontiers
I chuckled
You're an asshole though that lady was being nice

>>7392234
So far there's only a list of proposed names.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pz1AF-fe0TV9YcNl502ThK04hxigxtv04GqtJ380E3I/edit?pli=1#gid=0

>>7392228
I cringed

>>7392255
>Naming anything after a Joss Whedon creation

I'm out

Who is this nigger?

Big LORRI pass coming up. 50,000 miles.

It's pointing to Pluto now. It's happening.

>>7392273

Obama speaking on the big Iran nuclear deal at 0700. I hope he at least gives a shoutout to NH.

I love this comparison image.

>>7392281
Enceladus pissing itself always makes me laugh

Whats the point of this mission?

>>7392287
new grainy photos

>>7392287

To finish what was started with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which was left incomplete in order to get a better view of Titan.

>>7392152
>Thankfully he apologized so it's all cool
No, he should not have given a fuck!

>>7392287
"The goal of the mission is to understand the formation of the Pluto system, the Kuiper Belt, and the transformation of the early Solar System."

seriously took 5sec of searching. Get Good fool.

Bolden does way too much coke

>>7392152

reddit pls go

>>7392287

To study Pluto, its moons, and the Kuiper belt.

>>7392291
>>7392294
>>7392297
And what can we do when we find that out?
This is just a waste of tax money

my great uncle worked at nasa

maybe just a cleaner or something

no one knows

>>7392301

It's literally less than half a cent in the taxpayers dollar.

>>7392301
>And what can we do when we find that out?
>This is just a waste of tax money

If that's your outlook, all space exploration is a waste of tax money. It's your right to do so, but if you want to get in the way of NASA spending its budget on exploring the Cosmos, you can go fuck yourself with a cactus.

>>7392301
It's of a global interest too.
>Not American
>Not my tax money

>>7392301
>what is the purpose of learning things?

>>7392301

When you've dried your eyes write your Congressman.

>>7392301
>And what can we do when we find that out?
>This is just a waste of tax money

If that's your outlook, all space exploration is a waste of tax money. It's your right to think and say so, but if you want to get in the way of NASA spending its budget on exploring the Cosmos and answering the big questions about existence and our place in the universe, you can go fuck yourself with a cactus.

That's boring.
Someone send nuke armed probe to dig through Europa's frozen crust.

>>7392314
I don't think you realize how BAD of an idea it is to use nukes in space

>>7392313
I don't think that a few low quality photo's of Pluto can answer those questions.

>>7392313
Is protecting us from future impact events really a waste of money?

>>7392255
Did we give naming terrestrial locations this much thought?

why is ALICE always turned on ?
why half of the DSN antennas are dedicated to NH since it's supposed to be in full auto mode atm ?

>>7392317

>implying there's aliums who can send us RKV gifts

Nukes are the best way to travel and do meaningful shit.

>>7392301
We should give it all to starving kids in Africa right?

>>7392318
They're actually pretty high quality, we're just getting the low-res versions first because the rest will take an entire year to download.

>NASA in charge of live streams

>>7392301
I wish my tax money would be wasted on this sort of thing.

>>7392318
Why don't you stop being ignorant and read the mission profile. The only way to make discoveries is to look for the clues. The Kuiper Belt is a vast expanse of debris left over from the formation of our solar system. Who knows whats out there.

Pluto flyby is only a small part of the mission.

>>7392327
Even the TIFs have jpeg-like compression artifacts. No one would talk about this with me and now I don't feel like it.

>>7392317

I thought nuclear warheads were supposed to be ineffective in space or something.

why are we flying past it instead of landing on it

>>7392332
Can you give me a link?

>>7392335

Oh they're effective, just not as effective as on Earth.

>>7392319
>Is protecting us from future impact events really a waste of money?

I don't think you grasp the depth of ignorance inherent to asking what the point of a mission like New Horizons is. An Anonymous that asks such a question isn't really asking. What they're really saying is that it's a waste of money to learn about the unknown. There is no reaching out to change the mind of someone with that outlook on life.

>>7392328
Look like a cool guy.

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anyone noticed how nasa gets 100 times more views when the redhead is talking ?

that's pretty sad and funny at the same time

>usa visited every planet and every dwarf planet!
>USA USA USA USA USA USA USA!

ebin

>>7392267
>>7392328
His constant sniffling is triggering me.

1 MORE HOUR

>>7392280

tfw you will never send a plutonium-powered probe to pluto

>>7392337
>Can you give me a link?

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Pluto/Why-Pluto.php

>>7392343
Maybe people just like her "Pluto in a minute" show. Why must you turn such a momentous occasion into an argument about gender?

1 HOUR AWAY!

>it will be 16 months before we have received all of its highest-resolution images.

FUCK THIS


IM OUT

>>7392353
Because we all know whores can't teach science you mong.

>>7392162
>>7392290
>>7392318
Ebin meme :^)

Get hype!

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

>Europoors land on a comet and fail to do anything, its their only mission that wasnt a earth orbiting satellite
>USA does complete survey of TWO dwarf planets in our solar system IN 6 MONTHS

>>7392362
Still the number one king of space.

>>7392344

Europoor detected

This morning, NASA announced that Pluto is 2,370km (about 1,473 miles) in diameter, give or take 20m. That makes it ever so slightly bigger than Eris, a much darker and denser object that lives farther out in the Kuiper Belt. (Eris measures 2,336km in diameter.) Measurements of Pluto's size before today were estimates at best, their accuracy skewed by the dwarf planet's hazy atmosphere.

>>7391689
Europa and Titan are the two best bets for life in the solar system, however small that chance may be.

>>7392362
You have more money, big whoop. When you run out China will be laughing at you.

>>7392362
you mean 10 years

>>7392370
ERIS BTFO

>>7392371
Enceladus is a better bet than Titan for Life As We Know It.

>>7392371
>Europa
Maybe

>Titan
Hell no

Its lakes and rivers look comfy though

>>7392362
>2015
>praising your nation over others
tsk tsk

>>7392378
Venus is a great bet for life as we don't know it.

>>7392370
>you will be dead by the time of Eris and other dwarf planets missions
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>7392370

Better send a probe to Eris to properly measure it as well asap then

>>7392379
>Titan
>Hell no

It's not impossible. There is hypothetical biochemistry that could thrive in a cold, cryogenic, hydrocarbon-rich environment.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400067

>>7392380
You're right buddy we're praising our nation over a continent

>>7392352
too long, didn't read
summarize that shit

>Tuesday, July 14th

7:30AM - 9:00AM ET: NASA TV coverage begins. Pluto and Charon images released.
7:49AM ET: New Horizons flies by Pluto at a distance of 7,800 miles away.
8:30PM - 9:10PM ET: NASA TV coverage of New Horizons' "phone home" from mission control.
8:53PM ET: New Horizons' scheduled data connection.
9:30PM - 10:00 PM ET: NASA TV coverage of a scheduled media briefing on the health and mission status of New Horizons.

>Wednesday, July 15th

3:00PM - 4:00PM ET: NASA TV coverage of media briefing and high-resolution images of Pluto. An image of Nix, another one of Pluto's moons, will also be released.

>Thursday, July 16th

12:24AM ET: New Pluto mosaic released.
3:24AM ET: Highest resolution mosaic image of Charon released.
9:23AM ET: Color image of Pluto and Charon orbiting each other released.

>Friday, July 17th

12:33PM ET: Best-resolution photo of a fully lit Hydra, one of Pluto's moons.

>>7392388
>too long, didn't read
>summarize that shit

Because we know jack shit about the solar system past Neptune, and we want to fix that.

>>7392385
Is there any point in going to Eris? Even Sedna seems like a more interesting target.

>>7392380
>patriotism is illegal in europe

What a surprise.

>not orbiting Pluto

>>7392393

First question off the top of my head: as the orbital distance increases, is there further differentiation in the composition and nature of the bodies that orbit our sun than we see with Pluto?

God Bless America ;_;7

In my opinion we shouldnt release those photos, we should put them in public somewhere in NY or D.C. and put a No Photos Allowed sign. Then they would be available only for Americans. Fuck everyone else.

>>7392390
>3:00PM - 4:00PM ET: NASA TV coverage of media briefing and high-resolution images of Pluto.
who /hype/ here

>>7392393
>Sedna
It won't reach perihelion until 2075. It'll be the one chance for 12,000 years, so a mission isn't off the table.

>>7392397
Check IDs. Citizens only.

>>7392402

I'd love to see a mission to Sedna. It would take an extraordinary spacecraft propulsion system to reach it, and a body whose orbit takes itself almost 1,000 astronomical units from our sun has got to be crazy.

>>7392397

>>7392397
you know how in science fiction aliums are always "just aliums" from "just a planet"? They rarely mention countries and shit
I wonder when humans will reach that point

We win again. At this point you yuropoors should stop trying, you're only embarrassing youreselves

>>7392362
space exploration is a combined human effort

>>7392397

What's the point of being God's Gift To The World if we can't even rub the rest of the world's faces in the glory of our achievements? Get good at being an All American Egomaniac, Anon.

>>7392402
>>7392405
>>7392393
I bet my ass that there will be a mission to Sedna. Its an Oort Cloud object after all.

science will destroy this planet

Please don't turn a nice thread into an /int/ and /pol/ shitfest.

>We're getting imagery from tech that's 9 years old
>today's instruments would offer higher resolution
modern space exploration is frustrating as fuck

>>7392418

>>7392362
Please post your fat burgerbelly. (No neckbeard pls)

also rude bait

what's with the nasa stream? audio in and out all the time

>>7392408
When USA conquers all those irrelevant pieces of clay, of course.

>>7392411
Yeah, but only Americans are doing things

>>7392122
>>7392229
>>7392243

/k/ here

F-35 PROGRAM costs more than a spacecraft because of the quantity being made, an individual f-35 is less than 100 mil. Technologies being made for the F-35 are applicable to a wide variety of things, especially stuff like the data link/early warning/helmet technology.

The rumors of the f-35 being inadequate are mostly from a few VERY vocal detractors. Marine Corps F-35 should be reaching IOC (initial operating capacity) within a few months.

Would still rather way more money be put into space exploration because if we dont the human race will die on this rock, but the f35 gets way more shit than it should.

>>7392397
MURICA

>>7392415
>I bet my ass that there will be a mission to Sedna. Its an Oort Cloud object after all.

Maybe, but the Delta-V expenditure needed to make a visitation possible, and within a reasonable amount of time, would be tremendous. I'm not sure how it can be done; nuclear propulsion has huge energy density, but its inefficiencies are such that visiting Sedna might not be viable without a nuclear powered ion drive driven probe, which would require so much fuel reserves and require such a powerful reactor that it would likely take multiple SLS launches to do it.

Let's report that fatburger!

NOW!

Apparently the radiation hardened processor is the same architecture as the PSX's processor.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11351164/New-Horizons-Pluto-probe-powered-by-PlayStations.html

>>7392428
pol pls go

this crisp audio is triggering me

>>7392369
>laughs at europoors
>posts europoor memes

>>7392362

you do realise who got you there, right?

>>7392432

Why has LORRI just gone off?

>>7392438
He spent more of his life in America than in Germany, so he's American

>>7392394
Patriotism causes war.

>>7392440
nothing to photo

>>7392429

Actually, other than want for Delta-V to waste on reducing the duration of the cruise, it might not be as bad as I thought. It only takes 1.62 km/s more Delta-V to enter low Sedna orbit than it does to fly past Pluto.

>>7392432

Resistance is futile

>>7392436

>not being able to detect ironic shitposting

>>7392397
>Uses German rocket tech
>British (Newtonian) mechanics
>"God bless America"

>>7392394
yeah patriotism is really great

i especially liked the part where my country was entirely occupied by a country it had historically good ties to

>>7392441

>born in Germany
>speaks fluent German
>German accent
>Nazi

nah, he's German

Latest image from New Horizons

NASA just posted this sneak peek on their Instagram

who /readyfordisappointment/ here

wtf is going on?

SOON

>>7392453
>>7392454

hot

>>7392453
>>7392454
grorious moments to be alive!

>>7392432

>>7392454
>>7392453
>10 years for that

top lel

>>7392456

Probably looking for material caught in the center of mass of the Pluto-Charon system.

>>7392453
>>7392454
I've been waiting for this moment.

>>7392427
I remember reading that the V2 programme cost more than the Manhattan project. Maybe you should learn from Germany's mistake and invest in a cheaper fighter. In every industrial war production trumps high technology.

>>7392454
>pluto has a heart

D'aaaw

>>7392453
>>7392454
amazing

Having no quality images of pluto really pissed me off for a long time. I can't wipe the smirk off my face.

>>7392465

At this time? Man they're running tight program.

>>7392453
I SEE ATMOSPHERE!

Makemake or Haumea fly-by when?

>>7392453
>>7392454
So the heart is real after all

>>7392453

where's the red?

>>7392453
>>7392454

>>7392454
>>7392453
>in the end we'll have much, much better

>>7392470
reminder that this was the best we had

>>7392453
>>7392454
I wonder what is going on with that massive flat when the rest of the surface is relatively uniform. Those dark patches are also interesting.

>>7392481

Kudos to Nasa t. Europoor

can someone make an image comparing >>7392481 to >>7392454?
i want to unironically post it on facebook

>>7392481
The fuck did Bolden call Charon? Sharon?

When will it be Rex's time to shine? Once they're past Pluto?

>>7392383
>you will be an enhanced cyborg by the time of Eris and other dwarf planets missions

Maybe the lens of new horizon is just color defect and the planet is just gray all along.

>>7392485
wait more

>>7392468


An individual f-35 costs less than a rafael or eurofighter

And the US is going to have 2400 of them

Thats more 5th gen fighters than the rest of the world has combined.

Thats more combat aircraft than any other nation has TOTAL

Thats only 500 less aircraft than russia and china have COMBINED.

The great thing about by being the richest nation in the world is you can have quality AND quantity

An individual f-35 costs less than a rafael or eurofighter

>>7392453
>>7392454
Plutomind

>>7392489
>You will be dead when we finally start exploring outside our Solar System

>>7392486

>The fuck did Bolden call Charon? Sharon?

The deity is Kharon. The moon is Charon, because the discoverer managed to sneak in a modification of his wife's name, Sharon, past the International Astronomical Union.

>>7392485

Maybe copypasting something with Paint? Just suggesting.

>>7392453
Now I've seen all of the traditional 9 planets in photo.

>>7392486
Thought the same. "Share-on"

what shall i have for lunch lads

what's with ALICE strangely shaped field of view?

>>7392454
Spinning in infinity. He says, “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrKejQTynk

>>7392500
My cum

>>7392494
>you will be dead by the time we'll discover the planet that warps Sedna's orbit

>>7392490
No, all the instruments were tested for accuracy before launch.

>>7392487
yes
it needs Pluto's atmosphere between the Earth and itself

>>7392383
Maybe we'll get a mission to Chiron or Chariklo and they turn out to be rounded enough.

>>7392497
i'm really bad with computer. when i try to resize the hubble photo, it becomes jagged and stretched oval-like

>>7392504
>yfw dark earth or neptune sized masses

You dont have to thank us, rest of the world. We are just doing our duty of doing literally everything because you are all lazy pieces of shit!

It's happening!

you guys going to the pluto palooza?

>>7392454
>>7392453
>This stunning image of the dwarf planet was captured from New Horizons at about 4 p.m. EDT on July 13, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach.

we're so youthful and social media-oriented at nasa xD

No shirt mistakes this time. All women and PoC.

white women love the BBC

>>7392498
The traditional seven planets after which our weekdays are named are: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.

DUANE!

IT'S GAME TIME

>>7392526
BBC is better than CNN

>USTREAM
>FLICKR

>>7392504
Your brother's whore great- grandaughter will see Sedna but you won't

>>7392530

>13 kilometres a second

>>7392110

Meanwhile Canberra is receiving data from the Voyager probes...

>>7392538
Forgot about this. Can haz link?

>>7390906
That's a big moon

Bump limit exceeded. Time for a new thread.

>>7392541

>>7392485
I know it's not that good, but I hope i'm not too late

NEW THREAD
>>7392541
>>7392541
>>7392541

15 MINUTES 15 MINUTES 15 MINUTES

>>7392543
for you

why aren't the instruments pointed at pluto?

tell me they are gonna take that Pluto-Charon shot

>>7392542

It's in the post I linked to breh.

>>7392110

>>7392551
they saw something

>>7392551
they fucked up. it's over

This images will be gold worthy!

THANK YOU BASED ESA!

>>7392513

Well yes, I wouldn't publish my efforts too.

>>7392551
The Barycenter. They're testing for particles to see if any atmosphere has been trapped in the gravitational well.

>>7392495
>naming a scientific discovery with the name of your wife

Fucking beta cuck.

>>7392556
Probably not, FOV too narrow.
Seems like NH gonna collide with Pluto.

>>7392567
you should probably give that meme a rest

get ready for plutonians

>dat Charon-rise

>murrica

Will we see Kerberos and Styx?

>>7392578
Never!

Autopilot...

>>7392650
Haha

Did I spot the science guy there too?

USA USA USA

> huh
biggest anti-climax thing ever :[

>>7392650
>That Pluto

>>7392681
Yeah, Bill Nye.

>all those american flags
>scientists yelling USA USA USA

>>7392681
yes, that cunt will stick his obnoxious face everywhere

>>7392691
I cringed.

>>7392705
Ye the dubs guy

Seriously, who could expect that Pluto would greet us with a Heart?

>>7392650
>pluto on that chair
kek

>>7392362
>complete survey...

>USA will be the first country to visit all planets in the Solar system
Holy shit did I get triggered.

>>7392838
Only if NASA actually convinces everyone that there is oil out there.

>>7392394
no, it's stupid in europe so only lower class retards and powermad politicians cling to it. much like in the US tbh.

NH sending data home?

>>7392889
Not yet.

>>7392889
I've hacked it...sending pics directly to this thread

>>7392913
I hope for nudes.

CLAP CLAP CLAP

It's going away, show it's over.

>>7392913
He should have lit up Wesley like a torch.

>>7392931

>>7392931
Confirmed

currently watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9I1KyNa8M

Exactly how much meth does the average NASA mission team use?

>>7392052
Pretty much everything?
The ice giants are so full of mysteries it's almost creepy.

>>7392152
>yeah, of all the shirts to wear when kids all over the world are watching, he chose the space bimbos one
>just wear one with planets and shit next time. Thankfully he apologized so it's all cool
Is this supposed to be sarcastic?

>>7392402
>It'll be the one chance for 12,000 years
Fuck me, I hope they're already planning for this..

Why would they go to Pluto it is not a planet?

>>7394531
Kill ureself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9I1KyNa8M

not watching this?

WE'RE ON LOCK!!!

>>7394531
Same reason they sent a probe to Ceres.