Showing posts with label launches first mission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label launches first mission. Show all posts
Friday, January 16, 2026
Friday, June 28, 2024
Happy b-day, Elon Musk. SpaceX launch
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| Born in 1971, when UFOs were big news |
A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to launch on founder Elon Musk's birthday (June 28), Friday night from the Santa Barbara County coast in California.
The launch is scheduled for 8:14 pm from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The rocket will soar south along the coast with a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. [Another US spying agency?] The agency builds and operates the United States' fleet of spy satellites.
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| I've done everything the CIA asked of me. |
The rocket and its exhaust plume are sometimes visible for hundreds of miles as it soars along the coast, if skies are clear and dark enough.
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| Sell out the public, and you too can be rich! |
Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched 96 successful [and countless unsuccessful] missions with its Falcon rockets in 2023, eclipsing its previous annual record of 61 orbital launches in 2022. More:
- Johnathan Lloyd, NBC Los Angeles, SpaceX rocket set for a Friday night launch from the California coast; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, October 9, 2023
Sharon Salzberg IMS book launch (10/10)
SharonSalzberg.com (Insight Meditation Society • BOOK CLUB • Virtual Book Launch); Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Who better to lead us than someone who found her way all the way to success? |
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| Salzberg fan Mrs. Jack Kornfield (aka Trudy Goodman) is the founder of InsightLA.org |
- “Do the good that is in front of you.”
- “Your heart is big enough for everyone and everything.”
- “We need courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
- “We can always begin again [resetting our mindfulness of this moment after the mind has wandered away during sitting meditation].”
- FREE EVENT: Insight Meditation Society • BOOK CLUB • Virtual Book Launch - Sharon Salzberg (Oct. 10, 2023)
- Event Time Announcer - IMS Book Club: Finding Your Way - Meditations, Thoughts, and Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life (timeanddate.com)
This book will inspire and remind readers how much we are truly capable of. For someone who has never meditated, it is a perfect introduction to the teaching of American Theravada Buddhist and successful insight meditator Sharon Salzberg, whose voice has inspired a generation of seekers.
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| It's possible to meditate because... |
Sunday, September 24, 2023
BS: US flies to asteroid, scoops, returns?
Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
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| It doesn't look real or capable of a billion+ mile flight. That's because it isn't. It's an artist's rendition because NASA won't release a non-CGI photo of the real thing, if there is a real thing. |
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| We'll name it after Osiris then invent an acronym. |
We call BS on "OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA (NAZIesque "Never A Straight Answer" organization) asteroid-study and sample-return mission.
We are supposed to believe that it just completed a miraculous primary mission of visiting an asteroid hurtling through the vacuum of empty space and collecting ground samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid [12]?
The [coffee grounds worth of] material, allegedly returned on Sept. 24, 2023 [13], is expected to enable scientists on Earth to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life on Earth [14], because many different extraterrestrials could surely not have been involved in coming to this rock and setting things in motion or checking back in from time to time, mining gold and rare earth minerals, taking wives, leaving DNA, and whisking off to other projects in the galaxy.
- Buddhism's Genesis account (the Agganna Sutta or "Discourse on Origins") suggests life began on Earth an incredibly long time ago, not naturally originating out of an organic broth in a soupy sea of carbon elements and amino acids necessary for life as we know it, by virtue of radiant space beings landing here, liking the sensual experience of things, and degrading -- devolving by devolution -- over the aeons (kalpas). It says nothing of "life" itself originating here. It's everywhere in the ten thousand directions of the universe (portion of the bubble like multiverse), inconceivably old, cyclical, expanding and contracting, chaotic and organized, not beginning but continuing. Those beings who alighted on this plane, because earth is described as a plane of concentric circle divided by insurmountable heights with different types of being currently inhabiting it, each group under their own sun and moon, with their own customs, appearances, lifespans, cultures, and habits, meeting by rulers who possess a special treasure that makes meeting possible -- a vimana or space vehicle capable of traveling from one world to another -- and, rightly speaking, it should be possible to call all of these beings "human," as they are all humanoids, and "earthlings," as they are all on the plane. Moreover, there are other planes below where other advanced beings abide. Just as there is all this life here that we are not generally aware of, as shown on some maps but not the official ones, there is life all over the solar system and elsewhere.
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| Burnt marshmallow that fell in the sand or Asteroid Bennu spinning in open space? |
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| What does our Secret Space Program do, Semjase? |
Afterward, its mission was extended to conduct proximity operations and in-depth study of asteroid 99942 Apophis as OSIRIS-APEX (Apophis Explorer) [15]. Oh, brother, allegedly extends.
OSIRIS-REx was launched on Sept. 8, 2016 -- though we never heard anything about that -- flew past Earth on Sept. 22, 2017 -- completely under our radar as media watchers -- and allegedly rendezvoused with Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018 [16].
It spent the next two years analyzing the surface to find a suitable site from which to extract a sample. Oh, brother! The media reported that it swooped in, extending an arm, scrapping off some random surface material from its pristine fingerprint of the early universe, like a sterile crime scene. The Big Bang sneezed dust, it landed on Bennu, rested there for billions upon billions of years, and we are the first to get our hands on it. Incredible. Unbelievable. BS.
On Oct. 20, 2020, OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu and successfully collected a sample [17, 18,19, 20]. OSIRIS-REx departed Bennu on May 10, 2021 [21, 22] and returned its sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023 [23], subsequently starting its new mission to study 99942 Apophis.
Sure, it did. Why not? There's a picture of it all burned up, sitting in the desert, except for that bright yellow spot. Why not?
The spacecraft [like a gnat in space, tinsel and fragile] will arrive at Apophis in April 2029, around when the asteroid is expected to encounter Earth.
Bennu was chosen as the target of study because it is a "time capsule" from the birth of the Solar System [24]. Oy vey 🙄, here we go.
Bennu has a very dark surface and is classified as a B-type asteroid, a sub-type of the carbonaceous C-type asteroids. Such asteroids are considered primitive, having undergone little geological change from their time of formation.
In particular, Bennu was selected because of the availability of pristine carbonaceous material, a key element in organic molecules necessary for life as well as representative of matter from before the formation of Earth. Organic molecules, such as amino acids, have previously been found in meteorite and comet samples, indicating that some ingredients necessary for life can be naturally synthesized in outer space [1].
There ya have it. What more is there to say? We must have a secret space program to do such missions, if they're done at all, because we do not have the technology in our open budget programs. If only NASA were a truthful and transparent organization.
The alleged billion-dollar price tag
The cost of the OSIRIS-REx mission is approximately US$800 million [25], PLUS the cost of the Atlas V launch vehicle, which is about another US$183.5 million [26]. And what with the OSIRIS-APEX extended mission costs, that's an additional US$200 million [15].
It is the third planetary science mission selected in the New Frontiers program, after Juno and New Horizons. The principal investigator is Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona.
OSIRIS-REx was the first United States spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid; the earlier, similar Japanese probe Hayabusa returned samples from 25143 Itokawa in 2010, and Hayabusa2 allegedly returned from 162173 Ryugu in Dec. 2020. Oh, those pesky Japanese nontheistic Buddhists and atheistic scientists are ahead of us and have better engineers, STEM graduates, and math nerds? There's a surprise. More
OSIRIS-REx capsule
NASA/Keegan Barber - This image or video was catalogued by NASA Headquarters of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: NHQ202309240002.
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
SpaceX flight FAKED, mouse reveals (video)
Tim Binnall (Coast to Coast); S. Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Flat earth fisheye lens effect |
A viewer watching this past weekend's "successful" SpaceX launch online spotted what a mouse crawling along the rocket as it allegedly soared at 17,000 MPH into space.
"Experts," who cannot now pull the footage from the internet and reshoot the "launch" in another soundstage, say the anomaly probably wasn't really a hitchhiking rat or mouse with a big tail, scurrying back and forth, as the fans blew on the Mylar metallic curtain and flame burned in the freezing empty vacuum of space near the red-hot thruster rocket.
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| We're not paid actors in a propaganda reel. |
The moment was noticed by a Pennsylvania man, who had the presence of mind to promptly capture the scene and post it to his Twitter account, which should be shut down soon if people don't buy the "expert" opinion saying our eyes are not seeing what they're clearly seeing.
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| Oops. Sorry, Elon Musk. We didn't mean to. |
The impossible presence of the creature outside the craft has given rise to speculations that the entire space flight was an elaborate hoax after the launch of some kind of rocket.
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| That's not a stage light over a black curtain. |
Maybe that rodent is a piece of frozen liquid oxygen that was vented just at the right moment, coming out of the rocket engine through a leak on its glorious journey to the ISS.
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| SpaceX in Hawthorne, a middle class neighborhood in L.A. with gov't manufacturing contracts |
- SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 [f]ake their first crewed launch for NASA
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Spacewalk: Astronauts' First Outing
Astronauts will attempt their first spacewalk today after great difficulty launching the shuttle due to weather obstacles at the Florida launch site.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
India launches 1st moon mission
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-11 blasts off carrying India's first unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota, about 100 km (62 miles) north of the southern Indian city of Chennai 10/22/08 (Babu/Reuters).
India launches first unmanned moon mission
Gavin Rabinowitz and Seth Borenstein (AP)
- Slideshow: India Moon Mission
NEW DELHI – India launched its first mission to the moon Wednesday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface. Clapping and cheering scientists tracked the ascent on computer screens after they lost sight of Chandrayaan-1 from the Sriharikota space center in southern India. Chandrayaan means "Moon Craft" in ancient Sanskrit.
Indian Space Research Organization chairman G. Madhavan Nair said the mission is to "unravel the mystery of the moon."
Chandrayaan-1, India's maiden lunar mission, seen soon after launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, north of Chennai, India, 10/22/08. Rocketing the satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi).
"We have started our journey to the moon and the first leg has gone perfectly well," he said. Chief among the mission's goals is mapping not only the surface of the moon, but what lies beneath. If successful, India will join what's shaping up as a 21st century space race with Chinese and Japanese crafts already in orbit around the moon.
To date only the U.S., Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China have sent missions to the moon. As India's economy has boomed in recent years, it has sought to convert its newfound wealth — built on the nation's high-tech sector — into political and military clout. It is hoping that the moon mission — coming just months after finalizing a deal with the United States that recognizes India as a nuclear power — will further enhance its status.
Until now, India's space launches have mainly carried weather warning satellites and communication systems, said former NASA associate administrator Scott Pace, director of space policy at the George Washington University. "You're seeing India lifting its sights," Pace said. While much of the technology involved in reaching the moon has not changed since the Soviet Union and the U.S. did it more than four decades ago, analysts say new mapping equipment allows the exploration of new areas, including below the surface.
India plans to use the 3,080-pound lunar probe to create a high-resolution map of the lunar surface and the minerals below. Two of the mapping instruments are a joint project with NASA. In the last year, Asian nations have taken the lead in moon exploration. In October 2007, Japan sent up the Kaguya spacecraft. A month later, China's Chang'e-1 entered lunar orbit.
Those missions took high-resolution pictures of the moon, but are not as comprehensive as Chandrayaan-1 will be or NASA's half-a-billion-dollar Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter scheduled to be launched next year, Pace said. The most comprehensive maps of the moon were made about 40 years ago during the Apollo era, he said. "We don't really have really good modern maps of the moon with modern instrument," Pace said. "The quality of the Martian maps, I would make a general argument, is superior to what we have of the moon."
NASA has put probes on Mars' frigid polar region, but not on the rugged poles of the moon. Yet the moon's south pole is where NASA is considering setting up an eventual human-staffed lunar outpost, Pace said. The moon's south pole is "certainly more rugged than where Neil Armstrong landed. It's more interesting. It's more dangerous," Pace said. "We need better maps."
Beijing in 2003 became the first Asian country to put its own astronauts into space. It followed that last month with its first spacewalk. More ominously, last year China also blasted an old satellite into oblivion with a land-based anti-satellite missile, the first such test ever conducted by any nation, including the United States and Russia.
The Indian mission is not all about rivalry and prestige. Analysts say India stands to reap valuable rewards from the technology it develops and, according to Pace, it already shows increased confidence in difficult engineering and quality control.
The $80 million mission will test systems for a future moon landing, with plans to land a rover on the moon in 2011 and eventually a manned space program, though this has not been authorized yet. And the Indian space agency was already dreaming of more. "Space is the frontier for mankind in the future. If we want to go beyond the moon, we have to go there first," said Indian space agency spokesman S. Satish.
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(AP writer Seth Borenstein reported from Washington)
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(AP writer Seth Borenstein reported from Washington)
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