The thread for space cadets!

so one could wager quite a bit of m oney on whatever they were supposed for the "next" American fighter was cool or something .

edit : and trust me , nobody will ever forget how Turkish newspapers were filled with the story of Greek UN guy who missed the Ethiopian plane to an UN conference . Ever heard of the ostrich and the sand ? Burying things do not make them go away . r16 stupid yes , r16 irrelevant , oh yes , if that's what will allow you people sleep at night .

edit 2: Yes , Boeing is accused of covering up an 2009 crash that might or might not accelarate the Counter-Revolution in some country . Which then means the MAX crashes might not have happened if Boeing were to notice they have an issue with tails that get locked away so that even r16 couldn't land it . Did ı ever tell you ı was an ace ?
 
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Dynetics (there they are again!) is flight testing an air launched drone called the X-61A. The concept is that a C-130 will take off with pylons loaded with these guys, which will drop off and then go do drone missions and then come back and get captured by the C-130 in mid-air. The USAF has tried this concept before at various points but drone technology may be the missing piece that makes it feasible.
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https://www.airforcemag.com/darpas-gremlins-program-accomplishes-first-flight/





Meanwhile, the rocket engine for another X-plane, the X-60A, just past a key test. The X-60A is a hypersonic missile test platform.
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https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-...e-completes-rocket-hot-firings/136181.article

The notable thing about that rocket engine is that it is uses an oxygen-rich, staged combustion operating mode. This was technology previously only possessed by Russia and now it's attainable by a small start-up (Ursa Major Technologies). Ursa Major Tech used to have a really cool website but they recently redid it and now it's a buggy, hot mess.
 
More Space Tech comes to New Mexico!

SpinLaunch flourishing in NM

BY JONATHAN YANEY

FOUNDER AND CEO, SPINLAUNCH

SpinLaunch is revolutionizing access to space by developing the world’s lowest-cost space launch system to place constellations of small satellites into low earth orbit. We have revisited fundamental principles of physics to conceive a completely new launch system, based on the use of kinetic energy in the first stage. This also makes SpinLaunch the first truly environmentally responsible launch system. And because of our innovative approach to launch, we also require innovative partners. This is why we selected to build and test our first mass accelerator at Spaceport America.

New Mexico has a long history of “firsts.”

Spaceport America offers a plethora of assets to test new launch systems, including a unique geographic location in the continental United States, strategically located adjacent to historic White Sands Missile Range, allowing for restricted airspace and almost unrestricted test capabilities. And while the Spaceport is in a remote section of the state, it offers strategic access to Las Cruces,

home to New Mexico State University with its excellent engineering school. Further, New Mexico historically has been the genesis of innovation in aerospace, dating back to the early days of rocketry, and we are proud to continue this tradition.

The Spaceport team has eagerly adopted the SpinLaunch team and has been a reliable partner in every way. Secretary Alicia Keyes of New Mexico’s office of Economic Development, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and countless others have made us feel right at home and helped to ensure we have the support we need to successfully test our new technology.

SpinLaunch is also doing our best to pay it forward. We currently have 20 employees at the Spaceport and continue to hire locally to support the building of our suborbital flight test system. New Mexico and the Spaceport are clearly cultivating young STEAM — science, technology, engineering, art, math — talent, and it’s become part of the DNA of New Mexico’s academic institutions. This benefits not only the Spaceport but is an asset to the product of commercial launch: applying creative innovation to connect people on our planet, increase global resource awareness and save lives from natural disasters. As we continue our growth, we will continue to hire local vendors and contractors. The commercial space market is expected to

grow to a trillion- dollar industry within this next decade, and our partnership with Spaceport America will expedite our ability to service that fast-emerging market.

We are keenly aware of the economic impact the Spaceport community and New Mexico are having on the growth of the commercial space market, and we commend the leadership in New Mexico at all levels. So, thank you, New Mexico, for accepting us so warmly. We are working hard to make you proud.

Jonathan Yaney is a 1,000-plus-hour pilot and serial entrepreneur with 15 years experience founding companies in IT, construction, consulting and aerospace industries.

What is SpinLaunch?

SpinLaunch is developing a kinetic energy space launch system that reduces dependency on traditional chemical rockets and that significantly lowers the cost of access to space while increasing the frequency of launch. The technology uses a centrifuge to store energy and will then rapidly transfer that energy into a catapult to send a payload to space at up to 4,800 kilometres per hour (3,000 mph). If successful, the acceleration concept is projected to be both lower cost and to use much less power, with the price of a single space launch reduced to under US$500,000.[8] The speed required to maintain Low Earth orbit is 27,000 kilometres per hour (17,000 mph).[9]
 
I'm deeply skeptical about them. I posted about them on the last page or so if you are interested.
 
I'll go look. Thx.
 
I supposed we haven't stumbled on Epstein drives yet?

(just finished S4 of The Expanse)
No but you reminded me of something I wanted to say about their propulsion -

They use a heat source to vaporize water and expel the super-heated steam as propellant. The basic principle is called a resistojet and it's very much a real thing and I think it will be a key technology in this century.

Edit: corrected 'next' to 'this'
 
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Sorry I meant the 21st century. derpa derp

The main hold up for their implementation has been power density. They take a lot of power to run and better batteries, solar arrays or alternate power plants will make this type of thruster widespread for reaction control systems going forward. They can run on basically any fuel and water is abundant out there and has lots of other uses as well.
 
now that wikipedia is back online in Turkey , perhaps ı should look up before imagining anything about Epstein drives .

edit : Oh , well , ı forgot the rant

will ignore things like you "could miss once but would remember that many" in view of the physical effort required is the kind of silly talk that drives people who care enough to care like silly with laughter , but the thing is ı am not the father of F-18 .

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now , how many of you people had to explain such a thing in your lives ? ı don't know what would you people would do without me , explaining Nothrop's high wing F-5s were so 1960s and P-530/Cobra is so definitely older than me ... This then possibly means ı am responsible for the Subpar Hornet , which ı DO take as an insult , no doubts thanks to State Department people thing that keeps annoying me to hell , this embesil who studiously provides laughter to the streets by being a fool and dragging me even lower , you know like the Mafia way of concrete poured around your feet before being thrown into the water ...

even before being understood typically backside backwards but ı won't even delve into that . And the exercise is so futile that ı doubt imagine it would "save" 8 people in a country of 82 millions to decide they should have better things than keep tracking .

the F-18E/F is simply the Lockmart and friends' way of dumbing the opposition . Bug is nice , even by looks alone , its fat development accepted as a fast and cheap development to deny Tomcat a 21st Century thing is not . We will sink the USN carriers no matter what but F-14E would have provided more range , more radar/optronic power in combat . For war in return for a "sustainable" set of support costs in peace . Advantages then to be claimed for the F-35 , with well grounded awareness that it would be delayed for a decade and whatever , so that Boeing could be induced to give up trying and giving a monopoly status to Lockmart . So much that it shouldn't be performing well enough , it was given drag increasing pylons , while ı wouldn't know who could ever manage to design that the F-35 would catch fire if too much wind was on its 6 o'clock . On a similar vein , because F-35 is now in active service and thousands will see it for real ... the real stuff the F-35 is made of , we now see USN puts IR seekers in a drop tank ! So that the F-35 will be superior because what idiot of an F-18 pilot would imagine dropping the tank just before the missiles and bullets start to fly for real ? No , am aware that the Sea Harrier would have Skyflash illuminators in drop tanks , equally well aware that AMRAAMs work mightily against MiG-21s to negate the need for pulling G and no more drag and stuff than an external pod that would be otherwise required , because lack of space in nose . People would have to remove the M-61 ! Because am an idiot and do not know of the F-18 Wild Weasel studies . With that damn canoe underneath , that would hold more decoys and chaff and flares on one plane than the Brits could employ on an Harrier squadron . Which is not that impressive , if you are any familiar with Falkland accounts , though . Wild Weasel requires lots of space and vibration free . So , that thing was actually even studied for Oerlikon KCA , on a lark ...

am actually aware that it can be used from a distance and it can be linked to close in "knife-fighters" . So , ı will raise the hand or whatever since ı have never played poker , with the IR pod that used to be hung on some A-7s back in the day like 1980s or something that would provide IR image at night to one in fourth of the planes taking part with no designator capability . You know so that the planes could identify targets , pass locations with yet "undelivered" means so that they could be carpet bombed by yet "undelivered" proto-proto-JDAM kits . Stuff "held in reserve" not to alarm the Soviets with ever increasing Reaganite brilliance , while NATO like totally howled mad at the Russian "Brimstones" ... Lies , more lies . Who would ever believe UAE designing laser guided bombs that outrange anything else in the world in their class by a whopping 25% as New Turkey and UAE are like at war to become the most technically accomplished Arab country ?

but hey , USN is the most harassed military institution in the world and the whopping big IR scanners will help Americans see UFOs , which were safe and invisible until now , because Americans are now having more smarter radars ! Newspaper actually claims America's new Space Command will be "against" UFOs , no doubt seeing them even ... People will remember ı check one blog to see what's happening -as dumb and stupid pursuits preclude any amount of equally worthless following of the US developments and inventions and the guy was so vocal on the Iranian drone attacks on the refineries . Not a single word yet on the undoubtedly Iranian attack that killed 100 or so Yemenis and stuff , because it would rock the boat after the Iranian revenge attacks in the Süleymani affair that handily missed ... But he has finally made contact with the USN guy who "invents" UFOs . Whose picture was first released on a Chinese blog , if you read the lines . He says he is now workig on USN nuclear boats and can not answer any questions but the effect he named after himself (or maybe not) is real . The blogger adds so much peer criticism to provide the obvious that is some intel operation of sorts : USN can not be THAT dumb .

it's because Donald Trump wants a nuclear arms race . Because he was there when people were making tons of money in the 1980s . It's also very amusing to watch the liberals wet their pants with fear of the impending end of the world . When there's nothing that can match the US , let alone Trump being the lizard god . Yet there's solid opposition to Trump and that resistance has to be beaten down , because like far too many people will agree Trump is a m oron , which also happens to be a Spanish Air Force base or something . Hence China has the saucers and America will "fail" and hence tried and trusted methods are required . See , how simple the life is , when r16 tells you . Time to study TASS , the ever famous media thing of the Soviets

As for the production of atomic energy, TASS deems it necessary to recall the fact that already on November 6, 1947, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R., V. M. Molotov, made a statement concerning the secret of the atomic bomb, saying that “this secret ceased to exist long ago.”

This statement signified that the Soviet Union had already discovered the secret of the atomic weapons and had this weapon at its disposal.

Scientific circles of the United States of America regarded this statement by V. M. Molotov as [a] bluff, considering that the Russians would not be able to master the atomic weapon earlier than the year 1952.

They were mistaken, however, since the Soviet Union had found out the secret of the atomic weapon as early as 1947."



after the first Soviet test in '49 .... And some newspaper headlines :

Report Gives Soviet A-Bomb Excelling U.S., January 8, 1946

Atom Is Still a U.S. Secret, Says Truman, January 9, 1946

Russia Has Death Ray, Scientist Says, March 10, 1949

Rumor of New Red Ray Bomb Unfounded, September 20, 1946

Pole Says Reds Have Mastered Atomic Energy, December 5, 1945

Physicist Says Soviet Has ‘Tons’ of A-Bombs, July 22, 1947

London Professor Says Reds Have Atom Bomb, April 3, 1948

Red Scientists Reported Far Beyond ABomb, March 12, 1947

Reds’ A-Bomb Hint Called ‘Dishonest,’ October 3, 1948

U.S. Doubts That Soviet Has A-Bomb ‘Know-How,’ November 7, 1947

and some text straight from the pages of some book from 2009 to make it more clear ...

Polls from 1945 onward consistently reflected the widespread view that the Soviets would be the next nuclear power. “Only two people out of a hundred,” the Social Science Research Council observed, “think other countries will be unable to make the bomb.” And, in January 1946, it seemed that the inevitable had happened. To considerable newspaper fanfare, Dr. Raphael E. G. Armattoe, the director of the Loneshire Research Center for anthropology and human biology in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, announced that he had learned from secret sources that the Soviets had produced an atomic bomb the size of a tennis ball. The story was deemed so important that President Truman himself issued a flat refutation of Armattoe’s claim at a press conference. The Central Intelligence Agency concurred: “There are no indications that the Soviets have an operational atomic bomb.”

That did not stop further reports of Soviet proliferation—or of something even worse. Apparently bored by accounts of an object so humdrum as an atomic bomb, journalists produced sensationalist stories that the Soviets had developed an extremely lethal cosmic-ray bomb, or even a “death ray”—the latter backed by no less an authority than German Nobel laureate in physics Werner Heisenberg in March 1949. Most of these reports came from right-wing European newspapers and may have been motivated in part by a desire to stiffen American resolve for the defense of Europe.

Taking down Armattoe’s allegations was one thing, but Truman was obviously too busy to deal with all of these reports, and refutations began to issue from lower and lower down the administrative totem pole. Even though American intelligence was pretty sure that these reports were fictions or disinformation, how sure could they really be? Some, such as the American naval attaché to the Soviet Union, in dismissing reports of a Soviet nuclear test in Chita in 1946, felt it safest to hedge his bets: “While we are inclined to view with considerable skepticism specific atomic rumors which have come to our attention, we do not feel it would be safe to assume in general that USSR has not yet developed atomic bomb. Until there is pretty conclusive evidence one way or another, it would seem to be sound to proceed on assumption that USSR may have produced and tested or will soon produce and test atomic bombs.” This position had been dominant among cautious civil servants even before the end of World War II. A position paper from April 1945 reveals both the fear of eventual Soviet proliferation and American ignorance of their progress: “While information concerning Russian activity in this field is incomplete, there is reason to believe that Russian scientists are at work in the general field of nuclear energy.” But the Soviets did not have the bomb yet—of that the Americans were confident. Even Joseph Stalin, the last person one would expect to minimize Soviet strength, announced in an October 1946 interview that he had no nuclear weapon.

After Armattoe had been put to rest, other Soviet reports seemed to refute Stalin’s sanguine assertions. On November 6, 1947, on the thirtieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov hinted at Soviet success. In the midst of a rousing celebratory speech, he cryptically added, “As we know, a sort of new religion has become widespread among expansionist circles in the U.S.A.: having no faith in their own internal forces, they put their faith in the secret of the atomic bomb, although this secret has long ceased to be a secret.” Two weeks earlier, Andrei Zhdanov, Stalin’s second in command, had announced in Warsaw that while the Americans had a monopoly on nuclear weapons, that monopoly was “temporary.” Andrei Vyshinsky, who would replace Molotov as foreign minister in 1949, concurred with Molotov that the Soviets “possibly” had the bomb, and then later affirmed that the monopoly was an “illusion.” Could it be that the Soviet Union had in fact developed an atomic bomb—and so early, in 1947?

Absolutely not, the Americans concluded.


ı inevitably "like" it when ı see myself vindicated . Don't remember where ı might have seen it , but wasn't ı let off the hook because no one ever reads me and nobody ever mocked me for declaring neutron bombs were known in the immediate aftermath of WW II ? Heisenberg thing ? First ever referral to maser or ı don't know , lazer , before the last was invented by Americans in 1962 something or whatever . The book even has Teller , the father of the hydrogen bomb , pressuring anyone in sight because them Reds might even totally give up designing fission bombs and go straight to the type then known as the "super" . See , that Heisenberg thing . And because it was so outlandish , all the Western spooks went for stealing the plans and stuff of the ERA blocks the Russians were inventing at the time .

you might have noticed some peak around 1947 ? That's the year of the Roswell scam . Particularly relevant when the American trick is access to all radioactive sources "covered" by the UN "owning" all the nukes . Which cost the life of a P-51 pilot even but that wasn't enough . As American warmongers aka those wanted more of the Federal Budget , to stop an hysteria on the scale of Orson Welles /1938/ The War of Worlds claimed they had shot down one saucer and they were heroically investigating the remains . Russians are people who live in mud , far beneath mighty Americans , hence there's a whole bunch of people who want not cannons but butter , after so many years of war . So , Aliens come , this requires nukes but it does not require any spectacle of Americans running pell mell to the hills . Naturally Russians then were like they "possibly" had the bomb , because if Americans can shoot down saucers , Russians , too can tell lies ! Failed to understand ? Despite as CFC people you are not employed by the US State Department (hence you assuredly have some brains) ? America attacked by Aliens , America needs nukes before Aliens get poisoned by the atmosphere ! The 50s movie with a B-49 dropping the thing ? Russia have nukes by then , America needs poisons for first strike ! (When ı first saw that movie as a kid ı thought that was a Martian spaceship , good old Northrop flying wing . It was a '49, right ?)

the book is a good read . But cataloguing itself as an honest account of American exceptionalism , it also kinda fails to avoid the same exact thing . RDS , the Russian shorthand for their initial bombs . Which the Russians can not agree between themselves , but it either means Russia does it DIY style or Stalin's Rocket . Causing the the commentary that it makes no sense as Stalin had other rockets which were actual rockets . It stands for "S Directorate's Rocket" or whatever . The Department S being the intelligence section on atomic espionage and it's a "rocket" . Soviets call themselves peaceful , Americans are capitalist agressors who are also murderers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . Just like Tsilovsky created the very notion of a rocket in space , these good old spies whom Moscow won't identify as spies are investigating the ways of using nuclear explosions to travel into the stars . Period . Really . Even if everybody and you and ı all know they were building the Bomb ...

hence the picture . Which was actually "designed" for the movie to explode a small nuke behind it to be pushed forward and then another and then another . Regulars of this thread will know Project Orion and stuff and this is actually a real thing from the 50s and 60s . The ship ? Habitation is far as it can be from the explosion and you could even imagine shock absorbtion on a huge scale , too . But that was too much nukes and Kubrick would like ticket sales and the intented audience would be more like those who would hate nukes ... So , it was changed . My gift to some guy somewhere else , for his contribution to prove how ı know nothing but am strangely ready to accept it . He doesn't take prisoners when it comes to American exceptionalism and a god given right to nuke anyone who's not American . He is also a fan of this Orion business on the scale of "nuts" . Like KGB came first !

in view of the continueing muzzling any aviation contract Rolls Royce signs after noon GMT today will have absolutely no compensation , when the days come where people , me included , will be able to put their money where their mouth is . See , more and we will discuss whether they should be selling cars either .
 
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One frustrating thing for me about the books/show is that they don't explain anything about the Epstein drive, unlike how they treat 'teakettle' drives which they talk about and explain at several points. I guess when you're just making stuff up out of whole clothe, it's best not to dig into it too deeply to avoid highlighting how nonsensical it is.

It's also weird how with other science fiction shows, they make up some method of traveling like warp fields and wormholes and then decades later theory shows that hey, maybe that might work under certain circumstances.
 
One frustrating thing for me about the books/show is that they don't explain anything about the Epstein drive, unlike how they treat 'teakettle' drives which they talk about and explain at several points. I guess when you're just making stuff up out of whole clothe, it's best not to dig into it too deeply to avoid highlighting how nonsensical it is.

It's also weird how with other science fiction shows, they make up some method of traveling like warp fields and wormholes and then decades later theory shows that hey, maybe that might work under certain circumstances.

The Epstein Drive can work. But the heat is the issue. Their are barely any radiators seen in The Expanse or talked about (I think they appear as little greebles at times, the small fins) but that is not sufficient. Even with the high efficiency of the drive, the damn thing is so powerful there's still at least tons of heat left over. Even just adding Liquid Droplet radiators would suffice, but the show nor book mentions it to my knowledge.

Some people have drawn up the Epstein Drive as sort of Pulse Drive; because it's so powerful the ship is basically riding off of it a few dozen to hundred meters away and the ends of the ships are still glowing white-hot and they need heatshields. As a standard Fusion Torch Drive, it'll vaporize the ship in seconds.

You can even go without massive radiators, the Epstein Drive is so efficient you can just have disposable coolant - pump it through the reactor, take the heat, and then chuck it to space, it's now a problem of space and also just keeping enough coolant on hand and having a string of refueling. Water Coolant might work on a very low performance and high consumption scale (think Heat Sinks, but being vented by the tons per minute), while more exotic metals and composites on the higher end. But alas, nothing is uttered, to my direct knowledge.
 
How? They don't even properly say what it is. And I agree on the heat sink think. A good portion of what we commonly think of as solar panels on the ISS are actually radiators.

Well it's just a very efficient magnetic fusion drive; like you said, it heats up propellant (hydrogen) and launches it, the heat is so strong that magnets are in place for every step of it (heating up, then throwing it out the thruster). We have plenty of designs for it, though of course since no Fusion Reactor has been 'profitable' yet we're not launching any. The Hydrogen is technically right on the walls of, or right outside the reactor in piping, it heats up, and is spewed out. They do use the words magnetic coils and fusion in the book, so it's some sort of such drive.
 
I was describing their 'teakettle' engines before, not the Epstein Drive. That's a different beast than resistojets even if there are some superficial similarities. The teakettle engines/resistojets would use direct heating of water with resistive heaters. Ultimately the power for this can come from a fusion reactor but it is quite a different mode of operation from any sort of fusion drive. I'm not even sure you would 'heat' hydrogen in anything resembling a heat exchanger in a reactor for this sort of drive - instead my might just expel it directly from the fusion reactor with some sort of confinement. Confinement itself comes in a lot of flavors too; it's not just magnetic bottles that you can use. That's why it's hard to say anything definitive about the Epstein Drive, they are being purposefully vague so they don't have to explain it.

Teakettle-type engines really exist (though are not common at the moment) and thus the authors do expound on them a bit more. Epstein Drives are magical black boxes.
 
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a30679617/massive-gravity-theory-universe-expansion/

Why isn't gravity slowing the expanding universe? Dark energy and massive gravity. Not sure how it all works, but I think stuff is flying apart because 2 larger bubbles touched and when they parted material from both snapped back into place. Think of soap bubbles we made as kids by dipping a ring into a bottle and waving it thru the air. Each bubble as it leaves the ring snaps into oval form thereby pulling the next forming bubble with it until they break apart.

Stuff within the bubble might have a speed limit like light, but the material snapping back is moving even faster.

We might be able to confirm this one day, is everything flying apart from everything else or does material seem to be moving in identifiable directions? I've heard we are expanding away from everything else yet we have companion galaxies we've collided with and will in the future, so some stuff is following our path.
 
Big crash in space tonight?

There’s a small but distinct chance a defunct NASA infrared telescope and an old US Naval Research Laboratory satellite will crash into each other on Wednesday evening high above Pittsburgh, Philadelphia.

LeoLabs, a Silicon Valley-based biz monitoring objects in low Earth orbits, raised the alarm over the potential collision this week. Both objects are expected to zip past one another at 14.7 kilometers per second – that’s an eye-popping 32,900 miles per hour – and early calculations suggested there was a one in ten chance of a prang.

The latest calculations show that the pair will probably just miss each other by a distance of anywhere between 15 and 30 metres (49 to 98 feet) at 1839 ET (2339 UTC). It's now thought there is about a one in 100 chance NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite – a space telescope launched in 1983 – will smash into the Naval Research Laboratory's orbiting probe tonight.

The telescope:
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There is a visualisation here, but it is pretty uninformative.
 
Big crash in space tonight?

There’s a small but distinct chance a defunct NASA infrared telescope and an old US Naval Research Laboratory satellite will crash into each other on Wednesday evening high above Pittsburgh, Philadelphia.

LeoLabs, a Silicon Valley-based biz monitoring objects in low Earth orbits, raised the alarm over the potential collision this week. Both objects are expected to zip past one another at 14.7 kilometers per second – that’s an eye-popping 32,900 miles per hour – and early calculations suggested there was a one in ten chance of a prang.

The latest calculations show that the pair will probably just miss each other by a distance of anywhere between 15 and 30 metres (49 to 98 feet) at 1839 ET (2339 UTC). It's now thought there is about a one in 100 chance NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite – a space telescope launched in 1983 – will smash into the Naval Research Laboratory's orbiting probe tonight.

The telescope:
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There is a visualisation here, but it is pretty uninformative.

And everyting seems to be fine. No reports of debris past the closest encounter. Dodged a collision there
 
I took these pictures of a launch complex on my recent trip. Pretty sure this is SpaceX's pad but I was not paying attention - I looked up from my book and saw it and had to snap a picture as it was beautiful. This was taken during the golden hour in the morning so everything looks gold but by mid day the hills become almost radioactively green.
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The distortion from the zoom on the bottom picture makes it look like a painting. When I first took it, I hated it because it's not perfect. But now I'm looking at it like it's perfectly imperfect...I don't know but I really dig the effect.

It's a Bob Ross Launch Pad
 
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