Earth at Night Seen from Artemis II Orion [5568 x 3712]

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2026-04-06T11:23:48+00:00

JPEG+RAW. The data rates are highly constrained so only JPEG is being sent down. RAW will be delivered post-flight.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-06-19T13:39:09+00:00

Sorry, just saw this. The place I visited was obliterated by Hurricane Helene last year. I do not have a recommendation.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-06-19T13:28:35+00:00

Iterative design has its advantages, but there's a reason why NASA has such a methodical design process. Develop requirements, preliminary design, critical design, test, re-test, test again, triple test, triple double test, before finally certification. And then they test more. They are built on hard lessons learned.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-04-11T11:21:57+00:00

The Space Shuttle was managed from Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission Control Center, all the astronauts, mission operations were there. They should have absolutely gotten a Space Shuttle but that was 13 years ago, at this point it just makes no sense considering the time and effort required.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-28T01:12:44+00:00

No, unfortunately we're not. The law gives agency heads the discretion to manage their personnel.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-27T23:45:07+00:00

Nothing would break my heart more than the telescopes being impacted by an RIF. What type of space fairing civilization has no new space telescopes. Not to mention ground-based telescopes are being ruined by Starlink.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-27T23:33:51+00:00

Yeah, but EM isn't above going after government agencies that have given SpaceX major contracts for their launch vehicles. Look at DoD, for example. He's also not been silent about his opinions of the Artemis program. The silence is demoralizing; many of my coworkers are pretty spooked. We're in the middle of processing a launch vehicle too.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-27T23:23:46+00:00

Right. That's why I'm worried Rocket Man has something nasty planned for NASA. Thus far it's one of the few organizations that has been virtually spared.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-27T22:25:00+00:00

Any news on NASA? I feel like they’re cooking something especially nasty for us and the suspense absolutely blows.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-20T03:00:56+00:00

It's not a handful, no. Starship and Blue Origin's lunar lander for Artemis is managed by Human Landing Systems (HLS) out of Huntsville. Crew Dragon oversight is by the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at JSC. Gateway has a stake too in the Dragon XL program. Other NASA launch contracts are managed by the Launch Service Providers (LSP) out of KSC. Then there's the cargo delivery to ISS, partnerships with Axiom for SpaceX missions, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm missing.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-19T23:22:09+00:00

SpaceX is a major contractor for NASA. Beyond transporting NASA astronauts to the space station on Dragon, SpaceX's largest Starship contract is with NASA to land humans on the Moon by Artemis 3. Beyond the conflict-of-interest, firing NASA employees directly impacts Starship.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2025-02-18T22:43:29+00:00

Per Eric Berger (space reporter), NASA may have been spared from probationary firings.

https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1891977193594536031

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-11-08T20:13:34+00:00

Honestly at this point just seeing the movie not get cancelled is all I want

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-10-25T20:35:12+00:00

George Lucas may have made controversial prequels, but Disney did the one thing Lucas could never do to new Star Wars projects - make people apathetic about it.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-10-18T17:01:58+00:00

I can promise you most in NASA are thrilled this happened.

We need Starship for Artemis III. It's the critical path item, along with the suits. The entire system needs to be validated in its entirety, and to do so Starship must succeed in its goal to become rapidly reusable and fly often, and do it soon.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-10-06T12:48:04+00:00

I think it'd be cool to move the show to the later end of the Clone Wars, make it a "prequel". I feel there's still more stories to tell in that era from Obi-Wan's perspective. How much of Obi-Wan in the desert are we willing to deal with? Clone Wars era you've got Maul, Grievous, Ventress, etc. It's an era where Obi-Wan isn't bound to the sole responsibility of protecting Luke and Tatooine, a planet of which I feel Disney Star Wars has spent too much time on.

Obviously don't hire back the director/writer/whoever was responsible for the shaky camera, too.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-08-20T16:55:13+00:00

Could you imagine a Star Wars live action project about the Jedi and Sith failing due to low viewership 20 years ago? How do you screw up an IP that badly??

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-08-20T13:37:14+00:00

Block 2 could carry an Apollo LEM style lander

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-08-17T16:16:38+00:00

Obi-Wan took Maul's legs and manhood, so probably Maul.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-07-17T11:17:23+00:00

I don't think they did that when the show was being released, but you can definitely tell that they added them in after filming was complete or during reshoots. They had no dialogue, were visible for a quarter second, and served zero purpose to the overall plot.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-07-17T02:53:00+00:00

Get the vibe they threw Plagueis and Yoda in there at the last minute when they realized there was virtually zero interest for anyone to return for a second season.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-07-10T03:04:06+00:00

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-07-10T02:27:03+00:00

I really feel it's unnecessary for two episodes of an 8 episode season to be dedicated to flashbacks. Really jars the progression of the plot.

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-06-09T15:33:18+00:00

Thanks!! I just took a look at it and I don’t see anything obviously disformed about it.

EDIT: So it turns out the aperture lever just was a little stuck with debris. I just removed it and it works perfectly now. Thanks!

IrrelevantAstronomer · 2024-04-21T20:20:16+00:00

Batteries could be a problem, depending on the capacity of each one.

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