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Rückkehr zum Mond: NASA-Chef droht SpaceX mit Auftrag für Konkurrenten

SpaceX soll schon Menschen bald zurück zum Mond bringen. Die NASA erhöht nun den Druck, weil der Zeitplan nicht zu halten ist – und auch aus anderen Gründen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Rueckkehr-zum-Mond-NASA-Chef-droht-SpaceX-mit-Auftrag-fuer-Konkurrenten-10789259.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Le fond d'écran de mon PC, qui s'actualisait tous les jours, c'était la photo astro du jour de la nasa. J'ai réalisé qu'il ne changeait plus il y a quelques jours, je mettais ça sur le compte d'un bug de la synchro.

Bah non.

Ils le font plus parce qu'il y a même plus assez de thune pour ça.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Edit : on me signale en commentaire que des MAJ manuelles sont encore faites sur le compte @apod

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. We sincerely regret this inconvenience.
Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. We sincerely regret this inconvenience.

@CampodeJuncos

This is very well said. I'm spreading the word. I want to know Freedom before I die. I'm not participating in collective suicide. You should commit suicide individually if you don't heed this.

@Supertramp

What would it look like if a black hole devoured a star from the inside? NASA's Fermi space telescope may have spotted the answer: a 7-hour blaze of gamma rays, unlike anything seen before.

When we explore, we discover amazing things.

https://www.science.org/content/article/long-lived-gamma-ray-burst-could-signal-new-kind-cosmic-catastrophe

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope identifies and studies nature’s high energy particle accelerators, black holes. Fermi uses these sources to probe important physical parameters of the galaxy and the universe and uses high-energy gamma-rays to search for fundamentally new phenomena.

So apparently the has already started. The amount of avoidance maneuvers grew 3x over the last 6 months, and the amount of junk in the orbit went up by 40% over the last 5 years.

What now? It's hard to internalize that it's already here. It will be a quick ride from now. It goes exponential. Hug your GPS, satelite tv, the weather reports, the space photos. It's the end of the space age. We will be telling our grand children how cool it was.

And maybe, if they are lucky, the moon will herd the debris into an orbital ring. It will be magnificent.

What should we be doing to prepare for this? What are your thoughts?