cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/45614563
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5763205
One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.
A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they’d been providing had been “of exceptionally high quality.”
The observatories provide detailed carbon dioxide measurements across various locations, allowing scientists to get a detailed glimpse of how human activity is affecting greenhouse gas emissions.
(Ex NASA employee) David Crisp said it “makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,” pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency’s $25.4 billion budget.
The irony is that the MAGA slogan “America First” actually puts America behind other nations consistently. The irony behind the MAGA belief that Trump puts American workers first is that all his policies prioritize the interests of the very people they hate and want him to dismantle: the uber-rich “Elite.” MAGA voters are some of the dumbest, most gullible Americans in the country, and I personally think they simply vote for the politicians they do because said politicians fly the same bigotry flags they support: anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-racial-equality, etc. In other words, MAGA is basically just America’s bigots rallying under an “America First” banner, which is code for”straight, white Americans first.” So sad I know people who support this crap and don’t realize they’re falling in with the worst America has to offer.
These people are seriously the dumbest. The other day I was told that “finally Trump is fixing this shit” and that “tariffs are the price for doing business” and that I “have to pay them and can no longer freeload by spending money on healthcare”. Didn’t get an answer when I asked if he even knows how tariffs work and why it could possibly be that USA spends more money on healthcare per capita than any other nation in the world
So not burning our tax money this time, exploding it. Thats Progress.
Its all about appreciating the slightly less awful outcome.
MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT
MAGA is actually MANGA.
Donny 2 Dolls is an enemy to humanity, and to children in particular.
Release ALL the unredacted Epstein Files!!!
Trumps on the list. Anything he does and says is just a distraction from not releasing the list.
😢
Dear No Kings crowd, please march on Washington.
I’m starting to think that maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world could unite and just remove USA from the map. Humanity might survive if it’d happen, but in the end, we all know we’re going to burn together.
I live in the USA. I hate the current administration. I don’t want to be removed from the map.
just remove USA from the map
The real “Gulf of America”, just north of the Gulf of Mexico
Humanity might survive if it’d happen
You think the current president’s contingency plan isn’t to just nuke everywhere and everything?
Hence ‘might’
but hey, global warming would cease to be a concern.
Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute… I don’t think you guys understand what this means, please don’t blow up the domes.
If you ever have to give a Dern. Let it be Bruce. One of the best Dern actors there is.
Tax payer here. Let’s not
China liked that
They’ll be cutting off funding for the program as well. So why not… move it to Canada or Germany?
Trump is pressuring other countries to follow suit with his stupid bullshit, he would have a fit if somebody took it over
He’s already had a fit with Canada. If his response continues to be to raise tariffs until all the affected sectors of the US economy just move to Canada to avoid them….
With any luck some of their military production facilities will move here to avoid the tariffs, and then when things kick off we can nationalize the bastards
Is this enough evidence to say that MAGA is running purely on accelerationism at this point?
Somewhat related, would be nice if they’d order Juno to be rerouted to check out interstellar comet 3I-Atlas, has to be done before the end of the month. Juno is slated to be deorbited into Jupiter in September so has no actual science left to do but probably enough fuel remaining for the rendesvous.
It’s a fantastic idea, really clever. But I’m afraid it’s too late, it doesn’t have the necessary Delta-V. We could have tried it if we had planned the mission a month ago, but at this point we just can’t get there in time (We didn’t know its trajectory a month ago, so it’s a moot point). What it comes down to is this, to make a flyby it would need about 2.5k Delta V, Juno has about half that.
Also, we’re not confident Juno’s engines will light. We’ve previously refrained from using them for some planned manners because we recorded abnormalities the last time they were fired. There’s a decent chance engines would explode if used again.
If we want to be able to take advantage of this kind of situation in the future, we’ll need at least one of two things… More probes, just sitting around with more fuel to spare, or better detection abilities so we can find these objects with more time to get to them. I’m betting on the later approach.
What kind of trajectory is that assuming? The closest approach of 3l-Atlas to Jupiter is in March and will be 54 million km away. Is this end of the month timing to get it off of Jupiter’s orbit and closer to 3l-Atlas’s orbit? How will it achieve the 61km/sec intercept speed of the comet?
This would be a flyby, rather than orbiting, as that would take a lot more propellant. I’d assume they might use gravitational assist from Jupiter, but a more or less direct shot might be planned, not sure. 3I Atlas would be closest to Jupiter in early September, yes, coincidentally the same time Juno was expected to be deorbited. As far as achieving the velocity needed, there are some calculations yet to be done but apparently there could be enough propellant onboard to do it.
I heard about the intercept idea through The Angry Astronaut’s youtube but there was a Congresswoman and some professors pushing it too.
(Angry Astronaut’s recent video about an intercept mission) https://youtu.be/B6O7nuJcmpY
NASA’s budget. Is set. By CONGRESS.
Not anymore. “congress” aproves their irrelevitzation since its Republicans
Learned a new word today
Im full of 'em
And executed by the executive branch, with a gun. The scrotus safety switch is fully in the off position.
