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The ultimate bake and shake, second time round: Doomed US lunar lander now heading for Earth

  • 15-01-2024 9:35am
    #1
    Calahonda52
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    https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2024/0114/1426444-moon-lander/


    Our latest assessment now shows the spacecraft is on a path towards Earth, where it will likely burn up in the Earth's atmosphere,"

    In addition to science hardware, the spaceship is carrying cargo for private clients of Astrobotic, including a sports drink can, a physical Bitcoin, as well as human and animal ashes and DNA.

    The ashes were supposed to be put into orbit around the sun

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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  • #2
    bnt
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    "The ashes were supposed to be put into orbit around the sun"? The article doesn't say that and rightly so, I think. I'd like to see more about exactly what they mean by that.

    The Earth is already in orbit around the Sun, but the Earth's gravity affects everything in a massive volume of space around it. The moon is about 400,000 km away, but orbits the Earth, and so could also be said to orbit the Sun too. In short, for anything to establish its own stable, independent orbit around the Sun, it will first have to get well clear of the Earth: millions of km at least, which will be expensive in fuel terms.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #3
    Calahonda52
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121623229#Comment_121623229
    https://www.nenaghguardian.ie/2024/01/13/ashes-of-nenaghman-are-now-in-space/

    The ashes of an expert on space who was born near Newtown, Nenagh, are aboard last Monday’s historic rocket launch in the US, and now set to orbit the sun for eternity.

    Post edited by Calahonda52 on

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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