Orbit Ops

Space Satellites (artificial and natural)
Solar System Objects etc

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

To think that we aren't just going "to the Moon," but rather traveling to meet it at an exact point in space... changes everything.
​It all comes down to orbital mechanics: arriving at the precise location, at the precise moment.
​One tiny error... and it simply doesn't happen

[Justin Davenport @Bubbinski]

Touchdown! And LOUD applause!

[CanberraDSN 📡 @CanberraDSN]

Love it that while we are communicating with one of humanity’s oldest and most distant robotic explorers, we are also communicating with one of its latest explorers much closer to home.
Voyager 1 = 24 billion kms
#Chandrayaan3 = 384,000kms

[CanberraDSN 📡 @CanberraDSN]

Congratulations 🎉
#Chandrayaan3 has successfully landed on the Moon!
Amazing job @isro
Be proud India 🇮🇳

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Dr Kirsten Banks @AstroKirsten]

Hold on a dang minute, is that how long it takes the Moon to orbit the Earth?

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

This is Sabrina Pasterski, a girl who already knew how to build an airplane engine at the age of 14. At age 16, she became the youngest person ever to travel in a plane she built herself.

She has a doctorate in physics and is currently impressing with her studies of black holes.

She received her Ph.D. from Harvard and studies one of the most challenging subjects in physics: black holes, the nature of gravity, and space-time.

The way she approaches the subject has led university institutions to claim that they are working with a "new Einstein".

The daughter of an American father and a Cuban mother, she was born in Chicago and attended a school for super-intelligent children.

In 2013, she was the first woman in two decades to graduate from MIT with a degree in physics at the top of her class.

Stephen Hawking cited her work several times in his article published in 2016. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, wore a fan T-shirt with her image and invited her to work at "Blue Origin", an astronaut company that he owns.

According to him, she would work wherever she wants, it's important that she has that mindset. NASA also made a similar proposal to her.

She turned down both companies, wanting to focus on her scientific work for now without any pressure.

[Orbit Ops @OrbitOps]

@ABCscience That would have been a 1980 Mercedes-Benz 280E Auto
(In todays dollars that’s about $166,000)
Only worth about $5000 today (in good condition).
Back to the maths Q:
2020 price is $32,716
Worth same?
(40 year 415% inflation included):
No. It’s worth about 20% of original value.

[Sarah Rosario @sarahbrosario]

Update: New details on #FlightsGrounded right now. The @FAANews reports a system failure is grounding flights nationwide. NOT ALL flights are grounded. Work is underway to restore the system. Reminder: Check your flights before you head out this am. @10TampaBay @JennyWTSP #tpa

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

NASA’s retired Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere after almost 40 years in space.

The @DeptofDefense currently predicts reentry at approximately 6:40 pm EST on Jan. 8.
https://t.co/3VKDIqDh0X

[SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom]

Perseverance rover marks 1 Mars year on Red Planet https://t.co/GxQtoOJ11o

[Orbit Ops @OrbitOps]

✻✩⁑⁑ ✺Happy✺ ✺New✺ ✺Year✺ ⁑⁑✩✻
❂ 2023-01-01_00:00UTC ❂

[Dr Kirsten Banks @AstroKirsten]

Faster than light?

The illusion of superluminal motion with @astro_kobi!

[Richard Stephenson @nascom1]

On Madrid's DSS53 Mars Perseverance Rover is currently sending a DTE or Direct to Earth downlink at a huge 176b/s from the surface of Mars.

[Jason Major @JPMajor]

Tonight's waxing crescent #Moon with Earthshine brightening its night side

[Riding with Robots @ridingrobots]

Curiosity looks homeward.

I learned some things just flipping through the book. Looking forward to digging in. Thanks, @elakdawalla

[Dereck Bowen @dereckbowen]

@Richard_M_F I captured meteor #c8ff042 in Brantford,Ontario Canada at with my GoPro
It was capturing 30sec shots all night and got this shot

[New Scientist @newscientist]

The Hubble Space Telescope spotted light emitted from a supernova less than six hours after it occurred – the earliest we’ve ever seen such a distant supernova https://t.co/GyLNGOP1o9

[Alan Sheehan @AlanSheehan18]

M7.3 #earthquake near Tonga Islands detected on my Raspberry Shake and Boom (AM.R21C0) @raspishake #python #CitizenScience #ShakeNet #Obspy #Cartopy