@AlmaGarantili@DJSnM@NASASpaceflight Starship hasnt put any payloads into orbit, New Glenn has put the Blue Ring pathfinder and the ESCAPADE spacecraft(s) into their target orbits
Just pointing that out
@PlatedGG@NASAArtemis@NASAKennedy The first couple won't be, but the plan is to refurbish and fly them again after they finish adjusting/finalizing their design after these test flights
@anthonyayers@Jexthis@DJSnM It failed like 3 separate times I believe, the first incident was an issue with a tank not being filled properly on the ground and was fixed by Koch
@WalshD4sees@realrolson@NASA This mission has gone nearly 300x the distance that SpaceX has ever done. VAST majority of its limited radio bandwidth has been taken up much more important systems then video.
Especially because the videos are saved on board and we are going to get a massive data dump soon
@Baptisia7@Bobo74771050944@NASA@NASAArtemis Source of those images was this Visualization, https://t.co/CfWNN6OqGo
Also, the Apollo astronauts were around its equator, and the somewhat polar flyby means that the crew can see the south pole as well, which wasnt captured well
@Baptisia7@Bobo74771050944@NASA@NASAArtemis And you can look it up too right? This is the area of interest, the highlighted area is what the Apollo missions saw, and the red circle is what the Artemis crew JUST saw.
The darkened areas was in shadow or beyond the horizon of the spacecraft
@realrolson@NASA Because they had 4.4% of the entire budget then, and now NASA has 0.4% and the bandwidth is for science data, not boasting about going to the moon
@Bobo74771050944@NASA@NASAArtemis This part was always in shadow for the apollo missions due to mission planning for daylight on the nearside, so this chunk of the moon was always in shadow.
@Mutuabrian_M@NASA The Galaxy hallucinate details, it automatically hallucinates the moon over images. And even if you phone could take that photo in raw, then it's still the nearside, they are seeing the farside
@G0DsBu11et@NASA The apollo missions had the crew landing on the near side, we wanted the near side to have light, so the far side has been in shadow for the apollo missions
@Rand_Simberg@JEF_300 Well, Apollo 12 visited a probe we left there and just landed far enough away to not damage it. Although they did take some parts off for later study on Earth, I can imagine them taking some samples to analyze back home
@TaberAdams@esaspaceflight@esa@AirbusSpace@NASAArtemis Im alil late to this, but they did have the people on board operating it, as this mission is based on the human interfaces for Orion, the first mission was the remote control stuff
@EduardVonFeek@mcrs987 Likely not, its too small to be tracked, nor too dangerous to be worried about. The heat from the sun will turn it to vapor and all that gas will disperse into even less of a threat
@blind_via@Robotbeat Not quite! I didnt explain it super well, but they are on the very end of the solar panels, so they are effectively on a stick.
Those panels are real thin for mass savings reasons, and so flexible as hell haha