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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid
- JKCalhoun 7y agoThe engineers (and press?) look so excited in that photo. Wonderful to have something positive on a national level to root for. While I'm happy for the USA's women's soccer victory, I suppose I prefer to root for the technical triumphs more. ;-)
- ThinkingGuy 7y agoOne other thing to keep in mind: the fact the the spacecraft is still operational means that all those engineers will still have jobs tomorrow :)
- takk309 7y agoThat is a very good point that I had never though about. I wonder what sort of contingencies exist in the contracts for those engineers?
- m3at 7y agoOnly tangentially related but I'd like to share it as space nerds (like me) may love it: https://mainenginecutoff.com/blog/2019/05/downlink https://mainenginecutoff.com/blog/2019/05/downlink This is a small mac app getting real time satellite images, and using it as your wallpaper. One of the source is Jaxa's Himawari-8, hence the link. Also, the podcasts from Anthony Colangelo (same page) are pretty good to keep up with the space industry
- lamchob 7y agoAs GOES covers the US Coasts, and Himawari-8 Japan/East Asia/Australia, do you know of any geostationary satellites over Europe, from which the live images are available?
- zeeZ 7y agoDoes this fit the bill? https://eumetview.eumetsat.int/static-images/latestImages.html https://eumetview.eumetsat.int/static-images/latestImages.ht...
- domsl 7y agoThere is also desktop earth for non Mac users: http://www.anka.me/desktopearth.aspx http://www.anka.me/desktopearth.aspx
- peach 7y agoThis is really cool. Thanks for creating it and sharing it. Already installed :)
- KaenDagger 7y agoLol
- ziotom78 7y agoCongratulations to JAXA for this big achievement!
- tosca 7y agoWho really believes this?
- StorytellerCZ 7y agoAmazing! Looking forward to what they will find out once they start drilling.
- rbrbr 7y agoWhere are the pictures / videos?
- buboard 7y agoI wonder what it would take to attach a booster to an asteroid and bring it in earth orbit
- T-A 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_Redirect_Mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_Redirect_Mission
- buboard 7y agoI 'm surprised by the low cost: > The mission cost was estimated by the Glenn Research Center at about $2.6 billion,
- dasKrokodil 7y agoWhat could possibly go wrong?
- sidcool 7y agoBig achievement. Mind bogglingly complex mission.
- hex12648430 7y agoI'm glad this mission seems to go way better than the previous one.
- olah_1 7y agoHow did they manage this with such little diversity among the crew?
- gmanley 7y agoNearly 98% of Japan's population is ethnically Japanese. There are multiple reasons for this but a big one is how long the country maintained isolation up until recently, historically. I don't know to answer your question, people are people, but hopefully that gives you context.
- nao360 7y agoBanzai!