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'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft
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- iamkonstantin 8mo agoThere is also the original ESA post with a lot less ads and correctly implemented opt out from analytics https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3_s_Coronagraph_is_alive https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...
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- graemep 8mo agoThe European Space Agency, not 'Europe'. Just as annoying as calling the EU Europe, and calling both Europe despite different membership is just confusing.
- anonymars 8mo agoIs metonymy really so unreasonable in this title?
- donohoe 8mo ago“North America puts man on the moon” Yes. Yes it is.
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- anonymars 8mo agoA good title is brief and clear. "'Miracle': European Space Agency reconnects with lost spacecraft" is long. "'Miracle': ESA reconnects with lost spacecraft" is opaque. The first four words of the article are, "The European Space Agency..."
- close04 8mo agoESA is one of the largest space agencies in the world. There’s nothing opaque about calling it ESA especially in a title. We wouldn’t use initialisms if everything had to be expanded all the time.
- tetris11 8mo ago> Proba-3, works just like a real solar eclipse. One spacecraft, which is roughly circular when viewed from the front, orbits closer to the sun, and its job is to block the bright parts of the sun, acting as the moon would in a real eclipse. It casts a shadow on a second probe that has a camera capable of photographing the resulting artificial eclipse. > Having two separate spacecraft flying independently but in such a way that one casts a shadow on the other is a challenging task. But future missions depend on scientists figuring out how to make this precision choreography technology work, and so Proba-3 is a test. Oh wow, they've potentially rescued this (very cool!) mission for both probes
- anonymars 8mo agoScott Manley had this nice overview of the mission (~9 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfW645jhbKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfW645jhbKM
- TheOpenSourcer 8mo agoNow its time to reconnect with their Allies. THe west is waiting for EU
- temphaaa 8mo agocan someone tell me the reason how that happen? it's not clear to me from the article, i mean the chain of reacyion part
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- 1shooner 8mo agoI'm sure there is an engineering or physics reason, but why can't the occulter be an attached, smaller-diameter disc?
- 3eb7988a1663 8mo agoThe goal of the mission was actually to test precision maneuvers -keeping spacecraft aligned to mm precision. The sun pictures are a bonus.
- stevage 8mo agoIt says the spacecraft was tumbling, but implies that due to regaining solar power it has achieved a stable position. I'm curious about the missing steps there...