The shortest longest episode ever, hours of Mun trucking, hauling the largest loads across the harsh unforgiving terrain of the mun, but the mun truckers do what needs to be done.
Apologies for my energy level, I'm feeling a bit ill right now, so this was a bit rough at the edges.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmSHFCls9H0
Looking at the Confessor & Bowhead anda bit of a discussion about what it'll take to build the Bowhead, because one of my favourite things in Eve history was the launch of the Noctis where I made about 30billion isk in a couple of weeks. The bowhead is unlikely to be as popular as the noctis but it's likely to disrupt markets.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBP5ozV_8Gc
A history of the design changes that brought the Atlas ICBM to the current generation of Atlas V. The first launch was 60 years ago and since then we've seen several iterations on the design leading to the current Atlas V
Background Music 'Lost Frontier' by Kevin Macleod - Incompetech.com
The video is primarily from US Government sources and as such Public Domain.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGmIeu0xvI
My first attempt at a 360 video! I took all the asteroids near the Earth, calculate their positions and place them on a virtual Sky sphere. You can pan the view around, use a smartphone or tablet as a virtual window, or a Cardboard compatible viewer to see this the way it's intended.
Please sign the asteroid day declaration!
https://www.change.org/p/help-make-the-100x-acceleration-of-the-discovery-and-tracking-of-near-earth-asteroids-real
I'll be speaking at asteroid Day in San Francisco, you can watch the live stream on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/asteroidday
Music is "Lost Frontier" by Kevin Macleod incompetech.com
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300039
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huC3s9lsf4k
Newer Version of this video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmAMGJm-bwU
Original Description:
Following up to my previous tutorial for new pilots, this covers the construction of a rocket and lander that can go to another world. I get a lot of requests for a beginners guide to landing on the Mun, but for rookie pilots I strongly suggest heading to Minmus instead. Although it's smaller and requires more maneuvering in space to get there you can perform these maneuvers without risking the entire missions if you make a mistake. The target itself has lower gravity than the Mun so landing is more forgiving, and it also has nice flat areas to make the landing easy.
This tutorial covers:
Building a rocket capable of the mission.
Getting to Orbit
Transferring to the target body
Entering Orbit
Landing
Return
WARNING: Since this video has been made the 0.21 release has added the need to include a power source on the lander.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVPMTQfOvYQ
There's always stuff to talk about - 10th Anniversary, Nullsec politics, new Dust updates and the latest test features on Singularity.
Download the Audio only version here!
http://www.mediafire.com/?6jnr1k9ss5111xx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTy8VdojfP4
NASA's latest batch of discovery missions was VERITAS and DAVINCI+ both of which are targeted for Venus. NASA hasn't sent a spacecraft there since 1989. And by the time these launch it'll be close to 4 decades since NASA has seriously studied Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.
DAVINCI+ is built around a single atmosphere probe which will allow more photography of the Venusian surface than has been captured by all the missions to Venus so far. The mass spectrometer and other instruments will analyze the atmosphere on the way down and look for chemical clues as to the planet's history. As well as keeping an eye out for phosphine which may indicated some complex chemical processes in the atmosphere.
VERITAS brings a new level of mapping capability, allowing the surface to be captures with 100 times the detail previously generated by Magellan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_zLezYh1VQ
The International Space Station may one day be forced to return to Earth, so that it safely burns up over the ocean, and this is actually a surprisingly complicated task given the huge mass of the station and the limited propulsion available.
The plans aren't final by any means, but this discusses the problems and one particular option using multiple progress spacecraft to augment the propulsion and propellent available for deorbiting this historic orbital facility.
Some diagrams and figures are from the paper
"ISS CONTROLLED DEORBIT: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS"
Rafail Murtazina, Evgeny Menkinb, Charles Gray, Alexander Ovchinnikovd, Konstantin Grigorjeve
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340902025_ISS_CONTROLLED_DEORBIT_CHALLENGES_AND_SOLUTIONS
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lidnLtO7c