感觉你们聊的很有意思，遗憾的是我看不懂你们说的到底是什么

感觉你们聊的很有意思，遗憾的是我看不懂你们说的到底是什么

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你好。 你不明白什麼?

So, what;s with all the chinese text?

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

English Please. :)
Thanks Bob!

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LOL.
你好
SETI's first ambition is to find a radio signal that have to be from some intelligent beings.
Then eventually trying to interpret a message within that signal.
Oh. They don't speek english:)

The flag says Chinese. There might the answer lie for you, sir.

+1 @ https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82567&postid=1955683

欢迎 廖永丰

尝试使用谷歌翻译
https://translate.google.com/

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NASA Hosts Science Chat on Upcoming Historic Planetary Encounter

Members of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft team will host a Science Chat at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 19, on humanity’s farthest planetary flyby, scheduled to occur Jan. 1 when the spacecraft encounters a mysterious object in the Kuiper Belt nicknamed “Ultima Thule.”

The Sept. 19 event will be livestreamed from the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. It will air on Facebook Live, NASA Television, Ustream, YouTube and the agency's website.

The conversation will cover a range of topics, including the preparations, plans and goals for exploring Ultima. The encounter will occur approximately 4 billion miles from Earth, complementing the discoveries still coming from the mission’s July 2015 flight through the Pluto system, during which the spacecraft provided the first close-up images of Pluto and its moons, collecting data that has transformed our understanding of our solar system’s outer frontier.For the upcoming flyby,the mission team is planning to come three times closer to Ultima than it did Pluto.

Participants in the Science Chat include:

Jim Green, chief scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder Colorado
Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager, APL

The public can ask questions on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA or by leaving a comment on the stream of the event on the New Horizons Facebook page. Media may submit questions before and during the event by emailing JoAnna Wendel at joanna.r.wendel@nasa.gov

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New Horizons was launched from Earth in 2006. Ultima Thule was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014, during a search for a suitable secondary target for the New Horizons, once it had passed Pluto. It was thereafter selected from a list of candidate planets that were turned up by this search.

The fact that New Horizons will pass much closer to Ultima Thule than to Pluto is probably due to its much smaller size, about 30 kilometers. Pluto was seen well at a greater distance, because it is much larger than this. Ultima Thule imagery and other data collection will benefit from a closer pass, though it will still appear much smaller from the perspective of the space probe, than Pluto did.

Beyond Ultima Thule, no other Kuiper Belt Objects are expected to be closely encountered, given the flight path, and fuel and electrical power constraints. The latter is expected to allow the mission to continue until 2021. They hope, before then, to gather some information about 25 to 35 KBOs from distances of tens of millions of miles, or greater. This has already been accomplished for a few, including the largish object named Quaoar

The Japanese Space Agency JAXA has launched a H-IIB rocket carrying a HTV-7 space cargo to the ISS. It should arrive next Thursday and be captured by the Canadarm and connected to the Harmony Module.
Tullio

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The JAXA Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has reached the Ryogu asteroid after a three and a half years trip. It will try to land it a MASCOT lander and three other smaller before attempting a soft landing to collect some material and bring it back to Earth. Ryogu is about 1 km wide and rotated around its axis in 7.5 hours.
Tullio

edit - (Sorry - this was already posted in another thread by Pierre )

Japanese Rovers Record First Video Ever Shot On Asteroid's Surface

https://gizmodo.com/the-hayabusa2-rovers-just-made-a-movie-on-the-surface-o-1829391481

Soyuz launch failure but two men are safe, thanks God.
Tullio
This may be the end of ISS since the Boeing and SpaceX launch vehicles are not yet ready. There are three men on the ISS and they must come down before January.

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According to preliminary data, the Soyuz accident occurred because one of the four first stage units hit the second stage and pressure dropped, the source reported.
Video https://youtu.be/OclqhefcZlA?t=165
Due to the heavy load on the current crew of the International Space Station (ISS), the next manned launch may be carried out ahead of time, but only after the investigation of the current Soyuz accident has ended, a source at the Baikonur space center told Sputnik on Thursday.
There will be an attempt to carry out the next launch by mid-November.

I don't believe Roscosmos will take any risk if the causes of the accident are not fully understood.
Tullio

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Of course not.
This the first accident in 43 years with Soyoz rockets.
But I think the next launch in november will be succesful.
btw. Russia no longer produces Soyuz-FG booster rockets and is planning to cease their use in 2020.

Both Hubble and Chandra space telescopes entered safe mode because of gyroscope problems. Opportunity rover on Mars still not answering communication messages from Earth after a dust storm covered its solar panels with dust.
Tullio

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Both Hubble and Chandra space telescopes entered safe mode because of gyroscope problems.

Didn't the Kepler telescope suffer a similar fate due to bad gyros?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Yes

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