Thrusters like these kept Skylab in orbit, and are also used on the shuttle's manned maneuvering system. New engine designs are trying to find ways to accelerate ions or atomic particles to extremely high speeds to create thrust more efficiently. NASA's Deep Space-1 spacecraft was the first...
Thrusters like these kept Skylab in orbit, and are also used on the shuttle's manned maneuvering system. New engine designs are trying to find ways to accelerate ions or atomic particles to extremely high speeds to create thrust more efficiently. NASA's Deep Space-1 spacecraft was the first...
1973: The United States launches its rival space station, Skylab. It remains in orbit until 1979, when it finally crashes back to Earth 1982: The US Space Shuttle, a reusable space plane, makes its maiden voyage. 1986: The Shuttle program comes to an abrupt end on January 28, 1986 when...
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To put the potential of AI into perspective, investment in AI/ML in 2017 alone had already overtaken all of the combined investment in big data. Last year,AI adoption and investment further grew, with the pandemic forcing enterprises to fast-track their digital transformation. A...
Skylab Posts:4,428 Joined:19 Apr 2020 Posted03 February 2025 - 07:16 PM bierbelly, on 04 Feb 2025 - 02:08 AM, said: The Vega was a conventional maknewt. The barlow shown is just that...a barlow, which is removable from the focuser tube. Still a meniscus lens at the front of ...
Skylab Posts:4,057 Joined:02 Apr 2019 Loc:Pacific Northwest Posted30 June 2024 - 11:29 AM Quote The vast majority of stars observed visually are seen as being white. Just like learning to see more details in faint DSOs is something that can be improved through years of practice, I've ...
Although it looks like the Saturn V is pushing against the immovable Earth, it was also actually nudging our planet by about 1cm over 1000 years from its orbit. There were 13 Saturn V launches from Pad 39 at Cape Canaveral sending the Apollo missions to the Moon and Skylab into orbit –...
The origin of the fast stream of solar wind was identified in 1973 using X-ray images taken of the sun's corona from Skylab. The culprit for speedy solar winds are coronal holes, cooler regions of the sun with an open magnetic field line structure that allows the solar wind to escape wi...