Solar System

[the54thvoid]

A few of you probably have this site in your favourites, but a news article today made me think about the distance the Voyager probes were.

Voyager - Mission Status

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

 

[Space Lynx]

Algorithm designed to identify asteroids discovers potentially hazardous 600-foot object during test run

The HelioLinc3D algorithm was tested on data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a NASA-funded asteroid impact early warning system developed by the University...

www.techspot.com

plot twist, remember when NASA nudged an asteroid recently to see if it could be done, that asteroid hit another one it would have never hit otherwise, and then that one hit one, and then that one hits this one, changing the 140,000 mile calculation to more like direct impact. lmao

jk i know the odds of that are near impossible, but i just thought it was funny to think about

 

[lexluthermiester]

A few of you probably have this site in your favourites, but a news article today made me think about the distance the Voyager probes were.

Voyager - Mission Status

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

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I actually didn't, Thank You for posting it!

 

[lexluthermiester]

This was very interesting. More info on the Voyager missions.

 

[mechtech]

A few of you probably have this site in your favourites, but a news article today made me think about the distance the Voyager probes were.

Voyager - Mission Status

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

View attachment 307154

Need this as a real time desktop wallpaper app

 

[R-T-B]

Algorithm designed to identify asteroids discovers potentially hazardous 600-foot object during test run

The HelioLinc3D algorithm was tested on data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a NASA-funded asteroid impact early warning system developed by the University...

www.techspot.com

plot twist, remember when NASA nudged an asteroid recently to see if it could be done, that asteroid hit another one it would have never hit otherwise, and then that one hit one, and then that one hits this one, changing the 140,000 mile calculation to more like direct impact. lmao

jk i know the odds of that are near impossible, but i just thought it was funny to think about

Fun fact, I was actually part of the educational arm of that project. They reached out to me and a few other modders (we were a team of I want to say like 6 people or so) to make a KSP mod to simulate the mission for the purposes of teaching children, which we did. It didn't get much coverage vs the real event of course, but I'm still proud:

[1.12.0 +] D.A.R.T. Range Challenge [1.0.0] [01 Nov 2021]

DART Range Background What should we do if we find a dangerous asteroid on course to hit Earth? There are a number of possible deflection techniques, ranging from extreme (a nuclear blast) to benign (a heavy spacecraft uses gravity to nudge the asteroid off-course). Somewhere in between is the ki...

forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com

NASA DART Challenge

Did you know that NASA has a planetary defense program that protects the Earth? There are over 26,000 known near-Earth objects (NEOs) according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. NEOs are basically asteroids or comets whose orbit brings them within a zone approximately 195 million ...

forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com

My contribution to the project was primarily the adapting of the orbital math for KSP's simplified view of physics (it isn't a n-body game sadly, so I had to develop/adapt a collision framework and scenario that was reasonably close using 2-body formula and I think I did an alright job).

I still maintain this framework externally, though it's used more for introducing entire third party solar systems to the game now rather than DART-style missions:

GitHub - Kopernicus/Kopernicus: Kopernicus is a mod for Kerbal Space Program which allows users to replace the planetary system used by the game.

Kopernicus is a mod for Kerbal Space Program which allows users to replace the planetary system used by the game. - Kopernicus/Kopernicus

github.com

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

This was very interesting. More info on the Voyager missions.

Astrum also made a video on them:

 

[Space Lynx]

Fun fact, I was actually part of the educational arm of that project. They reached out to me and a few other modders (we were a team of I want to say like 6 people or so) to make a KSP mod to simulate the mission for the purposes of teaching children, which we did. It didn't get much coverage vs the real event of course, but I'm still proud:

[1.12.0 +] D.A.R.T. Range Challenge [1.0.0] [01 Nov 2021]

DART Range Background What should we do if we find a dangerous asteroid on course to hit Earth? There are a number of possible deflection techniques, ranging from extreme (a nuclear blast) to benign (a heavy spacecraft uses gravity to nudge the asteroid off-course). Somewhere in between is the ki...

forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com

NASA DART Challenge

Did you know that NASA has a planetary defense program that protects the Earth? There are over 26,000 known near-Earth objects (NEOs) according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. NEOs are basically asteroids or comets whose orbit brings them within a zone approximately 195 million ...

forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com

My contribution to the project was primarily the adapting of the orbital math for KSP's simplified view of physics (it isn't a n-body game sadly, so I had to develop/adapt a collision framework and scenario that was reasonably close using 2-body formula and I think I did an alright job).

I still maintain this framework externally, though it's used more for introducing entire third party solar systems to the game now rather than DART-style missions:

GitHub - Kopernicus/Kopernicus: Kopernicus is a mod for Kerbal Space Program which allows users to replace the planetary system used by the game.

Kopernicus is a mod for Kerbal Space Program which allows users to replace the planetary system used by the game. - Kopernicus/Kopernicus

github.com

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing and doing that.

 

[Bones]

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