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This seems to have been a bit overshadowed by the Chinese moon probe, but after landing on an asteroid TWICE a Japanese spacecraft is dropping its collected package of asteroid dust off in the Australian desert. Final kicker is that it isn't just going to burn up on earth re-entry, but buggering off elsewhere for 10 years for another go! 😲 Eat my dirt.
dropping its collected package of asteroid dust off in the Australian desert
Absolutely amazing what they have achieved but also potential opener to a Sci-Fi disaster movie 😱
Ha! I didn't think of that, especially as it might contain the organic matter that is the basis of life forms on earth.
Be awful if it smashed up on landing. 🤯
Be awful if it smashed up on landing.
That would just wrap up 2020 nicely though wouldn't it 😆
At least we know ground zero for zombification.
On a more serious point I'd like to add anything we manage to put in space is amazing engineering! It is rocket science you know.
was expecting a channel 4 program about making artisan horse pulled caravans with retractable roofs and fold out decking.
This is how The Blob 2020 starts.
Outstandingly cool. Not to denigrate our own Beagle mission, but what a contrast. 🙂
Not to denigrate our own Beagle mission
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The Beagle 2's fate remained a mystery until January 2015 when it was located on the surface of Mars in a series of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera.[5][6] The images suggest that it landed safely, but two of the spacecraft's four solar panels failed to deploy, blocking the spacecraft's communications antenna
Sounds like it worked out really well...
I just didn't want to say "we're crap" - it wasn't much more than a large-scale academic exercise, was it?
On a slightly different note, just started relistening to the BBC's excellent 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast - I've read a few books about Apollo (and visited KSC - everyone should go!) since it came out, tons more interesting now I know who some of the people are! 🙂