Truly amazing how many discoveries we don’t know we have yet. Unfortunate that VERITAS is on hold, but if it’s to get Psyche out the door faster, I’m all for it
2 years ago (edited) | 7
No rover, no atmospheric probe/blimp and now no orbiter either; as always Venus is getting the short end of the stick
2 years ago (edited) | 12
Hi Scott, Can you please make a video explaining the exact way SpaceX plans to do stage separation of Starship (spin maneuvre) with some props. I want to understand, but there are no animations on YT. Also the way the Starlink satellites are ejected from the Falcon 9 upper stage into space.
2 years ago | 0
You just know we are sitting here waiting for the Scott Manley postmortem....
2 years ago | 0
Any update on Roscosmos? https://www.wired.com/story/russias-space-program-is-in-big-trouble/
2 years ago | 0
What an amazing coincidence, just as funding gets cut we get evidence of something.
2 years ago | 1
Scott Manley
Yesterday a scientist discovered strong evidence for ongoing volcanic activity on Venus by looking at 30 year old radar data from the Magellan spacecraft, this was launched back in 1989, and was one of only 3 interplanetary spacecraft launched on the Shuttle, the only one which didn't go to Jupiter.
Magellan was also the only one which was approved after the space shuttle came into service, both Ulysses and Galileo began development in the 1970's.
In a sad coincidence yesterday the principle investigator for the VERTAS mission to Venus revealed that the project is effectively on hold as NASA is only giving the funding to keep the science staff working, NASA wants JPL to finish Psyche and conclude that investigation before proceeding with another spacecraft.
www.science.org/content/article/active-volcano-sho…
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