The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

LostCorpse · 24 Oct 2025 at 19:04

btw this is also relevant to the thread :

Aerospace groups link up to create European rival to Musk’s SpaceX

Deal between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales will bring together some of continent’s leading manufacturers

www.theguardian.com

worth watching for were it goes! if any where.

could be competion on top of the US companies potentially being brought on as spacex arent performaning as expected on the moon landing stuff

DD_Crash · 28 Oct 2025 at 12:09

Lots of videos on youtube about 31/atlas and I am sure that they are fake but is there any reliable info on it?

Penfold101 · 28 Oct 2025 at 15:50

A few of the space related channels I follow.

Penfold101 · 28 Oct 2025 at 19:11

There’s also this one for incredibly in-depth documentaries of all the space programs:

Homemade Documentaries

When I was 14, I started collecting various films and materials related to the space program. Eventually, I found it annoying to have to fumble around all the raw footage; it was a nuisance. I started to centralize them by editing them on my computer into a single, unified "video" that...

youtube.com

PBS Spacetime for properly scientific information:

PBS Space Time

Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth with our astrophysicist host: Matthew O’Dowd. For all business inquiries and sponsorship opportunities please reach out to...

youtube.com

And if you want something made by a Brit with a flare for Shakespeare on a budget, this guy:

ParallaxNick

A channel for the sharing of knowledge of science, history and the multiverse at large. I look to the past to place our present understanding in context, and, I hope, better grasp the future. Follow the conversation at my Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickrwebb?lang=en-gb or join the Facebook...

youtube.com

DD_Crash · 28 Oct 2025 at 19:40

Penfold101 said:
A few of the space related channels I follow.

Thanks for that. There certainly is some strange stuff on youtube.

mrk · Wednesday at 23:16

This is the best breakdown video of its activity.

If we don't detect it around Dec 190th then something is wrong and people might want to start wondering, otherwise standard comet behaviour just different this time as it is an object from outside of our solar system and we have no past samples observed the same way to compare against.

It's position in Jan vs our solar system planet alignments is very interesting though.

arknor · Thursday at 00:50

mrk said:
If we don't detect it around Dec 190th

sounds like the longest December on record

Penfold101 · Thursday at 06:54

mrk said:
This is the best breakdown video of its activity.

If we don't detect it around Dec 190th then something is wrong and people might want to start wondering, otherwise standard comet behaviour just different this time as it is an object from outside of our solar system and we have no past samples observed the same way to compare against.

It's position in Jan vs our solar system planet alignments is very interesting though.

What absolute nonsense.

Are you really posting a video from someone who also made this?

Given his subscriber count, he’s definitely mastered the art of click bait for making money, I’ll give him that.

It’s just a very fast interstellar comet, nothing is going to happen.

Edit: he also has the hashtag #astrology in his YouTube overview, which tells you all you need to know.

Penfold101 · Thursday at 07:01

arknor said:
sounds like the longest December on record

I requested it to enjoy betwixmas just that little bit more.

mrk · Thursday at 08:54

I don't really care about the previous videos, hashtags used or anything beyond just the video posted as it uses the sourced page (3d solar system model and trajectory) at its base which is all that anyone should be focused on as it visually represents the calculated path of Atlas and that if it does not follow that path then quite obviously something is wrong.

Penfold101 · Thursday at 09:11

mrk said:
I don't really care about the previous videos, hashtags used or anything beyond just the video posted as it uses the sourced page (3d solar system model and trajectory) at its base which is all that anyone should be focused on as it visually represents the calculated path of Atlas and that if it does not follow that path then quite obviously something is wrong.

Well that’s one way to keep your blinkers on I suppose :cry:

Any reason to think it WON’T follow the path calculated by all the experts in the field who actually understand all this stuff rather than some conspiracy YouTuber trying to make money by making stuff up?

esmozz · Thursday at 09:19

Penfold101 said:
Well that’s one way to keep your blinkers on I suppose

Any reason to think it WON’T follow the path calculated by all the experts in the field who actually understand all this stuff rather than some conspiracy YouTuber trying to make money by making stuff up?

Well since it's a novel comet and appears to be markedly different from others due to it's interstellar origins, and also due to the fact we've only recently been able to detect such objects we know very little about them, I would suppose it could start outgassing in an unexpected manner as it passes behind the sun thus altering its trajectory in an unexpected way. It least its a possibility.

Probably not an alien probe though.

Penfold101 · Thursday at 09:42

esmozz said:
Well since it's a novel comet and appears to be markedly different from others due to it's interstellar origins, and also due to the fact we've only recently been able to detect such objects we know very little about them, I would suppose it could start outgassing in an unexpected manner as it passes behind the sun thus altering its trajectory in an unexpected way. It least its a possibility.

Probably not an alien probe though.

Whilst potentially true, a quick check of the predicted path here:

3I/ATLAS - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Shows that it isn’t going to pass ‘behind the Sun’ as such - it’s going barely closer than twice the Earth-Sun distance and nothing is likely to change this in any appreciable way.

For more debunking of the nonsense video, you can also see the ACTUAL overhead view of the Solar System today here:

The Planets Today : A live view of the solar system

The planets today shows you where the planets are now as a live display - a free online orrery. In this solar system map you can see the planetary positions from 3000 BCE to 3000 CE, and also see when each planet is in retrograde.

www.theplanetstoday.com

Showing no ‘galactic alignment’, or alignment of any kind with the Sun, and nothing like what appears in whatever program he’s using.

Nate--IRL-- · Thursday at 12:13

Penfold101 said:
There’s also this one for incredibly in-depth documentaries of all the space programs:

Homemade Documentaries

When I was 14, I started collecting various films and materials related to the space program. Eventually, I found it annoying to have to fumble around all the raw footage; it was a nuisance. I started to centralize them by editing them on my computer into a single, unified "video" that...

youtube.com

PBS Spacetime for properly scientific information:

PBS Space Time

Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth with our astrophysicist host: Matthew O’Dowd. For all business inquiries and sponsorship opportunities please reach out to...

youtube.com

And if you want something made by a Brit with a flare for Shakespeare on a budget, this guy:

ParallaxNick

A channel for the sharing of knowledge of science, history and the multiverse at large. I look to the past to place our present understanding in context, and, I hope, better grasp the future. Follow the conversation at my Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickrwebb?lang=en-gb or join the Facebook...

youtube.com

The top 2 are excellent channels - Homemade Documentaries in particular is great. Will check out your 3rd selection.

Nate

Django x2 · Friday at 20:05

The most ironic thing about 3I/Atlas is that the people claiming it's "Aliens" and self powered, and how it's mocking planets and the sun with its behaviour are the same ones who would laugh at people claiming to be the Messiah, or the immediacy of the second coming. Not least, failing to spot that advanced alien civilizations think disguising themselves as a comet, the most tracked spaced anomaly, would in someway surprise us.

Pixelpusher · Saturday at 11:10

What do you all make of this ?

RxR · Saturday at 11:14

Aircraft?

Pixelpusher · Saturday at 11:18

RxR said:
Aircraft?

My mate said the same but why would the smoke trail pulse, unless the engine was on fire ? I even thought it could be a firework but I've never seen one do that ?

Penfold101 · Saturday at 11:37

The light flashing pattern is definitely aircraft-like, through beacon and nav lights. Not sure about the sparks unless it was having a compressor stall. Where is he roughly?

VaderDSL · Saturday at 11:42

Could it just be artifacts from the light? If you watch it back the trail seems to just disappear instantly in stages.

But then again I’m trying to view it on a phone, so might be clearer on my PC

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