SpaceProbes

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Post by z3phyr » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 9:10 AM UTC

SpaceProbes
spaceprob.es

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#2

Post by aidos » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 10:34 AM UTC

That's such a lovely website. What a great project!

Totally ignorant question – is that an exhaustive list? Wow, such mind bogglingly incredible machines.

Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by bjd2385 » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 11:37 AM UTC

aidos wrote: post #2

That's such a lovely website. What a great project! Totally ignorant question – is that an exhaustive list? Wow, such mind bogglingly incredible machines.

Their site says it's a catalog of "the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system and dot our galaxy." Obviously it's not really the "galaxy," per se, considering we only have one probe that's actually left the solar system so far (Voyager 1). There are a number of inactive probes.

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Post by jtemplin » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 11:51 AM UTC

Terrific site. A visualization of the relative locations of the probes would be a helpful addition.

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Post by shekhar101 » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 12:26 PM UTC

So proud to see MOM/Mangalayan there. People in India are very proud of achievements of our space agency ISRO. It' one govt owned org that is in the right hands and is doing wonders. Only yesterday, it took heaviest payload by Indian spacecraft and placed 5 UK satellites in Orbit. All this despite being on shoe string budget.

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Post by alexivanovs » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 12:44 PM UTC

"The golden record was curated by Carl Sagan and others in hopes of it one day reaching an extraterrestrial spacefaring civilization."

I'm fairly certain that extraterrestrial life is more aware of our planet than we are ourselves, and have been since the beginning of time. Then again, this is a strictly technology site and spiritual matter is seen as evil and unproven factor in the ecosystem of Earth.

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Post by swatkat » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 12:46 PM UTC

shekhar101 wrote: post #5

So proud to see MOM/Mangalayan there. People in India are very proud of achievements of our space agency ISRO. It' one govt owned org that is in the right hands and is doing wonders. Only yesterday, it took heaviest payload by Indian spacecraft and placed 5 UK satellites in Orbit. All this despite being on shoe string budget.

>> Only yesterday, it took heaviest payload by Indian spacecraft and placed 5 UK satellites in Orbit.

Yesterday's launch was the heaviest commercial payload launched by ISRO's PSLV. PSLV has been used earlier to launch more massive Indian payloads (ex: 1.8 tonne RISAT-1). Also, ISRO's GSLV Mk2 and GSLV Mk3 (X-mission) have launched 2 tonne and 3.7 tonne payloads respectively.

I am eagerly waiting for next GSLV Mk2 launch in August, and the reusable launch vehicle technology demonstrator (RLV-TD) in October :)

Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 12:50 PM UTC

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Post by Gigablah » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 12:51 PM UTC

alexivanovs wrote: post #6

"The golden record was curated by Carl Sagan and others in hopes of it one day reaching an extraterrestrial spacefaring civilization." I'm fairly certain that extraterrestrial life is more aware of our planet than we are ourselves, and have been since the beginning of time. Then again, this is a strictly technology site and spiritual matter is seen as evil and unproven factor in the ecosystem of Earth.

I doubt you can speak for all extraterrestrial life.

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Post by goodcanadian » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 1:07 PM UTC

aidos wrote: post #2

That's such a lovely website. What a great project! Totally ignorant question – is that an exhaustive list? Wow, such mind bogglingly incredible machines.

In the sense of whether it is everything ever launched . . . not even close. It might be an accurate representation of those probes that are still active and in contact with Earth.