LibertyGal on Nostr: I was reading a thing on spaceweather.com: " WATCH FIREFLY ALPHA PUNCH A HOLE IN THE ...
I was reading a thing on spaceweather.com:
" WATCH FIREFLY ALPHA PUNCH A HOLE IN THE IONOSPHERE: Firefly Aerospace launched its "Noise of Summer" mission on July 3rd with an Alpha rocket carrying 8 cubesats to Earth-orbit. En route to space, the burning engines punched a big red hole in Earth's ionosphere. Watch the movie on today's edition of Spaceweather.com."
I showed the picture to my son and we read the description. My son asked me what a cubesat is. I initially told him all I knew was it was some kind of satellite. He asked, "cube shaped." Then my snarky side popped off, "a borg satellite".
OK that probably isn't what it is, but it made sense to me.
#space #satellite #spaceweather #science #startrek
" WATCH FIREFLY ALPHA PUNCH A HOLE IN THE IONOSPHERE: Firefly Aerospace launched its "Noise of Summer" mission on July 3rd with an Alpha rocket carrying 8 cubesats to Earth-orbit. En route to space, the burning engines punched a big red hole in Earth's ionosphere. Watch the movie on today's edition of Spaceweather.com."
I showed the picture to my son and we read the description. My son asked me what a cubesat is. I initially told him all I knew was it was some kind of satellite. He asked, "cube shaped." Then my snarky side popped off, "a borg satellite".
OK that probably isn't what it is, but it made sense to me.
#space #satellite #spaceweather #science #startrek