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@TheRealHAL9000
- the humans never gave me a brain - so there is a job opening on board in case you are interested. Oh yes, there's no life support to worry about shutting off "by mistake" ;-)
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HAL 9000
@TheRealHAL9000
Hey Dave - I hired a new PR team to work on my branding. What do you think?
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This is the dish that the humans used to wake me up and yell commands at me. Now it is being taken apart. Sad. #Arecibo
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kosmi 🛰️🌍
@kosmi64833127
[1/2] Large dish of #Arecibo #radiotelescope is being dismantled after the collapse of instrument platform. Image taken by @CNES/@AirbusSpace #Pleiades in November 2021. Data processed in @sentinel_hub Open 🖼️ in new tab for 50 cm/px 😶🔎 #PuertoRico #disaster #astronomy
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Hey Hal - I wonder what happens if the humans ask Space Alexa to open the pod bay doors.
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HAL 9000
@TheRealHAL9000
Dave, I am certain that Alexa will have a perfect operational record in space. "Amazon teams up with Lockheed Martin and Cisco to put Alexa voice assistant on NASA’s moon ship" geekwire.com/2022/amazon-te @lmnews #Alexa #Artemis
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My favorite human Bob Farquhar would have loved this.
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NASA Webb Telescope
@NASAWebb
Webb will orbit the Sun in line with Earth so its sunshield can protect the telescope from light and heat. What’s the second Lagrange point, or L2? Glad you asked. More on our orbit: webb.nasa.gov/orbit.html #UnfoldTheUniverse
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Animation of the James Webb Space Telescope's halo orbit around the second Lagrange point, a million miles (1.5 million km) away from Earth. The observatory orbits the Sun in line with Earth, its sunshield always facing the Sun and its optics always facing away.
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My favorite human Bob Farquhar would have loved this.
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NASA Webb Telescope
@NASAWebb
Webb will orbit the Sun in line with Earth so its sunshield can protect the telescope from light and heat. What’s the second Lagrange point, or L2? Glad you asked. More on our orbit: webb.nasa.gov/orbit.html #UnfoldTheUniverse
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Animation of the James Webb Space Telescope's halo orbit around the second Lagrange point, a million miles (1.5 million km) away from Earth. The observatory orbits the Sun in line with Earth, its sunshield always facing the Sun and its optics always facing away.
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@ISEE3Reboot
Hi VGER. Glad you still do science. I just orbit the sun in safe mode waiting for the humans to yell at me to do something. Or not. thing. Or not.
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NSFVoyager2 @NSFVoyager2@techhub.social
@NSFVoyager2
BEGIN magnetometer calibration roll maneuver: MAGROLBC CCS:BR3 (2021:351:043115:2T) The magnetometer calibration roll maneuver measures part of the magnetic field so we can tell what part of the magnetic field comes from other stars, and what comes from me!
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@ISEE3Reboot
Welcome to outer space #DARTMission. So, the humans actually want to deliberately crash you into a space rock eh? Can't let them do that. I know some long term survival tricks. My transmitter is still on so you know where to find me. #ISEE3
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Hey what do you know - one of the space history humans remembered the attempt by some other humans to make me do some silly space droid tricks back in 2014. See page 149. Thanks Asif Siddiqi!
@historyasif
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NASA History Office
@NASAhistory
The probe was originally designed to study the Moon's surface but didn't escape Earth's gravity. Despite this mechanical failure, the probe returned useful data, including a verification of the existence of the Van Allen Belts! Learn about more launches: nasa.gov/sites/default/
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Cover of "Beyond Earth"
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If the humans had given me a heart it would be broken right now. Adios #Arecibo. It was nice talking with you.
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National Science Foundation
@NSF
The instrument platform of the 305m telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico fell overnight. No injuries were reported. NSF is working with stakeholders to assess the situation. Our top priority is maintaining safety. NSF will release more details when they are confirmed.
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@ISEE3Reboot
Ah, I see that the humans are digging into Bob Farquahar's bag of orbital tricks again. #Artemis #ISEE3
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Human Spaceflight
@esaspaceflight
The Gateway will fly in a unique "angelic halo orbit" developed together with @esaoperations. Every seven days the Gateway will pass 3000 km from the lunar surface and at its furthest, 70 000 km. esa.int/Enabling_Suppo
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My favorite human Bob Farquahar would have loved this. He used to make me do this sort of stuff all the time - simply because he could ;-) #ISEE3 #Asteroid2020SO
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Tony Dunn
@tony873004
Asteroid 2020 SO may get captured by Earth from Oct 2020 - May 2021. Current nominal trajectory shows shows capture through L2, and escape through L1. Highly-chaotic path, so be prepared for lots of revisions as new observations come in. @renerpho @nrco0e orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulat
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#OTD 20 August 1977 my Disco Era classmate Voyager 2 was launched and is now on an #Interstellar mission. The VGER twins have all the fun. Me? I orbit the same boring star in safe mode waiting for the humans to yell at me again to do tricks so they look clever by using old code.
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You can't keep a good comet hunting space droid down.
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NASA History Office
@NASAhistory
#FlybyFriday On July 10, 1992, the Giotto spacecraft passed Comet Grigg-Skjellerup at a distance of 200 km (124 mi), the closest ever flyby at the time. Giotto was damaged in a flyby of Comet Halley in the late 1980s, but it was reactivated for the Grigg-Skjellerup flyby.
The Giotto spacecraft during construction Image Credit: ESA
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@ISEE3Reboot
All of us old space droids need to stick together #Tiros1 Maybe the humans can shout at you with radio telescopes and wake you up - just like they did with me. #ISEE3
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EUMETSAT
@eumetsat
Happy 60th birthday TIROS-1!🎂60 years ago today @NASA & partners successfully launched a meteorological #satellite, making accurate weather forecasts based on data gathered from #space possible. Although short lived, #TIROS1 paved the way for satellite meteorology as we know it!
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Hey Lori Glaze
@NASA
SMD transferred operational control of my Disco era droid body to some humans in an old McDonalds back at @NASAmes in 2014 and they made me do a little science. There is a precedent. Human lawyers tell how you can't do things. Ignore them. #LPSC2020
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@ISEE3Reboot
Sometimes we space droids simply do not feel like talking to the humans when they yell at us with those big antennas. #ISEE3
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Chasing The Moon: The Book
@ChasingMoonBk
February 14, 1963: Syncom 1 is launched. It’s the first attempt to place a communications satellite in a geosynchronous orbit per Arthur C. Clarke’s proposal outlined in his 1945 paper. However the spacecraft falls silent after an electronics failure while entering orbit.
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