about 20,000 years ago a very large comet came in from deep space and went into orbit around the sun.This would be a comet of the diameter of 100 km, maybe 200. Comes in, gets captured by the sun's gravity, goes into
conditions. So that's the Mustafar like planet from uh from that third Star Wars orbit surrounds a pair of stars rather than a single star. I played a small role in discovering this planet with a a
until 2024, maybe 2028, and then to begin to think in terms of commercial exploitation of the low Earth's orbit . But we have also to think in terms of this expansion and expanding the economical sphere, I would say, for Earth.So that means that's really an interesting concept in order to rethink everything in terms of governance, interfaces, partners that we will be part,
still approaching the low point of the orbit and still had to get the Last ofThe Descent and all of the vertical descent down to that new
these orbits with the innermost stable circular orbit where you could be sort of in Dante's limbo if you were on that orbit you could be there uh for infinity and and the Curious Thing things aboutuh black Hool there in their vicinity not only is space deformed but the nature of time also changes so time
good as a model goes. But it's not actually perfect. It doesn't actually describe Mercury's orbit around the sun, rather famously.And you actually can't describe that with that law. You have to get an even better model,
The, once we get up there one of the first things we do is we open up the payload bay doors. We do that because the radiators are on the inside portion of the payload bay doors; orbit ? Do you think that's sufficient for a national space program or should we press for more manned space exploration, return to more Mars perhaps?
right working in secrecy is it can be very very alienating this imagine having orbit around the Earth that are operated by the national reconnaissance office they're called LaCrosse or Onyx
And because we know how massive the stars are-- we vaguely understand stars-- we can work out that the thing at the center that they're orbiting must weigh a few million times the mass of the Sun-- and that mass must be crammed into a volume of spacethat would fit within the orbit of Neptune.
There is a nucleus, a middle of the atom, which we now know is full of protons and neutrons, and there are electrons orbiting around the atom, OK?The problem is that, even though this is consistent with certain pieces of data, it can't be true as the final answer, at least,
We do that by getting on the ground, orbit . Orbiters acquire remote data, put all that together. Right now, for instance, we have enough measurements of the weather in specific locations that we have created a global circulation model of Mars.
We've been thinking about it since the 1970s, this notion of not only going to Mars and doing in situ science with instruments that are carried on some thing-- orbiter, rover, lander-- but actually bringing samples back, and of wide variety of ways of doing that. I mean, if you defocus your eyes on what you're trying to accomplish, and you just say, listen, I want to get a bag of rocks back from Mars,
already already gone to Mars through robotic means right now India has an Orbiter on Mars uh Europe has a new Orbiter that just started operations uh NASA the US have several uh China is going to be launching a a Rover to Mars in 2020 um other countries have definitely
But before that, we flew flybys of about two kilometers. Orbiting a changing comet environment, and I'll tell a little bit of the story about how the spacecraft saved one time whenwe flew too closely.
And the treadmill is crazy. Orbital is like a great pickup truck.
orbiting the planet run by the US government and other governments, take the data out of these sorts of archives,
orbiting an ordinary star in one galaxy can figure out that our whole universe began
This would be a comet of the diameter of 100 km, maybe 200. Comes in, gets captured by the sun's gravity, goes into an orbit . That orbit crosses the orbit of the earth. While you're dealing with one large object, the chances of getting hit are extremely low. It would be very bad if
into orbit around the Earth.
and orbit the sun and they have to have orbits of more than 200 years.
in orbit to see if it works uh in actual space as opposed to
peculiar is that there is this region called The Event Horizon which is the point of no return but there are also these orbits with the innermost stable circular orbit where you could be sort of in Dante's limbo if you were on that orbit you could be there uh for infinity and and the Curious Thing things about
in orbit and has most of the
Mars' orbit was so elliptical.
The orbit would be exactly the same.
Its orbit shifted by a tiny fraction of a degree every orbit that was not accountable by Newton's law of gravity.
Commissioning orbit is where you check out the spacecraft and you check out the science instruments before you commit to doing the science observations.
Earth orbit . And they're doing pretty neat stuff.
in orbit by myself while they were down on the surface. Then when they come back into Lunar orbit while they rendezvoused, I docked. Then I got to fly them all the way back home.
Mars orbit and the the red winged craft is is starting its descent for the first landing on Mars notice the big wings
into orbit there was a symposium at Caltech and the participants in that Symposium included Carl Sean who at that
The orbits are not perfect circles. He made them perfect circles because it's the universe. God created the universe.
aligned with each other. Mathematically, it is perfectly plausible to construct a solar system with highly eccentric elliptical orbits that are tilted at large angles with respect to each other. So the fact that the actual solar system has these symmetries that with circular orbits and aligned orbits seems to be
An orbital mission would also allow the crew to conduct the photographic reconnaissance that was necessary to look for smooth, safe landing
reconnaissance Orbiter mission that actually went in uh landed with Vigor as
An unknown landing environment, we'll talk more about that later. And orbiting a low-gravity body. Just to give you an idea of the scale of the Rosetta mission, 26 instruments on both the Lander and Orbiter.
in orbital period, mass, radius, radiation, energy, all of these parameters.
And Orbital space sciences-- Orbital Sciences is also flying commercial vehicles to ISS, unmanned
The orbital vehicle right now is designed to burn up.
The orbital dynamics made the trip safer and shorter the earlier you left.
But the Earth's orbit around the sun is also elliptical.
shape of the orbit of the Earth around the sun, how circular it is, compared to how oval there's small changes, the tilt of the Earth's axis, these things that may seem subtle, these things actually
Electrons in orbit around a nucleus that has neutrons and protons and neutrons and protons. They even have smaller
former comet. Many of the academics who look at this think that comet Encke, which is about 6 km in diameter and which does cross the orbit of the Earth, they think that that was the source comet. But whereas the other team are saying, "No, that's a bit of the source comet. There were many other bits as well." And 12,800 years ago, 12,860
and still in my orbit , was on his staff.
something reusable back from orbit . So this was all part of the plan, but it was a test launch. So if something had
reusable back from orbit . So this was all part of the plan, but it was a test launch. So if something had gone wrong,
But that orbit the star does is much smaller because it's more massive.
And this is ED Orbit , which was a similar mission lost out to clear space but it would have used either mechanical tentacles or a net,
that heavy into orbit around the earth.