#space hardware

[nasa]

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s flight harness is transferred from the mock-up structure to the spacecraft flight structure.

Your Body is Wired Like a NASA Space Telescope. Sort Of.

If our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope were alive, its nervous system would be the intricate wiring, or “harness,” that helps different parts of the observatory communicate with one another. Just like the human body sends information through nerves to function, Roman will send commands through this special harness to help achieve its mission: answering longstanding questions about dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets, among other mind-bending cosmic queries. 

Roman’s harness weighs around 1,000 pounds and is made of about 32,000 wires and 900 connectors. If those parts were laid out end-to-end, they would be 45 miles long from start to finish. Coincidentally, the human body’s nerves would span the same distance if lined up. That’s far enough to reach nearly three-fourths of the way to space, twice as far as a marathon, or eight times taller than Mount Everest! 

An aerial view of the harness technicians working to secure Roman’s harness to the spacecraft flight structure.

Over a span of two years, 11 technicians spent time at the workbench and perched on ladders, cutting wire to length, carefully cleaning each component, and repeatedly connecting everything together.  

Space is usually freezing cold, but spacecraft that are in direct sunlight can get incredibly hot. Roman’s harness went through the Space Environment Simulator – a massive thermal vacuum chamber – to expose the components to the temperatures they’ll experience in space. Technicians “baked” vapors out of the harness to make sure they won’t cause problems later in orbit.  

Technicians work to secure Roman’s harness to the interior of the spacecraft flight structure. They are standing in the portion of the spacecraft bus where the propellant tanks will be mounted.  

The next step is for engineers to weave the harness through the flight structure in Goddard’s big clean room, a space almost perfectly free of dust and other particles. This process will be ongoing until most of the spacecraft components are assembled. The Roman Space Telescope is set to launch by May 2027. 

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#NASA #astronomy #telescope #Roman Space Telescope #engineering #space hardware #dark energy #dark matter #space #technology #tech #universe

[thedaily-beer]

Arbor Ales Space Hardware IPA on tap at Hanging Bat in Edinburgh. A 4 of 4. Yeah, this is great and on par with some of the better hazy IPAs -- lots of juicy fruit, yet well-balanced and has a solid amount of bitterness to the finish. Nice tropical fruit complexity and the bitterness towards the finish is particularly welcome, given it is so often missing in the style.

#arbor ales #space hardware #ipa #hazy ipa #ne ipa #beer #hanging bat #edinburgh #uk #scotland #4

[auraeseer]

So, before we go . . .

#bloody mary #arbor #space hardware #new england ipa #verdant brewing co. #even sharks need water #india pale ale

[arcadebroke]

link

#Krzysztof Maziarz #investigation #color #style #design #illustration #tech #hardware #living space #apartment #artstation

[tabieeee]

you remember this guy?

he has a design now lol

unsure of his role in the alliance yet but i'm leaning towards him being a common fighter + medic he has lil mirror "earrings" on the sides of his head

#skibidi toilet #cameraman #the gay boi was too amusing and decided to take up space in my brain #i am progressively putting more and more effort into each next skibidi fanart ohno #did u notice that none of the hardwares have bowties #i decided to fix that #skibidi toilet oc #oc streak #myart

[zman80]

Earth's Computer Core

#art #nostalgia #1980s #vaporwave #aesthetic #vintage #magazine #neon colors #1990s #neon #illustration #earth #retro computing #computer science #computers #computer #pc #hardware #software #space #retro tech #technology #tech #retrowave #retro aesthetic #retro #90s aesthetic #90s #80s aesthetic #80s

[getvalentined]

I know nothing about you but your cat is the cutest furball I've seen today, so if you could please tell her I love her and think she's the cutest I'd be really grateful!

(I'm sorry I didn't check your blog I just saw your cute cat and had to tell you this)

I told her and she said

I think that means thank you! 💕

#seemblogging #suddenly cats #catblr #y'know you can just like #find cats in the trash #this one came from the back lot of a hardware store #(her mom and siblings were living amongst the pallets) #(they are all good now!) #(we could only take in the one because we have two other cats) #(AND two small dogs) #(but she's ours now!) #(and the others have all been adopted out) #REACH into your local random cluttered space and you will find a BABY and a GIRL #trash baby supreme and I love her too

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Hardware Wars | 1978

#Hardware Wars #Ernie Fosselius #Star Wars #practical effects #space rat #ight imma head out #rat #Tang #scifi comedy #Hammersmith Horror

[turtshell]

please note i am always thinking about donatello's big lesbian crush on jhanna.

#butch turtle enamoured by alien warrior. does anyone hear me it doesn't get any better than this #i simply think the terrapin and the blue space lady should go to a hardware store together #space u-haul #hello? its so dark #tmnt #tmnt 03 #tmnt 2003 #jhanna #donnie #mine

[wildthings04]

#music #fav #I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites is it wrong to wish on space hardware I wished I wished #you’d care #nice one Bill #Spotify

[girlwithfish]

on the hunt for a daily bag 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

#converting from a tote girlie to a purse girl perhaps #I want one w cute hardware n shit and also decent space and not too dainty but still classy. and good for daily use #IDK!€€

[nasa]

Our Roman Space Telescope’s Dish is Complete!

NASA engineers recently completed tests of the high-gain antenna for our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This observatory has some truly stellar plans once it launches by May 2027. Roman will help unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter – two invisible components that helped shape our universe and may determine its ultimate fate. The mission will also search for and image planets outside our solar system and explore all kinds of other cosmic topics.

However, it wouldn’t be able to send any of the data it will gather back to Earth without its antenna. Pictured above in a test chamber, this dish will provide the primary communication link between the Roman spacecraft and the ground. It will downlink the highest data volume of any NASA astrophysics mission so far.

The antenna reflector is made of a carbon composite material that weighs very little but will still withstand wide temperature fluctuations. It’s very hot and cold in space – Roman will experience a temperature range of minus 26 to 284 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 32 to 140 degrees Celsius)!

The dish spans 5.6 feet (1.7 meters) in diameter, standing about as tall as a refrigerator, yet only weighs 24 pounds (10.9 kilograms) – about as much as a dachshund. Its large size will help Roman send radio signals across a million miles of intervening space to Earth.

At one frequency, the dual-band antenna will receive commands and send back information about the spacecraft’s health and location. It will use another frequency to transmit a flood of data at up to 500 megabits per second to ground stations on Earth. The dish is designed to point extremely accurately at Earth, all while both Earth and the spacecraft are moving through space.

Engineers tested the antenna to make sure it will withstand the spacecraft’s launch and operate as expected in the extreme environment of space. The team also measured the antenna’s performance in a radio-frequency anechoic test chamber. Every surface in the test chamber is covered in pyramidal foam pieces that minimize interfering reflections during testing. Next, the team will attach the antenna to the articulating boom assembly, and then electrically integrate it with Roman’s Radio Frequency Communications System.

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#NASA #astronomy #telescope #Roman Space Telescope #engineering #space hardware #dark energy #dark matter #space #technology #tech

[cmdrjanus-2]

Stick that in your Steam library and smoke it.

#submission #that's a lot of space for #nfts #computer hardware #sentry crosis

[zenjestrr]

that post that's essentially like "every modern thing needs to run off a 2007 Dell laptop" is dumb as fuck. tantamount to saying that a PS5 game should run on a PS2 but like....the response was ???????????? "mayhaps dont be poor?" ?????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

#bro spent 4 grand on a toy and thinks he's superior lmaooooo #no but like I get it the bloat is real and there is certainly space for optimization #there is no excuse for the port of the 2000s Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 to be SIXTY FIVE GIGABYTES #when the original PS2 games barely hit 60mb (or something like that) #but I remember people bitching about BG3 being 120gb and I was like...bro....this is AFTER they knocked it down from the expected 200gb #they 100% optimized it and the struggle to get it to run on the Xbox Series S forced them to shrink down the size even more #so yes companies should make sure their shit should run on weaker hardware but a 2gb limit is INSANE #literally smoking crack cocaine

[coolsomejet]

Sean and Mindy + their growth

Tour of the Solar System (season 1, episode 1a, 2016) // Space Camp (movie, 2023)

Bonus:

#i can finally take screenshots of the movie #all you have to do is turn off hardware acceleration in chrome #ready jet go space camp #ready jet go #space camp #comparison #sean rafferty #mindy melendez #rjg spoilers

[nerozane]

150GBs???? Seriously???

#larian critical #nerozane rants #again i hate AAA gaming and assumes people have top of the line pcs with hardware like SSDs with TBs of free space #i even have a 1TB SSD but i use it to play other games #ive noticed a lot of new AAA games makes it a minimum requirement to install on an SSD which really -_- #manage your fucking bloat larian your project management sucks #also this patch note assumes that people have the internet to reinstall the game #which also irks me #i have the internet but why make patching such a bother