NASA scientists calculated Artemis II’s splashdown down to the second. After a 700,000-mile journey to the Moon and back, they predicted 8:07:27 PM EDT. They were exactly right. These people did the math on a quarter-million-mile round trip and didn’t miss by a single second.
You can't even predict when your Uber will arrive.
Sorry, gonna have to call BS on this title without a source. OP makes it sound like the prediction was made before launch but reentry predictions aren’t that precise at all, furthermore time to splashdown would depend on winds which can’t possibly be predicted weeks out.Â
_naecomment on
on the live stream it was originally predicted as 7 seconds past, then moved to 8, when they landed they thought it was 47 seconds past and then they corrected that with the final time of 27 seconds past. So they are accurate, but not as accurate as you say.
jianh1989 on
Surely they also calculated earth’s rotation to where they land? Conveniently off the coast of San Diego.
I always wondered how they calculated that.
BahnMe on
Hmmm didn’t know my wife was on the Artemis mission planning team.
ScienceForge319 on
I’m pretty sure that is nonsense. Feel free to provide some data to support that claim, OP.
MagicPaul on
Can we just enjoy that scientists did some very clever things without mythologising it so much that we’re adding extra layers of BS to it.
matt95110 on
Can we get a source on that, because as good as NASA scientists are there is no way for them to do that.
PossibleNegative on
Nonsense the Orbital Police has spoken.
Maccboy2010 on
Brainwashed
JoseLunaArts on
That is a no brainer. Space trips are about timing. Fuel is limited and you need to start and end maneuvers at some precise moments in time. The rest is Keplerian and Newtonian physics.
That is making news out of no news.
usedkleenx on
Well to be fair, there wasn’t much traffic to account for.Â
lookieherehere on
Math is crazy
7_NaCl on
Wysi
JerryRiceOfOhio2 on
my isp can tell me when the tech will arrive within 4 hours, about equal
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Sorry, gonna have to call BS on this title without a source. OP makes it sound like the prediction was made before launch but reentry predictions aren’t that precise at all, furthermore time to splashdown would depend on winds which can’t possibly be predicted weeks out.Â
on the live stream it was originally predicted as 7 seconds past, then moved to 8, when they landed they thought it was 47 seconds past and then they corrected that with the final time of 27 seconds past. So they are accurate, but not as accurate as you say.
Surely they also calculated earth’s rotation to where they land? Conveniently off the coast of San Diego.
I always wondered how they calculated that.
Hmmm didn’t know my wife was on the Artemis mission planning team.
I’m pretty sure that is nonsense. Feel free to provide some data to support that claim, OP.
Can we just enjoy that scientists did some very clever things without mythologising it so much that we’re adding extra layers of BS to it.
Can we get a source on that, because as good as NASA scientists are there is no way for them to do that.
Nonsense the Orbital Police has spoken.
Brainwashed
That is a no brainer. Space trips are about timing. Fuel is limited and you need to start and end maneuvers at some precise moments in time. The rest is Keplerian and Newtonian physics.
That is making news out of no news.
Well to be fair, there wasn’t much traffic to account for.Â
Math is crazy
Wysi
my isp can tell me when the tech will arrive within 4 hours, about equal