Questions tagged [weather]
Questions regarding effects of weather on space exploration and how it can be forecasted and managed on Earth and on other bodies with atmospheres.
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How did "the kid" (John Meisenheimer) calculate that there was a wave in the jet stream and Explorer 1 would be okay to launch?
The tough but timely question NASA at sIxty years, will there be a new moonshot mandate? links to the NASA YouTube video NASA 60th: How It All Began which shows a lot of really nice, historical file ...
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What did NASA Vehicle Assembly Building's "weather" look like? Did it really have clouds? Did it rain?
Comments below this answer to Would there be snow, rain, fog or clouds in a deep, sealed, subsurface cavern on the Moon if water were present? point out that the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building ...
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SN11 was launched in fog. Why not wait for better conditions?
The fog certainly frustrated the external observers, but it doesn't seem ideal from SpaceX perspective either.
All the external observers were very distant from the launch/landing site and would be ...
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Propulsion thrust vs high winds?
While I do understand that high wind speed is a risk for space launches (and all air flights), still, is it a physical constraint or a computational problem given we are not dealing with a hurricane/...
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How often has weather interfered with the Deep Space Network?
This answer provides some information about the potential that precipitation can interfere with signals of the Deep Space Network. In practice, how often (a count, ratio or percent) has weather ...
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Has an aircraft's flight ever been delayed on another planet? If so, who, what, when, where and why exactly?
For the benefit of future readers and our spaceflight-firsts tag:
Question: Has an aircraft's flight ever been delayed on another planet? If so, who issued the delay order, what spacecraft's flight ...
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How does the wind behave throughout the day in Jezero Crater? (worried about Ingenuity)
JPL tweet links to mars.nasa.gov's Flying on Mars Is Getting Harder and Harder which explains that seasonal changes are lowering the density of the local atmosphere, presumably due to warmer seasonal ...
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Was the telltale on the Mars Phoenix Lander used for meteorology? Why not a hot wire anemometer instead?
Reading about ping pong ball anemometers I discovered that the Mars Phoenix Lander had an anemometer of this design, and there are images and GIFs of it moving. When imaged from one or two different ...
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