hasunoto-blog
I love poutine and I work at Tesla, first as an energy advisor, but I now work in engineering, operations, and design. My actual name is not Kimiko Hatsunotso, Kimiko is actually my childhood nickname, and the user name Hasunoto is a shorthand of Hatsunotsu which itself is shortened combination for the Japanese terms of my favorite series and publisher, Kingdom Hearts and publisher Notsu behind Type-Moon. Other fictional world I usually get lost in are those by Nintendo, Square-Enix, Heaven Sent Gaming, and Shueisha. I was born in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Went to high school and college in Québec, Canada, but traveled the American Southwest as a young adult, and fell in love with New Mexico. Now I live in California, living the Cali-dream until I can afford a ranch out in New Mexico.
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My Top Picks for Chairman Position at Tesla
5. Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble 4. Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX 3. Brad Buss of Tesla 2. Linda Johnson Rice of Tesla 1. Robyn Denholm of Tesla
Unsurprisingly, these guys aren’t great swimmers, and spend most of their life at the bottom of rocky or muddy substrates. 📷: xtinabourne/Twitter https://ift.tt/2KUlhqF
Instead of just visiting our solar system, this interstellar asteroid permanently moved in!
Nintendo Company Guide Book from 2014
The Hunt for New Worlds Continues with TESS
We’re getting ready to start our next mission to find new worlds! The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find thousands of planets beyond our solar system for us to study in more detail. It’s preparing to launch from our Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Once it launches, TESS will look for new planets that orbit bright stars relatively close to Earth. We’re expecting to find giant planets, like Jupiter, but we’re also predicting we’ll find Earth-sized planets. Most of those planets will be within 300 light-years of Earth, which will make follow-up studies easier for other observatories.
TESS will find these new exoplanets by looking for their transits. A transit is a temporary dip in a star’s brightness that happens with predictable timing when a planet crosses between us and the star. The information we get from transits can tell us about the size of the planet relative to the size of its star. We’ve found nearly 3,000 planets using the transit method, many with our Kepler space telescope. That’s over 75% of all the exoplanets we’ve found so far!
TESS will look at nearly the entire sky (about 85%) over two years. The mission divides the sky into 26 sectors. TESS will look at 13 of them in the southern sky during its first year before scanning the northern sky the year after.
What makes TESS different from the other planet-hunting missions that have come before it? The Kepler mission (yellow) looked continually at one small patch of sky, spotting dim stars and their planets that are between 300 and 3,000 light-years away. TESS (blue) will look at almost the whole sky in sections, finding bright stars and their planets that are between 30 and 300 light-years away.
TESS will also have a brand new kind of orbit (visualized below). Once it reaches its final trajectory, TESS will finish one pass around Earth every 13.7 days (blue), which is half the time it takes for the Moon (gray) to orbit. This position maximizes the amount of time TESS can stare at each sector, and the satellite will transmit its data back to us each time its orbit takes it closest to Earth (orange).
Kepler’s goal was to figure out how common Earth-size planets might be. TESS’s mission is to find exoplanets around bright, nearby stars so future missions, like our James Webb Space Telescope, and ground-based observatories can learn what they’re made of and potentially even study their atmospheres. TESS will provide a catalog of thousands of new subjects for us to learn about and explore.
The TESS mission is led by MIT and came together with the help of many different partners. Learn more about TESS and how it will further our knowledge of exoplanets, or check out some more awesome images and videos of the spacecraft. And stay tuned for more exciting TESS news as the spacecraft launches!
Watch the Launch!
*April 16 Update*
Launch teams are standing down today to conduct additional Guidance Navigation and Control analysis, and teams are now working towards a targeted launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, April 18. The TESS spacecraft is in excellent health, and remains ready for launch. TESS will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
For more information and updates, visit: https://blogs.nasa.gov/tess/
Live Launch Coverage!
TESS is now slated to launch on Wednesday, April 18 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Watch HERE.
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Finished my first 6 x 7.5 commission for @hamsphrey ! I had a lot of fun with this commission!
Morally obligated to draw the final child in the KH3 Fashion Disaster Trio :’)
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Something reignited in me from 2005, so here’s some Kingdom Hearts 3 fanart! Waited over a decade for this princess to kick some butt.
Kingdom Hearts Doodle dump from last night! With a random Chat Noir in the corner xD The little doodle comic on the side is based on this post
I tried doodling Kairi’s new outfit <3 And i hope they keep the cat/dog ears on her hood.
Also, obligatory puni-puni Monster Sora face squish - w -
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Our princess of heart in her new outfit!
