Stargate Universe - Destiny's Aerobraking Manoeuvre

From Season 1 - Episode 4 (Darkness) Destiny performs a slingshot maneuver around a gas giant to steer the ship deeper into the star system.

[cottonclarksa]

The music in this scene is mesmerizing. And perfect.

[johnywalker]

This was the best sci-fi show in the genre history. It hurts so much to see all this potential wasted.

[theonlyjacknicole]

One of the best, if not the best musical scores in the entire science fiction history come from this show. #BringBackSGU

[TsutomuTomutsu]

It flies faster than light, boasts energy shields and weapons, and dives into stars to recharge itself, but rides like an old school bus?

[u]

I always enjoyed this scene, I didn't care much for SGU in general though, I wanted to like it but just could not find any characters except for maybe Rush who I found likable or interesting. I also thought that perhaps the use of the communication stones made the whole being stranded millions of light years away seem rather hollow, Atlantis waited a whole season before they actually got help from Earth.


But I do think the show had potential to be very great in the end and getting cancelled before it could achieve that was a poor move on Sci-Fi's part, but what can you expect from people who misspell their name to "Syfy" lol.

[Restilia_ch]

I can only hope aerobraking in KSP2 is half as good as this.



Also the lithobraking ;)

[berr-ak]

WTF why people dont like this séries 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ its wonderfull

[varianschirmer]

The music kind of has a Halo soundtrack feel to it.

[gk]

Away from the walls.. Turbulence could break your back. OK but turbulence is three dimensional, so how about the floor whacking the heck out of them

[STONECOLDET]

If spacetime is quantised ( which it obviously is ) and its inflating by continuos cellular like division of quanta of spacetime, that implies the first units of spacetime still exist from which all descend, ie, a 3 dimensional centre of the universe giving meaning to destinys flight path

[chrisschembari]

It's called "Aerobraking". Brake, as in "to slow down". Not "break".

"Aerobraking is a spaceflight technique wherein an orbiting spacecraft brushes against the top of a planetary atmosphere. The friction of the atmosphere against the surface of the spacecraft slows down and lowers the craft's orbital altitude."
— Aerobraking - NASA Mars Exploration

[landrycormenier]

First time the camera guy encounters difficulties to record..

[richardlew]

I'm sure that there was some kind of panel where they could have been accessing some chairs to sit on.

[justajokeforme]

The most stable thing on that ship was the cup of water

[Zfastyu]

this show had shity moments inside of ship like those stupid cameras and bad acting, conversations and such, but i loved moments like this, exploring ship, finding the bridge, their expeditions to other earthlike planets were not convincing its actually another planet, still with all its flaws, i watched this show gladly.

[k.a.p.x]

It looks good but it has a bsg feel to it which is not bad but it's Stargate, it should feel like Stargate