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SpaceX |OT| Reusable Rockets - To Mars!
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launch and landing, long exposure
https://arstechnica.com/science/201...ket-comes-down-the-photos-are-something-else/
https://arstechnica.com/science/201...ket-comes-down-the-photos-are-something-else/
Not entirely on topic, but I thought a few here might like to pour one out to Kepler.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7272
A great job well done.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7272
A great job well done.
I'm constantly amazed how far some of these missions are pushed. Kepler observed some 530,506 stars and found the following -
All Exoplanets
3826
Confirmed Planets with Kepler Light Curves for Stellar Host
2344
Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler
2327
Kepler Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed
2426
Confirmed Planets with K2 Light Curves for Stellar Host
376
Confirmed Planets Discovered by K2
354
K2 Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed
473
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Thanks for the head's up, hopefully it hits a streaming service I'm subscribed to soon.
If you're in the US, I believe you can see it here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/watch/12e413e68c538ba79a298f709efc1607/
Sky viewers in the UK can download it on demand.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/nasa-plans-invasive-review-of-spacex-after-musk-smoked-weed/
LOL, i guess they need to give Boeing some time to recover, although the gap widens by the day.
LOL, i guess they need to give Boeing some time to recover, although the gap widens by the day.
Such bullshit. Legal in the state he did it in as well. Pffft, shows old guard still alive and well at Nasa.
Panding to the evangelical senators I guess. Bet it disappears once DM-1 has gone up.
What we know about this is that there was quite a serious anomaly in the firing of the CST launch abort engines (I think there was a major leak of hypergolic fuel after shutdown). This was in June. Boeing at the time said it had addressed the issue. Unless it's another thing that is obviously much more of an issue.
From the last launch
More regular shots here
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/...off-from-launch-pad-39a-with-eshail-2-comsat/
More regular shots here
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/...off-from-launch-pad-39a-with-eshail-2-comsat/
Yep, they're going to use it as a cargo type mission but mainly its proving it in a complete CRS mission lifecycle, including (and its a big one) the automated docking system. The Soyuz-FG returning to flight with the recent Progress mission was important, as it would mean that the next Soyuz crew could go up, and thus there are people on the station ready to supervise the Crew Dragon docking and take over if necessary.
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That date may shift, if this "safety review" (ostensibly motivated by Elon taking a puff on a joint on that podcast) takes up too much time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...ankled-agency-leaders/?utm_term=.aae783e7ec8a
(grapevine says this has been ordered by anti-commercial space people in congress)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...ankled-agency-leaders/?utm_term=.aae783e7ec8a
(grapevine says this has been ordered by anti-commercial space people in congress)
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Updated the OP a bit. Latest BFR/Starliner info, old F9 models retired, deleted the launch/landing/failure counts cos I can't be bothered updating them all the time (and hadn't since May anyway!)
Launch today at 18:30 UTC (local time) is SSO-A, a rideshare mission for 64 (sixty four!) small satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit (one where the sun is in the same position relative to the ground, each time the satellite passes over). It will be the *third* flight for this particular booster. Live stream here:
Launch today at 18:30 UTC (local time) is SSO-A, a rideshare mission for 64 (sixty four!) small satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit (one where the sun is in the same position relative to the ground, each time the satellite passes over). It will be the *third* flight for this particular booster. Live stream here:
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Missed the catch, but very quickly picked them up from the water. Elon reckons they can hose em down and fly em again.
CRS-16 tomorrow!
SpaceX launches are like buses, you wait ages and then two come along at once.
SpaceX launches are like buses, you wait ages and then two come along at once.
Maybe looking at the discount market. If this recovery process can be shown to work reliably, it could really bring down the cost-to-market of cubesat fleets and the like.
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The exact same conditions apply tomorrow evening this year too :) - If you have a visible pass of the station after 18:30 UTC then you should be able to see Dragon pass over too.
It wouldn't surprise me if it ends up in a blooper reel.
Then again, NASA doesnt like footage like that coming out, kind of puts a negative spin on things (pardon the pun...)
