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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:13 pm

That's the first ever, right?

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Postby Craig » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:14 pm

Bowies in spaaaaaaace.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:20 pm

First landing on the barge, yes. Four of the five prior attempts crashed for various reasons, and on one the stage tipped over because one of the landing legs failed to lock.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sat Apr 09, 2016 12:38 am

Just awesome :thumb:

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Postby Algernon » Sat Apr 09, 2016 12:40 am

@shyster

Didn't see this thread on the front page


I missed out

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Postby BigMck » Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:41 pm

I have watched that clip like 20 times and I would swear it is CGI or a computer game.

Simply incredible!

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Postby relantel » Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:20 pm

Impressive. Finally subscribed to their channel. :fist:

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Postby Kaiser » Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:44 pm

Tim Peake will be running the london marathon from the ISS treadmill

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Postby relantel » Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:59 pm

tried watching this last weekend at my in-law's place in Altoona . Connection was so poor I had to watch 30 seconds at a time . And on screen keyboards blow.

excited for their expansion into manned spaceflight next year.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:03 pm

Watching that Wallops launch last year was one of the coolest experiences of my life. Sitting in the kitchen with my wife watching the countdown online, and then venturing out into the beautiful, clear night. 30 seconds or so later, seeing that rocket come streaking up over the southern horizon, heading east towards the ocean and eventually out of sight (but not for a while).

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Postby Shyster » Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:51 pm

Watching that Wallops launch last year was one of the coolest experiences of my life. Sitting in the kitchen with my wife watching the countdown online, and then venturing out into the beautiful, clear night. 30 seconds or so later, seeing that rocket come streaking up over the southern horizon, heading east towards the ocean and eventually out of sight (but not for a while).
Orbital's next launch from Wallops is, at the moment, penciled in for a late-June launch. In the year or so since the last Antares launch from Wallops spectacularly exploded only seconds after liftoff, Orbital has switched from the decades-old AJ-26 main engines to new RD-181 designs. Like the AJ-26 engines, the RD-181 is a Russian engine purchased from NPO Energomash. But the AJ-26s were refurbished surplus engines from the old Russian moon program in the 60s and early 70s, while the RD-181 is a brand-new engine. The RD-181 is basically a single-chamber version of the dual-chamber RD-180 engine that has been used in the Atlas V for years, and it's also basically the "export" version of the RD-191, which is the main engine for the new Russian Angara rocket. The Angara is the Russian heavy-lift "rocket of the future" and is intended to replace the Proton, so the Russians have already put a ton of development time and effort into those engines. Orbital was basically able to walk up to them and buy export versions right as the testing was finished. The engine switch has also required Orbital to make a lot of changes to things like launch procedures, guidance software, and propellant storage and loading at the Wallops site.

Orbital is hoping to run some hot-fire tests in May before the launch in June. The explosion of the mission last year was a huge mess, and re-engining the Antares has no doubt cost a lot, but the result should be a safer and higher-performance rocket. Not only does the new engine come from arguably the best family of rocket engines in the world, but a pair of RD-181s offers something along the lines of 13% more thrust than the old AJ-26 engines (which clearly demonstrated dubious reliability).

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sat Apr 16, 2016 8:36 pm

For those of yinz that like to check out the night sky, the planet Mercury is at its best visibility for months right now. If you look about 10 degrees or so above the western horizon after twilight, you can see it pretty clearly. It's usually very tough/impossible to see because of its proximity to the sun.

http://www.space.com/32595-mercury-best ... s-now.html

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Postby Shyster » Thu May 05, 2016 9:08 pm

SpaceX is planning to launch the JCSAT-14 telecommunications satellite early Friday morning (or later this night, depending on your time zone). The launch window opens at 1:21 a.m. Friday eastern time (or about 4 hours from the time I'm typing this). SpaceX will be attempting a barge landing. I'm not sure if there will be video of the landing attempt, considering it being nighttime and all. The launch will be covered via streaming video, and like with prior launches there will be a "hosted" stream with commentary and a "technical" steam with countdown audio only.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtI0Ho ... b67FeUjDeA

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Postby Shyster » Fri May 06, 2016 1:38 am

Another SpaceX launch, another successful barge landing. The second stage is currently coasting before it re-lights for the geostationary-transfer burn.

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Postby Shyster » Fri May 06, 2016 2:04 am

And a nominal deployment of the JCSAT-14 satellite. SpaceX is making this space stuff look almost easy.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/728459808270000128

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue May 10, 2016 1:29 am

That's what she said.

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Postby Shyster » Tue May 10, 2016 2:55 pm

Some extra camera angles of the landing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHqLz9ni0Bo

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Postby robbiestoupe » Tue May 10, 2016 3:05 pm

My brother was telling me something happened during the landing and that they were lucky to land the thing. Sounded like a part of the landing frame was not set properly. From that video I can't see what he means, looks textbook. But he was in the ear of the people running the show, so who am I to argue.

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Postby Shyster » Wed May 25, 2016 10:17 pm

SpaceX is currently working toward launching a commercial communications satellite for Thaicom tomorrow (Thursday, May 26) at 5:40pm ET. The Thaicom 8 satellite is a telecommunications satellite built by Orbital ATK on Orbital's GEOStar-2 satellite platform; it has a 15-year expected life and will provide (as one can expect from Thaicom's name) communications coverage for South and Southeast Asia. The Falcon 9 first stage will attempt a barge landing. This will be the third Thaicom satellite to ride a Falcon 9 to orbit. SpaceX also launched Thaicoms 6 and 7 in 2014. Video should be available on SpaceX's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/spacexchannel

SpaceX has a significant backlog on its launch manifest, and the plan all along has been to work toward and maintain an "every couple weeks" launch cadence, so if all continues to go well we can expect regular launches.

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Postby Shyster » Thu May 26, 2016 6:45 pm

Looks like a technical issue reared its head for the SpaceX launch. It has been scrubbed until Friday.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/735965207625932801

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Postby Shyster » Sat May 28, 2016 5:03 am

Elon Musk posted this onboard video (significantly sped up) from the first stage for today's launch. It spans from just after stage separation to touchdown on the drone ship. This took about 5 minutes or so in real time.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BF7sxM9QES7/?hl=en

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