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This morning's SpaceX Starlink launch lifted off from Florida and took a launch azimuth that took it up the coast. The timing was right for a whole lot of the east coast to get a backlit view of the second stage and its exhaust plume. You often see this when a launch takes place right before local sunrise or right after local sunset.
SpaceX landed the booster for the mission for a record ninth time.
SpaceX landed the booster for the mission for a record ninth time.
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Ingenuity Mars helicopter prepares for the first flight on another planet
Humanity's first Wright Brothers moment on another planet will happen in April. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first powered flight on Mars no earlier than April 8, according to NASA.
It's fitting that the mission, an experimental companion to the Perseverance rover, is carrying a piece of history. A postage stamp-size piece of muslin fabric that covered one of the wings from the Wright Brothers' Flyer is attached to a cable beneath the helicopter's solar panel.
The first powered, controlled flight on Earth took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the Flyer 120 feet for 12 seconds in December 1903.
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The verdict is in on what caused the SN11 RUD. According to Elon, "A (relatively) small CH4 leak led to fire on engine 2 and fried part of avionics, causing hard start attempting landing burn in CH4 turbopump." He didn't say whether the flight-termination system activated or whether SN11 blew up totally on its own from the hard start.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-BB1fkuRJ
The next vehicle up for testing is SN15, which reportedly incorporates "hundreds" of upgrades, so many that SpaceX decided to scrap SN12, SN13, and SN14.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-BB1fkuRJ
The next vehicle up for testing is SN15, which reportedly incorporates "hundreds" of upgrades, so many that SpaceX decided to scrap SN12, SN13, and SN14.
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Geez, almost been 6 years since New Horizons zoomed past Pluto?
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In 117 years, we as a civilization have gone from the first powered heavier-than-air flight of an aircraft, to an autonomous rotorcraft operating from the surface of another world.
Ingenuity ftw
Ingenuity ftw
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So one of the JPL engineers working on Ingenuity is the brother of one of Mrs Tif's coworkers. They had him on a Zoom conference this morning, and he was apparently quite energetic. lol
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I really like that Ingenuity had a piece of the Wright Brothers' plane wing fabric in it. Nice touch.
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Michael Collins may have been my favorite Apollo astronaut. Without his sure hand on the command module while Buzz and Neil were on the surface, they never would have made it home.
Not to mention he experienced what it is like to be on the other side of the Moon, indescribably alone and cut off from communication with any other human. He never got the big press but was always a joy in whatever interview he did.
Godspeed General Collins.
Not to mention he experienced what it is like to be on the other side of the Moon, indescribably alone and cut off from communication with any other human. He never got the big press but was always a joy in whatever interview he did.
Godspeed General Collins.
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“I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon. I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God only knows what on this side. I feel this powerfully ― not as fear or loneliness ― but as awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation. I like the feeling. Outside my window I can see stars — and that is all. Where I know the moon to be, there is simply a black void; the moon’s presence is defined solely by the absence of stars. To compare the sensation with something terrestrial, perhaps being alone in a skiff in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a pitch-black night would most nearly approximate my situation.”
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Wonder how many Apollo astronauts will still be alive when the first Artemis mission lands on the moon.
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For those of you interested in checking out the Starlink satellite constellations.
https://findstarlink.com/
Also, this is happening tomorrow night. Should hopefully clear out in time.
https://findstarlink.com/
Also, this is happening tomorrow night. Should hopefully clear out in time.
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making progress toward Artemis 1:
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I get notifications for Starlink overflights all the time from the ISS Detector app, but I've never tried to eyeball them. Are they as readily visible as ISS to the naked eye?shafnutz05 wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 6:53 am For those of you interested in checking out the Starlink satellite constellations.
https://findstarlink.com/
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Typically second magnitude... So think Polaris or so.tifosi77 wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 4:21 pmI get notifications for Starlink overflights all the time from the ISS Detector app, but I've never tried to eyeball them. Are they as readily visible as ISS to the naked eye?shafnutz05 wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 6:53 am For those of you interested in checking out the Starlink satellite constellations.
https://findstarlink.com/
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I don't know what that means! But thank you, sir.
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I was just goofing on ya, buddy, I know what it means. lol