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Torinak
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Was that the inspiration for Kerbal Space Program?
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Teleku
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Always sort of wonder why we've never used the 2nd method mentioned in that clip. Even when I was a kid it seemed to make a lot of sense to just do a couple of launches to send up parts of a spaceship and put it together, instead of building a giant ass complicated rocket. You could use the ship repeatedly as a taxi between the moon and earth, sending small rockets up to dock with it when its time to send somebody over.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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At the time we hadn't done any in-space construction, and the suits were only usable for short periods in vacuum. Even docking required people on both sides of the maneuver (tele-operations being extremely primitive, and automation was a joke by modern standards).
Really, we had no business making the moon shots, from a practical POV. It started out as a way to sell ICBM development to the public, and turned into peen waving.
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Teleku
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Yeah, sorry, I meant that as "why have we never done it." I understand in the original context, but since then it seems like a way cheaper way to get to the moon... Just surprised we haven't tried that route in the last decade or two.
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Chimpy
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Yeah, sorry, I meant that as "why have we never done it." I understand in the original comtext, but since then it seems like a way cheaper way to get to the moon... Just surprised we haven't tried that route in the last decade or two.
Because it is not economically feasible to send large payloads up to even low-earth orbit unless they are communications satellites and there is little political will to spend public money on much of anything in space. The ISS and a few scientific probes have enough trouble getting funding as it is. The moon is just not super interesting for most people and until the economics of launching objects into space gets to the point where it becomes cost effective for private entities to think about it, I doubt anyone in the west will even do more than spout off about grandiose plans. China may send someone to the moon, but for them it would be about nationalism more than anything else.
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calapine
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And then they will have to try and find someone willing to ride in an untested capsule, on top of an untested rocket integration, just to make a man who only cares about his own ego look good.
Yeah, I don't see a lot of the NASA astronaut corps signing on for that job. They walk past the memorials to Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee every day they are at work. One option I saw mentioned is to have (another) uncrewed flight of Orion on Delta IV Heavy before SLS is ready. Which leaves SLS as untested part, although one could sort of argue it not a fully new rocket as it's components (Shuttle engine, shuttle boosters, shuttle tank...) have been used before. And unlike the Shuttle Orion at least has a launch abort system. Edit: Vibration testing of the JWST to see if it can deal with the loads experienced at launch. 18 months to go until lift-off on Ariane 5.
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Ghambit
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I've been wondering. If the JWST gets destroyed due to failed launch, would it be considered the biggest and most expensive scientific instrumentation loss in history? I'm wracking my brain trying to come up with something potentially more significant.
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calapine
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With a roughly 9bn price tag, I guess so yes. And Trump would treat it as casus belli.
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SpaceX is about to make a splash tonight, they are re-flying the first re-used first stage on a mission. They will also attempt to recover the payload fairing (see my earlier post mentioning such rumors,now it's official) They will also attempt to land the booster again, but due the weight of the satellite, which is pretty much the current limit they are managing expectations by saying it's unlikely to succeed. Launch window: 18:27 EDT/22:27 UTC - 20:57 EDT/00:57 UTC Satellite mass: 5281kg Target orbit: GTO with Apogee 35410 km, Perigee 218 km, Inclination 26.2°. Which is equivalent to 1800 m/s Delta-v needed to reach GEO For questions i'll be here tonight
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Heh, I didn't know they were working on the roomba thing. Very neat!
I'll be in bed when they launch, but good luck to them!
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They landed the booster. I watched it live on the can on my magic tablet. Teh future is here.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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So what happened with the fin? Saw a bit of video I can't find now that showed it getting burned away. But it still landed.
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They landed the booster. I watched it live on the can on my magic tablet. Teh future is here.
Grats to SpaceX -- an impressive accomplishment.
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Count Nerfedalot
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that booster looks a lot more scorched than the previous landings. I wonder if they will be able to use it again? It was supposed to be at the upper limit of what they expected to be able to handle, speed wise.
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So what happened with the fin? Saw a bit of video I can't find now that showed it getting burned away. But it still landed.
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It didn't burn away, what you probably saw was reentry heating.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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So what happened with the fin? Saw a bit of video I can't find now that showed it getting burned away. But it still landed.
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It didn't burn away, what you probably saw was reentry heating. Yeah, found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsZSXav4wI8&feature=youtu.be&t=25m55s You'll have to click through to get it at the proper time codeFound it at this Stack Exchange discussion, consensus appears to be that it is normal for the fins to heat differently as they steer the re-entry. Apparently it's ablative paint cooking off the fins that clouds out the camera view. --Dave
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calapine
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Musk said they are going to develop new grid-fins out of titanium to better resist the heat. The current ones are aluminium with fire protection coating.
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Ghambit
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As they prove overall system reliability, I would guess they'd swap out a good bit of parts with titanium.
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Short informative video I just came across. You are in space, aboard Soyuz. Suddenly: Smoke starts filling the capsule...there is a fire onboard. What to do? ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen explains
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Short informative video I just came across. You are in space, aboard Soyuz. Suddenly: Smoke starts filling the capsule...there is a fire onboard. What to do? ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen explainsMe? Exhibit A.
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Needs the addidas logo on his chest to fit the soyuz story
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calapine
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Image is link to the PDFAlready expected, but now offical is that the first SLS flight will be delayed from Novermber 2018 sometime in 2019. Main culprit is the Orion Service Module that is provided by ESA and will be somewhat late. Sorry, guys! SLS itself might have timeline as well due to welding problems on the oxygen and hydrogen tanks. Additionaly some of the Ground Service Equipment won't be ready in time either. Also we know the cost for SLS and it's first two missions: 23.8 bn dollars. I am not sure if the 11.3 bn for Orion include the cost ESA spends on the first service module or not. Else half a billion has to be added to the number. Finally, a cut-away of the rocket and capsule:
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Elon update:He seems to be a tough player. 1) Clash with Tesla CEO Musk forces Grohmann to quitAccording to Reuters news agency, Klaus Grohmann was forced to leave last month after a clash with chief executive Elon Musk over the strategy of Grohmann's firm, which Tesla had acquired in November.
Grohmann had disagreed with Musk's demands to focus management attention on Tesla projects to the detriment of Grohmann Engineering's legacy clients, including German carmakers Daimler and BMW, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Originally, Tesla had planned to keep Grohmann on, and Grohmann wanted to stay, but the clash with Musk over how to treat existing clients had resulted in his departure on March 31, two sources familiar with matter told Reuters.
Klaus Grohmann declined to comment on the circumstances of his leaving, citing confidentiality clauses, the agency noted, quoting Grohmann however as saying: "I definitely did not depart because I had lost interest in working." 2) SpaceX is planning a mega-constellation of communication satellites. So is competitor OneWeb. SpaceX is now trying to get the FFC (Federal Communications Commission) to put OneWebs application on hold... SoftBank Group of Japan, a large investor in OneWeb, is arranging a OneWeb marriage with established geostationary satellite fleet operator Intelsat. SoftBank has other investors joining it through a special investment vehicle.
SpaceX said neither SoftBank nor OneWeb have disclosed the identities of the SoftBank partners, but that they “possibly include Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.” Whoever they are, SpaceX said, the FCC should not rule on the OneWeb application until they are known publicly. Considering Musk repeatedly states he is not in for the money but doing it to improve humankind his tactics are quit underhanded.
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Seems fairly classic ends justify the means mentality. Shrug. I generally expect most of the uber-wealthy to be people who expect to get their way in all matters, regardless of the consequences to those around them. I am rarely disappointed.
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I feel the urge to reinstall KSP.
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Considering Musk repeatedly states he is not in for the money but doing it to improve humankind his tactics are quit underhanded.
I have ZERO problems with making sure that the various Saudi nutjobs don't have direct access to or control of international communications satellites. In calling them out I find Musk advancing humanity far more than those who'd ignore the various problems likely to be introduced by accepting more oil money from zealots. As for his firing of Grohmann, yeah, I can totally support that. If you're not willing to change to your new company's priorities 1) you shouldn't have sold or 2) you should bow-out gracefully. I'm seeing a similar situation now. My company bought-out a guy in Arizona/ Nevada for the Autodesk customer base and kept him on. The former CEO is now constantly causing problems by trying to fulfill his former company's role and focus of IT support & development over the current company's Education and Business Process focus. He's been chided pretty often because we don't build machines, we don't provide IT services and we don't troubleshoot non-ADSK problems, but he keeps pushing that direction. If my company's CEO were less tolerant due to this guy's age (he's 70) and former status in the industry we'd have fired him about 6 months ago.
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I feel the urge to reinstall KSP.
Probably right after you witnessed (in both 1st and 3rd person) a giant 1st stage rocket backflipping and burning right back to where it launched from.
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I feel the urge to reinstall KSP.
Probably right after you witnessed (in both 1st and 3rd person) a giant 1st stage rocket backflipping and burning right back to where it launched from. Right! Now if I can just fix the 'then smash into the ground at 5000 kph causing an immense fireball' problem...
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I feel the urge to reinstall KSP.
Probably right after you witnessed (in both 1st and 3rd person) a giant 1st stage rocket backflipping and burning right back to where it launched from. Right! Now if I can just fix the 'then smash into the ground at 5000 kph causing an immense fireball' problem... Try moar magnets!!
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"Just a nice launch"Launch video of Ariane 5 flight VA236Taken from the beach with a great view. Booster separation (starting at 1:10) is nicely visible. Context/Background:
This one happened with 44 days delay after a strike by the trucker union quickly turned into a social movement. The issues were the upcoming privatization of a hospital (and poor health care in general), the due to (alleged) under-staffing of police a high crime rate and illegal gold mining as well as a high unemployment rate of 23% Which lead to a total shutdown of the space port, the airport and Guianna in general, with supermarkets running food at one point. After the mentioned 44 days an agreement for a €2.1 bn infrastructure investment package (including new schools and a courthouse) was reached which ended the protests. The launch was very typical in number and typo of payload: 2 communication satellites, the most common cargo, one Brazil, one for Korea. As I mentioned before, the dual-launch is achieved by employing the Sylda, basically a satellite sized thimble. This allows to take advantage of the Ariane's rather high capacity of ~10,750 kg to GTO. The concept will be retained for Ariane 6, which is in developlment at the moment.
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calapine
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