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x808drifter 11-01-2022 11:51 AM
Anyone watch live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY628jRd6gM

Dadhawk 11-01-2022 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by x808drifter (Post 3554724)
Anyone watch live?
Didn't watch live, but did watch the video. Too bad it was so foggy would have loved to have seen clearer shots.

The booster landings are amazing, to the point where they still don't look real. Would love to see that in person. Too bad there wasn't enough fuel remaining to try to recover the main booster.

Dadhawk 11-15-2022 10:12 PM
Artemis I launch hopefully tonight. Really want to stay up and watch it live, but not sure I'll make it. I guess I'll watch it time delayed on Wednesday.

x808drifter 11-16-2022 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 3556745)
Artemis I launch hopefully tonight. Really want to stay up and watch it live, but not sure I'll make it. I guess I'll watch it time delayed on Wednesday.
It's up there. No failures. Yet. Hope it goes off without a hitch.
If the SRB's or the MRB's didn't decide to blow up, everything else looks good.

Dadhawk 11-16-2022 08:48 AM
Beautiful launch. As a "child of Apollo" it gave me the same goosebumps as watching the Apollo/Saturn rockets. Godspeed Artemis I!

Ultramaroon 01-12-2023 10:29 PM
Possible naked-eye comet will visit Earth for 1st time since Neanderthals in 2023


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According to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the comet has a period of around 50,000 years. This means that prior to it coming to within around 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) of the sun on Jan. 12 and 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of Earth on Feb. 2, the last time it came so close was during the Upper Paleolithic period on Earth.

Sapphireho 01-12-2023 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon (Post 3564029)
I remember the Upper Paleolithic period, I had a hangover for days.

JD001 01-29-2023 07:58 AM
I'm so proud that a Subaru scientific instrument has captured a blue spiral thingy over the skies of Hawaii.. it may be an after glow from a FA20 expiring but who knows...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/0...og-orig-aw.cnn

x808drifter 01-30-2023 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by JD001 (Post 3566207)
I'm so proud that a Subaru scientific instrument has captured a blue spiral thingy over the skies of Hawaii.. it may be an after glow from a FA20 expiring but who knows...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/0...og-orig-aw.cnn
Just me flying my new drone from Christmas.

JD001 01-30-2023 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by x808drifter (Post 3566317)
Just me flying my new drone from Christmas.
Gosh, that's a long time flying..

x808drifter 01-31-2023 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by JD001 (Post 3566369)
Gosh, that's a long time flying..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_vFJctl9I

JD001 01-31-2023 03:10 PM
More "inner space" thing... Will our boxer engines sound more like the "real" boxers now that earth's core is slowing down and reversing its spin?

Clipdat 01-31-2023 08:14 PM
Possibly maybe.

Dadhawk 01-31-2023 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by x808drifter (Post 3566530)
40 mile recon mission
I would not have the patience to do that for that long...

x808drifter 02-09-2023 07:03 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfIdwskWABk&t

Capt Spaulding 02-09-2023 11:16 PM
As I recall NASA went to extreme lengths to keep the Saturn 5 from destroying its launch pad. It looks like SpaceX is just letting things rip. I wonder how the support structure fared during this.

Also, folks I know who live on South Padre Island complained about the noise and vibrations from the 3 engine StarShip tests. This must make life on SPI interesting.

pope 02-10-2023 02:16 PM
Boosters always look like toys to me until they are positioned relative to something common for scale, then they’re fucking huge!

I also end up wondering how many marshmallows could be toasted at once and at what distance would they stop being instantly disintegrated. Monkey brain like huge fireball!

Dadhawk 02-10-2023 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by pope (Post 3568109)
Boosters always look like toys to me until they are positioned relative to something common for scale, then they’re fucking huge
Same here. I knew it was big, but didn't full realize the scale until I saw photos like this one...

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/E4...0-80.jpeg.webp

Capt Spaulding 02-10-2023 07:28 PM
I’ve been down there a couple of times. It is big, very big.

Ultramaroon 02-10-2023 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding (Post 3568156)
I’ve been down there a couple of times. It is big, very big.
TWSS

Capt Spaulding 02-11-2023 12:27 PM
TWIS

Capt Spaulding 02-11-2023 12:31 PM
I think I posted this after one of the trips to Boca.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f0d2b7ee_c.jpg

It really is Big

Irace86.2.0 03-15-2023 07:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Ob6DaMM2k

Dadhawk 04-17-2023 09:02 AM
Anyone watching the Starship initial launch this AM?

Dadhawk 04-20-2023 04:26 PM
Pretty spectacular launch and "skid pad" test this morning.

Launch is at about 44:55 into the video.

Spuds 04-20-2023 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 3577964)
Pretty spectacular launch and "skid pad" test this morning.

Launch is at about 44:55 into the video.
Lol.

Ultramaroon 04-21-2023 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Spuds (Post 3577969)
Lol.
Wheeeee!

Dadhawk 04-21-2023 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon (Post 3578017)
Wheeeee!
The thought of a 300ft tall rocket tumbling multiple times end over end makes my smile more than it should.

You think Musk (who was in the control room) said, "OK guys, that's high enough now spin that bitch!" and just start cackling maniacally?

I think I might have.

Ultramaroon 04-21-2023 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 3578035)
The thought of a 600ft tall rocket tumbling multiple times end over end makes my smile more than it should.

You think Musk (who was in the control room) said, "OK guys, that's high enough now spin that bitch!" and just start cackling maniacally?

I think I might have.
I didn't but I sure like it. Did you notice one of the engines blow at 45:34? I was amazed at how well the rest of it held together with all that commotion.

Dadhawk 04-21-2023 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon (Post 3578090)
I didn't but I sure like it. Did you notice one of the engines blow at 45:34? I was amazed at how well the rest of it held together with all that commotion.
If you watch the indictor on the left it shows the engines. There were 3 out at launch, 6 out at about 8KM but one of them relit so 5 out at MECO. Of course, it wasn't carrying a payload so they had some margin of error.

Buddy of mine that follows this more closely than I do says he recalls Musk saying at full load they could have 3 engines out and still launch.

Spuds 04-25-2023 12:57 PM
First commercial space landing (unmanned) is today, Ispace Hakuto-R. Livestreaming now.

https://www.youtube.com/live/CpR1UUnix3g?feature=share

Dadhawk 04-25-2023 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Spuds (Post 3578476)
First commercial space landing (unmanned) is today, Ispace Hakuto-R. Livestreaming now.
That was cheating, using telemetry to simulate the landing rather than actually show it from a camera.

So far, it looks like it didn't go well....

Spuds 04-25-2023 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 3578494)
That was cheating, using telemetry to simulate the landing rather than actually show it from a camera.

So far, it looks like it didn't go well....
Yeah, I think it is presumed crashed. I only heard about it today so wasn't sure what they would be streaming. Real time video is actually hard to send long distances, I'm sure they had a camera running to transmit compressed later.

NoHaveMSG 04-25-2023 04:25 PM
Wilson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.livescience.com/space/ma...gether-on-mars

Dadhawk 04-25-2023 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Spuds (Post 3578516)
Yeah, I think it is presumed crashed. I only heard about it today so wasn't sure what they would be streaming. Real time video is actually hard to send long distances, I'm sure they had a camera running to transmit compressed later.
agree on the video, but still disappointing.

What would suck even more is if it landed perfectly but the comms are broken. If I was the "owner" I think I'd rather have a fireball!

The photo they showed in the "preshow" with the Moon shadow on the Earth during an eclipse was pretty cool. I'd buy a poster of that.

Dadhawk 08-23-2023 10:38 AM
Congratulations to India for a successful soft landing near the Moon south pole!

Spuds 08-23-2023 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 3590692)
Congratulations to India for a successful soft landing near the Moon south pole!
And congratulations to the Russians on making another crater in it!

Unplugem 08-24-2023 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Spuds (Post 3590747)
And congratulations to the Russians on making another crater in it!
Dang, you actually believe that junk? It's all Jesuit theater. None of it is real; they have you living in augmented reality. I guess it's all that "spinning at 1,000 mph" and all... I'd probably believe anything I was told too, if I was spun around that fast. It must be torture to be exposed to those speeds and never get a reprieve. You have my sympathy.

Unplugem 08-24-2023 12:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 3335826)
Can confirm as I saw a few launches when I lived in Florida upclose and at a distance. Even from 200 miles away (I lived in W. Palm Beach) the night shots were spectacular.

The office I worked in in Boca Raton was about the tallest building in the area at 10 stories. I buddy of mine had an office on the 9th floor that faced North. He had a square marked out on his window. At about 20 seconds after launch you could watch the shuttle arc through the window. Obviously couldn't see details but you could see the rocket plume as it climbed.

That doesn't come close to seeing it up close though.
Haha that "arcing" is the overpriced bottle rocket dropping back to the ground. They like to launch them on the coast of Florida. They fall right back down and land in the Atlantic Ocean, the Bermuda Triangle, to be exact. If any poor soul out on a boat sees the overpriced POS fall into the water, then they are disappeared. Now at least you folks know the truth about the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.

Dadhawk 08-24-2023 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Unplugem (Post 3590766)
Now at least you folks know the truth about the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
Bermuda Triangle is a myth propagated by the Atlanteans who's missile defense system developed and managed by Flipper and Moby ****, is out of control and shoots down everything that passes over.

I know this for a fact because Bruce told me so. It's the message you get when you play the theme from Jaws backwards at 72rpm.


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