International Space Station passing over SOON!

StriderX said:
Also the Russians have borked a launch and are now apparently endangering the station.
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No, they had a failure to reach orbit. That does not detract from the viability of their program, nor their dedication to their work. It doesn't endanger the station, they have months worth of supplies. The strange thing about it is why there's been so many failures of such a reliable rocket system in such a (relatively) small length of time.
 
PermaBanned said:
No, they had a failure to reach orbit. That does not detract from the viability of their program, nor their dedication to their work. It doesn't endanger the station, they have months worth of supplies. The strange thing about it is why there's been so many failures of such a reliable rocket system in such a (relatively) small length of time.
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This has nothing to do with supplies, it was a satellite launch that had an engine failure (from what i can tell), not all of the fuel was used up so, it is at danger of exploding, making our orbit even worse to navigate.

Plus i don't see how you can take my comment and see it as hostile to the Russian space program, i am merely stating what has occurred, it probable wont do anything and just drop back to the planet, but the chance is real enough.
 
The Proton failure? I was under the impression that the satellites failed to reach orbit at all. Even so, there's no possibility of that endangering the ISS in any way, the reason for which is best explained by one Douglas Adams:

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
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;)
 
PermaBanned said:
The Proton failure? I was under the impression that the satellites failed to reach orbit at all. Even so, there's no possibility of that endangering the ISS in any way, the reason for which is best explained by one Douglas Adams:



;)
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No possibility as in 0%?

I am displeased with this, any chance at all is bad and even if tiny, one shouldn't ignore that because of it.

Perhaps i just like to be able to see all the problems on the table first.
 
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PermaBanned said:
I thought we already resolved this last time?
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Well thank you for being the GD police...unbelievable.

I posted the thread 45 MINUTES before it was due to pass giving people browsing the forum time to stick their head out of the window.

If they were so interested they can join the main threads, this as with so many other threads on here is just to tell people it's happening.

The fact that so many people took the time to say thanks shows that the thread served it's purpose.

I find it ironic that you are continuing the thread with a debate...please take it to the main thread, the ISS has passed overhead, the thread has done it's job and brightened a lot of peoples evenings.

That's the last I'm going to say on the matter and frankly it didn't need explaining.

Good night.
 
Will be sitting out again tonight here in st agnes just unlit field and sea on my horizon got my android app to help with star i.d as not too clued up just love watching, blows your mind just trying to understand the meaning of everything........
 
Get a program called Stellarium, press f6 to change the location to your city and then press ctrl+z to enable satellite orbits. It will show you every satellite going over your head at pretty much any point in time :D
 
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Really is quite incredible how fast it orbits the Earth... it's just in over the South Pacific at the moment coming up to South America and in 15 minutes it will be flying over the UK... it took me 10 hours on a 737 to fly from Birmingham to Boston in America. Heh.
 
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