The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Glaucus · 19 Sep 2013 at 21:21

Care to chuck us a link?

Von Smallhausen · 20 Sep 2013 at 07:58

Aye, sorry G.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel

Link to Ig in that article.

Cosimo · 20 Sep 2013 at 10:16

Cosimo · 20 Sep 2013 at 10:25

Meanwhile on Mars some auto navigation....

Glaucus · 20 Sep 2013 at 12:30

Cosimo said:

Cosimo · 21 Sep 2013 at 08:35

Cosimo · 22 Sep 2013 at 14:39

The rendezvous of Cygnus with the ISS has been called off due to problems with its navigation system. A second attempt is planned for Tuesday morning:

7:45 a.m. Sunday, September 22, 2013

Following the discovery of a data format discrepancy between an on-board International Space Station (ISS) navigation system and a similar system on Cygnus at around 1:30 a.m. this morning, today's rendezvous with the station was postponed. At this time, NASA and Orbital are developing a detailed plan for a second rendezvous attempt early Tuesday morning.

A software update has been developed and will be tested on a ground-based simulator during the day on Sunday. Upload to Cygnus and in-orbit testing of the software "patch" is planned for Sunday night and into Monday morning. Once this has been accomplished and verified, the current plan is for Cygnus to begin a second rendezvous approach late Monday night, with final approach to the ISS and grapple taking place early Tuesday morning. The Cygnus spacecraft remains healthy, with all major subsystems operating as expected.

Glaucus · 22 Sep 2013 at 14:40

Thats a shame, sounds like they are confident they can solve it though.

Jokester · 22 Sep 2013 at 14:42

NASA has given up hope for Deep Impact it seems:-

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-21/nasa-calls-off-search-for-deep-impact-comet-probe/4972930

Spook187 · 22 Sep 2013 at 14:49

Jokester said:
NASA has given up hope for Deep Impact it seems:-

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-21/nasa-calls-off-search-for-deep-impact-comet-probe/4972930

Such a shame but it's good to see it had achieved lots before the end

Glaucus · 22 Sep 2013 at 14:51

Yep a shame, but done "more" than what was planned.
In one of the books ive read, NASA engineers always underestimate massively. This way it looks good to superiors and congress when they say well you aksed us to do this with x money, yet again we achieved X, Y and Z with that budget.

Spook187 · 22 Sep 2013 at 14:59

Plutonium shortage could delay NASA space exploration :eek:

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/sma...rtage-could-delay-nasa-space-exploration/1162

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...-within-a-decade/story-fn5fsgyc-1226723320487

Cosimo · 24 Sep 2013 at 07:38

Cygnus rendezvous will now be delayed until at least Saturday.

Meanwhile....

Launch on the 25th at 23:58 GMT (16:48 EDT).

Cosimo · 25 Sep 2013 at 08:56

Expedition 37 set for launch later tonight.

Cosimo · 26 Sep 2013 at 08:32

Away we go....

Cosimo · 26 Sep 2013 at 08:53

Around six hours later....

Cosimo · 26 Sep 2013 at 09:48

Home sweet home....

Cosimo · 26 Sep 2013 at 12:12

Love these Russian rollouts:

After a lunch delay the Proton-M rocket with the Astra 2E satellite is now due to launch on the 30th.

Cosimo · 28 Sep 2013 at 07:14

Cosimo · 28 Sep 2013 at 08:47

Big day tomorrow:

Cygnus approved for next rendezvous attempt with ISS. Expected rendezvous burn just after 08:00 BST and capture at 12:15 BST (07:15 EDT)

Falcon 9 v1.1 / Cassiope approved for launch at 17:00 BST (12:00 EDT). The launch window is two hours.

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