The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Glaucus · 23 Feb 2014 at 15:22

As CSR3 isn't going to GEO transfer orbit, it will be trying for a soft touch down on water again. However this time, its going to be flying with landing legs for the first time.

Exciting times, hopefully they learnt lots of info from the first failed attempt, where apparently the craft went in to a spin and engines were fuel starved.

Glaucus · 23 Feb 2014 at 21:41

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ard-for-a-Spacebus-trip-around-the-world.html

Wow, another space program we shelved and shouldn't have.
Will have to keep my eye out on crowdcube for it.

After a few iterations it can actually each orbit, not just sub orbital like virgin galactic (who have shelved their plans for orbit capable crafts for the foreseeable future)

Cosimo · 24 Feb 2014 at 11:28

Need to get to Star City for a play.

Glaucus · 25 Feb 2014 at 18:42

All four landing legs have been mounted onto Falcon 9 in advance of next month’s launch.

They estimate the success for a soft touch down on water at 30-40% this time around.
In comparison their first attempt which failed was predicted at just 10%, it failed when the fuel centrifuged and shut down the engines as they weren't expect so much force in that direction and the baffles failed to contain it.

Cosimo · 28 Feb 2014 at 08:08

Launch from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center:

Cosimo · 28 Feb 2014 at 13:31

Testing continues with a simulated a failure of one of Orion's three main parachutes.

Westyfield2 · 28 Feb 2014 at 13:50

What if Columbia rescue plan http://arstechnica.com/science/2014...that-might-have-saved-space-shuttle-columbia/

Cosimo · 1 Mar 2014 at 07:04

Cosimo · 1 Mar 2014 at 11:21

More Orion testing:

Cosimo · 5 Mar 2014 at 07:48

Now and the future:

Glaucus · 5 Mar 2014 at 15:24

Wow, watching the DOD appropriations subcommity. Wow the US tax payer is getting ripped off. 380m per ULA launch and a guaranteed $1billion a year even if they dont order any rockets.
In comparison falcon 9 launch would be under $100million. Which means you could pay for a SpaceX launch and the GPS satellite for less than the ULA launch on its own.

On top off that ULA rockets aren't even entirely USA made, for example they use Russian main engines.

Glaucus · 5 Mar 2014 at 15:29

Lol, tough question for ULA, what's the security for the engines with Russias current Adventurism in Crimea.

Adventurism that's one way to put it.

Two years stock pile. But what after two years.

This sint going well for ULA,
Now onto their +account. Basically billions off extra costs. Launch support, grants etc. which spaced say they dint need and tbh they don't, they're launching falcons without government hangouts.'

There defence. It was needed when we started, fine but how decades ago was that, So what about now?

Cosimo · 6 Mar 2014 at 08:03

The good work continues:

Cosimo · 7 Mar 2014 at 14:11

Meanwhile aboard the ISS:

Cosimo · 8 Mar 2014 at 08:19

It's that time of year again:

Glaucus · 9 Mar 2014 at 09:58

They dint think small do they. I wonder when we will see a Raptor engine test fire. Apparently the upgrades to the test facility are almost complete.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/03/spacex-advances-drive-mars-rocket-raptor-power/

FalconX and FalconXX are just ******* massive and yet again begs the question why USA is wasting money on SLS, yes it'll come on line before FalconX but will be so expensive will only fly a handful of times, would be better up splitting the load in two and using the falcon Heavies at a massively cheaper launch cost, let alone design cost.

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2014 at 08:08

Glaucus said:
Going to be a three part space live program in march in channel 4.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-boldly-goes-into-space

Reminder: Showing this week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 21:00 on Channel 4.

Glaucus · 10 Mar 2014 at 19:13

Is this the same show? Look at the featured show section. But the link goes to us times.
Or is it the same ISS footage but the rest is different?

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/

Cosimo · 11 Mar 2014 at 08:14

Glaucus said:
Is this the same show? Look at the featured show section. But the link goes to us times.
Or is it the same ISS footage but the rest is different?

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/

It's the same show.

http://spacecomingsoon.channel4.com/

Cosimo · 11 Mar 2014 at 08:15

Expedition 38 is home:

** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond