The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 7 Dec 2014 at 11:59

The launch of Ariane 5 flight VA221 with two telecom satellites, DirecTV-14 and GSAT-16 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana:

Cosimo · 8 Dec 2014 at 14:00

Nice timelapse of Soyuz TMA-15M from November:

Cosimo · 8 Dec 2014 at 16:57

A look back at the 13 missions United Launch Alliance has launched in 2014:

Glaucus · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:15

Nice to scale illustration, and Omg look how big Saturn V was. always new it was massive, but when you compare it to Soyuz you really see how big it was.

dbmzk1 · 8 Dec 2014 at 20:23

Don't get this entire Orion thing. None of it is new at all. It's like NASA just decided to go back 30+ years. Such a massive shame.

Glaucus · 8 Dec 2014 at 23:20

What a silly thing to say, that's like saying a modern fighter jet is the same as a jet fighter from 30 years ago.

Capsule design is far better than a shuttle design.

What's a shame is they only have funding for one more flight and nothing set in stone after that.

Cosimo · 9 Dec 2014 at 07:08

Meanwhile on Mars:

Cosimo · 10 Dec 2014 at 08:09

So what after the test flight:

Cosimo · 11 Dec 2014 at 11:27

Let your kids build this model of Rosetta and Philae:

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/rosetta/RosettaModel.pdf

Cosimo · 12 Dec 2014 at 15:29

Cosimo · 13 Dec 2014 at 08:02

Cosimo · 13 Dec 2014 at 12:29

Yesterday's Atlas V launch:

Glaucus · 13 Dec 2014 at 17:23

Tmro will have Mars one on the show tonight with some proper hard questions rather than the generic media ones we've had so far.

http://new.livestream.com/tmro. @9pm or is it 10 now I always forget.

Lisapete · 14 Dec 2014 at 20:15

http://www.insecam.org/cam/view/170477/

NASA and Orion in Arizona, Yuma on an unsecured CCTV Camera.... worrying

JRS · 14 Dec 2014 at 20:24

dbmzk1 said:
Don't get this entire Orion thing. None of it is new at all. It's like NASA just decided to go back 30+ years. Such a massive shame.

Oh, yeah. Absolutely nothing has changed from Apollo.

Except all the stuff that has changed, of course. I mean, that all changed. But the rest of it - identical.

Ish.

Cosimo · 15 Dec 2014 at 13:06

400th Proton rocket launch with a Proton-M carrying a Yamal 401 communications satellite:

Lisapete · 15 Dec 2014 at 18:07

Anyone got a link for tonight's space x testing?

Cosimo · 16 Dec 2014 at 06:44

Meanwhile in interstellar space:

Glaucus · 16 Dec 2014 at 19:18

Curiosity has seen interesting spokes in methane.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/december/nasa-rover-finds-active-ancient-organic-chemistry-on-mars/

Shows you how poor the media is when you compare news reports with the nasa release.

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