The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 29 Dec 2014 at 08:40

Launch of a Proton-M carrying the Astra 2G satellite:

Cosimo · 30 Dec 2014 at 08:20

A look at the Ion thruster used in the Dawn spacecraft:

Cosimo · 31 Dec 2014 at 08:23

A Happy New Year to all my fellow space fans.

Cosimo · 1 Jan 2015 at 09:00

SpaceX 2014:

Glaucus · 5 Jan 2015 at 21:26

Drone spaceport ship heads to its hold position in the Atlantic to prepare for a rocket landing

weather is 70% chance for go @11:20 tomorrow, live stream starts at 11am.

TehBluebear · 6 Jan 2015 at 11:25

Been aborted apparently!

Blinkz · 6 Jan 2015 at 11:36

Is there a live stream? or is totalled cancelled for today?

Glaucus · 6 Jan 2015 at 11:37

Aborted for today, next earliest window is Friday at 10am ish.

Anyone know why? At work so cant follow.

Glaucus · 6 Jan 2015 at 14:32

Fault was an actuator drift in the second stage, which would had led to an auto destruct command. So obviously has to be fixed before the next attempt, hope a few days is enough.

Cosimo · 7 Jan 2015 at 09:15

Now set for 10:09 GMT on Friday.

Cosimo · 7 Jan 2015 at 09:19

Timelapse shot with a Canon 5D Mark III with a Nikon 14-24 lens on an eMotimo TB3 mounted on a Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly in Kennebec, South Dakota:

Glaucus · 7 Jan 2015 at 21:11

CRS-5 now scheduled gore Saturday at 9:30am. Much better for me, would have missed it, if it was in Friday.

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/ev...000-a3817fd679f25&acc_id=7580107&medium=email

Cosimo · 8 Jan 2015 at 07:38

Europe’s Mercury mission is moved through ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in this new video, positioning it for testing inside the largest vacuum chamber in Europe:

ShaolinDreams · 8 Jan 2015 at 07:46

Cos do you purposefully wake up early to search for videos to post?

Cosimo · 8 Jan 2015 at 08:56

ShaolinDreams said:
Cos do you purposefully wake up early to search for videos to post?

No, I watch them before I go to bed, even in bed.

ShaolinDreams · 8 Jan 2015 at 09:00

Kinky

Cosimo · 8 Jan 2015 at 09:44

ShaolinDreams said:
Kinky

Best not get onto the subject of rockets.

Combat squirrel · 9 Jan 2015 at 10:06

Is the spacex launch go for today? If so when?

Cosimo · 9 Jan 2015 at 10:11

Combat squirrel said:
Is the spacex launch go for today? If so when?

Saturday’s window is set for 09:47 GMT:

Glaucus said:
CRS-5 now scheduled gore Saturday at 9:30am. Much better for me, would have missed it, if it was in Friday.

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/ev...000-a3817fd679f25&acc_id=7580107&medium=email

Combat squirrel · 9 Jan 2015 at 10:12

I am all of the dumb, lol, Thanks! Why Sat? is the fix taking longer than expected or other reasons?

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