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

[Combat squirrel]

Christ how does this happen? It's obviously all about who you know not what you know, no greater evidence of this!

 

[Cosimo]

Virgin Galactic working towards the future:

 

[Cosimo]

Ammonia leak caused crew to evacuate to Russian section, but now confirmed it was a false alarm:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/toxic-leak-international-space-station-russia-121805828.html#nUcCi68

Space Station Program Manager Mike Suffredini talks about about the quick response:

 

[Glaucus]

Have they found Beagle 2? there's a conference in London tomorrow about Beagle 2, can't see what else it is.
For those who need a reminder, uk lead ESA mission to mars, Beagle 2 detached from the orbiting satellite, entered the atmosphere and never heard from again in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2

Edit - Actually seems confirmed that they will release photos of it and that it actually landed intact.

 

[Cosimo]

A preview of the upcoming year long stay aboard the station by the Expedition 43 crew:

 

[JRS]

Beagle2 found intact.

So close to success as well....

Many scientists assumed it had been destroyed in a high-velocity impact.

The new pictures, acquired by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, give the lie to that notion, and hint at what really happened to the European mission.

Beagle's design incorporated a series of deployable "petals", on which were mounted its solar panels.

From the images, it seems that this system did not unfurl fully.

"Without full deployment, there is no way we could have communicated with it as the radio frequency antenna was under the solar panels," explained Prof Mark Sims, Beagle's mission manager from Leicester University.

"The failure cause is pure speculation, but it could have been, and probably was, down to sheer back luck - a heavy bounce perhaps distorting the structure as clearances on solar panel deployment weren't big; or a punctured and slowly leaking airbag not separating sufficiently from the lander, causing a hang-up in deployment," he told BBC News.

 

[Dugganator]

Such a shame it didn't work seems so close and with 50 million budget I think it was still the cheapest mission attempted to Mars.

 

[Cosimo]

A set of three observations with the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera shows Beagle 2 partially deployed on the surface of the planet, ending the mystery of what happened to the mission more than a decade ago. They show that the lander survived its Dec. 25, 2003, touchdown enough to at least partially deploy its solar arrays.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

Good that its been found, but to claim it was lost due to luck is a bit of a stretch. Sounds more like design flaws that weren't thought about properly during its development. (or maybe were but dismissed due to costs/time.)

 

[Glaucus]

Oh wow, photos of falcon 9 falling over and a bit more detail. When the oil ran out the fins went hard left and the rockets tried but failed to compensate. The chance of a success on the next launch (29th of Jan) has to be high.

 

[Cosimo]

Professor Mark Sims of the University of Leicester speaks about the discovery of Beagle 2:

 

[Glaucus]

Even better spaces have released the footage.
That looks like so many landing attempts I've had in KSP.

https://vine.co/v/OjqeYWWpVWK

 

[Ilikeitblackplease]

Dramatic video of SpaceX rocket's failed landing emerges

Was wondering why are they using old designs such as rockets, why don't they create a reusable plane.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...of-SpaceX-rockets-failed-landing-emerges.html

 

[cainer]

wheres the dramatic video you promised us in the thread title?

EDIT: thanks for the update/edit
i dont watch adverts though so il take your word for it being dramatic n stuff

 

[Noxia]

Misleading title 1/10. Seriously though, wasn't dramatic, but was interesting!

 

[Ghosteh]

wheres the dramatic video you promised us in the thread title?

EDIT: thanks for the update/edit
i dont watch adverts though so il take your word for it being dramatic n stuff

There is a second video at the bottom of the page which plays without adverts...

Also, get an adblocker . Didn't even realise there were adverts in the first video until you said and I quickly turned off AdBlock.

 

[Tonester0011]

Bloody impressive when i heard it hit the pad, albeit hard and on its side
Really hope the next attempt they get it'll be light and they can get some decent footage.

 

[JRS]

but to claim it was lost due to luck is a bit of a stretch

Half of everything is luck

I really, really, really, really, really.....

....some time later....

....really, really wish that Colin Pillinger was still with us now that Beagle2 has been found!

 

[The Funktopus]

Llllllllllllliiiiiiiiikkkkkkkeeeeee a glove!

 

[Cosimo]