The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 4 Jun 2015 at 15:01

Glaucus said:
Another LDSD test flight today. I think stream starts about 6:30pm.
Hopefully the new parachute works this time.

Going to be live here:

https://youtu.be/_Q5SQBC_e64

Glaucus · 4 Jun 2015 at 16:16

Yay planetary society thinks that it's deployed the solar sails. Not enough power to use cameras atm. So they have to wait for the battery to recharge.

Glaucus · 4 Jun 2015 at 18:35

LDSD Scrubbed to weather.

Cosimo · 4 Jun 2015 at 19:33

Glaucus said:
LDSD Scrubbed to weather.

Hopefully they'll try again tomorrow and the window extends until the 12th.

Cosimo · 6 Jun 2015 at 06:42

Cosimo · 6 Jun 2015 at 07:24

GoPro inside a fairing from a recent Falcon 9 flight, just turn up the volume:

sityeuropa · 7 Jun 2015 at 23:04

Made a Milky Way galaxy video if you like.

It uses VP9 codec so 1080p60 can be a bit of a hog on CPU usage. The H264 version was horribly compressed.

Cosimo · 8 Jun 2015 at 06:39

NASA Postponed the June 6/7 LDSD launch due to weather. Hopefully they'll try again today.

Cosimo · 8 Jun 2015 at 07:18

Airbus enters the fray with the Adeline reusable first-stage rocket concept:

More:

http://www.military-technologies.net/2015/06/05/meet-adeline-airbus-answer-to-spacex-reusability/

Glaucus · 8 Jun 2015 at 13:15

That is a far nicer looking solution than Boeings helicopter mid air snatch and grab.

Finally people are reacting to spaceX which is a very good thing, hopefully continued and fast reduction in access to space in the next decade or two.

Cosimo · 8 Jun 2015 at 13:58

It looks as though the weather for the LDSD test flight is going to be fine. Live coverage will be here from 18:00 BST:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

and here:

Status updates and more from here:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/ldsd/index.html

Glaucus · 8 Jun 2015 at 18:39

Were a min or two from launch, although gallon flight will be about 2.5hours till capsule is dropped for it's short rocket flight.

Cosimo · 9 Jun 2015 at 06:22

Another parachute failure after the vehicle’s supersonic parachute ripped apart as it deployed.

Cosimo · 9 Jun 2015 at 15:31

A stunning 4K version of the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) move shown in post #3452:

HD download:

https://archive.org/details/SpaceStationPMMRelocation-4K

Glaucus · 9 Jun 2015 at 20:24

Shame abut the parachute.

However light sail confirmation of deployment

Cosimo · 10 Jun 2015 at 08:36

We've been to the loo, washed and now it's time for bed:

Cosimo · 10 Jun 2015 at 10:23

Great picture of LDSD recovery from the Pacific off the coast of the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii on Monday:

Cosimo · 11 Jun 2015 at 06:54

So you have a rocket and need to move it, let's go:

Cosimo · 11 Jun 2015 at 13:20

NASA’s Terry Virts and Flight Engineers Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos undock (@ 05:15) their Soyuz TMA-15M and head for home:

Freddie1980 · 11 Jun 2015 at 13:40

Less then a month from now New Horizons will arrive at Pluto for me it's the event of the year but don't hold your breath for pictures any time soon though.

New Horizons will transmit 64 GB of information back to NASA at 1 KB per second, a trickle compared to even the 56K connection speeds of 1990s dial-up internet. The entire process of downlinking the information to the Deep Space Network will take 16 months. The data will take years to process

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