** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Soldato
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Away we go:
The ascent timeline:
Into T+8 and looking good.
T-00:00 Liftoff
T+01:04.0 Ground SRB Burnout
T+01:05.5 Air-Lit SRM Ignition
T+01:26.0 Jettison SRBs
T+02:11.5 Jettison Air-Lit SRMs
T+04:23.4 Main Engine Cutoff
T+04:31.4 Stage Separation
T+04:36.9 Second Stage Ignition
T+04:41.0 Jettison Payload Fairing
T+10:23.7 Second Stage Cutoff 1
T+52:05.0 Second Stage Restart
T+52:26.7 Second Stage Cutoff 2
T+58:45.0 NPP Separation
T+92:30.0 Second Stage Restart
T+98:20.0 CubeSat Deploys
T+114:58.6 Second Stage Restart
T+01:04.0 Ground SRB Burnout
T+01:05.5 Air-Lit SRM Ignition
T+01:26.0 Jettison SRBs
T+02:11.5 Jettison Air-Lit SRMs
T+04:23.4 Main Engine Cutoff
T+04:31.4 Stage Separation
T+04:36.9 Second Stage Ignition
T+04:41.0 Jettison Payload Fairing
T+10:23.7 Second Stage Cutoff 1
T+52:05.0 Second Stage Restart
T+52:26.7 Second Stage Cutoff 2
T+58:45.0 NPP Separation
T+92:30.0 Second Stage Restart
T+98:20.0 CubeSat Deploys
T+114:58.6 Second Stage Restart
Into T+8 and looking good.
Another spectacular view of yesterday’s successful NPP launch:
Good news.
A Soyuz-U rocket with a Progress M-13M/45P spacecraft took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:11 GMT today. The unmanned Russian cargo craft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station on Wednesday. After the failure of the M-12M/44P mission on August 24th the launch today paves the way for the launch of the Soyuz TMA-22 manned mission to the ISS on November 13th.
A Soyuz-U rocket with a Progress M-13M/45P spacecraft took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:11 GMT today. The unmanned Russian cargo craft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station on Wednesday. After the failure of the M-12M/44P mission on August 24th the launch today paves the way for the launch of the Soyuz TMA-22 manned mission to the ISS on November 13th.
China successfully launches Shenzhou-8 using a Long March 2F rocket.
Shenzhou-8 is expected to dock twice with the unmanned space module TianGong-1 that was launched on September 29th. The first docking is expected on November 3rd.
Shenzhou-8 is expected to dock twice with the unmanned space module TianGong-1 that was launched on September 29th. The first docking is expected on November 3rd.
The Progress M-13M/45P unmanned cargo ship arrived today at the ISS and docked to the Pirs docking compartment at 11:41 GMT. The Progress craft will stay at the station until January 25th.
Simulatorman what is your opinion on:
1. The amount of space rubbish that we have left up in orbit? What do you think will happen to it? How will we recover it?
2. The JWT, your thoughts? Massively over budget but imo 100% needed and to hell with the cost, It will be a sad day when hubble comes down
1. The amount of space rubbish that we have left up in orbit? What do you think will happen to it? How will we recover it?
2. The JWT, your thoughts? Massively over budget but imo 100% needed and to hell with the cost, It will be a sad day when hubble comes down
Soldato
It would be a crime to not get the JWT up there - what that will do for understanding our universe far outweighs any monetary costs IMO.
Simulatorman what is your opinion on:
1. The amount of space rubbish that we have left up in orbit? What do you think will happen to it? How will we recover it?
2. The JWT, your thoughts? Massively over budget but imo 100% needed and to hell with the cost, It will be a sad day when hubble comes down
1. It will stay up there and if you wait long enough it will fall to earth. In the short term there should be agreement to try and stop/limit this from happening. In the long term there is nothing and there have been calls for research to be carried on how this could be addressed. People have suggested giant magnets and space nets to trawl this stuff. I think we will be waiting a long time for something to materialise. I suspect it will have to be commercially viable before something happens.
This is worth a read:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14763668
2. JWT has certainly been at risk because of overspend and poor project management. A government committee proposed cancelling the project earlier this year. They are currently reworking the plans/budgets with a view of now launching in 2018 instead of 2014. I have no reason not to believe that with this reworking the budget will be found and approved. A project of this importance will not go to the wall. Meanwhile the mirrors have now completed the coating process. There are some videos about this in the Astronomy thread.
More on JWT:
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
China took a huge step forward and joined the Russian/US docking club when two unmanned Chinese spacecraft made an automated docking in orbit. Shenzhou 8 and Tiangong 1 docked at 17:28 GMT yesterday:
Great view of Progress M-13M/45P docking with the ISS yesterday:
A must have:
Nearly 200 pages of goodness. It’s very comprehensive and full of diagrams/pictures. To be had for £13.83 with free postage.
A must have:
Nearly 200 pages of goodness. It’s very comprehensive and full of diagrams/pictures. To be had for £13.83 with free postage.
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been moved the Kennedy Space Centre’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral and then hoisted on top of its Atlas V rocket:
MSL is targeted to launch at 08:35 GMT (04:35 EDT) on November 25th.
The MSL fact sheet.
The mission:
The MSL site.
MSL is targeted to launch at 08:35 GMT (04:35 EDT) on November 25th.
The MSL fact sheet.
The mission:
The MSL site.
One of those timeless images and a scary one at that.
Soldato
Somewhat related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat
And shamelessly stolen from Reddit
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=planetary-scientists-hope-to-bring-11-11-07
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat
And shamelessly stolen from Reddit
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=planetary-scientists-hope-to-bring-11-11-07
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