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

Sorry,

A) Bit tiddly

B) Actually a bit concerned

Not read whole Spacex thread. But Trans-luner orbit. ???

How are they going to do the re-entry

I wasn't aware that there were any 25,000 MPH ballistic re-entry vehicles available.

How are they going to do the return to earth??
 
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifts off from Space Launch Complex-3:

 
Soyuz MS-04 being tested for air tightness in a vacuum chamber at the Baikonur cosmodrome:


It is scheduled for April 20 launch to the International Space Station.
 
Preparation for Soyuz MS-04 continues:


It is scheduled for April 20 launch to the International Space Station.
 
NASA conducted a test of an RS-25 engine at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Four RS-25’s will help power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to space:


During this test, engineers evaluated the engine’s new controller or “brain”, which communicates with the SLS vehicle. Once test data is certified, the engine controller will be removed and installed on one of the four flight engines that will help power the first integrated flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft.
 
Cosimo said:
Preview of US Spacewalk 40:
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i thought that was next week. Guess they brought the schedule forward. :(

Oh well, next one is on Thursday (30th).

PS - Wish I'd found this thread sooner (about 5 years ago, to be precise). That's what I get for not visiting GD (or the forum in general). Damn real life (even if a lot of it is astronomy-flavoured)!
 
Guys dont forget, today might be a historicday, of a relaunch of a used orbital class booster.`

30 March 2017, 23:27 BST, SES-10 Falcon 9, KSC LC-39A

its a 2.5hour launch window
The Mission in Numbers
  • This is the 1st flight of a previously flown Falcon 9 booster stage!
  • The SES-10 satellite has a mass of 5281.7kg
  • The satellite will be placed in a 35410 km x 218 km x 26.2° geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
  • The satellite will need to provide 1,789m/s of ΔV to reach geostationary orbit (GEO) after separation from the Falcon 9 2nd stage.
  • This is SpaceX’s 3rd launch out of Launch Complex 39A, and also SpaceX's 3rd launch for SES, following on from the successful launches of SES-8 and -9 in December ‘13 and March ‘16, respectively.
  • This is the 32nd Falcon 9 launch, flying on the B1021 core which was previously flown on the CRS-8 mission.
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more info
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/62aqi7/rspacex_ses10_official_launch_discussion_updates/
 
they apparently will be trying to recover the fairing as well. Or says Steve Jurvetson who is a funder and on the board of directors for spacex. So should be true, just 2 and a bit more hours.
 
Live feed for tonight's SpaceX 're-launch'


SpaceX usually start the broadcast shortly before launch, assuming all systems are 'go'.

Edit @ 22.59 BST: Video now playing uplifting music, broadcast should start soon.
Edit @ 23.08 BST: Live stream started
 
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