** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Soldato
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Wonderful video!!!
Actually, it was a 300mph impact, at 100m distance from the droneship. It looks a little closer than that in the video!
Ultimately, it's an almost ideal shape to penetrate the surface, and water's a decent shock absorber.
That makes a lot of sense, they wouldn't want a situation where if they lost control or a system failed it would act as a missile, destroying the ship. Where did you read about this? I'd be interested in looking in to it more.
It's from an article in the earlier testing days, and haven't heard anything about them changing the profile.
CHINESE SPACE STATION TO CRASH OVER EASTER WEEKEND
https://www.space.com/40163-chinese-space-station-crash-april-1-or-april-2.html
New re-entry forecasts by the European Space Agency and Aerospace Corp. have shifted the time of Tiangong-1's expected crash to between Sunday evening and early Monday (April 2). ESA officials are targeting 7:25 p.m. EDT (2325 GMT) Sunday as the likely time. An update this afternoon from the Aerospace Corp. forecasts a 7:53 p.m. EDT (2353 GMT) crash, give or take 7 hours.
At the time the story below was written, Tiangong-1 was expected to fall into the Pacific Ocean. Earlier today, a 7:30 p.m. EDT target on Sunday would have put the space station's point of descent is now around Africa – so it still remains highly uncertain. "I wouldn't put a lot of faith in that particular number, but it will probably move around and change," Andrew Abraham, a senior member of the technical staff at Aerospace Corp, told Space.com today. "If we're only off by a minute, it would move the location by hundreds of miles."
https://www.space.com/40163-chinese-space-station-crash-april-1-or-april-2.html
New re-entry forecasts by the European Space Agency and Aerospace Corp. have shifted the time of Tiangong-1's expected crash to between Sunday evening and early Monday (April 2). ESA officials are targeting 7:25 p.m. EDT (2325 GMT) Sunday as the likely time. An update this afternoon from the Aerospace Corp. forecasts a 7:53 p.m. EDT (2353 GMT) crash, give or take 7 hours.
At the time the story below was written, Tiangong-1 was expected to fall into the Pacific Ocean. Earlier today, a 7:30 p.m. EDT target on Sunday would have put the space station's point of descent is now around Africa – so it still remains highly uncertain. "I wouldn't put a lot of faith in that particular number, but it will probably move around and change," Andrew Abraham, a senior member of the technical staff at Aerospace Corp, told Space.com today. "If we're only off by a minute, it would move the location by hundreds of miles."
I follow astronomy and space a lot, I have to as am spinning at 1000mph, plus 67,000 mph attached to a ball of fire moving at 43,000 mph around a galaxy.
You have to be careful theses days.
Joking aside the vid I posted its strange that's they have to cut feeds if they don't have the appropriate licence.
Soldato
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Falcon 9 cargo mission to the ISS
Not live
fake newstubeMain body tool for the bfs has been completed.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhVk3y3A0yB/
It's this thing to wrap and bake the carbon fiber.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhVk3y3A0yB/
It's this thing to wrap and bake the carbon fiber.
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Heads up, the Nasa Tess spacecraft should be launching at 11:50pm.
The booster should be landing on an ocean droneship, so should be a good one.
The booster should be landing on an ocean droneship, so should be a good one.