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

[Grim5]

This made me chuckle

https://twitter.com/x/status/1480164669105057794

a combination of Luvoir and JWST can discover habitable planets with life (if they exist)

jwst has the equipment to be pointed towards already identified goldilocks planets and observe if they have oxygen and water and then in 2040 when Luvoir launches we'll be able to point it at those planets with water and oxygen and observe the biological signs of life.

Unfortunately even if in the 2040s we happen to discover planets with life, we can't get there but we can send equipment there to try and make contact (with even that can yield nothing given how fast life blooms and then fades in the Universe, even if we find life by the time we get equipment to that planet it may already have turned into Mars)

 

[jpaul]

from commentary that they were showing simulations of deployment because ther was no camera - I'd thought it had never been deployed anywhere ?
Time-lapse: James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Deployment Test

 

[the wopster]

The first pictures have came in from the JWST

 

[SupraWez]

 

[Trig]

Haha very good..

 

[NickK]

This made me chuckle

https://twitter.com/x/status/1480164669105057794

anyone else see a similarity…

Like a star destroyer..

 

[Malevolence]

Should be a good launch on Thursday, it's one of the rare occasions that the booster lands back at the launch site rather than on a drone ship.

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2581

 

[TNA]

The first pictures have came in from the JWST

 

[Malevolence]

You'd have thought they'd be able to afford some better cameras.

 

[mrk]

Not strictly space related, but it is space related

Fascinating stuff, ignoring the video title on its own lol.

 

[Malevolence]

JWST has completed it's L2 insertion burn and is in a stable L2 orbit.

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

I'm fairly sure this fits here, in this thread. This is apparently a transcript, of an "issue", the astronaut crew had, on Apollo 10.

 

[Trig]

And this is why we have female astronauts, not to clean it up but to reduce the number of men acting like children lol

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

And this is why we have female astronauts, not to clean it up but to reduce the number of men acting like children lol

Lol! Yup!

 

[Malevolence]

Another Falcon 9 B5 launch with a landing on the pad rather than a droneship.

 

[Delvis]

Another Falcon 9 B5 launch with a landing on the pad rather than a droneship.

That's just showing a rocket not taking off, or did I miss something?

 

[Vulcan]

That's just showing a rocket not taking off, or did I miss something?

Range violation, a cruise liner got too close. SpaceX needs to set up some sea mines in the area, or buy some Exocet missiles.

 

[Somnambulist]

 

[Delvis]

Range violation, a cruise liner got too close. SpaceX needs to set up some sea mines in the area, or buy some Exocet missiles.

Yes, but the users post says 'Another Falcon 9 B5 launch with a landing on the pad rather than a droneship.', not 'launch failed due to xyz'

 

[Malevolence]

Yes, but the users post says 'Another Falcon 9 B5 launch with a landing on the pad rather than a droneship.', not 'launch failed due to xyz'

Why would I have I said launch failed when I posted the video some time before the launch was scrubbed and the countdown was still actively ticking away? They didn't scrub until control was handed over to internal systems, at the T- 1 minute mark. Or do you think I'm some sort of seer?