** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Will congress ever give nasa a clear target, this is what nasa is in desperate need of a big goal, with clear targets and enough funding to reach what ever goal is decided.
They should still just scrap SLS.
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/...asteroid-lets-put-bases-on-moon-and-mars?lite
Or can we have an IMB(international Moon Base), with different countries supplying different things, it's worked really well for ISS. Nasa is already doing Orion capsule, ESA is doing the Service Modual, pay space X for the launcher, get other countries to fulfill other aspects.
They should still just scrap SLS.
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/...asteroid-lets-put-bases-on-moon-and-mars?lite
Or can we have an IMB(international Moon Base), with different countries supplying different things, it's worked really well for ISS. Nasa is already doing Orion capsule, ESA is doing the Service Modual, pay space X for the launcher, get other countries to fulfill other aspects.
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Rollout of a Soyuz rocket with Resurs P1 satellite:
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Pegasus Flight #42 - IRIS
Launch Date: June 27, 2013
Launch Site: Vandenberg AFB, CA
Mission Customer: NASA
http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/Pegasus/index.shtml
Launch Date: June 27, 2013
Launch Site: Vandenberg AFB, CA
Mission Customer: NASA
http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/Pegasus/index.shtml
The Resurs P1 launch:
Final few hours of the Arkyd campaign, allready reached several stretch goals.
Amazing project and putting space into the publics hand, also they're doing a live final few hours of the campaign chat thing.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0
http://www.planetaryresources.com/livestream
Amazing project and putting space into the publics hand, also they're doing a live final few hours of the campaign chat thing.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0
http://www.planetaryresources.com/livestream
The rollout of a Proton-M rocket which will launch three Glonass satellites tomorrow:
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Reports coming in of a catastrophic failure of the Proton-M/DM-03 launch carrying three Glonass GPS satellites.
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Lol, rocket had too much vodka.
Shame that they didn't have a self-distruct button to finish it off.
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In Soviet russia self destruct button for rocket blows you up....
You can see a red liquid or gas starts venting from one of the boosters shortly after launch and this seems to effect the thrust balance and causes it flip over.
An expensive failure and not the only one recently...
You can see a red liquid or gas starts venting from one of the boosters shortly after launch and this seems to effect the thrust balance and causes it flip over.
An expensive failure and not the only one recently...
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From what i understand they don't have self destruct since they don't launch near any population centres. Also by self destructing in the air you're just spreading the toxic propellants over a greater area. They usually cut off the stage, so the question should be why didn't that happen.
Liquid fueled rockets don't tend to have self destruct as they will just shut off the engines if it goes wrong and they tend to disintegrate rapidly. Solid rockets on the other hand will continue at full thrust even if there is a problem so tend to have self destruct systems to split them in half as they would otherwise just fly full speed in any direction.
This is a good video of the crash, very loud explosion at the end.
This is a good video of the crash, very loud explosion at the end.
More videos of the Proton-M launch fail:
http://www.spaceflight101.com/proton-m-block-dm-03-glonass-launch-failure-videos.html
http://www.spaceflight101.com/proton-m-block-dm-03-glonass-launch-failure-videos.html