Here is Mr Bezos planting his foot upon the soil of the Cape. It is good to the see the US forging ahead these days with new things in space ..... for those that like to see flavors of competition then Hare & Tortoise comes to mind ie. how quickly would you like your omelette ?! :-)
I really am trying not to chuckle, but it does look like Virgin has succeeded in pulling their spaceship with a LandRover ! Anyway that clearly shows the scale of things. But I should be more polite. Virgin have already had a pilot death. Sobering, and so their caution may be epic.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Tweets from Elon Musk suggest a genuine quandry as to the cause of the accident. Makes me think of nastier ideas eg. a good long rifle shot. Sigh ..... to me it just didn't look right from the start ie. source of ignition outside of the rocket.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
You'll need a grassy knoll, and not many of those accessible within a 1000m of the launch site.
Yeah, and there's never a book repository where you need one either .... :-)
Hmmmm ..... 'the quieter bang' ..... does anybody know what the local temperature & relative humidity was at the time ?
Cheers, Mike.
Temps were in the 90s with high humidity. Can't be more specific then that.
I find it odd that SpaceX is asking for video to help in their analysis. I would have thought that with this launch being their first recyclable they would have had multiple cameras trained on that rocket from pad to high altitude.
A bullet? Not sure I buy that. Too difficult to get on the property and most would not have the required level of expertise. The Air Force watches their land quite closely.
The temperature was approximately 26.25 °C and the relative humidity was approximately 84%. Atmospheric pressure is not reported in the KSC data, so I checked this source for barometric pressure in Cape Canaveral and determined it was approximately 101.35 kPA.
I would have thought that with this launch being their first recyclable they would have had multiple cameras trained on that rocket from pad to high altitude.
SES-10 i believe is the first recycled flight, (not this one.).
I would be very surprised if they did not have video feeds of all the umbilicals.
I would have thought that with this launch being their first recyclable they would have had multiple cameras trained on that rocket from pad to high altitude.
SES-10 i believe is the first recycled flight, (not this one.).
I would be very surprised if they did not have video feeds of all the umbilicals.
For some reason I was under the impression this was their 1st recyclable flight. I thought it was posted in this thread. Oh well. If your correct then the loss of this rocket during a test scenario is more disturbing.
Here is Mr Bezos planting a
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Here is Mr Bezos planting his foot upon the soil of the Cape. It is good to the see the US forging ahead these days with new things in space ..... for those that like to see flavors of competition then Hare & Tortoise comes to mind ie. how quickly would you like your omelette ?! :-)
I really am trying not to chuckle, but it does look like Virgin has succeeded in pulling their spaceship with a LandRover ! Anyway that clearly shows the scale of things. But I should be more polite. Virgin have already had a pilot death. Sobering, and so their caution may be epic.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Live Coverage and Commentary
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Live Coverage and Commentary of the Launch of the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft (Launch is scheduled for 7:05 pm ET)
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hearing the "rumble" now. nice, clean launch and excellent tracking video.
Tweets from
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Tweets from Elon Musk suggest a genuine quandry as to the cause of the accident. Makes me think of nastier ideas eg. a good long rifle shot. Sigh ..... to me it just didn't look right from the start ie. source of ignition outside of the rocket.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:a good long
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You'll need a grassy knoll, and not many of those accessible within a 1000m of the launch site.
AgentB wrote:Mike Hewson
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Yeah, and there's never a book repository where you need one either .... :-)
Hmmmm ..... 'the quieter bang' ..... does anybody know what the local temperature & relative humidity was at the time ?
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:AgentB
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Temps were in the 90s with high humidity. Can't be more specific then that.
I find it odd that SpaceX is asking for video to help in their analysis. I would have thought that with this launch being their first recyclable they would have had multiple cameras trained on that rocket from pad to high altitude.
A bullet? Not sure I buy that. Too difficult to get on the property and most would not have the required level of expertise. The Air Force watches their land quite closely.
Mike Hewson wrote: Hmmmm
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... and pressure.
Over at reddit much analysis and
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SES-10 i believe is the first recycled flight, (not this one.).
I would be very surprised if they did not have video feeds of all the umbilicals.
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For some reason I was under the impression this was their 1st recyclable flight. I thought it was posted in this thread. Oh well. If your correct then the loss of this rocket during a test scenario is more disturbing.