Wow that is unreal... Well done Elon and Spacex... :clap: LW....
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Wow that is unreal... Well done Elon and Spacex... :clap: LW....
Very smooth.
Catching up on all the latest Space news and I came across this Pic of the Dragon Crew Capsule over the Rocky Mountains... Wow...
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Awesome image LW.
He really likes reaching to the stars doesn't he. arty: arty:
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Sure does. The nexr generation Starship may be 18 metres wide. WOW. Double the size of the current prototypes. The original ITS, (Interplanetary Transport System), was to be 12 metres. Revised to 9 m for BFR and Starship. This stuff is crazy.
India attempted to soft land on the moon earlier this morning. Looks like it made a new crater unfortunately. They lost contact at 2.1 kays above the surface and it was going way too fast both vertically and horizontally
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/rXbJLhMb8aE[/video]
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/rXbJLhMb8aE[/video]
Not good... They have put so much effort into the lander, only to have it crash into the moon... 8.(
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Yep the person who designed or was in control of the descent got it really wrong.
Computers control all Jaros.... Not much Human intervention.... Now if they had Neil Armstrong on board, He would have turned off the Computer and landed safely... Just like He did on Apollo 13...
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LoneWolf said:
Of course you meant to say... Apollo 11.
Lots of things could have gone wrong. One of the 4 engines failed, error in programming, radar fail.... Maybe they will let us know when the review the data. Remember that NASA and the USSR had many failures before they got to land on the moon. NASA had the RANGER missions. These were sent up to take pics of the moon as the raced to crash into it. I believe Ranger 7 was the first to impact the moon. That meant the first 6 failed. Some just missed the moon altogether.
It's around a 400000 kilometre journey and to just get there requires precision that is mind boggling.
The Indian mission cost about half what it cost to make a block buster movie! They will do great science in the coming years.
Fair amount of premature clapping going on there. 8.(
The emotional ups and downs of something like that happening would be hard to take.
The emotional ups and downs of something like that happening would be hard to take.
Ha ha you are right RJ... Apollo 11. I was distracted by a call from a friend caught up in these fires on the Gold Coast.... Too early to know exactly what went wrong till they trawl through the data...
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[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/CNHtJm3_QtU[/video]
The PM wasn't unfazed by what just happened.... Sooo close, yet soo far.... Perfect up till 2.1km...Then the wheels fell off the Mission...
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Looks like the Planned launch has been postponed for the Japanese .... A small fire was detected below the Rocket several hours before launch...
https://japantoday.com/category/national/update1-predawn-fire-cancels-japan's-rocket-launch-to-iss
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https://japantoday.com/category/national/update1-predawn-fire-cancels-japan's-rocket-launch-to-iss
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I think the Japanese were down-playing the fire... Looks pretty serious to me... There is talk of one of the boosters fired pre-maturely 3hrs before launch..
https://youtu.be/tI5u0x7toTU
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https://youtu.be/tI5u0x7toTU
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LoneWolf said:
If that was the case, I'd expect a LOT more smoke and more powerful flames than are visible in that video.
That's what I thought too...... As I said its just 'talk' The Japanese have been a bit quiet on the cause... but there is a strange 'puff of smoke' under pressure just at the end of the video rising up the Rocket. Could be when the Fire suppression system went off ...
Anyhow, there was a fire and a serious one at that...
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Anyhow, there was a fire and a serious one at that...
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