[SpaceX Discussion Thread]

There was this beautiful shot of that ring floating next to the first stage.

 

And it looks like one of the fins did not work, maybe its connected, (or maybe not anymore, and that might be the problem)

[Blue Origin thread.]

Manequin Skywalker, dammit that is brilliant!

[We may have found another 'Oumuamua.....]

I want my name to be rocket Ron

[SpaceX Discussion Thread]

I doubt P2P package delivery via BFR would be a thing. Most of our stuff comes from China and Xi Jinpin is investing billions into a new Silk road system to transport goods from China all over the world.  I doubt China is going to utilize a transport system that undermines their multi dollar project. 

[SpaceX Discussion Thread]

Just now, Leafbaron said:

Are they planning on keeping the starman stream live for as long as possible? as in potentially until it passes mars and beyond?

 

It won't last that long. The stream will probably be up till the TMI. And then some. Till the batteries run out. 

[SpaceX Discussion Thread]

I doubt it missed the barge, loss of signal on the barges happened before.  It is because the roar of the booster starts swinging the antenna so vividly it can't broadcast anymore. This means the booster has at least been above the barge. 

[SpaceX Discussion Thread]

And still in one piece !

[Goverment shutdown and active space operations]

Leme start  : I am not a us citizen and do not know how a shutdown exactly works. Thats why I made this thread. Please no politics.

 

Today I saw this tweet : 

https://twitter.com/gpallone13/status/955118574988865536

Apparently the static fire test is now indefinitely postponed since the government can't support SpaceX with their work. This got me thinking, how does NASA operate during a shutdown? From my understanding a shutdown means a whole lot of personnel can't get paid and therefore do not do their work. And since NASA is a body from the US government I think this also means their staff stays home. But who  can;t do their jobs now? 

 

I understand that the critical tasks, like the guys in Houston monitoring the space station keep working. (And the us astronauts probably also). But are they operating full strength? Or just as a skeleton crew? And what about the less critical missions? Does Curiosity still drive around to perform science? Is hubble still being operated? How does such a shutdown mess with active missions?

 

[How ICBM Calculate its trajectory?]

I cannot believe this hasn't been posted

 

 

[Time to say goodbye....]

Sometimes you just need to leave the game be for a while. Havent played it myself for 2 months now. Still browse the forums though. 

[zipline tower escape system]

Don't forget that ingress into the capsule isn't just like getting into your car. It takes a team of people to help the astronauts to get into the vehicle. If something where to happen during ingress, the only fast way out is the zipline. 

[Blue Origin Thread (merged)]

Woohoo! This is so cool! Just slap on a new coat of paint and she's ready to fly again!

[Blue Origin Thread (merged)]

Stream is starting. 

[Aliens, Exist or Dont]

Can't remember who'se quote it is but. 

Either we are all alone in the universe or we aren't. Both answers are equally scary.

 

 

If there is alien life, would we ever find it and classify it as "living". Just look at Earth. There are so many differences between life on Earth. From humans to trees, from trees to bacteria. Suppose we find life on Europa for example, would we even recognize it as life? 

[Thoughts on Jool's Moon, Tylo]

If they based Tylo on Tycho Squad should place a easter egg in the form of a drunk moose / elk on the moon. 

[Practicality of having stations in frequently visited planets/moons]

I like having a base with science lab around Minmus, since it's prety doable to land a Kerbal on EVA on Minmus and get back up to the station. Can get you quite a lot of science very fast. 

[The Apollo Project]

To be fair, the Americans did re use a Gemini capsule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_2

 

Another reason not to re use the capsule (or parts of it) was the fact that the Apollo program had a definitive end. The program only lasted for 20 missions, and not all of them landed. Why all the effort of refurbishing stuff when you only need maximum 20 of a component. 

[1.1.3 Cannot undock vessels]

Help! I cannot undock my vessels anymore. A while ago I docked a unshielded 1.25M docking port to a shielded docking port. Did a couple of EVA's and wanted to return the crew home. But I could not undock. I pressed the undock option on one of the docking ports. The option disappeared but the vessel remains docked. I tried editing the save file but I still can't undock the vessels. I do not want to delete the vessel since I've spend quite a while on the orbiting station. 

 

Here I got the save file excerpts from the 2 docking ports : 

Shielded port on crew transport vessel : 

PART
			{
				name = dockingPort1
				cid = 4293538438
				uid = 1628668193
				mid = 2728356412
				launchID = 15
				parent = 5
				position = -0.000441193580627441,-8.34658908843994,3.93390655517578E-06
				rotation = 0.0004590763,0.7070953,-0.0005075785,0.707118
				mirror = 1,1,1
				symMethod = Radial
				istg = 0
				dstg = 0
				sqor = -1
				sepI = 2
				sidx = -1
				attm = 0
				srfN = srfAttach, 75
				attN = bottom, 75
				mass = 0.1
				temp = 278.707014779893
				tempExt = 273.579767810387
				tempExtUnexp = 4
				expt = 0.5
				state = 1
				connected = True
				attached = True
				flag = Squad/Flags/default
				rTrf = dockingPort1
				modCost = 0
				EVENTS
				{
				}
				ACTIONS
				{
				}
				PARTDATA
				{
				}
				MODULE
				{
					name = ModuleDockingNode
					isEnabled = True
					crossfeed = False
					stagingEnabled = False
					state = Docked (dockee)
					dockUId = uid = 1301555407
					dockNodeIdx = 0
					EVENTS
					{
						Undock
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Undock
							guiName = Undock
							category = Undock
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						UndockSameVessel
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = True
							guiIcon = Undock
							guiName = Undock
							category = Undock
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						Decouple
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Decouple Node
							guiName = Decouple Node
							category = Decouple Node
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						SetAsTarget
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Set as Target
							guiName = Set as Target
							category = Set as Target
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 200
							externalToEVAOnly = False
						}
						UnsetTarget
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Unset Target
							guiName = Unset Target
							category = Unset Target
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 200
							externalToEVAOnly = False
						}
						EnableXFeed
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Enable Crossfeed
							guiName = Enable Crossfeed
							category = Enable Crossfeed
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						DisableXFeed
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Disable Crossfeed
							guiName = Disable Crossfeed
							category = Disable Crossfeed
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						MakeReferenceTransform
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Control from Here
							guiName = Control from Here
							category = Control from Here
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						ToggleStaging
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Disable Staging
							guiName = Port: Enable Staging
							category = Disable Staging
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
					}
					ACTIONS
					{
						UndockAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						DecoupleAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						EnableXFeedAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						DisableXFeedAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						ToggleXFeedAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
					}
					DOCKEDVESSEL
					{
						vesselName = Crew quarters
						vesselType = 3
						rootUId = 3382957609
					}
				}
				MODULE
				{
					name = ModuleAnimateGeneric
					isEnabled = True
					aniState = LOCKED
					animSwitch = False
					animTime = 1
					animSpeed = 1
					deployPercent = 100
					animationIsDisabled = False
					stagingEnabled = True
					deployPercent_UIFlight
					{
						controlEnabled = True
						minValue = 0
						maxValue = 100
						stepIncrement = 1
					}
					EVENTS
					{
						Toggle
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Toggle
							guiName = Close Shield
							category = Toggle
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 5
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						ToggleStaging
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Disable Staging
							guiName = Disable Staging
							category = Disable Staging
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
					}
					ACTIONS
					{
						ToggleAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
					}
				}
				MODULE
				{
					name = ModuleDockingNodeNamed
					isEnabled = True
					portName = taurus
					initialized = True
					controlTransformName = 
					stagingEnabled = True
					EVENTS
					{
						renameDockingPort
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Rename Port
							guiName = Rename Port
							category = Rename Port
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2000
							externalToEVAOnly = False
						}
						ToggleStaging
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Disable Staging
							guiName = Disable Staging
							category = Disable Staging
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
					}
					ACTIONS
					{
					}
				}
			}

 

 

Unshielded docking port on orbital station : 

 

PART
			{
				name = dockingPort2
				cid = 4293933134
				uid = 1301555407
				mid = 2842429246
				launchID = 2
				parent = 4
				position = 0,-7.73098945617676,0
				rotation = 0.7071068,0,0.7071068,0
				mirror = 1,1,1
				symMethod = Radial
				istg = 0
				dstg = 0
				sqor = -1
				sepI = 1
				sidx = -1
				attm = 0
				srfN = srfAttach, -1
				attN = top, -1
				attN = bottom, 4
				mass = 0.05
				temp = 205.221251737256
				tempExt = 213.995940280198
				tempExtUnexp = 4
				expt = 0.5
				state = 1
				connected = True
				attached = True
				flag = Squad/Flags/default
				rTrf = dockingPort2
				modCost = 0
				EVENTS
				{
				}
				ACTIONS
				{
				}
				PARTDATA
				{
				}
				MODULE
				{
					name = ModuleDockingNode
					isEnabled = True
					crossfeed = False
					stagingEnabled = False
					state = Docked (docker)
					dockUId = 1628668193
					dockNodeIdx = 0
					EVENTS
					{
						Undock
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Undock
							guiName = Undock
							category = Undock
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						UndockSameVessel
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = True
							guiIcon = Undock
							guiName = Undock
							category = Undock
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						Decouple
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Decouple Node
							guiName = Decouple Node
							category = Decouple Node
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						SetAsTarget
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Set as Target
							guiName = Set as Target
							category = Set as Target
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 200
							externalToEVAOnly = False
						}
						UnsetTarget
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Unset Target
							guiName = Unset Target
							category = Unset Target
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 200
							externalToEVAOnly = False
						}
						EnableXFeed
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Enable Crossfeed
							guiName = Enable Crossfeed
							category = Enable Crossfeed
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						DisableXFeed
						{
							active = False
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Disable Crossfeed
							guiName = Disable Crossfeed
							category = Disable Crossfeed
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						MakeReferenceTransform
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Control from Here
							guiName = Control from Here
							category = Control from Here
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
						ToggleStaging
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Disable Staging
							guiName = Port: Enable Staging
							category = Disable Staging
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
					}
					ACTIONS
					{
						UndockAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						DecoupleAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						EnableXFeedAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						DisableXFeedAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
						ToggleXFeedAction
						{
							actionGroup = None
						}
					}
					DOCKEDVESSEL
					{
						vesselName = Taurus
						vesselType = 3
						rootUId = 3382957609
					}
				}
				MODULE
				{
					name = ModuleDockingNodeNamed
					isEnabled = True
					portName = crewquart
					initialized = True
					controlTransformName = 
					stagingEnabled = True
					EVENTS
					{
						renameDockingPort
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = True
							guiActiveEditor = True
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Rename Port
							guiName = Rename Port
							category = Rename Port
							guiActiveUnfocused = True
							unfocusedRange = 2000
							externalToEVAOnly = False
						}
						ToggleStaging
						{
							active = True
							guiActive = False
							guiActiveUncommand = False
							guiIcon = Disable Staging
							guiName = Disable Staging
							category = Disable Staging
							guiActiveUnfocused = False
							unfocusedRange = 2
							externalToEVAOnly = True
						}
					}
					ACTIONS
					{
					}
				}
			}

 

 

What am I doing wrong??

[Purpose of a rocket-launched spaceplane]

Landing a plane is way softer than landing in a capsule. even with the parachutes and the braking rockets a soyuz landing is most commonly described as a controlled car crash. And that's just for a capsule with 3 persons inside it.  A winged vehicle can haul a whole lot of fragile down payload from space to Earth. 

[ExoMars 2016: on its way to Mars!]

Signal from TGO, she's in orbit ! 

[Quotes megathread]

Do not believe everything that is on the internet
~Abraham Lincoln


Make a man a fire and he's warm for the night. set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. 

[[1.10.1+] Contract Configurator [v1.30.5] [2020-10-05]]

A while ago I found acontract pack that made more use of space stations. You had to rotate crews and repair stuff by EVA'ing and stuff, in stead of the "build station, destroy and build a new one" in stock. Does anyone know where I can find this pack? I cannot find it  . 

[Soyuz-MS first flight (ISS Expedition 48)]

Lol @ the cart hitting the camera and falling over. 

[Uplifting?]

You mean like this? 

 

 

[Blue Origin Thread (merged)]

How long till launch? I need to know cause I'm also watching formula 1 and don't want to choose.