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Fairing sep
Switching to map (ground trajectory) view, no onboard cams I suppose.
Second stage staging
EDIT : I'm actually quite surprised by the launch trajectory, as it differs quite a lot from the operational ground track... I suppose it takes quite a transfer orbit for it to reach final position.
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Compare with
The payload is a replacement for the QZS-1 satellite launched in 2010. QZS-1 through 3 goes on this orbit (different mean anomalies), QZS-4 is geostationary instead.
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Launched !
I suppose the weather is rather clear here because the typhoon is located quite a way away. Fairly often they'd "attract" other bad weather systems around into it, clearing the extended surroundings.
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If you prefer human voice however.
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Epsilon 5 rocket launch on October 1, 2021 :
They put up like a ton of videos on the thing over on their channel, I don't think the thread would survive all the embeds
EDIT : Today (October 1st 2021)'s launch attempt was suspended, apparently over problems on the GSE.
SpoilerOld livestream link, if anyone is interested (didn't catch this earlier since I didn't check their twitter and it's a different channel than the main one or the Sagamihara one).
Will have to look again when will they plan the next launch attempt.
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I know what I had just posted - but well, you sometimes come across a completely different thing...
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... That being said, GNSS satellites (and other satellites) still derive their final position from a ground observatory.
I've heard that at least one collaboration have up to 500 observatories - if they could be a fairly accurate source while providing enough high-accuracy coverage for ground-based positioning signals, maybe it'd work ? idk.
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MMX video explaining what they're expecting from D-type asteroids :
SpoilerThe Japanese version is notably different - instead it tries to explain what Phobos and Deimos is, but the content is the same.
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On 8/30/2021 at 6:48 PM, Stratennotblitz said:
[well yes, but I'm pretty sure some navigation systems use maps to offset errors as soon as they have food measurement systems and a good initial "ping", gps satellites would be over worked if vehicles pinged them every second, there are better ways]
GNSS Receivers does not transmit any signals - they just compare the clocks they have on-board (which is synced - value-wise when first started with terrestrial time signals, and step/rate-wise as long as the receiver is turned on) with the continuously transmitted messages from the satellites. Satellite position is both contained in the transmission and there are backup ephemeris within the receiver that allows operation under degraded accuracy. By comparing the time right now and the time at transmission it's possible to tell how far away you are from the beacon, and if you have the data from at least 3 beacons the intersection of the 3 circles of radius/distance it gives you your position - roughly (in reality I think you need a 4th one due to 3-dimensional sphere rather than circles that it produces). Directional transmission is available but obviously only certain receivers get this treatment (like some random joe's phone probably won't but military airplanes probably would).
On 8/30/2021 at 6:48 PM, Stratennotblitz said:what I'm wondering is if it (Decca) can work in land
Yes, and with more fixed transmission beacons you'd increase the accuracy.
The problem is that the world isn't a single country, and there're seas.
They had >75 LORAN-C stations to serve mostly the northern hemisphere's seas (none would work well in-land since that wasn't the focus) - there're only 31 GPS satellites on-orbit right now providing coverage anywhere on Earth (excluding mines and tunnels), with merely 1/20th the error (20x more accurate).
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1 hour ago, Stratennotblitz said:
you can use normal topographic maps, we already have very precise versions of those
Maps only tell you the relative positions of features on the surface of the Earth - at no point does it tell where you are exactly. You can't use a map to adjust for errors - you gotta find a reference with 'known' positions then try to determine where you are. And since the comment was made in reply to airborne positioning beacon it's kinda useless IMO if you have a beacon that in itself have to derive their position from a completely different system already all the time (granted GNSS satellites does this - they're tracked by ground stations with known 'fixed' locations - but as with most celestial bodies space ephemeris are pretty accurate). If those airborne positioning beacons have to derive from ground stations we'd probably need a ton more ground stations (since they'd need one at line-of-sight), so much that it'd probably be easier to use the ground stations directly, and if they derive from GNSS themselves why not just use the GNSS directly ?
1 hour ago, Stratennotblitz said:not sure why gps/gnss is persistent here, just a though experiment to see if it would be cheaper to make with recent advances in tech
Well GNSS is the advancement in technology we've finally arrived at.
It's suddenly only 1/20th of it's predecessor, and that was with SA.
EDIT : Although to add, why I brought up the datum as well, is because we haven't been using a unified global datum until GNSS comes along.
SpoilerBit old video for him, so there might be a few things off, but still communicates the point well.
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2 hours ago, Stratennotblitz said:
gps satellites move, in fact they move faster than atmospheric electric planes for navigation, about 2 times circling the earth in a day compared to more than 3 days for electric planes, meaning they can stay in a specific area longer, the only issues would be atmospheric turbulences, but that could be fixed by using topographic maps to adjust craft error
Yeah but you can very easily describe their trajectory using a geodesic, which you can't do for a flying or floating thing in the air. That's why TLEs have been around since ages ago.
2 hours ago, Stratennotblitz said:the only issues would be atmospheric turbulences, that could be fixed by using topographic maps to adjust craft error
And what are you basing that maps on ? Ground beacons measured with chains and triangulation ? It's better to just use ground beacons then...
GPS/GNSS literally eliminates all of this, look up the recent proposed changes on geodectic systems (at the very least gravitational models), it's all based on the satellites' geodesics.
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16 hours ago, Stratennotblitz said:
we could use atmospheric satellites in the future
If it's not fixed to the ground, or it can't be expressed in TLE that doesn't need to be changed every so often, I don't think you can use it to calculate your position wrt the Earth, unless you only want relative positions to the beacon or something.
Also by "cheap" I mean to the end user. Sure yes some government's tax money had to pay for the satellites and maintaining them, but even if it never sees direct financial returns, much like the idea of weather reconnaisance satellite/stations - or emergency and disaster relief - it's just one of those things you don't do and expect any sort of financial incentives back. Though arguably it's still better than most other alternatives (like with ground stations who owns the land becomes important).
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MMX project mission overview (again) :
EDIT : Also, Epsilon 5 launch date has been set on October 1, 2021 :
SpoilerThe main payload, RAISE-2 :
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On 8/15/2021 at 11:28 AM, Shpaget said:
VOR, NDB, DME, TACAN
LORAN too ?
But actually even back in the age of CDMA and GSM mobile signals (so 2G) it was possible to roughly locate where you are. I still remember during our yearly mudik trip those nokia phones from the early 2000s would tell you which city are you in/passing through (I believe it was down to which district but not sure).
These days I presume if you designate every 4G and 5G transmitter with a GPS coordinate and/or equip it with a GPS base receiver (the stuff that calculates their position for years on end stationarily to achieve extremely high precision) you can easily lose the GPS satellite and just rely on that maybe for a decade or two.
But GPS/GNSS is always going to be far superior and cheaper. There's a reason GNSS approach minimums are equal to ILS Cat I approach minimums.
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1 hour ago, Dman979 said:
or how long until the next one becomes available.
I believe this resets at the time that the server's clock changes date, but I might be wrong ?
1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:if it is your IP that’s the root cause, a VPN might let you get around that.
Yeah it might be that. Or might also be the browser itself (I've laid out about how the embed function fails in Mozilla Firefox on Windows). Haven't got any fails here in Mozilla Firefox on Kubuntu but I haven't tried doing that again.
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H3 maiden launch projected by the end of the year, they're still waiting to replace one of the first-stage LE-9 engine with the final production version (hence they've been disassembling the rocket in the VAB). Said engine was still undergoing testing. (I'll edit in twitter links here later, incl. the update photos they usually have every 2 weeks.)
EDIT : LE-9 engine final configuration testing :
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I've recently often been blocked off by cloudflare from being able to access this forum after being logged in. Granted I do usually access the forum while trying to write a post on a different thread in a different tab (sometimes a few different tabs and sometimes some would be in incognito ie. logged off while some is logged in), so I could understand why cloudflare might have problems with it, and I know very well that this region's IP isn't exactly the cleanest there is, but... is there a way to make it not that strict ? Quite a few times I've had to abandon trying to write a post because cloudflare blocks lasts pretty darn long.
If anyone could shed a light on this phenomenon I'd be very happy to know what could've caused it.
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1 hour ago, Dientus said:
So I meant that now that a population has been infected with it, it is here to stay.
Yeah, that much is obvious, but it's possible to drive it down from being something spreading around the world to only spreading where they're not careful.
And sadly that seems to be including ours in the list.
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5 hours ago, Dientus said:
Just so you are ready, the COVID virus is likely to never be cured and more than likely to continue mutating in the wild.
Then don't do wildlife exposure with stuff we don't really actually need... bats or whatever it was.
I mean SARS-Cov the original flavor has no vaccines and no cures either, but it's not here rampaging wild anymore, same with MERS, same with The PlagueTM, limiting transmission is a possibility (that honestly should've been pursued much harder much earlier).
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18 hours ago, SOXBLOX said:
Are there times in Earth's history when CO2 levels were higher than today? Because if there are, it means there is some mechanism that can remove the CO2, even at higher averages.
Yes, when the Earth was covered in tropical forest and only reptiles survive, and when the surface was lava.
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11 minutes ago, DDE said:
there are cases of vaccinated COVID deaths.
With efficacy in the 90%+ against severe disease and deaths honestly I wouldn't be as worried. Problem is that these are generally only for the mRNA vaccines (either the usual one or the adenovirus-based one - there have been researches that shows a combined mRNA vaccine regime might result in ~99% efficacy from severe disease and deaths), there have been quite a good number of cases of deaths from COVID after full vaccination (2 shots) of inactivated virus vaccines. And the latter is all we got for now here.
In any case, already-vaccinated or unvaccinated-and-waiting-for-turn, masks and good hygiene will have to continue around the world until we really drive transmission down and get everyone vaccinated. Only then can the world breath in undisturbed fresh air again (although granted during lockdowns the air is fresher... ).
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2 hours ago, RCgothic said:
Sucks to be in the oil and gas industry, really. I grew up in it. [...] Ideally we'll compensate workers and retrain them for new industries. There's going to be plenty of work building the necessary mitigating infrastructure. Not all countries are that fair. Even so almost total closure of the industry is absolutely necessary.
AFAIK Oil & Gas industry can still work in other related things, ie. Geothermal, and I don't think pipelines for chemicals as well as crude oil demands for chemical production would stop. (wonder how this will affect prices however.)
2 hours ago, RCgothic said:The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
Because the needs of the one is probably included in the needs of the many.
I'd rather be selfish and save myself if it means one have to save others in the process.
2 hours ago, Rakaydos said:I mean, noone here is making comparisons to Noah's ark- there just isnt enough ice on the planet to make that fable real.
It's already real for low-lying islands though. And even for those on 'solid' ground you might still end up having to deal with managed retreat.
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2 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
First off - I firmly believe that the Earth (...) are a heck of a lot more resilient than some are giving credit for.
Sure, and what's there to stop it from destroying human lives ? XD
Re. the problem at hand, esp. concerning how fast the sea level can rise - I think there were some analysis that given some antarctic ice sheet have their base rock lower than sea level, that means that the ice might start to float up rather than merely calving on the front. While that ice isn't melting yet it's still like suddenly dropping a giant ship onto a basin - the water level would rise up too.
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My condolences for your lost cat.
7 hours ago, Dientus said:Mainstream media claims two vaccines here, although one is claimed to have issues
You can always turn into papers and government reports.
SpoilerSpoiler7 hours ago, Dientus said:Run an anonymous, good VPN. Bounce out of different countries using different search engines, and you decide for yourself.
Or just overcome the language barrier or something.
JAXA (& other Japanese) Launch and Discussion Thread
in Science & Spaceflight
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Welp, sadly the 2nd stage didn't light up at all.
Looking back in the stream at the 2nd stage sep/engine ignition point, the commentators (?) knew it went wrong as well I think. They mentioned they were glad it launched but since it fails mid-way they can't say it's a success.