James Kerman Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 Hello @peridoot, your comment has been merged from the lounge into our ISS discussion thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 This is a great thread on the Crew-2 post-Launch Readiness Review/Pre-Launch briefing. Lots of interesting information and sensible questions (unusually) with good answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 I watched it fly almost directly over my house tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 https://dev.to/omar4ur/create-a-satellite-tracker-from-scratch-in-30-lines-of-javascript-32gk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 New solar array locked and loaded! They need to make those rollable PV arrays into awnings for RVs... I’d buy one! (Assuming the cost is reasonable....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 4 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said: They need to make those rollable PV arrays into awnings for RVs... I’d buy one! (Assuming the cost is reasonable....) For *those* rollable PV arrays, the cost is anything but reasonable for a private consumer, I'm afraid. Rollable PV was a thing a few years ago, using thin-film silicon technology, but I think that entire market segment died when the cost of crystalline silicon dropped off a cliff. It could compete while it delivered one-third of the efficiency for one-third of the price, but then crystalline silicon PV suddenly became a hundred times cheaper, leaving the rollable PV panels both vastly more expensive and vastly less efficient. I'm not sure if the situation ever recovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swjr-swis Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 Canadarm2 ouchie... https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/iss/news.asp#20210528 "Lucky strike: Canadarm2 stays the course after an orbital debris hit" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I think the installation of the new solar panels is starting today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 5 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: I think the installation of the new solar panels is starting today. Yeah, I was chatting with my friend at MCC this morning he said there was an EVA (that was hours ago, dunno if it is still going). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Are they going to do the astronoming with hand-held binoculars and sharp eyes? Or why do they need this strange glass? To not skip something interesting around? I was sure that a telescope is a turret looking through a narrow slot in an opaque dome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Are they going to do the astronoming with hand-held binoculars and sharp eyes? Or why do they need this strange glass? To not skip something interesting around? I was sure that a telescope is a turret looking through a narrow slot in an opaque dome. It's a commercial station - people that go to space like seeing what's outside, and this presumably makes also "feel" more in space. Granted, personally I would stay as far as i can from that because of the fear of breaking the glass (no matter how unlikely that is to happen), but that's just me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 36 minutes ago, Beccab said: It's a commercial station - people that go to space like seeing what's outside, and this presumably makes also "feel" more in space. They should call it "sun bath". It looks like "look like", not "look out". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 EVA for solar panels (second try): Helmet cam/light problem, it's not secured, so they are improvising a solution so they can see to attach some cables that have to be done at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 I suppose the solar panels are locked in place while they're climbing on them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 That doesn't look wise, to update the parts a week before the major software release. I would expect a third attempt, to install the hotfixes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 https://tass.com/science/1312021 Quote Space junk flies at 1.8 km distance from orbital outpost — Roscosmos That’s well within physics range! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-is-growing-space-chile-peppers-on-the-iss-and-astronauts-will-taste-them/ Woot! Chile in space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swjr-swis Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 1 hour ago, tater said: https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-is-growing-space-chile-peppers-on-the-iss-and-astronauts-will-taste-them/ Woot! Chile in space! Good. We were starting to wonder what we would season our Martian potatoes with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 1 hour ago, tater said: https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-is-growing-space-chile-peppers-on-the-iss-and-astronauts-will-taste-them/ Woot! Chile in space! Yes. Improves the MMU ISP by 10 s. Even without MMU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funnelton Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 R.I.P Pirs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 (edited) https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1420796652357668865?s=20 Edited July 29, 2021 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 It's sweating. So much nerves. Also tears for Pirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Geez, this was a little nerve-racking. I hope everything stays nominal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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