PB666

not in orbit.

Desch works for Iridium. He speculates based on rumors that the satellited did not make orbit, but all indicators are that it did make orbit because the F9 second stage made orbit and was noticed deorbiting on the second pass. Then the government says that only SpaceX can qualify the status of the space craft because it is classified, obviously it means that the US paid for the launch, which obviously mean that one of its spy agencies owns it which means that only they can report its status . . . . . . . .What if the fairing is part of the satellite, then would it need to dispense to work, just deploy. Since iridium didn't make the fairing how would they know. . . . . . . . . proof?

Plausible deniability, a favorite occupation of governments all around the world. I will help them, Zuma belongs to me (evil scientist grin)[all plausibly true, particularly the last part]. After is underwent payload separation I used PB666 drive to change orbit to an inclination of 65' (still on going). The fire of the second stage deorbit boosters was designed to throw everyone off course. See . . . . . . . . .I created a story, just feed it out over the internet and in a week half the world will believe it. YOu don't believe my story because I co-disclosed my propaganda technique, but you are easily fooled by someone else's propaganda technique when its not co-disclosed. Which is a basic problem with the internet, there is alot of information but people lack the cognitive tools to deal with it. I can assure you beyond all reasonable doubt that if NG was involved and Zuma was speculatively spy, that the Russians (and possibly Chinese) are doing their darn best to track it, and they either already are tracking it or are working to find ways of tracking it. And they are not going to tell you today that they can track it. They might want to intercept transmissions to the satellite for their own purposes and at some point and time later, maybe 5 years they will say they knew since the beginning just to undermine the will to repeat it. If the zuma craft really crashed into the Southern Indian ocean, would you not expect military search and rescue craft to be in route (hard to keep something like that secret), just to see if any pieces were obviously floating around. There will be pieces on the beaches of Madagascar and the Diego Garcia's counter parts in a few months. Again you guys are feeding the monster, what is that saying about best intentions. Step 1- create a hype machine (an anonymous source), feed the machine, then create a government conspiracy to embellish the hype, and the next thing you know the world thinks its crashed. Let the gullible do the rest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer

Source?

The only reason we really care is that it was launched on SpaceX, if it was launched on super secret rocket somewhere it would not bother us. We somehow think of SpaceX as our domain.

I think if they wanted us to know what it is (or was) they would have told us. I don't see what the incessant need here is to guess about Zuma. lol. Seriously.

Greenwich Mean Time is essentially Mariners time UT1 before standardized clocks. "GMT was formerly used as the international civil time standard, now superseded in that function by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Today GMT is considered equivalent to UTC for UK civil purposes (but this is not formalised) and for navigation is considered equivalent to UT1 (the modern form of mean solar time at 0° longitude); " Zulu = UT1 This is valid in all ground and Sea operations and on ISS but should be substituted for operations in deep space with corrected time. Greenwich Observatory, interestingly is a time observatory, it marks the passing of the sun at noon. And to point out that if you use WGS84 or the 2000 time standard that these 'space' times will be off from UTC1. The reason I brought this up is I once recently tried to add a 'spatial' time element to one of my programs and its turns out that time gets very hairy when you try to universalize it. For example if at the vernal equinox (a point on the surface of the earths equator that passes directly under the sun at noon during march). The moment this is done using our sec, minute, day . in fact any sec . . the time starts to drift. . . and so what ever time you have you have to specify your reference and go through an elaborate correction. The other problem is that the Earth is not a sphere, its not even an oblate sphere although UTC forces this, and if one is say monitoring the x, y, z coordinate (which references some vernal equinox) of a space craft with respect to time one is going to find significant deviation of position using UTC, ergo UT1.

One stable alternative to hydrogen that can be made CO2 and H20 is and more readily stored is methane. Its half the MW of O2 and little bit more than half of CO and N2 but would be a vapor at all desirous altitude. Also there is ammonia, which is also a gas at all desired altitudes and only slightly heavier. The discussion of H2, H20 and all hydrogenated compounds that the only source of H on Venus is sulfuric acid.

If you were cheap your could just cleave 2CO to form O2, but again pure O2 is explosive. One could also purify and use nitrogen, the volumn of gas required would trip. Another option is to cleave CO2 and form CO, CO is one of most heat stable compounds that exists and you would need about the same Volume of CO as N2. Partly correct. below 100'C external temperature and above 101,300 Pa you would always have some of waters mass as a liquid (at STP of 1/22.4 moles per liter (0.8 kg per meter cubed) but in its condensed state that is 1000 kg per meter cubed). Here is a vapor pressure table for water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapour_pressure_of_water if you compare that with the pressure temperature curve for Venus. Pa = P * 133.322 And apply this formula to the values in the table you will find that the permissible atmosphere for a ambient heated dihydrogen oxide gas filled balloon is <= 41,000 meters with a temperature >= 135'C and a pressure of 300,000 Pa. Under all conditions higher in elevation water would have a majority of its mass as a liquid. There is one exception however, if you had a thermonuclear generator in which the heat sink was in a small internal reservoir you could heat the water with the waste heat from the generator and make steam that would condense slowly on the sides and run back to the heating element. You could even use the waste heat to inflate the balloon in order to change altitude. The problem I found with steam is that it is, when heated, rather corrosive, and thus you would have increased maintenance issues with such a system. But that is a decent way to get rid of heat, in particular if the balloon was on a long tether you could use it to get rid of heat and have a bigger reactor, via atmospheric cooling and get the balloon about the H2SO4 cloud layer. There is not much hydrogen in space, (something like 10-9 moles per cubic meter of space) but if you were going to use it to pressurize balloons you might could scavenge enough to fill a balloon, in particular if you were operating around Venus you probably could use Venus as a lens to focus solar plasma into a space that you could magnetically confine and collect it. Since Venus repels hydrogen, any entering its upper atmosphere would have to travel around Venus which means it is concentrated and could be collected from that space. Again your balloon would have to be very high in the Venusian atmosphere to do this. We also have to stipulate that if you did not do this you would lose hydrogen and eventually sink.

I was not impressed by their QC, yes it averted risks, but I have not seen a choke like that since the 80's.

Divorce the concept of mass and energy and replace them with field, then remove the idea of point mass with the angle between the query, the two bodies are such that the cosine between the barycenter and the centers is non-trivially different from 1. From that point the object is mathematically not experiencing the effect of the barycenter but of vector fields (physically 'it' is always the warpage of space-time). If we were to map space-time we would approach the hill sphere isoquants which would give rise to circular isoquants which then would evolve into peanut shaped isoquants (Earth and moon) and then into circular isoquants again. This final motion toward the Earth trivializes moon gravitation effect.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/zulu

Earliest count down to T-4:00 in eight minutes. Apparently there is a valve control problem on the ground . . . . . 00:59:00 zulu. 4::59 PM PST

Currently in another recycle back to t-10 minutes, cause unknown

Complete recycle

18 minutes, 00:05:00 Zulu . . . Range is ok.

Range is still on hold.

Range defaults to red after a certain period of time, the temp control is probably due to the hold and is work around, but the Redline issue on the swing-arm is still active. Range control is reassessing, its immaterial until they figure out the details on the the swing-arm retract issue. It does look like a scrub.

They were not swinging fast enough, they were below some redline value, just guessing.

If there is no pressure then you cannot hear, because hearing is based upon pressure waves in the air.

Someone misplaced the spray bottle of WD40.

Swing arm pins didn't register looks like will be an hour. Nearest possible time is 22:24 Zulu.

i Suspect they may have a bad sensor on one of the tanks.

at least 2 to 3 minutes of the LH2 cap.

Indefinite. one of the clearances was a no.