Ziggy Kerman
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Keyboard cat and Public Service Broadcasting's Race for Space (it's a album though, but still)
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Well, I apparently made a little thingy, no name, just this:
After the war not to be named, life is never new, nor old, perpetual presence.A headstone in a battle field said,
"My death was noble, yet only in the eyes of the reaper and devil,"During a funerals, as the bells tolled prayers prayed, "May never a man go to hell, may all men be in God's kingdom, amen,"
As men yell in the battlefield, "For Glory," "For God," and, "For the King and Kingdom", Ares is silently watching, wanting to let the carnage continue, for it isn't God's domain, nor the Devil's domain, it is HIS domain, he does not care for widows of the fallen, kings wanting a end, he listens to the cries of the slaughtered in war, and laughs
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7 hours ago, The Doodling Astronaut said:
Second module down. Third one will launch today
Bonus pic
I was messing around w/ my SOHO replica, and I saw a comet from the corner of my screen, so will use KACET II, launch TBD (KACET I got retired in a blaze of glory).
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On 3/17/2021 at 8:27 PM, Cavscout74 said:
The abort test used a 1.875m SRB to cheaply launch the pod for the test
I always do a pad abort test and a IFAT (in-flight abort test) using a srb like you did, or a stripped down LV, like with my Leo Crew Launcher's test, the 2nd stage engine was deactivated and the SM engines, removed and replaced with some ballast on the interstage.
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11 hours ago, Atomic Engineer said:
Woah, how and why are you still playing 1.2?
Someone should play the earliest Beta version and every x the upgrade until they get to the current version
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Let's just do like, a thing where we document how we went through the first week, and how we're going through it now:
THE COVID CHRONICLES
or
THE KOVID KHRONICLESeither way, I'll do it
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8 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
They should start finding asteroids, rich with precious metals, and redirect them into the Moon.
Then harvest.
So resurrecting the Asteroid Redirect Mission, just for profit this time round?
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On 3/19/2021 at 11:27 AM, magnemoe said:
And launching the first Vostok probe unmanned and having it relay voice makes sense.
It would have been a good backup if Vostok 1 didn't pan out and killed Yuri, or at least he didn't make it to orbit, or space even for that matter.
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On 3/16/2021 at 2:38 PM, kerbiloid said:
It's equipped with "hybrid docking adaptor", made of the hard-capture ring from APAS-95-derived IDSS and the soft=capture probe from Almaz-derived modules.
Also, it doesn't have grapple fixtures for Canadarm, so it can't take it.
But it may be equipped with grapple fixtures for Aist, used by ERA. But ERA can't attach to the Canadarm grapple fixtures to walk.
So, unlikely it's compatible with IDA/PMA.No, having Nauka DOCK to PMA-1, and the Canadarm could plausibly have a little adapter a "Glove" if you will that can adapt it to the ERA/Aist Grapple fixture, and visa versa with ERA and Canadarm's LEE (latching end effector thor those who don;t know, it's the "hand" bit).
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4 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
Interesting, will the planned Chinese rocket look like the planned Yenisei?
CZ-9?
This Behemoth for the Chinese entry of the 21st Century Race back to the Moon?
(This is the CZ-9B, CZ-9A only has 2 strap-ons)
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10 hours ago, mrfox said:
They must’ve sent up the wrong core
Shall I use this recipe for making a actual cake?
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On 3/15/2021 at 3:26 PM, SunlitZelkova said:
Korabl-Sputnik 1 launch, which carried a mannequin and voice recordings of a human voice to test the radio.
Wasn't the recording a Borscht recipe or something like that?
On 3/15/2021 at 2:10 PM, mrfox said:Play around with this
https://observablehq.com/@jake-low/satellite-ground-track-visualizer
That's pretty good, it can make a SSO too.
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1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:
Cold welding, screws that up bigtime
1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:t would be a cruel irony if the US segment has to separate from the Russian segment because it’s irreparably broken, after the Russians threatening the opposite a few years back.
Yeah, the first threat was probably caused by everyone's favourite debate starter GEOPOLITICS, this one may be because, you literally can't live in it anymore.
Wait
I have a stupid idea
the ROS undocks (or at the least the deadly parts), but Nauka undocks first and repositions to PMA-1, like a wierd reverse Zarya-Unity berthing -
47 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/756235
Cosmonauts now spend ~25% of worktime on housekeeping.
Last expedition has spent 579 h 20 m, i.e. 25.3% of worktime, on the Russian segment servicing.
The science took 28.6%.
Previous ten expeditions spent on science from 15% to 36% of their worktime.
Lately, the oxygen regeneration system Ekectron-VM was out of order 7 times. Also there were troubles with toilet and food heater.
The ROS is kinda breakin on them, the thing is 30 something, at least parts of it in Zarya probably, space years for spaecraft is like dog years, lots of them in human years.
1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:They need ice for hockey and snow for igloo, so the only purpose of an orbital base is to have something to be attached to the Canadarm shoulder.
Canadarm vs Lyappa, who's the better space arm/assembly device?
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21 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
Nope. Shackleton is a private territory beloved by 'Muricans.
(Not that it's a so big problem, but The Larks would not agree.)
Or have it wherever the Canadian base is
or IN ORBIT, but that complicates everything with microgravity -
I wasn't introduced by class, I got the book as a Christmas present, 2019 or so
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On 3/14/2021 at 9:41 AM, kerbiloid said:
Low-g hockey?
Today's match is:
The Lunokhods (Russia) Vs. The Larks (A homage to Alouette-1, Canada's first satellite)
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10 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin-stabilisation
Probably any looking like a cylinder covered with solar panels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteosat
(100 rpm)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satélite_de_Coleta_de_Dados
And also
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/chapter11-2/
and
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/explorer_hessi.htm
andThey can be rotating just around the main axis pointed at nowhere, just to keep predictable position and plane, or additionally around the perpendicluar axis to keep its main rotation axis poiting at the Sun or the Earth.
That's a lot of cylinders with panels
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7 minutes ago, Spaceman.Spiff said:
I suppose they are thinking of very small school buses
Yay small? I think it's bout, 28 passengers, just eyeballing.
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On 3/9/2021 at 8:12 PM, Lewie said:
Hearing the wind blowing on Mars...
Sounds just like on Earth, but still managed to send shivers down my spine....
So similar, yet so different.
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1 hour ago, RCgothic said:
Dragon XL getting a highlight today.
Tbf, I think this is the most we've got about it in a hot minute (PS: That Gateway be lookin nice.)
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2 minutes ago, wumpus said:
Why did they build there if they didn't intend to launch over China? Or did Chinese relations improve between construction and first test launch? Couldn't they get less inclination restrictions by building where they wouldn't have re-route rockets?
It was build there so the US wouldn't find it but they did, this is from a U-2 Spy Plane . It was also there because, the Steppe is empty and they could just, make bigger stuff without killing people.
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X-37B- The irl, "exposed materials to space and recorded the results"
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2 minutes ago, tater said:
The entire Boca Chica facility is under 200 acres, and the launch site itself is maybe 25-30 acres of that. About 2/3 the size of my kids' school campus for the whole thing, and the size of my neighborhood (a street in a loop) for the launch area.
As a reality check, the Boca Chica lauch area (I'm counting that entire end there, so I am exaggerating it substantially) is 0.007% of the land area of Biak. I would imagine there is grossly more "devastation" on Biak to this day just from WW2 (Japanese shipping was slaughtered in that region by the 5th AF, there are likely wrecks still leaking oil/etc to this day).
I don't see SpaceX moving to an equatorial jungle any time soon, but I'm sure the article both generated clicks, and aroused moral outrage in some.
It is The Guardian after all
I'm not saying it's a tabloid
But I'm not saying it isn't either
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