tater Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 This was the newest CST-100 thread I could find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 So, more delays. Awesome. In the meantime we have time for our other hobbies. Like glacier watching, competitive paint drying and measuring grass growth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Don't let the delays go faster than 1 month second per month! i don't hear much about Starliner, how is it going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibb31 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 10 hours ago, Scotius said: So, more delays. Awesome. In the meantime we have time for our other hobbies. Like glacier watching, competitive paint drying and measuring grass growth. Welcome to the real world of spaceflight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Augustus_ Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 15 hours ago, tater said: This was the newest CST-100 thread I could find Haha, Dragon's gonna fly first guaranteed now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Crew Dragon to Station (without crew) is on the manifest for February, so almost certainly yes. Boeing must actually be behind on the capsule, since their LV is bulletproof (Atlas). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racescort666 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 1 hour ago, tater said: Crew Dragon to Station (without crew) is on the manifest for February, so almost certainly yes. Boeing must actually be behind on the capsule, since their LV is bulletproof (Atlas). Have they ever flown a 2 engine Centaur on an Atlas V? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 10 minutes ago, Racescort666 said: Have they ever flown a 2 engine Centaur on an Atlas V? Never. Atlas V variants that have flown, in order of the number of launches, are 401, 551, 501, 421, 541, 411, 531, 431, and 521. In theory, they offer a two-engine Centaur for all the other configurations, but none have flown. The "N22" intended for the Starliner is essentially a 422 variant but with the capsule and LES instead of a four-meter fairing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaarst Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Racescort666 said: Have they ever flown a 2 engine Centaur on an Atlas V? No. All Atlas V have been models numbered xx1 (401, 411, 551...) indicating a single engine on the upper stage. Edit: damn ninjas Edited September 28, 2017 by Gaarst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightside Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Summary: Boeing has met important “cool render” milestones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 (edited) 17 hours ago, Nightside said: Summary: Boeing has met important “cool render” milestones... Always a key milestone. Someday maybe I should tell you my story about how our defense group contracted with a third-party consultant rather than with our commercial airplane noise engineering staff to provide noise control on an Air Force plane derived from one of our commercial jetliners ... because they thought that the color "heat map" noise plots in the consultant's proposal would impress the Air Force. But probably I should wait until after I retire. Edited November 28, 2017 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 18 hours ago, tater said: Looks like Boeing get dinky little auto-generated fairings too. I get those all the time when I stick a Rockomax brand decoupler behind an LV-909. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 They need to have somebody next to the thing so we get some sense of scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 It's a little bigger in diameter than Falcon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 What is the first test launch going to do actually? Will it dock with the ISS and send cargo or will it just stay in LEO to test its systems for a little while and come back later? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 37 minutes ago, Shpaget said: They need to have somebody next to the thing so we get some sense of scale. There's a set of mobile stairs behind it, roughly five meters back... That can provide some sense of scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 2 hours ago, NSEP said: What is the first test launch going to do actually? Will it dock with the ISS and send cargo or will it just stay in LEO to test its systems for a little while and come back later? The 2 test flights (uncrewed) are 14 days for each spacecraft, so I am assuming ISS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinimumSky5 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Well, time to beg the Russians for more Soyuz seats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 51 minutes ago, tater said: "A static-fire test of the complete launch abort system suffered a propellant leak at the end of the test. " meaning: the abort engine tends to explode, aborting the abort procedure and, subsequently, triggering a crew ULCO event - Unplanned Life Cut Off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 1 hour ago, MinimumSky5 said: Well, time to beg the Russians for more Soyuz seats. Crew Dragon is sitting in FL, good to go, waiting to fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 21 minutes ago, tater said: Crew Dragon is sitting in FL, good to go, waiting to fly. I can't help but to remember this: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/trampoline-space-russian-official-tells-nasa-take-flying-leap-n92616 and this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 The Dragon fashion about a liquid-fuel LES blows others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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