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[The Raging Sandwich]

Second burn of the Centaur stage, boosting out of Earth orbit!!!

[Diche Bach]

Cool to see those apogee numbers going up just like in KSP

[Dman979]

Just now, max_creative said:

Is it just me, or does Bennu look like Emiko station? Just bigger and with less space stations...

Believe it or not, asteroids have a distinct asteroid-ness about them.

[Kryten]

15 minutes ago, Dman979 said:

And it's a direct injection, too- no silly orbits for this!

It's not completely direct, there's an earth flyby in about a year to give it an extra boost.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Kryten

[Dman979]

Just now, Kryten said:

It's not completely direct, there's an earth flyby in about a year to give it an extra boost.

I meant that it's not going around the Earth before it did its transbennu burn.

AFAIK, that's a direct injection launch.

[The Raging Sandwich]

Spacecraft separation!

[Diche Bach]

Imagine if they find amino acids or something like prions on that damn thing  Seems pretty unlikely at this point, but you never know I guess!

[The Raging Sandwich]

Solar arrays deployed!

[Dman979]

the news conference is coming up!

[The Raging Sandwich]

I wonder how @IonStorm is doing?

 

[Dman979]

2 minutes ago, The Raging Sandwich said:

I wonder how @IonStorm is doing?

 

Probably gonna come back to the forums with about 50-70 "X has tagged you in a post!" "X has liked a post in a topic: OSIRIS-REx isson Challenge!"

And yes, I'm guilty.

So let's place bets- how many notifications will he have?

[The Raging Sandwich]

Just now, Dman979 said:

Probably gonna come back to the forums with about 50-70 "X has tagged you in a post!" "X has liked a post in a topic: OSIRIS-REx isson Challenge!"

And yes, I'm guilty.

So let's place bets- how many notifications will he have?

I'm guessing... 23!

[Dman979]

2 minutes ago, The Raging Sandwich said:

I'm guessing... 23!

that sounds about right.

[max_creative]

2 minutes ago, Dman979 said:

Probably gonna come back to the forums with about 50-70 "X has tagged you in a post!" "X has liked a post in a topic: OSIRIS-REx isson Challenge!"

And yes, I'm guilty.

So let's place bets- how many notifications will he have?

OVER 9000!!! 

Just kidding. Uhhhhhhh... 30? Hey @IonStorm! Your going to get a lot MOAR notifications soon! Tell us how many when you get BACC! (Ha ha bad jokes?...)

[cubinator]

3 minutes ago, max_creative said:

Tell us how many when you get BACC! (Ha ha bad jokes?...)

As long as it's just one...

That was a great launch!