CatastrophicFailure Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 8 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: Or you know I could stay up and watch a rocket launch and then zombie walk up to bed. Spoiler You’ll have plenty of time later to get old and boring like me, going to bed at 11pm so I have the patience to drive back and forth all day in mall traffic on Black Friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoLima Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 (edited) 57 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: I need to work on college applications, Scholarship applications, SAT subject test studying, and in general preparation for an incredibly uncertain and scary future I went through that last year. Fun times... I slept earlier today and now I'm wide awake, so I might as well watch the launch. (Edit: The launch isn't until 3:20 and they're not actually recovering the core, so maybe not) Edited November 29, 2019 by EchoLima Staying up... or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Grr. Good night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 poop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 That's late tonight (very early tomorrow morning in the US). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Guess it went well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I thought they weren't trying to recover yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 1 hour ago, Geonovast said: I thought they weren't trying to recover yet? I think this is correct but they were testing re entry so that's probably what they meant by recovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Guess they got great data after reentry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) ? That's gotta be a mistake, they don't have a launch scheduled. (I was too stupid to read the stream title, lol) Edited December 12, 2019 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 1 minute ago, tater said: ? That's gotta be a mistake, they don't have a launch scheduled. It's not a launch, judging by the title they are unveiling their wallops launch pad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Just now, Ultimate Steve said: It's not a launch, judging by the title they are unveiling their wallops launch pad. Yeah, a press conf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 https://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-inaugurates-u-s-launch-site/ Quote Another major effort for Rocket Lab in the next year will be efforts to recover and reuse the Electron’s first stage. The company achieved a milestone in that effort in Electron’s most recent launch Dec. 6, controlling the rocket’s first stage after stage separation all the way down to the ocean surface. “It was awesome. It was fantastic,” he said of the reentry test, which required keeping the stage in a narrow corridor as it reentered and flew through a period of deceleration the company has dubbed “the wall.” The stage, he said, remained in one piece all the way to ocean impact. “It puts us light-years ahead of where we’re expecting to be, and really accelerates our recovery efforts,” he said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dman979 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 On 11/26/2019 at 11:07 AM, CatastrophicFailure said: Ooooh, maybe it’s time for one of those arcane thread sacrifices @Dman979 mentioned... Sorry, but an OP that's gone MIA is not a good enough reason to make an irrevocable transfer of thread ownership, especially when it looks like the thread is carrying on just fine in the OP's absence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RealKerbal3x Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Midnight? I'll watch it in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Was supposed to go live, pushed out 40 minutes more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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