CatastrophicFailure Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 2 hours ago, cubinator said: Phosphine has been detected in Venus. I bet Peter Beck is jumping. Maybe he knew something we didn’t all along... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 5 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Maybe he knew something we didn’t all along... They did say in the press release that they've been talking with Rocket Lab about Venus... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Rocket Lab announced plans for Venus Photon Mission Peter Beck has been detailing the mission But this didn't come out of nowhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Live in about 30 minutes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Slightly delayed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clamp-o-Tron Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Scrubbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Stream is live! When are they planning to start S1 recovery attempts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Liftoff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Launch so far is super, thanks for asking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Kickstage sep successful. Good launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 (edited) They're planning a ringsail parachute rather than a parasail for their first recovery attempt, which means they've either decided not to pursue helicopter catching or they're intending to increment towards that on further attempts. Also, they named the recovery attempt flight 'Return to Sender' which I love Edited November 5, 2020 by RealKerbal3x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, RealKerbal3x said: , which means they've either decided not to pursue helicopter catching They're at least not doing it for the first recovery. They want to fish it out of the water and see what kind of re-entry damage there is to see if this is even possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Looks like descent rates for ringsails are possibly in line with parasails. https://airborne-sys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aiaa-1999-1700_evolution_of_the_ringsail.pdf Pg 10 shows a distribution of descent rates between ~<20 and ~45 ft/s (heavily bunched between 20-30 ft/s. Hard to tell what parasail descent rates are for heavy payloads. It's below 20 ft/s (sorry for the garbage units, that's the stuff I'm finding), but that data mostly seems to be for humans as the payload, and I assume it would be faster for something heavy, particularly since they are volume and mass limited in the interstage (they probably can't make the sail area scale to a human parasail for a booster). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Video that was shown during the last livestream: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 (edited) On 11/6/2020 at 3:21 PM, tater said: Looks like descent rates for ringsails are possibly in line with parasails. https://airborne-sys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aiaa-1999-1700_evolution_of_the_ringsail.pdf Pg 10 shows a distribution of descent rates between ~<20 and ~45 ft/s (heavily bunched between 20-30 ft/s. Hard to tell what parasail descent rates are for heavy payloads. It's below 20 ft/s (sorry for the garbage units, that's the stuff I'm finding), but that data mostly seems to be for humans as the payload, and I assume it would be faster for something heavy, particularly since they are volume and mass limited in the interstage (they probably can't make the sail area scale to a human parasail for a booster). Think the main benefit of an parasail is that you have much more control, the capture helicopter might well be in an dive to reduce the relative velocity. Assume the parasail could trade attitude for speed too but that might be complex better to just lock an trajectory. As I understand the old WW2 ring sails had no control, one of the D-day paratroopers ended up in an well, the cartoon type one, another hit an church tower. Edited November 12, 2020 by magnemoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanRising Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Return to Sender stream should be live very soon. Just showing a splash screen right now. Liftoff is expected in about 30 minutes. https://www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canopus Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Appears as if Gnomes beat Kerbals to Space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Can't believe I let myself miss this! I love the little Steam achievement for launching the gnome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Nice, nice! I can't wait to see the state of the booster! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealKerbal3x Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 8 hours ago, cubinator said: Nice, nice! I can't wait to see the state of the booster! There it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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