steve9728 Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Know this several days late but R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, steve9728 said: Know this several days late but R.I.P. Dang. I just posted here the other day that the owner of that iconic voice was a national treasure. Life is so ephemeral, we must treasure what we can, while we can, I suppose. The KSP2 team could do a tribute with a toggle to make Valamathi's voice the countdown voice if the ISRO would allow it. Edited September 6, 2023 by darthgently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 This is not a failure, the vehicles worked as long as expected (until night). If they can establish comms again, then then can extend mission, even though not designed to survive night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 Contact still not established, hope fading. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/india-chandrayaan-3-vikram-lander-pragyan-sleep-mode-failure This article is a bit deficient in explaining that this would be a mission extension and a failure to establish communications is not a mission failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AckSed Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 I like it, it's like a round cooler. I see holes on the bottom. Is that where the escape system rockets fire? If so, it must have to eject the heatshield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Youtube link for LES test in 36 hours: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Chibi Ares I-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 On 10/17/2023 at 3:53 PM, tater said: Now this is an very curious design and spent a long time trying to figure out how its put together. Of the 4 images in one on the top we see the capsule and a service module tapering in at the bottom. Below that we have 4 srb pointing outward and down. Then right top its integrated into an fairing with an skirt. finally all this is lowered over the capsule The test rocket show how it all goes together. Shows all connected, I assume the service module goes down into the bottom fairing and little of the capsule expands above the SRB for the abort system. But then they add another abort tower on top, Yes launcher is comical small but this is an suborbital abort test like the even smaller rocket used for the abort test for Apollo. But why two launch abort systems? I know Soyuz has two but not an smaller version who take up as much room as the orbital module as it looks like here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 I assume the small one is to nominally remove the LES on a successful flight, and the larger rockets are for an off-nominal situation pulling the capsule off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Scrub at T-5s. Try again at some point, presumably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Looks like it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 7 hours ago, tater said: Looks like it worked ISRO is further along on this than I'd previously thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Just me, or are no X posts embedding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 2 hours ago, tater said: Just me, or are no X posts embedding? They are working for me, but loading much slower. Could be a server load or related issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 21 minutes ago, darthgently said: They are working for me, but loading much slower. Could be a server load or related issue. It was first not at all, now doing better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exoscientist Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Looks like India will have the next manned space program beating the Europeans: Bob Clark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 https://x.com/isro/status/1770998585003512045?s=46&t=Jd73T2beq0JLNtwTy1uR5A Indian test vehicle “Pushpak” undergoes more successful tests. India will soon join the club and both China and the US currently have small, unmanned space planes on orbit right now. We’re waiting for you Russia! Also, I bet if Japan was more militarily independent, we might have seen the HOPE-X spaceplane demonstrators evolve into an X-37B style platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Landed autonomously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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