SunlitZelkova Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 It might be just me, but I find this picture to be one of the most depressing works of art in the solar system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Roscosmos claims the government has finally thrown some cash towards the Marathon (IoT, 264 sats) and Skif (consumer Internet, 12 sats) constellations. https://tass.ru/kosmos/13434877 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, DDE said: and Skif and Cascade? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/13/2022 at 9:11 PM, SunlitZelkova said: It might be just me, but I find this picture to be one of the most depressing works of art in the solar system. (The red balloon tells you that things are about to get real exciting... real fast) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Unless it's not a balloon, but an exogenous bloodsucking parasite having a good lunch. The horizon tells us, there is an atmosphere there. So, such amount of blood can't be floating neither by density, nor by zero-g. What if that's a stem rather than a rope, so the bench itself is an exogenous trapping quadrupede, and the bloodsucking thing on a stem is its casual symbiont? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I can attest that over in Commercial Communication classes at MGIMO we spent an inordinate amount of time practicing this exact kind of stipulations. Ironic. Korolyov was built as a non-classified replacement for the still-closed TsUP at Krasnoznamensk in time for the Apollo-Soyuz flight, so it was top of the line early 1970s stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 All inedible substances (including the solid fuel) should be marked "Do not eat". "Do not drink" in case of the liquid fuel *. * Even the ethanol tanks.. All engine nozzles should be marked "Warning! Hot thing. May cause burns." The grechka should NOT be marked "krechka". Yes, Mark Eckel, they are looking at you. All compartments except the unpressurized trasfer chambers should have a clearly visible caption: "Do not smoke!" The unpressurized trasfer chambers should have a caption: "Do smoke!" All crew workplaces should be equipped with seat belts. In case of unexpected rotation of the station a clearly visible light indication should be switched on: "Fasten seat belts!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 https://www-interfax-ru.translate.goog/world/816349?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru All drink water has spilled into the Shkaplerov's spacesuit during the EVA, so currently he has wet feet and can't drink, but keeps working, trying to not get ill. But as his companion Dubrov said, there are no viruses on ISS because they don't survive there, so probably it will be ok. They are installing Kurs antennas and the network cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 https://translate.google.com/website?tl=en&nui=1&u=https://www.interfax.ru/world/816363 https://www-interfax-ru.translate.goog/world/816362?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru The 7h long EVA session is completed. The cosmonauts have installed the passive antenna of Kurs-P and the docking target on Prichal, reinstalled the TV camera, and put the TV cable between Nauka and Prichal. The hand railings aren't installed. One spacesuit spilled the drinking water inside. There was a communication failure (10 minutes of no communication). The ERA integration is postponed due to technical issues. The integration of Nauka will take about 10 EVA sessions, including 3 ones to integrate ERA. Next time the ESA astronauts will be helping with ERA integration. ERA is made by Fokker Space. The next ship, Soyuz MS-21 with Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergei Korsakov, will dock on 2022.03.18. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 4 hours ago, kerbiloid said: All drink water has spilled into the Shkaplerov's spacesuit during the EVA, so currently he has wet feet and can't drink, but keeps working, trying to not get ill. Even in space, he managed to take a dunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 17 hours ago, DDE said: Even in space, he managed to take a dunk. Being in open space is not an excuse to break traditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 THE NUMBERS, MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 https://www-interfax-ru.translate.goog/business/816550?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru The British company Space Entertainment Enterprise, founded by Dmitry and Elena Lesnevsky, who came from Russia, plans to found in 2024 a movie studio on board of the Axiom modules. It will be named SEE-1 and docked to ISS, later detached together with the Axiom modules. Currently the company is working on the movie with Tom Cruise, the second professional movie to be filmed in human space history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOXBLOX Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 12:42 PM, kerbiloid said: Currently the company is working on the movie with Tom Cruise, the second professional movie to be filmed in human space history. Movies are only professional if they have Tom Cruise in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, SOXBLOX said: Movies are only professional if they have Tom Cruise in them. Schwarzenegger even has run into another car today when reading your post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Nikolai Chub (Expedition 69) has his US visa denied. Rogozin describes his inability to undergo familiarization training with the US segment to be a major safety issue. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5180527 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 11:36 AM, DDE said: THE NUMBERS, MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN? Memers: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 3 hours ago, Minmus Taster said: Memers: Oh, the Buzzer has continued to work despite similar troll-y jamming in 2018. The presumed US numbers station ('Cynthia') wrapped up in 2003 and the two British/Commonwealth stations ('Lincolnshire poacher'/'Cherry ripe') shut down in 2008-2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 8 hours ago, DDE said: Nikolai Chub (Expedition 69) has his US visa denied. Rogozin describes his inability to undergo familiarization training with the US segment to be a major safety issue. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5180527 Y tho? If he’s part of a crew one would think he’d be pre-cleared or some such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Y tho? If he’s part of a crew one would think he’d be pre-cleared or some such. There's an ongoing brouhaha between the US and Russia about visas - the reciprocated expulsion of diplomats makes a mess of consular affairs, plus both sides are coming up with even more absurd rules (e.g. the US doesn't issue a visa for replacement diplomats until Russia issues a diplomatic visa, Russia insists the US replaces men with men and women with women...), and generally both sides look to sabotage each other. NASA representatives in Russia have been subjected to similar blackballing - one waited for her visa for 18 months. Visa applications for people off the street are essentially at a standstill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacke Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 On 1/22/2022 at 3:26 AM, SOXBLOX said: Movies are only professional if they have Tom Cruise in them. Films with Tom Cruise have him do his own stunts as well as run a whole lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Jacke said: Films with Tom Cruise have him do his own stunts as well as run a whole lot. Yulia Peresild did her own stunts in orbit herself. No woman stunt has been detected in 500 km radius. Also, she has performed a real space flight, while Cruise still didn't, lol. P.S. Also I would ask what except the stunts is there in the Cruise movies? A play, seriously? So, what's special when a stunt maker makes stunts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 (Google translate seems having problems with interfax.ru again). *** https://www.interfax.ru/world/817871 Roscosmos will have designed several versions of the new orbital station. The polar one is good and pleasant. The depeleted module separation and deorbiting is good, too. *** https://www.interfax.ru/russia/817863 Roscosmos studies the possibility of a train-based cosmodrome. Like the existed till the early 2000s ICBM launch train, but space. *** https://www.interfax.ru/russia/817862 Rogozin finds it possible for the foreign partners to join the Sea Launch project. He wants to adapt it for Soyuz-5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 5 hours ago, kerbiloid said: (Google translate seems having problems with interfax.ru again). *** https://www.interfax.ru/world/817871 Roscosmos will have designed several versions of the new orbital station. The polar one is good and pleasant. The depeleted module separation and deorbiting is good, too. *** https://www.interfax.ru/russia/817863 Roscosmos studies the possibility of a train-based cosmodrome. Like the existed till the early 2000s ICBM launch train, but space. *** https://www.interfax.ru/russia/817862 Rogozin finds it possible for the foreign partners to join the Sea Launch project. He wants to adapt it for Soyuz-5. I guess it's nice to have aspirations, but I severely doubt any of this will ever leave the drawing board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 55 minutes ago, Codraroll said: I guess it's nice to have aspirations, but I severely doubt any of this will ever leave the drawing board. I find your lack of faith disturbing. *** https://www.interfax.ru/moscow/817723 The lifts in the new building of Roscosmos will be two-storey. The higher part of the building will have 13 two-storey lifts, the lower one will have 74 usual lifts. In the lower part the construction works are almost finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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