DDE Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 4 hours ago, Scotius said: Very rustic. Maybe she aims to misbehave? Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 22 years ago today, it became a submarine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 22 minutes ago, DDE said: a submarine It has sails. A sailship submarine. A submarsailship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 (edited) Plesetsk, Soyuz-2.1a, Kosmos-2567. Presumed Bars-M №4. https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8858 Other sources claim it's an Obzor-R https://t.me/grishkafilippov/12948 Edited March 23, 2023 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Undocking at 12:40 MSK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Update: * 12:56, retroburn 13:51-13:55 https://t.me/grishkafilippov/13024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DDE Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 You remember Korona, the hydrolox rocketship SSTO from Makeyev? It's still on the books, and only now are they going to start verifying the technological feasibility of this thing via models and mockups. https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8941 At that pace, they might launch something before the Sun becomes a red giant... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kerbiloid Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 20 minutes ago, DDE said: At that pace, they might launch something before the Sun becomes a red giant... Once the Sun had become a red giant, everyone will be happy that there is Korona to fly away. *** If combine with Sarmat, it can be a reusable ICBM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 Found this on Spanish wiki: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuessingEveryDay Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 4 hours ago, tater said: Found this on Spanish wiki: So it's SUSIE, but SSTO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 8 hours ago, GuessingEveryDay said: So it's SUSIE, but SSTO? The post-1996 is more closely related to the DC-X, I think. And it started off as an Atlas with Energia engines before switching to a tubojet first stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve9728 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Have to say it looks like some kind nuclear warhead... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Oh, look, they're replacing the old ZiL recovery vehicles with Vityaz. https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8951 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerballlistic07 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Today, a Soyuz 2.1v will launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 4:00 EDT. 1 minute later, a Falcon 9 will launch from Cape Canaveral. Does anyone know the record between two orbital launches ever? Because I think that this will break that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 8, 2023 Author Share Posted April 8, 2023 This might be the prettiest Soyuz image ever (mother Earth obviously doing a lot of work for how cool the image is): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230413_04/ “Russia extends ISS presence to 2028” got reported today. Had it been known previously? Also, ROSS is apparently going to be used in preparation for lunar exploration?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 1 hour ago, SunlitZelkova said: Had it been known previously? Had. Now they stated this officially. 1 hour ago, SunlitZelkova said: Also, ROSS is apparently going to be used in preparation for lunar exploration?! They said that lunar-capable PTKNP will come together with ROSS. The ROSS project should be prepared by the end of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuky Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 On 3/23/2023 at 7:07 PM, DDE said: 22 years ago today, it became a submarine When I was a kid I knew Mir mostly from drawings in news. And it was beautiful. The day I read about it being de-orbited I was sad. Now, with couple of decades more under my belt and having seen pictures like that and videos from the outside and inside I can only say: what a mess. I mean it worked, it was first to be built in orbit and obviously it is function over looks. But damn, they could have made some different arrangements for all those antennae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 14 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230413_04/ “Russia extends ISS presence to 2028” got reported today. Had it been known previously? It came about a week after the "Russia set to quit the ISS by 2024" headlines. 14 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: Also, ROSS is apparently going to be used in preparation for lunar exploration?! Well, that was the intent for the ISS as well... Never had any serious design work behind it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Quote ‘Let me show you this,’ he insisted, before I left. A trio of small, beige items came out of a cabinet and were laid out on a cloth. They had been white once, but age had darkened them like bone. Their surfaces were worn, but I could still make out the trace of silver on the engine bells, and the red markings along the fuselage. ‘Toys?’ I said. He nodded. ‘Playthings. Models made for a child’s amusement.’ ‘They are of weapon rockets? Missiles?’ ‘Rockets,’ he said. ‘For spaceflight. Don’t look so surprised, Mamzel Raeside. The first steps from Terra were said to have been taken using chemical rockets.’ ‘I am aware of history, sir, even though the detail of the oldest eras is lost in the mists. But really? Vehicles this crude?’ He smiled again. ‘I do not think they ever flew,’ he said. ‘I think these are simplified models of possible machines. A primitive idea of flight. But I show them to you because of their age. Your employer is very fond of the oldest things.’ ‘How old?’ I asked. ‘It can only be estimated,’ he said. ‘They pre-date the ages of Strife and Technology. I think they come from the Pre-System Age, from the first millennium of the Age of Terra.’ ‘What? Thirty-eight or thirty-nine thousand years ago?’ ‘Perhaps. Vessels like this first took our species into the unknown,’ he said. ‘They first took us Blackwards. The family name behind this business comes from that outward urge.’ ‘I think my employer will appreciate these,’ I said. ‘What price do you ask?’ ‘I will write it down,’ he said. ‘And the markings on the side of the rocket ships,’ I asked. ‘The letters in red? What does C.C.C.P. mean?’ ‘No one knows that,’ he said. ‘No one remembers any more.’ Dan Abnett, Pariah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 19, 2023 Author Share Posted April 19, 2023 My friend was working MCC for that 3rd longest Russian spacewalk last night—7 hours, 55 minutes. (friend was at MCC from yesterday morning til OMG-thirty this morning, he texted me at 5:30 am Houston time, lol). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 (edited) OTD 50 years ago, the operators of Lunokhod 2 scooped up regolith with the solar panel, which would lead to mission loss via overheating the following lunar night. Edited April 20, 2023 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 (Tries again to imagine how could one dig the ground with almost vertical solar panel at the very top.) (It was moving retrograde, so the concave side of the panel would be looking down. Its cruise speed ~ 1 km/h, so unlikely there was a dust storm from the wheels.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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