tamthebam Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 I would have thought the NASA budget would have gone up in the last four years as they've had a rocket as President 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Elon Musk has just bought two oil platforms to use as landing sites for his Starship vehicle. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/19/spacex-bought-former-valaris-oil-rigs-to-build-starship-launchpads.html He is naming them Phobos and Deimos after the moons of Mars. So a billionaire now owns off shore oil platforms called "Fear" and "Terror".... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priti priti priti Patel Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 After several false starts due to issues with tech, weather and FAA licensing, it looks as if SpaceX will do their second test of Starship, the upper stage of their Mars, Moon and Earth-to-Earth vehicle today. This is the vehicle they tested in December that goes up, flips on its side, free falls in a bellyflop position using fins to stablise and steer, then reignites the engine and reorients vertically. Last time they completed all of that and then an engine cut out a few metres above the landing pad and it fell to the earth and exploded. Big chance of a fully successful test today. I like to watch these with Tim Dodd, aka the Everyday Astronaut, whose stream can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4-PwxnJimg Recap of the previous test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qwLHlVjRyw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL-FFC Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) Starship SN9 launch live feed: Edited February 2, 2021 by AL-FFC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 They broke it again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Agile development iteration, failing further down the path than the last iteration is a success. Minimum viable product with throw away prototypes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 You all tuning in to the Perseverance Mars landing tonight? https://news.sky.com/story/mars-landing-everything-to-expect-from-nasas-perseverance-rover-and-how-you-can-watch-it-12219889#:~:text=Live on Sky News from,ultimately land upon the surface. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Watching this now, so tense as Perseverance approaches atmospheric entry, fingers crossed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Exciting stuff 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptie Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Percy's landed successfully, well done folks. Still find how they do these things amazing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 That was brilliant, I was almost as tense as the Serbia Scotland penalty shoot out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I miss the days when you had oddballs like the Beagle 2 folk making a complete arse of things like this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budmiester1 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 8 hours ago, JustOneCornetto said: You all tuning in to the Perseverance Mars landing tonight? https://news.sky.com/story/mars-landing-everything-to-expect-from-nasas-perseverance-rover-and-how-you-can-watch-it-12219889#:~:text=Live on Sky News from,ultimately land upon the surface. Watching right now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: I miss the days when you had oddballs like the Beagle 2 folk making a complete arse of things like this. A mad bunch right enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Mental stuff. Anyway, looking forward to more from the surface mission manager over the coming days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budmiester1 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Was watching the NASA feed and apparently the cameras were working straight away , only showing very basic data but as systems kick in better resolution and pictures. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I think you're being unfair. There was a good radio programme about Colin Pillinger on Radio 4 Extra the other night and he wasn't the yokel everyone had an image of. It was later discovered that Beagle had landed on Mars and that 3 of the solar panels on Beagle had unfurled as planned but a fourth hadn't. This one covered the aerial that would have received the switch on message from Earth. Bad design or bad luck but other nations have lost probes to the Martian "ghost". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 hour ago, budmiester1 said: Was watching the NASA feed and apparently the cameras were working straight away , only showing very basic data but as systems kick in better resolution and pictures. First hi-res by sunday. Didnt realise they’d packed a fucking helicopter as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Mental stuff. Anyway, looking forward to more from the surface mission manager over the coming days. Come in mission control.Too late. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 9 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: First hi-res by sunday. Didnt realise they’d packed a fucking helicopter as well Thats pretty cool, had no idea. Will be interesting to see how it does in the thin atmosphere and dust. Seeing live film from that is next level rather than just pics of the surface. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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