Space Exploration

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

NASA finds 'battling galaxies' in deep space

Not for us to worry our pretty little heads about.....this is approximately 300 million light-years away.
It was found in the Andromeda constellation.....besides, I thought the Hubble Telescope was to be put to death.

 

[Matt2496]

Oops!

SpaceX Starship prototype partially explodes during test

I read an article somewhere that they were intentionally pressuring it to the max to test its limitations.

Props to the electrical engineer who worked on it. Any kind of a static discharge inside that gigantic cloud of LOX would've caused a explosion that wouldve sent the entire facility up in flames.

 

[Hunerwadel]

I read an article somewhere that they were intentionally pressuring it to the max to test its limitations.

Props to the electrical engineer who worked on it. Any kind of a static discharge inside that gigantic cloud of LOX would've caused a explosion that wouldve sent the entire facility up in flames.

Judging from the results they should should know it's exact limitations now.

 

[zeppelin128]

NASA finds 'battling galaxies' in deep space

Not for us to worry our pretty little heads about.....this is approximately 300 million light-years away.
It was found in the Andromeda constellation.....besides, I thought the Hubble Telescope was to be put to death.

Hubble will be funded until it completely breaks down. It provides far too much science to abandon it.

 

[zeppelin128]

I read an article somewhere that they were intentionally pressuring it to the max to test its limitations.

Props to the electrical engineer who worked on it. Any kind of a static discharge inside that gigantic cloud of LOX would've caused a explosion that wouldve sent the entire facility up in flames.

SpaceX practice is to over test. Basically blow things up and see what happens. They've still got the test articles at Boca and Cape, plus the other one they are working on they are being hush hush about.

 

[zeppelin128]

ISS funding through 2030 was approved in the last round of appropriations.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

ISS funding through 2030 was approved in the last round of appropriations.

Too bad. imho. Until we no longer have to pay ransom to the Russians to get there, we shouldn't pay to keep it aloft.

 

[Matt2496]

Too bad. imho. Until we no longer have to pay ransom to the Russians to get there, we shouldn't pay to keep it aloft.

We shouldnt have to pay the Russians come next year when Starliner and Crew Dragon take Americans to the ISS. Starliner is already scheduled for a test flight (unmanned) in December.

 

[zeppelin128]

Too bad. imho. Until we no longer have to pay ransom to the Russians to get there, we shouldn't pay to keep it aloft.

We need ISS aloft. It provides much more science than we could hope for on planet. And like Matt said, CST and Dragon will be launching soon enough.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

We'll see.

 

[Hunerwadel]

Hubble will be funded until it completely breaks down. It provides far too much science to abandon it.

That's good news. I'm beginning to think JWST is going to die a slow death in some warehouse before we ever have the means to launch it.

 

[Matt2496]

PSA: Boeing's Starliner is set to launch tomorrow at 6:36 AM

Atlas V Starliner - United Launch Alliance (ULA) Rocket Launch

 

[VOLALUM]

This morning's launch was awesome. Perfect viewing from Sanford at daybreak.

 

[VOLALUM]

Booster separation

 

[LouderVol]

Booster separation
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I am guessing you can hear it all too?

 

[VOLALUM]

Only the booms.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

I videoed it from Merritt Island. Weird that it seems darker over here.

My house rattled.

 

[Velo Vol]

Oops.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

Oops.

Not a good look for Boeing/NASA on this considering some in NASA had been pushing Starliner over Dragon for sometime.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Not a good look for Boeing/NASA on this considering some in NASA had been pushing Starliner over Dragon for sometime.

CNBC said yesterday that BA's costs/launch were $90M. SpacEX is $55M. BA declined to comment on costs.


lol

If BA weren't propped up by the .gov they would be out of business.

 

[LouderVol]

Oops.

Is white sands a Boeing testing area? Guess I am unclear why this is bad due to my ignorance.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

Is white sands a Boeing testing area? Guess I am unclear why this is bad due to my ignorance.

This is its first test flight and it was supposed to dock with the ISS.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

CNBC said yesterday that BA's costs/launch were $90M. SpacEX is $55M. BA declined to comment on costs.


lol

If BA weren't propped up by the .gov they would be out of business.

The production for this was horrible considering the first SpaceX Dragon flight if I recall won an Emmy.

There was limited onboard camera's, no internal capsule cameras etc... The whole thing seemed rushed compared to SpaceX and the look and feel of the first flight of Dragon. Remember the inside camera's showing the plush doll of earth floating around. The whole feel with SpaceX was we spared no expense.

 

[Matt2496]

The ULA part of this rocket worked flawlessly (Atlas V with Centaur upper stage), however the part by Boeing (The Command Module,starliner) was what had the issue. What's funny is that the Centaur upper stage had the delta v to get Starliner onto the proper orbital inclination to rendezvous with the ISS, but Boeing wanted the Starliner part of the spacecraft to circularize into orbit.

Apparently software malfunctions and glitches are the norm at Boeing (Look at the 737 Max). Boeing needs to hire some better software engineers.

 

[Matt2496]

CNBC said yesterday that BA's costs/launch were $90M. SpacEX is $55M. BA declined to comment on costs.


lol

If BA weren't propped up by the .gov they would be out of business.

The fact that SpaceX's crew dragon has been to the ISS and back multiple times without hiccup, on a budget nearly half of Boeing has to work with, makes this botched mission even more embarrassing.