I'll throw in here... It's not being "tracked". Tracking is an active task and cost money/resources and is only done for important or critical space objects. There is no simple "air tags" for space. It's trajectory was known but that is not the same as "is known" which...
Jump to postStraight from the source:
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/airpo ... nuals.page
Avartar2go .. these updates you post are awesome. Best thread on the site. Much thanks! I disagree. Info Avatar presents is commonly available elsewhere. To this opinion is added to spark debate. This in turn derails an update thread which was never intended for discussion. If you want discussion a...
Jump to postSpeaks volumes about those outlets that the most powerful rocket ever built, on its first flight, performed on or above expectations, the IUS completed its longest ever burn and on so many other ways it, the spacecraft itself has worked like a charm and they bang on about a couple of lift doors? Gi...
Jump to postNASA will host a media briefing at 5pm ET today, to review the Orion lunar close approach & burn. They should have HD video available by then as well, if not sooner. https://www.nasa.gov It's also been announced they have increased the bandwidth available from the Deep Space Network, and may be...
Jump to postAnd AOS! Nice shot of earth in a sea of black. An on time AOS speaks well for the accuracy of the burn completed moments ago.
Jump to postAnother thing about “escape velocity”. You may want to have an abort capability, using the spacecrafts engine, after TLI. This would limit the amount of energy TLI could provide.
Honestly, I’m not sure if Orion has this capability. Early Apollo lunar missions did however.
Francoflier wrote:Ah, thanks. Got it. Just in time.
LOS = loss of signal
AOS = acquisition of signal
And we have LOS. AOS, on the other side, in 34 minutes.
Jump to postI’m watching NASA channel on YouTube. About to see LOS.
Jump to postGreat video shot at the moment with Orion, earth, and moon all in frame.
Jump to postThe speed at TLI is the escape velocity of the Earth, so around 25,000 mph. After the burn is complete, the vehicle is slowing at less than 1 g (32 ft/s per second) in the radial direction, as it remains within the Earth's gravitational field. But continues to have very high speed in the tangential...
Jump to postSounds like the gun port in the center of a C-47 pax window.
Jump to postAs far as outing my friends at NASA, or elsewhere in the industry, there's obviously no way I would ever do that. If you want to call me a liar in the face of that, that's up to you. I would not post what I do here without being reasonably certain. Please read the forum rules. If you cannot / will ...
Jump to postB-17 / P-63 midair at Dallas air show this afternoon, both aircraft down. B-17 lost its tail.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/b ... as-airshow
trex8 wrote:So its more a US issue only if other operators arent engraving?
Avatar2go wrote:
We do know these things for other commercial programs, and from other vendors.
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But when I talk to people at NASA about this, they say they have information, but only SpaceX has the legal right to disclose it. They also say they feel the contract is too restrictive on that issue. They aren't allowed to discuss internal debate or disagreement with SpaceX either. So if there are...
Jump to postI'm not a contracts expert, however I am a US gov't contractor so I have some experience. It is my observation that SpaceX has a commercial services contract vs a build, provide design services for, a NASA concept type contract that we all remember from Apollo and Shuttle. As such SpaceX has legitim...
Jump to postJust out of curiosity Avatar2go. Who do you work for? I'm semi-retired, still do some consulting with schools on STEM programs. But I know people who work in the industry, mostly at NASA, but one or two at Blue, Aerojet, Lockheed, Boeing. I try to represent their viewpoint. They are discouraged fro...
Jump to postThen maybe you shouldn't have polluted the thread with your childish, garbage based anti Elon rant. With respect, the discussion began with a shot taken at ULA, about launching a horse into space. It went downhill from there and I played a role in that, no doubt. I gave a paper that established the...
Jump to postRoadster has not been tracked since 2018. It's being tracked well enough to know it's orbit with precision, just like other NEOs. And to make these predictions, which aren't possible otherwise. And when it nears earth, it will be identified and tracked, like everything else. NEOs are not tracked ev...
Jump to postHow else would it's location be known, or it's trajectory calculated. It's tracked by NASA as it periodically approaches Earth and Mars. As of Monday, the roadster was about 234 million miles from Earth and about 200 million miles from Mars, passing through a no-man’s land of outer space, according...
Jump to postThe odds of collision with Earth are similar to other near earth objects (NEOs) with equivalent mass. Hence is now being tracked as a NEO. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.04718 Maybe I missed it, however I see nothing here that suggests Musks Roadster is being tracked as a NEO, and it appears to be unli...
Jump to postSo if no payload will Bruno attempt to out Musk Musk? What might he launch? A horse would be cruel….. No, no stupid publicity stunts that pollute the solar system with space junk, which doesn't even follow the intended trajectory. That's entirely a Musk brand. ULA would use a dummy payload that wou...
Jump to postULA has announced the first Vulcan launch has been delayed to Q1 2023, at the request of the payload vendor Astrobiotics. But if not launched by then, Tory Bruno has said it will launch without payload, in order to meet the terms of their government contract. The first launch-ready BE-4 engine is n...
Jump to postSelf-understood. But. It takes two to tango. Beyond all niceties and fluff, USAF can take Boeing to the letter of the contract, that's what I am saying. These things are not happening unilaterally, correct? So, from purely legalistic point of view, if there is a unilateral cancellation on the contr...
Jump to postBoeing is not going to cancel the VC-25B program. They took a risk on the fixed cost contract, thinking they could get it done. Then ran into contractor and labor issues, that in return resulted in extensive redesign. So now they have to eat the cost, and that's that. Calhoun said as much in the ea...
Jump to postAt what point would Boeing consider scrapping the program? When the cost overruns exceed the PR and prestige value of the program. What, outside of bankruptcy filing, would allow a defense contractor, to wiggle out from a DoD order, duly signed and paid? USAF is an entirely different matter. Questi...
Jump to postAvatar2go wrote:
I think Starliner needs missions beyond the ISS to the private space stations, to become profitable.
SXDFC wrote:At what point would Boeing consider scrapping the program?
Pontiac wrote:What would be awesome would be having the insignia of every user on the nose of the last plane; must be 80+ airlines, private, etc..
Best way to defend against a cheap but effective weapon is an even cheaper defense. I would suggest to you: Area EMP generator, control/nav jammers, drone propulsion system disrupters (think barrage balloon’s, chaff launchers)….. If cost is not an object I would suggest human portable or light vehic...
Jump to postB-21 to be unveiled in December……
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display ... -december/
bikerthai wrote:
Commercial airlines do the same. They may just be better at touch up and make it looks good.
bt
The KC-135 is not and never was a commercial jet. True the KC-135 has a slightly smaller fuselage. But basically the design and construction is pretty much the same. bt Have you never seen one up close? Plywood floors and doublers around the aft fuselage - not exactly commercial grade. Plus vert an...
Jump to postIsn’t Moffett where NASA’s C-141A has been sitting unflown for years? Ramp space may be less precious there than at Edwards.
Jump to postCrew 4 undocking from ISS coming up in about an hour….
Jump to postMr & Mrs Tito announce plans for around the moon trip on Starship: https://youtu.be/akRWCov_LSo
You may recall Tito was one of the first space tourists some 20 years ago on Soyuz.
Also SpaceX and NASA have waived off all Crew 4 undock windows for today due to landing site weather.
From the briefing, NASA clarified that the mission requirement was 73 seconds, but as they closed on the asteroid, their models predicted from a few seconds to multiple tens of seconds. So they feel like they got into the higher range at 32 seconds. Lots of observations and data yet to come. It wil...
Jump to postNASA confirms. Orbit changed from 11 hours 55 minutes to 11 hours 23 minutes.
https://youtu.be/Zhzn0U2m5wQ
Some evidence for a waterborne IED: https://youtu.be/9tQ1jYbhxNc
Jump to postThe Intelsat Galaxy 33 + 34 mission today. Gives you an idea how far the drone ship is from the launch site... https://i2.paste.pics/440eb1f156f21a63100b50bc2e29b1d6.png?trs=9b2847ad0586aa5925a6aaf0407aceac767e82995fa34519e3e94b4d1272c2f5 Check out the view of the space jellyfish from the drone shi...
Jump to postAvatar2go wrote:RocketLabs has another launch today at 12:09 CDT, for the Argos-4 satellite payload. They are now hitting a launch cadence of about one per month.
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream/
Musk tweets video of Falcon 9 2nd stage deorbit burn. View point is from a recently deployed Starlink sat.
Unusual.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/157 ... 28928?s=12
A ship worth saving for sure….
If you haven’t heard the story: https://youtu.be/rrMGco9TySs
A good review. Every now and again upper ranks get a screw loose, and proceed with this sort of thing. US Navy has to blame someone I guess. Systemic failures on the part of the Navy were certainly responsible for the loss of the ship. You’d think a fire in the shipyard would have numerous firefigh...
Jump to postAn altitude boost mission seems generally possible, but I wonder about an actual servicing mission on any of the capsules (or even Dream Chaser) since the Shuttle provided a large "platform" to anchor Hubble to during the work and I am not sure how suitable any of the current crewed or ca...
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