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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 29.09.2013, 09:38 | Message # 166 |
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| Cygnus is currently scheduled to rendezvous with the ISS tomorrow morning. NASA TV coverage will start at 4:30 EDT (8:30 UTC), with capture scheduled for 7:15 EDT (11:15 UTC). Berthing will occur in the hours that follow capture.
UPDATE: Cygnus rendezvous coverage on NASA TV has started.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 29.09.2013, 20:08 | Message # 167 |
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| Pretty pictures time 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 12.10.2013, 21:07 | Message # 168 |
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| AMAZING FOOTAGE of SpaceX's most recent Grasshopper flight, this time to 744 meters altitude 
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 12.10.2013, 21:42 | Message # 169 |
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| That is absolutely awesome. 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 12.10.2013, 22:30 | Message # 170 |
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| Apparently this flight was also the last planned flight of Grasshopper; next they will begin testing of the F9R development vehicle with low altitude testing in Texas, followed by high altitude testing at Spaceport America in New Mexico!
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 13.10.2013, 23:17 | Message # 171 |
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| I assembled a graphic comparing two potential launch options for Dream Chaser: the Atlas V with dual-engine Centaur, and the Falcon Heavy with reusable cores.
Atlas V and Dream Chaser graphics are © Giuseppe De Chiara (source), Falcon Heavy graphic © SpaceX (source), modified by me to match the scale and visual style of the Atlas and Dream Chaser graphics. Scale at full resolution (click image for link) is 1 inch per pixel.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 25.10.2013, 02:04 | Message # 172 |
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| SpaceX announced that it will begin testing of its next generation methane-fueled rocket engine called Raptor at Stennis Space Center early next year. Raptor will be more efficient and roughly three times more powerful than SpaceX's current RP-1 fueled Merlin 1D engine.
More info here: http://www.mississippi.org/press-room/spacex-10-23-2013.html
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 27.10.2013, 02:46 | Message # 173 |
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| Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser made its first free flight test today. It was dropped from a helicopter and glided to a runway at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center / Edwards Air Force Base. The flight itself went perfectly, but due to a malfunction in the left landing gear the vehicle flipped over after landing. The extent of the damage has not yet been revealed.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1310/26dreamchaser/#.UmxqfBDlfHs
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013....-flight
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Tuesday, 29.10.2013, 19:46 | Message # 174 |
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| Dream Chaser free flight test video is out! What a beauty 
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Wednesday, 30.10.2013, 00:16 | Message # 175 |
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| I really like the design of the Dream Chaser.
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Thursday, 31.10.2013, 15:01 | Message # 176 |
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| I think the design of the Dream Chasers wings is a bit strange, expected them to turn downwards.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 31.10.2013, 15:08 | Message # 177 |
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| Quote Billy_Mayes (  ) I think the design of the Dream Chasers wings is a bit strange, expected them to turn downwards.
Why? That would make no sense.
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Thursday, 31.10.2013, 15:40 | Message # 178 |
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| Quote HarbingerDawn ( ) Why? That would make no sense.
The wings were pointed really high, unlike any other plane I've seen.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 31.10.2013, 15:58 | Message # 179 |
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| Quote Billy_Mayes ( ) The wings were pointed really high, unlike any other plane I've seen.
It's not a conventional plane. It's a lifting body.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 31.10.2013, 18:57 | Message # 180 |
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| More SpaceX pumpkins this year
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