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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Tuesday, 26.11.2013, 23:15 | Message # 181 |
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| Virgin Galactic now accepts Bitcoins as payment.
Space.com article: http://www.space.com/23732-v....ts.html
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Tuesday, 03.12.2013, 21:09 | Message # 182 |
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| Blue Origin has tested its throttleable, restartable BE-3 hydrogen/oxygen rocket engine which will be used on both suborbital and orbital launchers currently in development for carrying astronauts, and which will be fully reusable (suborbital) and partially reusable (orbital).
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 14.12.2013, 18:35 | Message # 183 |
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| NASA has selected SpaceX to lease its Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, which has launched such historic missions as the first Saturn V flight (Apollo 4), and the final flight of the Space Shuttle (STS-135). NASA and SpaceX will now begin to negotiate the terms of the lease.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 09:27 | Message # 184 |
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| Some shiny new chrome on SS2 in its most recent powered flight yesterday.
Also, Orbital Sciences launched their Cygnus spacecraft towards the ISS on Thursday on its first operational cargo resupply mission for NASA's CRS program.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 03.02.2014, 20:13 | Message # 185 |
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| SpaceX's F9R development vehicle - a.k.a. Grasshopper 2 - has been observed at their McGregor, Texas rocket development facility. Unlike the previous Grasshopper, the new vehicle is representative of actual flight hardware, based on a Falcon 9 v1.1 first stage. Legs of that design will likely be flying on operational orbital missions within the next few months. Grasshopper 2 will perform early, low-altitude flight testing at McGregor, before moving to Spaceport America in New Mexico for high-speed, high-altitude testing which will more closely mimic the actual conditions the rocket stage will encounter on orbital missions.
Read more here: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014....-trials
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Wednesday, 12.03.2014, 21:28 | Message # 186 |
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| Amusing old concept video for a Skylon-enabled Mars mission
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 28.03.2014, 23:11 | Message # 187 |
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| SpaceX has (finally!) released a video of a F9R static fire. They state that flight testing will begin in matter of weeks.
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| laiod | Date: Friday, 04.04.2014, 01:20 | Message # 188 |
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| This is cool 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 18.04.2014, 21:08 | Message # 189 |
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| First F9R flight test!
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| RockoRocks | Date: Friday, 18.04.2014, 22:08 | Message # 190 |
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| For some reason when I watch those SpaceX launch videos it feels like i'm watching an Orbiter video (but with realistic graphics). The way the camera moves feels very game/simulator-like.
I will be inactive on this forum for the time being. Might come back eventually
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| Destructor1701 | Date: Monday, 21.04.2014, 05:30 | Message # 191 |
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| That'll be the Hexacopter they have the camera mounted to. Very smooth and fine movement control.
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| neutronium76 | Date: Monday, 21.04.2014, 10:05 | Message # 192 |
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| Quote HarbingerDawn (  ) First F9R flight test!
How tall is this thing? I mean look at the surrounding objects (trucks, buildings, masts): it must be at least 15meters tall! It's amazing how they managed to stabilize it! Even the slightest gust of wind may proove disatrous!
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 21.04.2014, 10:20 | Message # 193 |
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| Quote neutronium76 ( ) How tall is this thing?
It's over 40 meters tall and is 3.66 meters in diameter.
Quote neutronium76 ( ) Even the slightest gust of wind may proove disatrous!
Why? The engine produces enough thrust to counter any amount of wind, and it has both attitude thrusters and thrust vectoring to control its flight. Watch their other flight test videos on the Grasshopper (the predecessor of the F9R dev vehicle), it was able to fly in and hold against the wind with no problem.
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| Destructor1701 | Date: Tuesday, 22.04.2014, 14:00 | Message # 194 |
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| Quote HarbingerDawn ( ) Amusing old concept video for a Skylon-enabled Mars mission
Somehow, I missed that one until just now.
The music is bloody awful!
What aspects most amuse you? The fanciful drydocks? The mission overkill with three bases? The obviously-not-Skylon-launched descent capsules?
For some reason I don't expect Skylon to actually come to fruition, but I would love if it did! The tech and aesthetics are awesome - and the pre-cooler tech shows promise. It's the funding issue I can't see being overcome.
I know I grimly joked about Zuckerberg buying SpaceX in the wake of the Oculus buyout, but if there's one space project that I'd like to see given an injection of dem Facebook moneys, it's Skylon.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 24.04.2014, 02:13 | Message # 195 |
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| Quote Destructor1701 ( ) What aspects most amuse you?
The absurdity I suppose, and to a smaller extent the mediocrity. The music was absolutely horrible, the animation was relatively bad, and some of the mission design elements were absurd. Why have the huge transfer ships dock in Mars orbit? Why not just have the lander capsule undock from its original ship and dock with the crew ship? It's much easier that way. And the most hilariously absurd part was having the crew return capsules aerocapture back at Earth, only to have them get picked up by Skylons. It would be a really complicated move to do that, since you'd have to launch, rendezvous, and dock all in a single orbit, since the perigee of the capsules would be within the atmosphere, and it's just plain unnecessary. They can just return to Earth in those capsules. Why all the astronomical gymnastics and the extra Skylon flights? Even if the cost of a Skylon flight can be reduced to $5 million per launch, that's still a totally unnecessary expenditure of $30 million. I think that part of the mission got to me the most.
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