Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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@Paekakboyz said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@antipodean oh shit, yeah no wonder they were erring on the side of caution. What a cool but kinda nightmare fuel job to be working on a gnarly project like this.
But fuck me if it blows up on the pad it'll be awesome to see.
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@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Paekakboyz I can tell you from personal experience; if the sensor was made by Audi, it'll cost at least two shit-tons
Well the whole American rocket industry was heavily reliant on Ze Germans in the early days, so....
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NASA gets Voyager 1 talking again — and discovers a new mystery
14.6 billion miles from one another, NASA engineers have found and fixed a computer glitch that had caused Voyager 1 to transmit garbled telemetry data since May.
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Artemis 1: Nasa’s moon rocket springs hazardous leak ahead of launch
Fuel leak comes after Nasa fixed an engine issue that postponed the original launch attempt five days earlier
Nasa was poised to make a second attempt to fly its pioneering Artemis 1 moon rocket on Saturday afternoon after the US space agency declared it had identified and fixed an engine issue that caused the postponement of the original launch attempt five days earlier. But the new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fueling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard. As the sun rose, an over-pressure alarm sounded and the tanking operation was briefly halted, but no damage occurred and the effort resumed, Nasa’s Launch Control reported. But minutes later, hydrogen fuel began leaking from the engine section at the bottom of the rocket. Nasa halted the operation, while engineers scrambled to plug what was believed to be a gap around a seal. -
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@NTA said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@dogmeat said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@NTA Definitely an Audi
Or a Jag.
not leaking oil...
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Interesting presentation from RocketLab. They are looking at a larger resable launch vehicle - possibly including human rating
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Life imitates art. Should have used Aerosmith for the theme music
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@Machpants said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@canefan The images of the target were cool, a lot of detail of the surface
There should be at that range! ☄️
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@Machpants said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@canefan The images of the target were cool, a lot of detail of the surface
Missed an opportunity for final frame to look like this
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@NTA said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:
31 of the 33 fired, enough to get to orbit.
Was it mentioned what the threshold is for that? Minimum thrust required etc.
No, just that - I've not had a chance to dig into the coverage yet. Looks like this and the wet dress rehearsal have gone well enough for the orbital test next month. Now THAT is going to be exciting!
