SpaceX and other space stuff

[Corigan]

Watching spacewalk. This current task will take a few spacewalks, but two older solar panels will be removed and relocated to a new position and two new solar panels, delivered by Spacex recently, will be installed.

Currently removing the first older panel, all bolts removed, held by the robotic arm. But one astronaut is having data-dropouts in his suit. He's in no danger and heading back to the airlock to do a warm-restart on his suit. Ground control is relaying info to him as to what to expect during the re-boot.

Update: Fast reboot. He's heading back to continue working, though ground control saw one spike.

Very cool. I wonder if those are the panels I saw launched up on June 3rd when I was down on the space coast.

 

[fig]

Very cool. I wonder if those are the panels I saw launched up on June 3rd when I was down on the space coast.

Yeppers, that's the launch you watched. Here they both are, rolled up, in the 'trunk'.

 

[StereoPlayer]

The Chinese are launching in less than a hour. 3 men to their new space station.

 

[Wood and Wire]

The Chinese are launching in less than a hour. 3 men to their new space station.

you just beat me to it :

 

[Wood and Wire]

Fortunately, this mission has greater objectives than great TV coverage, because that launch was abysmal from an audience point of view - poorly selected camera positions, and director that wanted to cut to another shot every 30th of a second.

The fairing, second stage separation, and solar panel deployment were all very cool, though.

Is it just me, or does that cockpit shot make the astronauts look like a bunch of kids having a sleepover around the boiler, in the basement?

 

[Wood and Wire]

Oh wait - is there a Space-X resupply launch in 20 minutes?

 

[JKos]

@Wood and Wire ,
I watched the feed you posted from one minute before launch till the coverage ended. I didn't think it cut much at all. Sometimes a good 30 secs between cuts. Did we watch the same coverage?

I thought the shot of the rocket crossing in front of the sun was cool.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Oh wait - is there a Space-X resupply launch in 20 minutes?

I see 12:09pm tomorrow.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Fortunately, this mission has greater objectives than great TV coverage, because that launch was abysmal from an audience point of view - poorly selected camera positions, and director that wanted to cut to another shot every 30th of a second.

The fairing, second stage separation, and solar panel deployment were all very cool, though.

Is it just me, or does that cockpit shot make the astronauts look like a bunch of kids having a sleepover around the boiler, in the basement?

Can’t be all SpaceX and NASA quality.

 

[Wood and Wire]

@Wood and Wire ,
I watched the feed you posted from one minute before launch till the coverage ended. I didn't think it cut much at all. Sometimes a good 30 secs between cuts. Did we watch the same coverage?

I thought the shot of the rocket crossing in front of the sun was cool.

Yeah, same coverage.

Once the sun shot happened, the cutting slowed right down, but ignition, and clearing the tower was a mess - there was never a sense of scale, or power.


HOLY COW!

I'm still watching that channel, and they're interviewing The Wampa, from The Empire Strikes Back.

 

[Wood and Wire]

I see 12:09pm tomorrow.

It is tomorrow, now, where I am (showing 16 minutes until launch).

 

[Wood and Wire]

It is tomorrow, now, where I am (showing 16 minutes until launch).

I see 12:09pm tomorrow.

Ah, it turns out it just went into a replay of June 3rd launch (but is displayed "live" in the corner).

 

[ahc]

Shenzhou12 docking with Tianhe.

 

[ahc]

NASA is sending a mannequin on a space mission. Here's how you can help name it.

I would have voted for "Harcourt Fenton Mudd" if it was an available choice.

 

[Jon Clegg]

NASA is sending a mannequin on a space mission. Here's how you can help name it.

I would have voted for "Harcourt Fenton Mudd" if it was an available choice.

Stella would have been good as well.

 

[Wood and Wire]

NASA is sending a mannequin on a space mission. Here's how you can help name it.

I would have voted for "Harcourt Fenton Mudd" if it was an available choice.

That reminds me ;

When I saw Discovery launch on its final mission, it was delivering a humanoid robot to the ISS (the top half was humanoid, I think instead of legs, it attached to static mounts).

It kind of looked like Jet Jaguar / a Power Ranger, and had an identical twin that stayed on Earth, and waved it off at the launch.

I've never heard what happened to that, or any mention of it since (I haven't been aware of a Saturn-3 type bloodbath occurring on the ISS).

 

[Winslow]

Sonofa[bleep], I was just at the post office today, and hadn't heard about these!!!

US Postal Service releases 'Sun Science' stamps with NASA imagery | Space

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...vice-to-issue-nasa-sun-science-forever-stamps

 

[ahc]

That reminds me ;

When I saw Discovery launch on its final mission, it was delivering a humanoid robot to the ISS (the top half was humanoid, I think instead of legs, it attached to static mounts).

It kind of looked like Jet Jaguar / a Power Ranger, and had an identical twin that stayed on Earth, and waved it off at the launch.

I've never heard what happened to that, or any mention of it since (I haven't been aware of a Saturn-3 type bloodbath occurring on the ISS).

These perhaps?

Full Page Reload (This is an article about Robonaut. I don't know why it saya Full Page Reload)

https://www.nasa.gov/astrobee

 

[Wood and Wire]

These perhaps?

Full Page Reload (This is an article about Robonaut. I don't know why it saya Full Page Reload)

https://www.nasa.gov/astrobee

Cheers!

Yeah, Robonaut. That's the fella.

I mean, as if being trapped in a confined space, in a deadly vacuum, with a malfunctioning robot, wasn't the stuff of nightmares... They're teaching it Kung-Fu :

At least you'd see that coming.

The JSA opted to send this little dude to the ISS, to pick crew members off one at a time, in their sleep :

 

[ahc]

Cheers!

Yeah, Robonaut. That's the fella.

I mean, as if being trapped in a confined space, in a deadly vacuum, with a malfunctioning robot, wasn't the stuff of nightmares... They're teaching it Kung-Fu :

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At least you'd see that coming.

The JSA opted to send this little dude to the ISS, to pick crew members off one at a time, in their sleep :

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I think I've seen that movie. A couple dozen times.