SpaceX and other space stuff

[StereoPlayer]

Wait. What? You say tomorrow, but the video timer says the cast will go live in less than an hour?

Thanks, fixed!

 

[fig]

NASA has a tool to spot the ISS from thousands of locations on Earth. So while it's still in orbit, here's a way to view it.

Here's another site I use called 'Heavens Above'. ISS, Hubble, Starlinks and much, much more. First thing to do is type in your latitude and longitude in the upper right area.

Heavens-Above

 

[ahc]

Congrats to Rocket Lab for their successful launch and deployment!

 

[Volker Kirstein]

NOAA launch in just under an hour.

 

[Volker Kirstein]

NOAA launch in just under an hour.

 

[Winslow]

I know it's "GOES-T," but I also keep thinking they're saying "Ghosty."

 

[StereoPlayer]

I know it's "GOES-T," but I also keep thinking they're saying "Ghosty."

Nice launch!

 

[Volker Kirstein]

Soory for the double post. I have no idea how that happened.

One of my pet peeves on some of the "budget" launch casts is commentary. To be more precise, the lack thereof.

Before the apocalypse, I had a job as "night guy" to "run" 3 actual radio stations. It was all automated, pre-recorded, so all I had to do was occasionally feed the machines. Anyway, one of the no-nos pounded into my head was dead air.

This cast seems to be nothing but dead air, albeit with [unexplained] imagery, insterspersed with random bits of [unexplained] techno-babble at pre-determined intervals.

These aerospace entities spend hundreds of millions. Billions. How hard can it be to set aside 50K for decent production?

There's plenty of classical, jazz, folk, etc music recordings in the public domain. Play a string quartet. Or jazz. Something for the ears. Maybe explain what's going on. Recast earlier segments. Christ in a cracker! Fill the ear space with something!

Visually, one could add subtitles to indicate that there's nothing worth talking about happening. Are we there yet? Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?...

Even now, as I rant onto the keyboard: a silent high school animation of a sleeping satellite against a high school animated globe. Flibbertygibbets!

EDIT - Blarg. Have I really become the meme of grampa shaking his fist at the clouds? *facepalm*

 

[StereoPlayer]

Soory for the double post. I have no idea how that happened.

One of my pet peeves on some of the "budget" launch casts is commentary. To be more precise, the lack thereof.

Before the apocalypse, I had a job as "night guy" to "run" 3 actual radio stations. It was all automated, pre-recorded, so all I had to do was occasionally feed the machines. Anyway, one of the no-nos pounded into my head was dead air.

This cast seems to be nothing but dead air, albeit with [unexplained] imagery, insterspersed with random bits of [unexplained] techno-babble at pre-determined intervals.

These aerospace entities spend hundreds of millions. Billions. How hard can it be to set aside 50K for decent production?

There's plenty of classical, jazz, folk, etc music recordings in the public domain. Play a string quartet. Or jazz. Something for the ears. Maybe explain what's going on. Recast earlier segments. Christ in a cracker! Fill the ear space with something!

Visually, one could add subtitles to indicate that there's nothing worth talking about happening. Are we there yet? Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?Are we there yet?...

Even now, as I rant onto the keyboard: a silent high school animation of a sleeping satellite against a high school animated globe. Flibbertygibbets!

EDIT - Blarg. Have I really become the meme of grampa shaking his fist at the clouds? *facepalm*

I have closed captioning enabled on all the launches. Sometimes it is interpreted as something else.

 

[Winslow]

EDIT - Blarg. Have I really become the meme of grampa shaking his fist at the clouds? *facepalm*

I get a sense that many of us are that "grandpa" around here.

I tend to give space-related webcasts some slack, owing to the factors of lower budget line items for such things in the overall scheme, and a talent pool that is likely more engineering- and science-oriented than professional-grade broadcasters adept at hosting skills.

 

[Wood and Wire]

 

[StereoPlayer]

Music is playing…launch coming up.

 

[Volker Kirstein]

 

[StereoPlayer]

…another launch.

 

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bout a minute left...

 

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They seem to be running a launch every 4 days!

 

[bholder]

How's that "broomstick", Mr. Rogozin? hehe

 

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and another successful landing, though both cams glitched out.

 

[StereoPlayer]

NASA is just now opening a vacuum-sealed sample it took from the moon 50 years ago

 

[Jon Clegg]

How's that "broomstick", Mr. Rogozin? hehe

Waiting for Elon to rename Falcon9 to Broomstick.