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SpaceX and other space stuff
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@bholder, I enjoyed the Insight/MRO vid. As I was watching, I wondered if the ice was from the meteorite. None of the panel mentioned it. Finally during the social media Q&A, someone asked and a panelist explained why it was from the ground.
Whew! That was gonna bug me LOL.
Whew! That was gonna bug me LOL.
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Falcon Heavy launch of a USSF payload scheduled for tomorrow 9:40 a.m. EDT. The two outer cores will land back at Cape Canaveral and the middle one will ditch in the ocean. There won't be enough fuel left for the middle core to do a recovery landing.
If you're on the U.S. east coast, NASA will be launching another Antares rocket early on Sunday morning from Virginia, which – weather permitting – may be visible to us "earthbound misfits"*. Details at NASA's website.
* from Pink's Floyd's "Learning to Fly" (A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1987)
* from Pink's Floyd's "Learning to Fly" (A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1987)
Frakkin' missed it! And it was clear here, too. Even from 140 miles away, you can normally see something. But nooooo, I missed it by minutes.
In the vid, the two booster cameras get condensation on 'em, can't see much. Finally clears up when they're coming down and the Entry Burn (not the Landing Burn) shakes (or burns) off the moisture.:
Twitter view of the two boosters dropping from the sky and landing.:
Those double landings are twice the fun! There'll be a dozen more in the next year. Once Starship is on line it'll probably take over for a lot of the Falcon Heavy missions.
Cool! Thanks! If I remember to set my clocks back (and the weather is good) I'll try to see this live. I'm in the DC metro area. If not, there are several digital ways to see the replay.
One winter evening in 2010 (or perhaps it was 2012), I was walking my dog in a field in the dark, and noticed a satellite passing overhead from South to North (common enough).
Whilst I was watching it, a second one caught up with it, and shadowed it, which really took me by surprise...
Then things got really strange, as almost immediately, two green laser beams came out of the West, from an unseen source - apparently at altitude, and "painted" the two satellites, tracking them across the sky.
WTH?
I wasn't really thinking about it by the time I got home, and turned on the TV.
The news was already on, and the first story that came up was footage of NASA releasing this brand new experimental vehicle (the X-37B) in space - as I recall it was being dropped out of the cargo hold of the Space Shuttle, into an orbital test flight.
I've no idea if that's what I had just witnessed, but it seemed like the least stupid explanation.
