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SpaceX and other space stuff

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fig said:
Mars helo, Ingenuity, flew it's 35th flight on 03 Dec. Set an altitude record of 46 ft. (14 meters). The little helo that could LOL. Here's plan for 36th flight no earlier than 10 Dec.
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Am currently watching Mars about to 'kiss' the moon. Occultation of Mars by the moon in about to occur. In Florida, I'm just outside the viewing area, so it'll be a grazing. Currently, Mars is within one moon-diameter away. The moon is quite bright, making Mars a bit difficult to see unless you block out the moon glare. Fortunately, Mars is at it's closest approach to Earth since 2020 and is brighter than normal anyway.

FWIW, it's a pretty common occurrence. Here's a pic of who can actually watch Mars disappear.:
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And some times:
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Cheers!

I checked in the garden an hour ago, assuming I'd probably missed it, but could see that it hadn't happened yet.

It had subsequently slipped my mind...

Hmmm, do I stay up another hour (3:20 a.m.)?
 
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bassistkll said:
Had a clear night here for the lunar occultation of Mars. Needed binoculars to see the planet set and rise behind the moon. Pretty cool. The Griffith Observatory posted coverage on YouTube at
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I woke up at 5a.m. (U.K.) and there was still a pretty big gap between them, visible with the naked eye.

Half an hour later I took another look, and Mars was gone - so it happened two hours later than advertised, and after having taken about seven hours of being about 1.5" apart (at arms length), the final lingering 5mms closed in about 20 minutes, which I missed happen.
 
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fig said:
Gotta tell ya, man, Musk has revealed enough of his true character and personal motivations in the last few months by both his own words and his own actions that I hope his two candles Friday blow the hell up (with no attendant loss of life).
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I'm pretty ticked with him, too, but I won't go quite that far. Do understand the anger, though. Whatta chumpmonkey. That's as far as I'll go with that.
 
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fig said:
Gotta tell ya, man, Musk has revealed enough of his true character and personal motivations in the last few months by both his own words and his own actions that I hope his two candles Friday blow the hell up (with no attendant loss of life).
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As an Aspie who cares a great deal about the truth, I'm also rather disappointed by Musk's rather tenuous relationship with it. Not that I'll ever get the chance, but I'd love to have a chat with him about basic principles in epistemology.
 
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So we played a show last Saturday night in Cocoa Beach at a place that's been there for over 50 years, Johnathans Pub. We finished at 1:30 and we finished loading out about 2:30. Our sound guy said he thought there was a launch pretty soon. Sure enough it was 8 minutes to go so we all just waited. I've seen innumerable launches over the years, but night launches always remain spectacular and being within 10 miles of the pad was a great opportunity. It did not disappoint because it was crystal clear. It lit the sky like the sun and we could watch it all the way to the 1st stage separation and beyond. The really amazing part was the booster flying back in for the landing. We saw it separate and you could both sections of the rocket for a while then the booster engines went off and you couldn't see it for a minute or two. It then refired the engines for a little and we lost it again. Then just before it came in for its landing it fired it's engine for the last time and we could see it all the way down. What really amazed me is that thing is coming in HOT! It was really moving fast all the way down to the point where we couldn't see it. That was surprising, I kept waiting to see some evidence of it slowing down but never saw it happen. Being that close to the launch you could really get the rumble from the launch, but being that close to the landing area the sonic booms from the booster coming in caught me offguard. I've heard it plenty of times before but this was way louder and sharper sounding than what I've experienced 20 miles further south. Like a rim shot on a bass drum. Pretty crazy.

Best view for a Launch that I've had in a very long time!
 
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And on SpaceX, I just read that they may very well break the record for time between launches at the Cape in a single day.

In 1966, The Gemini 12 launch with Lovell and Aldrin launched 90 minutes after the Agena Target Vehicle they later docked with in space. Friday the two SpaceX Falcon 9's are set to launch just 35 minutes apart sometime between 4 and 5pm.

That is impressive and oddly enough it will be at the time I'm loading in for a Friday show.
 
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TinIndian said:
And on SpaceX, I just read that they may very well break the record for time between launches at the Cape in a single day.

In 1966, The Gemini 12 launch with Lovell and Aldrin launched 90 minutes after the Agena Target Vehicle they later docked with in space. Friday the two SpaceX Falcon 9's are set to launch just 35 minutes apart sometime between 4 and 5pm.

That is impressive and oddly enough it will be at the time I'm loading in for a Friday show.
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Check out post #3631.
 

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