...but first, a word from our sponsors and the suits.
Oh well. Not everybody is as slick as SpaceX.
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SpaceX and other space stuff
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Oh well. Not everybody is as slick as SpaceX.
Really though, I would guess there aren’t any live pictures of the process…...but first, a word from our sponsors and the suits.
Oh well. Not everybody is as slick as SpaceX.
I can neither confirm nor deny... Nevermind.Yep. Flying behind the moon, it's not talking to anybody...
...that we know of.
Hard to work the quote function with those floppy tentacle-fingers isn't it, Mr. Alien!
I was watching the speed/altitude calculating the acceleration required, and not feeling hopeful. I hope I'm wrong.
Some of the scuttlebutt over on Ars mentions plans to do some upgrades to the launch pads, including the addition of flame trenches. From the look of the "excavation" done to the launch pad this morning, that seems like a good idea:
Down to, and below the footings!
Apparently the cleanup of chemicals and stuff is intense too. I visited a SLC pad for work and one meeting was delayed by close to a week due to a rocket being recently fired, and the clean up was in progress. A colleague inquired why we couldn't go earlier. "You'll die." was the answer. Some nasty chemicals.
Also, we asked about some powerful aluminum lighting fixtures we'd seen there before the launch. They'd gone.
"We've never found one." answered our contact, with a grin.
Uh-oh... Looks like you were right. Sounds like a loss (in either language).
Well, bummer.
Reminds me of a funny story i heard way back when, about the root cause finding of particulate defects in a chip fab.Even a ham sandwich would look epic in a clean assembly room...
Right up until somebody gets chewed out for bringing a ham sandwich into the clean assembly room.
From ispace a few minutes after the planned landing:
And from about 3 minutes before planned touchdown:
Wasn't a success
And from about 3 minutes before planned touchdown:
I do have to give them some credit for the photos and video footage they got as it orbited the Moon, at least. The shot of the Moon's shadow on Earth during the hybrid eclipse last week is especially cool:
scrubbed for today - T-0:16 called for "probability of landing failure" - hmmm.
Ya, sorry I erased my post…I didn’t think anyone saw it….oops.
That’s ok…
I posted a link to the launch this morning…it was scrubbed…
I deleted that post apparently after @bholder saw it…
Oh well…
