SpaceX and other space stuff

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Found a neat article about the Dragon capsule touchscreen displays while being ninja in the NASA forum. It's dated 19 Jun 2020, but doesn't really matter.:
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In the article is a simulation written by Spacex. Docking your Dragon capsule to the ISS using their controls.
SPACEX - ISS Docking Simulator

 

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Docking hold at waypoint 2:

aw crap fooled again, replay 4 hrs old

live feed here, doing a recap:

 

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Successful 3rd flight for Ingenuity helo today. Altitude to 16 ft (4.9 meters). Flew 164 ft at 4.5 mph. 50 meters at 7.2 kph. Returned to start. Zippy l'il thang.

 

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Successful 3rd flight for Ingenuity helo today. Altitude to 16 ft (4.9 meters). Flew 164 ft at 4.5 mph. 50 meters at 7.2 kph. Returned to start. Zippy l'il thang.

 

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Successful 3rd flight for Ingenuity helo today. Altitude to 16 ft (4.9 meters). Flew 164 ft at 4.5 mph. 50 meters at 7.2 kph. Returned to start. Zippy l'il thang.

Quite a feat since the atmosphere density is only 1% of Earth's. The motor on that little guy must have a heck of a lot of power.

 

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Quite a feat since the atmosphere density is only 1% of Earth's. The motor on that little guy must have a heck of a lot of power.

I know it's only expected to live for a few more tests, but I'm secretly hoping it stays alive long enough to keep up with the rover for a bit and do some actual exploring...

 

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I know it's only expected to live for a few more tests, but I'm secretly hoping it stays alive long enough to keep up with the rover for a bit and do some actual exploring...

That would be great if they did but I doubt that that's in any plans. It's a test article and is only allocated the time (a month) and probably only a certain amount of funding to perform the tests. Perseverance also needs to be freed up to do the exploring it is meant to do.

Quite a feat since the atmosphere density is only 1% of Earth's. The motor on that little guy must have a heck of a lot of power.

From what I've read, it's more about rotor size and speed of rotation. Ingenuity's rotors spin at 2400 RPM. Earthly copter rotors spin about 1/4 of that or about 600 RPM. If you remember, the first Ingenuity test was a speed test without any travel and software had to be resent and reloaded. Ingenuity's rotors are also proportionally much larger that terrestrial copters.

 

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‘Finders keepers’ doesn’t apply to space junk that may land in your Florida yard

 

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Trying for a static fire on SN15 right now at LabPadre BocaChica.

 

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Trying for a static fire on SN15 right now at LabPadre BocaChica.

 

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That ship reminds me of the artwork on the old sci-fi books I used to read as a youth. The phrase, "The future is NOW!" comes to mind LOL.

 

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That ship reminds me of the artwork on the old sci-fi books I used to read as a youth. The phrase, "The future is NOW!" comes to mind LOL.

"The Stars Are Ours" is one that comes to mind (early Andre Norton novel).

 

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They are going for another static fire on SN15 right now.

 

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That thing just sounds evil.

So, was that an abort? Seemed kinda short for a test unless they just wanted to see if the matches lit the fuse.

 

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That thing just sounds evil.

So, was that an abort? Seemed kinda short for a test unless they just wanted to see if the matches lit the fuse.

Yup, it’s called a Static fire. Just a quick test for the raptor engines.

 

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Yup, it’s called a Static fire. Just a quick test for the raptor engines.

I thought I'd seen one or two of those before where they ran the engines for a while longer simulating the flight of that stage. Oh well, I'm old and memory is just a memory.

 

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Alabama marks 20 years walking astronauts on International Space Station through science

 

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RIP Michael Collins
'Forgotten Astronaut' Michael Collins Dies

Michael Collins (astronaut) - Wikipedia

 

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EDIT: @StereoPlayer, I'm getting slow these days LOL. Removed my text.

 

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity spots Perseverance rover from the air (photo) | Space