I'm an Australian watching this and getting confused by all the time conversions. What time, UTC, are we expecting the dock to happen? Or how many hours after launch, since I have that for reference.
*edit* I think it works out as 8.30pm local (UTC +10) time, though I've been wrong before so I thought I'd check.
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They are currently doing the last pressure equalizations. They are expecting to open the hatch around Noon CST ( +5 GMT) and a small welcome aboard ceremony 15 mins after that.
An ingenious and exciting solution to the "GTFO the pad" problem.
Though, if anything, if I had to ride one of those things I'd probably be wishing it went faster..
An ingenious and exciting solution to the "GTFO the pad" problem.
Though, if anything, if I had to ride one of those things I'd probably be wishing it went faster..
Can you imagine trying to release those rusty chains and securing yourself in the chair while there is explosive fire directly behind you?
An ingenious and exciting solution to the "GTFO the pad" problem.
Though, if anything, if I had to ride one of those things I'd probably be wishing it went faster..
Can you imagine trying to release those rusty chains and securing yourself in the chair while there is explosive fire directly behind you?
Presumably, the chains are mostly-released as part of launch prep.
And to be clear, they aren't getting rid of a way to escape the tower. This is the retirement of the old emergency baskets at the 195 foot level. Because SpaceX is removing and adding things onto Pad 39a for their own launch vehicles and crew capsules, they have a new emergency basket system at the 265 foot level.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
We definitely got some quality mileage out of New Horizons
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Speaking of New Horizons, remember how people were talking about how Pluto might've had subsurface oceans? To get the surface formations seen now, Pluto would've needed to have formed hot and quick, not but slowly congealing cold things together. That would've been plenty of heat to get those oceans before, which are very likely still liquid and now for billions of years old, a perfect abode for hidden life, protected from hard radiation and the cold of space. This is a wild possibility that no SF ever thought of, even after we found out about Europa's likely oceans.
And it's possible that if Pluto formed like this, other distant dwarf planets might also have deep subsurface oceans that could also be hospitable to life. We've barely seen any of it and space is just wild.
Today's the anniversary of the Tunguska blast, and we aren't much better prepared for anything like it than we were then. Video from last year from Scott Manley talking about just how many hits the atmosphere absorbs, most of them so high or so remote we don't notice. Like a 170 kiloton blast in the arctic.
The scale on the chart is in log kilotons which is...certainly a unit.
Spotted it in Seattle. No photos for me alas- smartphone plus unstable binoculars = no.
SO's phone nailed the shot though. The image processing in some smartphones is nuts.
It was hard to spot at first but easy when we found it and knew where to look- saw it on the way back to the car accidentally. While we were passing under a streetlight!
Edit: it's also much higher on the horizon than you might think when it was first visible and even when we left at ~10:45 it was above the trees.
Spotted it in Seattle. No photos for me alas- smartphone plus unstable binoculars = no.
SO's phone nailed the shot though. The image processing in some smartphones is nuts.
It was hard to spot at first but easy when we found it and knew where to look- saw it on the way back to the car accidentally. While we were passing under a streetlight!
Edit: it's also much higher on the horizon than you might think when it was first visible and even when we left at ~10:45 it was above the trees.
Did you have to travel outside the city / away from light pollution to see it? I'm thinking about driving an hour or so out of the metro tomorrow night to try and get a look... but if I don't have to that would be great.
Spotted it in Seattle. No photos for me alas- smartphone plus unstable binoculars = no.
SO's phone nailed the shot though. The image processing in some smartphones is nuts.
It was hard to spot at first but easy when we found it and knew where to look- saw it on the way back to the car accidentally. While we were passing under a streetlight!
Edit: it's also much higher on the horizon than you might think when it was first visible and even when we left at ~10:45 it was above the trees.
Did you have to travel outside the city / away from light pollution to see it? I'm thinking about driving an hour or so out of the metro tomorrow night to try and get a look... but if I don't have to that would be great.
No. Like I said it was visible standing under a streetlight, though faint. The viewing spot we went to was just a decent sized unlit local park.
Absolutely darker is better but we had sighting downtown. Bring a sky app and binoculars, it's naked eye visible but easier to first find with the binoculars.
I am amazingly cursed for comets. Overcast every night this past week and rain for the next week, so I'm pretty sure I'm missing this one entirely.
Meanwhile, the UAE was joining the ongoing invasion of Mars for the current launch window, but Hope's launch was delayed due to weather. They're trying again Friday, looks like.
Does anyone remember this comet? The images are really impressive but I can't remember hearing a thing about it at the time.
I remember McNaught. I saw it from a rural town at sunset, needed binoculars to spot it. The tail was not gigantically huge like that to my eye, looked a lot more like the pictures of Neowise I've seen going around lately. I suspect that's camera magic with long exposures, stacking, etc to bring out that huge tail.
I remember people saying you could see it in broad daylight if something was obscuring the sun (like a building). I tried but could never spot it in the daytime.
Speaking of New Horizons, remember how people were talking about how Pluto might've had subsurface oceans? To get the surface formations seen now, Pluto would've needed to have formed hot and quick, not but slowly congealing cold things together. That would've been plenty of heat to get those oceans before, which are very likely still liquid and now for billions of years old, a perfect abode for hidden life, protected from hard radiation and the cold of space. This is a wild possibility that no SF ever thought of, even after we found out about Europa's likely oceans.
And it's possible that if Pluto formed like this, other distant dwarf planets might also have deep subsurface oceans that could also be hospitable to life. We've barely seen any of it and space is just wild.
I wonder if Charon's presence and distance to Pluto helps keep the core warm via tidal heating, too.
Spotted it in Seattle. No photos for me alas- smartphone plus unstable binoculars = no.
SO's phone nailed the shot though. The image processing in some smartphones is nuts.
It was hard to spot at first but easy when we found it and knew where to look- saw it on the way back to the car accidentally. While we were passing under a streetlight!
Edit: it's also much higher on the horizon than you might think when it was first visible and even when we left at ~10:45 it was above the trees.
Did you have to travel outside the city / away from light pollution to see it? I'm thinking about driving an hour or so out of the metro tomorrow night to try and get a look... but if I don't have to that would be great.
No. Like I said it was visible standing under a streetlight, though faint. The viewing spot we went to was just a decent sized unlit local park.
Absolutely darker is better but we had sighting downtown. Bring a sky app and binoculars, it's naked eye visible but easier to first find with the binoculars.
Followed your lead and walked to a nearby park. Was able to see the comet naked eye. Was rather faint but well defined. I might try driving out of the metro for a better view tomorrow night.
Spotted it in Seattle. No photos for me alas- smartphone plus unstable binoculars = no.
SO's phone nailed the shot though. The image processing in some smartphones is nuts.
It was hard to spot at first but easy when we found it and knew where to look- saw it on the way back to the car accidentally. While we were passing under a streetlight!
Edit: it's also much higher on the horizon than you might think when it was first visible and even when we left at ~10:45 it was above the trees.
Did you have to travel outside the city / away from light pollution to see it? I'm thinking about driving an hour or so out of the metro tomorrow night to try and get a look... but if I don't have to that would be great.
No. Like I said it was visible standing under a streetlight, though faint. The viewing spot we went to was just a decent sized unlit local park.
Absolutely darker is better but we had sighting downtown. Bring a sky app and binoculars, it's naked eye visible but easier to first find with the binoculars.
Followed your lead and walked to a nearby park. Was able to see the comet naked eye. Was rather faint but well defined. I might try driving out of the metro for a better view tomorrow night.
Spotted it in Seattle. No photos for me alas- smartphone plus unstable binoculars = no.
SO's phone nailed the shot though. The image processing in some smartphones is nuts.
It was hard to spot at first but easy when we found it and knew where to look- saw it on the way back to the car accidentally. While we were passing under a streetlight!
Edit: it's also much higher on the horizon than you might think when it was first visible and even when we left at ~10:45 it was above the trees.
Did you have to travel outside the city / away from light pollution to see it? I'm thinking about driving an hour or so out of the metro tomorrow night to try and get a look... but if I don't have to that would be great.
No. Like I said it was visible standing under a streetlight, though faint. The viewing spot we went to was just a decent sized unlit local park.
Absolutely darker is better but we had sighting downtown. Bring a sky app and binoculars, it's naked eye visible but easier to first find with the binoculars.
Followed your lead and walked to a nearby park. Was able to see the comet naked eye. Was rather faint but well defined. I might try driving out of the metro for a better view tomorrow night.
"You need to be in a dark place to see stars" feels like it should be written in cursive on a piece of driftwood and hung in a pastel-shaded kitchen next to the "It's wine o'clock somewhere!!!" slate
Eleven in a row, and two failures in thirteen launches. That's not terrible as unmanned systems go, many of them hover around 10% failure rate.
Launch insurance is a thing, and luckily the main payload wasn't anything amazing or unique but the first in a large planned constellation of non-scientific ground imaging satellites, once they figure out why it lost thrust in the second stage they should be back to flight ops in no time.
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*edit* I think it works out as 8.30pm local (UTC +10) time, though I've been wrong before so I thought I'd check.
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Edit: oh they said it’s about a hour and a half to two hours from now for docking. I just woke up to not miss it, a little groggy here.
(edit: too slow!)
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Man... I hope the Russians and the stationed US folk just hop into the dragon and are like "ooh, sweet ride!"
In a sign of true progress, we now have only farts where once we had floating turds.
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Though, if anything, if I had to ride one of those things I'd probably be wishing it went faster..
Can you imagine trying to release those rusty chains and securing yourself in the chair while there is explosive fire directly behind you?
Presumably, the chains are mostly-released as part of launch prep.
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And to be clear, they aren't getting rid of a way to escape the tower. This is the retirement of the old emergency baskets at the 195 foot level. Because SpaceX is removing and adding things onto Pad 39a for their own launch vehicles and crew capsules, they have a new emergency basket system at the 265 foot level.
ridiculously cool fairing deploy video
And it's possible that if Pluto formed like this, other distant dwarf planets might also have deep subsurface oceans that could also be hospitable to life. We've barely seen any of it and space is just wild.
The scale on the chart is in log kilotons which is...certainly a unit.
Rocket Lab launched a rocket carrying seven satellites, nicknamed Pics Or It Didn't Happen.
POIDH had a second stage failure. The camera lost contact before the failure, so... There are not pics.
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SO's phone nailed the shot though. The image processing in some smartphones is nuts.
It was hard to spot at first but easy when we found it and knew where to look- saw it on the way back to the car accidentally. While we were passing under a streetlight!
Edit: it's also much higher on the horizon than you might think when it was first visible and even when we left at ~10:45 it was above the trees.
Did you have to travel outside the city / away from light pollution to see it? I'm thinking about driving an hour or so out of the metro tomorrow night to try and get a look... but if I don't have to that would be great.
No. Like I said it was visible standing under a streetlight, though faint. The viewing spot we went to was just a decent sized unlit local park.
Absolutely darker is better but we had sighting downtown. Bring a sky app and binoculars, it's naked eye visible but easier to first find with the binoculars.
Meanwhile, the UAE was joining the ongoing invasion of Mars for the current launch window, but Hope's launch was delayed due to weather. They're trying again Friday, looks like.
Does anyone remember this comet? The images are really impressive but I can't remember hearing a thing about it at the time.
I remember McNaught. I saw it from a rural town at sunset, needed binoculars to spot it. The tail was not gigantically huge like that to my eye, looked a lot more like the pictures of Neowise I've seen going around lately. I suspect that's camera magic with long exposures, stacking, etc to bring out that huge tail.
I remember people saying you could see it in broad daylight if something was obscuring the sun (like a building). I tried but could never spot it in the daytime.
I wonder if Charon's presence and distance to Pluto helps keep the core warm via tidal heating, too.
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Followed your lead and walked to a nearby park. Was able to see the comet naked eye. Was rather faint but well defined. I might try driving out of the metro for a better view tomorrow night.
Definitely get to a dark place if you can!
i mean we technically all are
this being 2020 and all
Sucks that Rocket Lab had a mission failure though. I love those guys.
Launch insurance is a thing, and luckily the main payload wasn't anything amazing or unique but the first in a large planned constellation of non-scientific ground imaging satellites, once they figure out why it lost thrust in the second stage they should be back to flight ops in no time.