Space stuff thread

[A Guy]

Hope he didn't reverse the charges!

A Guy

 

[mjf]

Well Elon Musk your amazing achievements enthuse even an older engineer like me. You deliver across a range of challenging technologies.

 

[A Guy]

Almost 20,000 pieces of space debris are currently orbiting the Earth. This visualisation, created by Dr Stuart Grey, lecturer at University College London and part of the Space Geodesy and Navigation Laboratory, shows how the amount of space debris increased from 1957 to 2015, using data on the precise location of each piece of junk ( from https://www.space-track.org ).

Royal Institution Advent Calendar

Uh oh :shock:

A Guy

 

[scr]

A Guy, That's not really debris. It's the newest protection against alien invasion. Aliens will take one look at the trash we've kicked up in to space and decide if it's this bad out here imagine what the planet looks like and pass us by as a garbage dump.

 

[A Guy]

A Guy

 

[Anak]

Nice video Bill!

It will take time and testing to have consistency; Maybe some day we can all get a ride!

Even NASA had failures before they got rollin'.

 

[thelma]

A Guy

Fascinating, did you see the human thumb up?

 

[Anak]

No I did not; Could you provide a time-stamp of the video, of when it occurred?

Was it near the beginning (0:10/3:37) or near the end (3:00/3:37)?

   Note

(0:10/3:37) and (3:00/3:37) are to be used only as examples.

 

[thelma]

Never done that, I just stop it and look at the time. Okay, I would say 0.46 secondes into the video.

 

[thelma]

Anak , I just realise we posted at the same time. I was referring to A Guy's Video, Sorry

 

[Anak]

Now I see it, thanks Thelma your perception is better than mine! It lasted for only a second, I caught it at 0:45.

 

[Anak]

Naw, I knew which one you meant.

 

[A Guy]

NASA Adds Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser To ISS Supply Vehicles

Today, NASA announced the winners of the second round of commercial resupply services (CRS-2) contracts. The winners, Orbital ATK, SpaceX, and the newcomer Sierra Nevada Corporation, will be responsible for providing new cargo, disposing of unneeded cargo, and safely bringing back research samples from the International Space Station (ISS).

Source

A Guy

 

[Kari]

TIM PEAKE/TIM KOPRA SPACEWALK LIVE
Fri, Jan 15, 2016 | 12:00 - 19:00 GMT | 13:00 - 20:00 CET

ESA TV Live - 16:9
On Friday 15 January at 1255GMT, ESA astronaut Tim Peake and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra will exit the International Space Station to repair a power unit on the outside.

The two Tims arrived at the Space Station on 15 December and this will be their second involvement in a spacewalk: Tim Peake assisted Tim Kopra and Station commander Scott Kelly when they moved an equipment carrier on 21 December. This spacewalk (EVA) will last around six hours, with the two astronauts working closely together to replace a faulty unit.

The ESA astronaut explains: “Our primary task will be to replace a failed Solar Shunt Unit, which transfers electrical power generated by the solar panels.”

The unit is relatively easy to replace but the work must be done during periods when the space station is out of sun illumination so that the solar arrays are not generating live power. Once done, the spacewalkers will lay cables in advance of new docking ports and reinstall a valve that was removed for relocation of the Leonardo module last year.

ESA will relay coverage of the EVA in full and highlights will be posted during and afterwards on the ESA TV ftp server.

More information at:
Tim Peake set for spacewalk / Principia / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA

From ESA Television - Transmissions - 2016 - 01 - Tim Peake/Tim Kopra Spacewalk Live

 

[z3r010]

SpaceX launch/sea landing 20 mins away

 

[z3r010]

Drone shop live

SpaceX | Webcast





A few minutes from landing.

 

[z3r010]

Bah they've lost signal with the drone ship

 

[z3r010]

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[rvcjew]

The first stage fell over so slowly the suspense was intense, I did not expect that big of an explosion.

 

[z3r010]

The waves were huge just before the "landing" tbh I think they would be better building a landing pad on a remote island than keep failing on the unpredictable sea.