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iHirO
United Kingdom1381 Posts
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Taf the Ghost
United States11751 Posts
On June 29 2015 02:16 Djzapz wrote: Space is hard indeed.  What concerns me is that NASA is already losing a bunch of its funding and now they're doing business with the private sector and if it doesn't work out maybe it'll further turn Washington away from space exploration. Hell if we're having trouble sending supplies to the ISS, why would we bother looking farther than Earth's orbit... The "Jobs for Engineers in my District" Program, normally known as NASA, won't die. In fact, the privatization aspects have made it harder to kill, since they've setup shop in even more States & Congressional Districts than before. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of space tech & space exploration, but it's foolish to not understand why these programs operate as they have for years. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On July 06 2015 14:01 Taf the Ghost wrote: The "Jobs for Engineers in my District" Program, normally known as NASA, won't die. In fact, the privatization aspects have made it harder to kill, since they've setup shop in even more States & Congressional Districts than before. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of space tech & space exploration, but it's foolish to not understand why these programs operate as they have for years. Foolish not to understand? Sounds like an odd choice of words... a... foolish choice of words. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — On Thursday, July 9, NASA announced the first four U.S. astronauts that have been tapped to conduct the first flights of commercial spacecraft under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Under this initiative SpaceX and Boeing must conduct a crewed test flight with at least one NASA astronaut on board. SpaceX has confirmed a report that appeared on the social media website Facebook that it has opted to go with an all-NASA crew (2 astronauts) on this important test flight. NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams have been selected as the astronauts who will conduct the test flights of Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s crewed Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX could have opted to just send one NASA astronaut along with one SpaceX astronaut (per the milestones listed under CCP). SpaceX has already made progress toward having astronauts use Dragon as a means to travel to the International Space Station with seven of the automated versions of the spacecraft already having ventured into the black and arriving at the orbiting laboratory. The Hawthorne, California-based firm has also tested out the abort capabilities of their crewed Dragon spacecraft, during the May 6, 2015 Pad Abort Test conducted at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. Source | ||
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screamingpalm
United States1527 Posts
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Grettin
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Shottaz
United Kingdom414 Posts
On July 14 2015 21:19 Grettin wrote: Best image yet. 4km per pixel. Better pictures tomorrow. "10 times better" apparently. That is such a cool picture. I am immensely hyped for the big reveal of the new photos. My mind can't even comprehend the size of pluto, even considering it's a relatively small planet. I read somewhere the probe is going to try and capture pictures of Charon and the other moons too. Fingers crossed we get some decent pictures. | ||
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Yurie
12124 Posts
Anybody know when NASA will start receiving the data? As I understood it they turned it so the sending dish isn't facing towards Earth for better data collection. | ||
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oBlade
United States6320 Posts
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Yurie
12124 Posts
On July 15 2015 04:53 oBlade wrote: It takes something like 1 year for all the HD photos to download from the spacecraft after the Pluto flyby. Was it something like a 4000 b/s connection they said at the press conference? (0.5kB/s) Probably with worse compression than they could get now a days due to computer power/watt and algorithms of the time. | ||
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Taf the Ghost
United States11751 Posts
On July 15 2015 05:02 Yurie wrote: Was it something like a 4000 b/s connection they said at the press conference? (0.5kB/s) Probably with worse compression than they could get now a days due to computer power/watt and algorithms of the time. And the communications equipment was likely finalized in 2005. So there's also a decade of technological advancement in that time. | ||
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Yrr
Germany804 Posts
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Yurie
12124 Posts
So now there is just the waiting with some new data showing up now and then. Hope they get the funding to visit a Kupier belt object as well. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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oBlade
United States6320 Posts
On July 15 2015 14:09 Yurie wrote: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-new-horizons-phones-home-safe-after-pluto-flyby So now there is just the waiting with some new data showing up now and then. Hope they get the funding to visit a Kupier belt object as well. I think it's mainly a matter of finding one close enough to the probe's trajectory now though. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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oBlade
United States6320 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
No launch before September. Commercial Crew phase/testing will not be affected. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Next launch will see the Dragon implemented with new software that would deploy parachutes in the case of such an event. Strut testing to be done in house to prevent possible future failures. Possible redesign, new supplier. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
He tank did not burst. Would have seen more had that occured. Customers were briefed last week and they agree with the conclusions so far. | ||
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