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How big is your satellite?

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:30 pm

by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:30 pm

Satellites are getting smaller, cheaper, and more complex – it really is rocket science, and its changing the world. FINN’s editor-in-chief Alan...

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Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:30 pm
Duck!

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
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by Boac » Thu Mar 05, 2020 1:27 pm

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Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
Space Instrumentation

Last post by llondel « Tue Mar 03, 2020 6:58 pm
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by Magnus » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:08 pm

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Rocket Science isn't rocket science.

I worked on instrumentation for the James Webb Space Telescope. The instrumentation was fairly straightforward,...

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Hopefully they don't use the same batteries as the Dreamliner.

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Tue Mar 03, 2020 6:58 pm
Apollo 8 - Navigation musings

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:15 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Feb 18, 2020 4:57 am
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I was watching a documentary on Apollo 8, the first mission ever to obit the moon and began to consider the issues of navigation for such a mission...

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- mentioned in Riding Rockets is 'Hoot' Gibson (F-14s)..

Flew as a pilot for Southwest airlines until he was forced to retire at 60!
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Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:15 pm
This puts things in perspective somewhat!

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:12 pm
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by Boac » Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:56 pm

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Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:12 pm
RIP - Heather Couper

Last post by Capetonian « Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:05 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:31 pm

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Heather Couper Astronomer

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There was a joke about a blonde, inevitably, and I can't quite remember how it goes, but the punchline is that she is at some fancy dinner with...

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Last post by Capetonian
Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:05 am
Apollo Accidents/Incidents

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:35 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:04 pm

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I had always assumed that while every flight was perilous, that there had only been 2 Apollo missions that had been marred by serious...

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I have always liked this photograph taken from the Apollo Soyuz hookup.

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Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:35 pm
Dr Rendezvous...

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:06 pm

by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:06 pm

I have been reading Buzz Aldrin's remarkably candid second autobiography 'Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon' dealing with...

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Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:06 pm
Gagarin - First man in space

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:35 pm
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by Alisoncc » Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:49 am

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Just watched the biopic/movie of Yuri Gagarin's life, preparation and flight into space. It was very matter-of-fact, no melodrama. Seemed to just end...

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His take on the accident which took Gagarin's life was that there was no conspiracy. Just Soviet inefficiency he said, which they did not want to...

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Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:35 pm
What shape is the universe?

Last post by boing « Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:00 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:27 pm
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Our understanding of the universe could be fundamentally wrong, astronomers say

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Fox

One of the most interesting things in cosmology is that factors such as the expansion rate of the universe and mass estimates lie right on the...
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Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:00 pm
The Voyager space craft.

Last post by bob2s « Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:49 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:02 am

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I watched this documentary yesterday on Amazon Prime... The Farthest and found it to be a most poignant and interesting recollection of the Voyager...

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Thanks for that GG,the best explanation I have ever read about the amazing journey of these two marvels.

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Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:49 pm
The bearded one hopes to fly high!

Last post by CremeEgg « Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:15 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:25 pm

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Sir Richard Branson chose a fortuitous day to be at the New York Stock Exchange for the flotation of Virgin Galactic. The market climbed into Bull...

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Beardy must have changed his tune. Eons ago I bought Virgin shares - never did anything and after a few years Beardy got fed up with the snooping...

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Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:15 pm
India's moon probe goes missing.

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:14 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:44 am

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India's attempt to land on the surface of the Moon appears to have ended in failure after its historic spacecraft went missing.

The probe, named...

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I wonder whether India asked or we offered.

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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:14 pm
The Loonies

Last post by Sisemen « Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:28 am

by Sisemen » Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:28 am

Spotted this while idly looking at FR24

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Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:28 am
Virgin air-test new launch system

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:15 am
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by Boac » Thu Jul 11, 2019 7:36 am

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Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:15 am
Planetary Defense

Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana « Fri May 03, 2019 7:16 pm
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by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:29 pm

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You may not realise that NASA has a Planetary Defense Office, to the best of my knowledge the only one on the planet.

So, since Superman isn't about...

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Please do not read the above if you are not security cleared.

Reminds me of the Irish bomb disposal instructions

Cut the blue wire
(p.t.o.)
..but...

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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri May 03, 2019 7:16 pm
Antares launch

Last post by Boac « Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:01 pm

by Boac » Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:01 pm

Just gone off - impressively on-time with no hitches so far. Roger Chaffee goes into space at last.

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Last post by Boac
Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:01 pm
Insight on Mars

Last post by OFSO « Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:14 pm
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by Boac » Tue Nov 27, 2018 12:11 pm

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Lovely to watch the live broadcast from Mission Control as it landed. A great job. I did not realise it is the 8th 'soft land' from NASA on Mars!

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Amazing the Martians allowed it to land. More misions to Mars have been lost than to all the other objects in the Solar System put together. Go...

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Last post by OFSO
Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:14 pm
Soyuz malfunction during launch

Last post by Cacophonix « Thu Nov 01, 2018 4:35 am
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by Boac » Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:19 am
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Down and reported alive and well. Bit of a wait for the current ISS crew!

NASA LIve

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Information from the Russian space agency on the failure.

For want of a nail and that kind of thing.

Caco
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Last post by Cacophonix
Thu Nov 01, 2018 4:35 am
Minerva

Last post by OFSO « Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:35 pm
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by Slasher » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:19 am

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I am quite impressed with the manner in which the missions are progressing.

What's especially unique, apart from the primary mission itself, is...

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Might reduce manufacturing costs a bit if some Sons of the Sand were given a box of bits and told to assemble a space-qualifiied research project. In...

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Last post by OFSO
Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:35 pm
50th Anniversary of some momentous days

Last post by Boac « Thu Oct 11, 2018 5:02 pm
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by Alisoncc » Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:07 pm

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50th Anniversary of some momentous days coming up in 2019. Given how little has been accomplished in the intervening years what would be a fitting...

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I vote for launching Trump to Mars. =))

Apologies for hijacking a serious post.....

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Last post by Boac
Thu Oct 11, 2018 5:02 pm
Freight drone under development..

Last post by John Hill « Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:59 am

by John Hill » Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:59 am

1 ton load and 2000kms range..

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Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:59 am
Flying live fish

Last post by Boac « Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:36 pm
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by Fliegenmong » Mon May 16, 2016 8:35 am

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What's involved in this? Anyone had any experience?

I knew a guy South of here who had a fish place on the Tweed river, and found a market for...

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Day-old chicks have been known to 'cook' if packed too tightly, poor buggers. Sadly, not too much meat on them..............

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Last post by Boac
Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:36 pm
Amazon considering own cargo airline.

Last post by MoreAviation « Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:49 pm
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by Ibbie » Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:55 am

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Interesting development.

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Well Amazon certainly have the need for a good logistics outfit and that, of course, includes aircraft but why would Amazon expect to be any more...

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Last post by MoreAviation
Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:49 pm

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