SpaceX And/Or Rocketry In General

archae86
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The NSF Fleetcam was not

The NSF Fleetcam was not showing west coast until pretty recently, so it missed the beginning of the ballast tank filling which caused Might Servant 1 to get low enough in the water so that now the main deck is entirely awash.  I think it has a way farther down to go before the barge is in enough water to float.  Sometime soon, I think they'll hook up a tug and just move the barge away.  At least one tug is already on scene.

archae86
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I personally missed most of

I personally missed most of the primary evolution as the landing barge floated off the heavy lift ship and was towed to dock.  So I was happy to get a second chance, which takes a lot less time than live viewing.

NSF has posted to Youtube a highlights video which in thirteen minutes shows material including:

1. The barge on the lift ship on arrival at Long Beach
2. Pretty and very detailed overhead video of the barge on the lift ship before unloading
3. The lift ship going down in the water as ballast is added
4. Tugs urging the barge to move off the lift ship
5. Tugs moving the barge on to land

There are ads at the beginning, and some in the middle.  

Disclosure: this has nothing to do with Einstein, and not much to do with space flight.  I just found it intriguing, and thought you could decide for yourself whether to spend any time with it.

Gary Charpentier
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Astra, abort after

Astra, abort after liftoff.

Getting up is not easy.

 

archae86
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Gary Charpentier

Gary Charpentier wrote:

Astra, abort after liftoff.

That was one strange-looking liftoff.  It power-slid sideways for a remarkably long time.

It is a 5 engine bird, which must normally take off with T/W right near 1.25.  So when one engine stopped producing power 1 second after liftoff, T/W was almost exactly 1.0 until enough fuel burned off to get things going.  Eventually it got up to about 40 kilometers, but "a day late and a dollar short" so they called a terminate.

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archae86 wrote:Gary

archae86 wrote:
Gary Charpentier wrote:
Astra, abort after liftoff.
That was one strange-looking liftoff.  It power-slid sideways for a remarkably long time.

Strange looking is an understatement.  Range safety should have called for terminate at that point.  Then again being a test flight maybe the safety parameters had not been exceeded yet so someone wanted data.

Looked at their previous launch and no slide, just up, so I think failure was at T-0.

archae86 wrote:
It is a 5 engine bird, which must normally take off with T/W right near 1.25.  So when one engine stopped producing power 1 second after liftoff, T/W was almost exactly 1.0 until enough fuel burned off to get things going.  Eventually it got up to about 40 kilometers, but "a day late and a dollar short" so they called a terminate.

I did notice just before engine shutdown the vehicle was not stable and was pitching back and forth.  Also it tumbled almost immediately after shutdown and pieces of the rocket were pealing off just before they cut the feed.

Quite nasty.

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Video and Scott Manley's

Video and Scott Manley's take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2jU5W4ehPE

Richard

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Kavanagh wrote:Video and

Kavanagh wrote:

Video and Scott Manley's take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2jU5W4ehPE

Sideways rocket ? I can do that all day long* in Kerbal Space Program. :-)

{ "approaching nominal trajectory" is my best case }

Cheers, Mike.

* recurrently that is. BTW does anyone else play KSP ?

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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SpaceX is targeting a

SpaceX is targeting a five-hour launch window on Wednesday, September 15, opening at 8:02 p.m. EDT 

 for launch of the Inspiration4 mission – the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit – aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBVqsqqm9AM

https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html

 

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MAGIC Quantum Mechanic

MAGIC Quantum Mechanic wrote:

SpaceX is targeting a five-hour launch window on Wednesday, September 15, opening at 8:02 p.m. EDT 

 for launch of the Inspiration4 mission – the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit – aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBVqsqqm9AM

https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html 

The young girl going on that flight nicknamed 'Nova' is SUPER SUPER smart!!! She's a cancer survivor and a Physicians Asst right now.

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A Christmas present for the

A Christmas present for the world.

The James Webb Space Telescope launched this morning, starting the journey to operation position at L2 (the second Lagrange point of the Earth-Moon-Sun system).

NASA is running a mission status website at:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

The Launch vehicle was an Ariane5, launching from ESA's launch site Kourou, French Guiana.

 

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