Rocket launches LIVE.

[Ramjet]

Many systems monitoring many sensors.... time is measured nano seconds.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Saw a great doco last night on Falcon Heavy and Spacex and their plans for Mars..... Wow... Shame it only went for 1hr... They could have filled several hrs with their Achievements....

LW....

 

[Ramjet]

As always a far reaching statement from Musk. Tesla to build electric planes. Also an update on the Starship and Super Heavy changes. Will now be made of metal. A heavy but super strong metal. This info from tweets by Musk.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Interesting... I don't Tweet... But still get to see some... :koala:

LW....

 

[Ramjet]

Interesting... I don't Tweet... But still get to see some... :koala:

LW....

I have a twitter account but never use it. I get this info from people who share it to Fakebook and sometime I read Reddit. erfect:

Looks like this is just a topic for you and I LW. layful: :inlove: ower: :fistpump:

 

[LONEWOLF]

Mmmm you may be correct, although I feel there may be a few Fence-sitters.... :koala:

Oh well Ramjet, time for a short video on MS-10 Launch back in November taken from the ISS... erfect:
You need to scroll down a bit to the Video... and you can really see the Earths Atmospheric Layers....

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/amazing-time-lapse-video-of-a-rocket-launch-seen-from-space

LW....

 

[Ramjet]

Oh wow. that was spectacular.I had not seen that video. There is one of a recent F9 launch taken by a guy out the window of a plane. I will track it down and post it.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Thought you would like it... :Y:

LW....

 

[Wishfull]

Awsome ! South Australia is going to have space launches !

 

[Ramjet]

Awsome ! South Australia is going to have space launches !

Again......

 

[Ramjet]

A nice video by The Everyday Astronaut giving an update on Blue Origin.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/3urRWGt2s6k[/video]

 

[Wishfull]

Awsome ! South Australia is going to have space launches !

Again......

Yes again. I think they are going to use the old Woomera rocket range. It's supposed to generate 20,000 new jobs.

 

[Ramjet]

Awsome ! South Australia is going to have space launches !

Again......

Yes again. I think they are going to use the old Woomera rocket range. It's supposed to generate 20,000 new jobs.

That's awesome. Hope it gets off the ground sooner rather than later.

 

[Ramjet]

In other space news. Rocketlab will be launching this afternoon just after 3 pm. Link below.
Virgin Galactic have also announced they will be making a flight into space this week.

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream

 

[Ramjet]

What will a new space agency do for Adelaide, Australia and the world?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12...5U-s7XLhXfGiKHsMPVS3yXMd6z9XSX5ua5PH4HrmZZVSE

 

[Ramjet]

A lot happening in the space industry today. China's Change-4 moon lander has Successfully Entered Lunar Orbit. It will be landing on the dark side of the moon.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/gues...A5LQlF2m9_p3FxV-7vVLgkqkK_6FkbjNV3dHKFdjVrDBY

 

[Wishfull]

Well looks like Woomera might be a while coming according to that news report.

 

[Ramjet]

We know anything run by the gov will be slow moving. It's a start. One point that I didn't understand was that we are already launching satellites.

"Australia is already launching satellites at the moment so who knows what the future is going to be?" she said.

"There are already satellite launches happening in Australia.

 

[BigWave]

Hey RJ.
Just a clarification for some readers, there is no "dark side" of the moon, (as was sung by Pink Floyd), just as there is no constant "dark side" of the Earth.
The moon has days and nights, however its is ~29.5 Earth days.
There is a far side of the moon (as the moon is Earth synchronous), but not a constant "dark side"
As it will be Half Moon on 15th Dec, I guess that just means they'll be landing on the Earth facing side, but just into the dark half - lunar night (they'll still need constant comms with Earth).
That way, the landing craft will be protected by the moon during the critical landing from solar particles etc (I'm guessing).
Then, in a few days the sun will have risen there, so they can get better happy snaps.

 

[Ramjet]

Hey RJ.
Just a clarification for some readers, there is no "dark side" of the moon, (as was sung by Pink Floyd), just as there is no constant "dark side" of the Earth.
The moon has days and nights, however its is ~29.5 Earth days.
There is a far side of the moon (as the moon is Earth synchronous), but not a constant "dark side"
As it will be Half Moon on 15th Dec, I guess that just means they'll be landing on the Earth facing side, but just into the dark half - lunar night (they'll still need constant comms with Earth).
That way, the landing craft will be protected by the moon during the critical landing from solar particles etc (I'm guessing).
Then, in a few days the sun will have risen there, so they can get better happy snaps.

Thanks for that BW.

Everyday Astronaut will go live at 2.35 pm for the Rocketlab launch. I highly recommend watching his stream. He is enthusiastic and has lots of good information.

https://youtu.be/owz936Gp8OU