Rocket launches LIVE.

[LONEWOLF]

Toasted Marshmallow..... Needs a good wash... :lol:

 

[Ramjet]

Captain Kirks Going to Space:

William Shatner Set for Blue Origin Flight in October.

 

[Jaros]

Given enough sedation he might enjoy it!! We weren't meant to fly . My only flaps are called ears... :clap:

 

[Ramjet]

Starship prototype, SN20, has started it's testing phase. Hydraulic rams to simulate engine thrust have been installed and pressure and cryo tests have started.
More info...

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/cryo-sn20

 

[LONEWOLF]

Well this just blew me away... I have herd things about this.... So i have posted this up here as its Space related... Well kind of anyhow...

now i know WHY Elon wants to get home so bad....

https://social.thefw.com/s/russian-...nFRBlE0_ocJtUu2y60w8GdwDO9sb4Q1ajdTMy3o&bdk=0

LW...

 

[Ramjet]

Weekly update from Marcus House with some good info on the Lucy mission.

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

 

[LONEWOLF]

BFR or Falcon Heavy also launches with-in the next month or two....

Quite a few launches planned for late this year and early next year....

Can't wait to see "The Beast" fly again...

LW...

 

[Ramjet]

Be great to see Falcon Heavy fly again. We seem to have had few launches but really there have been quite a few this year.

Coming up on the 5th is the 96th launch of the year.

Orbital Launch no.96 of 202
with planned to send the first ever movie crew to space as Scientific and Educational Project mission "The Challenge", at International Space Station, a Veteran Cosmonaut accompanies two Spaceflight Participants, will be transferred to ISS via #SoyuzMS19

This is the Crew to make a Russian movie at the ISS. Beating America once again in the space race.

Basic plot is someone on the ISS needs surgery to survive re-entry. Sexy , female doctor has to fly up to do the job.

 

[Ramjet]

Scott Manley with a short history of the Indian space program. ISRO.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/mI16AMPQna8[/video]

 

[Ramjet]

Interesting mission launching 23rd November. The DART, Double Asteroid Redirection Test, mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.

It will head out to meet up with a binary asteroid, Didymos and it's small moonlet. The spacecraft will impactthe moonlet to see if it's course can be altered.

I guess we won't have to send Bruce Willis up next time.

Read more....

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/falcon-heavy

 

[Jaros]

As long as they don't blow it up and send chunks of whatever size spraying over earth I'm happy with that.

 

[Ramjet]

Big month for human launches. Every craft capable and rated to take humans to space is planning on launching this month. First is the Soyuz launching shortly with an crew to Make a Russian movie in the ISS. Link below.

SpaceX will launch a private crew to the ISS.
Virgin is planning another launch.

Captain Kirk is taking a ride with Blue Origin.

China is launching a new crew to their space station.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/2vQR4w_DGhw[/video]

 

[Jaros]

Safe travels to all of them.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Yes RJ a very busy time... Hard to keep up sometimes.. :koala:

I think its funny how the USA has been gazumped by the Russians on the movie Idea... layful:

Tom Cruise won't be happy... 8.(

Have the FAA removed the Grounding of Virgin Galactic as they were grounded after their first flight a month ago..? I haven't seen anything about it...

LW....

 

[Ramjet]

Yes Virgin are able to fly again. Upper level winds pushed it off course a little but it was still inside the zone.

Boeing Starliner getting embarrassing with their delays. Looks like some of their early missions are being g switched to the Dragon.

India will be sending crewed flights up in a year or so.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Thanks RJ.... :Y:

LW...

 

[Ramjet]

Live coverage: Japanese Epsilon rocket ready for second launch attempt.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/hbz77xsHdR8[/video]

 

[Ramjet]

An Australian will join Captain Kirk on his short trip to space.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10...en-william-shatner-jeff-bezos-space/100525184

SpaceX are still pushing ahead quickly in Texas. Building rockets as fast as they can. This image shows the current KNOWN progress with Starship. Many more partly assembled section buy no labels spotted.

 

[Jaros]

Launch delayed due to bad weather-tomorrow.

 

[Ramjet]

LUCY is a really interesting mission and the launch window opens Saterday. Over 12 years Lucy will travel to the outer area of our solar system to flyby and collect data on 7 or 8 asteroids. The planning to use gravity assists to travel so far and accurately is astounding.

Here's Scott Manley's video. The flightpath is about the 8 minute mark.

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