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Posted: 9/15/2021 10:47:51 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TLF: Absolutely awesome! |
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Posted: 9/15/2021 10:51:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By webtaz99: Suck it Bezos. Suck it long and hard. I can't think of a context where this doesn't beat Bezos's little flight. It's like watching an NBA player dunking on a kid in middle school. 
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Posted: 9/15/2021 10:53:51 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: I can't think of a context where this doesn't beat Bezos's little flight. It's like watching an NBA player dunking on a kid in middle school. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: Originally Posted By webtaz99: Suck it Bezos. Suck it long and hard. I can't think of a context where this doesn't beat Bezos's little flight. It's like watching an NBA player dunking on a kid in middle school. But it's even better, because every time he gets dunked on he talks shit, and then runs off to whine to the ref about how the game isn't fair. |
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Posted: 9/15/2021 10:56:51 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By webtaz99: Suck it Bezos. Suck it long and hard. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By webtaz99: Originally Posted By TLF: Absolutely awesome! That was exactly my comment when I found out they were doing this. 
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Posted: 9/15/2021 11:02:42 PM EST
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Reaching the Karman Line is to spaceflight as over the bra fondling is to sex.
Yeah it's sorta good, but you just couldn't make it all the way. And then the quarterback rails her a month later. |
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Posted: 9/15/2021 11:10:38 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_X9GXxXEA88_VR?format=jpg&name=large I should buy a nice camera and quit using my old phone for everything.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/15/2021 11:11:17 PM EST
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this is awesome...and glad to see a cajun lady going to space!
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Posted: 9/15/2021 11:38:20 PM EST
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Incredible, what an awesome time.
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Posted: 9/15/2021 11:44:57 PM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2021 6:19:57 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AZ_Sky:
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Posted: 9/16/2021 6:44:34 AM EST
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Heavens-above.com has the current orbit data
Inspiration4 - Visible Passes Search period start: 16 September 2021 00:00 Search period end: 18 September 2021 20:00 Orbit: 569 x 579 km, 51.6° (Epoch: 16 September) Change the location in the upper right to yours and on the main page under "Satellites" select Inspiration4. Click on the date of one that has a good high elevation pass and you will get a start chart of the pass with times. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 6:46:51 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AZ_Sky:
More like video of, rather than from. I’m surprised we don't have picture of peoples head popping in and out like gophers yet, that’s going be photoshopable. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 7:07:02 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 3Trip: More like video of, rather than from. I’m surprised we don't have picture of peoples head popping in and out like gophers yet, that’s going be photoshopable. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 3Trip: Originally Posted By AZ_Sky:
More like video of, rather than from. I’m surprised we don't have picture of peoples head popping in and out like gophers yet, that’s going be photoshopable. House keeping the stomach contents floating around still. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 11:11:40 AM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2021 11:18:26 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AZ_Sky:
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Posted: 9/16/2021 11:44:04 AM EST
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west coast Starlink booster is back in port
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Posted: 9/16/2021 11:59:37 AM EST
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This is really interesting.
What blows my mind is the speed at which you can be on top of anywhere in the planet within minutes. I understand ELon wants to launch a starship and land it at another point on earth but man....he has the proven tech already to do this with Crew Dragon. Being that Crew Dragon needs to land in the water, the biggest time waste is retrieving the capsule and getting back to port. But they don't have to use a slow OSV to get the capsule. The OSV like the seacor Cheetah is 170 ft long and with a crane on the back would easily be able to retreive the Crew Dragon from the water. Also it cruises at 38 kts. Passengers 150Single Cabins 2Double Cabins 24 Person Cabins 1Crew Mess1 A boat like that could operate anywhere in the world, retreive the capsule and be back at the dock in less than 2 hours. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 12:45:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
Indeed.  All SpaceX Launches From KSC in 4 Minutes 20 Seconds -1 Let's haul some tonnage! |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 1:02:20 PM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2021 1:10:02 PM EST
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I certainly find the lack of video interesting. Someone definitely hurled yesterday.
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Posted: 9/16/2021 1:51:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: This is really interesting. What blows my mind is the speed at which you can be on top of anywhere in the planet within minutes. I understand ELon wants to launch a starship and land it at another point on earth but man....he has the proven tech already to do this with Crew Dragon. Being that Crew Dragon needs to land in the water, the biggest time waste is retrieving the capsule and getting back to port. But they don't have to use a slow OSV to get the capsule. The OSV like the seacor Cheetah is 170 ft long and with a crane on the back would easily be able to retreive the Crew Dragon from the water. Also it cruises at 38 kts. Passengers 150Single Cabins 2Double Cabins 24 Person Cabins 1Crew Mess1 A boat like that could operate anywhere in the world, retreive the capsule and be back at the dock in less than 2 hours. Whole different ballpark of cost. Dragon throws away a 2nd stage. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 2:01:40 PM EST
[Last Edit: midcap]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: Whole different ballpark of cost. Dragon throws away a 2nd stage. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: Originally Posted By midcap: This is really interesting. What blows my mind is the speed at which you can be on top of anywhere in the planet within minutes. I understand ELon wants to launch a starship and land it at another point on earth but man....he has the proven tech already to do this with Crew Dragon. Being that Crew Dragon needs to land in the water, the biggest time waste is retrieving the capsule and getting back to port. But they don't have to use a slow OSV to get the capsule. The OSV like the seacor Cheetah is 170 ft long and with a crane on the back would easily be able to retreive the Crew Dragon from the water. Also it cruises at 38 kts. Passengers 150Single Cabins 2Double Cabins 24 Person Cabins 1Crew Mess1 A boat like that could operate anywhere in the world, retreive the capsule and be back at the dock in less than 2 hours. Whole different ballpark of cost. Dragon throws away a 2nd stage. I get that....I am just curious as to how high the 1st stage which is reusable could send the dragon capsule up? Like would it be enough to send it up high enough to then glide from Florida to the North Sea? I just looked, that's 50 miles high at 7000 MPH.....I wonder what the glide ratio of the capsule would be at that point? The upper celtic sea is like 2000 miles away from the Cape in FL, sooo 40:1 would be needed.....40 miles of travel for every 1 mile in altitude. But I am starting to think, well maybe, they can launch Falcon 9s with crew dragons back and forth. Falcon 9 with crew dragon lifts off from FLA, then travels towards the UK, when it gets to the correct apogee, the two stages seperate, Falcon 9 lands on a barge in the celtic sea, and Crew Dragon also lands there or the North Sea, I would think the english channel would be too small. But I do think Bezos capsule is a better fit for this mission as they can land on the ground. Maybe Have Falcon 9s with the Bezos module on top and run back and forth like that. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 2:08:07 PM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
Translation Conduct Research means. HURL! |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 2:21:42 PM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2021 3:07:52 PM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2021 3:40:48 PM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
If they keep going out of their way to tell us that the crew is fine but keep up the video blackout, I'm going to get suspicious. Was there a barforama? Space madness? |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 3:48:51 PM EST
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Bezos may be on my shit list but I have to give him some credit for the congratulations. It had to taste like absolute shit on his tongue (or fingers?
) but he did it.Maybe this can help him refocus on advancing mankind rather than using lawfare on us. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 3:51:17 PM EST
[Last Edit: AmericanPeople]
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I will post a few charts for a pass tonight. Imagine holding it over your head with the top of the chart to the north.
All of these were generated by heavens-above.com They all time out. Sorry. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 3:51:21 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Zam18th: Bezos may be on my shit list but I have to give him some credit for the congratulations. It had to taste like absolute shit on his tongue (or fingers? ) but he did it.Maybe this can help him refocus on advancing mankind rather than using lawfare on us. He was probably just using it to help him in court: "See, I am not just jealous..." |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 4:00:50 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: I get that....I am just curious as to how high the 1st stage which is reusable could send the dragon capsule up? Like would it be enough to send it up high enough to then glide from Florida to the North Sea? I just looked, that's 50 miles high at 7000 MPH.....I wonder what the glide ratio of the capsule would be at that point? The upper celtic sea is like 2000 miles away from the Cape in FL, sooo 40:1 would be needed.....40 miles of travel for every 1 mile in altitude. But I am starting to think, well maybe, they can launch Falcon 9s with crew dragons back and forth. Falcon 9 with crew dragon lifts off from FLA, then travels towards the UK, when it gets to the correct apogee, the two stages seperate, Falcon 9 lands on a barge in the celtic sea, and Crew Dragon also lands there or the North Sea, I would think the english channel would be too small. But I do think Bezos capsule is a better fit for this mission as they can land on the ground. Maybe Have Falcon 9s with the Bezos module on top and run back and forth like that. The whole point of the Starship is to make the upper stage carry systems like Dragon to where you can make that stage man-rated and also be able to land itself. The second stage is an SSTO and will easily be able to self-land (I mean, look at all the tests they've done) if they altered it to not pull the high-G bellyflop (unless they want passengers to deal with 4.5G). The second stage contains 8,300 m/s of dV at 1,320 ton / 120 ton. It will be able to do whatevers' asked of it. So no, you won't ever see a Falcon 9 doing Earthly transportation. It won't need to. The Starship can easily, easily do all of that. That's why its being built: It will be able to land on 5 different planets and dozens of moons. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 4:08:14 PM EST
[Last Edit: AmericanPeople]
[#31]
These are bad now too.
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Posted: 9/16/2021 6:36:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AmericanPeople: These are bad now too. I caught the LA one before it expired. Thanks! |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 6:54:12 PM EST
[#33]
I am bummed they haven't been on camera. Even if was just few minutes it would be cool. The smile on the young girl's face during launch is priceless. There have be more smiles like that.
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Posted: 9/16/2021 6:56:29 PM EST
[Last Edit: ASUsax]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Zam18th: If they keep going out of their way to tell us that the crew is fine but keep up the video blackout, I'm going to get suspicious. Was there a barforama? Space madness? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Zam18th: If they keep going out of their way to tell us that the crew is fine but keep up the video blackout, I'm going to get suspicious. Was there a barforama? Space madness? Originally Posted By ErikS: I am bummed they haven't been on camera. Even if was just few minutes it would be cool. The smile on the young girl's face during launch is priceless. There have be more smiles like that. Most likely they don't want to intrude too much on the Netflix documentary that goes along with this. Gotta sell those subscriptions... |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 6:57:13 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_bWlSPXoAQm_6V?format=jpg&name=large I LOL'ed at this one in the office today and my Boss came over... fortunately he LOL'ed also... 
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Posted: 9/16/2021 7:49:48 PM EST
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Fucking SpaceX is the best thing about our current time.
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OK, USA
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Posted: 9/16/2021 8:47:06 PM EST
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Well I just waved hello at them as they passed 60º to my SE. :)
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Posted: 9/16/2021 8:54:55 PM EST
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Between the Moon, all the lights around where I live, and some slight haze it was way to bright to see Dragon. There was a really nice pass from the ISS about an hour ago, though.
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Posted: 9/16/2021 8:58:11 PM EST
[Last Edit: AmericanPeople]
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I just saw it. It was around magnitude 3 as it passed due north. Looking for it as it approaches due north or south and in the eastern sky is better than trying to look at it anywhere close to the western horizon.
I looked naked eye but had it crossed over a bright star binoculars could have helped. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 9:06:05 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ASUsax: Most likely they don't want to intrude too much on the Netflix documentary that goes along with this. Gotta sell those subscriptions... Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ASUsax: Originally Posted By Zam18th: If they keep going out of their way to tell us that the crew is fine but keep up the video blackout, I'm going to get suspicious. Was there a barforama? Space madness? Originally Posted By ErikS: I am bummed they haven't been on camera. Even if was just few minutes it would be cool. The smile on the young girl's face during launch is priceless. There have be more smiles like that.at Most likely they don't want to intrude too much on the Netflix documentary that goes along with this. Gotta sell those subscriptions... Oh well. Their ship, their rules.
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Posted: 9/16/2021 9:08:05 PM EST
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Between the Netflix thing, and the children's hospital thing, I would not be surprised if all the video is contractually blocked.
Scarcity becomes value. |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 9:09:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By webtaz99: Between the Netflix thing, and the children's hospital thing, I would not be surprised if all the video is contractually blocked. Scarcity becomes value. One day into a three day trip....a three day trip. (Cue Gilligan's Island music). |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 9:49:37 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_bWlSPXoAQm_6V?format=jpg&name=large
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Posted: 9/16/2021 10:04:58 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Taboot: Fucking SpaceX is the best thing about our current time. 
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Posted: 9/16/2021 11:01:18 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FrankyRay: Grabbed a screen shortly after MAX-Q. Check that look on Hayley's face. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/546602/Inspiration4LaunchHayley_01_jpg-2092240.JPG Priceless.   |
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Posted: 9/16/2021 11:27:09 PM EST
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Posted: 9/17/2021 5:43:11 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_dZHO1WEAAa6f-?format=jpg&name=900x900 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_dZHPPWYAIRRTP?format=jpg&name=900x900 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_dZJL3XMAA1Lgh?format=jpg&name=medium https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_dZJNZWEAAKc2H?format=png&name=900x900 Those pictures are priceless! But also really expensive! |
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Posted: 9/17/2021 8:15:44 AM EST
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It occurred to me that perhaps the reason we're not seeing video is because they are doing "human research" and maybe it's NSFW human research. Would you put it past Elon lay claim to the first space baby being conceived on one of his ships?
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Posted: 9/17/2021 1:18:48 PM EST
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Posted: 9/17/2021 1:22:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kill-9: This is what I've been waiting for. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kill-9: Originally Posted By AZ_Sky:
The comment  - ' Definitely not flat '
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