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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1140 on: 10/18/2017 02:48 pm »
I, for one, can't wait for the Zima launch. I may be in town to see this baby go up!

Nice hat?


edit: Okay... I /really/ just dated myself ;)
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1141 on: 10/18/2017 05:06 pm »
I, for one, can't wait for the Zima launch. I may be in town to see this baby go up!

Nice hat?


edit: Okay... I /really/ just dated myself ;)

Why, I think that was a pretty up to date reference ;)

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1142 on: 10/18/2017 09:25 pm »
I, for one, can't wait for the Zima launch. I may be in town to see this baby go up!

Nice hat?


edit: Okay... I /really/ just dated myself ;)

There are several Zima ads on YouTube...this is one of them with "nize hat":



Here'z another:



Oh, boy...  ::) Gonna party like it's 1994!

Not my pick-up line, but it could have been used here in "DZ" back-in-the-day, over a pair of Zimas:

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1143 on: 10/19/2017 04:45 am »
What's your zign?

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1144 on: 10/19/2017 06:22 pm »
Just testing old links for HTTPS mod, so had a bit of fun with it. ;)

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1145 on: 10/19/2017 06:37 pm »
Just testing old links for HTTPS mod, so had a bit of fun with it. ;)

From 2013 to 2017. From Stampede to Security.

The evolution of the Rocket Cows of McGregor.

Background: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/08/spacex-bothering-bovines-revolutionizing-rockets/

(SpaceX video shot and Gary Blair L2 McGregor photo).

And a renewable source of methane for mars...
rocket cows
From stampede to security to passengers?

Whatever their mission I can promise that you DO NOT want to run up behind a herd of them blocking the road in front of you while driving a brand new 1986 Thunderbird and blow the horn.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1146 on: 10/24/2017 03:27 pm »
This had fallen into page 2 of the missions section (so many mission!) but all is still on track for a Static Fire test on the 26 as of last update.
I'm amused that we're now two days out from Static Fire, maybe four days out from the launch if things go well, and the latest SpaceX launch has fallen to page 2 in the SpaceX Missions section! Ho hum, another comsat launch and landing, I guess?

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1147 on: 10/24/2017 03:35 pm »
This had fallen into page 2 of the missions section (so many mission!) but all is still on track for a Static Fire test on the 26 as of last update.
I'm amused that we're now two days out from Static Fire, maybe four days out from the launch if things go well, and the latest SpaceX launch has fallen to page 2 in the SpaceX Missions section! Ho hum, another comsat launch and landing, I guess?
The discussion thread for the mission has been active, it was just the update thread that fell off.  Since there weren't any updates of late, this is not surprising.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1148 on: 10/24/2017 06:03 pm »
This had fallen into page 2 of the missions section (so many mission!) but all is still on track for a Static Fire test on the 26 as of last update.
I'm amused that we're now two days out from Static Fire, maybe four days out from the launch if things go well, and the latest SpaceX launch has fallen to page 2 in the SpaceX Missions section! Ho hum, another comsat launch and landing, I guess?
The discussion thread for the mission has been active, it was just the update thread that fell off.  Since there weren't any updates of late, this is not surprising.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1149 on: 10/24/2017 07:43 pm »
This had fallen into page 2 of the missions section (so many mission!) but all is still on track for a Static Fire test on the 26 as of last update.
I'm amused that we're now two days out from Static Fire, maybe four days out from the launch if things go well, and the latest SpaceX launch has fallen to page 2 in the SpaceX Missions section! Ho hum, another comsat launch and landing, I guess?

 Distant voice echos from somewhere in another thread:
      “Use the Force Chris”
Mod: “Sir, the update thread has turned off its targeting computer”

Com( urgently): “Update thread, you’re on page two... are you ok? “
Update Thread “Yes, I’m fine! No problem... Everything is Okey-Dokey, all good... ummmm
These aren’t the drone ships you’re looking for...”

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1150 on: 10/24/2017 08:34 pm »
And a renewable source of methane for mars...
rocket cows

Ahh...so BFR = Bovine Flatulence Rocket!

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1151 on: 10/24/2017 08:55 pm »
If I remember correctly,  roadheaders run about 12-100 tons while bulldozers can run 40 to 104 tons.

Or you could use the greatest invention of the 21st century, the long armed mangolator!
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1152 on: 10/25/2017 12:01 am »
that seems all kinds of dangerous and unwise.

eminently well suited for this thread.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1153 on: 10/25/2017 01:16 am »
As unseasonable record high 100 degree F temperatures bake Vandenberg AFB today, the Minotaur C vehicle being readied for launch on 31 October glistens in the bright sun at its seaside launch pad 576E.

Image MIN3 and MIN4: The road to space is long with many a winding turn.

Image MIN7 shows the larger SLC-2W looming behind, the launch site of the JPSS aboard a Delta II scheduled for November.

Image MIN12 shows the distant coastline of Vandenberg South Base, with SLC-4 and SLC-6 clearly visible on a rare hot clear marine layer free day.

I don't want to filll up the main update page after this awesome post Helodriver... but what awesome pictures and this fine rocket... wish skybox, orbital atk, air force... good luck on this flight... this could make or break Minotaur C.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1154 on: 10/25/2017 04:43 am »
(Split out of L2 as it's not L2....heh....per a reference about Zuma hiding under a mask...funny, so into party thread - Chris)

It was a close-run thing, but I managed to catch Zuma after encapsulation..
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1155 on: 10/25/2017 05:33 pm »
Genious!  Now we know that they are sending up Ladies and Germs.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1156 on: 10/26/2017 04:02 pm »
The latest ASAP meeting minutes are out:

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The public needs to understand that NASA spin-offs are more than Tang or Velco—there are important breakthroughs, and they are one of the major benefits from what NASA does.

From the tenor of those comments I get the feeling that ASAP members are undervaluing Tang and Velcro.  2 products that highly contributed to my happiness as a 5 year old.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1157 on: 10/27/2017 01:46 pm »
From the koreasat discussion thread
If they do a partial boost-back burn to return near the coast, the droneship won't take too much time to get positioned.

Nod. I wonder how much time they need to reconfigure things or if they have already calculated 5 or 10 different parameter loads for different landing points or even expendable with different things tested or ?

They've used a "contingency landing location" that repositioned the ASDS on at least 1 previous occasion, IIRC it was on one of the Iridium launches.  Which tells me that they likely have at least 2 or 3 targeted locations set up well before hand.

Will the Elon finally reveal the secret location of his volcano lair? Or would the Zuma launch be more appropriate?
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1158 on: 10/27/2017 03:26 pm »
My wife found me sitting in front of the fireplace reading new posts on the forums last night and asked me what was new on ‘Spacebook’. I just smiled and told way her it was way more interesting than whatever was happening on the Book of Faces.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1159 on: 10/27/2017 06:33 pm »
I'm ready for another launch, it's been too long :)

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