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https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/2011577179692548600

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Scott Manley
@DJSnM
So if you're in California, the reentry of Crew 11's dragon spacecraft should be visible just after 12:30am tonight, look west and it'll appear as a bright, slow moving meteor.
If you're in SoCal you might even hear the sonic boom.
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Rocket Lab / Re: Rocket Lab Neutron - Updates
« Last post by catdlr on Today at 11:00 pm »
https://twitter.com/Muzznzer/status/2011579974302777453

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MurrayJ
@Muzznzer
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$RKLB Rocket Lab Hungry Hippo - Voyage Panama to Baltimore.
Update Jan 14, 2026 22:59 UTC
Safely through the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti and currently off Great Inagua Island.
At 7.9 knots, Predicted ETA (UTC) holds at Jan 20. 5 days 15 hours to go.
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Here we go again with the connection issues right as we are covering the undocking.

Cloud error Id: 
9be091c359b78a80
9be0a343bcc18a80
Also getting some denial of service errors.

Just for everyone's interest, since I'm on almost all the time, I see these daily around 10:25-10:30 p.m. PT.
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Ditto report of forum site access down this afternoon.
Cloudflare Ray ID: 9be091bdfc5fc92b

Edit: Another just now:
Cloudflare Ray ID: 9be106bd3870ea88
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Here we go again with the connection issues right as we are covering the undocking.

Cloud error Id: 
9be091c359b78a80
9be0a343bcc18a80
Also getting some denial of service errors.
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just a map of the traverse, with lines showing viewing directions of various images,

No - I don't know of anything like that.
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Two video links for entry, landing and recovery:


Coverage starts 2:15 AM ET January 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVoblm2Nxw


Or you can view the NSF version

Coverage starts 2:30 AM ET January 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzQpZnJ2bjg
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This topic has been moved to General Discussion.

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39675.0
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The long term plan is a million people on Mars, of which over 10,000 would die each year even if Mars were no more dangerous than Denmark.

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Q&A Section / Re: Why no Starlink on ISS?
« Last post by mn on Today at 10:32 pm »

When I made my comment/question, I was only thinking of it as running a CAT-5 from the Dragon to a switch on the ISS.  Nothing more complicated.  And if the docking adapter has a network connection already, then all the easier.

ISS uses a MIL-STD-1553 serial bus and not ethernet

Pretty sure that at least part of the ISS uses Ethernet (https://www.cablinginstall.com/design-install/article/16479610/astronauts-install-ethernet-cables-on-international-space-station)

The flight critical buses are 1553 and probably will remain so for the life of the program.

The station has had Ethernet since the beginning and has gradually been expanding its use cases but it's still non-critical.

Since the discussion here is specifically about communication, so out of curiosity, do the flight critical buses communicate to earth via TDRS directly? (or perhaps any data is somehow brought over to the ethernet side and that is what is connected to TDRS?)
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