Quote from: Jim on 08/19/2017 05:20 pmJust like a cake, the same things have to be done to make and fly one.For clarification, what exactly needs to be done to fly a cake? I'm assuming it has to do with correctly balancing the Layers/Decorations (L/D)?
Just like a cake, the same things have to be done to make and fly one.
So does anyone know how to keep the SpaceX stream audio from showing up in a google hangout while attending a remote meeting. (Without muting it)Just asking for a friend....
Don't know about boring, one of the junior ME's walked in and was asking all sorts of weird question about it, just not grasping what he was seeing. You mean they just dropped a rocket stage from space onto a barge several hundred miles down range out at asea? How many things are in orbit, really, and are active, really? How do they all move out of the way from each other? It's 500 km up? Best part is he is off to congratulate a school mate that now works for SpaceX out on the west coast.... To be a fly on the wall for that interesting conversation.
Don't know about boring
Quote from: kevin-rf on 08/24/2017 07:36 pmDon't know about boringWell, a bit of hyperbole should be allowed in a party thread Seriously, the heart-skipping-a-beat launches for Falcon 9 are a thing of the past for me. Time for a new chall- OH HI FALCON HEAVY!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFrom: 30th Space Wing Public Affairs, www.vandenberg.af.milFALCON 9 LAUNCHES FROM VANDENBERGVANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Team Vandenberg launched the FORMOSAT-5satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 hereThursday, Aug. 24, at 11:51 a.m. PDT.Col. Gregory E. Wood , 30th Space Wing vice commander, was the launch safetyauthority."The 30th Space Wing takes great pride in supporting another successful SpaceXlaunch," said Wood. "It is a sterling example of the wing's commitment topublic safety and mission success on the Western Range."SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket delivers FORMOSAT-5, an Earth observation satellitefor Taiwan's National Space Organization, to a low-Earth orbit."The Falcon 9 launch of Formosat-5 was an incredible mission to be a part of!This was the first satellite manufactured and integrated entirely by Taiwanand it was also the fastest turn-around time between Falcon launches here atSpace Launch Complex-4," said Capt. Kylie Prachar, Air Force Launch Commanderfor F9-40 Formosat-5 mission, 1st Air and Space Test Squadron. "Our Air Forceteam put in a lot of work to support the mission and provide FleetSurveillance on behalf of the Space and Missile Systems Center."FORMOSAT-5 will operate in a sun synchronous orbit at an altitude of 720-kmwith a 98.28 degree inclination angle. As with the FORMOSAT-2 satellite, theprimary payload on FORMOSAT-5 is an optical Remote Sensing Instrument (RSI),which provides 2-meter resolution panchromatic (black & white) and 4-meterresolution multi-spectral (color) images. FORMOSAT-5 also hosts a secondaryscientific payload, an Advanced Ionospheric Probe, developed by Taiwan'sNational Central University.
For Falcon Heavy, I'll have to sit on the edge of three seats.
Quote from: Joffan on 08/24/2017 11:16 pmFor Falcon Heavy, I'll have to sit on the edge of three seats.Just curious, do you have procedures in place for seat separation at the appropriate phase of the flight so you'll continue sitting on the edge of only one seat once boosters have done their job?
Quote from: Jarnis on 08/25/2017 12:42 pmQuote from: Joffan on 08/24/2017 11:16 pmFor Falcon Heavy, I'll have to sit on the edge of three seats.Just curious, do you have procedures in place for seat separation at the appropriate phase of the flight so you'll continue sitting on the edge of only one seat once boosters have done their job?Now that's an idea. Start off in the middle of a three-segment sectional with center ottoman, then at booster sep, drop the sides for something more like a chaise lounge configuration. When the center core drops off, move forward to ottoman-only position. And at payload sep, you jump off and cheer.
Would you say " Three chairs for SpaceX!" ?