Bill H on booster return and how the parachutes did.
LeRoy: Boosters back on Thursday, open assessment on Friday. Sent a chase plane out to watch the boosters and follow both boosters, and focus on one booster to splashdown.
Not seen the video yet, but thinks the parachutes performed nominally.
End of presser. Damn that was a good one! LeRoy reckons he can't articulate all that well. Nonsense, that was brilliant.
LeRoy: Boosters back on Thursday, open assessment on Friday. Sent a chase plan out to watch the boosters and follow both boosters, and focus on one booster to splashdown.
Not seen the video yet, but thinks the parachutes performed nominally.
As he noted, this is the same plane/platform that was used to record the descent of the I-X booster.
Good NC3 burn completed via the RCS. Next burn in 12 hours.
Still looking to downlink the video tonight, but they are configured to transfer OMS pod survey images right now and there's about 40 of those that need to be transferred, along with some config to downlink video and then back for overnight after. They were going to start transferring the OMS pod images in about 10 minutes or so...guess it's kind of 'play it by ear.'
After the press briefing, sounded like they've been having more issues with OCA and haven't been able to get the images transferred. Still troubleshooting...
Going to set aside trying to get high data rate on OCA and go back to low data rate config. Will be troubleshooting on the ground for the next couple of days.
Crossing South Eastern Coast of Australia...
over the eastern part of Australia
and now exiting over the north Eastern shore of Australia heading into the Pacific.
approaching orbital sunset over the western coast of Canada - Australia to Canada in 30 minutes... Its the only way to fly..
approaching orbital sunset over the western coast of Canada - Australia to Canada in 30 minutes... Its the only way to fly..
That's how I want to visit Australia one day!
