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SpaceX Launching Next-Generation Private Rocket Test Flight Today: Watch Live [Vandenberg]
space.com ^
| September 29, 2013 09:45am ET
| Tariq Malik, Managing Editor
Posted on 09/29/2013 7:58:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:09:33 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I don’t know if it will be on NASA TV since I don’t see anything listed for it on their schedule. They're probably too busy doing moslem outreach.
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:11:30 AM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Hey RATS! Control your murdering FREAKS!)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
Them and the park service.
43
posted on
09/29/2013 9:11:57 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Looks like they made orbit!
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:15:15 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:15:58 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
To: BenLurkin
Stay on the Spaceflightnow.com web link for further updates.
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:16:12 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: BenLurkin
They are ending the broadcast. I would like to see what happens to the first stage. Hope they have video of that.
To: Vince Ferrer
Did they do the “Grasshopper” routine with this launch first stage?
I heard a “First Stage reignited” comment, but nothing more.
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:17:20 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
To: BwanaNdege
This is a test of the first stage retro rockets,not a
full return...
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:19:50 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: hoagy62
He was born in South Africa, but I think he is an American citizen now.
50
posted on
09/29/2013 9:20:11 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Moonman62
Elon Musk is African American. What do you expect? Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk was a South African engineer. I've been unable to find a photo of him but all evidence points to his being a white South African.
We have an "African American" daughter, blond hair, blue eyes, all ancestors either Caucasian or native American. However, she was born in Africa, therefore she is African American.
Is this the category of "African American" to which you refer or were you using the more popular categorization applied to American Negros/Blacks?
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:35:25 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
To: Jack Hydrazine
No video on that link. 8<(
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:37:11 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: tet68
Somewhere there was mention of doing a simulated “landing” of the separated first stage to the surface of the ocean; was that this test?
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:37:51 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
To: BwanaNdege
Yes, I think so. They aren't trying to land it back at the launch pad, it will still drop into the ocean. But they are trying to do so in a controlled manner, by lighting the engines again, and steering it down to the water. By the time it reaches the water, they hope it will be at a standstill.
They expect it not to work perfectly, because the radar on the rocket looking for the ground will be confused by the waves, but they are hoping the rest of the decent will provide data.
To: BwanaNdege
NOt sure about that, just heard them say it was to
test the retro rockets that would be used to slow the
first stage enough for atmospheric entry.
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:39:54 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: twister881
Thinkin’ of Elon Musk? This is such LEO BS...
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posted on
09/29/2013 9:52:06 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: BwanaNdege
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posted on
09/29/2013 10:08:11 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
(Obama: The dentist told me I need a crown. I was like I KNOW, RIGHT?)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
09/29/2013 10:13:37 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Vince Ferrer
We had problems with the radar altimeter on the CH-53 helo trying to maintain a uniform height while flying over waves. The ride was so bumpy that we had to turn it off.
I would have thought that by now someone had written a smoothing algorithm to give a mean sea surface. After all, we are assured that satellite data tells us that the oceans are rising at 3mm per year!
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posted on
09/29/2013 10:42:08 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
To: BwanaNdege
Come to think of it, the Coast Guard has very good hover control on their HH-65 Dolphin helos.
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posted on
09/29/2013 10:46:40 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("Life is short. It's even shorter if you suggest going out for pizza on your anniversary" Peter Egan)
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