Spacecraft separation in about 2 minutes
Posted on 06/27/2006 7:34:43 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
Very nice pic. Thank You for sharing it.
Make it 640x480, get a Photobucket account and upload it, then give us the URL where it is posted.
Heck, that's pretty good considering how many miles away ya are.. Thanks!
Hay! Would wunna yew geniuses help poor ol Free Styler here? He wantsta post a hugh picher!!!
Polar orbit would allow it to watch both ends of the AXIS of EVIL ...what's left of it at least....
Hey .... I don't think I can make a trip to Florida this weekend. :)
you might try tinypic.com too..
Redstone Arsenal. My first thought, but then I thought, whoa, that's not quite in Tenn. Close but not quite.
We're shooting stuff off of both coasts ,, this one will likely keep an eye on the middle east, but ya never know
OK, I've resized it, how do I get a Photobucket account?
Oh come on.......I'll swing on by and pick you up. How's that? ;)
Spacecraft separation in about 2 minutes
http://photobucket.com/ sign up, it's free.
This beauty covers the whole earth like that old paint company logo, whose name slips my well travelled mind at the moment... Phhhhhhhhhhhht!!!
Probably so, you would've. You're on the westerly side of the L.A. basin, right?
Hamas in quandary over Israeli soldier ~ Great picture
Israel is putting the sweat on this Terrorist....
Which gives some clue as to the nature of the payload. But I'll not speculate on what it might be. Certain people might get spooked.
Your pictures have passed The Brad Test!
They're really good, lainie...I can't believe it that you're so FAR away and got such good ones. Neat, neat, neat.
Wanna go to Florida with Amy & I this weekend? ;)
I'm just south and east of Long Beach.
The following is from: New American engine allows Delta 4 to 'defeat gravity'
..."Nobody has ever developed an engine like this and done it in the amount time that Rocketdyne did. This is a great success and really the heart and soul of Delta 4 and what we are going to build our future on as far as our propulsion system."
...Driving the design of the RS-68 is cost. Keeping the expenses of producing the engine as low as possible will reduce the overall ticket to fly a satellite atop the Delta 4.
"The RS-68 is the first rocket engine designed specifically for low cost (to provide) affordable space-lift and worldwide commercial competitiveness," said Bryon Wood, the vice president and general manager of Rocketdyne.
Compared to the Space Shuttle Main Engine, development time for the RS-68 was cut in half, the number of parts was reduced by 80 percent, the hand-touched labor reduced by 92 percent and non-recurring costs were cut by a factor of five.
"We've been able to get a lot of hand-work out of the RS-68 and replaced it with numerically-controlled machines. So instead of having a thrust chamber built up of a lot of tubes, we've machined this thing out of a solid piece of metal, which increases reliability," Collins said.
"A lot of those advancements help make the engine a more economical engine to build. So I really think it is a good balance of higher reliability and lower life-cycle cost...
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