Posted on 04/29/2015 6:06:57 AM PDT by McGruff
Truly “free range” now.
I hope you will keep us informed.
Off topic, by my own experiences, JimmyJohns (Florida) is “scary fast” on delivery service.I've got a Subway and a McDonalds within three blocks, and there is no way I could procure any “fast food”, faster than ordering delivery of JimmyJohns!
Crappy Chinese parts is once again to blame. Roscosmos demands contractors to buy from the lowest bidder to pose as a ‘responsible budget user’ and then blames them for poor quality control. I have seen Chinese so-called ‘hardened’ electronic components, allegedly for use in airspace and military applications. They all have the right marking but I wouldn’t trust most of it to fix motherboard in my home PC.
No quality control would ever fix it with lowest bidding policy, the only solution is to buy from domestic, European, American or Japanese companies, but these are nearly outprice and out of business.
Here’s what else we learned throughout the day:
Progress 59 launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday without issue
The spacecraft is 7m long and holds 2.5 tonnes of food, water, fuel and other supplies
The vessel malfunctioned soon after it reached orbit on Tuesday and went into an uncontrolled spin.
It is rotating at a rate of 360 degrees every five seconds
The spacecraft is travelling at more than 16,000 miles per hour.
The vessel is 160 miles above the Earth.
It could take up to two weeks for Progress 59 to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere, at which point it is expected to break up.
You can follow Progress 59 using satellite tracking websites Satflare and N2YO.
Igor Komarov, head of Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, says they are now considering different options for a “water landing”.
In light of information that Progress 59 could be orbiting the Earth for up to two weeks, they have decided to close the live blog.
I went to N2YO, and tracked it today. I also looked at 10 days out.
Please bear with my ignorance/incomprehension of the data displayed.
I didn’t understand how high up it would be on May 14.
Sorry to bother you, but I honestly couldn’t understand the track data.
Would you mind updating the progress in simple laymen terms?
I’m not much more informed than you but here are some links if you are interested.
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