SpaceX Tuesday...

[GTO-3R]

eharding said:

GTO-3R said:

Awesome to watch but fook me how many boats in the area I think the coast guard will have a few questions to answer! No way should they have been able to get so close to the capsule!

Tim Dodd reporting a NASA source stating that as the splashdown was in international waters, no exclusion zone could be enforced - no idea as to the legalities, but if Bubba can get that close unchallenged, so can Johnny Jihadist.

Yeh I’ve seen a few tweets stating that since I posted. Bloody crazy that anyone can get so close though or be stupid enough to do it if their own back! Knobs.

[ninja-lewis]

GTO-3R said:

Awesome to watch but fook me how many boats in the area I think the coast guard will have a few questions to answer! No way should they have been able to get so close to the capsule!

As seen from ISS: https://twitter.com/ivan_mks63/status/129001462708...

[RobDickinson]

Cant believe those trump morons ffs.


Anyhow both down and safe, and potential starship hop coming up later.

[SCEtoAUX]

Gargamel said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Apollo splashdown pictures from 50 years ago were better than that.

Do you have a link to one that you think was better, I have searched You tube and only found some fairly grainy, shaky shots.

Thanks.

I though the live feed was pretty decent’ and loved the shots.

Apollo 15, way better than what I watched live on NASA TV

https://youtu.be/E-Vd75Ptg9I

[snowman99]

For what it’s worth I did think the footage was a bit rubbish. And the livestream ended before they opened the hatch. No idea if they restarted it when they did get out.
I tried another feed on YouTube, Everyday astronaut and it was a bit immature.

[RobDickinson]

snowman99 said:

For what it’s worth I did think the footage was a bit rubbish. And the livestream ended before they opened the hatch. No idea if they restarted it when they did get out.
I tried another feed on YouTube, Everyday astronaut and it was a bit immature.

I watched them exit on the twitter feed

[Beati Dogu]

Tune in next month for the first full crew flight to the ISS. Probably in the second half of September.

Meanwhile the Starship SN5 test hop is likely to be Monday now. I expect Elon wanted to be there to see it in person.

And once the tropical storm is out of the way, they’ll be wanting to finally launch The much delayed Starlink 9.

[Eric Mc]

SCEtoAUX said:

Apollo 15, way better than what I watched live on NASA TV

https://youtu.be/E-Vd75Ptg9I

1970s analogue compared to 21st Century digital.

[Beati Dogu]

The video feed on the boat was surprisingly poor.

The still photographer took some decent shots though:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/721...

[eharding]

Beati Dogu said:

The video feed on the boat was surprisingly poor.

The still photographer took some decent shots though:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/721...

I was watching via the Everyday Astronaut feed - there were a few moments when the feed from the boat appeared perfectly sharp, and then went back to being heavily compressed and pixellated. I wasn't sure if it was my YouTube connection, Tim Dodd's relay of the feed, or what was actually coming off the boat. Suspect it was the latter - could be there was a single data link from the boat, and with the NTO/MMH kerfuffle there was a lot of extra traffic being crammed down the link?

[fourstardan]

I was reading about what the gas to cool the spaceship was and saw this on the wiki page;

"On 24 July 1975, NTO poisoning affected three U.S. astronauts on the final descent to Earth after the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight. This was due to a switch accidentally left in the wrong position, which allowed the attitude control thrusters to fire after the cabin fresh air intake was opened, allowing NTO fumes to enter the cabin. One crew member lost consciousness during descent. Upon landing, the crew was hospitalized for five days for chemical-induced pneumonia and edema.[7][8]"

Must had been like a Heston Blumenthal wet dream!

[Polite M135 driver]

nitrogen tetroxide, N2O4, is very nasty stuff and nothing like laughing gas, N2O. Obviously N2O is colourless and odourless and is a mild euphoric. N2O4 is a colourless liquid that converts, starting at around room temperature and pressure to the evil-looking NO2, a brown gas that when you breathe in dissolve into the water in your lungs, turning it nitric acid and damaging the tissues extensively. You then basically die from pulmonary oedema - fluid accumulation in your lungs.

so - nitrous oxide: squirty cream, gastronomic foams, 2 fast 2 furious and teenages in the woods getting high. dinitrogen tetroxide/nitrogen dioxide: nasty stuff.

here's a video about N2O4 and hydrazine fuel mixtures https://youtu.be/IcjYdEW_HLQ?t=163

[Beati Dogu]

Starship SN5 hop alert tonight. Maybe, probably, possibly, perhaps....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbM7Vsz3kg

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ux_t7R-heM

[RobDickinson]

Elon Musk
"I’m in the Boca control room. Hop attempt in ~33 minutes."

[Beati Dogu]

The police siren has wailed, indicating a 10 minute warning.

[Leithen]

Scrubbed.

[GTO-3R]

At least it showed the safety systems work properly

Better to scrub than it go boom!

[Beati Dogu]

Yes, hopefully they'll try again later today.


Meanwhile the Dragon capsule is now being taken back to Cape Canaveral after a brief stay in Pensacola to drop off the support people. The recovery ship GO Navigator should take about 4-5 days to get home.

Also, they're getting ready for the much delayed launch of Starlink 9, which is now scheduled for Friday morning. The landing ship and tug left Port Canaveral last night to get on station for that.

[Pebbles167]

Looks like another abort

[bitchstewie]

I was just reading up on the SpaceX spacesuits as they just look way too Star Trek compared to anything else I've seen.

How SpaceX's sleek spacesuit changes astronaut fashion from the space shuttle era

I like how Must had to point out they really do work so not just me

"It definitely works. You can just jump in a vacuum chamber with it, and it's fine."