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Nzoner's Game Room>Space Exploration megathread
DaFace 09:40 AM 06-01-2014
Since a number of cool things are happening in space exploration these days, we'll widen the scope of this thread a smidge. Conversation about all things space exploration are welcome, whether it be from NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin, or anyone else. Chances are most of the discussion will still be about SpaceX since they love to make things public and fun, but nothing's off limits. I'll eventually get around to modifying the OP to include resources for other companies too, but in the meantime, feel free to post any cool stuff you run across.

Lists of Upcoming Missions

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How to Watch a Live Launch
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Where to Learn More
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Glossary
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GloryDayz 02:29 PM 05-11-2018
As always, AWESOME!!!

I think it's time for them to put a little mute on the people cheering tho.. Perhaps put the talker-people farther away.
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eDave 03:04 PM 05-11-2018
That landing camera is always a tease.
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DaFace 11:17 PM 05-21-2018
Bump for the Iridium launch Tuesday afternoon. Sounds like there won't likely be a booster landing (it's starting to look like they won't bother with anything but Block V boosters moving forward), but they're still working on recovering the fairing with these west coast launches.

Won't be the most exciting launch of the year, but meh...rockets.
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DaFace 01:33 PM 05-22-2018
T-15 minutes (ish)
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DaFace 02:30 PM 06-02-2018
I think I'm gonna let the constantly-updating countdown in the OP thing go for now. It's kind of a pain to keep that updated, especially when launch dates tend to float around a lot. Now that we've basically just hit the "steamroller" stage when SpaceX is launching relatively mundane missions every couple weeks, it's hard for even me to get all that excited about every single mission.

I'll still bump the thread if I'm watching a launch, and I encourage others to do so as well. I'll still post interesting news as it comes up, and I'll be sure to give everyone a heads-up for any particularly notable launches moving forward. It's really just the OP counter and next mission info that's changing. Just use the links in the OP if you want to see what's coming up for yourself.


But on the subject of news, it looks like crew Dragon to ISS is currently NET January 2019.

http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/uscom-man.txt
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DaFace 10:19 PM 06-03-2018
Launch attempt coming up in 30 minutes if anyone's interested. Pretty mundane launch - block 4 booster that won't be recovered. They're still experimenting with fairing recovery, but they don't have a ship out there to try and catch it. It's pretty much same 'ol same 'ol.
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Hydrae 07:33 AM 06-04-2018
Originally Posted by DaFace:
Launch attempt coming up in 30 minutes if anyone's interested. Pretty mundane launch - block 4 booster that won't be recovered. They're still experimenting with fairing recovery, but they don't have a ship out there to try and catch it. It's pretty much same 'ol same 'ol.
It is pretty awesome that they have already gotten to the point where launches are boring.
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DaFace 10:53 PM 07-21-2018
If anyone's up late, a launch is coming up in an hour (1:50 am EST). This is the second launch of a Block 5 booster, and all of them will be moving forward. Landing on the drone ship.

In theory, this booster won't have to be torn apart at all (the first B5 was just to verify that everything was as they expected), so we might see this one fly again soon-ish.
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DaFace 07:59 PM 07-22-2018
Crazy cool shot from last night's launch.



Credit to /u/TMahlman on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comm...ld_happen_and/
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Hydrae 09:43 AM 07-23-2018
THAT is a really cool shot! Thanks for sharing (and bumping this thread from time to time).
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DaFace 05:37 AM 07-25-2018
Last minute bump. Launch in 2.5 minutes.
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DaFace 05:54 AM 07-25-2018
Entering a 40-minute coast. This is unimportant but kind of fun - Iridium (customer for the launch) put together a playlist for the launch and synced it to the various events. So you hit play at T-10:30 and then had a nice soundtrack for the launch including Thunderstruck at launch, Return to Sender at boostback, and Welcome Back when the booster landed. :-)
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Hydrae 06:11 AM 07-25-2018
Gotta love how "boring" these have become.
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DaFace 11:40 AM 08-06-2018
Late launch tonight if any night owls will be up. GTO mission, barge landing. Only thing notable is that it's the first reuse of a Block 5 (the first one flown). Hopefully we'll see this one fly again shortly for the first multi-use vehicle.
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DaFace 12:58 PM 08-20-2018
Looks like the crew access arm is being installed at LC-39a.



Kind of bizarre seeing that futuristic arm attached to a giant hunk of metal from 50 years ago, but whatever works!

FWIW, they're now targeting November for the first demo launch of Dragon 2 and April 2019 for the first crewed demo.
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