All things Space

[King Dougs Quiff]

Thought I would start this thread as lots happening in the next month!

Starting tomorrow Artemis II launches sending Humans around the moon. Launch is scheduled for 23:24 GMT and can be watched live on youtube (BBC or ITV may pick it up aswell).

In the next few weeks we have SpaceX launching Flight 12. This consists of Starship39 which is a brand new design (V3) and Booster 19 which is also a slightly new design but with the new Raptor 3 Engines. Nothing has blown up yet in testing which is good but when its all put together!

Also this month Blue Origin will be for the first time attempting to reuse one of their Boosters on a New Glen flight.

Exciting times!

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[chiefdave]

Starting tomorrow Artemis II launches sending Humans around the moon. Launch is scheduled for 23:24 GMT and can be watched live on youtube (BBC or ITV may pick it up aswell).

BBC have a daily podcast running which you can find under 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

 

[RegTheDonk]

Re. the cost, I don't understand the practicalities or major benefits of re-visiting the moon, other than perhaps the far side being shielded from earth radio waves thus enabling more sensitive radio telescopes etc., but for prestigue and from a humanity point of view, quite excited to be seeing people back around the moon. I'm hoping there will be live streams during the trip with images a bit better than when I follow it 50 odd years ago. Believe the higher orbit will also set a record as the furthest from our planet any living person has every been (other than alien abductions, of course! lol).

 

[AOM]

Can we get promoted first please before we bring any alien life back to earth?

 

[Covkid1968#]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

I saw him afew years back at Warwick Uni... my head was by the end of it

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[AOM]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

He's really good and the visuals on the screen were impressive. The discussion about black holes was interesting but also eerie.
Not sure if he still has Robin Ince involved as well, but he made it a bit more accessible to the audience

 

[chiefdave]

Going to see Prof Brian Cox later this year.....whilst I am no geek, I do like a bit of space exploration.

He did a warm up for the tour at Warwick Uni a couple of weeks back. Very good as usual.

Makes some pretty complex things understandable. Whether you could explain it to someone else the next day, or even retain a lot of it, is a whole other thing!

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Good thread, I started a 3iAtlas one last year, got quite a few interested too. I'm fascinated by Space and what's out there.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

A few glitches on Artemis ll and slightly behind schedule by the sound of it

 

[chiefdave]

Planned hold anyway so just had to extend it a bit to complete checks but nothing that should stop the launch

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

Is it morbid of me to think this is gunna explode?

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[chiefdave]

Is it morbid of me to think this is gunna explode?

Whenever I watch launches as soon as they get to the bit where they start jettisoning parts I always think something has gone wrong.

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

For me Nasa Is miles behind SpaceX and still stuck in the 70's... the rockets have Hardly changed and the interior is just a mass of wires and switches compared to clean lines and touch screens in the Dragon Capsual. It wouldnt suprise me that eventualy they may scale back and slowly hand over to spaceX and other private companys

NASA has no plan in place to reuse rockets, Once Starship becomes as reusable as the Falcon 9 I think questions will be asked from Congress.

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[AOM]

Is it morbid of me to think this is gunna explode?

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I watched the launch live last night, and it's unsettling how often they sound like they're trying to convince themselves everything will be fine!
"Everything is looking good so far"
"The astronauts can cancel the launch at anytime if they're not sure"
I wouldn't want to hear that on an easyjet flight before take off!

 

[Captain Dart]

View from Atremis.

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

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View from Atremis.

Situated over leicester?

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[chiefdave]

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

Backs up what a said... they cant compete with spaceX and other private companies and Trump knows it

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[King Dougs Quiff]

Next big event for SpaceX is Test Flight 12 scheduled in for Friday 15th May around 23:30 GMT. New redesigned Starship and new redesigned booster with new Raptor 3 Engines.

Both the Starship and Booster will do a soft land in the sea (providing they dont blow up) unless Musk decides to try and catch one.

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[Milan's hair dye]

Next big event for SpaceX is Test Flight 12 scheduled in for Friday 15th May around 23:30 GMT. New redesigned Starship and new redesigned booster with new Raptor 3 Engines.

Both the Starship and Booster will do a soft land in the sea (providing they dont blow up) unless Musk decides to try and catch one.

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Wouldn't surprise me if it changes to mechazilla catch, as much as it's easier to dump the boosters in the sea for recovery, if fuel allows, catching one provides way more test data for them.
Plus it looks cool as fuck

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

Wouldn't surprise me if it changes to mechazilla catch, as much as it's easier to dump the boosters in the sea for recovery, if fuel allows, catching one provides way more test data for them.
Plus it looks cool as fuck

They were originaly going to do 3 soft landings to make sure all systems function as they should, this has been reduced to 1 now. So if all things go to plan I would hope for a double catch on TF13 with StarShip40.

Starship 40-43 are already being stacked with 40 at the cryogenic testing stage.

Edit: The soft landing in the sea will go through the same process as if being caught to check everything works.

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[King Dougs Quiff]

Flight 12 has been Delayed untill the 19th May. Still the same time though, so roughly 23:30 Tuesday evening. All of the static fires have been successful so fingers crossed for incidentless launch!

This video explains everything and the importance of it.



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[King Dougs Quiff]

This is now happening Thursday May 21st with the launch window starting at 23:30!

 

[JohnWH]

“2026JH2 will pass safely by the Earth,” he said in an email. “This is actually a rather normal occurrence, car-sized objects pass between the Earth and the Moon every week."

Not good enough! Blast these threats right out of space, I say, before they are anywhere close. Think of then children!

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/science/asteroid-earth-close-pass

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

“2026JH2 will pass safely by the Earth,” he said in an email. “This is actually a rather normal occurrence, car-sized objects pass between the Earth and the Moon every week."

Not good enough! Blast these threats right out of space, I say, before they are anywhere close. Think of then children!

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/science/asteroid-earth-close-pass

I read the other day that an asteroid is on collision with the moon in about 5/6years time. If it hits will create dust and debris which will then come into orbit around earth and will affect satillites, so the options are to blow it up, or ram a craft into it to nudge it off course. We wont know which action to take untill 2028 when it next comes close for observation

 

[chiefdave]

 

[JohnWH]

Never went to space?

what context am I missing here for this proud person exercising his freedom of speech to ask "hard questions

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[King Dougs Quiff]

Amazing footage of the whole launch, deployment and landing. Still some work to do but overall a successful test flight

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[AOM]

New Independence Day film looks good

Moment Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in Florida

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

New Independence Day film looks good

Moment Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in Florida

I think that explosion was bigger than the space X one. They have completly destroyed the launch pad aswell which could set them back months

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[AOM]

I think that explosion was bigger than the space X one. They have completly destroyed the launch pad aswell which could set them back months

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Makes you wonder the impact the one exploding in the Indian Ocean has on the environment and local wildlife as well

 

[wingy]

Watch out for Amazon inflation income;

 

[King Dougs Quiff]

Makes you wonder the impact the one exploding in the Indian Ocean has on the environment and local wildlife as well

The fuel is kerosene and liquid Methane. The latter would just vapourise I would think but not sure on the first...at a quess they both would vapourise?.. the debris would sink and rust away. There is most likely other polutants on board

 

[JohnWH]

Anyone know off hand the cost of the rocket + damages to infrastructure?