Spot the Space Station

[day_trippr]

Hard hold at T -40 minutes due to one of the core engines not responding properly to a chill-down sequence...

 

[day_trippr]

Aaaaand scrubbed.
Wanna see my surprised face?

 

[Konadog]

Maybe next month........

 

[passedpawn]

THIS is why I never drove across the state to watch a launch.

Believe it or not, you can see the spacecraft from this side (west coast) of Florida. Sorta. On a clear day you'll see a LONG plume of vapor grow up into the sky from the horizon.

 

[day_trippr]

I saw most of a shuttle launch from the Orlando area...

 

[Konadog]

Believe it or not, I can watch most launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base here in Long Beach as long as they are night launches and its clear skys. I wish I could figure out how to post a large video I have of one of them (275 meg). You can see the launch, stage 1 separation, and it flying back to the base. It was an evening launch and it lit up the sky!

 

[day_trippr]

I wish I could figure out how to post a large video I have of one of them (275 meg).

Put the video up on a Google Drive, then generate an "Anyone with the link can view this video" url, and post that here...

Cheers!

 

[Konadog]

OK, figured out one way to do this! At the end you can watch the first stage fly back to base, while stage 2 and payload keep going.

 

[day_trippr]

Ok, second launch attempt window opens at 2:17 p.m. ET and closes at 4:17 p.m. ET on Saturday...

Cheers!

 

[Konadog]

And it's scrubbed................................ again.

 

[day_trippr]

While the Artemis mission continues to find leaks, the DART mission is about to come to fruition!
Impact will occur around 7:14PM EDT Monday. NASA streaming will start coverage around 6PM...

https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dart/dart-news
Cheers!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Ships in the night

 

[day_trippr]

It's on! ~30 minutes to impact!

 

[Pkrd]

That was great. Looking forward to seeing the images from the trailing satellite in a day or two.

 

[day_trippr]

We watched the last 30 seconds to impact and were very much entertained.
Love that the last frame was just a partial when the impactor went to Space Heaven

[edit] The last ~70 seconds to impact.



Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

Meanwhile, NASA has decided to roll the Artemis stack back into the Vertical Assembly Building to wait out Hurricane Ian. That likely pushes any launch date out a few weeks...

https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-ian-blows-back-nasas-artemis-launch/

 

[Konadog]

Love that the last frame was just a partial when the impactor went to Space Heaven

Isn't there going to be another video in a few days that shows the hit? I haven't looked for info, but thought I remember something about the main satellite launched a camera to stay behind and record the impact.

Meanwhile, NASA has decided to roll the Artemis stack back into the Vertical Assembly Building to wait out Hurricane Ian. That likely pushes any launch date out a few weeks...

That's a smart move, plus they can continue to work on leaks longer now.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

 

[day_trippr]

There was a cubesat bearing cameras trailing the impactor that hopefully caught everything...

 

[Konadog]

This isn't that camera angle, but from a ground base telescope in Hawaii.

It's a hit!

 

[Pkrd]

Google:
Double Asteroid Redirection Test

 

[day_trippr]

Cool!

 

[day_trippr]

Images from both the Webb and Hubble telescopes are up on the NASA DART mission pages.

Webb, Hubble Capture Detailed Views of DART Impact.

Also first images from the cubesat that trailed the impactor are up. Rather disappointing, hopefully there are mo' better images coming.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-images-from-italian-space-agency-s-liciacube-satellite
Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

Crew 5 launch at noon EDT today...

 

[passedpawn]

Man I enjoy seeing that Falcon 9 first stage landing back on the recovery barge.

 

[Konadog]

Man I enjoy seeing that Falcon 9 first stage landing back on the recovery barge.

Every time!

 

[day_trippr]

It truly is the groundbreaking feature of the entire program, and I'm still not bored seeing those touchdowns.
Especially since SpaceX has been relaying the feeds through their own Starlink network. Reliability has improved by a ton

 

[passedpawn]

It truly is the groundbreaking feature of the entire program, and I'm still not bored seeing those touchdowns.
Especially since SpaceX has been relaying the feeds through their own Starlink network. Reliability has improved by a ton

When SpaceX first did that, a Boeing exec stated aloud at a conference that they would never catch up to SpaceX. He was quickly fired . (From the book “Liftoff”)

 

[Konadog]

Nothing beats the double landing seconds apart from each other.

 

[day_trippr]

DART worked!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/world/nasa-dart-success-update-scn/index.html