beats deatyh by snusnu
General / Off-Topic While we're waiting, Antares launches in around 30 minutes (2230 GMT ish)
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beats deatyh by snusnu
Real world is always more interesting. I'm doing it as well (downloaded all the docs that were publicly available from the shuttle incidents as well).
To me, it's like the end of Bomb fire night. You've only one beer left and the you stand and watch the embers glow with a almost drunk/vacant stare.
....TLA?
I was watching it on BBc news 24, wow, good job it was unmanned, otherwise the story would be so much different.
Just goes to show despite our breakthroughs going into space remains one of the biggest challenges we as humans are trying to overcome.
Only the tip of that rocket was the payload sitting on a firecracker, the rest was fuel, where one tiny crack or defect can mean the difference between success and failure.
One of the defining things about our species is to continue trying, to achieve the impossible, against all odds, we still have a long way to go, but bit by bit, we will prevail (if we don't destroy ourselves first).
My only sadness is i will have long turned to dust before that happens, and i will never get to see the wonders that await us.
Just goes to show despite our breakthroughs going into space remains one of the biggest challenges we as humans are trying to overcome.
Only the tip of that rocket was the payload sitting on a firecracker, the rest was fuel, where one tiny crack or defect can mean the difference between success and failure.
One of the defining things about our species is to continue trying, to achieve the impossible, against all odds, we still have a long way to go, but bit by bit, we will prevail (if we don't destroy ourselves first).
My only sadness is i will have long turned to dust before that happens, and i will never get to see the wonders that await us.
Bonfire*
Right; but that's just a fire isn't it. How boring.
OK PEOPLE HERE IT IS!!
FIRST EVER ATTEMPT FOR RESOURCE MINING IN SPACE IN HISTORY OF MANKIND!
GOES BOOM!!!!!
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNOLOGY FOR ASTEROID MINING TO BE TESTED ON BOARD SPACE STATION!
WHAT ARE THE ODDS??????
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First step toward asteroid mining: Planetary Resources set to launch test satellite
Oct 16, 2014, 11:40am PDT
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Steve Wilhelm
Staff Writer- Puget Sound Business Journal
Email | Twitter
Planetary Resources is set to launch its first satellite Oct. 24, a significant step in the Redmond company's ambitious goal of mining precious metals and water from asteroids.
The first satellite Akryd 3 satellite won't do any of that, however.
It won't carry mining equipment or even a camera. At just 14 inches long and 4 inches wide, its purpose is to test the company's software systems, computer, and its rocket motor.
The launch date was announced by Chris Voorhees, Planetary's vice president of space development, at a Seattle conference last week on defense, space and security.
It is several months behind the July launch date mentioned last year by Planetary Resources President Chris Lewicki.
Voorhees said the first satellite will go up on Orbital Sciences Antares launch vehicle, scheduled to bring supplies to the International Space Station. The small Planetary satellite will be a secondary payload on that flight.
Voorhees said Planetary's goal, to extract minerals and water from asteroids, can be a critical part of future space exploration.
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oward-asteroid-mining-planetary.html?page=all
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FIRST EVER ATTEMPT FOR RESOURCE MINING IN SPACE IN HISTORY OF MANKIND!
GOES BOOM!!!!!
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNOLOGY FOR ASTEROID MINING TO BE TESTED ON BOARD SPACE STATION!
WHAT ARE THE ODDS??????
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First step toward asteroid mining: Planetary Resources set to launch test satellite
Oct 16, 2014, 11:40am PDT
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Steve Wilhelm
Staff Writer- Puget Sound Business Journal
Email | Twitter
Planetary Resources is set to launch its first satellite Oct. 24, a significant step in the Redmond company's ambitious goal of mining precious metals and water from asteroids.
The first satellite Akryd 3 satellite won't do any of that, however.
It won't carry mining equipment or even a camera. At just 14 inches long and 4 inches wide, its purpose is to test the company's software systems, computer, and its rocket motor.
The launch date was announced by Chris Voorhees, Planetary's vice president of space development, at a Seattle conference last week on defense, space and security.
It is several months behind the July launch date mentioned last year by Planetary Resources President Chris Lewicki.
Voorhees said the first satellite will go up on Orbital Sciences Antares launch vehicle, scheduled to bring supplies to the International Space Station. The small Planetary satellite will be a secondary payload on that flight.
Voorhees said Planetary's goal, to extract minerals and water from asteroids, can be a critical part of future space exploration.
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oward-asteroid-mining-planetary.html?page=all
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Now I'm gutted
Good thing for the oligarchs who want control at every resource there is in a closed economy system, bad thing for the people.
Space mining tech would show that IT CAN BE DONE! New jobs, new ventures, new tech, breaking through the dead end of the closed planetary economy, but would hurt the trusts that control or try too control the Global resoucres. Makes you go hmm.....
They scrubed all the data for "security reasons".
This was from NASA channel feed earlier.
"Computer will be needed to be scrubbed from all data related to todays launch"
"all data on lockdown"
huh?
This was from NASA channel feed earlier.
"Computer will be needed to be scrubbed from all data related to todays launch"
"all data on lockdown"
huh?
Launch pad is gone.
Rocket burning and exploding fell on it.
Major problems for future use.
Rocket burning and exploding fell on it.
Major problems for future use.
That was on CNN:
"I guarantee you there are researchers all over right now who can hardly breathe because they're saying we just lost a tremendous investment in the future and what we're going to do with all of this . . . this is really a cataclysmic thing, doesn't just look like it . . . it really is."
"I guarantee you there are researchers all over right now who can hardly breathe because they're saying we just lost a tremendous investment in the future and what we're going to do with all of this . . . this is really a cataclysmic thing, doesn't just look like it . . . it really is."
From Russia-Today:
Each delivery by Orbital Science’s unmanned Cygnus capsule honors a deceased person linked to the company or a commercial spaceflight. Tuesday’s mission was a tribute to Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton, who led a rocket company until his death in 1993. As a retro-style homage, Orbital Sciences flight controllers wore short-sleeved white shirts and skinny black ties.
Along with 32 mini-research satellites, a meteor tracker and a tank of high-pressure nitrogen to replenish a vestibule used by spacewalking astronauts, the company stowed a post-Halloween surprise for the two Americans, three Russians and one German aboard the ISS, Orbital said at a prelaunch news conference Sunday.
Also onboard the rocket was Planetary Resources’ Arkyd 3 telescope prototype, which is being developed to explore space and identify natural resources from asteroids. The project was privately funded and raised $1.5 million in a 2013 Kickstarter campaign.
The prototype destroyed in the explosion was only a demonstrator, meant as a stepping stone to the first Arkyd 100 telescope, which the company plans to launch in 2015, Popular Mechanics reported.
http://rt.com/usa/200283-nasa-antares-rocket-explodes/
Each delivery by Orbital Science’s unmanned Cygnus capsule honors a deceased person linked to the company or a commercial spaceflight. Tuesday’s mission was a tribute to Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton, who led a rocket company until his death in 1993. As a retro-style homage, Orbital Sciences flight controllers wore short-sleeved white shirts and skinny black ties.
Along with 32 mini-research satellites, a meteor tracker and a tank of high-pressure nitrogen to replenish a vestibule used by spacewalking astronauts, the company stowed a post-Halloween surprise for the two Americans, three Russians and one German aboard the ISS, Orbital said at a prelaunch news conference Sunday.
Also onboard the rocket was Planetary Resources’ Arkyd 3 telescope prototype, which is being developed to explore space and identify natural resources from asteroids. The project was privately funded and raised $1.5 million in a 2013 Kickstarter campaign.
The prototype destroyed in the explosion was only a demonstrator, meant as a stepping stone to the first Arkyd 100 telescope, which the company plans to launch in 2015, Popular Mechanics reported.
http://rt.com/usa/200283-nasa-antares-rocket-explodes/