NASA is having a bad run of luck. Now the Cygnus resupply craft to ISS, launched yesterday, failed to conduct some altitude raising burns. Will they fix it? Will it make it to ISS? Stay tuned!
Shortly after launch, the spacecraft missed its first burn slated for 11:44 a.m. due to a late entry to burn sequencing. Known as the targeted altitude burn, or TB1, it was rescheduled for 12:34 p.m., but aborted the maneuver shortly after the engine ignited due to a slightly low initial pressure state. There is no indication the engine itself has any problem at this time.
Cygnus is at a safe altitude, and Northrop Grumman engineers are working a new burn and trajectory plan. The team aims to achieve the spacecraftâs original capture time on station, which is currently slated for 3:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6.
At issue is the performance of the small reaction control system thrusters in proximity to the space station. If the right combination of them fail before Starliner has moved sufficiently far from the station, Starliner could become uncontrollable and collide with the space station. The thrusters are also needed later in the flight back to Earth to set up the critical de-orbit burn and entry in Earth's atmosphere.
Ho-lee muther! They not only got super heavy to the location desired, they captured its soft landing into the ocean! Next up with IFT5 - they'll try to catch it in the chopsticks!
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at Gender:
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Jun 7, 2024 - 8:42am
Boeing is an over bloated crap fest. Not the same one I knew from the 60âs and 70âs. They over run project milestones, are upping the cost of below par work that they pass on to us, and have a management team that seems to be powered by a clueless society of inept leaders only interested in the Benjamins.
Weâve been lucky so far that nobody has parishes in a catastrophic event.
If you're unlucky enough to be one of my kids, you'd know my opinions about the tremendous luck I associate with being born at just about the perfect time, in the right place, in history...the 60s... after the wars (too young for Vietnam) ... before the internet...with the greatest popular music explosion... and jet travel... and live TV from across the planet... and then the arrival of the internet.... all with an appreciation that what just happened in space is an amazing accomplishment showcasing the utter brilliance of thousand upon thousand of humans, that those born a bit later take for granted.
ok, I'm not really the let's go to Mars fan-boy, but a comment I read recently about the Valles Marineris just needing a roof to create the perfect geo-engineering scenario made me think, yeah, actually, I could imagine that.
Here's an ESA video of just part of it. a smaller canyon to the north.
hard to imagine the challenges and the engineering to deal with them
continental and/or global dust dtorms, high winds and temp extremes, etc.
ok, I'm not really the let's go to Mars fan-boy, but a comment I read recently about the Valles Marineris just needing a roof to create the perfect geo-engineering scenario made me think, yeah, actually, I could imagine that.
Here's an ESA video of just part of it. a smaller canyon to the north.
Took off. Flew. Separated.
Starship flew into space.
Main booster didnât slow down for soft landing crashing at 600mph.
Starship Opened the pez door.
Reentered atmosphere and burned up.
Success on getting up there.
Return needs major work.
seeing the plasma field develop in real time was amazing.
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at Gender:
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Mar 14, 2024 - 8:58am
Took off. Flew. Separated.
Starship flew into space.
Main booster didnât slow down for soft landing crashing at 600mph.
Starship Opened the pez door.
Reentered atmosphere and burned up.
Success on getting up there.
Return needs major work.
