It's in the air.
Branson will be spitting fucking feathers when he finds out most of the audio and video didn't work at critical times.
Great advert for Virgin Broadband.
I thought it was cool...a billionaire's play toy at best I think.
The wandering around receiving the plaudits of the adoring crowd is a bit Kim Jong Un innit.
BTW, did you know that the Virgin Galactic vehicle burns rubber for propellant? They tried to change to another propellant, I think, polyethylene, but moved back to rubber.
I didnt know that. Is it solid rubber? Is it not quite heavy and dense?
Getting value for money out of this old dear.
‘Hubble is back!’ Famed space telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch | Science | AAASThe iconic but elderly Hubble Space Telescope appears to have been resurrected again after a shutdown of more than a month following a computer glitch. Science has learned that following a switch from the operating payload control computer to a backup device over the past 24 hours, Hubble’s operators have re-established communications with all the telescope’s instruments and plan to return them to normal operations today.
“Hubble is back!” Tom Brown, head of the Hubble mission office, emailed to staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute at 5:56 a.m. “I am excited to watch Hubble get back to exploring the universe.”
The problems started on 13 June when the payload computer that controls the science instruments and monitors their health spotted an error in communications with the instruments and put them into safe mode. Hubble’s operators initially thought a memory module was at fault but switching to one of three backup modules produced the same error. Various other devices were investigated and ruled out as the problem when the error persisted.
It was eventually decided that the entire Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SIC&DH) unit, of which the payload computer is part, should be switched over from the currently operating instrument to the backup. Staff practiced the procedure with hardware on the ground over the past week and a full review was carried out to ensure it could be done without harming the telescope in other ways. Shortly before the switch was started yesterday, NASA announced it had identified the power control unit (PCU), which is part of the SIC&DH, as the source of the problem.
The PCU supplies a steady voltage supply to the payload computer and it was either supplying voltage outside the normal range or the sensor that detects the voltage was giving an erroneous reading. Because there is a spare PCU as part of the SIC&DH, the switch went ahead.
Brown told his colleagues this morning that “Hubble was successfully recovered into Normal Mode on Side A of the [SIC&DH]. This marked the first time we were able to progress beyond the problem we were seeing on Side B.” He said that if all continues normally, Hubble will restart science observations this weekend.
^I watched the video from inside the capsule.
I would not waste my 10 minutes arsing around like kids because there is no gravity. You can do a few minutes of zero in a parabolic plane flight any old day if you are minted.
I would just be glued to the window drinking in the undiluted awe.
^In that clip the female commentator removed all the coolness from the event with her woman's bubbly babble. They should just have had a typical houston control centre voice narrating the technical details punctuated with beeping noises like in the classic NASA commentary from the Apollo missons.
$28 million is a billionaire's ticket price. Would have been a bit awkward if his billionaire ex-wife had won the raffle.
Great attitude.
I have not watched. Now that you mention that commentator I probably won't. I have watched a few previous unmanned flights. Assuming it is the same, her fake professional excitement is vomit inducing. In contrast the commentators on SpaceX flights are SpaceX engineers, not media professionals, and their enthusiasm is genuine.
"don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence"
Yep, thanks for the warning Loops. Thanks for the updates takeovers
I don’t seem to be the only person who thought Bezos looked like Dr Evil going into space in his penis shaped rocket ship!
Jeff Bezos' Penis-Shaped Rocket Launches Dr. Evil Comparisons
It's just missing the balls to be exact
I read that Bezos flight went 15km's higher than Branson's Virgin flight.
I can't imagine paying that much for a ticket to fly to space for a few minutes. The rich and famous would though. I read 600 people have already booked to go up including Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber etc..
Yeah, and all the other vacuous twats whose videos you put up here, I guess.
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud: 'You guys paid for all this'
Oh, you didn't realize you'd chipped in?
Jeff Bezos thanks you for your money.
The former CEO of Amazon and current Executive Chair of the Amazon Board went to space for a few minutes on Tuesday, and in a post-flight press conference made explicitly clear who footed the bill: You.
"I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all this," he said around the 23:30 mark in the below video.
Of course, while Amazon customers paid for Bezos' space flight with money, his employees paid in a slightly different way.
"Throughout this pandemic, Amazon employees have been forced to work in unsafe conditions, all while the company and its CEO made billions off of their backs," alleged New York Attorney General Letitia James in February.
Indeed, while many Americans hunkered down during the pandemic — ordering from Amazon throughout the ongoing ordeal — Amazon's employees continued to work mandatory overtime, pee in bottles, and test positive for the coronavirus.
On Tuesday, the same day Bezos flew to space, the Information reported that Amazon will end its on-site coronavirus testing program for warehouse workers after July 30. Meanwhile, the pandemic in the United States remains a threat.
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud: 'You guys paid for all this'
The launch of the last ISS module, the Russian Nauka module is planned for today. Of course slips are always possible. They will launch with utmost caution to make it a succes. They use the Proton rocket, because it is the biggest heavy launch they have available and it is needed. Proton now rarely flys. No more commercial customers after a number of failures. But mostly with small upper stages.
Nauka is somewhat delayed. Initially launch was planned for 2012.liftoff scheduled for 10:58 a.m. EDT (14:58 GMT). NASA will broadcast the launch live on NASA TV beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT),
Nauka in the process of encapsulation for launch.
The Proton M rocket preparing for launch.
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I don't think so. The modules are all quite old. The only one I think might be worth continued use is the Cupola the outlook module, but I do not know if it is suited to be docked with a future space station.
I should have said, Nauka is the last module planned for the ISS. The private company Axiom is planning to add their own module or modules. These modules would later become core of a new private space station, when the old ISS gets deorbited. NASA would then rent capacity on that station.
Nauka has been successfully launched. It will be a week to reach the ISS with Nauka on board propulsion.
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Video here:
Engines start at 28 minute mark.
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There is an ability on youtube to move to the "action".
How am I not surprised you are ignorant of this.
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