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Old 06-01-2014, 09:40 AM  
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Space Exploration megathread

Since a number of cool things are happening in space exploration these days, we'll widen the scope of this thread a smidge. Conversation about all things space exploration are welcome, whether it be from NASA, SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin, or anyone else. Chances are most of the discussion will still be about SpaceX since they love to make things public and fun, but nothing's off limits. I'll eventually get around to modifying the OP to include resources for other companies too, but in the meantime, feel free to post any cool stuff you run across.

Lists of Upcoming Missions



How to Watch a Live Launch


Where to Learn More
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Glossary
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Old 05-11-2018, 02:29 PM   #1786
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As always, AWESOME!!!

I think it's time for them to put a little mute on the people cheering tho.. Perhaps put the talker-people farther away.
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Old 05-11-2018, 03:04 PM   #1787
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That landing camera is always a tease.
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Old 05-21-2018, 11:17 PM   #1788
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Bump for the Iridium launch Tuesday afternoon. Sounds like there won't likely be a booster landing (it's starting to look like they won't bother with anything but Block V boosters moving forward), but they're still working on recovering the fairing with these west coast launches.

Won't be the most exciting launch of the year, but meh...rockets.
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Old 05-22-2018, 01:33 PM   #1789
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Old 06-02-2018, 02:30 PM   #1790
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I think I'm gonna let the constantly-updating countdown in the OP thing go for now. It's kind of a pain to keep that updated, especially when launch dates tend to float around a lot. Now that we've basically just hit the "steamroller" stage when SpaceX is launching relatively mundane missions every couple weeks, it's hard for even me to get all that excited about every single mission.

I'll still bump the thread if I'm watching a launch, and I encourage others to do so as well. I'll still post interesting news as it comes up, and I'll be sure to give everyone a heads-up for any particularly notable launches moving forward. It's really just the OP counter and next mission info that's changing. Just use the links in the OP if you want to see what's coming up for yourself.


But on the subject of news, it looks like crew Dragon to ISS is currently NET January 2019.

http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/uscom-man.txt
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Old 06-03-2018, 10:19 PM   #1791
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Launch attempt coming up in 30 minutes if anyone's interested. Pretty mundane launch - block 4 booster that won't be recovered. They're still experimenting with fairing recovery, but they don't have a ship out there to try and catch it. It's pretty much same 'ol same 'ol.
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Old 06-04-2018, 07:33 AM   #1792
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Launch attempt coming up in 30 minutes if anyone's interested. Pretty mundane launch - block 4 booster that won't be recovered. They're still experimenting with fairing recovery, but they don't have a ship out there to try and catch it. It's pretty much same 'ol same 'ol.
It is pretty awesome that they have already gotten to the point where launches are boring.
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Old 07-21-2018, 10:53 PM   #1793
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If anyone's up late, a launch is coming up in an hour (1:50 am EST). This is the second launch of a Block 5 booster, and all of them will be moving forward. Landing on the drone ship.

In theory, this booster won't have to be torn apart at all (the first B5 was just to verify that everything was as they expected), so we might see this one fly again soon-ish.
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Old 07-22-2018, 07:59 PM   #1794
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Crazy cool shot from last night's launch.



Credit to /u/TMahlman on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comm...ld_happen_and/

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Old 07-23-2018, 09:43 AM   #1795
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THAT is a really cool shot! Thanks for sharing (and bumping this thread from time to time).
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Old 07-25-2018, 05:37 AM   #1796
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Last minute bump. Launch in 2.5 minutes.
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Old 07-25-2018, 05:54 AM   #1797
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Entering a 40-minute coast. This is unimportant but kind of fun - Iridium (customer for the launch) put together a playlist for the launch and synced it to the various events. So you hit play at T-10:30 and then had a nice soundtrack for the launch including Thunderstruck at launch, Return to Sender at boostback, and Welcome Back when the booster landed.
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Old 07-25-2018, 06:11 AM   #1798
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Gotta love how "boring" these have become.
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Old 08-06-2018, 11:40 AM   #1799
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Late launch tonight if any night owls will be up. GTO mission, barge landing. Only thing notable is that it's the first reuse of a Block 5 (the first one flown). Hopefully we'll see this one fly again shortly for the first multi-use vehicle.
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Old 08-20-2018, 12:58 PM   #1800
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Looks like the crew access arm is being installed at LC-39a.



Kind of bizarre seeing that futuristic arm attached to a giant hunk of metal from 50 years ago, but whatever works!

FWIW, they're now targeting November for the first demo launch of Dragon 2 and April 2019 for the first crewed demo.
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