Spacex first human launch 27th May

ScrubsfanChris

Med101007 wrote: »

When I say i seen it at 8.50pm, that could actually have been anywhere between 8.35pm - 8.50pm. Had no phone with me, hence no time.

Well unless you see round the curvature of the Earth............

I obviously don't know what you saw, but your descriptions don't at all line up with what it would have looked like to someone on the ground in Ireland.

skulltown

namloc1980 wrote: »

Well maybe it's aliens, but definitely nothing to do with Spacex. The booster had already landed long before it flew over Ireland.

ScrubsfanChris

namloc1980 wrote: »

That's a plane.

Its a bird!

cursai

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Well unless you see round the curvature of the Earth............

I obviously don't know what you saw, but your descriptions don't at all line up with what it would have looked like to someone on the ground in Ireland.

what sre you talking about? .....the earth is too flat for a curvature.

IrishHomer

LushiousLips wrote: »

Google NASA spot the station, you put in your location and email address and you will be notified of all passing in your location including time, how long visable for and exact coordinates of the pass.
Half of them pass over in the middle of the night so I don't get to see them all. I never tire of seeing it though.

I find the iss mobile app better. The app alerts me in advance of each pass and it knows my GPS.

Capt'n Midnight

theoneeyedman wrote: »

And they're still arguably catching up with soyus rockets designed 40 years ago!
I turned off CNN earlier when they were laughing, 'more comfortable then the old Soyus', lovely blue lights and screens, great to see Americans launch from Merica, yada yada.

40 years ago the Russians were delivering supplies to their Salyut 6 space station with unmanned Progress spacecraft.

The Soyuz rocket is part of the R7 family that launched Sputnik back in 1957. In '58 they got another stage as part of the Luna program and since '63 it's been putting humans into space.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz_lv.html



The Soyuz spacecraft has only being going to orbit since 1966. It's camped and landings are like a controlled car crash. But it's cheap and reliable. It's outlasted all the proposed replacements.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz.html


BTW Soyuz means that Europe can do manned spaceflight
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Launch_vehicles/Soyuz

Jeff2

I've been watching this all evening.

It's great but Musk comparing it to going to Mars is crazy.

So docking time I think after 3pm today so I'll tune in then.

Muahahaha

namloc1980 wrote: »

It's now travelling at c.27,000 kph which is the same speed as the ISS.

:eek: thats really hard to get my head around. Why do they have to travel such speeds, wouldnt that use a hell of a lot of fuel

mcbert

Muahahaha wrote: »

:eek: thats really hard to get my head around. Why do they have to travel such speeds, wouldnt that use a hell of a lot of fuel

Fuel just used to get to that speed, not to maintian that speed once resistence drops to alomst zero. They go that speed to maintain altitude. Think of being in orbit as constantly falling, but because the earth is curved, you need to travel fast enough so that you fall around the earth, instead of down.

"the object is always falling toward the planet, but because it's moving sideways fast enough, it never hits the planet. Orbital velocity is the speed needed to stay in orbit."

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-orbit-58.html

cursai

Muahahaha wrote: »

:eek: thats really hard to get my head around. Why do they have to travel such speeds, wouldnt that use a hell of a lot of fuel

nothing to decelerate them in space. so say your going at 100mph, putting your foot on the accelerator again only adds to that. they have to burn fuel then in opposite direction to slow them down.

mcbert

mcbert wrote: »

Fuel just used to get to that speed, not to maintian that speed once resistence drops to alomst zero. They go that speed to maintain altitude. Think of being in orbit as constantly falling, but because the earth is curved, you need to travel fast enough so that you fall around the earth, instead of down.

"the object is always falling toward the planet, but because it's moving sideways fast enough, it never hits the planet. Orbital velocity is the speed needed to stay in orbit."

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-orbit-58.html

Also, the strength of gravity at 200km (for example) is only slight less than at surface level - the only real difference is the sideways (i.e. orbital speed) means you fall 'around' the curved earth instead of down (i.e. losing altitude).

GFish

Duzzie wrote: »

I saw it in Wicklow. 10.13 to 10.15 ish. About 1/3 way between the moon and the horizon. Very impressive, the only light in the sky

It was in Wicklow then?
Phone NASA now - they has 'Loss of signal' about that time. :eek:

GFish

Padre_Pio wrote: »

Maybe.
...
There's plenty of other options to move people to Mars that no one is looking at.
...

That's intriguing.
What other options?

GFish

Med101007 wrote: »

When I say i seen it at 8.50pm, that could actually have been anywhere between 8.35pm - 8.50pm. Had no phone with me, hence no time.

I think there are some people here who don't get humour.
But carry on - it's great craic reading people dissing you.

Are you OK for toilet paper in there?
You know you can turn it over and go again. It will be clean on the other side

namloc1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgY4NKoT9SQ

upupup

A great day for the Dinosaurs too!...The first species to dominate the earth.:)

namloc1980

upupup wrote: »

A great day for the Dinosaurs too!...The first species to dominate the earth.:)

Indeed! Hard to get, sold out on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07JCCF775/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8

Mickeroo

I can't get over the amount of people posting videos of planes on twitter yesterday evening. Maybe it was a joke along the lines of the vid with the ice lolly and it was just too subtle for me... I hope so anyway for their sake.

afkasurfjunkie

Med101007 wrote: »

I definitely seen the rocket shooting across the sky at approx. 8.50pm. I am based halfway between Ballinasloe and Athlone. It was crystal clear, could even see the black paintwork on the rocket.
Please don't tell me this was a plane?? (I was in the bog with no phone at the time the rocket passed so couldn't take a picture)

It was a plane. I got excited for a second too. But I saw it on flight radar. Flew across the midlands at the exact same time as we were looking for the spacex rocket.

upupup

Mickeroo wrote: »

I can't get over the amount of people posting videos of planes on twitter yesterday evening. Maybe it was a joke along the lines of the vid with the ice lolly and it was just too subtle for me... I hope so anyway for their sake.

I saw it too and got a great pic.:D

Hamsterchops

Love the new spacesuits, very space age looking.

...apparently the dashboard in the capsule is Tesla like, in that it's got fancy dials & LED displays & they can even set the cabin temperature to their desired level, cool.

Still no artificial gravity though.

fryup

so what time are they to dock with ISS? and will the ISS look that bit bigger when it passes over tonight - 22.59

namloc1980

fryup wrote: »

so what time are they to dock with ISS? and will the ISS look that bit bigger when it passes over tonight - 22.59

Around 2.30pm our time. You won't notice anything different with the ISS really. Dragon is very small relative to the ISS. Tonight's pass is going to be very low.

ankaragucu

Anyone know whats up with the ISS Detector App, its saying no visible passes until early July??

namloc1980

ankaragucu wrote: »

Anyone know whats up with the ISS Detector App, its saying no visible passes until early July??

That's correct. Last visible pass for us here for a few weeks is tonight very low in the sky at around 11pm.

skallywag

GFish wrote: »

That's intriguing.
What other options?

I guess the poster could have something along the lines of this wonderful technology in mind? :pac:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

Acosta

Loving the exterior live shots from the ISS looking towards the capsule as it approaches with earths surface in the background.

ankaragucu

namloc1980 wrote: »

That's correct. Last visible pass for us here for a few weeks is tonight very low in the sky at around 11pm.

Oh right, thanks.Though it hasnt listed any passes for the last couple days and doesnt have tonights either.

nomdeboardie

Would be nice to have a camera (in a small tethered vehicle sent out from ISS?) to capture the docking from 'the side'?

ScrubsfanChris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

With noting to give you perspective, looks like they're doing about 2mph :pac:
Far from the truth.....