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Post by X201 on Apr 13, 2023 12:48:34 GMT
Juice launch postponed for today due to bad weather.
Trying again tomorrow at 13:15
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 13, 2023 15:42:37 GMT
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Post by EMarkM on Apr 14, 2023 17:55:03 GMT
Juice launched successfully: NSFW tag, PLEASE. Oh… |
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Post by razz on Apr 16, 2023 19:33:25 GMT
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Post by razz on Apr 17, 2023 12:59:36 GMT
Twenty mins to launch attempt, stream is live
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Apr 17, 2023 13:08:02 GMT
Some of the crew must be vaping heavily.
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Post by darkling on Apr 17, 2023 13:13:37 GMT
Boo. Seems like they're aborting the launch for today.
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Post by X201 on Apr 18, 2023 11:57:10 GMT
SpaceX grain silo
Rescheduled for Thursday
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Apr 20, 2023 13:15:05 GMT
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Post by mrpon on Apr 20, 2023 13:17:39 GMT
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Apr 20, 2023 13:24:17 GMT
Yes.
Yes I do.
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Post by mrpon on Apr 20, 2023 13:27:24 GMT
I can see those wiggles now!
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Apr 20, 2023 13:39:41 GMT
Flip boom.
Looked good while it was going up though.
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Post by jonsend on Apr 20, 2023 13:44:38 GMT
Looked like 3-4 engines weren't firing in one view, perhaps too unbalanced for that many to fail...
Good fun watching these though.
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Post by Garfy on Apr 20, 2023 13:45:40 GMT
It all went a bit Kerbal
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Apr 20, 2023 13:46:33 GMT
Elon didn't look very happy.
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Post by razz on Apr 20, 2023 13:47:17 GMT
Check yo staging, someone forgot to hit the space-bar lol
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Post by damagedinc on Apr 20, 2023 14:08:37 GMT
"Rapid unscheduled dissasembly"
So it blew up?
"Yeah"
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 20, 2023 16:38:29 GMT
It's a bizarre euphemism to use when you've got "catastrophic failure" as a term everyone knows, RUD is going to stick around I think.
They look like they got a lot of info from the test launch, which is good at least, it going BOOM less so.
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Post by razz on Apr 20, 2023 19:00:01 GMT
It was crazy seeing the raptor engines literally exploding and taking out adjacent engines.
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Post by X201 on Apr 20, 2023 19:06:09 GMT
The engines that failed to work didn’t explode.
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Post by cubby on Apr 20, 2023 19:08:43 GMT
Apparently it was a roaring success.
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Post by razz on Apr 20, 2023 19:33:49 GMT
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Post by Fake_Blood on Apr 20, 2023 20:16:39 GMT
If SpaceX is looking for the concrete slab that used to be under the launch mount, part of it is inside NasaSpaceFlight's minivan.
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Post by razz on Apr 20, 2023 20:35:16 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on May 12, 2023 14:15:04 GMT
Not exactly 'live', but interesting nonetheless: Astronomers detect largest cosmic explosion ever seen
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 12, 2023 15:19:27 GMT
Always wonder who makes those artist’s impressions. Right, the image of this thing is only 60 pixels, can you draw a giant gas cloud getting sucked into a supermassive black hole?
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Post by X201 on May 12, 2023 17:15:04 GMT
Dunno. But the poor sod is probably going to lose their job to AI.
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Post by EMarkM on May 13, 2023 7:55:16 GMT
Always wonder who makes those artist’s impressions. Right, the image of this thing is only 60 pixels, can you draw a giant gas cloud getting sucked into a supermassive black hole? This was literally (part of) my late wife's father's job. He was an "astronomical artist", and did most of the artwork for stuff like The Sky At Night (BBC programme), Astronomy Now (magazine) and the like. If you ever remember seeing it, for instance, he did the BBC Radio Times cover for the week when the Giotto probe (still can't read/write that without hearing it in Patrick Moore's voice!) interacted with the tail of Halley's Comet. |
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