/sfg/ - Space Flight General
Vintage 4ASS Edition
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------- UPDATES -------
• Starship static fire today. 600HzONK was heard. Debris flew again. Mysterious drip seen falling down... might not be a problem? Elon might give us elevenses with a second static fire
• Dress rehearsal for Crew-1; expected launch 15th November (45thSpaceWing gives 70% chance of favorable weather conditions)
• Jim warns of gap after retirement of ISS but who gives a shit it’s more expensive than a high school girlfriend
• Chinese “private” company Galactic Energy launches new four-stage rocket (Nov 8)
• India launches 10 satellites into polar orbit aboard; first launch since start of pandemic (Nov 7)
------- THIS DAY IN SPACEFLIGHT -------
• Death of American astronomer Percival Lowell, who helped fuel the infamous “Martian Canal” theory and set up the Lowell Observatory leading to the discovery of Pluto (1916) (b. 1855)
• Voyager I makes closest approach with Saturn; captures first ever close-up view of the ring system (1980)
• STS-2 lifts off using the Columbia orbiter, marking the first time a manned craft is launched into space twice
• Death of Russian engineer-cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov (2013) (b.1944)
• The ESA’s Philae lander is deployed from the Rosetta probe and reaches the surface of Comet 67P (2014)
Vintage 4ASS Edition
Previous >>12332757
------- UPDATES -------
• Starship static fire today. 600HzONK was heard. Debris flew again. Mysterious drip seen falling down... might not be a problem? Elon might give us elevenses with a second static fire
• Dress rehearsal for Crew-1; expected launch 15th November (45thSpaceWing gives 70% chance of favorable weather conditions)
• Jim warns of gap after retirement of ISS but who gives a shit it’s more expensive than a high school girlfriend
• Chinese “private” company Galactic Energy launches new four-stage rocket (Nov 8)
• India launches 10 satellites into polar orbit aboard; first launch since start of pandemic (Nov 7)
------- THIS DAY IN SPACEFLIGHT -------
• Death of American astronomer Percival Lowell, who helped fuel the infamous “Martian Canal” theory and set up the Lowell Observatory leading to the discovery of Pluto (1916) (b. 1855)
• Voyager I makes closest approach with Saturn; captures first ever close-up view of the ring system (1980)
• STS-2 lifts off using the Columbia orbiter, marking the first time a manned craft is launched into space twice
• Death of Russian engineer-cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov (2013) (b.1944)
• The ESA’s Philae lander is deployed from the Rosetta probe and reaches the surface of Comet 67P (2014)
