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Russia Loses Inflatable Spacecraft
Treeluvinhippy writes: "This article is a little light on details, but it looks like the Russians lost the Demonstrator-2 spacecraft. For those who don't know this craft was the inflatable launched from a submarine. Slashdot has the scoop of the launch right here"
My car insurance company will never believe me when I tell them that I ran into a Russian space craft.
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"On Friday, Russia's Ryazan nuclear sub launched Demonstrator-2 on a converted Volna SS-N-18 intercontinental ballistic missile"
Have they tried looking around the Pentagon to see if it landed there? How about the White House? NORAD perhaps? Sometimes those guys forget to take the target off the defaults you know...
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I wonder how much they are spending on theses launches? I assume that using an ICBM rocket is probably far cheaper and (with nuclear arms cutbacks - especially in long range specs) far more expendable.
Still this is probably costing several million in administration and R&D alone.
Hopefully they are learning a lot and this will aid missions in the future.
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Earlier, Babakin Space Center spokeswoman Lidia Avdeyeva confirmed the landing, but efforts to locate the vehicle so far have failed to bear fruit.
And now somebody is sporting the coolest inflatable mattress ever! Keep an eye out for it next time you go to the beach.
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how about inflatable lovedolls ? :-)
So if the launch vehicle was made from a recycled ICBM, was the spacecraft itself made from a recycled rubber raft from an old Russian battleship? Duct tape a few old yellow rafts together with some well-used tires, a transmitter, a digital camera, and some solar panels - viola, an "inflatable spacecraft." It's probably as good as anything else Russia's government has produced in the last 10 years.
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It took a little digging around, but I finally found a pic of one of the test pilots in training. Click here. I'm surprised at how athletic she appears for a Russian woman.
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If you cannot find it it is useless. These things happen.
well, a perfectly good oportunity to poke a little fun at the russian space program ruined by a small html flub making this page, like so many movie and airline seats promise to be, extra wide
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Sounds like the Russian space agencies and R&D teams were looking at making a really cheap mode of transport recovery... only thing is they forgot that when they take the plug out of the seal... it tends to release whatever air/gas it contains... ooops I guess they didn't read the instructions the designer gave them... well no matter yet another one down the tubes.
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that leaves less of a mess for mom to clean up as well.
..and the Russians have lost their raft.
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Does anyone else actually read this stuff? I hope that I never have the misfortune to run into these people. Maybe the lost inflatable spacecraft could land on one of them...
Is this really the sad end of slashdot? First they sell out to anyone who will toss them a buck, now they turn against their users?
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aerodynamic breaking... LOL.
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Undoubtably if some Russian engineer had remembered to put batteries in the GPS, the mission would have been a "success."
Losing a spacecraft is bad
They are just waiting on Taco Bell to determine the grand prize winner....
*rimshot*
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Plus, if you crash-land on some planet, you can fashion your ship into an army of hot young petrified girls!
How about hot young pertified Natalie Portmans?
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Death by widening, dude.
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Inflatable Spacecraft? Lemme guess, the interior is black lights on a velvet poster of Hendrix. Oooohhh yeeeah.
Combined with the inflatable furniture this thing is a portable bachelors pad! Can't wait till Thinkgeek starts to sell these!
Klerck, ole boy, you should seriously consider jumping... in front of a train I don't think ou'll have much time to change your mind.
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They can track my stolen vehicle in under a minute but they can't locate a space vehicle!?!?
"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly"
This makes me wonder, how would they have prevented it from blowing when it reached the vacuum in outer space?
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I'm writing forum software too. Is there a list of these types of bastard tricks so I can learn from other's mistakes?
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Of course details are sketchy.... Nobody is buying the Weather Ballon theory this time.
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Slashdot has the scoop of the launch right here
and I was all excited that Slashdot might have actually done some real investigative journalism, oh well, another post
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Klerck, you really are messed up.
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Odds are that it burned up in re-entry, IMHO. I would assume the Russians know how to aim, so if it's not there it's probably gone. Then again, maybe their aim is so off that we would have all survived a WW3?
I rarely venture far enough down the page to encounter the suicidal section, but because of the widening I decided to slum it. I actually have an opinion that may be helpful for you. Get a gun, some duct tape and a rope, and find a tall bridge. Duct tape the gun to your hand in a position comfortable enough to use it (this is so when you jump, you don't accidentally drop it). Tie one end of the rope around your neck noose-style, and the other to the aforementioned bridge tightly. Use some duct tape to reinforce it if you're not sure. Now, jump off the bridge. Make sure its a good jump, so you'll most likely break your neck instantly. If you don't die instantly and you still have some degree of motor control, use the gun for quick relief. If you didn't get your cub scout merit badge in noose-tying, duct tape, jumping, or sucking on your nine mil, then you always have surface tension and gravity assisted flight as a your backup. For good measure, you can add the following: Taking sleeping pills, using a bridge over a busy freeway instead of water, or slitting your wrists. I've been told it is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath. Always keep in mind the sequence of events, you don't want to do something like take the sleeping pills first and completely eliminate your ability to multitask later on.
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Why is it that every single post on some good idea that does not come from the USA ends up on /. getting trolled and flamebaited to all hell? One would think , or at least hope, that the kind of people who frequent /. would be a little bit more open minded than that.
Apart from that, I like the idea of this experiment that the Russians are doing. Apart from turning ICBM's into space launchers and having a good way of protecting packages that must return to earth, it seems like it is providing the basic research for Astronaut emergency reentry technology.
Does this remind anyone else of David Gonterman and the "NiTRO" comic?
How come when I read Russian inflatable spacecraft I think of something like this.
Our politicians may be full of hot air,
NASA officials may be full of hot air,
we might all be full of hot air,
but at least our satellites aren't!!
Unless, of course, you count things like the Mars Pathfinder which landed inside a coccoon of airbags and the upcoming Mars Rover missions which will do the same.
But those don't count, right?
Who let the trolls out !!!! BLAH, BLAH !!! ..... and repeat until you throw up.
This most be the most trolled post I have ever seen. I wonder if the russian want any candidates for the next probe they launch? They can test the effectiveness of trolls as air brakes and landing cushions....
- HeXa
the F@lun G0ng might of mistaken the Soviet spacecraft for a Chinese one and taken control of it.....
seriously though - at least Russia is making use of the old ICBMs they have. As long as they remember to remove the warheads and keep the "lost" spacecraft from falling back to earth... practice makes perfect.
- HeXa
I have turned my threshold down to -1. The trolls have become so much more interesting than regular conversation this week. This new karma system is ridiculous... maybe you can find a group of people willing to commit karma suicide for some amount of change? It doesn't even mean anything now that it isn't quantified.
And whatever happened to that musical troll?
"Wait a minute. I could of sworn it was around here somewhere... No wait is that a missing Nuclear warhead?"
When you want some military hardware lost, hire a Russian..
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Who'd get turned on by an inflatable spacecraft? Just cleaning the thing when you're done could take all day.
Now an inflatable penguin...
My cat can eat a whole watermelon
Make it so one wide comment does not wide all the comments.
This is the best trick.
..So much easier
and he gets to kill himself in the end
Finally he will pull off the biggest page widening scam on the front page of a newspaper
Klerk you obviously are a very unstable "boy"
I use the term "boy" very loosely here (loose even compared to the great one himself)
PLZ HURRY UP AND KILL YOURSELF
This makes me wonder, how would they have prevented it from blowing when it reached the vacuum in outer space?
The same way you keep an ordinary balloon from exploding. Make sure that the balloon's materials can take the pressure difference.
There's nothing magical about vacuum.
Yup, the same you keep the astronauts suit from exploding, and the same way you keep the space shuttle from exploding and the same way planes can fly at 30,000 feet and the people inside can still breath but the plane doesn't explode.
What?
I'd say it was probably struck by some of the space junk that's orbiting the earth at thousands of miles per hour. They should ask the folks on the ISS to keep an eye out for a deflated beach ball.
No wonder they can't find it, check the webpage of the GPS part makers GPS Tracking of the IRDT-2 Re-entry Capsule quote: "...The IRDT-2 capsule will be launched by a Volna rocket from a Kalmar type submarine in the Baltic sea north of Murmansk..."
Murmansk is nowhere near the Baltics...
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EVIL! Intruders from the 8th dimension! Get 'em!
Especially comparing to american women which if they weight under 100 kg should be considered "slim"...
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Rogue members have tried unsucessfully to rid their new God, but the rocks and sticks they throw at it magically bounce off and repel back.
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If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Slashdot says they have the "scoop" on this, when in fact they're just reposting a story from CNN.
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/. is never going to be known for...
Here's a real scoop for you,
Reposting != scooping
scooping == being the first to get a story, something that
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Isn't that supposed to be theoretically possible?
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It's not as bad as it sounds. The Russian media reports that the vehicle landed as expected, it's just can't be found so far. The search continues.
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The previous launches ware worse. In Summer 2000 tt did not inflate completely and hard-crashed. In Summer 2001 it did not separate from the first stage. So, this time it's half-way successful.
Kamchatka peninsula is not the nicest place on Earth. Very thin population, a lot of mountains, forests.
Here is the original in Russian:
http://www.spacenews.ru/spacenews/src/s
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"45 feet per second -- 30 miles an hour --", metric units anyone?
Good that it's just an article about rocket science, and mentions Mars.
Maybe they're just off by a factor 3.
... this means they might lose Lance Bass too.