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Antares Rocket Launch Scrubbed
An anonymous reader writes "This evening's planned launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket had to be canceled just 12 minutes before liftoff, due to the unexpected separation of the booster's umbilical cable while the vehicle was on the launch pad. This is the first attempt to fly the Antares rocket, which is a commercial craft and direct competitor to the SpaceX Dragon 9. Beyond being the first flight of a brand new commercial rocket, this mission is also notable for carrying three of NASA's PhoneSats; small satellites powered by Android running on Nexus smartphones. With each PhoneSat costing just $3,500, they're designed to test the limits of extremely low cost spacecraft, similar to the European STRaND-1 mission. Since this is simply an orbital test, and the Antares will not be attempting to dock with the International Space Station, the launch window is highly flexible. It's anticipated Orbital Sciences will make another attempt at launching the Antares within 48 hours."
Wow! Antares is 470 light years away. Private space companies are advancing faster than I thought.
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The last thing we need to do is antagonize the Antarans. We don't even have planetary missile bases yet.
"Of course, the phones won’t exactly resemble their Earth-bound brethren while in space. To save weight, the screens and cases will be removed from the phones, and their batteries will be replaced with more appropriate power systems."
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/08/can-android-revolutionize-spacecraft-design/
All this goes to prove is that no spelling checker will catch the wrong word spelled correctly.
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it was a spontaneous abortion - the umbilical came off
but I heard that if you go horseback riding...
That's something you should use you're eyes and brain four
SpaceX FALCON 9 rocket!!! The Dragon capsule is just what goes on top.
Before it gets messy.
This is similar to IT - when a user finds a bug in testing, that's a GOOD thing: it means it's not going to production like that.
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
Actually, I think they are referring to small experimental satellites that are piggybacking on the main mission. They are small 4" square cubes powered by off the shelf components and smartphone parts. http://www.phonesat.org/
hey, everybody, look - a pissed-off government worker who can't stand that SpaceX can get the job done for 20% of the cost of NASA.
I'm old enough to remember Sally Ride talking about the plan for a moon base by 2010 and George the smarter committing to a 2017 Mars landing. The government has failed to execute.
Elon Musk is planning to retire on Mars and it looks like he will.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Also:
http://phonesat.org/packets.php
http://open.nasa.gov/plan/phonesat/
More details at both. I'm thinking it'll be fun to catch some of the packets as they fly by.
Got to remember to screw in those to screws on either side of the connector. But if that rocket is like any of the PCs I've owned, there's never enough room to get your fingers in there to twist them.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Because keeping space pristine is more important than doing anything in space. The solution is to figure out how to remove space debris not try to hold back the tide.