> I'm curious to know if this first stage had landing gear attached
Yes, and they were hoping that that would contribute to ameliorating the roll problem they had on the first attempt to slow down the first stage on its way to landing (actually, watering). So, the bad sea conditions and (most likely) not recovering the first stage are unfortunate but it seems like they are making progress, and doing so without interfering with performing a successful mission for a paying customer.
I don't know which is more foolish, thinking that saying nothing, but saying it first, is a worthwhile goal, or claiming to be first when you're not. No need for you to choose, however: you did both.
Neither the "mini-shuttle" nor the retired shuttles are in a position to reach the orbit of the NK satellite. It is in a sun-synchronous orbit, which means its orbital inclination is near-polar. The current OTV-3 (mission name of the so-called mini-shuttle) is in an orbit of around 40 degrees, which makes it incapable of reaching the NK satellite's inclination, and no space shuttle ever flew in a polar orbit and nor had any plans/capability to do so after the Challenger accident.
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen someone propose that two satellites get together in orbit when such a thing is practically impossible, I'd be hundreds of dollars richer...
Believe it or not, this long route (via the Earth-Sun L-1 (Lagrange-1) point is a lower energy trajectory (that is, it takes less energy to send the probes) than the more direct route followed by the Apollo missions. This allows for a smaller launcher (or conversely, a larger payload for the same sized launcher). See http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/582116main_GRAIL_launch_press_kit.pdf.
Multiple times at work I've seen people taken aback when hearing a comment like "his Sun died", meaning the workstation on his desk wouldn't boot, not that his male offspring was deceased.
What do you see as the proper relationship between an ISP and its customers? Is there one right answer, or should there be a range of options as to how customers can deal with spam? How important is it to keep customers informed and to give them tools they can use to deal with spam?
(It looks like three questions, but they're all elaborations of the question posed in the subject.)
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Since the space station has an earth sea-level atmosphere, yes.
Well, except for the part that it's ALWAYS one time (I guess for small values of always).
> I'm curious to know if this first stage had landing gear attached
Yes, and they were hoping that that would contribute to ameliorating the roll problem they had on the first attempt to slow down the first stage on its way to landing (actually, watering). So, the bad sea conditions and (most likely) not recovering the first stage are unfortunate but it seems like they are making progress, and doing so without interfering with performing a successful mission for a paying customer.
I don't know which is more foolish, thinking that saying nothing, but saying it first, is a worthwhile goal, or claiming to be first when you're not. No need for you to choose, however: you did both.
Yay! No more lame Anonymous Coward posts!
Neither the "mini-shuttle" nor the retired shuttles are in a position to reach the orbit of the NK satellite. It is in a sun-synchronous orbit, which means its orbital inclination is near-polar. The current OTV-3 (mission name of the so-called mini-shuttle) is in an orbit of around 40 degrees, which makes it incapable of reaching the NK satellite's inclination, and no space shuttle ever flew in a polar orbit and nor had any plans/capability to do so after the Challenger accident.
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen someone propose that two satellites get together in orbit when such a thing is practically impossible, I'd be hundreds of dollars richer...
Believe it or not, this long route (via the Earth-Sun L-1 (Lagrange-1) point is a lower energy trajectory (that is, it takes less energy to send the probes) than the more direct route followed by the Apollo missions. This allows for a smaller launcher (or conversely, a larger payload for the same sized launcher). See http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/582116main_GRAIL_launch_press_kit.pdf.
A Progress was the payload. The rocket is called Soyuz. (As are the payloads that carry humans.)
Multiple times at work I've seen people taken aback when hearing a comment like "his Sun died", meaning
the workstation on his desk wouldn't boot, not that
his male offspring was deceased.
What do you see as the proper relationship between an ISP and its customers? Is there one right answer, or should there be a range of options as to how customers can deal with spam? How important is it to keep customers informed and to give them tools they can use to deal with spam?
(It looks like three questions, but they're all elaborations of the question posed in the subject.)