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![]() Ingenuity successfully completed its fourth flight today, and we couldn’t be happier. The helicopter took off at 10:49 a.m. EDT (7:49 a.m. PDT, or 12:33 local Mars time), climbing to an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) before flying south approximately 436 feet (133 meters) and then back, for an 872-foot (266-meter) round trip. In total, we were in the air for 117 seconds. That’s another set of records for the helicopter, even compared to the spectacular third flight.
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Crew-1 returned home last night/this morning:
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FANTASTIC! Thank you for sharing...
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink V1 L25
Tue May 04, 2021 3:01 EDT LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
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We got to watch this take off as we were landing in Orlando. Was pretty cool to see first hand even through a plane window. Would have been way cooler to be outside though. I think the coolest part was watching it in pitch black pretty much but then as soon as the rocket broke the horizon you could see the sunlight reflecting off the exhaust and rocket and everything else was dark except the sun shining on it.
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This (I think) might have been associated with the launch.
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SN15 trying again today:
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multi for those that like to flip between feeds...
https://multistream.co/p/Q-eHnr_hQxP/Test_SN15_MS
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Official stream live in 30...
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Propellant loading
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First one of these I'll be able to catch in a while (hopefully).
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Huge Chinese rocket core falling ‘out of control’ back to Earth
1:03 Huge Chinese rocket core from April launch falling ‘out of control’ towards Earth WATCH: Huge Chinese rocket core from April launch falling 'out of control' towards Earth A hulking, out-of-control Chinese rocket core is currently pinwheeling around the globe once every 90 minutes, and there’s no telling exactly when — or where — it will come crashing down to Earth in a potentially dangerous re-entry. The object is a 30-metre tall, 21-tonne leftover from China’s Long March 5B rocket, which carried a piece of its new Tianhe space station into orbit on Apr. 29. The rocket launched its cargo into space before its core tumbled into a chaotic temporary orbit around Earth, where it’s been rapidly circling the planet while slowly falling ever since, SpaceNews reports. The core, dubbed CZ-5B, was initially expected to make a harmless reentry, but observers say it appears to be falling out of control, making it hard to predict exactly where it will come down. Its path takes it over much of the globe, but projections suggest it could fall as far south as Chile or New Zealand, and as far north as New York State or Ontario. Story continues below advertisement The booster was travelling at roughly 28,000 kilometres per hour while circling 300 kilometres above the Earth on Tuesday, according to tracking data. At 21 tonnes, experts say it’s large enough to avoid burning up in the atmosphere when it eventually does come down. “It’s potentially not good,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, told The Guardian. He says it will likely fall into the ocean but it could leave a swath of destruction if it falls over land, in what would be the “equivalent of a small plane crash scattered over 100 miles.” Space agencies typically have plans for disposing of such large pieces of junk, including built-in burners that can knock a core out of orbit when necessary, but that’s not the case with this rocket core. Chinese officials are essentially crossing their fingers and watching, while hoping that it lands in the ocean and not over land. “What’s bad is that it’s really negligent on China’s part,” McDowell said. “Things more than 10 tonnes, we don’t let them fall out of the sky uncontrolled deliberately.” Story continues below advertisement The U.S. military and European space officials are among the many groups tracking the core’s descent. It’s just the second time that China has launched one of these rockets, and the second time that it’s been accused of being careless with the leftovers. The first Long March 5B rocket was launched on May 5, 2020, and its core also entered temporary orbit for nearly a week. The object eventually came down and crashed near some villages in the Ivory Coast on May 11, in a fall that sparked a fierce rebuke from NASA at the time. The object was damaged by the heat of entering the atmosphere, but a 12-metre-long pipe reportedly survived the fall along with other bits of debris. Story continues below advertisement No deaths or injuries were reported from that incident. Experts are hoping luck will be on everyone’s side when this latest booster falls back to Earth sometime around May 10. McDowell says it will be possible to predict the crash location about six hours before it hits. At 21 tonnes, the rocket would be one of the largest objects to make an uncontrolled re-entry in the last 30 years. It’s still small in comparison to SkyLab, the 76-tonne NASA station that made a fiery return to Earth in 1979. Most of SkyLab fell into the Indian Ocean, but it also scattered debris across an uninhabited stretch of Australia when it came down. |
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There she goes!
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