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This looks so complex BUT it is coming in so fast (20,000 MPH) into the atmosphere BUT there are so many points for failure. Surprised there wasn't a simpler and safer solution.
How specialized was the heavy lift configuration for the Orion payload?
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Makes it easier for every country in the entire world, barring the US. Liberia and Myanmar switched over.
Miles for casual talk, KMs for speeding tickets. Pounds when cooking, stones for people & kgs for everything else. Inches in carpentry and horsepower for cars.
In a lot of places metric is a lingua franca kind of like latin. It's used in international, formal or academic settings (like a space launch) but the average farmer speaks a local dialect more natively.
Damn that was amazing! What a perfect launch!! How specialized was the heavy lift configuration for the Orion payload?
For those who missed it because of the sudden stream interruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCanbuiSywg
I really enjoyed the part when they streamed from the camera attached to Orion and the audio gradually silenced, since the rocket was leaving the atmosphere and no air could be used for a sound wave medium.
Apparently reliably streaming video is harder than rocket science.
Actually I'd put them on around the same level of complexity from an engineering perspective. Have you thought, recently, how difficult it really is to broadcast video to millions of viewers and all of the individual moving parts that make that happen? It's mind boggling.
Yes. And as far as I can tell, YouTube has it down to a science. If I were NASA, I would let YouTube broadcast the live stream, and embed a YouTube player on the NASA website.