Is there a place we can get live NASA Orion Telemetry data?
Orion Flight Test Live Launch
41–50 of 96 posts
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#42I will cheer every launch but I must admit, after watching so many SpaceX launches, I twiched when I heard "feet per second" and all the other imperial units :p
Outer space is a volume of infinite freedom, therefore it uses the standardized freedom units we in the US hold so dear
If the comet lander was powered by EU smugness we would be getting great data now.
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#43I will cheer every launch but I must admit, after watching so many SpaceX launches, I twiched when I heard "feet per second" and all the other imperial units :p
Outer space is a volume of infinite freedom, therefore it uses the standardized freedom units we in the US hold so dear
I thought a standardized freedom unit was your allotted standing area in one of those free-speech-zones.
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#44This is awesome . Two thoughts spring to mind: 1. This is the equivalent of the Apollo 4 mission in that it also flew without a crew, and was used to prove, validate and verify that Saturn V and associated systems were fully mission-capable. 2. Events like this represent our future. Events like this are the catalysts for our future generation. The children around the world (perhaps one or more of your own) that are v…
Thank goodness the top comment is no longer about quibbling with units. This is an awesome achievement, and it points to so much more.
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#45Watching a live space launch via phone while eating breakfast is quite inspiring.
it would have been even better in a flying car i suppose.
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#46This is awesome . Two thoughts spring to mind: 1. This is the equivalent of the Apollo 4 mission in that it also flew without a crew, and was used to prove, validate and verify that Saturn V and associated systems were fully mission-capable. 2. Events like this represent our future. Events like this are the catalysts for our future generation. The children around the world (perhaps one or more of your own) that are v…
I only wish that this had of been able to attract more publicity. New capsules are always cool and NASA is the king of them all... But as a government body in a tech 2.0 world it doesn't attract the attention or respect that is worthy of its (occasionally bloated, cost-overrun, but nonetheless amazing and awe-inspiring) achievements
edit: my apologies, incorrectly thought this was a first flight of the Orion launch system and not capsule
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#47Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Ireland we use a mix. 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.
It's similar in Canada. The country formally converted from imperial to metric between 1970 and 1983 for temperature measurements, road signs and speed limits, consumer goods packaging (volume and weight), and so on. However, due to our physical and cultural proximity to the US, many consumer goods are sold in "soft-metric" quantities: 454 grams of butter, 273 milliletres of pop and so on. Food recipes are still most…
"For weather, we tend to use whichever measure sounds more dramatic: Fahrenheit for hot summer days"
Strange...I never hear that in Ontario! Whereabouts in Canada are you?
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#49They just stated that the force experienced by crew on reentry would be 8g, while the force on a Soyuz capsule is just 4g. 8g is more than enough for a person to black out, this seems like a major disadvantage.
Re: Orion Flight Test Live Launch
#50I will cheer every launch but I must admit, after watching so many SpaceX launches, I twiched when I heard "feet per second" and all the other imperial units :p
I agree. We definitely need to get rid of this arcane base 60 unit of time and express our speeds in meters per microyear.