marhawkman
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Yeah this is what I mean.I should think it was meant to look like something you might wear. It's similar to what John Glenn wore in to space.
Yeah this is what I mean.I should think it was meant to look like something you might wear. It's similar to what John Glenn wore in to space.
Yes... they'll go through a time warp and crash in 1947, leaving behind only foil and balsa wood.Wait until it crashes in New Mexico.
I expect that seeing as they've sold all 600 tickets already, and are due to 'send up the balloon' in 2024, that they're well on the way to having cabins(?) made.Those are illustrations. They can come back when they have a prototype
This is very likely. There's a well reasoned critique of the plan on YouTube, but it's in German. Maybe subtitles can help:"Every action has an equal, and opposite, reaction"
I can only imagine the massive forces at play at the point of release of the 'rocket' - the launcher itself is surely likely to immediately try to catastrophically dismantle itself with the shift of the CoG.
Thanks. I tried the subtitles. They were also in German. lol.Maybe subtitles can help:
Great visuals, daft idea.Look at the video!
NASA TO TEST A MASSIVE SLINGSHOT FOR LAUNCHING SATELLITES INTO SPACE
Using a slingshot to launch things into space sounds like an ambitious Evel Knievel trick. But, later this year, NASA is doing just that—but with a payload. The space agency has partnered with space technology company SpinLaunch. In October 2021, the company completed the first slingshot test launch using its suborbital mass accelerator. Now, it’s setting its sights on NASA. And should it all work out, this could be a game-changing partnership that launches small rockets and satellites in a more sustainable manner.
https://nerdist.com/article/nasa-sl...om&utm_campaign=social+flow&utm_medium=social
NASA TO TEST A MASSIVE SLINGSHOT FOR LAUNCHING SATELLITES INTO SPACE
FULL STORY: https://gizmodo.com/dizzying-video-shows-what-it-s-like-to-get-shot-out-of-1848878740Dizzying Video Shows What It’s Like to Get Shot Out of a Centrifuge at 1,000 MPH
California startup SpinLaunch recently performed the eighth demonstration of its suborbital mass accelerator, but unlike in previous tests, this flight vehicle was equipped with an onboard camera, providing an unprecedented view of the high-altitude launch.
This latest test happened on Friday, April 22, at the company’s 108-foot-wide (33-meter) suborbital mass accelerator in the New Mexico desert. Such tests are becoming routine for SpinLaunch, with the first demonstration of the kinetic launch system occurring last October. This time, however, the company did something new by strapping a camera, or “optical payload,” onto the 10-foot-long (3-meter) projectile. ...
Footage from the onboard camera shows the projectile hurtling upwards from the kinetic launch system at speeds in excess of 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 kilometers per hour). The flight lasted for 82 seconds, during which time the test vehicle reached an altitude of over 25,000 feet (7,620 meters), according to David Wrenn, vice president of technology at SpinLaunch. ...
The research and design work being dedicated to Starlab could also lead to advancements driving sustainability and greater design efficiencies for future hotel owners in space and on Earth.
Voyager and Hilton will partner in the areas of architecture and design, leveraging Hilton's word-class creative design and innovation experts, to develop Space Hospitality crew headquarters aboard Starlab, including communal areas, hospitality suites, and sleeping arrangements for the astronauts. Additionally, the teams will seek to explore opportunities together for longer-term efforts including the ground-to-space astronaut experience, global co-marketing and branding, and other tourism, educational, and commercial efforts.
I wouldn't be too overjoyed at the thought of 'Hilton' being involved in anything - they aren't the premium provider now that they once were."Hilton will bring the company's renowned hospitality expertise and experience to support the design and development of crew suites aboard Starlab,
Who is doing the inflatable space hotels thing? Is it Baz Bamigboye? I see they did a pressure test on an inflatable space thing recently, going up to a massive over-pressure until it failed catastrophically.
That's the fella.I suspect you're thinking of Robert Bigelow
are we sure that's not an airport? er.. spaceport?
"because of covid..."Quiet ... innit?
A long extract from Shatner's new book that covers his interesting yet bleak reaction to the overview effect.
From: Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder by William Shatner.
I continued my self-guided tour and turned my head to face the other direction, to stare into space. I love the mystery of the universe. I love all the questions that have come to us over thousands of years of exploration and hypotheses. Stars exploding years ago, their light traveling to us years later; black holes absorbing energy; satellites showing us entire galaxies in areas thought to be devoid of matter entirely… all of that has thrilled me for years… but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.
I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her.
Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong.
I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, “They should’ve sent a poet.” I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.
It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.
Full Extract Here:
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/william-shatner-space-boldly-go-excerpt-1235395113/