Topic: Space and rocket stuff

[blur911]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yg_kF6EKQA

SpaceX liftoff and barge landing, cool POV

[quadzilla]

Pretty cool.

The telemetry said it was moving at 2,000 m/s which is 4473.8 mph. 

[KD]

 

It still irks me that I never took the opportunity to witness a launch at cape canaveral when I had many chances.  My parents spent 21 winters in Sarasota and we visited them a lot, and have been to the cape a couple of times, but never during a launch.   

[blur911]

https://youtu.be/giNhaEzv_PI

NASA edge
https://www.ustream.tv/channel/6540154
SpaceX Falcon 9 live launch this morning at 9:38EST

[tpl]

Neatly done.  Now lets see them fly with a pre-used booster.

[blur911]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybQRMzygiQQ

Published on May 7, 2017
After 718 days in orbit, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 (OTV-4) landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on 7 May 2017. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, is an experimental unmanned, reusable space plane to demonstrate technologies for a reliable space test platform for the U.S. Air Force. The X-37B OTV-4 mission was launched on 20 May 2015 by an Atlas V rocket https://youtu.be/Gsmx5KxwYpI?list=PLp...
Credit:
U.S. Air Force

[blur911]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4XJS_oftH8

"Used"  Falcon 9 and Dragon successfully re-launched

[rrocket]

Boeing Defense is set to reveal a revolutionary aircraft tomorrow....touting to "change the future of air power".

Should be interesting...and it's coming from the Phantom Works.

Maybe a drone?  VTOL?

[ChaosphereIX]

Boeing Defense is set to reveal a revolutionary aircraft tomorrow....touting to "change the future of air power".

Should be interesting...and it's coming from the Phantom Works.

Maybe a drone?  VTOL?

I call Klingon Bird of Prey.

[rrocket]

Boeing Defense is set to reveal a revolutionary aircraft tomorrow....touting to "change the future of air power".

Should be interesting...and it's coming from the Phantom Works.

Maybe a drone?  VTOL?

I call Klingon Bird of Prey.

Have you seen Aurora's XV24A Lightning Strike?  Close enough?

[ChaosphereIX]

ALL of the propellers!

but I see no photon torpedoes or cloaking device...it has a way to go yet

[rrocket]

Yawn....a Navy drove fuelling tanker......

[blur911]

Yawn....a Navy drove fuelling tanker......

Yeah, this thing is more interesting.

Bell V-280 Valor -- First Flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Civi4cI1LW4

[rrocket]

^^Replacement for the Osprey I think.

[blur911]

^^Replacement for the Osprey I think.

Replacement for the Black Hawk from what I understand.
Smaller than the Osprey

[rrocket]

^^Replacement for the Osprey I think.

Replacement for the Black Hawk from what I understand.
Smaller than the Osprey

Has what looks like a Blackhawk body....

[blur911]

Delta IV launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbfnI_uODw

[rrocket]

Space X latest launch lost a $1 billion secret satellite.

[tpl]

Space X latest launch lost a $1 billion secret satellite.

As of yesterday, those who know are not saying.  SpaceX is not saying, Northrop-Grumman is not saying and the Pentagon is not saying. The three of them each refer to one of the others. The strongest suggestion is that the satellite somehow failed to detach properly from the SpaceX second stage.

[rrocket]

Space X latest launch lost a $1 billion secret satellite.

As of yesterday, those who know are not saying.  SpaceX is not saying, Northrop-Grumman is not saying and the Pentagon is not saying. The three of them each refer to one of the others. The strongest suggestion is that the satellite somehow failed to detach properly from the SpaceX second stage.

Yep.

Grumman made the adapter ring...so likely their fault.

But it's not the first time the govt lied about a destroyed spy satellite on launch.