The headlines on this story are missleading. It should be 'Digitized Apollo Flight Films TO BE MADE Available Online'

Doug

A few new figures from Mark.

Doug

It's a rip off - but that's normal for the industry. I'm buying it from the US via Amazon Marketplace - £11 including postage.

Doug

Away on time, beautifully.

These 'live' threads can get a bit crazy and pointless - so for those wanting something a bit like that...

UMSF Chat

Well the weather briefing guy just said 20% - but they almost never say less than that.

Doug

That was damn fast to 10,003 gallons. I wish I could fill up our Ford Focus that fast

Doug

I have the DVD on order from the US - a review of the bonus content once it's here.

Doug

Yes it did, but because of the reset issue, it couldn't really follow it through with normal low power fault ops.

Doug

There are 8 of them as I understand it - 6 on the battery, 2 on the REM. They each chuck out abotu 1W of heat. They've been doing so since the day they landed - and - except for decay - will carry on doing so for some time to come. Essentially they're there making a bad situation slightly less bad than it might be. they wont keep an entirely dead rover warm enough for survival - they just shave a bit off the heating requirements.

Updated

I think Pathfinder is a good basis on which to guestimate that... several weeks of daily efforts. Then a few weeks of less-regular efforts, and then a occasional, perhaps once a week, efforts for a couple of months.

Doug

Thanks for that tip Tim - this is the first CTX image I found of Gusev - a central 2kx2k crop. This is the non-flatted non-projected version.


Doug

Audio "We have had an anomaly"

Video - A Delta II exploding.

Audio is better than nothing, but it's doesn't tell the whole story. BUT - I would trade video for proper comms loop audio

Doug

" information to two of NASA’s satellites already orbiting the Red Planet. To be on the safe side, NASA has requested Mars Express, which has been in orbit around Mars since December 2003, to also monitor the EDL phase."


requested..REQUESTED!!
With the ammount of DSN time we've had from NASA, ESA should have been knocking on JPL's door "Is there anything we can do - anything at all?"


Doug

At least I can watch it on TV at home as hopefully Sky News will carry a feed on the news multiscreen thing and I'll be able to watch it at home - failing that, I can just watch it at home with a web feed.


Doug

That sounds like you're starting a debate on manned vs unmanned there Babakm - but of course, nobody would do that here as it's not allowed.

Bad analogy : We all support the same football team - but some of us disagree with the starting lineup, some of us disagree with the substitutions, some of us disagree with the formation the coach plays.

But we all chear when the team wins, and we all cry when it drops out of the cup.

Doug

Added more dots.

Doug

Wow - cool thing to stumble across

I'll take a guess at the last thing. Is it to do with a rocket sled of some sort - it looks like it's designed to fire one way for thrust, then the other to separate or slow down.

Doug

The only direction they're going to exit is back out of Duck Bay.

Doug

Well - there's 80,000 people who've signed up so there's a big audience

Doug

Nasa Press Conf. about it starting now.

Doug

http://www.audioagain.com/podcast.php?channel=space

Episode 7 is up.

Doug

Updated. Guessing the last two Oppy figures.

As per the viking results posted earlier in this thread - it reduces the max, increase the min.

Doug