I'm running on empty, so this will be shorter than usual.
Firefly Aerospace's attempt to land Blue Ghost is still scheduled to land at 0334 EST Sunday morning or 0834 UTC. Thanks to an anonymous comment to last night's post we find out from Spaceflight Now that NASA and Firefly will join for live coverage starting at 2:30 AM EST.
Besides the official NASA broadcast, the independent space watchers will be
adding their own coverages.
- NASA Spaceflight (.com) will start their coverage at the same time.
- Firefly Aerospace announces coverage that probably won't be the same as the first paragraph, since it doesn't mention NASA by name. It also starts at 2:30 AM EST.
That's a few examples, but I'm pretty sure they'll all be watchable.
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ReplyDeleteSitting here watching the Firefly/NASA broadcast, half an hour to go.
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Fingers crossed. I'd love to be "On Console" with the Firefly team and be assisting with the landing, but here I am watching instead.
24 minutes to go.
Can't stand the Talking Heads during the presentation, they need to SHUT UP and let us listen in on the Command/Control audio channel. This is a pet peeved of mine, BTW. Don't bother explaining stuff to me that I could teach a class on, thankyouveddymuch. Sigh.
Powered Descent coming up.
Signing off, stay tuned.
Down!!
ReplyDeleteFlawless, a 5-meter avoidance drift, but pretty much dead nuts.
CONGRATS!!!
Yes, a good landing. Congratulations to the team!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, talking heads, even sweet young things, get tiresome. Lime watching professional sports, best with the sound off these days.
Well at least its finally commercial venture achieving a great milestone. It looked like most of the chest beating was by the NASA people, i think they have a lot to prove for all the billions they have used, though the Fireflies seem pretty humble. Looks like a well nit organization.
DeleteThey pegged that one about as well as can be, the lander obstacle avoidance worked pretty good there couple times, noticed there was a number of lags with the telemetry, thats probably normal with a vehicle making all those altitude and velocity changes, its a long way to the big dish in Australia, for a little craft seemed to have a lot of fuel, they never mentioned fuel levels which seemed strange, maybe they kept some telemetry private on purpose thinking about that, there is competition now, understandable. They sure are pumped up, looks like they worked hard for the success. Good on them. Texas is turning into commercial space operations central. That will bring quite the wealth to the whole state, people and all.
ReplyDeleteRest up friend. Running on empty is a warning sign.
ReplyDeleteAgree.
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