Some hawt NASA action

[WaTaGuMp]

HDNET will be showing the shuttle launch, always cool to watch these in HD so tune in if you want.

 

[KLin]

Thanks for the heads up. DirecTV carries Nasa(channel 283), but not in HD .

 

[Duddy]

Crap where can I see this in HD?

 

[Newbian]

So has COLBERT won yet?

 

[indamixx99]

Originally posted by: KLin
Thanks for the heads up. DirecTV carries Nasa(channel 283), but not in HD .

DirecTV carries HDNet though, so you should still be able to watch it in HD

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: indamixx99

Originally posted by: KLin
Thanks for the heads up. DirecTV carries Nasa(channel 283), but not in HD .

DirecTV carries HDNet though, so you should still be able to watch it in HD

You're right. I thought HDNet was part of that 5 dollar package. I guess it's just the HD movie channels(Universal HD, HDMovies, etc.).

 

[Beanie46]

Originally posted by: KLin
Thanks for the heads up. DirecTV carries Nasa(channel 283), but not in HD .

True, but it's on HDNet, which is on Channel 79.....at least on my DirecTV receiver.

 

[dud]

I just walk out my front door and look up. No need for a TV.

 

[Farang]

goddamn comcast

 

[indamixx99]

Originally posted by: dud
I just walk out my front door and look up. No need for a TV.

Take pictures!

 

[Locut0s]

As amazing as shuttle launches still are I'm tired of the shuttle personally. The real excitment lies with where the real science is like the recent Keplar probe launch and all of the mars probes!

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
As amazing as shuttle launches still are I'm tired of the shuttle personally. The real excitment lies with where the real science is like the recent Keplar probe launch and all of the mars probes!

I just like big ole flames and massive clouds of smoke in HD.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: indamixx99

Originally posted by: dud
I just walk out my front door and look up. No need for a TV.

Take HD pictures!

Fixed! :beer:

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: indamixx99

Originally posted by: dud
I just walk out my front door and look up. No need for a TV.

Take HD pictures!

Fixed! :beer:

HDNET will take the HD pictures for us and they will even show them really quickly so it looks like video.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Dish Networks menu doesn't have it listed, so here is the HDNET lineup for tonight.


HDNET

 

[Tobolo]

7:45 est is lift off.

 

[KLin]

Cool liftoff :thumbsup:

 

[indamixx99]

Successful launch. :thumbsup:

Wish it was a bit earlier in the daytime so we'd get a better view though.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Nice and smooth, and man does that look like fun. 6 million lbs of thrust.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

So, they took the thrusters to full power for full science, huh?

 

[JC]

Almost looked like an o-ring leak around the lowest section of the left booster...wierd.

I'm always glad when those things separate!

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: XabanakFanatik
So, they took the thrusters to full power for full science, huh?

That was lame. I wanted to hear "as the [name of shuttle] clears the tower!" :|

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
As amazing as shuttle launches still are I'm tired of the shuttle personally. The real excitment lies with where the real science is like the recent Keplar probe launch and all of the mars probes!

I still want Project Prometheus back, and the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter that would have resulted.

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Ion engines, Hall thrusters, 104 KILOWATTS of juice, and a 10Mbps comm link - a good Flagship-class probe.
Cassini has three RTEGs, and each one can't even manage 1kW.

 

[judasmachine]

Screw HD, I just watched it in person.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Locut0s
As amazing as shuttle launches still are I'm tired of the shuttle personally. The real excitment lies with where the real science is like the recent Keplar probe launch and all of the mars probes!

I still want Project Prometheus back, and the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter that would have resulted.

Text
Ion engines, Hall thrusters, 104 KILOWATTS of juice, and a 10Mbps comm link - a good Flagship-class probe.
Cassini has three RTEGs, and each one can't even manage 1kW.

Yeah NASA has for too long caved in to the buracratic and public interest push for men in space. Not that that type of work doesn't have its place and it's a big moral booster also gets kids interested in science. But when 99% of the real science lies in what the real scientists are doing it's a joke that they are hurting missions of real potential foe this stuff hall thrusters as you mentioned and ion produltion are extremely promising looking for future spa e missions. The tech has already been proven numerous time at this point too.