Artemis stacking begins

[Non Sync]

NASA has launched a real-time Artemis tracking website: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/

Like the post-launch graphics showing status and milestones, it wasn't a polished as SpaceX's, and the current site seems pretty sluggish. I was also getting "Trying to reconnect" regularly.

Apparently, the launch tower was damaged and NASA told the press not to photograph the launch site after Artemis lifted off.

 

[publiusr]

ITAR restrictions most likely---as for problems---I'll take "the rocket was too powerful for the pad" over a rocket collapse. You can make the pad equipment as heavy as you like.

As for the mission:

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"Today we met to review the Orion spacecraft performance... it is exceeding performance expectations," said Mike Sarafin, head of the Artemis 1 mission.

The spacecraft's four solar panels, about 13 feet (four meters) long, deployed correctly and are providing more energy than expected, said Jim Geffre, the Orion manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-nasa-moon-mission-exceeding-expectaions.html
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...2d8164f55b8fa1d025a3d0c69c24a3ea37e584aa3.jpg
https://spacenews.com/white-house-congress-praise-long-delayed-first-sls-launch/
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/11/artemis-i-cubesats/

And here is the launch as seen from space
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-launch-satellite-image

From Cosmoquest:
Happy to note that Britain’s wonderfully named Goonhilly radio station in. Cornwall will be tracking Artemis, famous for her trusty bow and short tunic. Goonhilly also has hunting roots, it means in ancient Cornish “Hunting Moor”.

Beyond the Moon
https://www.bis-space.com/event/beyond-the-moon-symposium/

SLS topped N-1:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=57014.840

Standard shuttle stack: 35NM thrust

SLS: 42.99 NM…or 9.6652 megapounds of thrust.

Target—Moon…LRO captures one month rotation
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/100qs1x/with_all_due_respect_to_the_amateur_pics_of_the/

 

[publiusr]

SLS launch video…looking downwards…like a pyroclastic flow:
https://twitter.com/TJ_Cooney/status/1595485220828069917?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1595485220828069917|twgr^a28d5ce9a6a075489301a9f85b2813bc249c6fcb|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/artemis-moon-program.32471/page-26

Footage of SRB separation
https://www.space.com/nasa-moon-rocket-sheds-boosters-video

 

[XCV330]

Footage of SRB separation
https://www.space.com/nasa-moon-rocket-sheds-boosters-video

goodbye ole shuttle hardware. glad its getting used instead of some static display no one would apprecaite. still.. you know its the beginning of the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. will be glad when they switch to the new boosters.

 

[publiusr]

Now is it me, or did they still look to have a bit of performance left in them?

The future

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[XCV330]

Now is it me, or did they still look to have a bit of performance left in them?

It definately was odd seeing how they reacted compared to sts launches.

that reminds me: do you remember the Ares I-X flight? I'm too lazy to look up the flight data, but I seem tor remember the SRB had a bit more thrust in it at separation and it might have struck the dummy upper stage just a bit, or came close. It didn't matter in that case, dummy upper stage and all, just something seem to recall.

 

[publiusr]

The Wikipedia entry only mentions some damages to the pad and a bad chute’
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_I-X

Contact was feared but did not occur, and the vibration was within shuttle norms.

Liberty was one rebirth attempt and OmegA, with its own strap-one, would have no problems with Orion.

I still hope Athena III might live. For an asteroid intercept/transient event/launch on warning scenario—-I want an ICBM type silo with a big, all-solid LV to be able to launch in a moment’s notice with an easily swapped out payload:
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/athena-3.htm

-doesn’t look good for the concept—but with MX/Peacekeeper gone, it deserves another look.

As for the SLS launch, folks at Cosmoquest talk of the VAB singing in resonance:

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[XCV330]

I liked the Omega concept. It would have had great loiter time on the pad and would have opened up ideas for the future for further upgrades. I agree about the silo thing. One might think USSF would like that capability.

But I did worry there was little way for it to be viable, competitively. Northrop Grumman has a hard history of introducing products at their own expense that the government did not want, even if it was the best option (F-20 Tigershark). Now though, who knows if we'll ever get the big New Glenn. We'll be lucky to get Vulcan, and that's all that will be competing with SpaceX if Blue can't get their act together.

 

[publiusr]

Orion 360

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Old meets new
https://twitter.com/InfographicTony/status/1600642386841186304?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1600642386841186304|twgr^932b853a0f77635d9e8da6d062d799732f5c0ae1|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/apollo-17-50th-anniversary.40625/


This is the HLLV made by pros

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And

This is the HLLV made by bros

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[shapeshifter]

Splashdown under 45 mins
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

 

[XCV330]

Splashdown under 45 mins
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

the comment section in the official nasa youtube livestream has caused me to give up on humanity.

 

[XCV330]

Splashdown. Fantastic mission to NASA, ESA and the other partners. Next time it will be crewed.

 

[fireproof78]

Congratulations to the Artemis team, to NASA, ESA and everyone who made it possible. So exciting and I love seeing it.

the comment section in the official nasa youtube livestream has caused me to give up on humanity.

Too bad. If we give up on humanity we might not get Artemsis-II: the Artemsening!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

the comment section in the official nasa youtube livestream has caused me to give up on humanity.

I saw that and it's heartbreaking.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What were they saying?

Best you go there and see for yourself. You won't be surprised by the level of intelligence on display

 

[XCV330]

The greates Human ( and Western) achievement since Apollo missions. I am so so glad, that despite the friction, and hostilities between the 3 Superpowers, the West still shows how easy it is to reach the Moon. And beeing there first, lets hope they will stay and claim as their own this time.



What were they saying?

flat earthers, Pro-Putins, an amazing number of Bolinsaro partisans, SpaceX rabid fans who hate NASA, people who just want you to know that they're from (insert flag). Not as many Trumpkins as there usually are, which is odd, as they could give their guy a tiny partial credit for Artemis. Not as many "why are we sending things into space when we have poor people" types, either. But its still a big pile of garbage.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I didn't notice any of the crowd from "It was all CGI fake" crowd there, unless I missed a comment or two

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The greates Human ( and Western) achievement since Apollo missions. I am so so glad, that despite the friction, and hostilities between the 3 Superpowers, the West still shows how easy it is to reach the Moon. And being there first, lets hope they will stay and claim as their own this time.

So, you want to tear up the Outer Space Treaty of 1967?

Outer Space Treaty - Wikipedia

 

[Starbrow]

So, you want to tear up the Outer Space Treaty of 1967?

Outer Space Treaty - Wikipedia

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[Asbo Zaprudder]

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Didn't end well for Refa though...