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Interesting.. comments turned off from that youtube video.
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Today, Firefly’s Alpha launch had a successful liftoff & progressed seamlessly through each stage of flight, including MECO, stage separation, fairing separation and the first SECO. Alpha’s scheduled stage 2 engine relight did not deliver the payload to its precise target orbit. Communications to the spacecraft has been established and mission operations are now underway.
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Alpha FLTA004 Fly the Lightning was a dedicated commercial launch for Lockheed Martin in support of a national security technology demonstration.
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The Firefly engineer said the relight is only for a short quick burst to circularize the orbit. Wonder what happened.
The commentary is pretty cringy. Too much self-praise for things that I am not even sure that big of a deal.Interesting.. comments turned off from that youtube video.
"We have elevators now to the top of the tower, to provide assistance to disabled people. We care for those things... .."
The media ethic of that company is decidedly "different". Metal rock for the background music. Pukey yellow-green color with a terrible font. Bleh. I'm glad I didn't watch that live. I didn't hear the disabled reference, but that's pretty random.
It's still an amazing accomplishment. I'd have trouble even building a metal tube that long, let alone accelerating it to orbital velocity. It's a shame they didn't get 100% success out of it. Speaking of which, we're still waiting on you, Blue Origin.
It's still an amazing accomplishment. I'd have trouble even building a metal tube that long, let alone accelerating it to orbital velocity. It's a shame they didn't get 100% success out of it. Speaking of which, we're still waiting on you, Blue Origin.
I think @Electroman was referring to the B.O. launch vid... I had said similar in a different thread... whereas Firefly has the Green Rockin' Vidcast....
You should listen to the whole commentary and then that section what I mentioned on having an elevator and how they play it up as if its a DEI score thing, will be apparent.
The whole commentary is very amateurish.
In isolation the elevator comment might seem odd to point out, but in context, they really seemed to be looking for things to be delf congratulatory about... Karman line... big windows... how they are gonna bring back all this cool moon-tech to earth... it was relatively cringerrific....
And always wondered what experiments can one do with just about 60 odd seconds of being in space in near zero gravity, and 2 minutes of free falling through atmosphere.
But the commentators listed a slew of experiments including one about growing some plants !! Huh ?
Great summary- the sociopolitical changes parallel the launch numbers pretty well.
Spacex makes the USA launches into a steady stream at the end...
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