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  1. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    The same thing dwelled my mind all along, but I was under impression nobody would have gotten it. :)
  2. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    You've done it, my friend! :tiphat:
  3. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    I'm a screenshot marksman. :thumbup: CONGRATULATIONS !! :cheers:
  4. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    The most fresh pre-encounter Pluto picture:
  5. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    Once we've got there anyway, the NH team should take a pleasure in naming features on Pluto and Charon in favour of different demons and all the devildom! :lol:
  6. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    I can't figure out, is that the flyby countdown bound to Earth or to Pluto?
  7. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    A yesterday's portrait of my elder daughter with her Hew Horizons mission patch and her New Horizons name-sending-aboard certificate. :thumbup:
  8. SiberianTiger

    Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

    I'm inside the ex-USSR and I still cannot guess too. :huh:
  9. SiberianTiger

    Updates ISS Progress flights updates

    There are three Looch (Луч) series satellites exactly for that purpose: -5A, -5B, and -5V. The problem is that besides the TDRS-equivalent satellites we need to mount the compatible transmitting equipment on the stuff like Progress and various booster stages. It's not complete even at RSOS of...
  10. SiberianTiger

    Updates ISS Progress flights updates

    What's marked "Onboard propellant consumption" here is actually the nominal limit for propellant consumption put for the currently planned maneuver. It does not relate to the actual propellant reserve onboard. This has just been highlighted in the discussion at NK forum.
  11. SiberianTiger

    News Roscosmos News

    http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/russia-reorganizes-space-program-again-ostapenko-out?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Spacepolicyonline+(SpacePolicyOnline+News) Russia Reorganizes Space Program Again, Ostapenko Out The Russian government announced another...
  12. SiberianTiger

    Updates ISS UPDATES

    No ammonia leak is confirmed, according to the latest messages.
  13. SiberianTiger

    Updates ISS UPDATES

    It doesn't make clear why they report an air contamination in Node 2 specifically. Edit: yet I can see that JEM is basically on the same pipe...
  14. SiberianTiger

    Updates ISS UPDATES

    Is Node 2's cooling system a common loop with any other modules? The rest of the USOS, Columbus, Kibo, possibly?
  15. SiberianTiger

    Launch News A Wild Russian Monster Rocket has appeared! Angara-A5 test flight, December 23, 2014

    As Alexander Il'yin, founder of one Russian space startup company called "Lin Industrial" pointed out in his blog, Despite we are happy with the successful Angara A5 launch, and getting proud with our country, the idea of this launch vehicle is arguable, at best. Firstly, the modular...
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    Launch News A Wild Russian Monster Rocket has appeared! Angara-A5 test flight, December 23, 2014

    Few launch pictures are published at the Ministry of Defence website: http://xn--80ahclcogc6ci4h.xn--90anlfbebar6i.xn--p1ai/multimedia/photo/gallery.htm?id=19747@cmsPhotoGallery And TASS news agency have just reported the successful GEO insertion for the Briz-M with the...
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    Launch News A Wild Russian Monster Rocket has appeared! Angara-A5 test flight, December 23, 2014

    I think that's because it went severely underloaded this time. It was carrying just a little boilerplate mock-up...
  18. SiberianTiger

    Launch News A Wild Russian Monster Rocket has appeared! Angara-A5 test flight, December 23, 2014

    A vid on RT showing the launch from afar. Does remind me the only Energia/Buran launch!
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