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Thats a lovely video, the shot at the end of the LH2/LOX exhaust is very nice. Im gonna bookmark that as a reference in case anyone asks when making exhaust textures.
Yeah, I was thinking while watching the mission that the quality of the images was amazing (and live !) in comparison of the Apollo era. It's definitively one of the areas where technology boomed. Now you can almost follow a mission like you would watch an Orbiter replay. The drone view showing the parachutes deployement live was especially impressive. Soon it will be like in a movie but live, and they'll need a director to select the right cameras and viewing angles at the right moment in real time to maximize the dramatic effect. Or you will even be able to browse through the views from your TV/computer :blink:
Thats a lovely video, the shot at the end of the LH2/LOX exhaust is very nice. Im gonna bookmark that as a reference in case anyone asks when making exhaust textures.
Yeah, I was thinking while watching the mission that the quality of the images was amazing (and live !) in comparison of the Apollo era. It's definitively one of the areas where technology boomed. Now you can almost follow a mission like you would watch an Orbiter replay. The drone view showing the parachutes deployement live was especially impressive. Soon it will be like in a movie but live, and they'll need a director to select the right cameras and viewing angles at the right moment in real time to maximize the dramatic effect. Or you will even be able to browse through the views from your TV/computer :blink:
Looks like some pretty intense security there on the balcony!
Do they have a water tank on the ship? :blink:
Anchorage is an amphibious warfare ship, equipped with a well deck for boat operations. What you see in that photo is the well deck and aft of that, the half-open door. The ship has ballast tanks to sink the stern and flood the well deck, and then raise the stern to drain the water out.
And I don't think that's security you're seeing; more likely just the ship's crew.
Congratulations to NASA on a successful flight, I just wish there was an EFT-2 coming a few months down the track, as history buffs remember, Apollo 4 was followed by Apollo 6....
Great flight, met a lot of goals.
But is the next "event" for Orion EM-1? That's tentatively scheduled for December 2017, assuming the SLS stays on schedule. That's a long period of inactivity across a U.S. presidential election cycle, lots of time to sharpen the budget axe.
ESA reported setbacks with the SM design.