Posted on 09/22/2021 7:48:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The unusual silence from the crew led many to believe it was due to the private nature of the mission. Or was SpaceX’s leadership interfering? Or did a toilet malfunction render the interior of the craft too horrifying for public consumption?
But now, two days after the capsule returned safely back down to Earth, we may finally have an answer from the mission commander himself.
“The actual answer is that we only had so many ground station passes to transmit video,” commander and billionaire funder of the expedition Jared Isaacman wrote in a early Monday morning tweet, responding to Berger’s original comment.
The live video broadcast on Friday had to be relayed through the International Space Station.
It’s a rather unusual limitation to the mission, given the fact that SpaceX has sent over 1,600 Starlink broadband-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit — and shows that even with near-infinite resources, space-Earth communication remains a tough nut to crack.
Over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk promised that there will be “free wifi next time,” while also apologizing for pizza being served cold.
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
and it wasn’t recorded for later viewing/replay?
In an interview with NBC’s Lessie Holt, the questions were power puff like how did the earth look, and I think one of the passengers said the experience would aid some sort of fundraising.
Seriously, when one person retches it makes everyone in earshot much more prone to barfing - its a conditioned reflex in mammals. We all used to eat off the same carcass and when it got sufficiently rancid it had to come up. The first one to barf was the canary in the coalmine. Steven King knows about this.
Even with no malfuctions, can you imagine the stench of the ISS after years of everyone that goes there recycling theirs and everyone elses urine to drink daily? This is my main aversion to space travel entirely. Aint no windows to open for fresh air up there!!
I say we send em up with nothing but dehydrated Taco Bell for the next mission.
Huh?
Musk was not on the Dragon capsule.
Because you haven't really looked.
Has anyone?
Yup.
Before, during and after.
All that “fecal” matter floating around would not make good visual picture.
You “no grok” antennas nor em radiation, do ya? Inter-satellite coms are slated to be at extremely high frequencies which water vapor in earths stop dead in feet but work fine up there with massive bandwidth. The ground coms antennas on those sats are focused down like magnifying glasses on our ant colony and are laser focused. Virtually no side lobes and forget about signal going up. The sats are in a very low orbit, almost at the edge of the atmosphere by design so that latency is handled because believe it or not, the speed of light is slow. (See the previous sats in high orbit with 120ms latencies) The crew was way way way out in a very high orbit past the space stations high orbit. The problem wasnt at the orbiters end. There just are not that many ground stations.
Starlinks are not designed to receive transmission from orbiting capsules, nor are capsules designed to transmit to starlinks. This is not a limitation ; rather, the limiting factor is are the relatively few ground receiving stations - there is only so much time to be in range of any one. Its not continuous. The author,Victor Tangermann, does not seem to have a very firm grasp on his subject.
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“Over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk promised that there will be “free wifi next time,” while also apologizing for pizza being served cold.”
“With private space competitors planning their own communication satellite networks in Earth’s orbit, it’s not out of the question that space comm technologies could soon get a much-needed makeover - and the one-percenters vacationing in space will certainly appreciate it.”
Snarky guy.
Say what?
I do spacecraft and nav/comms for a living now. I ‘grok’ way better than you. There are enough comms options out there today that its amateurish not to have a manned mission in virtually continuous contact.
Then send your resume to Musk if you can do better.
I think you comprehend my statement.
I have a job, actually a couple, thanks.
“You are falling down an elevator shaft all the time...”
Granted, that can upset one’s digestive system, but ‘falling down an elevator shaft’?
There is just no way the excitement and enthusiasm of the astronauts post mission could be faked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_ZehPOMwI
Oh, wait, that was the crowd.
;-)
I think its technically microgravity, but your statement is correct. Under constant acceleration (as we are standing on the ground or in freefall or in orbit) you dont get a ‘stomach sensation’. Its changes in acceleration that cause that feeling.
Nah.
Send ‘em stuff from Chili’s.
:D
Never thought about this stuff before but now I’m mortified.
:D
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