Posted on 11/23/2022 2:11:11 PM PST by BenLurkin
NASA unexpectedly lost contact with its moonbound Orion capsule early Wednesday morning (Nov. 23), for reasons that remain unclear.
Mission controllers lost communication with Orion at 1:09 a.m. EST (0609 GMT) while reconfiguring a link between the capsule and the Deep Space Network, the set of radio dishes that NASA uses to talk to its farflung spacecraft.
Orion is gearing up for a crucial maneuver: It's scheduled to perform an engine burn on Friday (Nov. 25) that will insert the capsule into orbit around the moon. If all goes well, Orion will stay in that orbit for about a week, then head back toward Earth on Dec. 1.
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Woke & diverse engineers strike again...
Yep. And with slide rulers.
Are they having separation anxieties?
The real purpose of NASA is to make money for politically connected contractors.
That's why the Biden Administration is stalling Musk's Starship rocket with endless "environmental impact" studies. Allowing him to accomplish things at a fraction of the budget would expose the scam.
This program seems to exist for the sole purpose of adding women and minorities to the list of Americans who've walked on the moon. Equity, or whatever.
Ten bucks says they plant the "pride" flag up there.
Musk may be a little odd, but he has vision way beyond NASA, even though he got some help from NASA with his SpaceX enterprise. I doubt it was much.
I just read NASA is having a problem with RF comms of some space vehicle that's supposed to orbit the Moon. Sheesh, we had RF comms with the Astronauts from the Moon decades ago. What's the point of this mission that is not working out? NASA is so myopic in their thinking.
Musk is looking at affordable commercial space flights and his engineers are looking at Mars. Sheesh, shut down NASA and its waste of billions. Let Musk, Boeing, and Bezo do their thing. Free enterprise will show the Fedgov how it's done.
Solar charged batteries went dead…
That’s because back then they did their computations with pencils and slide rules rather than phones.
Yes, and drawn on vellum, sent to factory where parts were fabricated by high school graduates running manually controlled machine tools...
Used a slide rule for the first time in 1977. Good stuff.
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
Who’s flying that thing? Major Tom?
I wonder how far up the food chain the scary news made it in 47 minutes. Were the engineers in the control room getting unhelpful panicked phone calls from bureaucrats and political aides? I hope not but I have no faith.
Santa Claus is the key word—it means UFOs spotted...
;-)
If they do that, I will blow up the Moon.
A friend’s older brother taught me a few operations when I was in the 8th grade, 1957. Went to the wrong high school and sadly never used it again........went through a lot of pencils though. lol
Busy on Facebook and wasn’t paying attention to the mission.
Geezy—Is the Orion carrying ballots?
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Actually, the real Orion project was canceled in 1964. Else we would have been to every planet in our solar system and several interstellar ships with crews in the thousands would be returning, while more are being launched to more distant stars - including the Orion Nebula.
But hey, can’t let the peons get too far away from immediate political control.
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