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SpaceShip One - good luck!
Interesting to note that the first 'Humanaut" is 62 and obviously not a
top-of-the-line physical specimen - good advertising for the rest of us who hope one day to be able to go into space. -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. Give NASA a real challenge |
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in
: Interesting to note that the first 'Humanaut" is 62 and obviously not a top-of-the-line physical specimen - good advertising for the rest of us who hope one day to be able to go into space. Dick Rutan is reporting on CNN that SS1's engine shut down prematurely, but has confirmed that peak altitude was over 100 km. -- JRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. |
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SpaceShip One - good luck!
"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
... "Alan Erskine" wrote in : Interesting to note that the first 'Humanaut" is 62 and obviously not a top-of-the-line physical specimen - good advertising for the rest of us who hope one day to be able to go into space. Dick Rutan is reporting on CNN that SS1's engine shut down prematurely, but has confirmed that peak altitude was over 100 km. That's good news - it means it's capable of even higher altitudes. WEEEEEEEEE!!!! AWAY WE GO! (yes, if you hadn't realised, I'm quite happy). -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. Give NASA a real challenge |
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SpaceShip One - good luck!
"Alan Erskine" wrote:
"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message Dick Rutan is reporting on CNN that SS1's engine shut down prematurely, but has confirmed that peak altitude was over 100 km. That's good news - it means it's capable of even higher altitudes. No, it means that when loaded to full capacity (which this flight wasn't) the craft will be able to reach it's target altitude. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. |
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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message ... "Alan Erskine" wrote: "Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message Dick Rutan is reporting on CNN that SS1's engine shut down prematurely, but has confirmed that peak altitude was over 100 km. That's good news - it means it's capable of even higher altitudes. No, it means that when loaded to full capacity (which this flight wasn't) the craft will be able to reach it's target altitude. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. China lake reported 112km, they did good............(I heard Edwards said 110) I was there and saw Alan Shepard on his sub-orbital flight, it's amazing I was more excited today, WOW!!! T3 |
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"T3" wrote in message om... China lake reported 112km, they did good............(I heard Edwards said 110) flamebaitI wouldn't trust either of them to know what a km is /flamebait Congrats to the SS1 team. |
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"T3" wrote:
"Derek Lyons" wrote in message ... "Alan Erskine" wrote: "Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message Dick Rutan is reporting on CNN that SS1's engine shut down prematurely, but has confirmed that peak altitude was over 100 km. That's good news - it means it's capable of even higher altitudes. No, it means that when loaded to full capacity (which this flight wasn't) the craft will be able to reach it's target altitude. China lake reported 112km, they did good............(I heard Edwards said 110) The official tally is 100.124 km. Not so good. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. |
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The official tally is 100.124 km. Not so good.
Still over a hundred; that's all that matters. Yeah, but is such measurement really good to one part in a thousand? Most people don't even know the feet-km conversion factor to that accuracy, and the original report was in feet...all you need to do is get the look angle to the target even slightly wrong (by 10-3 radian, or about 4 arc- minutes, if I did the calculation correctly), and you're off by those 100 m. Jan |
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"Jan Vorbrüggen" wrote in message
... The official tally is 100.124 km. Not so good. Still over a hundred; that's all that matters. Yeah, but is such measurement really good to one part in a thousand? Most people don't even know the feet-km conversion factor to that accuracy, and the original report was in feet...all you need to do is get the look angle to the target even slightly wrong (by 10-3 radian, or about 4 arc- minutes, if I did the calculation correctly), and you're off by those 100 m. Jan According to spaceflight now, the figure was 328,491 feet - at 3.280839895 feet per metre (25.4mm per inch, 12 inches per foot), that works out to be 100124.05680040049622720160198491 feet according to Windows calculator which is more than sufficiently accurate. However, I'm sure that Guiness Book will be more than acceptable. -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. Give NASA a real challenge |
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