NASA's Most Dangerous Mission Ever, set for tomorrow 5/11/09- being stranded in space possible

So where's the feed gone? They keep on looping the launch but the sporadic audio seems live, albeit very sparse.

Is there a cockpit webcam feed?

Public money pays for this and it should be a public event.

that was the first time i was able to watch the launch. I just want to say thank you OP for the link. i did not know it existed. My prayers are with them. May they stay safe. S&F

OK well.. yes Hubble is expensive, and taking pictures is what it does best. But saying that its not good enough to support the cost of it is kind of a bad argument. some people would claim that the pictures taken are priceless and we need these to understand more of what is going on out there.

besides other satellites that have done very little for public monitoring.

Cassini-Huygens is really expensive, and it never even got a chance to watch people pee, or triggered a response when someone said bomb.

The total cost of the mission is about US$3.26 billion, including $1.4 billion for pre-launch development, $704 million for mission operations, $54 million for tracking and $422 million for the launch vehicle. The US contributed $2.6 billion, ESA $500 million and ASI $160 million.

wiki source: cassini

hell all its doing is flying around Saturn looking at water jets and hexagons. (i do really know there is much more going on, but for basis of argument)

and i dont know, maybe my mind control beacon is working a little too well, but i think its taking some great pictures.

i just think its too easy to launch a spy satellite without anyone knowing/caring from sea, and that if you were going to make a satellite with a household name, I wouldnt make it my super secret spy on everyone one.

oh and hubble is 350 miles up... ISS is only 250miles. so its pretty high up there.

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Originally posted by orangetom1999
reply to post by jkrog08

 

One does not spend billions and billions of dollars on a sattelite and then billions more to put it in orbit just to look into outer space.

Happens all the time, actually. Hubble is neither the first nor the last space telescope.

How high up in orbit is the Hubble??? If it is normally close to the surface of the earth this should be an important clue. If you want to look into deep space ..why would one put it in low orbit?? Just a thought. 2 or 3 thousand miles up should be fine.

The altitude of hubble's orbit will not affect its view in the slightest. Placing it "a thousand miles" closer to the stars will not make a dent in viewing objects that are light years away. As for viewing the earth, we already have spy sats the size of hubble that view the earth 24/7. That's a known fact, even if their exact camera specs are classified. There's no need to try hide just one more of the same by calling a space sat, and if that were the case we wouldn't have access to hubble's raw data.

reply to post by PrisonerOfSociety


nasa channel is the only source for once the shuttle is up and on out, at least that i know.

once they get in their grove up there, they should come on camera and say hey and pat each other on the back, and describe a little about what they are doing.

but as for 24/7 feed from inside/outside/around the shuttle, i wish....

hmm..




im not worried for ex-stunt pilot, he will have beings from the source helping him and his 6 co-pilots.




this may be the moment of contact, for it is bound to happen very soon

Well...

All I can do is wish the best of luck to them and a safe return.