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Rocket possibly aiming for DC
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2021-05-06 at 3:57 AM UTCclose but no dice for me
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2021-05-06 at 3:57 AM UTC
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2021-05-06 at 3:59 AM UTC
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2021-05-06 at 4:01 AM UTCLol is it wrong I want it to hot something of import?
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2021-05-06 at 4:05 AM UTCMaybe it will fall on Hillary Clinton's head, like the house on the Wicked Witch of the East in the Wizard of Oz.
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2021-05-06 at 4:31 AM UTC
Originally posted by G Live tracking
https://orbit.ing-now.com/satellite/48275/2021-035b/cz-5b/
thats a controlled orbital trajectory youre showing ..this is out of control -
2021-05-06 at 4:38 AM UTC
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2021-05-06 at 5:07 AM UTC
Originally posted by G lol meds son, find'em.
see how its waning between poles of going south and then north. that is done only by jetison-control to keep it at a controlled speed during freefall. by doing so it prevents it from being pulled into the earth sooner and turns about 120 degrees to jetison back up while maintaning orbit. -
2021-05-06 at 5:18 AM UTCthats the chinese payload to ISS not the out of control rocket it was attached to
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2021-05-06 at 5:21 AM UTCnow im hearing Perth Australia .. someone has"refined" trajectory for GTZ for saturday
thats a huge difference in distance -
2021-05-06 at 5:33 AM UTC
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready thats a controlled orbital trajectory youre showing ..this is out of control
What makes you think that's controlled? What do you think "out of control" means in terms of orbit? It's means its orbital trajectory can't be adjusted, and in this case that the orbit is decaying. Are you confused by the pattern it's moving in? Because that's an artifact of:
A) Earth's rotation.
B) The booster's orbital velocity.
and
C) The fact that it's being projected onto a flat, 2-D map.
The booster orbits the earth every 90 minutes or so. The Earth rotates underneath it in that time, so the next time it goes around the planet it's going over a different part of the planet. When you project that orbital trajectory onto a 2D projection of a 3D spherical object, you get wavy lines. It's not going to move in a straight line over that 2D map, and it's not going to follow the same path each time it goes from one side of the map to the other.
It's the same thing that happens with maps of where solar eclipses will be visible from.
See:
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2021-05-06 at 5:38 AM UTCi just fucking explained it. cold gas thruster with a 120 degree arc pitch to maintain LOS (low orbital speed)
space shuttle, iss fly in low orbit between 120-200 miles up.. satalittes fly in virtual space (1000 to 28,000 miles above earth) or VSO -
2021-05-06 at 5:42 AM UTC
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2021-05-06 at 5:43 AM UTCHTS. boosters are ExR. the fucking fall off before 40-60 miles up and downrange. this entire rocket used a single stage without having external boosters. thats what makes it dangerous and unpredictable. it had 3 rocket mains, and a detachable payload pod. the pod detatched and that entire building size assembly is spinning uncontrollably in low orbital space aka L.O.S.
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2021-05-06 at 5:45 AM UTC
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2021-05-06 at 5:47 AM UTC
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready HTS. boosters are ExR. the fucking fall off before 40-60 miles up and downrange. this entire rocket used a single stage without having external boosters. thats what makes it dangerous and unpredictable. it had 3 rocket mains, and a detachable payload pod. the pod detatched and that entire building size assembly is spinning uncontrollably in low orbital space aka L.O.S.
Tell me what you think "spinning uncontrollably" means in this context, because I'll give you a hint... it doesn't mean its trajectory is changing. Protip: this is what a straight flight from Tokyo to LA looks like when projected onto a 2D map.
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2021-05-06 at 5:51 AM UTC
Originally posted by Meikai Tell me what you think "spinning uncontrollably" means in this context, because I'll give you a hint… it doesn't mean its trajectory is changing. Protip: this is what a straight flight from Tokyo to LA looks like when projected onto a 2D map.
omg. for real. did you really try to compare a commercial flight path? 1 in a billion combinations of " straight paths" so then alaska is due west of the state of california and not northwest?
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2021-05-06 at 5:55 AM UTC
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2021-05-06 at 5:58 AM UTCtokyo and Korean 37th/38th parallel are due west of San Francisco because it too borders the same parallel some 6800 miles away. Alaska is not on this latitude
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2021-05-06 at 6 AM UTC
