UK Daily Mail
After more than a week in space, the doomed Peregrine One spacecraft is set to crash back down to Earth today.
At around 4pm EST (9pm GMT) on Thursday, the craft is expected to hit an uninhabited region the South Pacific Ocean, about 400 miles south of Fiji.
Astrobotic, the Pittsburgh firm that developed the lander with the backing of NASA, said it is working to ensure a safe re-entry that doesn’t hit land. More
Our ability to engineer shit has hit rock bottom. Maybe they need to bring back the slide rule.
Proof that we stand on the shoulders of giants. They’ll never engineer their way out of it if the “return to sender” package is a melted tangled mess at tje bottom of the sea. But all things considered good job dealing with the garbage.
As to those giants, some of this current crop is the stuff between the giants’ toes.
^^^ Bring back the slide rule. That’s actually the problem with the current program. They have abandoned everything we achieved with actual moon landings. We literally have a manual on how to do it, the problems associated with doing it, and answers to overcome those problems. That manual has been trashed and therefore making the mission many magnitudes more complex.
DEI Engineering at it’s best! Expect no more breakthroughs until the next version of America comes about…
It would be nice if the smart ones (if there are any left) would take advantage of targeting potential…
A better place to crash it would be 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC. But numbskull is probably on vacation.
I’d sure like to see that flaming heap of garbage land square in Biden’s lap as he burns himself into a cancer ward on a U.S. Virgin Island beach.
To much tribal information. Which can quickly evolve into, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. It always the fuel seals.
Great metaphor for the US from 2020- 2024.
Aim it at Davos. Pretty sure there’s nothing there that anyone will miss.
Thank God for SpaceX. Two minutes ago they launched four folks to the Space Station….couldn’t see anything due to rain to the north of Melbourne. They are averaging about two launches a week…as regular as the trains. Speaking of which the trains are whizzing up the East Coast through the towns 30 times a day at 100 MPH and wiping out people right and left. Two crashes killed three about eight blocks from me just last week. Its exciting down here.
A reminder that when JFK made his big announcement he said we would send a manned spacecraft to the moon – and return them safely to earth. USSR didn’t worry so much about the second part, and there were likely more deaths in the Soviet program than we know about. Apollo program relied so heavily on ingenuity, and on guts and skill in the astronauts. While the current staff and crews may be well-qualified they have supercomputers to do all of the heavy lifting.
“Great metaphor for the US from 2020- 2024.”
What? Were you born yesterday.Those are from the 60s. And still hold true today.
“Thank God for SpaceX”
Initially fuel seals were their issue too. In fact Elon gave a great interview on their trials with fuel seals.
it’s going to pass right over Gilligan’s island and they still won’t be rescued
You know this utterly proves we did NOT go to the Moon, right?
Yikes. I just thought it proved fuel cells for a rocket are a bitch to design.
We never went and we’re never going. Just more billions being flushed down the MIC toilet.
Missed it by that much….
Brad
Late 60’s early seventies we used a slide rule,calculators were verboten.
Take me back too the time you had to think.
Alexb
Well now they have software that will damn near design and test it for them. Seems like they would have come up with a proven design for fuel seals and stuck with it.
Having said that, stop by the shop someday. We do a lot of thinking here. LOL
My polish Papa used his slide rule regularly and also worked on Apollo. I know, so?
What NASA knew and did in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s it can’t replicate in 2024.
Degeneration is the word that fits.
First off let’s make sure everyone understands this was a Fuel Seal problem. A big part of the problem with space flight stuff is the way NASA does business. If you supply hardware to the U.S. Military they own the design too. It becomes Mil Spec. NASA doesn’t do that. So now you have everyone from Rocketdyne to Aerojet designing their own seals and the become proprietary to that company. Which means when Elon gets involved he can’t copy either companies geometry or process. He has to reinvent the wheel. Both companies I mentioned above started out with very colorful catastrophic failures until they perfected what they were doing. My two cents anyway.
Obey NASA
If they say we went to the moon and then lost the tech plans, then I believe them.
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WTF over? Look, they brought back MooN RocksS. With a made on the moon stamp. WTF more do you peeps want?
^^^^^^ Should have added an LOL. LOL