Watch the Fiery Re-entry of Progress Module 27
astroengine writes "On Saturday, Oct. 29 at 5:04 a.m. EDT, a Progress Cargo Module undocked from the ISS and drifted away with a full haul of space station trash. It gradually slowed, deorbiting and dropping into the atmosphere at 8:48 a.m. EDT, leaving a blazing trail in its wake. Space station astronauts videoed the event as it unfolded."
Oct 29 (Score:2)
Old news for nerds.
Re:Oct 29 (Score:5, Funny)
Stuff that was a different form of matter last week
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No, "potty". Why do you think they burned it?
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Stuff that mattered last week
Well, if you are so jaded, go to the Gateway to Astronaut Photography [nasa.gov] and look at all the cool time lapse pictures of earth.
If that doesn't impress, well, sucks to be you.
Photographs, not video (Score:3, Informative)
The "video" is a time lapse animation made from those stills, and a
good bit faster than real time.
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The "video" is a time lapse animation made from those stills
Which, by definition, is a video.
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Umm, what part of TIME LAPSE do you not get?
The part where it fundamentally differs from any other frame rate.
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The "video" is a time lapse animation made from those stills, and a
good bit faster than real time.
In that case, "live video" should be redefined as "real-time photography"
The ionised trail... (Score:2)
... might very well be usable for "meteor" scatter. I wonder if anyone tried it?
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... might very well be usable for "meteor" scatter. I wonder if anyone tried it?
Would be kinda hard. You would have to know when then deorbited the Progress craft, what the ephermis was and got all ready ahead of time. Probably would have a good shot in terms of just the ionization potential, though.
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Well you can do meteor scatter without any predictions - you just keep transmitting a burst and seeing if you get a reply.
If you knew in advance roughly when and where it was going to deorbit you wouldn't need *much* more than that to work it.
It's started! (Score:3, Funny)
The long-term residents of Space already view us 'terrestrials' with disdain. To them, Earth has become nothing more than a dump!
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The long-term residents of Space already view us 'terrestrials' with disdain. To them, Earth has become nothing more than a dump!
And how is that different from the rest of mankind?
Oblig. Letterman reference: (Score:2)
oscar the astronaut (Score:2)
Yeah, yeah. (Score:2)
When I took my garbage out and burned it, I just got in trouble with the EPA.