As the title says! One advantage of not having to get up in the morning is being able to stay up and watch stuff like this that I missed before retiring!!
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
It's late evening here, I am watching it. Coverage is not to Paul Haney standards, but OK. *Lots* of tangential and off-topic "features" to kill time for the short-attention-span generation. Less schtick, more information, please!
Musk was commenting in the live-comments section earlier, making a putz of himself again. Circ burn soon, TLI in a few hours.
Before someone asks, I had *nearly nothing* to do with Orion, with only a few consulting phone calls a very long time ago on the SM thruster control, which is a surprisingly challenging problem with the ESA-supplied SM, and the old shuttle OMS-engine and gimbal system. I guess we are going to see here in a few minutes.
Brett
p.s. Circ burn over, successful, and you can see one of the complicating factors in downlink video! Look at MET about 53 minutes, they have 20-30 seconds of live video from the end of a solar array, and that thing is moving pretty darn good, at least a few inches at about 1/2 Hz. Flex properties are typically drivers for control design. This is with the second stage engine on, so it's a lot of load.
p.p.s. went back and timed 5 cycles of SA flex, so about 0.46 Hz. I guarantee you some of my colleagues, somewhere, are doing the same thing from telemetry right now.
p.p.p.s. I am seeing a shot from the MCC, they appear to use InControl ground system software, same as the one we have, although we run a more flexible display system on top of it.