The Pod Bay

2:05 AM

InSight launch has been delayed for 2 years nasa.gov/press-release/…

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XKCD

5:09 AM

SOUND DOGS MAKE: [BARKING] [HISSING] [LIGHTSABER NOISES] [FLUENT ENGLISH] [SWEARING]

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9:59 AM

Coverage of the Docking of the ISS Progress 62 Cargo Craft to the ISS is now live on NASA TV

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Space Exploration Meta

2:16 PM

Q: Truth vs Presentation

In this question some feedback made me wonder, what matters more in an answer, truth or presentation style?

3:06 PM

that's an oddly subjective question to ask about objective reasons for rejection of a very specific answer

jpl.nasa.gov/news/…

13 hours ago, by TildalWave

InSight launch has been delayed for 2 years https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-suspends-2016-launch-of-insight-mission-‌to-mars-media-teleconference-today

rather unfortunate I think

Yep.

so now it's gonna go to Mars when ESA sends it's ExoMars rover?

hmm yup might happen

so TGO and Schiaparelli in 2016, and that's it then till May 2018 when InSight, ExoMars rover and also Mangalyaan 2 might all launch

Antzi

I found down vote system very frustrating on SE, so I understand his question.

3:22 PM

oh I understand where the question is coming from, I just don't think it's helpful how it's worded now, it only obfuscates the real issue which is that the answer failed our standards of quality, those being a direct consequence of this being a Q&A and not a general discussion forum

I guess that the TL;DR version could be that those asking questions here should be able to expect answers drawing from facts and verifiable sources of information, rather than opinions alone, which anyone on the internet has plenty of

3:43 PM

@Antzi frankly, I don't understand why it's now upvoted

BTW I didn't vote on it

but it doesn't justify any assertion made there, and some of it is quite misleading

I tried posting a very detailed explanation of why his answer was poor, hopefully it helps some.

> they can launch 11 satellites at a time...

I know, that was #1 point on my list (Of 7...)

heh yeah I was writing an answer to that meta question but then saw c2v post his so I discarded mine, he answered good

kim holder

ahem, he answered well :D

3:48 PM

worst in my opinion ...

> I have no doubt a stage 1 will be reused before end of 2016.

The fact he went to meta to seek improvement is a good thing at least...

which is plain wrong, and there's a link in @geoffc's answer that says otherwise direct from the horse's mouth

@PearsonArtPhoto sure, but why not ask directly what the question is about?

anyway, yeah... back to fun :P

Well, I know my first experiences on SE weren't good, and I'd like to think I turned out okay...

@PearsonArtPhoto oh no you didn't! :))

Space Exploration Meta

Q: Https forbidden on Meta?

I often use a system that wants to block selective statements that I sent out (Not sure why, but it's a work system, go figure...) I've found that going to the site in https will prevent such filtering from occurring. I tried to go to https on meta, and was told that it isn't allowed. Why is http...

bug

4:12 PM

Wildcard certificate

In computer networking, a wildcard certificate is a public key certificate which can be used with multiple subdomains of a domain. The principal use is for securing web sites with HTTPS, but there are also applications in many other fields. Compared with conventional certificates, a wildcard certificate can be cheaper and more convenient than a certificate for each domain. == Analog == One analogy is that of a public notary which issues a public validation of a person's identity. An individual wishing to have her identity validated would submit her own name and some evidence of her residence and...

the gist of the problem ... *.stackexchange.com can be one wildcard cert, but * can't be a wildcard for multiple subdomains (otherwise someone would just register a *.com cert and rule the web LOL) and the wildcard has to be the least relevant subdomain (first in URL order)... so you'd need a separate cert for each meta.*.stackexchange.com

that would be quite expensive, and an administration nightmare on load-balanced servers behind CloudFlare

it still wouldn't do anything against those networks where you're behind "MiTM proxies" and clients are managed by the company that can install custom root certificates on them

Basically, unless SE becomes a CA (that's what Google did to solve such problems), or they move all site metas to common higher level domain, I don't see this being solved any time soon

4:32 PM

Hmmm... Well, they won't do anything unless someone says something, so...

@TildalWave Which Q? Which A?

Look at P23-24 of this PDF:

patrick.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-141107-004.pdf

A: Now that they can land a Falcon 9, what will they do with it?

An earlier plan, years ago, when they thought they would have landed much sooner was to take the used first stage to SpacePort America in the Mojave Desert, after inspection, and refly it there several times. But current plans seem to be focused on expediency and they will use it for fit checks ...

They show where they drove the crane, with the stage 1 hanging from it, to the ground mount for folding the legs.

@TildalWave Danke Shein.

@geoffc I'm not Shein, but you're welcome anyway :P

@geoffc that's quite nice

1 main pad, 4 contingency ones all around

well, not towards the sea... that's one huge contingency landing pad #5 :))

@TildalWave Shein is good, much, in Yiddish/German.

Shien? Shiene? How would you spell it? (I write Yiddish in Hebrew letters, not good at English transcription).

5:03 PM

@geoffc schön or schoen if you don't have umlauts

No umlauts in this house. Hmm, it sounds more like shein in yiddish. (Or how my grandmother OBM would say it in Yiddish).

2 hours later…

7:32 PM

I'm glad someone asked the question about the bright light and found it to be the moon. It made one of my answers that much easier.

8:19 PM

kim holder

Launch of Russian govt Proton rocket w/ Breeze M upper stage deploying Express AMU1 comms satellite: russianspaceweb.com

hey!!

that's my job!!

LOL

and the link is: tsenki.com/306 (it's in Russian ... more authentic that way :P)

Launch at 21:30:50 UTC (4:30:50 p.m. EST)

SpaceX landing: Elon Musk shows Jeff Bezos that his is bigger with Falcon 9 landing

8:38 PM

Watch this few seconds of this video! It is pretty funny Bezos vs Musk, but this one few second clip sums it up.

►

Link should include the right spot... Crazy chinese animation, but around 30 seconds it sums it up very simply.

Literal pissing contest visualization.

Russell Borogove

8:55 PM

geoff, can you make it explicit that LZ-1/LC-13 is part of Cape Canaveral, so I don't have to make a really redundant answer? OP seemed to think it was outside of Canaveral.

Can I use that awesome image you used as well?

Russell Borogove

I don't know what it's licensing is; try this one instead: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/…

(latter link is from WP)

Sure.

Done.

blogs.nasa.gov/jason-3/2015/12/23/…

Jason-3 is on track for Jan 17th launch out of Vandenberg. Thinking is ASDS formerly known as JRTI will be catching the stage. (No one is sure if Marmac 304, with the wings from retired Marmac 300 got a brain transplant and thus is also JRTI, or is getting a new brain and name).

Oops 303 is in Cali, 304 is OCISLY.