@PearsonArtPhoto I wanted to link to your site, but I think in SE we should try to use only https, and that causes a different appearance on my screen.
The most recent installment of NPR's Brave New Workers A NASA Astronaut Stays In Orbit With SpaceX And Boeing (article & podcast) covers Astronaut Sunita Williams extremely cool new job.
She's continued her career in space on Earth as a member of NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capabili...
I saw this item in The BBS chat room and clicked on it:
A window opened up with a google security message (I'm using Chrome on OSX):
I understand I can override by going to ADVANCED and saying "ok", just curious if this indicates some issue or is superfluous.
edit: fyi I noticed the link ...
@uhoh I'm actually surprised https worked at all... It must be that my CDN provides a bit of that ability, but I haven't really set it to do so.
My site doesn't store any data, or have the ability to do anything but simply pass on the same static website to everyone. I don't see the need for https for such a thing, and it would actually be difficult to implement it with https.
@PearsonArtPhoto okay "you don't need privacy because I promise not to store data". Why does SE put such an emphasis on retroactively removing non-https links from posts?
I think it only auto-changes SE Network sites. So links where it was http://space.stackexchange.com/posts/1 it changes to https://space.stackexchange.com/posts/1
@uhoh: You have me interested in your latest question...
I'm wondering why the two sources are different, and which one is more accurate. I had always thought that the observational was more accurate, but maybe that isn't actually the case. Hmmm...
Okay, so the observational value corrects for light time. That should only be a small difference now, what, around 50 s* 3.64 km/s= 182 km.
While interesting, that isn't the source of the error...
The difference due to the linearity shouldn't be more then a few km either...
It doesn't seem like the vector orientation makes a difference at all...
I'm almost positive I'm using doubles, so data precision errors shouldn't be more then a few km.
Is it a time zone issue?
That might be it, but if it is, it is odd...
I might be taking the time zone in to effect twice.
That doesn't seem to be the issue, but it is noteworthy there appears to be a 4 hour discrepency in time...
Can't figure this out now, must do real work... Sigh.
@PearsonArtPhoto open sourcing is not a panacea, but it's been an incredible accelerator. I don't think you are in danger of being challenged by a competitor site at this point, it's something to consider.
The conversion of the attitude data as it appeared (undocumented) from Lightstreamer to roll, pitch, and yaw was the biggest pile of guesses and assumptions atop assumptions I made back when Matt and I were coding this. It is almost certainly wrong if it is varying from the ISS Live! website.
We...
These guys are open source and it seems to have been at least a bit helpful. They're also interpreting/reformatting/redisplaying data from a NASA generated "feed".
Perhaps we should add a note about it and a link to it from the Tour? Something like:
Don't ask about...
Anything not directly related to space exploration
Questions that are primarily opinion-based
Questions with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long a...
Hello everyone! Does anyone know any SpaceX announcement about Falcon 9 Block 5 specificatons or when they wil for example, new Merlin 1 D thrust, engine dry weight, payload mass for this rocket and for Falcon Heavy with this new version? I am speaking about exact specification value.
Click the question mark symbol on the right-hand side of the black SE bar. Then click "Tour". Scroll down to the "Get answers to practical, detailed questions" section.
If I had unlimited control of the Tour, I would put it in its own section, but we can only edit certain parts.
Oh I see it, thanks! This doesn't really jump out of the page. Is there some way to link directly to this, or will it be necessary to tell people how to scroll to it each time>
Just searching for "resources" finds it. That helps
@uhoh While you can link to the Tour, it doesn't look like there is a way to link to a specific section. That's probably because the SE staff want viewers to read the whole Tour.
@geoffc Thanks, I was wondering about if it would have new specification, 7607 kN thrust SL was since 2016, last year Elon Musk announced it will have higher thrust. Who knows we will find soon enough, in a couple of days having the first flight. I was wondering if any information was around. It could have specification that you are saying.
The most recent installment of NPR's Brave New Workers A NASA Astronaut Stays In Orbit With SpaceX And Boeing (article & podcast) covers Astronaut Sunita Williams extremely cool new job.
She's continued her career in space on Earth as a member of NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capabili...
Perhaps we should add a note about it and a link to it from the Tour? Something like:
Don't ask about...
Anything not directly related to space exploration
Questions that are primarily opinion-based
Questions with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long a...
