Talk:SpaceShipOne flight 15P
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[edit] Time in space
Do we know how long it spent in space? A few seconds? Rmhermen 23:48, Jun 21, 2004 (UTC)
- 3 1/2 minutes of free fall; that's mentioned in the article. Duration above 100 km is calculable using basic mechanics: just about 10 s. I'll add that to the article. 81.168.80.170 14:48, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Jonathan's Space Report No. 529 has some figures for the inertial orbit parameters at apogee (-6374 x 100 km x 35.0 deg.) might be useful for producing a semi-accurate sketch. -Wikibob | Talk 23:18, 2004 Sep 27 (UTC) (Moved from Talk:SpaceShipOne 195.167.169.36 12:17, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC))
[edit] SpaceShipOne flight 15P in the news
An article in the New Scientist gives interesting details about this flight including some "potentially catastrophic" glitches. This could be a source of some really interesting additions to this article.
For example:
- "Melvill's first frightening moment on the historic flight came at the very instant he flipped the switch to turn on the hybrid rocket motor. The craft suddenly lurched over 90DEG to the right, and as soon as he brought it back to level it then rolled 90DEG to the right."
(link found on Slashdot)
Edit 30 seconds later: I see someone has already started adding this material. mennonot 16:50, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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Why does X0 redirect to this article? it makes no mention of X0 in the text. —Pengo 22:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
