This video demonstrates three crewed launch attempts to the Collaborative Space Station, illustrating the challenges of spaceflight including incorrect launch inclination, fuel management issues, and launch calculator errors. The first launch from Brownsville, Texas failed due to improper fuel assignment and incorrect inclination, resulting in crew recovery in South America. The second backup launch from Vandenberg was scrubbed due to launch calculator errors. The third launch from China also resulted in a mission abort. These events highlight the importance of accurate trajectory calculations, proper fuel management, and comprehensive contingency planning in space missions.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the uh launch coverage for the CAPS crew to launch. Tonight we will be launching a astonishing crew of amazing kerbonauts to the collaborative space station for the purpose of resupply science and general station upkeep. The crew tonight will be launching in approximately 21 and a half minutes. Uh we are targeting a launch time of currently 25234 UTC tonight. If you're just joining us, we appreciate your support and we will continue to update you on the status of the pre-launch procedures.
If you're just tuning in, we're just coming inside. 17 minutes and 20 seconds to launch and it's time to meet our crew. The crew today, which will consist of Yuri Kagarin, Scott Crankson, and Kaylee Keston, are a well-trained scientific pilot and engineering team who will be working in tandem in order to achieve today's mission objectives.
This is of course of point of pride.
Yuri Kagaran is the first Kerbal to ever visit space in our world. He'll be joined by a seasoned Kerbonaut, Kaylee Kston, and Scott Craigen, who is Scott Kent, excuse me, who is on his first launch.
Scott Kent is one of the Kirbonauts also planned to go on our upcoming Polyphimis mission to visit asteroid PSP 666 as it passes by Earth.
As pre-launch procedures go, we are inside 16 minutes and 10 seconds to launch. The rocket is prepped for launch, and we were planning for the crew arm retraction at approximately 10 minutes prior.
As the crew and mission control prepare for launch, we will continue to provide updates as we near the terminal countdown.
And ladies and gentlemen, as we come inside 10 minutes to launch, we're expecting retraction of the crew arm any second here.
We're also expecting final poll of the go no-go from mission control anticipating launch at uh approximately 2234 UTC.
As we are launching from Brownsville, we are expecting a local launch time of 215234.
from Brownsville, Texas, will be intercepting the collaborative space station once again with three crew members on board.
Scott Kent, Kayleie Kston, and Yuri Kagarin.
and as we come within 5 minutes to launch, we have a confirmation from mission control that we are go for launch. I repeat, we are go for launch.
The current expectation is a launch time, a local launch time of 215234 and we are anticipating a launch to the southeast out over the Gulf. Planning an intercept within the hour to the space station. The collaborative space station is in need of general upkeep, resupply, crew supply, and we are announcing that Kaylee Kon will become the first chief engineer of the collaborative space station and helping to perform active construction on the station as well as performing new module assignments and new module construction.
So, as we come inside, four minutes to launch, we do have the crew arm retracted. The rocket is ready to go, and we are beginning the internal countdown sequence.
As we come up on two minutes to launch, it's time for some final announcements before we leave you to the sounds of the rocket departing the Earth. I am Admiral Radish providing your commentary for today. Your pilot for today's mission will be Grateful Deadbeat. Grateful Deadbeat will be handflying this intercept with the station. We are estimating an approximately 2.5 to 3°ree angle of intercept. Uh we will be expecting a 360 degree appoapsis approximately with the station intercept within the next 60 to 90 minutes. Uh as we come inside 90 seconds to launch, this will be the last commentary through the terminal count as we move into the final launch preparations. We wish good luck and best wishes to the crew who will be going to the collaborative space station today. Yuri Kagarin, our first ever Kerbal in space, Scott Kent and Kaylee Kston, the new chief engineer of the collaborative space station. Thank you for joining us as we enter into the final 60 seconds of terminal count, one minute to launch. Thank you for joining us on Kerbal Real Time and we are excited to see the next 60 minutes with you. Thank you for joining.
Heat.
And as we are inside 60 seconds past launch, we are successfully ascending.
over Brownsville, Texas, as the LEO crew module begins its path towards the collaborative space station.
Five engines are currently burning on the bottom of the launch stage. And as you can see, we are ascending now to the southeast, planning for an intercept and first stage separation of the LEO crew module approximately halfway through the 3minut first stage burn. We are expecting to have that stage be caught over the uh Gulf of Mexico for a splashdown and recovery.
Typical viewers may see that we are not using the standard mule booster for our launch today. This is a currently in development booster system to be used for planned crew launch and resupply missions to the collaborative space station.
Currently the launch is ascending over Brownsville, Texas. The LEO booster being caught by Admiral Radish and the current launch and upper stage being piloted by Grateful Deadbeat.
As we enter into 5 minutes from launch, the first stage has separated.
The booster is now successfully heading towards the northern coast of South America.
And the booster is currently planning for a splashdown in the southern area of the Gulf of Mexico.
As we plan the next phase of maneuvers and the second stage begins its burn into an inclination and orbital velocity, we will give some updates on the booster as it nears closer to splashdown.
And if you're just tuning in, the current report from mission control at 8 minutes and 17 seconds to launch is uh an improper fuel assignment in the first stage has led to a reduction in available delta V and a crew recovery being planned near the West Indies uh in approximately 11 minutes uh putting it at 19 minutes 37 19 minutes and 37 seconds mission elapse time.
There is a standby scrub procedure for the evening with for a launch from Vandenberg with the backup crew and we'll be assessing the ETA for that time here as we get closer. The current ETA for booster recovery as of right now it is still on an active ascent just reaching AppOs 9 minutes and 4 seconds mission elapse time. its planned recovery in about eight minutes, putting it at 17 minutes and 14 seconds mission elapse time.
The final crew recovery location planned for the western edge of South America and we will be assessing the Vandenberg backup time here within the next 5 minutes.
The current feedback from mission control that we have is that the Vandenberg backup time will be approximately 4:21 0 UTC today. That is a launch time in approximately 1 hour and 17 minutes. 1 hour and 17 minutes. That will be a uh approximately south to southeast heading as well with a 0.53 degree inclination difference. Uh we'll be mounting the backup crew and preparing them for launch here shortly.
That time once again 0421 0 UTC from Vandenberg, US. As an update on the current status of the different vehicles.
The status of the booster, it is currently descending through 550,000 meters. Now, its epoapsis was at mission elapsed time 9:04.
The crew is now descending through approximately 3,00 3,030 m. Once again, their touchdown is planned for the western side of South America.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your deadbeat speaking.
I did indeed miss my mark on the inclination.
As Admiral Radish said, we are resetting soon for Vandenberg. Stick around if you want to see us set up for that launchpad backup crew. Until then, hear from us soon.
ladies and gentlemen, we are in re-entry interface. If you look just above the craft right now, you can see the mule booster reentering to And we have some uh views here from the splashdown of the booster which is currently in the West Indies in the north area of South America, the southern portion of the Gulf of Mexico as the arrow brakes go And we're expecting splashdown any minute now.
Approximately mission lap time 19 45 And that is splashdown at 2021 of the booster which will be prepped for recovery.
And we have crew touchdown at approximately 20 55.
2055.
We are expecting uh the backup launch crew to be prepared at US Vandenberg in 1 hour and 7 minutes. Launch in 1 hour and 7 minutes.
Prior to launch, we will be having a press conference with the mission control team regarding the status of the crew.
And while we wait for more updates on the status of the Vandenberg backup launch, we have here live views of the CAPS Regalith 1 crew, who is currently outbound to intercept a active moon station in development in preparation for further lunar operations.
On board of the craft here we have Tom Codman of the SPEZ space agency, Marshia Kson of the SPEZ space agency and Katherine Kerwin of CSSA who altogether form members of the collaborative space agency.
Of course, the Collaborative Space Agency being the same organization who runs the collaborative space station, the resupply and crewing of which is the central operation of today's mission.
Current time 031615 UTC leaves us approximately 1 hour out from the 5minute count of the backup launch from Vandenberg.
As we prepare for the press conference prior to the Vandenberg launch, we will be accepting a small selection of press questions to take at the time.
Please submit those press questions directly to press secretary Admiral Radish via chat or Discord.
And ladies and gentlemen, as we come inside one hour to launch of the backup crew, the backup crew from Vandenberg US Air Force Base in the United States, we will be holding a press conference at approximately tminus 40 minutes regarding the recent events of the crew launch of Scott Kent, Yuri Karen and Kaylee Ken If you're just joining, we're inside 54 minutes to launch. We are launching a crew of three Kerbals from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United States. The pilot Jess Kedman, the engineer Adeline Kendrick, and the scientist Edgar Kellerman.
uh will be attempting to intercept the collaborative space station orbiting at an altitude of approximately 366 km.
This is the backup launch attempt after a failed launch and recovery earlier of the LEO crew module.
>> Failed launch and successful recovery of the LEO crew module.
And uh if you want more information about our vessel timing and launch timing, kerbalrealtime.com.
We utilize an overpass calculator to uh determine our launch times. The current available windows for the collaborative space station show that uh we have our current window opening in approximately 58 minutes with our launch time before intercept of course in 52 minutes 35 seconds now. And our next launch window would be in approximately 10 hours and 9 minutes from Z Chang, China, China with another backup crew.
So should we have a scrub for any reason tonight, the next backup window would not be for another 10 hours and 9 minutes with the next US launch site not until tomorrow evening at approximately 7:50 p.m. Mountain time. 9:50 p.m. local launch time. That would be from Cape Canaveral, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The crew who is on board tonight, of course, Jessman, Adeline Kendrick, and Edar Kelman attempting to intercept the collaborative space station for crew resupply and station construction.
If you want more information about ongoing missions, uh, kerborealtime.com also has a new mission calendar to review ongoing updates, planned events, and tagged items for any of the ongoing crew exchanges, robotic missions, long-term probes, or regular transfers via the mission calendar.
and uh the press conference regarding the successful crew recovery and landing in South America of the LEO crew module launch earlier today will be occurring in approximately 10 minutes. 10 minutes that will be at 3:41 UTC. 341 UTC. Questions from that uh can be submitted via chat or via the Discord server.
For those of you just joining, I am your commentator, Admiral Radish, one of the mission controllers for the Cassa Space Agency.
Soon we will be having a press conference with the flight controller for this evening, Grateful Deadbeat, about the recovery of the crew in South America earlier this evening. That press conference press conference taking place in approximately 6 and a half minutes.
Uh we are still accepting questions at this time for the press conference. And if you need to submit those, we recommend you do it via either chat or discord server. Uh we are still accepting questions up until the beginning of the press conference. Uh that will be live live with Grateful Deadbeat, the flight controller for tonight's events.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Admiral Radish and I'm joined here by >> tonight's flight controller, Grateful Deadbeat.
>> Ladies and gentlemen, this is joined here by tonight's flight controller.
>> Good evening, everybody.
Let me make sure that uh the audio is working correctly. Just want to make sure there's not too much of a delay for the purposes of uh tonight's discussion.
But the main goal of tonight is to first of all have a discussion about what happened today and uh to have a a candid review with our flight controller and of course with uh with you the public. We take uh your tax dollars very seriously.
We take the responsibility to our crew very seriously. We take uh our relationship with our engineers and our teams very seriously. And as the flight director for the Cassa agency, what happened tonight is uh both a reflection of what can go wrong in space flight and a reflection of what can go right in space flight when recovery is possible and equipment works. And we have a recovered booster waiting to be picked up in daylight tomorrow. and a crew who is safely on the ground. So, uh, before we get into the public questions, Deadbeat, do you have anything you'd like to say?
I was trying to be the cameraman when I should have been the pilot and that that that is on me.
So, uh, by the time that we were beginning to find an acceptable intercept, we did not have enough delta V to recover, and the rest was dumped into slowing the craft down to prevent any extra burnout during re-entry.
Overall, I would say that this was good practice. Even though it was not a successful mission, it would I would say it would still be successful in that the crew is on the ground now in South America, they landed in the northwest Andes and they will be scheduled to fly again perhaps within the month.
But uh past that, I do want to say that we will be trying to do better here on this next one.
And I'm excited to hear some questions.
I have not looked at chat or Discord at all. I do not know what questions are coming our way, but I am excited to get to them.
>> Excellent. Excellent stuff. So, I think we'll just uh begin taking questions from the top. And of course the the very first question came in from chat which is uh what are the future plans for the collaborative space agency at this time looking forward from tonight?
Well, I would say firstly that we are really focused on getting further Kerbal space flight going not just around Earth, not just around the moon, but we do have plans for even Mars and perhaps some idea of getting them into orbit around Venus and back.
>> Excellent. Excellent stuff.
I is the pilot who it seemed experienced a high level of geforce today okay physically mentally are there any concerns at this time for the crew?
>> Well, one thing I will point out is that we had an amazing pilot with us, Yuri Kagarin. He was our very first pilot for a reason. He is the man with the right stuff as they so say.
Now Kaylee Kston however did lose consciousness due to hygiene forces and she recovered rather quickly. Is experiencing a headache I would imagine.
I have not spoken to her personally yet.
Um, all of them, yes, would have experienced quite a sudden gload and that was due to the mule booster being fired too hard in its late in its late stage process when it did not have very much fuel left. It can have quite the kick >> and normally we turn it down during that time. But >> I do want to reiterate as as one of the the technical designers for the collaborative space agency, I do personally take responsibility for for any highlevel technical failure. We are planning and expecting to implement automated processes. We have controllers and automations for these reasons in order to prevent these problems in the future. So we do expect to see a greater level of technical integration and automation in order to prevent these problems in the future. But the the capabilities, the extreme robustness of our rocket should not be taken as a technical fault, but rather a limitless area of opportunity that has not yet been properly guard railed.
>> All right, next question. Next question.
>> What has been learned from this experience?
>> Oh my. Uh, I'd say what I learned will be what I practice in this next upcoming launch, which is focus more on the map view than getting those good pretty shots of our rocket. I know I like it. I don't know if everyone else likes it, but uh I like seeing that rocket boost off, but I need to be focusing on my numbers and my trajectories.
Is there any risk of uh a potential overbudget expenditure or risk of bankruptcy from this event today? No.
>> Okay. No. Listen, we take the taxpayers money very very seriously.
>> Very seriously.
>> Very seriously. We know we all work hard for that money and we all chip in to make sure that we have pretty rockets.
>> I want to make >> I want to make sure that there is no problems with budget. I want to make sure that everyone knows that there is no problem with this. We have reset. We were planning a reset in the first place.
>> Ed, the the missions to the space station do have a backup.
>> The mission was there is a quick backup.
>> For all intents and purposes, the mission was successful. We were able to recover the most expensive part of the rocket successfully. And as the the first test of the LEO crew module, the recovery of a booster is itself a technical success.
Sidebar, can we like totally uh make this video suborbital flight on Earth and back?
Just label it as that.
>> Yes, that's exactly what it will be.
Okay, >> next question. Uh, >> is this the first time this has happened in the server?
No, >> no.
>> Um, this has happened maybe two or three times, especially when we were testing the mule booster and I was getting the initial feel for launching to rendevous.
Um, this happened kind of frequently.
>> I have many rockets that have failed in testing, especially in the early early days of the server.
>> Now, with crew, I think it's only happened once or twice.
Um there was of course the fatal incident involving Jeppi Kmano. Rest in peace >> and we do take Kerbal flight very very seriously and we involve all contingencies and plans to make sure that we can get them safe safely home including taking these trajectories in which they can actually recover from.
>> On to the next question. This is a three-part question.
Oh boy.
>> What went wrong? Why did it go wrong?
How can we avoid these same issues going forward?
>> Do you feel guilt?
>> Oh yes.
Oh my god.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Um there was a point in flying this where I was like, "It's easy. It's easy, Radish. you just uh have one hand on the keyboard and the other hand on a drink.
And I I should not have been saying that. That's a whole other press conference.
>> If you've ever seen Flight with Denzel Washington, it would be more akin to that one. Simply put, what went wrong was I launched entirely into the incorrect inclination for matching for getting to Ron David with the space station.
>> What are the plans for possible redesigns of this stage?
>> Um, there are no redesigns. This has an excessive amount of delta V designed to even have plenty left over to dump into the tanks of the space station. Uh when flown properly, it does very well. And it has been flown twice before to get crew to and from the space station. The very first crew we sent that did involve uh Kaylee Ken.
>> Yes. Yes, it did.
>> Looking here, what is the main source of Kerbal entertainment during the space station missions?
Oh man, I'll have to ask one of them.
But uh I do know that one of their cabinets says board game. In the IVA view, it does say board game.
>> Katan. Kerbals are avid katan players, much like their launch directors.
>> They're all huge fans of surro deep cut.
>> What's that game K with the lasers, the pyramids, and the laser bears? cat in zero gravity with velcro >> are all fans of cat.
>> Next question.
>> Next question. What are is a Kerbal's primary snack in space?
>> Um, now this is a trick question. I have been developing this theory over the course of many years of playing the game. Um, I've been playing since beta and I do believe that Kerbals photosynthesize. You heard that from me first. That's right. Kerbals photosynthesize. That's why they are greener. long time.
>> Um, their snacks are more just kind of recreation. I believe they eat uh nutritious snack pellets of different flora and fauna that can be found around Kurban or >> primarily just the launch center.
>> But no, uh, for long missions, typically they do not need food because they do photosynthesize off of solar light.
So, let's see here.
Uh, one gorilla versus 100 men. Who's winning?
>> The gorillas.
>> One gorilla. One gorilla wins.
>> Will the community will the community be involved? And if so, will the community be able to do contracts for say landers or command modules?
Um potentially I think that there might be a direction for that even if we just start with a community voting on our next mission or even just something as simple as the name of a mission.
But I do think it would be fun to get the community involved.
I uh I like the idea of letting you guys vote on missions. It's a good idea.
Is Tylenol effective for head trauma in the treatment of your curbonauts?
>> Is it covered treat >> caps?
>> Um no. We actually uh prefer the standard NSAID ibuprofen to uh Tylenol.
So looking here, >> good question.
>> Good question.
>> Will the next booster have more safety margin?
>> Uh, looking at it, no. This is pretty identical.
This is this is the same thing. It's safety margins. Uh, its safety features worked pretty darn well through the first launch. In fact, that is why the launch was still considered successful because we got the crew back down in a very safe and controlled manner.
>> Is there and the booster >> is there a point at which you should have turned around and burned retro?
>> Yes. And that is when I hit the map view and saw that I was >> 41 degrees off inclination.
>> Yeah. Yeah. That would have been the good point to be like, "Let's turn around, Dad."
>> Is there an >> I don't want to go to the water park >> at any point to use Mech Jeb or any system like that.
>> Um, Mech Jeb, who I also refer to as the force ghost of Jebidiah Kerman, was my teacher for many years. I watched it. I studied it. And that's kind of how I based a lot of how I fly on. Um I watched it go launch to rendevu plenty of times.
And uh at a certain point it's more or less far more fun to fly these by hand.
Um, and as far as making the maneuvers go, I feel like I learn a lot more and understand a lot more when I make them by hand and fiddle around and see how the timing and different trajectories affect how quickly we get to a target versus how much fuel we spend. It's it's a lot more interactive, I feel, without mech. But uh if you're learning, if you want to just get somewhere in the game, highly recommend mech.
>> Were you or were you not drinking on the job?
>> Next question.
>> According to the rules of the space anomicon, does this vessel comply or not comply with the duck law?
Oh man. Uh, yes.
>> Excellent. We love a duck lock compliant without without a doubt.
>> I realize some people have not had the chance to read the space anomicon, so I'm going to put a link to it in the chat.
>> The space anomicon is our framework.
>> Sidebar, add a button to the website for that.
>> Yes, I was actually just thinking that should be the sixth button.
That is the six button, ladies and gentlemen. Next question.
>> Uh, the next launch. Do >> we have more questions?
>> Yes, the next launch is in 24 minutes.
Are you going to be changing anything this time?
>> Um, we have changed the crew, the location. This next one is coming by at a 50.57 inclination.
Much easier. just overall it will expend less delta V to get there. And if I just actually focus on the map view instead of the weird view heading out of >> We only need We only need 45 seconds of B-roll.
>> True.
>> Um, what is the operational lifetime of the collaborative space station expected to be?
>> That is a good question. So at a certain point, what is now the collaborative space station was called the SPEZ station.
>> True.
>> And I believe before that it was just called the solar incline station because I had set up just a simple orbiter to study the possible maneuvers between the planets.
and I left a docking port on it, kept building off of it, and that became what is now the collaborative space station.
Um, most notably, once I added tanks, Admiral Radish in his geosync program sent up a lot of extra fuel and that helped a couple of other processes, including a moon mission.
At the time, it was entirely at a different inclination. At one point we have moved it much higher so we get a more frequent pass by um more frequent overpass um of the launch sites.
>> Yeah, it we >> operational lifetime >> operational a better inclination. The first station was not in a good position. We spent a good a good two days moving it to the the new inclination and expanding it.
>> Um potentially I think it might be decommissioned when we move something up higher that is more suited for interplanetary travel where we can refuel our craft and then head out. Right now it is entirely suited for launch to rendevous like we are doing here.
What is the inspiration for doing all this in the first place?
>> Inspiration.
>> I I mean, we >> I think we're sort of just like the old model train dudes who are just watching their trains go around in circles and be like, "Yep, there it's coming at the stop."
>> Yeah. You notice how you never see the model train dudes time morphing their trains forward at X10,000 speed? It's that but with extremely detailed model rockets.
>> Um, two more questions. We're coming inside 20 minutes to launch. Two more questions.
>> Good.
>> One, does the rescheduling of marijuana, medical marijuana into schedule 3 affect this mission in any way, shape, or form?
>> Um, I live in Montana, so no.
>> No. Uh, it may impact the GSA administration's interpretation of what the Kirbonauts are allowed to receive for medical treatment in relation to their assignment on crew missions. But I don't think that impacts either of us significantly.
>> Who who asked this? What's the username?
>> Xavier the Wizard.
What?
>> Next question. Uh, can evil golf hater 4566 have some money?
>> What?
>> He wants some money.
>> He want Can he have >> Can he have some money?
>> Um, we only have the taxpayers's money.
>> You're going to have to You're going to have to work harder than that, >> which means this is already like your money that you willingly gave us. We took your money.
>> And sorry to say, but like it is probably represented in like a little cluster of oxygen inside the super critical tanks in the mule booster.
>> So, one person one person took away their funding. They they took away their little bit of tax dollars that they were supposed to give us and now there's a loose wire in the oxygen tank.
We had one El Capone out there.
>> That guy was supposed to pay for the wire fixing in the oxygen tank. And now what do you know? We're going to Apollo 13, the Leo crew. And it's your fault.
And you you whoever's sitting out there in the audience now and who didn't pay their taxes, you know exactly who you are.
>> Uh ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending this press conference. We uh need to get to our stations for the uh upcoming launch of the crew from Vandenberg. Uh before you go, Deadbe, do you have anything to say about the the three new crew members?
>> Um I would say that this is their very first flight. Um all of them have not had any training yet, so this will be flown entirely off of the computer guidance system.
But coming back from the space station, they will all have at least some experience and their next flight they will be able to bring more to the table which is initially the goal of the last launch too.
So all in all our mission is still go.
We are looking good. The hurricane that was over Vandenberg earlier has seemed to pass. What a miracle.
>> What a miracle. Incredible how that works.
It was quite rainy earlier. That's why we didn't choose Vandenberg in the first place. I thought it would still be here.
>> So, Jess Kedman, Edbert Kelman, Adeline Kenrich, you know, these people are our best. We send them because they are our best.
We're going to go ahead and get ready into our stations.
Uh once again be looking forward in approximately 17 minutes we'll be launching in an intercept to the collaborative space station from Vandenberg. Uh thank you all for coming.
If you have any remaining questions please direct them to the press secretary myself also launch director myself uh we'll I'll be providing commentary uh for the launch and uh Grateful Deadbeat will be piloting.
Thank you all for coming.
Mic off.
Ladies and gentlemen, as we come inside 12 minutes and 20 seconds to launch, we are looking at live views from Vandener Vandenberg Air Force Base of the LEO crew module with backup crew currently loaded on board.
The crew today consisting of pilot Jess Kedman and her two crew members Adeline Kenrich and Edard Kelman will be launching for intercept to the collaborative space station. The purpose today a resupply and crew mission for standard operations on the collaborative space station. As we come inside 11 minutes and 45 seconds to launch, we are expecting a go on weather crew systems and vessel for launch tonight. expecting retraction of the crew arm in approximately 90 seconds.
And as we come up on the 10-minute mark, we are expecting crew arm retraction.
Crew arm retraction any moment here.
And there it goes.
With the retraction of the crew arm, that means we are currently go for launch. We would have to reextend the crew arm at any point, which would indicate a hold in the launching timer.
Because of the instantaneous launch window tonight, uh there is not the opportunity for a hold at this time. We are currently 9 minutes and 30 seconds out from our launch time, which is anticipated to be 04210 0 UTC.
If you're just joining, the current position right now is that three crew members will be launching to the collaborative space station for a direct intercept uh after a successful recovery of crew from a failed orbit launch.
Earlier tonight, that crew landed successfully and is currently receiving medical attention in the high Andes of South America.
As we come through 8 minutes and 50 seconds to launch, uh I will be your commentator through the launch tonight.
Admiral Radish, pilot, Grateful Deadbeat.
If you were not present earlier for the press conference, uh recording of that and notes from that conference will be available later this evening. But for the time being, please continue to send press conference requests, items for uh further information, event requests, or uh general items for PR to our Discord server.
Links to join that can be found via various sources from our public resources team.
I also would like to uh speak to any uh direct comments as to the capability of our flight director to perform his duties tonight. He is capable, he is competent, and he is ready.
Coming inside 3 minutes and 50 seconds to launch due to an error with the launch calculator.
We're trying to figure out a corrected possible launch time.
It looks as though the launch calculator has an incorrect inclination. Uh this is the same overpass calculator that you can utilize uh on the website with a improper inclination for overpass time.
So we're doing a recalculation inside the 3 minute and 20 second mark and we may have to force a hold.
And the final call from launch director Grateful Deadbeat inside the twominut mark is a scrub.
So that is a scrub. We'll go ahead and take down the timer.
In order to uh understand the issue as it occurred, we'll be scheduling a press conference in approximately 15 minutes.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're just tuning in, uh we're looking at live views of the CAPS Regulith 1 vessel, which is of course the current vessel outbound to the moon. We're planning on having a press conference in approximately 8 minutes with the flight director from the LEO crew module flights from this evening. The first flight ending in a successful crew recovery in South America, but a failure to insert to orbit. There was also a successful recovery of the booster from that mission tonight. And then the second launch, the uh of the capsio crew module resulting in a scrub due to uh incorrect values in the launch calculation that I will be investigating here shortly. And we are planning to have a review session and a question and answer session as part of a press conference here in about 7 minutes now.
Uh that is currently targeted for 04300 0 UTC approximately 12:30 a.m. Eastern time.
Hello. Hello everybody. My name is Admiral Radish. I am the uh of course PR director for the Collaborative Space Agency. I'm joined here by our flight director for the evening, Grateful Deadbeat. Grateful Deadbeat, say hello.
>> Hello. I'm I'm the flight director anyway, not just this evening.
>> Yes. Just just in general, the flight director. Um the the purpose of the discussion today is to go over the the scrub that occurred this evening for the LEO crew module that was supposed to intercept the collaborative space station deadbeat. Would you like to tell us a little bit about what happened today?
>> Okay. Okay.
So, first of all, I would like to uh respond to comments about potential drinking and flying spaceships tonight.
um that is unfounded. There is no evidence. You cannot prove anything.
And uh yeah, so uh mostly this last launches scrub was not my fault. I did not create the launch calculator. I was simply obeying it without No, I guess I didn't check myself. Um, we also have for other purposes we can check scansat to see when overpasses are. Um, for simplicity sake we just check the website but on this simple occasion that it didn't happen that way.
It's your fault. It's your fault, Radish. So, I will say I do take a deep level of personal technical responsibility as the person who designed our launch calculator for it to for it to say that I mean I'm looking at at what it said was supposed to be a quote unquote Vandenberg window right now and I mean if by the station will be over Vandenberg you mean it will be 800 miles off the southern tip of Baja California then yeah it was a pretty was a pretty good lodge calculator for all intents and purpose. purpes, but uh you know I say the really the the weight of the decision lies with the flight director, right? And so >> Oh yes.
>> So I think >> that's why I called scrub >> and that's why we scrubbed. And you know uh anyone who wants to talk about things not working or succeeding, we have six healthy living astronauts who are with us today which is more than we could have said about uh Jeppi Carbano. Rest in peace.
Rest in peace. Uh and >> um another thing I would like to add is that we could have made that launch.
There is enough Delta V in this craft, but it would have been downrange from the launch quite a ways potentially an hour away from rendevous, which is not really within our usual frame of capture.
Uh I I will be making immediate changes to the uh overpass calculator with validation work uh paired with my partner here, Grateful Deadbeat, and we will make sure that the the data we are getting is correct, accurate, and reflective of reality as it exists in the scenarios we are attempting to launch and and validating those tools I take with a deep personal responsibility. And I think it's important that we outline to the people listening why that is. It's because we understand that you all are taxpayers, right? And we are taking your money in order to to enact these missions to press the boundaries of what is capable in Kerbal exploration. And the misappropriation of tax dollars is uh something we take very seriously. I do want to point out that that one person was missing their tax funding from this most recent tax cycle and that was the money I was supposed to use to finish fixing the overpass calculator. And so someone out there in the audience is sitting there who didn't pay their taxes and that my fault.
>> The overpass calculator is wrong >> because of that person. You're out there somewhere and there is no way it is actually our fault.
>> We are doing this for the taxpayer. This is truly a 21st century crowdfunding that we have rebranded.
>> We're actually egalitarians.
>> We're doing this out of the generosity of our hearts using your money. So really just understand how good we are.
>> But to address the taxpayers directly, we do gain around 99% recovery from recovering that last mission. Uh there was no real waste except your time. That is right. Your money was not wasted.
>> Excellent. This is great. This is great news. Uh I feel inspired.
>> Um if we could switch to my view in the VAB. I am working on a couple adjustments to the LEO module for our China launch. There are two available launch sites in China that we are now currently looking at in less than an hour now we could launch from.
>> That's excellent news. And and have you confirmed those?
>> Um I have confirmed both of them. Both of them are within, I believe, one degree, which is far better than when we sent the solar panels up.
>> Excellent. Excellent news. Excellent news so far. Uh, while you have this up, I'm going to go ahead and get to some of the questions.
>> There's more qu Okay, let's go. Let's go.
>> There's There's always questions.
If there's one thing we can depend on, it's the people to send us questions. Uh are why don't we have any redundancy?
>> No stupid questions. Everybody >> no send anything. Why don't you guys have redundancies in place? We do. A scrub is a sign of prudence, not a sign of failure.
>> No, no, no, no. We are working as fast as we can to get the latest version of the uh LEO module out.
Um, we do need to decide a new crew for for consistency sake. We cannot use the same crew from the last two launches as they are not available to be sent to China. They are on recovery from their missions.
>> And do we have any idea of who the new crew is going to be here as you're selecting them?
>> Um, I was just looking at that. Um, we are just excluding anyone who was on those previous flights. Maybe we could open that up to chat. But, uh, why are my tax cut dollars going to fireworks? You better believe that when we finally make it tonight, I'm setting off some fireworks.
>> Absolutely. I concur.
>> And those are your tax dollars right there.
Those aren't random stuffs right above you. That those are yours, Archist.
>> Those are your fireworks. Now, um, looking here, do we plan to open a hospital with all of these scrubs?
>> Um, I only laugh because the hospital is of course already open. Um, >> we had to send Kaylee Caston there earlier today.
>> It's mostly a burn unit.
>> I'm actually a strong advocate of the puppet hospital and burn center.
United Sea is asking something. Is it true that you assisted covering up the Jeb files as well as the UFO and Kraken Files?
>> Okay. The Kraken Files may at some point be released. That is the subject of a video. Um, >> I have no clue what you're talking about about the Jed Piles. I have never heard about that. I will not be accepting any further questions about it. I will say this about the Jeb Files. I have sat for numerous >> I have sat for numerous >> public >> depositions. I will not be slandered further.
>> Uh what about the UFO files?
>> The lawyers here at best do not condone any talk about the Jeb files.
We'll have to move on to the next question.
>> The force ghost of Jebedia Kerman will rest in peace.
>> How much in taxes would someone have to pay for us to put a camera on the spy or spy camera on the space station?
>> Oh, you know that might actually be covered in your uh last April payment.
>> You might actually be able to get to work for that. But the question is, did you pay your taxes?
>> If so, you may already hope you didn't donate to other charities. If you donated to Meals on Wheels, screw you.
>> We need that money.
>> I think we need that money objectively more than you need that money.
meaning no real offense to Meals on Wheels. Amazing program.
Next question.
>> Next question.
What is the estimated time to the next window?
You know, I would say probably about 40 to 30 minutes.
>> Yeah, I think it looks like >> 45 to 35 minutes right nowish.
It's not too bad.
That's enough time for me to simultaneously fix the overpass calculator while we select the crew.
>> That is enough time to visit Schmurk.
Have you ever >> um we need pilot engineer um our last engineer of the evening?
I >> think it's got to be uh spaghetti.
Miss Spaghetti. No, not Adeline. Come here, Spaghetti.
>> We love spaghetti.
>> This of course is a stock name that a Kerbal can have. We did not edit this.
Spaghetti is a true Kerbal name.
>> The custom last names are taken all from real astronaut names.
You'll also notice there is no Jebidiah.
Uh Jebidiah exists solely as a forced ghost in a forced ghost in this universe. You can see more information about that. Read the space anomicon which is now linked on the website.
I do believe we have this craft being sent out into the GOI desert right now.
>> Let's see.
>> We did not kill Jeb. He was never in our save.
If you look in one second to prove a point, um, we will go to the astronaut.
>> That's a great point.
>> The astronaut complex.
>> This is a great time just to sort of look around the server as it exists for a second.
>> So, so some some tiny details while he goes to the uh astronaut complex.
This is a very custom build of Luna multiplayer, which we probably won't have to keep very custom for much longer at this rate.
Here is our astronaut complex.
As you can see, we have only killed one Kerbal. I I I will change my statement.
I have only killed one Kerbal. That is just epicmano.
>> Rest in peace.
>> He came in on a suborbital suborbital flight. And it is changing back there.
That is silly little bug.
But Jeppe was killed during re-entry on a craft that somehow lost its heat shield.
It was a very strange strange event.
>> We still do not know how quite it happened. Probably a staging error.
>> However, >> the uh >> we do not revert.
>> We're not allowed to release the the UFO files that are involved. We can't release the Jeppi files.
>> The Jeppi files are for our review and they are made into law.
Rest in peace, Jeppe Carromano. You will be missed.
It's time to take a crack at loading up the crew. So, let's We should probably take a look at the uh calculator. We're going to confirm. I'm going to go to the space station without the calculator to figure out an overpass. I like to go to the space station and open up scansat.
Normally scans does not play well with Luna multiplayer, but we've got our own little custom build going.
And as you can see, in about 49 minutes, that will be our approximate launch.
>> Can you uh do the zoom view on that really quick?
>> Um, for whatever reason, it doesn't want to let me. Yeah, we might have to >> because as I said earlier, Scansat does not like to play well with Luna multiplayer.
>> No, there are definitely some and soul there has some days looking here.
It's time to enter into the poetry power hour. Evan, favorite poem?
Well, two roads diverged in Yellowwood.
I'm sorry I could not launch either LEO module, but B1 flight director long I stood. I looked to China as far as I could and sent out yet another LEO module. Good job.
All right, this has been the poetry power hour.
>> No, no, no, no. Don't think you get off easy. Your turn.
>> Do not go gentle into that GOI night.
Old crew should burn and rage at close of day. Rage. Rage against the Gobi of the night.
But he's got pink hair.
Look at that. We got saros out here.
Classic image of the uh Chinese sawarro.
My favorite of the classic desert plants in China, the siguarro cactus.
Let's take a quick peek over here at the world of Discord.
Rock.
Rock.
Now, I will say I see Davos asked a question about the Kerbal Astronaut draft. Uh, legitimately, I believe there's a whole section about that in the uh space anomicon. When is the draft?
That should be uh >> it's soonly >> or is it monthly?
>> It's it's can be called upon. It's typically yearly, but we can call upon it.
Here it is. One sec.
Astronaut Drivemaker. It's July 1st.
Not. Yes.
>> You see, we write the space anomicon, which has maybe my favorite cover page of a document ever.
>> Just to be clear, he means that the fourth ghost of Jebedia Kerman wrote the space anomicon.
>> You're correct. My apologies.
>> I do not believe in that heresy.
The space anomicon or how I learned to stop worrying and love the kraken written and edited by the force ghost of Jebidiah Kermit. Greatest Kerbal of all time. The official rules of the agency's spec and Cassa as collaborated on by both for the real time real solar system mod surfer. Appendices, codexes, summations, philosophizings, and ideiations by Admiral Radish and Grateful Deadbeat. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the Kerbal's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events would actually be pretty sick.
Um, I do see that we are getting the question, does Spaghetti Kerman, Spaghetti Spaghetti Karini make good spaghetti? And that is no.
She's an astronaut.
She She probably has like dehydrated spaghetti if anything.
Dehydrated spaghetti. Karini, >> the Oh, that gives me mission ideas.
>> So, what do we have on the mission docket for anyone sitting here waiting for us to launch? Also, we got to pick our launch time.
>> Oh, did you not catch that?
I did call it out at one point. Or maybe I didn't.
>> I'll put the timer back up.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's going to put a timer back up. Here we have >> put the timer back up.
43.
>> Let's go ahead and fade up the doomsday timer.
>> 40 41 minutes 44 seconds. 403 40.
And if you're wondering that uh this is not even close to in line with this inclination for those of you who don't know the uh the earth spins.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, it spins. Um it will be moving east and eventually will be in line a lot closer by the time the space station comes around again.
Evan, can you do a scan set check for me?
>> Just pop that orbit.
>> Oh, we got to be from the uh base station to see that. Uh, that's fine. Later then, I'll check in.
>> I'm I'm already there.
>> Easy.
Wow, Evan, you changed your vessel so fast.
Is there some way I can change my vessels that fast?
>> Um, here's here's the view.
>> Excellent. Well, it's pretty close.
Cool.
So, maneuver in 41. What's that say?
Um, that's in uh 41 minutes. Uh, here, let me slide that back cuz that's going to be quite off from what I actually want.
>> Let's see what the actual time's going to be.
do an estimate of anything.
Currently, we're looking around 5:30 UTC, a little before maybe All right, I think that's our launch point.
Give or take.
>> Yep.
Now really the uh point we're going to be trying to calculate is when the space station is around 2 million m away. That is uh yeah 2 million m away from the launch site itself.
>> Yeah crows fly a crow flight distance of 2 million m exactly.
And if you are just joining us for the evening, we screwed up our first two launches and we are still trying to get it going.
>> Will they do it? The world may never know.
The first one would be called a successful crew recovery and the next one >> I mean that that first stream went well.
There were no scrubs.
>> Please. Rule one, clause D. Craft must be flown in a manner to preserve the life of Kerbals. Rule three, clause B.
Kerbals will not be sent anywhere from which they cannot return. Please do not launch Kerbals into the sun.
No, >> we will never send this.
>> There are solar probe mentions in in proposal, but no, >> we have to go through the design review phase.
And just for anyone wondering, there is for nearly everybody some sort of proposed mission on how we could get there, the time frame, and realistically how we could make it enjoyable for you, the viewer.
>> We just talked about a six-year Neptune mission yesterday.
>> Neptune. We are coming up on Neptune, the Neptune window transfer. And uh yeah, six years sounds awesome. I don't know if I want to do another burn as long as Kronos. I literally left my computer running for 28 hours just to make sure that Xenon burn ran. It did.
>> It did happen and it worked successfully. You are correct.
Okay, let's figure out here.
So, you're launching from G1.
Yes, you want to China.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever been here.
Always find myself at Hamaguir or Woomerang. Woomer. Woomerang is from the base game.
>> Woomer.
The Woomer range.
Make sure we still got everything chugging away. Setting up our launch timer.
Everything away.
Setting up a launch timer.
All righty.
Are there cacti in the Gobi Desert?
>> Oh wow, what a good question actually.
Maybe where the stupid ones.
>> Are there cacti in the Go?
>> This is the Gobi Desert, right?
>> Just north of the Himalayas.
>> Yes.
In my opinion, maybe the best feeling that you get when you're playing with real solar system. My wife has just walked over and said, "Yes, there are cacti in the Gobi Desert."
>> Ladies and gentlemen, we have confirmation. There are cacti in the Gobi Desert.
There are cacti.
Quite lovely.
But uh when you're playing RSS, it is nice to be over a certain part of the world, you know, to look down and say, "Hey, that's Death Valley. That's Yellowstone.
That's >> My wife has walked up and corrected herself. There are not cacti in the Goi Desert."
Not cacti.
I will be retitling my Christmas card to her.
>> We've created misinformation.
Fake news.
So, Evan, uh, let's take a look here.
>> What What's the space anomicon penalty for fake news?
>> Uh, a steep one.
>> Gotcha.
Looking here.
>> Whoa.
>> Yes.
>> Do we have our final time?
>> We're really waiting more for a window of opportunity.
Dare say the first two events were more planned.
We It was We weren't just uh >> winging it, >> joking there. We did have the uh backup plan of going to Vandenberg if calculator was correct. Come to think of it, that's probably why our first launch wasn't.
>> Was a quite a >> quite angular.
>> We'll have to talk with a certain someone sending screenshots in the Discord chat who was pointing out that it was off.
>> Yes.
Yes.
have.
We are still waiting for launch right now. Current estimate is we're within about 30 minutes at this point. I'm going to update the uh timer here.
We'll be launching out of Juan, China.
It sounds like currently the collaborative space station is just about to pass by the southern tip of Africa.
on its way heading northeast. The launch direction will be northeast this time which will be different from the previous two passes which were southeastbound over America.
In this case, the >> launch.
>> Ladies and gentlemen, I do want to remind you that taxpayers who mentioned the Jeb files will be finded additional taxes >> double >> double the taxes will be levied.
>> We thank you for loving your space program so hard you pay double taxes.
Put it in a note.
I'm getting some dissidence from the crowd about the tax levying policies.
So, we may need to go back to the drawing board with that one. Uh, as the public representative for the space agency, uh, I do take how we spend your tax dollars very seriously, and I need to I need to understand my Gobi Desert fake news wife does not approve of our tax policies.
I swear on this drink that it is not in my hand.
It will launch tonight.
There is no alternative.
alternatives. Plenty of alternatives actually until the rest of time.
Not on Friday night, baby.
Interesting.
What is our ETA to launch?
Update my timer here.
Stupid That does make it worse.
We just wanted our uh mission pilot Valentina to step out and have a good look at the beautiful cacti of the Gobi Desert that everybody know definitely exists.
Get a POV on here, can we? Yeah.
Heat. Heat.
And ladies and gentlemen, if you're just joining us, you are tuning into the pre-launch coverage of the third attempt tonight. backup backup launch attempt of the LEO crew module which is attempting an intercept with the collaborative space station as part of the collaborative space ay's crew resupply and mission program being the third mission attempt tonight uh we feel it is our obligation to discuss some of the previous events as we lead up to launch currently looking at approximately 25 minutes to launch which would put us at uh 0527.
We're still refining the final approximate launch window. Uh that refinement due to the backup window and backup positioning could take up until the instantaneous launch moment to calculate precisely.
As we continue to move closer to launch, we'll continue to provide updates as to the status of the crew, pre-launch preparations, and uh any remaining items on the checklist.
Now, one thing I will mention is that we had our first launch timer set quite early. We had it calculated out, but that was our first mission that we had planned for the night.
And after that did not go well, after incorrect inclination in after an incorre incorrect inclination moving towards the space station, we had to abort that, re-enter the crew. They were recovered safely. Afterwards, our backup crew in Vandenberg were quite bummed to find out that they were not able to make their launch as our launch pass calculator was incorrect and the space station would not be passing over them at a correct inclination for crew transfer.
here in China. We are hoping to experience that soon. But we are trying to keep an eye on the numbers and telemetry of our two craft that we have here. So once again, we will update you on a more firm launch time soon.
I would like to remind the taxpayers at this time that their tax dollars were not wasted on the last launch. We did indeed recover that craft and the value of it is being transferred back into liquidity and used for the next launch. Our current mission in China, a whole set of different taxpayers.
You guys don't have to worry about it.
They aren't here in chat. These taxpayers, they don't even care. They don't even know.
Ladies and gentlemen, as we come into uh 14 minutes to launch approximately, we do finally have what appears to be a uh final calculated launch time. Uh we're currently targeting 053139 Delta Zulu. Uh that will be UTC time.
Once again, that time will be 05 31 39 Zulu. That's an approximately 14 and a half minutes. Uh we've set the Tminus timer at 1326.
and counting.
At this point, uh once again, we'll begin pre-launch checks. We should be retracting the crew arm at approximately 10 minutes to launch. At that point, we'll reconfigure uh for the final terminal count as we proceed all the way down to tminus 5 minutes where we will do our final go no-go poll. At this point, I'll be updating all of the remaining areas and uh timers to show the correct time. Once again targeting 05 31 39 UTC for launch And as we approach 10 minutes, t-minus 10 minutes to countdown, we are expecting retraction of the crew arm. We now have a view of the crew arm here.
And now we see the crew arm right at 10 minutes retracting. And we can see uh our last view here of the door to the crew module launch escape system on top.
This is of course the uh third mounting of the LEO crew module tonight.
We're now inside the 9-minute mark and it's time to talk about our crew. Uh on our vessel today, we have Valentina Klaya, Ricky Cardwell, and Spaghetti Karini who will be flying to the collaborative space station. Uh once again we're targeting a liftoff time of 53139 Zulu. Uh our launch calculator is based on a just approximately 2 million meter prograde time uh before the vessel would pass overhead. So in this case we're still targeting that 531 Zulu time which looking now at the countdown timer is just at that 8 minute and 20 second mark. So, the crew today will be embarking on a mission for resupply and construction at the collaborative space station. This will be the third launch attempt tonight.
Some update from the previous missions.
The crew from the first mission is well and is recovering and the crew from the second mission has been recovered off of the pad at Vandenberg and is prepared to be assigned in the near future. So, as we come inside the 8 minute mark, we'll have more information soon preparing for that final go no-go poll at the five minute mark.
If you're just tuning in, this is Admiral Radish, the public communications director, one of the flight directors, and a commentator for the mission this evening. You are looking at a live top-down view from the launchpad top of the launch launch gantry of the CAPS vessel, the LEO crew module which is currently carrying Valentina Carla, Ricky Cardwell and Spaghetti Karini. The crew arm is retracted and we are inside the 5minute mark. We have a go from the current flight director and a go for launch.
This mission will be piloted by Grateful Deadbeat.
I will be providing commentary and our current launch time still on track targeting an instantaneous launch window at 53139 Zulu. uh in approximately five minutes.
As we come inside the final terminal count at 60 seconds, we will not be commenting for uh the first minute of flight.
As we configure for intercept at the collaborative station and have to prepare the internal systems for separation of the second stage, multiplayer control of the booster for recovery and control of the station for intercept.
And as we come inside, 90 seconds for launch. Uh we're just about to hit that one minute mark. The internal systems are configured for flight and we are prepared to take off. Once again, three Kerbals on board. Valentino, Ricky, and Spaghetti. All three on board preparing for a instantaneous launch window intercept. Now one minute to launch inside the terminal count. Internal systems are go and we are preparing with the very final checks for this rocket to lift off carrying three Kerbals on an intercept resupply and construction mission to the collaborative space station. This mission is sponsored by CAPS. I am your CAPS public relations and commentator director Admiral Radish and your flight director and flight controller for the evening.
Grateful Deadbeat will be piloting.
Now inside 20 seconds as we prepare for launch.
And after final adjustment, the confirmed liftoff time was 53152.
53152 from the launchpad.
Currently ascending in flight over China. Planning for intercept with the collaborative space station.
and we're now over halfway through that first stage burn. Still ascending over China, planning for an intercept with the collaborative space station. As that first stage falls away, it will be recovered looks like over the high deserts in China this time and planned for reuse on a future mission. The recovery and reuse of those boosters is a priority of the collaborative space agencies and a key mission directive of both SPEZ and CASSA.
And planning for reusable rockets and sustainable operations in space is a primary goal of all operations within the collaborative space agency.
And from my side, it looks like we have three happy Kerbals as we near the end of this first stage burn. Once again, the plan for the first stage is that it will be uh dropping over China, which is compliant with international standard policy.
Any moment now we're planning on there it is fairing deploy separation of the second stage and deploy of the launch escape system.
Now in space, we're uh beginning the burn of the second stage. There we have sec second stage ignition and the booster will begin preparing its retrograde flip for recovery and reuse.
Now, as we approach, we're 5 and a half minutes into flight, we uh are expecting to see the further refinement of the orbital intercept as well as deploy of the solar panels that help power the service module as it continues towards intercept with the And for those of you following along on the stream. It looks as though uh the crew, although very happy certainly, if you take a look, they have no lack of disappointment on their faces, uh has elected a uh launch to abort, and we will now be re-entering. We're still planning the final details of the re-entry point right now. current calculations that I can estimate show it coming down uh in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii currently a few maybe hundred miles north of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean currently.
As we get more details we will certainly relay At this time, we do encourage you to ask questions. We will be answering them as they come.
However, as the pilot of this mission, I can safely say that one, this craft may not have quite enough delta V for the angle at which we were trying to launch at.
and two that this craft is capable of making it there. It has several times. Um if you go to our YouTube video of going to the space station, it is this exact same craft.
And now looking back after we have separated the command module from the service module.
Um we can see as Admiral Raj said they are quite happy and thinking about it now for you the taxpayer. Um, we would like to thank you for joining us on this night of a triple ground and suborbital flight test missions. These all went perfectly according to plan. This is exactly how we planned it and these nine Kerbals all have walked away with significant amount of experience under their belts.
So you the taxpayer may sleep well tonight. I I see that uh you know as is protocol.
>> The plan for right now is to of course finish the landing for these crew members. We're anticipating a landing within the next 20 minutes uh including re-entry interface. Uh once again Valentina, Ricky, and Spaghetti on board. Uh and then in approximately 20 to 25 minutes, we will be holding a press conference in order to close out tonight's activities.
And for those of you who are just tuning in, we are waiting for the re-entry interface of our CAPS LEO crew module with three Kerbals aboard. They will be re-entering in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii.
The current plan is to hold the press conference in approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
That would place it at uh just after 6 UTC at this time around 610 UTC.
As we wait for entry interface uh with the crew on board, we do like to uh remind people that they can find more information about active and ongoing CASSA Spez and CAPS missions at the Kerbal Realtime.com website, including a mission calendar that identifies upcoming items and important milestones for missions ongoing across the Kerbal Realtime Universe.
So, as we prepare for re-entry interface, we're getting a nice view here of the uh top of the capsule. And there in the distance, we can see the service module separating away. Both preparing for re-entry. The service module preparing, of course, for disposal.
And mission elaps time 24 and a half minutes. And we have re-entry interface for Valentino, Ricky, and Spaghetti coming back through the atmosphere of Earth.
You can see here just as we enter a beautiful sunset re-entry right as the sun disappears behind the edge of the earth re-entry interface.
24 and a half minutes mission time. This is the uh separation crew separation and module separation to abort as they come back through the atmosphere.
And ladies and gentlemen, we have communication with our Kerbals after re-entry interface.
They are now coming back down. Quick look at our satellite. We'll show where they are. Currently just north of Hawaii.
Going to be deploying the parachutes now.
Having a nice smooth landing back to Earth. We will be ending the stream soon. Thank you for everyone who's been watching along. Even if we didn't make it to our initial goal, we did get a lot of training for our Kerbals done and for that we are thankful. And as the parachutes come out, the uh timer now at 27 minutes 10 seconds, descending now through the last 10 kilometers of atmosphere before a splashdown anticipated in the Pacific Ocean within the next few minutes. We'll be having a very brief commentary wrap-up to discuss the evening before we close off for the night. Uh it is important to note that if you have any last remaining questions, this will be your only time to submit them. We will not be taking live questions at the session tonight. So if you have anything remaining to ask, please send that now.
I do see a lot of people are asking questions about our website. If you have any of those, Admiral Radish, I'm pretty sure we'll be happy to answer.
Radish, I'm pretty sure we'll be happy to answer.
Please place any uh please place any questions about the uh website in the Discord chat. It's a much longer uh much longer process to discuss.
And we now have the crew coming back through the last 500 meters.
Anticipating splash down. A final splashdown time here very shortly.
And there we can see the splash of the other part of our crew module making it to the ocean.
and through the last few meters since splashdown of the crew module. Final mission time 29 32 2932 as we go to recovery. So we will be reconvening here in just two minutes for the final discussion.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. My name is Admiral Radish, public relations director for the uh Collaborative Space Agency. I have the Collaborative Space Ay's launch and flight director here, Grateful Deadbeat.
Uh we want to talk about the series of events that have uh >> happened tonight and and wrap up the evening by discussing the most recent launch of Valentina, Ricky, and Spaghetti. Three brave and valiant Kerbals to the station. And of course, they elected to separate their module and abort the mission given some of the the constraints they were operating under. And so we respect that decision and give full agency to our pilots and our crews. Of course, we're disappointed to not see a vessel reach the space station this evening, but uh we are here to make everything clear that we can make clear.
And I think I first want to always begin with the most important thing to me which is we understand that we are taking taxpayer money and that you as the taxpayers deserve clear transparent explanations about where your funding is going, what your funding is doing uh and and how we can support you in in spending that funding appropriately. I do want to say that the the miscalculation uh that was seen on the the launch and the the constraints that the astronauts were operating under are inherently due to budget funding constraints that were imposed upon us by the lack of sufficient tax funding by one or two individuals in the previous tax cycle.
And so I just want to clarify that through that uh we just want to make sure everybody's paying their fair share. We will do the heavy lifting. We are saints in what we do here. I think uh we really try to drive forward the boundaries of what's possible for Kerbals, but you know, we need buyin from all people. So, I'll with that, I've made my piece clear. I'll turn it over to our flight director, Grateful Deadbeat, for for his take on the situation.
>> Well, thank you very much, Radish. It has long been said since Wilbur and Orbal Orville Kerman both left Earth for the first time that the best landing is one you can walk away from.
And here we have proved that three times in a row. Oh, I'd say two times in a row. The first time we didn't even get off the ground.
However, these are successful flights in our eyes. These did not lead to the death of any Kerbals. All of them gained experience. They all have new ribbons attached to their names for flying on a craft of certain weight, experiencing Gforces, going to certain altitudes, flying at mock speeds. These are things that they have all experienced and will experience again and have the wherewithal to handle them.
So truly this is not a loss or a failure as it may seem.
However, we are we are s sitting pretty uh comfortable tonight. We have no deaths on our hands, which I guess it shouldn't be surprising that nobody died, but uh it's still a good thing.
>> I would agree. I would agree. And I think that we're in a position for when we want to take our next attempt, be it tomorrow, be it the next day, be it the next day or the next day or the next day, uh we will march forward one foot in front of the other with your taxpayer money, dollars in fist tightly clenched so nothing gets lost.
We'll be here. Now, we do want to reiterate to you taxpayers, we do have a successful mission that was launched 3 days ago. The Regalith mission heading to the moon to deliver the lunar lander to the moon station is on its way and has sufficient delta V to finish its mission, get them back home and do things nice and tidy.
So if you are looking to something successful after tonight, do go check out other projects.
>> Yes, definitely take a look at what has launched.
>> Website is up to see what is coming up in our calendar.
And uh I believe we were going to take some questions.
>> Yes, there's a couple questions we want to wrap up the evening with. Um, I do want to let people know that, you know, there is a there's a number of launch windows that we can operate with on the the station due to its positioning. We have many options across the course of the whole day until we impose some more rigid restrictions on launch scaling that uh give us a lot of flexibility based on how we've inclined the station and positioned it. uh we should be able to reach it from most sites over the course of a day which gives us great great variety. And so yes, there were some questions that came in and I think uh it's time for us to answer some of those questions.
>> Oh boy.
>> So let's see here really quick.
Will this mission be redone tonight? No, it will not be redone tonight. Why are there not greater margins of error built into these launch platforms delta V budgets?
>> You know, that's a great question and I thought I thought there was. So, I'll I'll just be square in the design process. It takes about 900 or 9,400 delta V to get into low Earth orbit.
Um these this craft specifically in a vacuum has around 13,000 or 1300 >> 13,000. Yes.
>> Yes. And uh the first time we were in a wildly incorrect inclination due to my own incompetence. I'll say it now. Um, the second time I launched too far or I launched too fast and had to burn backwards to actually gain the proper intercept time. And this of course led to the Delta V budget being expended too early once again to my own incompetence.
Um, I I will say I am I am frankly a little embarrassed, but uh always plenty of time and we uh didn't kill anyone.
>> And the reality is is it's one of those cases where the the overperformance of the booster early in the flight. It truly overd delivered so much that it not only can black out Kerbals, but can accelerate faster than an orbital object.
essentially in the scale of just the first stage. So, >> the mule booster is a beast of its own.
>> The deer itself is quite an impressive object and I like to always say we just muscle past Max Q. Just shove right past it. We don't need to pay attention.
>> We got to make our bark >> in this situation. Yeah, in normal just launching probably not. But here when you're wanting to meet something at rendevous, you want to be where you want to be, at what speed you want to be going at.
Uh, looking here, will the next crew be sent up to the station tomorrow? Uh, potentially. We'll have to sit and discuss what the timing is going to be for the next launch. Like I said, many many options, many time windows for the station.
Is the collaborative space station currently crewed?
>> Um, there is no crew currently. Um, there was a crew at some point or at one point that did consist of Kaylee Ken and two others I'm not remembering right now, but uh, yes, they spent, I believe, 17 days on the station back in February and two left while Kaye stayed behind for inorbit construction projects. Those were very successful.
>> These were very successful. Um, these projects and what we learned from them are going to be utilized in our upcoming Polyphamous mission, which is a crude mission to an asteroid that is going to be flying by Earth within 40 days from now.
>> And we are very excited. We're going to try and get a scientist to the surface of the passing asteroid and back from the surface before it uh before it exits the sphere of influence of Earth.
I see someone asking about the telemetry mod you have on the screen. That's Scansat.
That is Scansat. One of the best Kerbal mods. Has been around for a very long time. I we run a modified version of it to play nice with uh with soul.
Uh how did the space agencies manage to launch large vehicles in quick succession? Are they assembled and prepared for launch in advance expecting failure? Uh the best answer to that morph is we use the same booster and in fact all of these are launches of the exact same model that would be used for all of the same type of launch.
Essentially what we're doing right now.
So the goal is to create standardized families of rockets to do repeat functions.
Uh and then a question about scansat.
Does scansat need satellites in orbit to function? Yes, we we got these scans of the planet that you're seeing from satellites. It's literally called Earth scan or something that is in orbit. We started this up long before we even committed to >> making this whole project public. This was something that we had initially created just for ourselves. In fact, >> we have done this for around a year and a half period in the base game of Kerbal before back in 2023.
>> Yeah. So, we've been running a real time save, including an entire previous nonsolar system scale server for a year plus.
No, I can actually uh highly recommend that. That was really fun. Sending things around the Kerbal system in real time. It only took what, like 80 days to get to Duna.
>> It wasn't bad. When you consider a Kerbal day, you have four Kerbal days per day, so you can quarter everything.
Yeah, it's really not that bad.
No, but uh for realism's sake, we like to have this running real time parallel to our actual universe. Any time warping or going back would set it out of sync of where our actual planets are.
>> Correct.
And the goal here is to have the planets in the right spot.
That way, we can enjoy the process of getting to them and planning to go to them. I I like it. So, let's see here.
>> Going over to the Discord side of things. Have you considered bolting a couple SRBs to the side of this thing to give it even more oomph?
Uh, yeah, that's actually was my first thought.
That was my first thought. More boosters. More boosters.
more boosters.
And then the last qu question, the was the fact that this was the third launch of the night a factor in reducing its chance for success? I think no. I think it was actually the closest one by far.
If we had if we had a a slightly more moderate on launch approach for the the booster, the lower portion of the booster depending on payload weight, which we could optimize for, you know, a certain gloss implemented well, which is one of the long-term goals is to get KOS as like a sort of second set of hands on all of these launches rather than MechJ do something custom and interactive and engaging. aging on the screen that that plays with the actual dynamic of having flight directors. You know, there are uh things we can do there. I think there's a thing we can do there. I do see one last question I want to answer. Have you considered Principia mod? I have play I have played with it. The problem is we do not want to have to do real station keeping all of the time. You know, we do have actual lives >> and Principia mod would imply that we would have to do a level of station keeping that uh like at the altitude our station is at that would be extremely >> our station is as deep into the gravity well as you can go and it would just fall in constant amount of resupply missions.
I think I played with it briefly with also a Kerbalism build a long while ago and it was like every five orbits which in our case is every hour and a half per orbit it it just started to fall out of sync and get back into the atmosphere.
So uh with that we don't want to have Princip princip installed. We don't want to have uh Kerbalism installed at this point. We we actually I worked on a multiplayer synced build of Kerbalism that was, you know, well into development before we decided that the unpredictability of some of the items and the risk of having to restore from backups is just a whole a whole process. And then when you consider adding RP and RORO on top of it and all the items we already have, um, we want to keep it a little bit light and fun. There's enough of a challenge having to wait, you know, you guys know we're 1300 something days from the Pluto intercept.
Uh, and actually in about 5 days, we are sending out our uh, Saturn probe. It left the it left earth maybe uh a month and a half ago and was heading closer to the sun to make its uh transfer window a lot sooner as to shave down time in which we can get to Saturn.
But that is a planned mission. It is already sent out. We will be making the Saturn injection burn in 5 days time.
And that will be a mission that stays in orbit. It won't be a flyby like Kronos going by Pluto. This will be getting into orbit around Saturn and staying there. And this will be in the time frame before we get to Pluto.
We're trying to fit as much stuff in before the Pluto intercept as possible.
And then once we uh get there, we'll have to plan an even faster Pluto speedrun for round two.
Is it is it possible? No. Will we figure out how to do it? Yes.
>> H I believe that's the last of the questions.
>> Uh, one person is asking us if we're going to add the mod that allows us to bring breed Kerbals. No.
>> No. Absolutely. What are you saying?
>> Anyway, thank you for everyone who came tonight.
>> Thank you everyone for joining. Uh we'll be resuming in the next day or two the crew launches with a proper set scheduled launch time. Check out the website kerbalrealtime.com.
The launch calculator and overpass system should be fixed to see when the uh station is passing over things. If you have any suggestions, recommendations, questions, comments, concerns, theories, fun anecdotes, please put them in the Discord. Come join us in the Discord. We'll have a swell time. Uh, you all are officially the taxpayers now. That's just what we're going to call you. So, thank you taxpayers. Don't let the Kerbal Revenue Service bite you. Uh, thank you all for joining.
Have a good night.
>> Good night, everybody.
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