From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V3 #17 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 21 August 1993 Volume 03 : Number 017 In this issue: DC-X Flight on NBC News Delta Clipper Footage Re: Delta Clipper Footage Re: Delta Clipper Footage Re: Delta Clipper Footage See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 07:51:02 EDT Subject: DC-X Flight on NBC News Did any one see NBC news last night? They had test flight video. I'm glad they used LH2 for the propellant. It makes for a more impressive flight to see it hovering there with no smoke clouding the view. Brent L. Bates Phone:(804) 864-2854 M.S. 361 FAX:(804) 864-8469 NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or B.L.BATES@larc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ From: Bruce Henderson Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 10:21:54 -0700 Subject: Delta Clipper Footage I am not sure if any of the rest of you were fortunate enough to see footage of the DC-X flight. One of my local news stations showed about 30 seconds worth of hover and landing. I was blown away. Definitely an SIO (Spacecraft Induced Orgasm) Congrats to M.D. Space! Bruce ------------------------------ From: Dave Cox Date: 20 Aug 93 13:58:17 Subject: Re: Delta Clipper Footage Bruce Henderson writes: >I am not sure if any of the rest of you were fortunate enough to see >footage of the DC-X flight. One of my local news stations showed about >30 seconds worth of hover and landing. I was blown away. Definitely an >SIO (Spacecraft Induced Orgasm) CNN had about 5-8 seconds of hover just into translation. I guess this was all the time they could spare from their gavel-to-gavel coverage of "Heidi Fleiss: The most important news story in the history of the universe." The almost complete lack of exhaust or smoke looked pretty strange. - --dave ===================================================================== Dave Cox inet: cox@quandsn.com Tel:(619)481-4400 Fax:(619)481-7410 Quantum Design, 11578-30 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego, CA, 92121 ------------------------------ From: Michael Chui Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 00:02:46 -0500 Subject: Re: Delta Clipper Footage What were the puffs of smoke from about halfway up the body of the vehicle? Control thruster exhaust? Vented H2 or O2? Michael Chui mchui@cs.indiana.edu ------------------------------ From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 93 01:48:28 MDT Subject: Re: Delta Clipper Footage That sure was some great footage! NBC had about the best version, although I certainly wish there had been full LIVE satellite coverage! Well... next time, I guess... Michael Chui says... >What were the puffs of smoke from about halfway up the body of >the vehicle? Control thruster exhaust? Vented H2 or O2? Those were RCS (Reaction Control System) firings, just making some minor stabilization adjustments more than likely. It was quite a picture-perfect (though short) flight! - -dean ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V3 #17 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).