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SpaceCase SC-X01 getting ready to be hoisted at the payload integration facilities at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, 30 May 2024.
SpaceCase SC-X01 is built by ArianeGroup, the same company behind the Ariane 6 rocket that will launch it into space. Staying attached to the rocket’s upper stage for the most part of its three-hour mission, SpaceCase will detach just minutes before the upper stage deorbits and head for a fiery controlled destruction in Earth’s atmosphere.
Whereas the upper stage is designed to burn up harmlessly, SpaceCase SC-X01 is going to show off the opposite side of human engineering: survive the intense heat that builds up as spacecraft return to Earth at speeds of 28 000 km/h.
Most spacecraft designed to return to Earth use ablative materials – as the outer layer heats up it will burn off and be whisked away, taking the heat build-up away with it, and on to the next layer until splashdown.
SpaceCase SCX-01 uses the same principle but its unique selling point is that its heat-protective shield -- made of carbon resin called NAXECO® / resin – is also the structure. Whereas most spacecraft heat shields are glued or bolted on to the spacecraft structure, often in tiles, SpaceCase SCX-01’s monolithic heatshield is the structure of the capsule itself. This has many benefits from weight to simplicity and cost.
To keep costs and production time low, SpaceCase is simple by design. The innovations in this demonstrator include the shape of the capsule that could be used for a sample return from space or another planet – it will orient itself with the heatshield pointing down due to its aerodynamic shape to prove the design and test the material.
Inside SpaceCase SC-X01, avionics will be recording heatshield temperatures and trajectory data and send it to the project team via satellite. There are no parachutes on and no intention to recover the hardware – that will be for a second mission. The team plans to use plug-and-play standard dimension CubeSats inside the vehicle on next tests in the future.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Arianegroup/Optique Vidéo du CSG - Q. Veuillet
Worn are " Aquatic Adventure" EYeZ! by AET (found in the "Four green colourZ" pack)
Hair *sari freebie dreadlocks. (very good quality.. they had some in the shop for 150 I thought were very nice I am really considering!
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Skin Unreleased "Alter's Egyptian eye make up style w/freckles) totally unfinished and hardly matched to the lower skin tattoo!!!
Worn Rose Earrings right ear, Mirial left ear
necklace Antique from HQ's various freebie leather mini/boots outfits found at Powder Mill..
A headache that just wouldn't go away meant Friday night was spent at home, reading.
Yes, I have read this book before. (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
I'm also seeing that this project can have a more of a journaling aspect than I anticipated. This makes me very happy.
(FYI, the headache did go away eventually. Hurray!)
1. Purple Bottled Rainbow Block, 2. Reversible purple daisy market tote bag, 3. Hexagons quilted, 4. Bday Tote Bag Mosaic, 5. Patchwork Pillows v.3, 6. Purple and grey tote bag, 7. Simple tote bag, 8. Scrap Quilt, 9. 241 Tote Bag
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SOOC, with and without the Lightscoop. The pic on the left (with the lightscoop) is a bit underexposed, but I can fix that. I definitely like it better than the flash shot on the right. (And so did Zelda - luckily, I took the flash shots last, because she didn't stick around!)
In both shots, I kept the settings fully automatic. I'm sure that if I went manual with the lightscoop, I'd get a much better exposure. But it's good to know that even on automatic, it gets a much better shot.
Last November, while hiking atop the Sleeping Bear Dunes, I found this strange and mysterious object. I'm pretty sure it is from outer space because the letters "space" were etched into it.
I desperately needed a haircut, and to save some money (I love Hannah, but she's $$) I went to eat-Gray ips-Clay yesterday. I wasn't too thrilled with the cut I got there, but figured I just needed to work with it.
Today, I colored my hair and styled it the way I liked it and I can definitely live with the results. Phew! Crisis averted.
Finished the first slipper I started Friday night. This is a really clever, easy pattern, even for a crochet novice like me. And how cute is the finished product?!?
I don't think I'll make the second one, as this yarn isn't really working for this project. The gauge is super-loose, and this superwash is going to grow like crazy, I can tell. I think a non-superwash wool or an acrylic blend will work a little better for me.