South Atlantic Post
August 4th, 2024

New aerospace company launches first component of space station

Cavradyne Aerospace has announced the successful launch of the first unmanned component of their ORAC (Orbital Research and Assembly Complex) space station into an equatorial Low Earth Orbit this morning from their base here on Ascension Island.


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South Atlantic Post
June 22nd, 2024

Today saw the start of a new corporation, Cavradyne Aerospace, off the remains of the mostly defunct aerospace industries of the 20th Century.

The company has stated in a press release this afternoon that its main goals are to send an exploration to the surface of Mars before 2034.

Operating out of facilities at the new spaceflight hub of the world, Ascension Island, with cooperation from world astronautics leader...

I just decided an hour or so ago to do the Apollo 8 mission, despite having never even made a serious attempt at AMSO before. Much like when I launched Atlantis a few months ago, I was mildly surprised when two hours later I was sitting in a scorched capsule south of Hawaii, having just travelled ~800 000 kilometers, to the Moon and back. Mission was completely successful. Final GET at splashdown: 122 hours, 6 minutes, 45 seconds. Pericynthion was 67 km.

Launch:
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Any Silent Hunter 4 players around here? I just got around to playing it the other day (after many months of watching videos of and reading about it) and I have to say I'm thrilled.
I've always enjoyed navigating by compass and chart so that part wasn't hard to pick up. It took me a while, but it's been difficult getting the hang of combat (well, IL-2 experience has me already decent with the AA gun, but that hardly counts.) I've finally sent my first destroyer to the bottom, while patrolling...

Warning: this is a rant, in case the title were't obvious enough.

Anyway, I'm completely fed up with Vista's crap. Since a month after I got it, I've been fighting with UAC and Data Execution Prevention, which are supposedly helping protect my computer but in reality are doing very little of that and a whole lot of forcing me to run every little program as an administrator unless I want it to crash and burn, and still half the time preventing programs from working. Ever since a few...