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WCDT December 1-5, 2014 (2845-2849)

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DSL:
I always heard it thus (maybe it's a corollary): If you think you're the smartest person in the room, you'd better be the only person in the room.

celticgeek:
My joke:  Sometimes I need to speak with the most intelligent, wisest person around, and since that's me, I usually wind up talking to myself.

SubaruStephen:

--- Quote from: DSL on 09 Dec 2014, 14:48 ---I always heard it thus (maybe it's a corollary): If you think you're the smartest person in the room, you'd better be the only person in the room.

--- End quote ---

I always heard it as "dumbest "....

ZoeB:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjWIN61dpOQ

December 14, 2002.

The video shows booster separation of the Japanese H2A2 F4 at 12:15:40, the Japanese ADEOS-2 at 12:16:20, the Australian FedSat at 12:16:40, the Japanese MicroLabSat at 12:17:00 and WEOS at 12:17:20.

I was the head of the spaceflight computer team on FedSat.

While it's really photogenic, FedSat was not supposed to be launched with a slow tumble like that - it made acquiring contact from the ground a non-trivial task as antennae are directional. But we got it sorted out and stabilised after two very nailbiting days.

The Japanese had some bad luck with their 3700kg greyhound-bus-sized ADEOS-II. The Solar Panel failed from unknown causes within a few months, and they lost all telemetry.

ZoeB:
There's no such thing as a free launch - but we got one anyway from the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA).

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLkk0xum6TY

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