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ace rooster
2016-11-21, 05:07 PM
Apparently fireworks are not good enough for the Japanese (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37928806).
halfeye
2016-11-21, 05:42 PM
On demand is new.

I saw something come down in the early 1970s, we were expecting it, and it arrived more or less on schedule, I have no clue what it actually was, it was before Skylab, possibly before Skylab even went up.
ace rooster
2016-11-21, 06:02 PM
On demand is new.

I saw something come down in the early 1970s, we were expecting it, and it arrived more or less on schedule, I have no clue what it actually was, it was before Skylab, possibly before Skylab even went up.

Spy satellite? The early ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)) used film which was returned to earth.
halfeye
2016-11-21, 06:10 PM
Spy satellite? The early ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)) used film which was returned to earth.

It was apparently pretty bulky, and it was in the news, so it probably wasn't a spy job. The year would have been 1973 or 1974, maybe 1972 at a push, 1971 at an extreme push, but not earlier, and not later than 05.1974

It was visible looking south in North Kent, came in from the West to the East, more or less on a West to East heading.
Telok
2016-11-21, 11:09 PM
It was apparently pretty bulky, and it was in the news, so it probably wasn't a spy job. The year would have been 1973 or 1974, maybe 1972 at a push, 1971 at an extreme push, but not earlier, and not later than 05.1974

It was visible looking south in North Kent, came in from the West to the East, more or less on a West to East heading.

It could have been a re-entry vehicle test. Something like the Mars landers, trying out shapes and guidance systems in an environment they could recover the vehicles from.
Elda
2016-12-10, 06:40 PM
Damn, that's going to be one expensive real life special effect, if it even works.