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Originally Posted By Zam18th:
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Chokey: Originally Posted By Zam18th:
There's definitely a flash there. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwM2rKIWAAI5p5a?format=png&name=small I wonder what all is involved in certifying it. |
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Originally Posted By Obo2: I think it's more so the communication and initiating charge not so much the boom it is connected to. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Obo2: Originally Posted By Zam18th: Cool. It unzipped pretty fast too. Problem solved. I wonder what all is involved in certifying it. I think it's more so the communication and initiating charge not so much the boom it is connected to. The atfs exploded fine last time. The ship just didn’t explode when it activated. |
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YouTuber’s Question Helps Elon Musk Improve Starship |
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Originally Posted By realwar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY73exaVpyw View Quote This man is inhumanly pragmatic. |
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Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: This man is inhumanly pragmatic. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Originally Posted By realwar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY73exaVpyw This man is inhumanly pragmatic. No kidding. |
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Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: This man is inhumanly pragmatic. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Originally Posted By realwar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY73exaVpyw This man is inhumanly pragmatic. |
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Originally Posted By Obo2: I think it's more so the communication and initiating charge not so much the boom it is connected to. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Obo2: Originally Posted By Zam18th: Cool. It unzipped pretty fast too. Problem solved. I wonder what all is involved in certifying it. I think it's more so the communication and initiating charge not so much the boom it is connected to. That would make sense. Not sure why Elon said recertification would be the longest lead item of flight 2. Maybe just bureaucracy. |
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NASA's Amit Kshatriya, deputy associate administrator for NASA's Moon to Mars program, spoke about Starship's test flight and how NASA and SpaceX are working well together ahead of the HLS missions. Key points: "We got a ton of data out of that mission" (Booster 7/Ship 24). HLS engaged with SpaceX and FAA post-flight. Got to see Raptor production and ECLSS (life support) work at Hawthorne. Still evaluating how many Tankers they'll need for HLS refilling. NASA is "very confident that SpaceX is open to our input and conversely." Comments made during the NASA Advisory Council Human Exploration and Operations. View Quote Not Starship but ISS missions will be RTLS now.
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“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a 10mm at your side, kid.”
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Originally Posted By AJE:
View Quote I bet Intel is interested in licensing the design for their next gen CPUs too! Seriously though that's neat. The pace of this whole process over so many years is staggering. |
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Originally Posted By AJE:
View Quote Was about to post this. I started laughing my ass off when i saw this Surely this evaporatively cooled plate fighting 17MN of thrust idea must involve thousands of man hours of testing before testing. “Nah fuck it. Get a hose and steel with holes drilled in. Grab a raptor and blast that bitch. See what happens!” FUCKING LOL. |
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Originally Posted By Yobro512: Was about to post this. I started laughing my ass off when i saw this? Surely this evaporatively cooled plate came 17MN of thrust idea must involve thousands of man hours of testing before testing. “Nah fuck it. Get a hose and steal with holes drilled in. Grab a raptor and blast that bitch. See what happens!” FUCKING LOL. View Quote Its an amusing and rather effective way of running things. |
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https://www.space.com/nasa-selects-blue-origin-second-artemis-moon-lander
Burnt Orange got the second Lunar lander contract. The best part is they had to shave their bid down to 3.4billion. It won't surprise me if they have cost overruns and delays that tack on a few more billion. |
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Originally Posted By AJE:
View Quote Holy shit! That was a cool thing to see!!! |
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“There is no sound, no voice, no cry in all the world that can be heard... until someone listens.”
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Originally Posted By Yobro512: Was about to post this. I started laughing my ass off when i saw this Surely this evaporatively cooled plate fighting 17MN of thrust idea must involve thousands of man hours of testing before testing. "Nah fuck it. Get a hose and steel with holes drilled in. Grab a raptor and blast that bitch. See what happens!" FUCKING LOL. View Quote I'll say late summer for the next Starship launch. Late August/early September. |
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Originally Posted By mort: https://www.space.com/nasa-selects-blue-origin-second-artemis-moon-lander Burnt Orange got the second Lunar lander contract. The best part is they had to shave their bid down to 3.4billion. It won't surprise me if they have cost overruns and delays that tack on a few more billion. View Quote Nick |
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If the enemy is range, so are you.
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Originally Posted By Commando_Guy: Hasn't worked out so well for Boeing so far. NASA is not happy with them over their LEO capsule. Nick View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Commando_Guy: Originally Posted By mort: https://www.space.com/nasa-selects-blue-origin-second-artemis-moon-lander Burnt Orange got the second Lunar lander contract. The best part is they had to shave their bid down to 3.4billion. It won't surprise me if they have cost overruns and delays that tack on a few more billion. Nick |
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Originally Posted By mort: Not like NASA can do anything about Boeing under-delivering... again. Congress controls where the money goes. After SpaceX won the HLS contract I was amazed how blatant Bezos's pet senator Maria Cantwell was lobbying congress for another 10billion so BO can build another moon lander. View Quote Has BO built anything other the the dildo? Ive never seen a photo of a new glenn, is it even physically assembled yet? |
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Seriously... unTex the Mex..
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Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: Has BO built anything other the the dildo? Ive never seen a photo of a new glenn, is it even physically assembled yet? View Quote I have a friend who works there who claims to have seen it, and I trust her. That said, I'm I'll believe it can FLY when it DOES. |
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Originally Posted By ASUsax: I have a friend who works there who claims to have seen it, and I trust her. That said, I'm I'll believe it can FLY when it DOES. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ASUsax: Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: Has BO built anything other the the dildo? Ive never seen a photo of a new glenn, is it even physically assembled yet? I have a friend who works there who claims to have seen it, and I trust her. That said, I'm I'll believe it can FLY when it DOES. Nick |
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If the enemy is range, so are you.
Don't mind Sylvan, he's fond of throwing intellectual Molotov cocktails. |
Originally Posted By Zam18th:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwhQjBXWwAQVuJy?format=jpg&name=small View Quote Seeing the single engine test with the plate at close distance which appears to be the same as actual launch pad, I am really hopeful, that this relatively inexpensive add on saves the time and makes remote ground launch pads quicker and easier to build in the future. |
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Originally Posted By ASUsax: I have a friend who works there who claims to have seen it, and I trust her. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ASUsax: Originally Posted By Orion_Shall_Rise: Has BO built anything other the the dildo? Ive never seen a photo of a new glenn, is it even physically assembled yet? I have a friend who works there who claims to have seen it, and I trust her. IIRC, there have been some aerial photo from the Cape, showing glimpses of what looks like a mostly assembled Glenn inside their big building. They delivered the first BE-4 engines to ULA in late 2022, so presumably that means the BE-4 engines for Glenn are ready as well. |
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“A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.” -- Tsunetomo Yamamoto
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Originally Posted By ASUsax: I have a friend who works there who claims to have seen it, and I trust her. That said, I'm I'll believe it can FLY when it DOES. View Quote Blue Origin has such a strange way of doing business. I think it says a lot when a company like Lockheed seems much more up front and talkative about aircraft with genuine classified ‘you get in big trouble for saying too much’ hardware than they are about... really anything it seems. Are we going to wake up one morning and find a New Glenn sitting on a pad halfway into a wet dress rehearsal? Rockets have their own lineages and for some reason, New Glenn reminds me of a seriously overgrown AIM-120. I don’t know why. They don’t even use the same fuel. They certainly don’t have the same purpose. And yet I sometimes find myself envisioning a space craft carrying 4 New Glenn’s as armament. |
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Originally Posted By jhereg: One of the big differences between SpaceX and the old space companies. SpaceX expects to blow things up and destroy things. They're moving on fixing it right away. Traditional companies would spend 2 years analyzing it, 5 or 10 more years designing something new, and then another 5 or 10 years building it at 10* the original cost or more. View Quote To be fair, NASA relaunched within 2 years each time they killed someone. And Apollo was a complete redesign of the Command Module. |
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For second launch, we need another camera equipped minivan to provide proper, easy to relate to, launch pad damage assessment or lack thereof. A series of minivans located at various ground zero diameters would be best. Rather than arbitrary diameters, I suggest diameters be in multiples of Starship/booster height.
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Originally Posted By dmnoid77: https://www.speednik.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2023/03/storm-chasers-rely-on-diesel-power-when-mother-nature-strikes-2023-03-28_21-05-30_569652.png View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By dmnoid77: Originally Posted By Houstons_Problem: For second launch, we need another camera equipped minivan to provide proper, easy to relate to, launch pad damage assessment or lack thereof. A series of minivans located at various ground zero diameters would be best. Rather than arbitrary diameters, I suggest diameters be in multiples of Starship/booster height. https://www.speednik.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2023/03/storm-chasers-rely-on-diesel-power-when-mother-nature-strikes-2023-03-28_21-05-30_569652.png That's an RV.................. |
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Originally Posted By Hesperus: Blue Origin has such a strange way of doing business. I think it says a lot when a company like Lockheed seems much more up front and talkative about aircraft with genuine classified ‘you get in big trouble for saying too much’ hardware than they are about... really anything it seems. Are we going to wake up one morning and find a New Glenn sitting on a pad halfway into a wet dress rehearsal? Rockets have their own lineages and for some reason, New Glenn reminds me of a seriously overgrown AIM-120. I don’t know why. They don’t even use the same fuel. They certainly don’t have the same purpose. And yet I sometimes find myself envisioning a space craft carrying 4 New Glenn’s as armament. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Hesperus: Originally Posted By ASUsax: I have a friend who works there who claims to have seen it, and I trust her. That said, I'm I'll believe it can FLY when it DOES. Blue Origin has such a strange way of doing business. I think it says a lot when a company like Lockheed seems much more up front and talkative about aircraft with genuine classified ‘you get in big trouble for saying too much’ hardware than they are about... really anything it seems. Are we going to wake up one morning and find a New Glenn sitting on a pad halfway into a wet dress rehearsal? Rockets have their own lineages and for some reason, New Glenn reminds me of a seriously overgrown AIM-120. I don’t know why. They don’t even use the same fuel. They certainly don’t have the same purpose. And yet I sometimes find myself envisioning a space craft carrying 4 New Glenn’s as armament. Bezos Inferiority complex to musk means BO has to act mysterious so they don’t look incompetent with as much money and more time than spacex. NG was supposed launch in 21. I hope they kick ass but I have some doubts. |
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Originally Posted By Chokey:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwvLXhKX0AEj5cK?format=jpg&name=large View Quote
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Originally Posted By AJE:
View Quote water flow afterward definitely seems decreased. |
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Originally Posted By Yobro512: Was about to post this. I started laughing my ass off when i saw this Surely this evaporatively cooled plate fighting 17MN of thrust idea must involve thousands of man hours of testing before testing. “Nah fuck it. Get a hose and steel with holes drilled in. Grab a raptor and blast that bitch. See what happens!” FUCKING LOL. View Quote I mean they could spend years and billions before testing only to realize the whole thing is fucked because of some unforeseen real world issue that would have been better solved with a much more simple solution... |
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KF7WNX If you want a picture of the future, imagine Clownshoes stomping on a human face—for ever.
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Are they going to build a water tower to support all the water needed?
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Originally Posted By The_Syndicate: Are they going to build a water tower to support all the water needed? View Quote That being... Horizontal tanks for the water, and Nitrogen to pump into them to force the water out and through the pipes quickly and forcefully. |
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be ascribed to sheer stupidity." LTC (CENTCOM)
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Originally Posted By Master_of_Orion: If what they currently have doesn't end up working maybe... but lets see if their current solution works first. That being... Horizontal tanks for the water, and Nitrogen to pump into them to force the water out and through the pipes quickly and forcefully. View Quote Agreed. A relatively small amount of water precisely timed also helps with their limitations regarding runoff too. We would definitely already see the foundation if they intended to use a water tower for upcoming launches. |
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Originally Posted By Zam18th: Agreed. A relatively small amount of water precisely timed also helps with their limitations regarding runoff too. We would definitely already see the foundation if they intended to use a water tower for upcoming launches. View Quote The solution to run-off is to collect and recycle it for next launch. |
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Originally Posted By HeavyMetal: The solution to run-off is to collect and recycle it for next launch. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By HeavyMetal: Originally Posted By Zam18th: Agreed. A relatively small amount of water precisely timed also helps with their limitations regarding runoff too. We would definitely already see the foundation if they intended to use a water tower for upcoming launches. The solution to run-off is to collect and recycle it for next launch. It would be, but they need environmental approvals to expand the site and build their proposed collection pond. So for now I think they'll keep it limited. |
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