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2 hours ago, DAL59 said:
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-shares-progress-toward-early-artemis-moon-missions-with-crew/
Artemis II delayed 10 months to September 2025
III delayed to September 2026
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2 hours ago, tater said:
Silly question but I didn't follow the launch very closely; by 'translunar' do they mean an immediate transfer or the gradual approach that takes months?
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7 minutes ago, tater said:
*SLS Cubesat flashbacks*
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Booster just fired, did the deluge function correctly?
Ok, it was just a camera delay.
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12 hours ago, Spaceception said:
And it was probably on the books for a 20th. So disappointing. I hope they can recover enough pieces to preserve it.
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49 minutes ago, joratto said:
Slight spoilers for minmus biome names ahead.Since visiting minmus in For Science!, I’ve noticed that most of the biomes are named after different kinds of ice and snow (e.g. “Arctic Ice”, “Snowdrifts”). However, I recall an ancient dev video that discussed the debate over the composition of minmus. Originally, the devs wanted it to be icy, but they found out that no amount of doped water could freeze minmus at kerbin’s distance from its sun. In the end, they decided minmus should be a “ceramic” planet (incidentally, I haven’t found any information online explaining how a ceramic planet would work irl; lots of volcanic glass, I guess?).
So what gives? Have the devs changed their minds and made minmus icy again? Are the icy names just physically inaccurate labels that the kerbals came up with? Is it all just a reference to the ice cream memes?
I've always thought of Minmus as a sort of melting dwarf planet that was captured early on around kerbin. It's possible that there are some remnants here and there even though most of the moon has been turned to glass.
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3 hours ago, darthgently said:
G A T E W A Y T O E A R T H
They are called Blue Origin after all
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Looking forward to (hopefully) being able to play this game consistently with all the performance improvements! Only a couple hours now, all systems are go for liftoff!
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On 12/17/2023 at 12:17 AM, kerbiloid said:
What could he do with dollars on Arrakis?
He would get further by spitting on the bills
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30 minutes ago, Meecrob said:
What? You realize that rockets are hard right? If you could just slap them together like in KSP, my former high school would have its own space program!
Rockets are hard and always will be, but money is harder. 24 or even 16 Starship flights for a single lunar mission is never going to be economic unless starship can launch and land at full throttle and be reused in a matter of days without any repairs. And since starship needs to be economical in order to operate in the scale it needs to I just don't think the vehicle has the capability to preform all of this. And that's before even touching on what happens when there's inevitably a failure of some kind and the program is grounded to investigate. I like starship and I think it will work as a heavy lift vehicle, but anything more is stretching way too far. And sadly since NASA is already almost at max capacity at this point monetarily it needs to put all it's eggs in one basket. All of this for a single trip to the moon. That's what I meant when I said artemis was "crumbling", it just cannot be sustained with so many different components that all need to be paid for and then work perfectly.
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9 minutes ago, Exoscientist said:
Two separate, independent methods suggest SpaceX throttled down the booster engines < 75%, while the Starship engines fired at ~90% thrust:
Did SpaceX throttle down the booster engines on the IFT-2 test launch to prevent engine failures?
http://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2023/12/did-spacex-throttle-down-booster.htmlThis is important to know because if the engines need to operate at < 75% to be reliable, then I estimate the reusable payload would be lowered from 150 tons to ~100 tons. Then instead of needing perhaps 16 refueling flights for the Artemis landing missions there would need to be perhaps 24.
Robert Clark
I think it's time to press the 'panic' button for artemis and perhaps even starship. The entire thing is crumbling as we speak.
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On 12/15/2023 at 4:03 PM, BA-Forums said:
What do you think happened to that? (Besides the fact that it crashed)
I honestly have no idea.
Now, im not discussing extremely dumb theories (i.e. "Mh370 wAs sHoT dOwN bY a bLAcK hOLe!!!1!!!" or "It WaS fAkEd!!!!1!") but legitimate theories (i.e... uhhhh i dont know if theres enough evidence for this)
rip to everyone on it though.
Seems fairly clear the pilot or maybe co-pilot did it, though motive is hard to pin down. My personal hunch is that it was politically motivated (won't be going into details on that obviously) but the plane is reported to have circled over land for some time, the pilot could have tried to negotiate with the authorities and the malasian government chose not to divulge this in fear or possible sociopolitcal repercussions. Some or all of this could be total bogus but the mass murder-suicide theory doesn't seem to be something the pilot would do. He had a wife and family and apparently loved his job, while not everyone has an outward reason for ending their own lives it just doesn't make sense why he would choose to take so many with him. Regardless of motive its clear the plane was manually steered to the most remote area possible to avoid it ever being found. The little wreckage found indicates that it nosedived into the ocean and probably totally disintegrated, weather this was intentional or not I cannot speculate on but it makes detecting the wreck even harder on the bottom. If it is somehow found the blackbox is likely useless at this point. A very sad story and certainly mysterious but not impossible to decipher with what we already have.
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I previously mentioned I was getting into model making, well today was my birthday and my father's gift was a 1/700 Tamiya 'Taiho', mostly as a practice model.
Started some construction including gluing the smokestack and an AA Gun together just to start it up. Wish I could post images but it's not working for some reason : / I'm thinking of starting a thread just to show my progress on Taiho and eventually the Shinano.
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Orion reentry as seen from onboard the spacecraft:
https://images.nasa.gov/details/art001m1203451716
So THIS is what Jeb goes through when he reenters from Eeloo at twice the solar escape velocity.
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1 hour ago, tater said:
Yeah, I use this NASA site: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/ and when the kid were little it was sorta like having advanced notice of a (slow moving) meteor.
Also:
Ooooh, maybe a falcon heavy launch for my birthday
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It's been awhile but I wanted to share some images I found off various sites of Akagi and Kaga.
Kaga:
SpoilerA better view of some of the miraculously intact casemates on the port side
A collapsed portion of hull at the severed stern, Kaga's fantail broke off when she sank.
Akagi:
SpoilerAnti aircraft guns still attached to the wreck, Akagi is actually more intact than I first thought, large portions of the ship are actually intact up to the flight deck level.
Above the Akagi's sleek battlecruiser bow, the ship's hull is quite badly buried in the mud, at some places even deeper than Kaga.
A section of flight deck peeled back like a tin can, while akagi's profile is recognizable the flight and hanger decks have collapsed downward leaving what one historian described as a 'bathtub' shape.
The side of akagi's hull underneath what's left of her bridge, another anti aircraft gun is visible.
A blurry image of a casemate, similar to what was seen on Kaga, this image alone tells you Akagi is much better preserved than her fleetmate.
Not actually sure what this is, the reddit post I found this on claimed it was 'near miss' damage from one of the bombs that hit to the side of the ship.
Over the stern of the Akagi
The name of the Akagi has been painted over to hide the ships identity during the battle, but the researchers could still make out the outline of 'Akagi'.
There are more images including ones from other expeditions I did not include.
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Thought I'd get into model building, decided to order a 1/700 scale "Shinano" since it's one of my personal favorite aircraft carriers. I'll fully admit that I'm probably going to butcher it but I'm gonna give it my best shot. Does anyone have any tips for building something like this?
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Sorry for the necromancing but Dragonfly's review and launch have been postponed and liftoff is now targeted in 2028;
https://spacenews.com/nasa-postpones-dragonfly-review-launch-date/
I'll admit I'm starting to become concerned for this mission, at least in it's current form, these cuts to the budget are quite extreme.
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16 minutes ago, Pthigrivi said:
Oh and how have I not said this YES PLEASE CAN WE SEE THAT SPREADSHEET?? I think I attempted that same spreadsheet last time I put a KSP1 tech tree overhaul together and it is not easy.
2 hours ago, regex said:Kind of weird to me that Eve isn't considered a "target" in progression until tier 4, that should be a very easy early target for probes at tier 2. Gilly is very easy to reach as well. Hopefully science experiments aren't locked by tier to prevent exploiting those low delta-V costs, that would be really disappointing.
I thought that meant that you just needed a durable enough experiment to survive the local conditions, could also just be talking about a crewed flight which would definitely belong in late progression (to this day I've never actually returned a Kerbal from Eve's surface, not for lack of trying )
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Dinkimoon now has an official name; "Selam" or "Peace" in Ethiopian.
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The only thing that comes to mind for a quick ending to an interstellar species would be a supernova, that is of course assuming that said species as only spread to it's local neighbourhood. An old star explodes and fries everything in a couple hundred lightyears. Even then some of the further colonies or bases will probably survive if they've spread out far enough but any civilization they once had has been destroyed. A slower ending would be a galactic collision, which would take place over billions of years, though beings that evolved to somehow live that long would have to prepare for it. Though it would probably just disperse the 'species' , not that were looking at anything biological (or conceivable) at this point, they may not even care or notice.
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1 hour ago, tater said:
Great animation, maybe they could extend the header tanks to also use for the start of the boostback?
Chinese Space Program (CNSA) & Ch. commercial launch and discussion
in Science & Spaceflight
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I had no idea this thing existed until now. Looks like an overbuilt satellite launcher in kerbal.