Beccab

Well, not *that* senator that's for sure

God, now I need that may also be of interest:

I admit that when I saw the skylab telescope being redone I thought it wasn't much worth it as it already looked good enough in its current state, but man, I was so wrong. Wonderful, wonderful work

They already know what's up with the fire afaik, it's just what happens when the engines turning off. Rocket engines are turned off by stopping to send oxidizer to them, which means the engine stops and the thrust ceases. That has the possible side effect of a little methane continuing to come out of engine, which can ignite and cause the fire post landing

That's true, but the first one can probably be adequately tested with one (or probably, more than one bc raptors swap) static fire and the landing will be attempted without a starship on the top either case, no matter if it started with or without one

It would be possibile, but it would also delay the orbital flight for not very useful data (everything they would get from the hop they would very likely get from the orbital flight)

Man, that's wonderful

Looks ASTOUNDING, but I'm not quite sure how to use such plumpy parts in-game Mega skylab with NFLV!

Same as the first orbital flight since that will be the one, so NET June-July

New NSF article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/05/sn15s-success-spacex-next-steps-orbital-goals/ "Numerous options are on the table, ranging from delaying SN16’s campaign until after SN15 reflies, through tasking SN16 with a higher altitude target of 20 km, through to simply not flying the vehicle per a potential acceleration of moving to the orbital-class vehicles. Notably, SN16 was moved deeper into the High Bay on Saturday, likely to make room for the stacking operations of the next Super Heavy prototype that will be required for the orbital tests. The latter option would also impact SN17, which currently has its sections prepared for stacking operations – with the SN17 mid-LOX section recently staged outside the Mid Bay after pre-stacking work." Given that we recently heard similar things from nextspaceflight.com (also a reliable source of spacex info) and that the third option is the only one allowing for uninterrupted work on the orbital tower, it seems more than possible that SpaceX actually follows that direction, skipping 17 and maybe even 16 and going all for orbit, which is now NET june from the initial NET july

Ah, what's the top middle one then?

Didn't salyut 3 get crew visiting it as well?

Which trajectory is that?

remember that a good part of the flight was done with less than all engines as they are turned off in sequence, ending with Starship doing a hover

SN16 doesn't have Raptors yet, right?

Everybody's on Apollo and Saturn stuff nowadays, so here's my attempt at a LLRV replica-ish: Sadly I couldn't use the Lunar Orbiter this time

Again, not true. The only debris that has reached the wetlands is SN11, which was not a normal occurrence, and as already stated the recovery is the issue that requires planning not to impact the enviroment badly. Leaving some steel debris for some more time where it alredy is is definitely less impactful than a badly executed recovery

Starship is being built to be a launcher. It is a launcher that can also get to mars What does that even mean?

That's the goal of the space company in question, yes, that's what space companies do. Are you asking why a space company doesn't invest much in saving earth? We can and should protect earth, but spacex has nothing to do with it

...how did you get from Spacex seeking to fill 6 acres of wetlands to "screw earth"? From the news article you posted "Texas lost 52 percent — 8.4 million acres — of its wetlands from 1780 to 1980"

But the infrastructure wasn't built in the "dwindling and precious environment", it was built separately from that and leaving it alone. The only time stuff ended up there was with SN11's debris, and it wasn't normal at all, not to mention that there's only two more iterations of starship (three if SN15 will refly) that are going to do the hop that ended up that way

Well, debris from that did hit land, so it seems kind of justified

Maybe, but unless they want to do polar orbits from Boca Chica they won't ever pass there, no?

Why is that?