StrandedonEarth

So now it’s a litterbug….

Delta wing, single engine, no strakes? Doesn't look at all like an F-18 to me...

Another article: IM-1 lunar lander tipped over on its side - SpaceNews One tidbit that I don't recall being mentioned in this thread (emphasis mine): So in other words, a pre-launch (closeout) checklist failure/omission. I'm assuming there was a checklist, but that the switch was not on said checklist. Too bad the switch could not be flipped remotely....

Well, juvenile griefing could be curtailed if there was a more realistic game response. What happens in real life when the young of an animal is threatened or harmed? You get Momma Bear on your tail. If attacking/killing a juvenile spawned a full-grown bronto or T-Rex bot on top of you, with next-to-nil chance of survival, that should curtail such griefing. But the devs would have to see the need to make that happen. Unfortunately, the best way to make them see the need is if they lost player base due to juvenile griefing.

Ok, that was cute. Ima gonna paste the pic from that story....

Oddly enough, it still works for me, for now. I know it’s not fixed, because even when S&SF works, KSP1 Discussion still doesn’t. Which is no great loss, but when S&SF goes down it’s a great loss.

Well, the US landers were developed commercially, while JAXA seems to have proven a design (materials) problem with their engines. China is a more mature program, and India is the exception that proves the rule that space is HARD.

Well, it is still sending (whispering?) data. Call it a partial success. Certainly not a full success if some instrumentation wasn't working on descent. Sort of the equivalent of "Any landing you can walk away from"

Yes, definitely hoping to see that. I'm also waiting/hoping for some official to admit they "kerballed" the landing. That's slang for a non-optimal but survivable landing that I would love to see adopted...

Oh, there’ll be a lot of pushback from the environmental end. I think the original EPA license was for 4-6? launches per year, but having trouble finding that info…

It’s actually been working for the last 72 hours or so (S&SF, but not KSP1 Discussion). Hope I’m not jinxing it…

Yeah, I had a 502 error several minutes ago. But for the last 72 hours or so at least I’m not getting the kraken ban error that has been the dominant state for months now.

I don't think their reaction wheels are quite as strong as the ones in KSP, and it looked like the legs were (non-deployabe/retractable) anyways. Otherwise that maneuver would be BadS...

There’s probably an equipment core that’ll reduce the ‘stranded zone’ considerably. Not to mention, how do you get stopped in the middle in the first place?

The difference between iron and steel is the carbon content, so carbon is still needed for steelmaking. Of course, that's bound carbon, so it still shouldn't result in carbon emissions if done right...

If there was an omnidirectional radio transmitter at Proxima Centauri, how powerful would it have to be for us to detect it with current technology? Would it even be detectable over the radio noise from Proxima?

They'd conclude there's no intelligent life here after watching Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hillbillies

Time to get the hot -gas-gas thrusters working for the flip and ullage re-settling. Stage, full shutdown, flip, ullage, re-light. Possibly use asymmetric venting on the hot-stage ring to start the flip?

Yup, 99% of the calls that came in on our landline were spam, so we finally killed it. Yes, 99%, that's not an exaggeration. Ok, maybe more like 95%

*beach ornament

Here's a link to the blog, for those who shun xitter (I deleted my account, I'm not supporting that crud in any way, shape or form. It's frustrating enough that that's where SpX updates appear) Reverse-engineering an electromechanical Central Air Data Computer (righto.com)

Mars atmosphere is 95% CO2 and 3% N2: very little available nitrogen.

And Venera…

They must be confident that the permit is coming Soontm

Especially since inclination changes are fairly cheap at apogee, although argument of perigee would be similar…