RCgothic Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Well, 20+ years is kinda the best case scenario right now anyway, so... Someone born this year could conceivably be an intern on the team when it actually gets there. But then again... say this gets switched to Starship... How fast could it conceivably get to Uranus with a 100-tonne braking stage lobbed by a fully-fueled Starship? I saw someone in Twitter suggest 1.5y could be done (not sure if for 100t or standard probe). But it'd arrive at low Saturn orbit at 30km/s. Haven't run the maths myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: With all the SLS analogies - if applicable - Uranus won't get probed for a long time Mars 2020 was the previous decadal priority, and Perseverance is on Mars right now, so I would say this is a little pessimistic. On the other hand, a voyage to Uranus is expected to take something like 13 years in transit, so it's not going to get there tomorrow even if we launched it today. Edited April 20, 2022 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Starlink in 2 hours: Was paying attention to Ax-1 at ISS and the impact of splashdown weather on Crew-4 and forgot this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beccab Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Three more flight worthy R2s delivered, which means there are now roughly 7 on site (+- 1 engine as a Raptor carrier truck last week was found to have gone there only after its content had already been removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 T=0 moved to later in the window, 1:45 Eastern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Starlink launch in 30 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Music That's one dirty fairing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 So far, so norminal. Never gets old. Remarkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Did the first stage just hover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Landing view: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 37 minutes ago, cubinator said: Did the first stage just hover? Yeah - that little shimmy there at the end; remarkable. Such control! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brotoro Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 4 hours ago, cubinator said: Did the first stage just hover? It was an interesting move... but I don't think the booster can hover... so I suspect that the deck of the drone ship may have been moving downward just then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 12 minutes ago, Brotoro said: It was an interesting move... but I don't think the booster can hover... so I suspect that the deck of the drone ship may have been moving downward just then. Ah, that could be. I never saw the booster start moving up, but it was very close to stationary from the droneship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanRising Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 That seems more likely than my “the engine was shutting down after almost too early of a start” idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StrandedonEarth Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 That's a bold claim; I hear the Wifi on Betelgeuse Prime is pretty smokin'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) 2 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: That's a bold claim; I hear the Wifi on Betelgeuse Prime is pretty smokin'... Sure - if you have the credits for it, Mr. Moneybags The rest of us have to wirejack Edited April 22, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 This other is a few days old but still relevant: Looks like Delta could do the same soon after Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying dutchman Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 A news site from my country said startship might me launching next week but that's impossible right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, Flying dutchman said: A news site from my country said startship might me launching next week but that's impossible right? Yes, that's impossible, doesn't even have engines right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Candidate first OLM leg for the Cape Canaveral starship pad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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