mikegarrison 3,965 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) 38 minutes ago, tater said: Underwhelming. I mean, it would be cool to do if a few hundred grand was pocket change, but their launches are not super interesting, and you think they'd hire some random youtuber to do their streaming‚BO only has 172k subs, lol. Seriously, they could hire any number of randos with more subs who could give them advice on better video presentations. Middle-of-the-back-end-of-nowhere Texas is also not exactly the spot I have always wanted to see from the air. Just sayin'. That being said, if they offered me a free flight I would take it without hesitation. Edited January 15 by mikegarrison Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hannu2 277 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 14 hours ago, sevenperforce said: excrementsttt something went WRONG on that final approach. Yes, but control system handled it very well. Based on my experience (not related to rockets) it is much easier to do control which makes accurate position straight than control which can handle significant last minute errors without overshooting in any direction. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) 6 hours ago, mikegarrison said: Middle-of-the-back-end-of-nowhere Texas is also not exactly the spot I have always wanted to see from the air. Just sayin'. Given it's a few miles south of the NM state line, I think it looks like the Earth. Course I like "the bones of the Earth." Quote That being said, if they offered me a free flight I would take it without hesitation. Yeah, I'd do the NS flight as well (if it didn't involve spending ridiculous amounts of money). I'd even pay up to some non-ridiculous amount*. I was hiking with a friend yesterday and we talked about NS vs the Virgin version of suborbital tourism. I told him if I won a free flight on Virgin I'd sell it, but I'd go on the BO flight if I had a free opportunity. *I'm sure my definition of not ridiculous is an order of magnitude or more lower than anyone in their business office thinks Edited January 15 by tater Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubinator 8,488 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 7 hours ago, mikegarrison said: Middle-of-the-back-end-of-nowhere Texas is also not exactly the spot I have always wanted to see from the air. Just sayin'. That being said, if they offered me a free flight I would take it without hesitation. If they had the slightest inkling of rapid reusability and cheap production they'd be putting launch facilities in the Caribbean, NE and NW US. 59 minutes ago, tater said: Yeah, I'd do the NS flight as well (if it didn't involve spending ridiculous amounts of money). I'd even pay up to some non-ridiculous amount*. I was hiking with a friend yesterday and we talked about NS vs the Virgin version of suborbital tourism. I told him if I won a free flight on Virgin I'd sell it, but I'd go on the BO flight if I had a free opportunity. I'm a lot more distrustful of spaceplanes than of 'stick' rockets, there's something elegant about the mechanical stability of a teardrop capsule reentering the atmosphere that makes me confident I'll get to the ground safely. A plane has to be piloted and maneuvered all the way down, while a capsule does all the work for you so long as you pop the chutes before you hit the ground. Besides, Virgin doesn't even get to 100 km. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 5 minutes ago, cubinator said: I'm a lot more distrustful of spaceplanes than of 'stick' rockets, there's something elegant about the mechanical stability of a teardrop capsule reentering the atmosphere that makes me confident I'll get to the ground safely. A plane has to be piloted and maneuvered all the way down, while a capsule does all the work for you so long as you pop the chutes before you hit the ground. Yeah, NS seems more forgiving. The fatal accident of Spaceship 1 might be impacting my POV a little, but I see NS as reliant on technology, and I see Virgin's Spaceship as reliant on both technology, AND pilot ability. Since most all aircraft crashes are pilot error... that seems like a weak link for what is an experimental aircraft. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Haven't watched it, but someone linked this on NSF. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Pretty wide (25s into vid there are people around it). Looks to be maybe 19-20m full span deployed? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubinator 8,488 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Still not a fan of that gigantic ladder. It ought to be deployable as stairs or something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
YNM 2,466 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 35 minutes ago, cubinator said: Still not a fan of that gigantic ladder. It's only gigantic so they can be caught by astronauts doing RCS thrustering outside XD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 (edited) Stairs must happen much later in the tech tree than ladders. Edited February 10 by tater Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RCgothic 1,973 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Wow, a whole tonne. As a separate mission to crew. How ambitious. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Just now, RCgothic said: Wow, a whole tonne. As a separate mission to crew. How ambitious. Minus a transfer element, that might be using most of the lander props for getting there. The current talk is NG getting ~13t to GTO, so a little below that to TLI. Wonder what the dry mass of that lander is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
YNM 2,466 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 6 hours ago, tater said: The current talk is NG getting ~13t to GTO, so a little below that to TLI. Wait, they're planning to launch their lander (if selected) on NG ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, YNM said: Wait, they're planning to launch their lander (if selected) on NG ? I would assume so. The "National Team" lander is 3 parts, presumably all would be sent ahead on commercial LVs. Depending on the mass/diameter, Vulcan, NG, DIVH, or FH, I assume. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
YNM 2,466 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 minute ago, tater said: commercial LVs. Yeah but New Glenn isn't up yet... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, YNM said: Yeah but New Glenn isn't up yet... Agreed, but they plan on launching that cargo testbed a year before, so at best 2023. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
YNM 2,466 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, tater said: they plan on launching that cargo testbed a year before, so at best 2023. Well, at least they're just launching an empty lander part rather than people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StrandedonEarth 7,097 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) Holey Kraken Kerbman! They actually did build something in there! Edited February 12 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatastrophicFailure 16,697 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 We’ve! Got! HARDWARE!!11!,!! ...and the crowd goes mild... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubinator 8,488 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 That looks like a New Glenn all right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RCgothic 1,973 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Probably just a pathfinder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RyanRising 394 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 22 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: They actually did build something in there! No kidding, huh? So they are making a rocket after all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cubinator 8,488 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 12 minutes ago, RyanRising said: No kidding, huh? So they are making a rocket after all. I chatted with a BO person a while back and they said they really are doing a bunch of stuff, but won't tell anyone about it who doesn't work at the company. So, rockets, I imagine they're building a lunar lander as well... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RyanRising 394 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 14 minutes ago, cubinator said: I chatted with a BO person a while back and they said they really are doing a bunch of stuff, but won't tell anyone about it who doesn't work at the company. So, rockets, I imagine they're building a lunar lander as well... Oh, I've no doubt they're hard at work over there. It's just that outward secrecy makes it seem like nothing is happening to us observers, and so it seems like a surprise when we see any visual progress whatsoever. I was trying to play into that for effect. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tater 26,354 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 That's the interstage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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