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so its possible it may find its way into a new engine design. the manufacturing process for the heat exchanger is the real technology. also the de-icing method they came up with. i think the best use for a precooled engine is not necessarily an ssto though, but as a stage one that solves the launch/landing issue by using existing infrastructure. get stage two above the karman line with a good fraction of orbital velocity then use a big dumb kick motor as stage two you could at least compete with falcon and have access to a wider array of launch windows and orbital parameters than a fixed infrastructure like with reusable rockets. just dont let boeing do it or the door will fall off.

you think they could at least sell their heat exchanger tech. that was actually kind of impressive and has a bigger market than the engine itself. the rest of the engine is mostly paper.

kilrathi space program.

thats such a good channel.

had a dusting durring the outage, it didnt stick though.

at one point i think i owned all the blacktron, even the older ones with the alternate color scheme. i gave my space lego to my sister, and she proceeded to lose them. i regret keeping my space and technic separated. i still have the former.

arm's low power capabilities are likely very useful for space applications. assuming rad-hard parts are currently available. its usually a long process to convert a design over and could take close to a decade due to all the long term verification testing they need to do. so you usually end up with a processor that's 10 or so years behind the curve and less performant than the cpu it was based on. my concern here is that this was just luck and that this method of recovery might be failure prone and not be suited for manned operation. this is more relevant to catching starships than boosters though. you can catch boosters all day every day and if you blow up a tower every now and again its still cheaper than throwing away a rocket every time you launch. i have a hard time comparing a test flight to apollo 11 though.

cant wait for space telescope spam. you thought the eht was awesome, wait till your aperture is the size of the inner solar system.

mechazilla doing the moon walk was pretty cool.

you could see parts of something coming off of the flaps during the earlier parts of reentry. i assume this was the ablative coating they had under the tiles. also while the flaps did get pretty toasty, i didn't see them turn to liquid, and eventually the glow started to dim. so i think its an improvement. with the new leeward flaps and the coating i think they might have this figured out.

i suspect it wouldnt do that on a tower catch.

it looked to still be floating on the surface when the camera cut out. the explosion was probibly caused by the rapid cooling of the nozzels from the sea water.

first plasma.

sounds like were getting ready to melt some flaps. also i ran out of likes.

with all the excitement about the catch i realize i never inquired about the plan for the ship.